Ch. 16 - The Rise of Totalitarianism

Question 1

ban on the sale or production of alcohol

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prohibition

Question 2

when most of Ireland became self-governing in 1922, why did the IRA continue to fight the Brits

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Northern Ireland remained under British rule

Question 3

The U.S. economy in the 1920s

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became the world's leading economic power

Question 4

The Eastern European nations that were carved out of old European empires after WW1

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lacked the capital to develop industry

Question 5

What renounced war as an instrument of policy?

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

Question 6

wealthy Russian farmers

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kulaks

Question 7

TS Eliot, James Joyce and Langston Hughes were all

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writers

Question 8

A system of brutal Russian labor camps

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Gulag

Question 9

The soviet elite died under Stalin during the

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great purge

Question 10

Book Hitler wrote while in prison

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Mein Kampf

Question 11

Eventually, right-wing dictators emerged in every Eastern European country except

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Czechoslovakia and Finland

Question 12

What 1924 agreement reduced German reparations and provided U.S. loans to Germany?

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Dawes Plan

Question 13

One appeal of fascism to Italians

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the promise of a stable government

Question 14

"Night of Broken Glass"

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Kristallnacht

Question 15

In Britain in the 1920s, the Labour Party supported

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gradual move toward socialism

Question 16

Liberated young women of the Jazz age

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flappers

Question 17

Under Stalin, the official state religious policy was

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atheism

Question 18

Encouraged world-wide communist revolution

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Comintern

Question 19

U.S. president FDR proposed a massive package of relief during the Great Depression called the

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New Deal.

Question 20

A one-party dictatorship that tries to regulate all aspects of its citizens' lives

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Totalitarian State

Question 21

artistic style that showed the Soviet Union in a positive light

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socialist realism

Question 22

An artistic movement that attempts to portray the workings of the unconscious

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Surrealism

Question 23

Under Mussolini, Italy became a

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dictatorship

Question 24

What was a key characteristic of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s?

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supremacy of the state

Question 25

One Nazi goal was to

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purify the German culture

Question 26

France occupied Germany's coal-rich Ruhr Valley in 1923

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because Germany had fallen behind in reparations.

Question 27

How did the League of Nations respond when Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931?

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It condemned Japan's action but did nothing to stop it.

Question 28

Stalin attempted to make the culture of the S. Union more Russian by promoting a policy of

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russification

Question 29

What was a result of Prohibition, which was made law in the United States in 1919?

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an increase in organized crime

Question 30

Sigmund Freud's method of studying how the mind works and treating mental disorders is called

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psychoanalysis

Question 31

The Great Purge targeted

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anyone Stalin saw as a threat

Question 32

Militant supporters of Benito Mussolini

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Black Shirts

Question 33

Brutal Russian labor camps

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Gulags

Question 34

On Stalin's collectives,

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the government provided tractors, fertilizers, and seed.

Question 35

Which group sharply criticized the Weimar Republic as too weak and wanted a strong leader

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conservative Germans

Question 36

A class of wealthy farmers whom Stalin destroyed

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Kulaks

Question 37

Nazi secret police

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Gestapo

Question 38

The Nazi Secret police

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Gestapo

Question 39

Which was the result of the work of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein?

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discovery of atomic fissure

Question 40

In 1935, the Nazis passed the Nuremberg Laws, which

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deprived Jews of German citizenship.

Ch. 16 - The Rise of Totalitarianism

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Ch. 16 - The Rise of Totalitarianism

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