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WorksheetsWH Unit 11 Test #2: The World Between the Wars (11.5-11.8)
Total questions: 57
Worksheet time: 29mins
Affordable cars, radio, motion pictures, better telephones: all of these are examples of _____ that brought the world closer together.
inflation
mass culture
propaganda
entitlements
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.
The Jazz Age
The Blues Age
The Age of Innocence
The Age of the Dictatorship
What made it possible for women to have more time on their hands to get out and enjoy themselves during the Roaring Twenties?
Jobs
The right to vote.
Less women were getting married.
Labor saving devices in the home.
The 18th Amendment to the Constitution enacted Prohibition. What was prohibited.
Alcohol
Narcotics
Tobacco
Cocaine
What was indirectly caused by Prohibition?
American sobriety.
The Great Depression
The growth of organized crime.
The end of WWI
Experimented with radioactivity and found that atoms of radium and uranium released charged particles; won two Nobel Prizes.
Marie Curie
Albert Einstein
Sigmund Freud
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Proposed new theories of relativity that changed the established beliefs regarding Newton's theories.
Marie Curie
Albert Einstein
Sigmund Freud
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Worked with others to use atomic fission to create the atomic bomb.
Marie Curie
Albert Einstein
Sigmund Freud
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Pioneered the process of psychoanalysis.
Marie Curie
Albert Einstein
Sigmund Freud
J. Robert Oppenheimer
This was discovered by accident in the 1920s and perfected in the 1940s as the first successful antibiotic.
penicillin
aspirin
ibuprofen
pepto bismol
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 lack of financial independence.
Many potential leaders of their generation had died in WWI.
A lack of Christian salvation.
A lack of eductation.
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.
Harlem
Black
New Orleans
Brooklyn
Artistic movement with 3D objects as complex patterns of angles & planes. (Ex: Picasso & Braque)
Cubism
Abstract
Dadaism
Surrealism
Art style composed only of lines, colors, & shapes with little to no recognizable subject matter.
Cubism
Abstract
Surrealism
Dadaism
European art movement rejecting artistic values, looking like absurd nonsense.
Cubism
Abstract
Dadaism
Surrealism
Art movement attempting to show the workings of the unconscious mind, made famous by Salvador Dali.
Cubism
Abstract
Dadaism
Surrealism
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.
Victorian
Greek Revival
Bauhaus
Krauthouse
Which country earned independence from Britain in the years between WWI and WWII?
Ireland
Scotland
India
The Falklands
What was the Maginot Line?
A series of forts along the French/German border.
The boundary line between Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State.
The boundary line between the capitalist and communist European nations.
The boundary line of the Eastern Front in WWI.
Nearly every independent nation signed a treaty outlawing war, but there was no way to enforce it. What was it?
The Kellogg-Briand Pact
The Locarno Treaties
The Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Paris
Strike by workers in many different industries at the same time; happened in Britain in 1926.
general strike
industry stike
permanent strike
laser strike
Country with the highest standard of living in the 1920s.
The United States
Britain
France
The Soviet Union
Which of the following were reasons for the Great Depression?
Check all that apply.
underproduction
overproduction
risky stock market speculation
The Dust Bowl
The New Deal
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.
The New Deal (New Steal)
The Omnibus Petition
The 18th Amendment
The 19th Amendment
Which of these was a positive outcome of the New Deal?
The FDIC
The FBI
The IRS
Capital Gains Taxes
What natural disaster further complicated the economic distress America faced during the Great Depression?
The Dust Bowl
Hurricane Camille
Tennessee Valley Tornadoes
Grizzly Bear Attacks
Italian nationalists were mad because the Austro-Hungarian lands promised to them were given to ______ instead after WWI by the the Allies.
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Russia
Ukraine
Mussolini was a ______.
Nazi
Fascist
Communist
Socialist
Who were the Black Shirts?
Hitler's elite squad tasked with persecuting the Jews.
Mussolini's combat squad that violently helped him gain control of Italy.
Victor Emmanuel's army that stormed Rome and tried to overthrow Mussolini
Joseph Stalin's secret police.
How did Mussolini gain the support of the pope?
He converted to Catholicism
He gave Vatican City independence.
He brought Vatican City under Italian control
He gave the pope the title of Roman Ceasar.
A form of government where a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of the lives of its citizens with secret police, censorship, and propaganda.
