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ch 28 review
Chapter 28 WH Test Review
Question | Answer |
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Renounced war as an instrument of policy | Kellogg-Briand Pact |
Liberated young women of the Jazz age | Flappers |
A one-party dictatorship that tries to regulate all aspects of its citizens' lives | Totalitarian State |
An artistic movement that tries to portray the workings of the unconscious | Surrealism |
A system of brutal Russian labor camps | Gulag |
Nazi secret police | Gestapo |
Militant supporters of Benito Mussolini | Black Shirts |
"night of broken glass" | Kristallnacht |
Encouraged world wide communist revolution | Comintern |
A class of wealthy farmers whom Stalin destroyed | Kulaks |
What was a result of prohibition, which was made law in the US in 1919? | An increase in organized crime |
In 1928, Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming discovered | Penicillin |
How did the League of Nations respond when Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931? | It condemned Japan's action but did nothing to stop it |
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a massive package of Depression relief called the | New Deal |
What was a key characteristic of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s? | Supremacy of the state |
On Stalin's Collectives | The government provided tractors, fertilizers, and seeds |
Stalin attempted to make the cultural life of the Soviet Union more Russian by promoting a policy of | Russification |
France occupied Germany's coal-rich Ruhr Valley in 1923 | Because Germany had fallen behind in reparations |
What 1924 agreement reduced German reparations and provided US loans to Germany? | Dawes Plan |
In 1935, the Nazis passed the Nuremberg laws, which | Deprived Jews of German Citizenship |
In Britain during the 1920s, the Labour party supported | A 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/the US became the world's leading economic power |
In the early 1930s, what contributed to the spread of economic problems around the world? | Governments raised tariffs to protect their economies |
What was a drawback of being among the Soviet elite under Stalin? | The elite often suffered from Stalin's purge |
What was a cause of Stalin's Great Purge? | He feared rival party leaders |
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 Bismarck? | Conservative Germans |
The Eastern European nations that were carved out of old European empires after World War I | Lacked capital to develop Industry |
Which of the following could be described as a conservative reaction to the rapid changes in society in the US after World War I? | The Scopes Trial |
Under Mussolini's rule in Italy | there was a one-party dictatorship |
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 |
Sigmund Freud's method of studying how the mind works and treating mental disorders is called | Psychoanalysis |
Eventually, right-wing dictators emerged in every Eastern European country except | Czechoslovakia and Finland |
What was the appeal of Mussolini's fascist government to Italians? | The fascists ended political feuding in government |
Which of the following was a result of the work of Madam Curie and Albert Einstein? | The discovery of atomic fission |