World 24.1 Futile Search for Stability & 24.2 Rise of Dictatorial Regimes

Question 1

leading policy-making committee in the USSR

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Politburo

Question 2

Lenin intended his economic policies to do which of the following?

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create a temporary capitalist system

Question 3

nature of Roosevelt’s New Deal

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active government

Question 4

The economist John Maynard Keynes argued that

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unemployment came from a decline in demand for goods and services.

Question 5

The Great Depression was caused primarily by

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economic downturn and the U.S. stock market crash.

Question 6

Franco’s military regime in Spain was supported by

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Germany and Italy.

Question 7

period of low economic activity and high unemployment

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depression

Question 8

Lenin’s scheme to replace war communism

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New Economic Policy

Question 9

Mussolini’s regime compromised with

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Italy’s traditional institutions.

Question 10

elimination of private farms by Stalin

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collectivization

Question 11

The French New Deal program started by France’s Popular Front

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improved wages and hours for workers.

Question 12

philosophy that values the state over the individual

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fascism

Question 13

right of unions to negotiate with employers

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collective bargaining

Question 14

The League of Nations was less than effective for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

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President Wilson did not support the idea.

Question 15

Stalin’s Five Year Plans were intended to transform Russia into

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an industrial society.

Question 16

general rise in prices and the decrease in the value of money

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inflation

Question 17

The Weimar Republic was hurt by all of the following EXCEPT

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too much spending on the German military.

Question 18

government that aims to rule by broad control

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totalitarian states

Question 19

Parliamentary systems failed in most eastern European states, in part, because

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these states had little democratic tradition.

Question 20

a way for governments to help end a depression

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deficit spending

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