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In-between the wars Unit 2 Test Prep

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following was an effect of unemployment during the Great Depression?

a)

Consumers rushed to put all of their money in the banks

b)

Consumers made many purchases so businesses boomed

c)

Consumers could not or did not want to buy, so some businesses failed

d)

Consumers could not buy goods fast enough before businesses sold out

2.

What was Prohibition?

a)

A time when voting rights were taken away from women.

b)

A time when making, selling, and transporting alcohol was illegal.

3.

What were two forms of music that became popular in the 1920s?

a)

Jazz and Blues

b)

Rock and Hip Hop

c)

Classical and Euro-disco

4.

What was a place where people bought and drank illegal alcohol?

a)

Gangster Hut

b)

Bootleggers

c)

Speakeasies

5.

Which was NOT one of the nicknames for the 1920s?

a)

The Prohibition Era

b)

The Roaring Twenties

c)

The Jazz Age

d)

The Great Depression

6.

What was the period of economic boom after WWI?

a)

Roaring Twenties

b)

Great Depression

c)

Industrial Revolution

d)

Reconstruction

7.

Prohibition and speakeasies caused an increase in what?

a)

crime

b)

segregation

c)

technology

8.
The ________Amendment started Prohibition.  
a)
10th 
b)
19th 
c)
20th 
d)
18th 
9.
Which person below is known as a famous gangster during the 1920's?
a)
Johnny Ray
b)
Ray Capone
c)
Al Capone
d)
Charles Lindbergh
10.

After Lenin died in 1924, the Soviet Union was taken over by ________.

a)

Trotsky

b)

Vladimir

c)

Stalin

d)

Svetlana

11.

During the presidential election of 1920, most Americans turned towards the ___________ party.

a)

democratic

b)

republican

c)

liberal

d)

progressive

12.

Economic crisis's in Germany in other European countries caused ________________ (devalued currency) after WWI.

a)

Citizen unrest

b)

poverty

c)

pandemonium

d)

inflation

13.

Hitler wrote his manifesto _______ ______ while in prison.

a)

Munich conference

b)

Manifesto Kampf

c)

Mein Kampf

d)

Return to Glory

14.

Hitlers "Lebensraum" plan also means _______ ________ in English.

a)

Living Space

b)

Living Arrangements

c)

German Victory

d)

German Return

15.

What year did the Munich conference take place?

a)

1932

b)

1933

c)

1938

d)

1940

16.
On October 29, 1929 share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed and partially caused the Great Depression.
a)
Black Thursday
b)
Black Tuesday 
c)
Black Friday
d)
Black Sunday 
17.

Which of these was NOT a cause of the Great Depression?

a)

World War II disrupted the international economy.

b)

A severe drought caused many farmers' crops to fail.

c)

Few people were spending money due to unemployment.

d)

The stock market lost eighty percent of its value over a few years.

18.

Which was a major result of the Great Depression of 1929?

a)

Banks became owned by the government.

b)

There were term limits placed on the President.

c)

The federal government grew to try and prevent future depressions.

d)

Millions of Americans volunteered for World War II to escape poverty.

19.
What did Stalin call his rapid programs that were an effort to try to catch Russia up with the rest of the world in terms of industrialization?
a)
5 Day Plans
b)
5 Month Plans
c)
5 Year Plans
d)
5 Decade Plans
20.
What was the name of the work camps in Siberia where Stalin would send "enemies of the state"?
a)
Gulags
b)
Concentration Camps
c)
Internment Camps
d)
Veritags
21.

Starting in 1932, which area saw a horrendous famine that may have killed as many as 7 million people?

a)

Ukraine

b)

Mongolia

c)

Estonia

d)

Latvia

22.
What is Collectivisation?
a)
Stalin’s measure of allowing peasants to own their own farms
b)
Stalin’s measure of merging small individual farms into larger collective farms (kolkhoz)
c)
Stalin’s measure of focusing on building heavy industries
d)
Stalin’s measure of allowing Kulaks to take over the farms of poorer peasants
23.
Which year did Lenin die?
a)
1922
b)
1923
c)
1924
d)
1925
24.

A major goal of Joseph Stalin’s five-year plans was to

a)

encourage communist revolutions in the colonies of the European powers

b)

transform the Soviet Union into an industrial power

c)

expand the Soviet Union’s borders to include warm-water ports

d)

reduce the amount of foreign aid coming from the Western Hemisphere

25.
Who died in 1924 creating a power struggle in Russia?
a)
Alexander Kerensky
b)
Czar Nicholas II
c)
Vladimir Lenin
d)
Leon Trotsky
26.
In what country was Stalin born?
a)
Russia
b)
Georgia
c)
France
d)
Ukraine
27.
What does "Stalin" mean in Russian?
a)
Man of Ice
b)
Man of Steel
c)
Man of Fire
d)
Man of Plastic
28.

What were the aims of the Munich Agreement?

a)

Germany was to receive the Sudeten from Czechoslovakia

b)

German troops could remain in the Czechoslovakian military service

c)

Germany troops would occupy the Sudeten in stages throughout the year

d)

Germany could take over Czechoslovakia

29.

What was the biggest economic problem in Germany after WWI?

a)

No one would trade with them

b)

They could not get vegetables

c)

Deflation

d)

Inflation

30.

In 1933, Germany pulled out of what international organization?

a)

World Trade Organization

b)

United Nations

c)

League of Nations

d)

Treaty of Versailles

31.

What kind of economy did the Soviet Union have under Stalin?

a)

strict

b)

mixed

c)

command

d)

free

32.

Germany had to pay billions of dollars in _______________ after WWI which resulted in the failure of their economy and inflation.

a)

debt

b)

reparations

c)

bonds

d)

fees

33.

What is the name of June 30th, 1934, when more than a thousand SA officials were murdered?

a)

the night of long hours

b)

the night of many attacks

c)

the night of many weapons

d)

the night of the long knives

34.

Benito Mussolini organized the Italian __________ party

a)

democratic

b)

nazi

c)

fascist

d)

capitalist

35.

Germany's first modern democracy was set up in July of 1919 by the _____________ Republic

a)

German

b)

Weimar

c)

New

d)

Victorious

36.

What did the German government do to attempt to keep up with its reparation payments?

a)

print more paper currency, essentially making it become worthless.

b)

create allies and get help from other countries

c)

tax their people more

d)

overwork their people to make more products to sell for profit

37.

Adolf Hitler was born in __________ in 1889.

a)

Germany

b)

Austria

c)

Vienna

d)

Italy

38.

The fascists state under Mussolini made improvements to infrastructure such as __________ and _____________.

a)

safety and transportation

b)

plumbing and environmental protection

c)

roads and electricity

d)

highways and interstates

39.

Those who opposed the republicans in the civil war that broke out in 1922 and 1923 were called "______ _________".

a)

liberal supporters

b)

free staters

c)

free travelers

d)

democratic supporters

40.

After Hitler attempted to seize control of the city of Munich he was sentences to serve ___ years in jail but only served 1.

a)

25

b)

20

c)

5

d)

10