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WH Unit 11 Test #2: The World Between the Wars (11.5-11.8)

Total questions: 57

Worksheet time: 29mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Affordable cars, radio, motion pictures, better telephones: all of these are examples of _____ that brought the world closer together.

a)

inflation

b)

mass culture

c)

propaganda

d)

entitlements

2.

The 1920s in America are known as the Roaring Twenties. They are also known as _____ due to what was popular almost worldwide at the time.

a)

The Jazz Age

b)

The Blues Age

c)

The Age of Innocence

d)

The Age of the Dictatorship

3.

What made it possible for women to have more time on their hands to get out and enjoy themselves during the Roaring Twenties?

a)

Jobs

b)

The right to vote.

c)

Less women were getting married.

d)

Labor saving devices in the home.

4.

The 18th Amendment to the Constitution enacted Prohibition. What was prohibited.

a)

Alcohol

b)

Narcotics

c)

Tobacco

d)

Cocaine

5.

What was indirectly caused by Prohibition?

a)

American sobriety.

b)

The Great Depression

c)

The growth of organized crime.

d)

The end of WWI

6.

Experimented with radioactivity and found that atoms of radium and uranium released charged particles; won two Nobel Prizes.

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Sigmund Freud

d)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

7.

Proposed new theories of relativity that changed the established beliefs regarding Newton's theories.

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Sigmund Freud

d)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

8.

Worked with others to use atomic fission to create the atomic bomb.

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Sigmund Freud

d)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

9.

Pioneered the process of psychoanalysis.

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Sigmund Freud

d)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

10.

This was discovered by accident in the 1920s and perfected in the 1940s as the first successful antibiotic.

a)

penicillin

b)

aspirin

c)

ibuprofen

d)

pepto bismol

11.

The "lost generation" symbolized two characteristics of the generation that came of age before and during WWI. One was a general emptiness and lack of moral direction & convention. What was the other?

a)

A lack of financial independence.

b)

Many potential leaders of their generation had died in WWI.

c)

A lack of Christian salvation.

d)

A lack of eductation.

12.

The _____ Renaissance: An awakening of black culture including the poetry of Langston Hughes, the novels of Zora Neale Hurston, and the musical influence of Duke Ellington & Louis Armstrong.

a)

Harlem

b)

Black

c)

New Orleans

d)

Brooklyn

13.

Artistic movement with 3D objects as complex patterns of angles & planes. (Ex: Picasso & Braque)

a)

Cubism

b)

Abstract

c)

Dadaism

d)

Surrealism

14.

Art style composed only of lines, colors, & shapes with little to no recognizable subject matter.

a)

Cubism

b)

Abstract

c)

Surrealism

d)

Dadaism

15.

European art movement rejecting artistic values, looking like absurd nonsense.

a)

Cubism

b)

Abstract

c)

Dadaism

d)

Surrealism

16.

Art movement attempting to show the workings of the unconscious mind, made famous by Salvador Dali.

a)

Cubism

b)

Abstract

c)

Dadaism

d)

Surrealism

17.

Architectural style with roots in Germany; blended glass, steel, & concrete with very little ornamentation (function should determine form, not the other way around); popularized by Frank Lloyd Wright.

a)

Victorian

b)

Greek Revival

c)

Bauhaus

d)

Krauthouse

18.

Which country earned independence from Britain in the years between WWI and WWII?

a)

Ireland

b)

Scotland

c)

India

d)

The Falklands

19.

What was the Maginot Line?

a)

A series of forts along the French/German border.

b)

The boundary line between Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State.

c)

The boundary line between the capitalist and communist European nations.

d)

The boundary line of the Eastern Front in WWI.

20.

Nearly every independent nation signed a treaty outlawing war, but there was no way to enforce it. What was it?

a)

The Kellogg-Briand Pact

b)

The Locarno Treaties

c)

The Treaty of Versailles

d)

The Treaty of Paris

21.

Strike by workers in many different industries at the same time; happened in Britain in 1926.

a)

general strike

b)

industry stike

c)

permanent strike

d)

laser strike

22.

Country with the highest standard of living in the 1920s.

a)

The United States

b)

Britain

c)

France

d)

The Soviet Union

23.

Which of the following were reasons for the Great Depression?

