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WorksheetsChapter 15
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
a period of low economic activity and rising unemployment
Enabling Act
depression
totalitarian state
fascism
reduced German reparations
collectivization
New Economic Policy
Nuremberg laws
Dawes Plan
excluded Jews from German citizenship
collectivization
New Economic Policy
Dawes Plan
Nuremberg laws
policy of government intervention in the U.S. economy
Aryan
New Deal
Enabling Act
fascism
political philosophy that favors a strong central government led by a dictator
Enabling Act
fascism
depression
totalitarian state
government that seeks complete control over people’s lives
fascism
Enabling Act
totalitarian state
depression
term misused by Nazis to describe their supposed master race
Nuremberg laws
Aryan
New Deal
Enabling Act
a system in which private farms are eliminated and peasants work land owned by the government
collectivization
New Economic Policy
Nuremberg laws
Dawes Plan
empowered the German government to pass laws without regard to the constitution
Enabling Act
fascism
totalitarian state
depression
Lenin’s modified version of capitalism that permitted some private ownership
collectivization
New Economic Policy
Dawes Plan
Nuremberg laws
Why was the United States not a member of League of Nations?
The United States refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles.
Other powerful nations did not want competition.
The organization was open only to European nations.
League members would not use force against aggression.
The French New Deal gave workers the right to
use collective bargaining.
enjoy religious freedom.
own property.
negotiate vacation time.
Why were U.S. bank loans to Germany vital to the European economy after World War I?
Other nations were borrowing money from Germany to rebuild.
Germany used the loans to pay reparations to Britain and France.
European leaders needed funds to set up stock markets in their countries.
Businesses relied heavily on the Creditanstalt Bank in Vienna.
In explaining the causes of the Great Depression, economist John Maynard Keynes noted that
capitalism must be reformed in order to save it.
stock market gyrations caused investors to panic.
governments should not interfere in economic affairs.
unemployment was due to declining demand, not overproduction.
In the 1920s, the arts and sciences both exhibited a sense of
decline.
optimism.
self-confidence.
uncertainty about the future.
Under Mussolini, the Italian Fascists used propaganda to
educate people.
control public opinion.
enforce government policies.
advertise platforms of all political parties.
The purpose of Stalin’s Five-Year Plans was to
reduce poverty and improve the standard of living.
end famine by dramatically boosting food production.
strengthen the Red Army so that it could reclaim lost territories.
transform the USSR from an agricultural into an industrial economy.
Parliamentary systems failed in most eastern European states largely because
peasants preferred a more authoritarian regime.
propaganda turned people against their governments.
those states did not have a tradition of democracy.
farmers did not want to give up their property rights.
In Germany, inflation and unemployment during the Great Depression paved the way for
authoritarian leaders.
new social programs.
women’s rights.
labor unions.
Which of the following is the title of a major Nazi propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl?
Mein Kampf
Quo Vadis
Triumph of the Will
Birth of a Nation
What fueled tensions between Arabs and Jews in Palestine after World War I?
decline of the Ottoman Empire
both Arabs and Jews viewed the area as a potential national state
competition for natural resources
lack of religious sites in the area
The movement for African independence after World War I was spurred by
authoritarian German rule over its African colonies.
financial support from Britain, Spain, France, and Italy.
African veterans and leaders who were educated abroad.
establishment of new national boundaries across the continent.
Mohandas Gandhi protested British laws by
using force to drive the British out of India.
refusing to obey any British laws.
publishing religious and political writings.
staging massive labor strikes to cripple British business in India.
In 1923, the Nationalists and the Communists formed an alliance in order to
drive imperialists out of China.
embark upon the Long March.
invade the city of Shanghai.
take control of the Comintern.
Mao Zedong was convinced that a Chinese revolution would be driven by the
wealthy industrialists.
European-educated elite.
disgruntled urban working class.
poverty-stricken rural peasants.
Chiang Kai-shek did not press for programs that would lead to redistribution of wealth because he
was a corrupt leader who despised the lower classes.
saw the working class as unimportant in the New Life Movement.
needed the support of the landed gentry and the urban middle class.
did not understand the complexities of the Japanese economy.
The Nazis encouraged radio listening because
radio could be used for political purposes.
the radio was a great new source of entertainment.
the government could easily convey emergency information.
the people could keep up-to-date on the news of the day.
The Nazis believed that women should be
activists and politicians.
doctors and lawyers.
wives and mothers.
warriors and leaders.
What was the Kristallnacht, which happened on November 9, 1938?
the inspiration for the anthem of the Nazi Party
a destructive rampage against German Jews led by Nazis
the signing of Hitler’s agreement with Russia
the creation of Hitler’s secret police
Hitler ended Germany’s depression, economic woes, and unemployment by
putting women to work in factories.
passing the Nuremburg laws.
public works projects and a rearmament program.
building more churches and universities.
Hitler’s political theories were based on
racism and nationalism.
communism and socialism.
democracy and socialism.
communism and nationalism.
Stalin gained control over the Communist Party by
purging people he thought were a threat.
preventing elections within the party.
making promises of rewards and titles to people.
using the popular vote of the people.
Stalin’s Five-Year Plans were intended to transform the Soviet Union into
an agricultural society.
an industrial society.
a democracy.
a monarchy.
Mussolini’s Fascist government attempted to control its citizens through
mass propaganda.
mandatory military service in Facist youth groups.
untraditional roles for women.
rewards and honors.
A totalitarian state subordinates individual freedom to government control.
True
False
Fascism is a philosophy that values the individual over the state.
True
False
The Politburo is the most important policy-making committee in the Spanish government.
True
False
Russian peasants showed their unhappiness with Stalin’s agricultural policies by hoarding food and killing livestock.
True
False
Italy and Germany helped Franco win the Spanish Civil War.
True
False
The Great Depression was caused primarily by
the strengthening of European banks.
an economic downturn and the U.S. stock market crash.
the failure of nations to reduce their military forces.
a new interest in Marxist theory.
Which of the following weakened the League of Nations?
reparations owed by Germany
President Wilson’s wishes to ratify the Treaty of Versailles
desire of the French government to enforce the Treaty of Versailles
that the United States did not join the League of Nations
The ________________ legislation gave Hitler supreme power.
Enabling Act
Reichstag
Politburo
President
The Nuremberg laws defined who was considered ___________________.
Jewish
German
A Nazi
dictator
The SS was under the direction of ____________________.
Heinrich Himmler
Joseph Goebbels
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Hitler wrote _____________ while he was in prison.
Mein Kampf
Quo Vadis
Triumph of the Will
Birth of a Nation
The __________ is the name of the German Parliament.
Politburo
Reichstag
Authroitarian
Congress
a period of low economic activity and rising unemployment
depression
New Deal
inflation
deficit spending
a policy of active governmental economic intervention
depression
inflation
deficit spending
New Deal
when a government pays out more money than it takes in through taxation and other revenues
collective bargaining
deficit spending
New Deal
depression
the right of unions to negotiate with employers over wages and hours
collective bargaining
depression
New Deal
deficit spending
