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

Question 1

Talk about:
the Unknown Soldier(s)

Answer 1

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Question 2

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?

Answer 2

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Question 3

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

Answer 3

Answers may vary.

Question 4

Talk about:
Great Depression

Question 5

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 6

Talk about:
fascism

Question 7

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

Question 8

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 9

Talk about:
Treaty of Locarno

Question 10

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

Question 11

Talk about:
Little Entente

Question 12

Talk about:
Kellogg-Briand pact

Question 13

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?

Question 14

Talk about:
League of Nations

Question 15

Talk about:
the Popular Front

Question 16

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

Question 17

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 18

Talk about:
John Maynard Keynes

Question 19

Talk about:
Dawes Plan

Question 20

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

Question 21

Talk about:
Benito Mussolini

Question 22

Talk about:
squadristi

Question 23

Talk about:
Aryan racial state

Question 24

Talk about:
propaganda

Question 25

Talk about:
Mein Kampf

Question 26

Talk about:
Adolph Hitler

Question 27

Talk about:
Blackshirts

Question 28

Talk about:
Mohandas Gandhi and civil disobedience

Question 29

Talk about:
Weimar Republic

Question 30

Talk about:
"Woman into the home" and "Mother and Child"

Question 31

Talk about:
the Enabling Act

Question 32

Talk about:
Nazis

Question 33

Talk about:
Atatürk

Question 34

Talk about:
Schutzstaffeln

Question 35

Talk about:
Führerprinzip

Question 36

Talk about:
"Germany Awake"

Question 37

Talk about:
the New Deal

Question 38

Talk about:
totalitarianism

Question 39

Talk about:
Fascio di Combattimento

Question 40

Talk about:
Lebensraum

Question 41

Talk about:
George Grosz and Otto Dix

Question 42

Talk about:
Quo Vadis , Birth of a Nation, and The Blue Angel

Question 43

Talk about:
Dopolavoro and Kraft durch Freude

Question 44

Talk about:
war communism

Question 45

Talk about:
five-year plans

Question 46

Talk about:
Hannah Hoch and Tristan Tzara

Question 47

Talk about:
authoritarian state

Question 48

Talk about:
Joseph Stalin

Question 49

Talk about:
Francisco Franco and the Spanish Civil War

Question 50

Talk about:
Stakhanov cult

Question 51

Talk about:
Dadaism

Question 52

Talk about:
New Economic Policy

Question 53

Talk about:
Nuremberg laws

Question 54

Talk about:
Paul Valéry

Question 55

Talk about:
"wireless" and the BBC

Question 56

Talk about:
German Expressionism

Question 57

Talk about:
collective farms

Question 58

Talk about:
Marie Stopes's Married Love and Theodore van de Velde's Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique

Question 59

Talk about:
Kristallnacht

Question 60

Talk about:
Hitler Jugend and Bund Deutscher Mädel

Question 61

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 62

Talk about:
"stream of consciousness" and James Joyce's Ulysses

Question 63

Talk about:
functionalism

Question 64

Talk about:
"socialist realism"

Question 65

Talk about:
Surrealism

Question 66

Talk about:
Ernest Rutherford and the atom

Question 67

Talk about:
Werner Heisenberg and the uncertainty principle

Question 68

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 69

Talk about:
Carl Jung

Question 70

Talk about:
Louis H. Sullivan, the Chicago School, and Frank Lloyd Wright

Question 71

Talk about:
Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf

Question 72

Talk about:
Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory

Question 73

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 74

Talk about:
Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera

Question 75

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.

Question 76

Talk about:
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway

Question 77

Talk about:
Bauhaus School and Walter Gropius

Question 78

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 79

Talk about:
"degenerate" art

Question 80

Talk about:
Arnold Schoenberg and atonal music