Question 1

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Lebensraum

Accepted Answer

Lebensraum is a German term that translates to "living space" in English. It was a key concept in Nazi ideology, referring to the idea that the German people needed to expand their territory in order to provide adequate space for their population to live and thrive. This expansion was often justified through the belief in the superiority of the German race and the need to acquire more land for agricultural and economic purposes.

Who: The concept of Lebensraum was promoted by the Nazi regime in Germany, particularly by Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking officials in the Nazi party.

What: Lebensraum refers to the idea of territorial expansion to provide living space for the German people.

Where: The concept of Lebensraum was primarily focused on acquiring territory in Eastern Europe, including countries such as Poland and the Soviet Union.

When: The idea of Lebensraum was a key component of Nazi ideology in the 1930s and 1940s, leading up to and during World War II.

Why Important: The concept of Lebensraum was used to justify aggressive expansionist policies and ultimately led to the invasion and occupation of numerous countries by Nazi Germany. It played a significant role in shaping the ideology and actions of the Nazi regime, ultimately contributing to the devastation of World War II.

Question 2

The city in which Hitler spent his formative years and developed his fundamental ideas was

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A)  Berlin. 
B)  Munich. 
C)  Frankfort. 
D)  Hamburg. 
E)  Vienna. 
A)  Berlin. 
B)  Munich. 
C)  Frankfort. 
D)  Hamburg. 
E)  Vienna. E

Question 3

Using Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia as the models, what were the philosophic and practical differences between communism and fascism?

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Communism and fascism are two distinct political ideologies with different philosophies and practical implementations.

Communism, as practiced in Soviet Russia, is based on the idea of a classless society where the means of production are owned and controlled by the state. The philosophy behind communism is rooted in the idea of equality and the elimination of private property. In practical terms, this meant the nationalization of industries, collective farming, and centralized economic planning. The government had significant control over the economy and individual freedoms were often restricted in the name of the greater good.

On the other hand, fascism, as practiced in Nazi Germany, is based on the idea of a totalitarian state led by a single party and a charismatic leader. The philosophy behind fascism is rooted in nationalism, authoritarianism, and the belief in the superiority of a particular race or ethnic group. In practical terms, this meant the suppression of political opposition, the use of state violence, and the promotion of militarism and expansionism.

The key philosophic difference between communism and fascism lies in their views on equality and individual freedom. While communism aims for a classless society and collective ownership, fascism promotes a hierarchical society and the dominance of the state and the ruling party.

In practical terms, communism and fascism also differ in their approaches to economic and social organization. Communism advocates for central planning and state ownership of the means of production, while fascism supports a mixed economy with private property and state control over key industries.

Overall, while both ideologies are authoritarian in nature, they have different foundational philosophies and practical implementations, with communism focusing on class equality and state control, and fascism emphasizing nationalism and totalitarianism.

Question 4

IDENTIFICATIONS
-League of Nations

Accepted Answer

The League of Nations was an internation

Question 5

Among the positive achievements of the Stalinist era in the Soviet Union was

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A)  increased consumer goods. 
B)  more educational opportunities. 
C)  greater individual employment choices in both agriculture and industry. 
D)  more economic freedom under Stalin's New Economic Policy. 
E)  abortion rights and birth control devices were supported by Stalin's government. 
A)  increased consumer goods. 
B)  more educational opportunities. 
C)  greater individual employment choices in both agriculture and industry. 
D)  more economic freedom under Stalin's New Economic Policy. 
E)  abortion rights and birth control devices were supported by Stalin's government.

Question 6

The first Popular Front government in France

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A)  solved the depression by eliminating workers' benefits. 
B)  gave ordinary workers new rights and benefits including a minimum wage. 
C)  was able to end the problems of economic depression. 
D)  collapsed in 1926, allowing Raymond Poincaré's Cartel of the Left to take power. 
E)  remained in power until the German invasion of 1942. 
A)  solved the depression by eliminating workers' benefits. 
B)  gave ordinary workers new rights and benefits including a minimum wage. 
C)  was able to end the problems of economic depression. 
D)  collapsed in 1926, allowing Raymond Poincaré's Cartel of the Left to take power. 
E)  remained in power until the German invasion of 1942.

