APE Unit 8: Pre & Post WWI

A worldwide economic depression from 1929 through 1939.

What did orthodox economists believe in the 1930s?

What idea does the functionalist architecture of Le Corbusier promote?

A philosophy that stresses the meaninglessness of existence

How did Paul von Hindenburg & Erich Ludendorff react to Germany’s loss in the war?

Which German politician called off passive resistance in the Ruhr & agreed to pay reparations?

Why did the Germans accept the Treaty of Versailles?

For artists such as the Dadaists and Surrealists, what was the purpose of art?

How did Western powers react to declarations of independence by Syria & Iraq following WWI?

Traditional arts & amusements of people in villages & small towns was overshadowed by

Why were the Balkans considered the “powder keg of Europe”?

How did Jean-Paul Sartre think that people could live authentically in the twentieth century?

What did the theories of Albert Einstein assert?

Woodrow Wilson’s 1918 peace proposal

Gabriel Marcel found the answer to the postwar broken world in

How did Lenin respond to the peasants’ seizure of land when he rose to power in 1917?

Type of fighting used in World War I behind rows of trenches, mines, and barbed wire.

Bolsheviks seized grain, rationed, nationalized banks & industry, required everyone to work.

What did the Schlieffen Plan call for in 1914?

How did Henri-Philippe Pétain maintain order among French troops by late 1917?

What does the “middle way” refer to?

Somewhat stereotypical image of the modern and independent working woman popular in the 1920s.

What was the February Revolution in Russia in 1917?

What did the Swedish response to the Depression involve?

The principle that buildings should serve the purpose for which they were made.

How did moderate Social Democrats in Germany put down radical Communist Spartacist Uprising?

How did the war on the eastern front differ from the war on the western front?

What was the main argument of logical positivism in the twentieth century?

Peace treaty signed in March 1918 between the Central Powers and Russia t

The American stock market crash of October 1929 was primarily the result of

What did the Balfour Declaration of November 1917, announce?

What was the primary consequence of the First Moroccan Crisis in 1905?

Unemployment in the U.S. averaged only 5 percent in the 1920s but in 1933 soared to about

What issue contributed to tensions between Germany & Britain in the first decade of the 1900s?

Germany (with Austria) was solely responsible for the war and had to pay reparations

The nineteenth-century Danish theologian Søren Kierkegaard taught that

Why did Austria-Hungary deliberately choose war in July 1914?

In the twentieth century, what was John Maynard Keynes known for?

Which political group dominated parliamentary governments of Germany in the mid to late 1920s?

How did France and Belgium react when Germany refused to make its second reparations payment?

Walter Rathenau is remembered for his

The notion that peoples should be able to choose their own national governments.

A permanent international organization, designed to avert future wars.

Germany’s initial offensive was stopped on the outskirts of Paris at the Battle of

In twentieth century literature, the stream-of-consciousness technique uses

Why was Britain, not France, ready to conciliate Germany after the Versailles peace settlement?

Following WWI, what was one of the most difficult domestic problems faced by governments?

Throughout the First World War, what mistake did military commanders repeatedly make?

Sigmund Freud’s terms to describe the 3 parts of the self & the basis of human behavior.

Vladimir Lenin’s radical, revolutionary arm of the Russian party of Marxist socialism.

What was primary political weakness of the White forces as they fought against the Bolsheviks?

What did the Popular Front do after its 1936 victory in France?

What did Germany’s Auxiliary Service Law require?

British support of a National Home for the Jewish People in Palestine.

The 1919 peace settlement that ended war between Germany and the Allied powers.

movements typified by radical experimentation that challenged traditional forms of art.

The alliance of Austria, Germany, and Italy.

character’s thoughts & feelings are described as they occur; means to explore the human psyche.

The German Communist Party reserved their greatest hatred and sharpest barbs for

Why did Italy, after declaring neutrality in 1914, decide to join the Triple Entente in 1915?

What was the common effect of western-front offensives during the First World War?

What aided in the rapid growth of the American stock market in the 1920s & its collapse?

What happened to Armenian inhabitants of the Ottoman Empire during World War I?

What was the result of Allied support of the White armies in the Russian civil war?

What is the composer Arnold Schönberg known for?

artistic movement of the 1920s & 1930s that attacked all accepted standards of art and behavior

resolved the economic problems of Germany and international tensions in Europe in 1924?

German plan for a lightning attack and a quick defeat of France before turning on Russia.

What did the “war guilt clause” in the Treaty of Versailles declare?

James Joyce’s Ulysses weaves ironic parallels between the adventures of Homer’s hero Ulysses &

Einstein’s theory of time & space are relative to observer & only speed of light is constant.

What did President Franklin Roosevelt’s National Recovery Administration (NRA) attempt to do?

The Great Depression did not hit Britain as hard as the U.S. or Germany, in part because

government plans & controls economic social life supply armies with supplies and weapons.

Who was the director of Triumph of the Will?

What was French premier Georges Clemenceau’s opinion at the Paris Peace Conference?

Name the British political party that was the main opposition to the Conservative party?

In his writings on human psychology, Sigmund Freud asserted that

Bismarck’s alliance system was designed to isolate France and to

Who was Alexander Kerensky?

What was the immediate cause of British entry into the First World War?

led to the abdication of the tsar and the establishment of a provisional government.

The signatories of the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact agreed to

Which nations joined the war on the side of the Central Powers?

granted large U.S. loans to promote recovery in Germany so they could pay their reparations.

What part of Otto von Bismarck’s alliance system did William II abandon?

A philosophy that sees meaning only in those beliefs that can be empirically proven.

Since the U.S. didn't ratify Versailles treaty, French placed hope for future security on

Who assassinated Grigori Rasputin in 1916?

The alliance of Great Britain, France, and Russia prior to and during the First World War.

A German interdisciplinary school of fine & applied arts

What was the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916?

What happened to Ukraine & Belarus as a result of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?

encouraged the union movement and launched a far-reaching program of social reform.

meeting of 2,000 - 3 people modeled on the revolutionary soviets of 1905.

What kind of world did Franz Kafka portray in fiction like The Trial (1925)?

The German gov’s printing of $ to pay unemployment benefits to workers striking in Ruhr led to