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

A) Highlights the racial and economic gaps that prevailed in many parts of America
B) Highlights the unwavering belief of white and black Americans in the American dream
C) Indicates that by 1937 many sectors of the American economy were on the road to recovery
D) Demonstrates that the average American during this period had attained middle-class status

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A) It destroyed the entire Pacific fleet of the United States.
B) It came only minutes after Japan had declared war on the United States.
C) It did not affect American aircraft carriers.
D) It was supported by German U-boats.

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A) Collectivized agriculture
B) Heavy industry
C) Consumer goods
D) Foreign trade

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A) Communist hegemony
B) The threat of communism
C) Monarchical rule
D) Western imperialism

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A) Kristallnacht
B) The failed coup of 1925
C) The publication of Mein Kampf
D) The 1934 purging of the Nazi Party

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A) abolished all political offices but his own.
B) achieved absolute power in the Soviet Union.
C) negotiated a compromise with moderates to win their political support.
D) installed Trotsky as a figurehead premier while he held the real power.

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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 raised tariffs to isolate the countries economically.
B) They used large-scale deficits to finance public works projects and maintain production.
C) They created the Scandinavian Economic Union and pooled resources.
D) They borrowed money from the United States to fund unemployment insurance.

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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) Poland
B) Japan
C) The Soviet Union
D) Great Britain

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A) "A union of forces"
B) "Strength"
C) "Fist"
D) "National authority"

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A) A revolution by the people
B) A revolution for the state
C) A nonviolent revolution
D) A revolution from above

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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) 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) Dictate how many employees every business should have
B) Stabilize the nation's banks
C) Create unemployment insurance that paid the jobless
D) Solve the problem of unemployment

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A) He had done most of the planning of the 1917 revolution.
B) There were no other serious contenders for the leadership position.
C) He had the support of the Communist Party.
D) The Red Army was fiercely loyal to Stalin.

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A) To preserve capitalism by reforming it
B) To have the federal government dictate the national economy
C) To create a socialist economy
D) To reduce public regulation of the economy

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