Question 7

Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal policies in the United States

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A)  were successful by 1932. 
B)  virtually eliminated unemployment. 
C)  brought about government ownership of most industries. 
D)  brought about a partial economic recovery, but full employment did not return until World War II's rearmament. 
E)  were all declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. 
A)  were successful by 1932. 
B)  virtually eliminated unemployment. 
C)  brought about government ownership of most industries. 
D)  brought about a partial economic recovery, but full employment did not return until World War II's rearmament. 
E)  were all declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

Question 8

IDENTIFICATIONS
-collective farms

Accepted Answer

Collective farms, also known as collecti

Question 9

All of the following are correct about the European nations and their colonial empires during the interwar years except

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A)  despite World War I, the Europeans had maintained their colonial empires. 
B)  Britain and France had added to their empires by dividing up many of Germany's colonial possessions. 
C)  the political and social foundations and the self-confidence of European imperialism was strengthened during the 1920s and 1930s. 
D)  the political and social foundations and the self-confidence of European imperialism was undermined during the 1920s and 1930s. 
E)  there was a rising tide of unrest in the colonial world against Western imperialism. 
A)  despite World War I, the Europeans had maintained their colonial empires. 
B)  Britain and France had added to their empires by dividing up many of Germany's colonial possessions. 
C)  the political and social foundations and the self-confidence of European imperialism was strengthened during the 1920s and 1930s. 
D)  the political and social foundations and the self-confidence of European imperialism was undermined during the 1920s and 1930s. 
E)  there was a rising tide of unrest in the colonial world against Western imperialism.

Question 10

The new forms of mass communication and leisure created between the wars included all except

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A)  cinema becoming an increasingly popular form of entertainment. 
B)  Fascist nations them for propaganda purposes. 
C)  radio production and broadcasting companies increasing dramatically. 
D)  the widespread use of television in most middle class homes. 
E)  the automobile becoming a common method of travel for the middle classes 
A)  cinema becoming an increasingly popular form of entertainment. 
B)  Fascist nations them for propaganda purposes. 
C)  radio production and broadcasting companies increasing dramatically. 
D)  the widespread use of television in most middle class homes. 
E)  the automobile becoming a common method of travel for the middle classes

Question 11

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Did anything good immediately result from the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

The Great Depression, which began in 192

Question 12

In Great Britain, the government brought the country out of the worst of the Great Depression by 1936 using the new and radical economic ideas of John Maynard Keynes, who advocated public works and deficit spending as the solution for unemployment and economic depression.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

The growth of Mussolini's Fascist movement was aided by

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A)  the reaction against Italy's communist government, formed after World War I. 
B)  popular, nationalistic resentment toward Italy's treatment following World War I. 
C)  crop failures in 1920 and 1921. 
D)  economic cooperation between Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union. 
E)  the fall of the Italian monarchy and the establishment of a workers' dictatorship. 
A)  the reaction against Italy's communist government, formed after World War I. 
B)  popular, nationalistic resentment toward Italy's treatment following World War I. 
C)  crop failures in 1920 and 1921. 
D)  economic cooperation between Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union. 
E)  the fall of the Italian monarchy and the establishment of a workers' dictatorship.

Question 14

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf

Accepted Answer

Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf is a novel t

Question 15

The only eastern European nation to maintain political democracy throughout the 1930s was

Accepted Answer

A)  Bulgaria. 
B)  Yugoslavia. 
C)  Poland. 
D)  Hungary. 
E)  Czechoslovakia. 
A)  Bulgaria. 
B)  Yugoslavia. 
C)  Poland. 
D)  Hungary. 
E)  Czechoslovakia.

