Exam 30: The Great Depression and World War Ii, 1929-1945

A) Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to reform capitalism in the United States through forceful government intervention in the economy.
B) A party formed in 1936 in France that encouraged unions and launched a far-reaching New Deal-inspired program of social reform.
C) A radical dictatorship that exercises complete political power and control over all aspects of society and seeks to mobilize the masses for action.
D) A movement characterized by extreme, often expansionist nationalism, anti-socialism, a dynamic and violent leader, and glorification of war and the military.
E) Launched by Stalin in 1928 and termed the "revolution from above," its goal was to modernize the Soviet Union and generate a Communist society with new attitudes, new loyalties, and a new socialist humanity.
F) Lenin's 1921 policy re-establishing limited economic freedom in the Soviet Union in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry in the face of economic disintegration.
G) Stalin's forcible consolidation, beginning in 1929, of individual peasant farms in the Soviet Union into large, state-controlled enterprises.
H) A private army under Mussolini in Italy that destroyed Socialist newspapers, union halls, and local Socialist Party headquarters, eventually pushing Socialists out of the city governments of northern Italy.
I) A 1929 agreement in which Mussolini in Italy recognized the Vatican as an independent state and agreed to give the church heavy financial support in return for the pope's public support.
J) A movement born of extreme nationalism and racism and dominated by Adolf Hitler from 1933 until the end of World War II in 1945.
K) An act pushed through the Reichstag by the Nazis in 1933 that gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for four years.
L) "Lightning war" using planes, tanks, and trucks, first used by Hitler to crush Poland in four weeks.
M) Hitler's program, based on the guiding principle of racial imperialism, which gave preferential treatment to the Nordic peoples above "inferior" Latin peoples and, at the bottom, "subhuman" Slavs and Jews.
N) The attempted systematic extermination of all European Jews and other "undesirables" by the Nazi state during World War II.
O) The military strategy, set forth by Churchill and adopted by Roosevelt, that called for the defeat of Hitler in Europe before the United States launched an all-out strike against Japan in the Pacific.

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A) Maintaining the status quo
B) Territorial expansion
C) Engaging in war
D) Forcing society into rapid change

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A) The passage of the Enabling Act
B) A wave of strikes by German labor unions
C) The death of President Hindenburg
D) The assassination of a German diplomat by a Jew

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A) in Bolshevik émigré circles before World War I.
B) in the German press during World War I.
C) with the total war efforts of World War I.
D) among American anticommunists after 1945.

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A) The occupation of the Ruhr
B) U.S. isolationism
C) The growth of communism
D) The growth of fascism

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A) Kulaks
B) Intellectuals
C) Nobles
D) Artists

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A) ordered all professional Jews to leave Germany.
B) created the secret police, the Gestapo.
C) deprived German Communists of the right of citizenship.
D) stated that anyone with three or more Jewish grandparents was Jewish.

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A) 13 percent
B) 25 percent
C) 38 percent
D) 50 percent

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A) He thought that the Soviet Union's survival depended on catching up with the West.
B) He wanted to finish what Lenin had started.
C) He wanted to keep the peasants distracted and prevent them from revolting.
D) He was attempting to move agriculture to south Russia.

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A) It fell by two-thirds between 1929 and 1932.
B) It tripled by 1932.
C) It exceeded the average income by 20 percent.
D) It remained the same, but yields decreased.

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A) Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to reform capitalism in the United States through forceful government intervention in the economy.
B) A party formed in 1936 in France that encouraged unions and launched a far-reaching New Deal-inspired program of social reform.
C) A radical dictatorship that exercises complete political power and control over all aspects of society and seeks to mobilize the masses for action.
D) A movement characterized by extreme, often expansionist nationalism, anti-socialism, a dynamic and violent leader, and glorification of war and the military.
E) Launched by Stalin in 1928 and termed the "revolution from above," its goal was to modernize the Soviet Union and generate a Communist society with new attitudes, new loyalties, and a new socialist humanity.
F) Lenin's 1921 policy re-establishing limited economic freedom in the Soviet Union in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry in the face of economic disintegration.
G) Stalin's forcible consolidation, beginning in 1929, of individual peasant farms in the Soviet Union into large, state-controlled enterprises.
H) A private army under Mussolini in Italy that destroyed Socialist newspapers, union halls, and local Socialist Party headquarters, eventually pushing Socialists out of the city governments of northern Italy.
I) A 1929 agreement in which Mussolini in Italy recognized the Vatican as an independent state and agreed to give the church heavy financial support in return for the pope's public support.
J) A movement born of extreme nationalism and racism and dominated by Adolf Hitler from 1933 until the end of World War II in 1945.
K) An act pushed through the Reichstag by the Nazis in 1933 that gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for four years.
L) "Lightning war" using planes, tanks, and trucks, first used by Hitler to crush Poland in four weeks.
M) Hitler's program, based on the guiding principle of racial imperialism, which gave preferential treatment to the Nordic peoples above "inferior" Latin peoples and, at the bottom, "subhuman" Slavs and Jews.
N) The attempted systematic extermination of all European Jews and other "undesirables" by the Nazi state during World War II.
O) The military strategy, set forth by Churchill and adopted by Roosevelt, that called for the defeat of Hitler in Europe before the United States launched an all-out strike against Japan in the Pacific.

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A) Tariffs
B) Income tax
C) Wages
D) The national debt

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A) They traded them.
B) They sold them.
C) They burned them.
D) They hid them.

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A) Large-scale factories
B) Expansion
C) Exiling Jews
D) Collectivized farming

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A) They were anti-tariff.
B) Trade relations with Asia were lagging.
C) They were pro-tariff.
D) The Great Depression was doing little to hurt British trade.

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A) Japan was after Manchuria's industrial complexes.
B) Control of Manchuria would provide Japan with better access to China.
C) Japan wanted the mainland territory for Japanese settlers.
D) Manchuria was rich in raw materials.

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