Question 1

What did Gertrude Stein mean when she wrote that "You are all a lost generation"? What had caused this profound split from earlier generations? Can you think of similar dramatic breaks with the past in different countries and different centuries?

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Question 2

What are the defining characteristics of fascism in both Italy and Germany? Consider the organizational structure and symbols that each adopted.To whom did this message appeal?

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Question 3

The leader of the national socialism movement in Germany was

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A)   Benito Mussolini.
B)   Arthur de Gobineau.
C)   Joseph Stalin.
D)   Otto von Bismarck.
E)   Adolf Hitler.

Question 4

Lenin's New Economic Policy allowed the Russian government to take control of all industries and allowed for no privately-owned enterprises.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

A troubling economic problem in the 1920s was the depressed state of agriculture caused by

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A)   virulent new strains of disease.
B)   the success of several new communist regimes.
C)   overproduction and falling prices.
D)   the collapse of the cotton market in the southern United States.
E)   dangerous underproduction.

Question 6

Lenin's New Economic Policy of 1921

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A)   pushed the peasants onto large,state-run collectives.
B)   stripped all land ownership away from the peasants.
C)   called for a trading alliance with communist China.
D)   temporarily restored the market economy.
E)   initiated the First Five-Year Plan.

Question 7

In the years after World War I,the nineteenth-century concept of human progress

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A)   gave a sense of hope in the midst of terrible human suffering.
B)   remained the foundation of Asian thought.
C)   became even more popular among liberal Christian thinkers.
D)   was bolstered by the growing popularity of Confucian thought.
E)   was attacked by many thinkers and cultural leaders.

Question 8

Which individual's surname means "man of steel"?

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A)   Lenin
B)   Marx
C)   Trotsky
D)   Gorbachev
E)   Stalin

Question 9

What were some of the economic problems facing the world powers in the 1920s? Specifically,what factors led to the crash of 1929 and the depression that followed?

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Some of the economic problems facing the...

Question 10

Who wrote,"Man's historical experience has been one of steady failure,and there are no grounds for supposing it will be ever anything else"?

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A)   Erich Maria Remarque
B)   Oswald Spengler
C)   Arnold Toynbee
D)   Gertrude Stein
E)   Niokolai Berdiaev

Question 11

Examine the causes and implications of the Great Depression.Why was the depression so widespread and so devastating? How did different countries respond to the depression? What would be the long-term consequences of the depression?

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The Great Depression was a severe worldw...

Question 12

As the Great Depression destroyed capitalist economies,international cooperation broke down and governments turned to their own resources and practiced economic nationalism.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

The individual who developed the theory of psychoanalysis was

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A)   Werner Heisenberg.
B)   Oswald Spengler.
C)   Niokolai Berdiaev.
D)   Sigmund Freud.
E)   Albert Einstein.

Question 14

By 1929,the price of a bushel of wheat was

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A)   unnaturally and dangerously high.
B)   at its highest point in two hundred years.
C)   the same as today.
D)   at its lowest level in four hundred years.
E)   the same price it had been a hundred years earlier.

Question 15

Examine the rise to power of Adolf Hitler.What were his main ideas and goals? How did he transform Germany?

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Question 16

John Maynard Keynes

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A)   first discussed the uncertainty principle.
B)   made early discoveries in psychoanalysis.
C)   warned that democracy was a threat to the achievements of western society.
D)   was positive that laissez-faire capitalism would survive forever.
E)   urged government to stimulate the economy by increasing the money supply.

Question 17

What are some examples of "economic nationalism"? How effective were these measures?

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Question 18

Compare the rise to power and consolidation of power by Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.

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The rise to power and consolidation of p...

Question 19

In a purely scientific sense,the uncertainty principle proposes that

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A)   cloning is essentially impossible because of the difficulty of accounting for genetic mutation.
B)   it is impossible to specify simultaneously both the position and velocity of a subatomic particle.
C)   complex factors make accurately predicting economic trends essentially impossible.
D)   a country's successful transition to democracy is dependent on internal rather than external factors.
E)   human behavior is driven more by psychological than by physiological factors.

Question 20

In Karl Barth's Epistle to the Romans,he

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A)   laid the groundwork for the rise of fascism in Italy.
B)   shocked the Christian world by stressing the importance of material progress above everything else.
C)   suggested that Jesus' ideas were a precursor to communism.
D)   attacked the liberal Christian theology that had embraced the idea of progress.
E)   gave a religious foundation for the ideas of the social Darwinists.

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As the Great Depression destroyed capitalist economies,international cooperation broke down and governments turned to their own resources and practiced economic nationalism.

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Examine the rise to power of Adolf Hitler.What were his main ideas and goals? How did he transform Germany?

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Lenin's New Economic Policy of 1921

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What were some of the economic problems facing the world powers in the 1920s? Specifically,what factors led to the crash of 1929 and the depression that followed?

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What are some examples of "economic nationalism"? How effective were these measures?

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Compare the rise to power and consolidation of power by Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.

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John Maynard Keynes

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In the years after World War I,the nineteenth-century concept of human progress

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What did Gertrude Stein mean when she wrote that "You are all a lost generation"? What had caused this profound split from earlier generations? Can you think of similar dramatic breaks with the past in different countries and different centuries?

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