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- 1. Multiple Choice
Efforts to maintain European peace following World War I included
a three-way alliance between Great Britain, France, and the Weimar Republic.
the addition of an armed international security force to the League of Nations.
an inherently weak system of alliances between France and the Little Entente.
increased intervention by the United States in European political affairs.
the belated United States decision to Join the League of Nations.
- 2. Multiple Choice
One significant effect of the Great Depression in Europe was
the complete destruction of Communist parties.
huge unemployment rates in all nations but Great Britain.
the strengthening of liberal, democratic movements in the 1930s.
the rise of authoritarian movements in many areas of Europe.
the growth of free trade in order to spur economic recovery.
- 3. Multiple Choice
The totalitarian regimes of Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union
pursued vastly different foreign policies.
held each other in disdain.
hoped to control every aspect of their citizens' lives
retained power due to the charisma of their leaders.
established a formal alliance directed against laissez-faire liberal capitalism.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Squadristi were
the closest advisors of Mussolini.
armed bands of Fascists who used violence to intimidate enemies.
elite soldiers of the Fascist state.
officers in the Italian military.
military opponents of Mussolini.
- 5. Multiple Choice
During the 1920s, Germany's Weimar Republic
possessed outstanding politicians.
suffered from uprisings by both left and right.
was able to enact major reforms to Germany's basic governmental structure.
managed to win support for the republic by leaders of powerful business cartels.
None of these are correct.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Hitler brought Germany out of the Great Depression
by staging mass rallies.
by printing money.
through rearmament and public works.
by implementing price controls.
by nationalizing key industries.
- 7. Multiple Choice
Hitler's anti-Semitic policies in the 1930s
included the Nuremberg laws, which centered on the forced emigration of all Jews from Germany.
were emulated in France by the Popular Front.
did not exclude Jews from legal, medical, and teaching positions.
would remain minimal and unorganized until World War II.
reached their most violent phase during Kristallnacht, with attacks on Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Joseph Stalin's emergence as leader of the Communist party was aided by
Lenin's recommendation that he become sole leader.
his alliance with Trotsky and the Right in the Politburo.
his position as general secretary of the Bolshevik party.
strong support of the left in the Politburo, which favored the spread of Communism abroad.
the support of the Soviet military.
- 9. Multiple Choice
The Stalinist era in the 1930s witnessed
the decline of industrialization in favor of the collectivization of agriculture.
real wages and social conditions for the industrial labor force improve dramatically.
millions of ordinary citizens arrested and sent into force labor camps.
an abundance of permissive social legislation.
an activist foreign and military policy, bent upon immediately making Eastern Europe a satellite region to the Soviet Union.
- 10. Multiple Choice
Artistic and intellectual trends in the interwar years reflected
a rejection of the avant-garde.
a disillusionment with Western Civilization provoked by the horrors of the World War I.
realistic forms of art, as with the Dadaists.
an acceptance of modern art forms, especially in Germany and Russia.
a rediscovery of Romantic Realism as the major art movement in the West.
- 11. Multiple Choice
The Dada movement in art was known for all of the following except
an expressed contempt for Western culture.
an effort to put a clear sense of purpose and ambition back into art and life.
"anti-art" and the mockery of all known, traditional forms of artistic expression.
a celebration of chaos and the absurd, often expressed in bizarre performances and collages of unrelated objects.
being popular in Berlin during the Weimar years.
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