Deck 26: 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

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

Answer 2

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Question 3

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

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Question 4

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

Question 5

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

Question 6

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Treaty of Locarno

Question 7

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

Question 8

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Great Depression

Question 9

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

Question 10

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League of Nations

Question 11

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John Maynard Keynes

Question 12

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

Question 13

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Allied Reparations Commission

Question 14

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civil disobedience

Question 15

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

Question 16

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 17

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the Popular Front

Question 18

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Hoovervilles

Question 19

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

Question 20

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Dawes Plan

Question 21

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fascism

Question 22

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squadristi

Question 23

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Kristallnacht

Question 24

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propaganda

Question 25

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Nazis

Question 26

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Hitler Jugend

Question 27

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Aryan race

Question 28

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the Enabling Act

Question 29

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totalitarian state

Question 30

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the New Deal

Question 31

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Benito Mussolini

Question 32

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"Woman into the home"

Question 33

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uncertainty principle

Question 34

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Mein Kampf

Question 35

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Mohandas Gandhi

Question 36

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Adolf Hitler

Question 37

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Nuremberg laws

Question 38

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Young Fascists

Question 39

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Lebensraum

Question 40

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Weimar Republic

Question 41

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New Economic Policy

Question 42

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Joseph Stalin

Question 43

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Francisco Franco and the Spanish Civil War

Question 44

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Surrealism

Question 45

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Hannah Höch and Tristan Tzara

Question 46

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George Grosz and Otto Dix

Question 47

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Dadaism

Question 48

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Triumph of the Will

Question 49

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German Expressionism

Question 50

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Kraft durch Freude

Question 51

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Birth of a Nation and The Blue Angel

Question 52

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"wireless" and the BBC

Question 53

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authoritarian states

Question 54

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functionalism

Question 55

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five-year plans

Question 56

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Leon Trotsky

Question 57

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Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory

Question 58

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Theodor van de Velde's Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique

Question 59

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collective farms

Question 60

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Ernest Rutherford and the atom

Question 61

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 62

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 63

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 64

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 65

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 66

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Carl Jung

Question 67

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James Joyce's Ulysses

Question 68

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 69

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 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

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Bauhaus School and Walter Gropius

Question 72

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 73

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 74

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 75

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"degenerate art"

Question 76

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 77

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"stream of consciousness"

Question 78

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Arnold Schönberg

Question 79

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 80

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Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf