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Chapter 15 Study Guide
Years of Crisis (1919-1939)
I. Multiple Choice
- Adolf Hitler was born in _____________ in 1889.
- Hitler viewed Jews as a separate ___________, not just a different religion.
- Who was the first person to successfully complete a solo, trans-Atlantic flight?
- