Exam 30: The Great Depression and World War Ii, 1929-1945

A) It began in 1923 when Germany defaulted on its reparations.
B) It began in 1935 when the WPA was established.
C) It began in 1929 when the U.S. stock market crashed.
D) It began in 1931 when Japan invaded Manchuria.

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A) The Cheka
B) The Brown Shirts
C) The Black Shirts
D) The Stasi

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A) France
B) Norway
C) Denmark
D) Great Britain

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A) The remilitarization of the Rhineland
B) The invasion of Poland
C) The annexation of East Prussia
D) The remilitarization of the Sudetenland

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A) Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to reform capitalism in the United States through forceful government intervention in the economy.
B) A party formed in 1936 in France that encouraged unions and launched a far-reaching New Deal-inspired program of social reform.
C) A radical dictatorship that exercises complete political power and control over all aspects of society and seeks to mobilize the masses for action.
D) A movement characterized by extreme, often expansionist nationalism, anti-socialism, a dynamic and violent leader, and glorification of war and the military.
E) Launched by Stalin in 1928 and termed the "revolution from above," its goal was to modernize the Soviet Union and generate a Communist society with new attitudes, new loyalties, and a new socialist humanity.
F) Lenin's 1921 policy re-establishing limited economic freedom in the Soviet Union in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry in the face of economic disintegration.
G) Stalin's forcible consolidation, beginning in 1929, of individual peasant farms in the Soviet Union into large, state-controlled enterprises.
H) A private army under Mussolini in Italy that destroyed Socialist newspapers, union halls, and local Socialist Party headquarters, eventually pushing Socialists out of the city governments of northern Italy.
I) A 1929 agreement in which Mussolini in Italy recognized the Vatican as an independent state and agreed to give the church heavy financial support in return for the pope's public support.
J) A movement born of extreme nationalism and racism and dominated by Adolf Hitler from 1933 until the end of World War II in 1945.
K) An act pushed through the Reichstag by the Nazis in 1933 that gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for four years.
L) "Lightning war" using planes, tanks, and trucks, first used by Hitler to crush Poland in four weeks.
M) Hitler's program, based on the guiding principle of racial imperialism, which gave preferential treatment to the Nordic peoples above "inferior" Latin peoples and, at the bottom, "subhuman" Slavs and Jews.
N) The attempted systematic extermination of all European Jews and other "undesirables" by the Nazi state during World War II.
O) The military strategy, set forth by Churchill and adopted by Roosevelt, that called for the defeat of Hitler in Europe before the United States launched an all-out strike against Japan in the Pacific.

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A) An aerial "blitz" of London to break the will of England
B) An attack on the Soviet Union
C) The building of an atomic weapon
D) Establishment of the Vichy government in France

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A) Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to reform capitalism in the United States through forceful government intervention in the economy.
B) A party formed in 1936 in France that encouraged unions and launched a far-reaching New Deal-inspired program of social reform.
C) A radical dictatorship that exercises complete political power and control over all aspects of society and seeks to mobilize the masses for action.
D) A movement characterized by extreme, often expansionist nationalism, anti-socialism, a dynamic and violent leader, and glorification of war and the military.
E) Launched by Stalin in 1928 and termed the "revolution from above," its goal was to modernize the Soviet Union and generate a Communist society with new attitudes, new loyalties, and a new socialist humanity.
F) Lenin's 1921 policy re-establishing limited economic freedom in the Soviet Union in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry in the face of economic disintegration.
G) Stalin's forcible consolidation, beginning in 1929, of individual peasant farms in the Soviet Union into large, state-controlled enterprises.
H) A private army under Mussolini in Italy that destroyed Socialist newspapers, union halls, and local Socialist Party headquarters, eventually pushing Socialists out of the city governments of northern Italy.
I) A 1929 agreement in which Mussolini in Italy recognized the Vatican as an independent state and agreed to give the church heavy financial support in return for the pope's public support.
J) A movement born of extreme nationalism and racism and dominated by Adolf Hitler from 1933 until the end of World War II in 1945.
K) An act pushed through the Reichstag by the Nazis in 1933 that gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for four years.
L) "Lightning war" using planes, tanks, and trucks, first used by Hitler to crush Poland in four weeks.
M) Hitler's program, based on the guiding principle of racial imperialism, which gave preferential treatment to the Nordic peoples above "inferior" Latin peoples and, at the bottom, "subhuman" Slavs and Jews.
N) The attempted systematic extermination of all European Jews and other "undesirables" by the Nazi state during World War II.
O) The military strategy, set forth by Churchill and adopted by Roosevelt, that called for the defeat of Hitler in Europe before the United States launched an all-out strike against Japan in the Pacific.

