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World History
Chapter 16 and 17 Multiple Choice
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were the results of prohibition, which was made law in the United States in 1919? | an increase in organized crime |
| In 1928, Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming discovered | penicilin |
| How did the League of Nations respond when Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931? | it condemned japans actions but did nothing to stop it |
| U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a massive package of Depression relief called the | New Deal |
| What were the key characteristic of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s? | supremacy of the state |
| How were Stalin’s collective farms run? | they were owned and operated by peasants, the gov. would provide tractors, fertilizers, and better seed peasants would keep their houses and personal belongings all products were given to collective |
| Stalin attempted to make the cultural life of the Soviet Union more Russian by promoting a policy of | russification |
| Why did France occupy Germany’s coal-rich Ruhr Valley in 1923? | to seize goods as payment for germanys reparation debt |
| What 1924 agreement reduced German reparations and provided U.S. loans to Germany? | the Dawes Plan |
| In 1935, the Nazis passed the Nuremberg Laws which | deprived Jews of German citizenship |
| What events could be described as a conservative reaction to the rapid changes in society in the United States after World War I? | Prohibition |
| Sigmund Freud’s method of studying how the mind words and treating mental disorders is called | physchoanalysis |
| What were the results of the work of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein? | the discovery of atomic fusion |
| After most of Ireland became self-governing in 1922, why did the Irish Republican Army (IRA) continue to fight the British? | northern ireland remained under british rule |
| In Britain during the 1920s, the Labour party supported | gradual move toward socialism |
| What was the state of the economy of the United States in the 1920s? | the economy had become strong during the war and it continued to grow rapidly |
| In the early 1930s, what contributed to the spread of economic problems around the world? | governments raised tariffs to protect their economies |
| What political changes took place under Mussolini’s rule in Italy? | everything was devoted to the state and Mussolini became the new dictator |
| What was the appeal of Mussolini’s fascist government to Italians? | the fascists ended political feuding in government. it protected a sense of power and confidence. revived national pride |
| What was a cause of Stalin’s Great Purge? | he feared rival party leaders |
| What was a drawback of being among the Soviet elite under Stalin? | the often suffered from Stalin's purge |
| What measure did the Nazis take that was a rejection of the Versailles treaty? | they re-armed Germany |
| Which group sharply criticized the Weimar Republic as too weak and longed for another strong leader like Bismark? | conservative Germans |
| What did the Eastern European nations that were carved out of old European empires after World War I have in common? | they were small countries whose rural agricultural economies lacked capital to develop industry |
| Eventually, right-wing dictators emerged in every Eastern European country except | czechoslovakia and finland |
| What did the Nazi-Soviet Pact accomplish for Germany? | gave hitler a "free-hand" in Poland |
| What was one reason why the Spanish Civil War was called a “dress rehearsal” for World War II? | France, Britain, and the US rallied to fight facism |
| Hitler decided to invade the Soviet Union because | he wanted to crush communism in europe and defeat his powerful rival, Stalin |
| In which French city did German forces set up a “puppet state” capital after conquering France? | Vichy, south of France |
| How did Churchill and Roosevelt give in to Stalin at the conference in Tehran in 1943? | they agreed to let the borders outlined in the Nazi-Soviet Pact stand, against the wishes of Poland's government-in-exile |
| What was important about the Battle of the Bulge? | it was the last nazi attack against the allies |
| The German air force was almost grounded by the time of the D-Day invasion because | germans had little fuel due to allied bombing |
| Why did U.S. adopt the strategy of “island-hopping” in the Pacific? | to recapture some japanese held islands while bypassing islands |
| What was one of Stalin’s major goals in Eastern Europe after World War II? | to create a protective buffer zone of friendly governments |
| The Truman Doctrine was rooted in the idea of | limiting communism to the areas already under soviet control, stalin saw this as "encirclement" by capitalists |
| The League of Nations voted sanctions against which country for invading Ethiopia in 1935? | italy |
| Through what action did Hitler violate the Versailles treaty in 1936? | by building up his military and attacking other european nations |
| What did the British and French do at the Munich Conference in 1938 to avoid war? | they persuaded the czech to surrender the sudentenland |
| What was usually the first stage of Hitler’s blitzkrieg strategy? | the luftwaffe attached ground targets from the air |
| How did the Germans change their tactics in preparing for Operation Sea Lion? | they began to bomb london and other cities |
| What U.S. action influenced the Japanese decision to attack the United States in 1941? | banning the sale of war materials to Japan |
| During World War II, “Rosie the Riveter” came to symbolize | the women who worked in us manufacturing plants |
| In 1942, what priority did Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin set in the war? | to achieve victory in europe before trying to achieve it in asia |
| What stopped the German advance during the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941? | the soviet winter |
| What was the Manhattan Project? | allied scientists making the first atomic bomb of WWII |
| Who were the kamikaze? | japan suicide pilots |
| What action did the Western Allies take after World War II that caused the Soviets to strengthen their hold on East Germany? | tried to ensure west germany was free to democracy; made sure eastern europe had a friendly "buffer zone" between the USSR and West |
| What was the importance of the Battle of El Alamein in 1942? | they stopped rommel's advances and were later able to capture him and his army |
| What did the Soviet Union do during Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939? | attacked poland from the east (part of the Nazi-Soviet Pact) |
| What happened at Dunkirk in the spring of 1940? | British force was successfully retreated across the English Channel |