Question 16

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Ataturk and Mohandas Gandhi

Accepted Answer

Ataturk and Mohandas Gandhi are two prom

Question 17

IDENTIFICATIONS
-"socialist realism"

Accepted Answer

The answer of IDENTIFICATIONS
-"socialist realism"...

Question 18

What are the chief characteristics of totalitarianism? To what extent was Fascist Italy a totalitarian state?

Accepted Answer

Totalitarianism is a form of government

Question 19

In the aftermath of the Great War and the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey became the most western of the Middle Eastern nations.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera

Accepted Answer

Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera is a g

IDENTIFICATIONS -Lebensraum

The city in which Hitler spent his formative years and developed his fundamental ideas was

Using Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia as the models, what were the philosophic and practical differences between communism and fascism?

IDENTIFICATIONS -League of Nations

Among the positive achievements of the Stalinist era in the Soviet Union was

The first Popular Front government in France

Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal policies in the United States

IDENTIFICATIONS -collective farms

All of the following are correct about the European nations and their colonial empires during the interwar years except

The new forms of mass communication and leisure created between the wars included all except

IDENTIFICATIONS -Did anything good immediately result from the Great Depression?

In Great Britain, the government brought the country out of the worst of the Great Depression by 1936 using the new and radical economic ideas of John Maynard Keynes, who advocated public works and deficit spending as the solution for unemployment and economic depression.

The growth of Mussolini's Fascist movement was aided by

IDENTIFICATIONS -Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf

The only eastern European nation to maintain political democracy throughout the 1930s was

IDENTIFICATIONS -Ataturk and Mohandas Gandhi

IDENTIFICATIONS -"socialist realism"

What are the chief characteristics of totalitarianism? To what extent was Fascist Italy a totalitarian state?

In the aftermath of the Great War and the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey became the most western of the Middle Eastern nations.

IDENTIFICATIONS -Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century

Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500-1800

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century

Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: the Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science

The Eighteenth Century: an Age of Enlightenment

The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change

A Revolution in Politics: the Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society

Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815-1850

An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850-1871

Mass Society in an Age of Progress, 1871-1894

An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894-1914

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War Ii

Cold War and a New Western World, 1945-1965

Protest and Stagnation: the Western World, 1965-1985

After the Fall: the Western World in a Global Age Since 1985

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Exam 14: The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919-1939

IDENTIFICATIONS -Lebensraum

The city in which Hitler spent his formative years and developed his fundamental ideas was

Using Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia as the models, what were the philosophic and practical differences between communism and fascism?

IDENTIFICATIONS -League of Nations

Among the positive achievements of the Stalinist era in the Soviet Union was

The first Popular Front government in France

Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal policies in the United States

IDENTIFICATIONS -collective farms

All of the following are correct about the European nations and their colonial empires during the interwar years except

The new forms of mass communication and leisure created between the wars included all except

IDENTIFICATIONS -Did anything good immediately result from the Great Depression?

In Great Britain, the government brought the country out of the worst of the Great Depression by 1936 using the new and radical economic ideas of John Maynard Keynes, who advocated public works and deficit spending as the solution for unemployment and economic depression.

The growth of Mussolini's Fascist movement was aided by

IDENTIFICATIONS -Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf

The only eastern European nation to maintain political democracy throughout the 1930s was

IDENTIFICATIONS -Ataturk and Mohandas Gandhi

IDENTIFICATIONS -"socialist realism"

What are the chief characteristics of totalitarianism? To what extent was Fascist Italy a totalitarian state?

In the aftermath of the Great War and the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey became the most western of the Middle Eastern nations.

IDENTIFICATIONS -Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century

Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500-1800

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century

Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: the Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science

The Eighteenth Century: an Age of Enlightenment

The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change

A Revolution in Politics: the Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society

Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815-1850

An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850-1871

Mass Society in an Age of Progress, 1871-1894

An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894-1914

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War Ii

Cold War and a New Western World, 1945-1965

Protest and Stagnation: the Western World, 1965-1985

After the Fall: the Western World in a Global Age Since 1985

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