Check all that apply.

a)

underproduction

b)

overproduction

c)

risky stock market speculation

d)

The Dust Bowl

e)

The New Deal

24.

A massive package of economic & social programs enacted under Franklin Roosevelt that was designed for the government to spend their way out of the Great Depression. It opened the door for major government overreach into our everyday lives and increased taxation.

a)

The New Deal (New Steal)

b)

The Omnibus Petition

c)

The 18th Amendment

d)

The 19th Amendment

25.

Which of these was a positive outcome of the New Deal?

a)

The FDIC

b)

The FBI

c)

The IRS

d)

Capital Gains Taxes

26.

What natural disaster further complicated the economic distress America faced during the Great Depression?

a)

The Dust Bowl

b)

Hurricane Camille

c)

Tennessee Valley Tornadoes

d)

Grizzly Bear Attacks

27.

Italian nationalists were mad because the Austro-Hungarian lands promised to them were given to ______ instead after WWI by the the Allies.

a)

Yugoslavia

b)

Czechoslovakia

c)

Russia

d)

Ukraine

28.

Mussolini was a ______.

a)

Nazi

b)

Fascist

c)

Communist

d)

Socialist

29.

Who were the Black Shirts?

a)

Hitler's elite squad tasked with persecuting the Jews.

b)

Mussolini's combat squad that violently helped him gain control of Italy.

c)

Victor Emmanuel's army that stormed Rome and tried to overthrow Mussolini

d)

Joseph Stalin's secret police.

30.

How did Mussolini gain the support of the pope?

a)

He converted to Catholicism

b)

He gave Vatican City independence.

c)

He brought Vatican City under Italian control

d)

He gave the pope the title of Roman Ceasar.

31.

A form of government where a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of the lives of its citizens with secret police, censorship, and propaganda.

a)

Fascist

b)

Communist

c)

Socialist

d)

Totalitarian

32.

All totalitarian nations are communist.

a)

True

b)

False

33.

Which of the following IS NOT a reason that fascism appealed to many people in Europe?

a)

Fascists seemed powerful & confident.

b)

Discipline and order made the country run efficiently.

c)

Communism promised an end to struggle for the working class.

d)

National Pride.

34.

Which of the following characteristics do fascism and communism have in common?

a)

Totalitarian control

b)

thrive in economic & political hard times

c)

supported by urban factory workers & rural farmers.

d)

wanted defined classes

e)

Wanted nationalism & order

35.

Type of economy where government officials make all basic economic decisions & owned all of the businesses.

a)

Monopoly

b)

Command Economy

c)

Capitalist Economy

d)

Laissez-Faire

36.

Which statement best describes Stalin's Five-Year Plans for the Soviet Economy?

a)

His plans set high production goals, giving bonuses to those who exceeded goals & punishing those who failed to meet the goals.

b)

His plans allowed the free market to determine most economic decisions, with competition between businesses to win buyers keeping the price of goods low & quality high.

c)

He banned the sale of alcoholic beverages within Russia, unless it was vodka, which was reserved only for members of the communist party.

d)

Only members of the Gulag could work, and they worked on 5-year contracts on collective farms.

37.

In Stalin's Soviet Union, Under Stalin, farmers had to all farm on _____ (state-owned farms) because Stalin saw their prosperity under the NEP as a threat to his power.

a)

their own independent farms

b)

collectives

c)

gulags

d)

kulaks

38.

When peasants protested collective farming by only farming enough to feed themselves, Stalin responded by sending even that small amount of food to the city. It became known as the _____, which killed 5-8 million people in _____.

a)

Terror Famine; Ukraine

b)

Gulag; Ukraine

c)

Bolshevik Famine; Uzbekistan

d)

The Great Purge; The USSR

39.

Who were targets of Stalin's Great Purge?

a)

Old Bolsheviks & War Heroes

b)

Industrial Managers

c)

Writers who didn't conform to social realism.

d)

None of these

e)

All of these

40.

When a leader tries to elevate themselves to a near-godlike figure through propaganda, they are attempting to create a _____.

a)

Republic

b)

Cult of Personality

c)

Dictatorship

d)

Fantasy Government

41.

Stalin required a style called _____: artists & writers could criticize the bourgeois past, but the central message had to be to portray socialism/communism positively.

a)

surrealism

b)

communist propaganda

c)

social realism

d)

social abstraction

42.