Fascist
Communist
Socialist
Totalitarian
All totalitarian nations are communist.
True
False
Which of the following IS NOT a reason that fascism appealed to many people in Europe?
Fascists seemed powerful & confident.
Discipline and order made the country run efficiently.
Communism promised an end to struggle for the working class.
National Pride.
Which of the following characteristics do fascism and communism have in common?
Totalitarian control
thrive in economic & political hard times
supported by urban factory workers & rural farmers.
wanted defined classes
Wanted nationalism & order
Type of economy where government officials make all basic economic decisions & owned all of the businesses.
Monopoly
Command Economy
Capitalist Economy
Laissez-Faire
Which statement best describes Stalin's Five-Year Plans for the Soviet Economy?
His plans set high production goals, giving bonuses to those who exceeded goals & punishing those who failed to meet the goals.
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.
He banned the sale of alcoholic beverages within Russia, unless it was vodka, which was reserved only for members of the communist party.
Only members of the Gulag could work, and they worked on 5-year contracts on collective farms.
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.
their own independent farms
collectives
gulags
kulaks
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 _____.
Terror Famine; Ukraine
Gulag; Ukraine
Bolshevik Famine; Uzbekistan
The Great Purge; The USSR
Who were targets of Stalin's Great Purge?
Old Bolsheviks & War Heroes
Industrial Managers
Writers who didn't conform to social realism.
None of these
All of these
When a leader tries to elevate themselves to a near-godlike figure through propaganda, they are attempting to create a _____.
Republic
Cult of Personality
Dictatorship
Fantasy Government
Stalin required a style called _____: artists & writers could criticize the bourgeois past, but the central message had to be to portray socialism/communism positively.
surrealism
communist propaganda
social realism
social abstraction
The official religion of the Soviet Union.
Russian Orthodox Church
Islam
Judaism
Nihlism
Atheism
Government that was in charge in Germany directly before Hitler.
Weimar Republic
Third Reich
The Kaiser
The Holy Roman Empire
What caused hyperinflation in Germany under the Weimar Republic?
Out of control printing of money by the government.
The Great Depression
The Nazi takeover of Germany
The Weimar Republic refused to pay out unemployment benefits, so inflation occured.
What is described in the attached image?
The Schlieffen Plan
The Dawes Plan
The New Deal
The Communist Manifesto
What happened as a result of the Beer Hall Putsch?
The Weimar Republic fell.
Hitler was elected chancellor by the German Reichstag
Hitler was imprisoned, so he wrote Mein Kampf while incarcerated, detailing his plans for Germany & his anti-Semitism.
Joseph Stalin was exposed to the rest of the world as a racist, so he was shunned by the League of Nations.
Which group of people did Hitler intend to dominate Europe under the new Third Reich?
Jews
native Austrians
Aryan master race
fascists of all races
Which of the following was NOT designed/commissioned by Adolf Hitler?
The VW Beetle
The Autobahn
Reforestation of Germany
The Ruhr Valley Mines
The Nuremberg Laws placed many restrictions on Jews:
Check all that apply
Could not marry non-Jews.
Could no longer practice medicine or law.
Could only publish books or work in the food service industry.
Retained German citizenship but were taxed heavily.
Could not teach in German schools or universities
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.
The Blitz
Kristallnacht
The Great Purge
The Pogroms
What would be the best title for this chart?
events during World War I
Totalitarian regimes between the Wars
Economic problems between the Wars
Causes of World War II
"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?
anti-Semitism
creation of a totalitarian state
territorial expansion
suprression of communism
The situation shown in this 1919 cartoon is most directly associated with which of the following?
efforts to stabilize the global economy
the removal of Lenin from power
widespread German victories
the aftermath of World War I
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?
the rise of Nazi Germany
the Russian Revolution of 1917
French imperialism in Africa
the communist revolution in China
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?
loyalty to religious institutions
commitment to fascist principles
demonstration of authoritarian rule
embracing of communist economic goals
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?
the increased likelihood that political leaders would reduce tariffs
the increased likelihood that extremist political leaders would rise to power
the increased possibility for women in western countries to gain the right to vote
the increased possibility for western countries to print money to pay off war debts
This photograph illustrates which of Stalin's goals?
encouraging a worldwide communist revolution
breaking the power of the Russian Orthodox Church
imposing socialist realism on the arts
promoting a policy of Russification.
