Deck 26: The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919-1939

Question 1

define the following term:
League of Nations

Answer 1

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Question 2

define the following term:
Little Entente

Answer 2

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Question 3

What crises and changes did the democratic states in Europe and the United States face during the interwar years? How successful were they in resolving their challenges?

Answer 3

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Question 4

define the following term:
Kellogg-Briand pact

Question 5

define the following term:
the Unknown Soldier(s)

Question 6

define the following term:
the Popular Front

Question 7

What were Hitler's core ideas or assumptions? What were the methods used to implement them once he and the Nazis had established the Nazi state in Germany?

Question 8

Other than the Great War having ended, about what was there to be hopeful as the 1920s dawned?

Question 9

What impact did the growth of mass culture and mass leisure have upon European society in the 1920s and 1930s?

Question 10

define the following term:
Dawes Plan

Question 11

What are the chief characteristics of totalitarianism? Compare and contrast totalitarianism in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, and Fascist Italy. Were all successful at fulfilling the goals of totalitarianism?

Question 12

define the following term:
fascism

Question 13

What were the causes of the Great Depression? How did the European states respond to the Great Depression?

Question 14

What explains the collapse of Weimar Germany? What does the Weimar Republic's failure suggest about the fragility of democracy in western Europe after World War I?

Question 15

Using Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia as the models, what were the philosophical and practical differences between communism and fascism?

Question 16

How do the cultural and intellectual trends of the 1920s and 1930s reflect a crisis of confidence in Western civilization?

Question 17

define the following term:
Treaty of Locarno

Question 18

Compare and contrast the Stalinist with the Bolshevik state established after the Russian Revolution in 1917. How and why did economic, social, and political policies change over time?

Question 19

define the following term:
John Maynard Keynes

Question 20

define the following term:
Great Depression

Question 21

define the following term:
Mein Kampf

Question 22

define the following term:
Adolph Hitler

Question 23

define the following term:
Weimar Republic

Question 24

define the following term:
Blackshirts

Question 25

define the following term:
Schutzstaffeln

Question 26

define the following term:
Atatürk

Question 27

define the following term:
the New Deal

Question 28

define the following term:
Nazis

Question 29

define the following term:
Lebensraum

Question 30

define the following term:
Aryan racial state

Question 31

define the following term:
totalitarianism

Question 32

define the following term:
Mohandas Gandhi and civil disobedience

Question 33

define the following term:
propaganda

Question 34

define the following term:
Fascio di Combattimento

Question 35

define the following term:
"Germany Awake"

Question 36

define the following term:
Benito Mussolini

Question 37

define the following term:
Führerprinzip

Question 38

define the following term:
the Enabling Act

Question 39

define the following term:
squadristi

Question 40

define the following term:
"Woman into the home" and "Mother and Child"

Question 41

define the following term:
five-year plans

Question 42

define the following term:
Paul Valéry

Question 43

define the following term:
Hannah Hoch and Tristan Tzara

Question 44

define the following term:
Joseph Stalin

Question 45

define the following term:
Kristallnacht

Question 46

define the following term:
"wireless" and the BBC

Question 47

define the following term:
collective farms

Question 48

define the following term:
Marie Stopes's Married Love and Theodore van de Velde's Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique

Question 49

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

Question 50

define the following term:
Dopolavoro and Kraft durch Freude

Question 51

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

Question 52

define the following term:
George Grosz and Otto Dix

Question 53

define the following term:
Hitler Jugend and Bund Deutscher Mädel

Question 54

define the following term:
war communism

Question 55

define the following term:
Nuremberg laws

Question 56

define the following term:
authoritarian state

Question 57

define the following term:
German Expressionism

Question 58

define the following term:
New Economic Policy

Question 59

define the following term:
Stakhanov cult

Question 60

define the following term:
Dadaism

Question 61

define the following term:
Surrealism

Question 62

define the following term:
functionalism

Question 63

The Dawes Plan

A)gave formal American approval to the French occupation of the Ruhr valley.
B)increased Germany reparations' payments in the face of fear Germany would default.
C)was a failed treaty between Germany and Austria over Germany's southern border.
D)granted a $200 million loan for Germany recovery.
E)was a treaty guaranteeing the border between Germany and Poland.

Question 64

define the following term:
"stream of consciousness" and James Joyce's Ulysses

Question 65

define the following term:
Ernest Rutherford and the atom

Question 66

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

Question 67

define the following term:
Louis H. Sullivan, the Chicago School, and Frank Lloyd Wright

Question 68

define the following term:
Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera

Question 69

define the following term:
Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf

Question 70

define the following term:
Werner Heisenberg and the uncertainty principle

Question 71

define the following term:
Carl Jung

Question 72

define the following term:
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway

Question 73

define the following term:
Bauhaus School and Walter Gropius

Question 74

Following Germany's failure to pay its war reparations, France occupied Germany's Ruhr valley, resulting in

A)a policy of passive resistance by the German government and German resort to printing money to pay war debts.
B)an alliance concluded 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)Germany's decision to leave the League of Nations.

Question 75

Efforts to maintain European peace following World War I included

A)a three-way alliance between Great Britain, France, and the Weimar Republic.
B)the addition of an armed international security force to the League of Nations.
C)an inherently weak system of alliances between France and the Little Entente.
D)increased intervention by the United States in European political affairs.
E)the belated United States decision to Join the League of Nations.

Question 76

Which one of the following did not characterize the weakness of the League of Nations?

A)the failure of the United States to join.
B)U.S. determination to be less involved in European affairs.
C)U.S. determination to be more involved in European affairs.
D)economic sanctions as the League's sole weapon.
E)failure of the League to reprimand member states for acts of aggression.

Question 77

define the following term:
Arnold Schoenberg and atonal music

Question 78

define the following term:
"degenerate" art

Question 79

define the following term:
"socialist realism"

Question 80

The Decline of the West , which emphasized the decadence of the Western civilization, was written by

A)Johan Huizinga.
B)Oswald Spengler.
C)Adolf Hitler.
D)Benito Mussolini.
E)Erich Maria Remarque.