The official religion of the Soviet Union.

a)

Russian Orthodox Church

b)

Islam

c)

Judaism

d)

Nihlism

e)

Atheism

43.

Government that was in charge in Germany directly before Hitler.

a)

Weimar Republic

b)

Third Reich

c)

The Kaiser

d)

The Holy Roman Empire

44.

What caused hyperinflation in Germany under the Weimar Republic?

a)

Out of control printing of money by the government.

b)

The Great Depression

c)

The Nazi takeover of Germany

d)

The Weimar Republic refused to pay out unemployment benefits, so inflation occured.

45.

What is described in the attached image?

a)

The Schlieffen Plan

b)

The Dawes Plan

c)

The New Deal

d)

The Communist Manifesto

46.

What happened as a result of the Beer Hall Putsch?

a)

The Weimar Republic fell.

b)

Hitler was elected chancellor by the German Reichstag

c)

Hitler was imprisoned, so he wrote Mein Kampf while incarcerated, detailing his plans for Germany & his anti-Semitism.

d)

Joseph Stalin was exposed to the rest of the world as a racist, so he was shunned by the League of Nations.

47.

Which group of people did Hitler intend to dominate Europe under the new Third Reich?

a)

Jews

b)

native Austrians

c)

Aryan master race

d)

fascists of all races

48.

Which of the following was NOT designed/commissioned by Adolf Hitler?

a)

The VW Beetle

b)

The Autobahn

c)

Reforestation of Germany

d)

The Ruhr Valley Mines

49.

The Nuremberg Laws placed many restrictions on Jews:

Check all that apply

a)

Could not marry non-Jews.

b)

Could no longer practice medicine or law.

c)

Could only publish books or work in the food service industry.

d)

Retained German citizenship but were taxed heavily.

e)

Could not teach in German schools or universities

50.

The night of broken glass. Nazi mobs in Germany, Austria, and Czechosolvakia smashed, burned, & destroyed 1,000 synogogues, 7,000 Jewish businesses, and countless more schools, hospitals, and homes. 30,000 Jews were arrested overnight and put into concentration camps.

a)

The Blitz

b)

Kristallnacht

c)

The Great Purge

d)

The Pogroms

51.

What would be the best title for this chart?

a)

events during World War I

b)

Totalitarian regimes between the Wars

c)

Economic problems between the Wars

d)

Causes of World War II

52.

"The National Socialist movement must strive to eliminate the disproportion between our population and our area." --Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

The above passage is most closely connected with which of Hitler's goals?

a)

anti-Semitism

b)

creation of a totalitarian state

c)

territorial expansion

d)

suprression of communism

53.

The situation shown in this 1919 cartoon is most directly associated with which of the following?

a)

efforts to stabilize the global economy

b)

the removal of Lenin from power

c)

widespread German victories

d)

the aftermath of World War I

54.

Bitterness over the Treaty of Versailles, Loss of the Ruhr and overseas colonies, *rising inflation and unemployment, which event are these factors most closely associated with?

a)

the rise of Nazi Germany

b)

the Russian Revolution of 1917

c)

French imperialism in Africa

d)

the communist revolution in China

55.

Despite tremendous differences in ideology and strategy, twentieth century leaders such as Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and Francisco Franco share which of the following traits?

a)

loyalty to religious institutions

b)

commitment to fascist principles

c)

demonstration of authoritarian rule

d)

embracing of communist economic goals

56.

Read the following scenario and answer the question below. "During the late 1920s and early 1930s, the global economic depression was affecting most democratic governments around the world. In the United States, Canada, and Europe, trade was slowing down, industrial production was declining, and unemployment was rising." What was one effect of these worldwide conditions on Germany?

a)

the increased likelihood that political leaders would reduce tariffs

b)

the increased likelihood that extremist political leaders would rise to power

c)

the increased possibility for women in western countries to gain the right to vote

d)

the increased possibility for western countries to print money to pay off war debts

57.

This photograph illustrates which of Stalin's goals?

a)

encouraging a worldwide communist revolution

b)

breaking the power of the Russian Orthodox Church

c)

imposing socialist realism on the arts

d)

promoting a policy of Russification.