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A) They were misunderstood
B) They were republicans
C) They were liberals
D) They were Marxist socialists

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A) Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to reform capitalism in the United States through forceful government intervention in the economy.
B) A party formed in 1936 in France that encouraged unions and launched a far-reaching New Deal-inspired program of social reform.
C) A radical dictatorship that exercises complete political power and control over all aspects of society and seeks to mobilize the masses for action.
D) A movement characterized by extreme, often expansionist nationalism, anti-socialism, a dynamic and violent leader, and glorification of war and the military.
E) Launched by Stalin in 1928 and termed the "revolution from above," its goal was to modernize the Soviet Union and generate a Communist society with new attitudes, new loyalties, and a new socialist humanity.
F) Lenin's 1921 policy re-establishing limited economic freedom in the Soviet Union in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry in the face of economic disintegration.
G) Stalin's forcible consolidation, beginning in 1929, of individual peasant farms in the Soviet Union into large, state-controlled enterprises.
H) A private army under Mussolini in Italy that destroyed Socialist newspapers, union halls, and local Socialist Party headquarters, eventually pushing Socialists out of the city governments of northern Italy.
I) A 1929 agreement in which Mussolini in Italy recognized the Vatican as an independent state and agreed to give the church heavy financial support in return for the pope's public support.
J) A movement born of extreme nationalism and racism and dominated by Adolf Hitler from 1933 until the end of World War II in 1945.
K) An act pushed through the Reichstag by the Nazis in 1933 that gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for four years.
L) "Lightning war" using planes, tanks, and trucks, first used by Hitler to crush Poland in four weeks.
M) Hitler's program, based on the guiding principle of racial imperialism, which gave preferential treatment to the Nordic peoples above "inferior" Latin peoples and, at the bottom, "subhuman" Slavs and Jews.
N) The attempted systematic extermination of all European Jews and other "undesirables" by the Nazi state during World War II.
O) The military strategy, set forth by Churchill and adopted by Roosevelt, that called for the defeat of Hitler in Europe before the United States launched an all-out strike against Japan in the Pacific.

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A) Urban industrial workers
B) Rural peasants
C) White counter-revolutionaries
D) Foreign capitalists

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A) Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to reform capitalism in the United States through forceful government intervention in the economy.
B) A party formed in 1936 in France that encouraged unions and launched a far-reaching New Deal-inspired program of social reform.
C) A radical dictatorship that exercises complete political power and control over all aspects of society and seeks to mobilize the masses for action.
D) A movement characterized by extreme, often expansionist nationalism, anti-socialism, a dynamic and violent leader, and glorification of war and the military.
E) Launched by Stalin in 1928 and termed the "revolution from above," its goal was to modernize the Soviet Union and generate a Communist society with new attitudes, new loyalties, and a new socialist humanity.
F) Lenin's 1921 policy re-establishing limited economic freedom in the Soviet Union in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry in the face of economic disintegration.
G) Stalin's forcible consolidation, beginning in 1929, of individual peasant farms in the Soviet Union into large, state-controlled enterprises.
H) A private army under Mussolini in Italy that destroyed Socialist newspapers, union halls, and local Socialist Party headquarters, eventually pushing Socialists out of the city governments of northern Italy.
I) A 1929 agreement in which Mussolini in Italy recognized the Vatican as an independent state and agreed to give the church heavy financial support in return for the pope's public support.
J) A movement born of extreme nationalism and racism and dominated by Adolf Hitler from 1933 until the end of World War II in 1945.
K) An act pushed through the Reichstag by the Nazis in 1933 that gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for four years.
L) "Lightning war" using planes, tanks, and trucks, first used by Hitler to crush Poland in four weeks.
M) Hitler's program, based on the guiding principle of racial imperialism, which gave preferential treatment to the Nordic peoples above "inferior" Latin peoples and, at the bottom, "subhuman" Slavs and Jews.
N) The attempted systematic extermination of all European Jews and other "undesirables" by the Nazi state during World War II.
O) The military strategy, set forth by Churchill and adopted by Roosevelt, that called for the defeat of Hitler in Europe before the United States launched an all-out strike against Japan in the Pacific.

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Answer would ideally include:
Hitler and...

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A) Battle of Midway
B) Battle of Leyte Gulf
C) Battle of the Coral Sea
D) Battle of Guadalcanal

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A) It was antiwar.
B) It was pro-multicultural.
C) It was anti-intellectual.
D) It was pro-free market.

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C

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Answer would ideally include: In 1917, Russian women had been granted equal legal rights with men and were urged to work outside the home. Stalin continued to urge women to work outside the home in factories, heavy industry, construction, and on farms. Women were also encouraged to have advanced degrees, particularly in science and technology. At the same time, Stalin also encouraged women to still marry, have children, and support traditional family values.

A) They were more far-reaching than those in the Soviet Union.
B) He liberalized divorce laws.
C) He required that women be given 20 percent of all higher-level jobs in industry.
D) He favored a return to traditional roles and encouraged women to have many children.

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A) American expatriates
B) Women
C) New members who had joined since the purges
D) Enemies of Stalin

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A) It had little or no effect on the U.S. economy.
B) It ended the Great Depression.
C) It drove the United States deeper into depression.
D) It was partly successful, but it did not pull the United States out of the Great Depression.

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