Chapter 26 + 27 Study Guide
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Following the Paris peace treaties, all of the following transpired EXCEPT:
Germany believed treaty provisions were not properly enforced.
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Following the end of World War I, a state of normalcy:
Could not be restored.
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A major financial impact resulting from World War I was:
European dominance over the world economy weakened.
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The war resulted in the following for labor unions:
An improvement in conditions, because unions had been cooperative during wartime production.
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Leon Trotsky’s military forces were opposed by the:
White Russians
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Trotsky gave all of the following rationale to support his policy of power through terror EXCEPT:
Fascism came to prevail through terrorism
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The New Economic Policy was devised by:
Vladimir Lenin
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Leon Trotsky championed all of the following ideas EXCEPT:
The burden of the revolution should not fall on the shoulders of the peasant population.
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Joseph Stalin gained power by virtue of his:
Knowledge of internal party workings.
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The Third International sect of the European socialist movement was also known as the:
Comintern
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The Bolsheviks made all of the following changes affecting women EXCEPT:
Women were allowed to have a large impact on government.
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Most scholars agree that all of the following adjectives could be applied fascist governments except:
Anti-Catholic
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In support of various policies, Mussolini was all the following EXCEPT:
Committed to unwavering principles.
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The fascists’ seizure off the Italian government can be primarily attributed to the:
Failure of the king to authorize the army to block the Black Shirt March
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Mussolini’s success can be attributed to all of the following EXCEPT:
His ability to charm his rivals.
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The Latern Accord of 1929 established that:
The pope was ruler of the independent Vatican City.
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Despite the government’s pressure on women to be homemakers, women in Fascist Italy made up the following percentage of the Italian workforce:
25 percent.
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The Fascist government in Italy encouraged women to have children by doing all of the following EXCEPT:
Disallowing maternity leave at the workplace.
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What was the political character of France’s Chamber of Duties?
Staunchly Conservative
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France formed a pact with which three Eastern Europeam countries, known as the Little Entente?
Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia
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In 1923, French Forces occupied the following region in the German Rhineland, in attempt to force Germany to make reparations for World War I:
Ruhr
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A conservative leader in Great Britain, Stanley Baldwin tried to remedy the country’s economic woes by:
Both A and B
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In 1926, the following labor group started a strike that soon found sympathetic workers in other trades:
Coal Miners
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The following can be said about the successor states in Eastern Europe EXCEPT:
All the new states were primarily urban nations.
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The new Poland was constructed from all of the following countries EXCEPT:
Lithuania
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Which successor state avoided a self-imposed authoritarian government?
Czechoslovakia
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Who was the Hungarian communist Stalin had executed after the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic?
Bela Kun
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Royal dictatorships were imposed in:
Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece
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In the 1920s, German politics parties were mainly:
Dissatisfied with the treaty and wanted to revise it.
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The Weimar constitution:
Provided for a proportional representation.
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In 1920, an armed insurrection took place in Berlin. The insurrection is also referred to as the:
Kapp Putsch
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The U.S. dollar increased in value in comparison to the German mark by what percentage, from 1914 to 1921?
1,500 percent
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The Nazis’ Twenty-Five Points progam called for all of the following EXCEPT:
The replacement of small retail shops with large department stores.
34. Which of the following was NOT a factor that contributed to the intense severity and the extended length of the Great Depression in Europe?
Increasing governmental control of economic affairs
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Most money the Allies collected in war reparations went to:
The United States
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In 1924 this plan reorganized the administration and transfer of reparations, which, in turn, smoothed the debt repayments to the United States:
Dawes Plan
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The Wall Street crash of October 1929 was the result of:
Virtually unregulated financial speculation
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In the summer of 1932 this, ended the era of reparations:
Lausanne Conference
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One result of the economic crisis of the depression was the emergence of a body of economic thought first set forth in 1936 in General Theory of Employment, Interests, and Money by:
John Maynard Keynes
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Which of the following did the British National Government NOT do to attack the depression?
Eliminated all import tax
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The 1936 Popular Front government of France consisted of an alliance of all of the following political parties EXCEPT the:
Monarchists
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The purpose of this coalition was to preserve the republic and press for social reform:
Popular Front
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All of the following is true of Blum’s labor policy Except:
He firmly resolved no to devalue the franc and held to his promise
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The outflow of foreign capital from Germany beginning in 1928 undermined the brief prosperity and resulted in crisis ending:
Parliamentary government
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German unemployment from March 1930 to March 1932:
More than doubled
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By 1993, the Nazi storm troopers (SA) had:
1 million members
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The 1932 presidential elections resulted in:
Hindenburg’s dismissal of Bruning
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Adolph Hitler became Chancellor of Germany:
By legal means
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Support for Hitler was particularly strong among groups such as:
Farmers, war veterans, and the young
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All of the following were steps toward Hitler’s consolidation of power EXCEPT the:
Creation of an alliance with centrist parties
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The suspending of civil liberties and arrests of communists or alleged communists was a direct result of:
The Reichstag fire
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The 1935 Nuremburg laws:
Stripped German Jews of their citizenship
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Nazi policy called for German women to do all of the following EXCEPT:
Occupy key positions in the German government
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The fascists had promised to stabilize Italian:
Both social and economic life
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Mussolini desperately sought to make Italy self- sufficient with this key product:
Wheat
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From the mid-1920s, Italian labor unions:
Lost both the right to strike and the right to pursue independent economic goals
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One purpose of the Institute for Industrial Reconstruction was:
To extend loans to businesses that were in financial difficulty
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What response did the League of Nations take after Italy’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia?
The League imposed economic sanctions, urging members to not purchase Italian goods
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Under fascism, Italy saw all of the following EXCEPT:
More rights and freedoms for property owners
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While the capitalist economies of Western Europe floundered in the Great Depression, the Soviet Union undertook:
A tremendous industrial advance
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Between 1928 and 1940, Soviet industrial production:
Rose dramatically
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Government- set prices for grain in the Soviet Union resulted in all of the following EXCEPT:
The stabilization of the rural economy
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All of the following is true of collectivization EXCEPT:
Children of peasants were treated as equals and taught to view their parents as traitors to the Soviet Union
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The Soviet Communist Party was _______ in its ideology
Atheist
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Between 1928 and 1932 approximately, _______ million peasants left the countryside, a migration unprecedented in European history.
12
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Soviet citizens survived for all of these reasons EXCEPT:
People often hid most of their supplies from the Soviet officers
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Many foreign contemporaries looked at the Soviet economic experiment:
Naively
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The pretext for the onset of this was the assassination of Sergei Kirov on December 1, 1934:
The Great Purges
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