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

Question 1

Who were the Surrealists and what kind of art did they create? What were their central insights and ideas?

Answer 1

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Question 2

define the following term:
the Popular Front

Answer 2

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Question 3

How did radio and movies contribute to the development of mass culture?

Answer 3

Answers will vary.

Question 4

define the following term:
Treaty of Locarno

Question 5

define the following term:
John Maynard Keynes

Question 6

How did nationalist movements shape developments in the Middle East, India, and Africa between World War I and World War II?

Question 7

define the following term:
Dawes Plan

Question 8

define the following term:
Great Depression

Question 9

define the following term:
Allied Reparations Commission

Question 10

Compare and contrast the British, French, and American responses to the Great Depression.

Question 11

What were social consequences of the Great Depression in Europe and the United States?

Question 12

Why were relations between France and Germany so difficult in the years immediately following World War I?

Question 13

What role did ideas of race and military power play in the development of the Nazi state?

Question 14

define the following term:
League of Nations

Question 15

define the following term:
Hoovervilles

Question 16

Compare and contrast the ideas of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. How did each man understand the "unconscious"?

Question 17

In your opinion, did Europe develop totalitarian states in the 1930s? Why or why not?

Question 18

define the following term:
civil disobedience

Question 19

What were the key institutions of the Italian fascist state? What did kind of government and society did Mussolini and the fascists hope to create?

Question 20

What were Stalin's economic goals? How did he go about trying to achieve them?

Question 21

define the following term:
Hitler Jugend

Question 22

define the following term:
Mohandas Gandhi

Question 23

define the following term:
Nazis

Question 24

define the following term:
Mein Kampf

Question 25

define the following term:
Lebensraum

Question 26

define the following term:
Benito Mussolini

Question 27

define the following term:
uncertainty principle

Question 28

define the following term:
fascism

Question 29

define the following term:
totalitarian state

Question 30

define the following term:
the Enabling Act

Question 31

define the following term:
Adolf Hitler

Question 32

define the following term:
Weimar Republic

Question 33

define the following term:
propaganda

Question 34

define the following term:
Nuremberg laws

Question 35

define the following term:
"Woman into the home"

Question 36

define the following term:
Aryan race

Question 37

define the following term:
the New Deal

Question 38

define the following term:
Kristallnacht

Question 39

define the following term:
squadristi

Question 40

define the following term:
Young Fascists

Question 41

define the following term:
collective farms

Question 42

define the following term:
Leon Trotsky

Question 43

define the following term:
functionalism

Question 44

define the following term:
Surrealism

Question 45

define the following term:
New Economic Policy

Question 46

define the following term:
five-year plans

Question 47

define the following term:
Ernest Rutherford and the atom

Question 48

define the following term:
Theodor van de Velde's Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique

Question 49

define the following term:
German Expressionism

Question 50

define the following term:
Kraft durch Freude

Question 51

define the following term:
George Grosz and Otto Dix

Question 52

define the following term:
Birth of a Nation and The Blue Angel

Question 53

define the following term:
"wireless" and the BBC

Question 54

define the following term:
Dadaism

Question 55

define the following term:
Triumph of the Will

Question 56

define the following term:
Hannah Höch and Tristan Tzara

Question 57

define the following term:
Francisco Franco and the Spanish Civil War

Question 58

define the following term:
Joseph Stalin

Question 59

define the following term:
Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory

Question 60

define the following term:
authoritarian states

Question 61

What best describes Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal policies in the United States?

A)They were successful by 1932.
B)They virtually eliminated unemployment.
C)They brought about government ownership of most industries.
D)They brought about a partial economic recovery.
E)They were all declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

Question 62

define the following term:
"degenerate art"

Question 63

What best describes the first Popular Front government in France?

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

Question 64

Which two Western nations were most affected by the Great Depression?

A)Germany and France
B)France and Sweden
C)the United States and Great Britain
D)Germany and Belgium
E)Germany and the United States

Question 65

define the following term:
Arnold Schönberg

Question 66

What was one significant effect of the Great Depression in Europe?

A)The complete destruction of Communist parties
B)The escalation of unemployment rates in all nations but Great Britain
C)The strengthening of liberal, democratic movements in the 1930s
D)The rise of authoritarian movements in many areas of Europe
E)The growth of free trade in order to spur economic recovery

Question 67

define the following term:
Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf

Question 68

What development disrupted the hope for the spread of political democracy?

A)The decline of the potential voting population
B)The Great Depression
C)The rise of authoritarian regimes
D)The re-emergence of monarchies
E)The failure of the League of Nations

Question 69

define the following term:
James Joyce's Ulysses

Question 70

What helped usher in a new era of European prosperity between 1924 and 1929?

A)The French occupation of the Ruhr Valley
B)Germany's decision to print extra money
C)The system of reparations payments devised in 1919 and foisted on Germany
D)American investments following the Dawes Plan
E)Escalating prices for agricultural goods

Question 71

define the following term:
"stream of consciousness"

Question 72

What best explains why the Labour Party fell from power in 1931?

A)Financial corruption
B)Sex scandals
C)Policy failures
D)Military failures
E)Poor political campaigning

Question 73

define the following term:
Bauhaus School and Walter Gropius

Question 74

Much of Europe's prosperity in the 1920s was built on ____.

A)budget deficits
B)loans from the United States
C)excessive taxation
D)faulty accounting
E)the strength of the agricultural sector

Question 75

What 1925 settlement saw Germany agree to accept its western borders with France?

A)Berne Protocol
B)Treaty of Versailles
C)Rapollo Agreement
D)Geneva Accord
E)Treaty of Locarno

Question 76

What was the result of France's occupation of the Ruhr valley?

A)A policy of passive resistance by the German government
B)An alliance between Germany and Russia
C)The election of Raymond Poincaré's French government in 1924
D)An increase in the size of the German military
E)A decision by Germany to leave the League of Nations

Question 77

After World War I, Great Britain and ____ divided up many of Germany's colonial possessions.

A)Spain
B)the United States
C)France
D)the Soviet Union
E)the Netherlands

Question 78

How did France respond to the German government's announcement that it could not afford to make any more reparations payments?

A)It looked to the U.S. to mediate the conflict.
B)It occupied the Ruhr Valley.
C)It declared war on Germany.
D)It offered to accept a reduced, compromise payment.
E)It sued Germany in the court of the League of Nations.

Question 79

Following the Ruhr crisis, Gustav Stresemann took over as the leader of the ____ government.

A)Polish
B)Dutch
C)German
D)French
E)Belgian

Question 80

define the following term:
Carl Jung