Bentley Ch. 34 Test Age Of Anxiety
- 1.The term "lost generation" was coined by
- A.
E. Remarche
- B.
John Steinbeck
- C.
Karl Barth
- D.
Gertrude Stein
- 2.Why did Germany manage to rebuild faster than France or Russia after World War I?
- A.
No major military engagements had taken place on German soil, so Germany had not suffered the physical destruction of its natural resources, infrastructure, or production capacity as had France and Russia
- B.
Germany benefitted from extensive U.S. financial support as part of the Marshall Plan while France and Russia were excluded from the program
- C.
The Nazi Party was incredibly efficient in construction projects as it relied on slave labor rather than wageworkers as France and Russia did
- D.
Both France and Russia experienced internal revolt and revolution during the years of World War I which added to their nations' physical destruction
- 3.The concept of "path of legality" is associated with fascism in
- A.
Germany
- B.
Italy
- C.
Japan
- D.
Spain
- 4.In which of the following nations did women achieve greater economic success during the 1930s?
- A.
Germany
- B.
United States
- C.
Italy
- D.
Russia
- 5.Why did Germany and Japan suffer most extensively during the Great Depression?
- A.
Both nations relied heavily on the export of manufactured goods to pay for imported fuel and food
- B.
Both were under fascist rule which made it very difficult for the common person to survive
- C.
Neither nation had fully recovered from the physical destruction left from World War I
- D.
Neither peoples were used to living under difficult economic conditions and had few personal resources to draw upon
- 6.A troubling economic problem in the 1920s was the depressed state of agriculture caused by
- A.
Virulent new strains of disease
- B.
The success of several new communist regimes
- C.
Overproduction and falling prices
- D.
Dangerous underproduction
- 7.Which of the following groups was NOT one of the new artistic movements of the twentieth century?
- A.
Expressionists
- B.
Cubists
- C.
Dadaists
- D.
Impressionists
- 8.The First Five-Year Plan
- A.
Was a military scheme that called for a massive increase in arms production
- B.
Was designed to transform the Soviet Union from an agricultural nation into an industrial one
- C.
Was designed to increase the agricultural production of the Soviet Union and make it the world's leading food producer
- D.
Was a political plan to spark a communist revolution in the United States
- 9.The Russian Civil War that broke out after the revolution was between
- A.
Utopian socialists and Trotskyites
- B.
Reds, being the communists of Lenin's regime, and Whites comprising a collection of anti-communist groups
- C.
Leninists and Stalinists
- D.
Nicholas II's Imperial Army and Lenin's Revolutionary Army
- 10.The official goal of the Nazi regime toward Jews in the period before World War II was
- A.
One of killling all Jews that could be arrested in order to eliminate the Jews from Germany and eventually the world
- B.
To turn them into slaves to work in Germany's armament factories
- C.
To pressure them to emigrate
- D.
To force all educated German Jews to stay in Germany and expel the rest of the Jewish population
- 11.The spread of photography
- A.
Led many painters to choose the camera as their instrument of expression
- B.
Resulted in a lack of creative artist expression because of general pessimism
- C.
Led to a new artistic genre that tried to produce paintings that were more accurate than the camera
- D.
Led many painters to believe that the purpose of painting was not to mirror reality but to create it
- 12.This individual believed in a philosophy of promoting communism primarily in the Soviet Union rather than trying to export the revolution to other nations.
- A.
Lenin
- B.
Marx
- C.
Trotsky
- D.
Stalin
- 13.The KRISTALLNACHT was
- A.
A new artistic movement that flourished after World War I
- B.
A Nazi-arranged attack on thousands of Jewish stores
- C.
Hitler's political treatise that expressed his main ideas
- D.
The Russian term for the destructive civil war that followed the revolution
- 14.Which of the following was NOT one of the chief actions of Roosevelt's New Deal?
- A.
Tighten money supply
- B.
Give workers the right to organize and bargain collectively
- C.
Provide social security in old age
- D.
Create jobs through public works projects
- 15.In response to the Great Depression, economist John Maynard Keynes
- A.
Urged the government to expand the money supply and undertake public works to provide jobs
- B.
Wrote that capitalism had failed and that it was time for the United States to experiment with communism
- C.
Felt that the government should tighten the money supply
- D.
Proposed that the government should do nothing and wait out the economic hard times
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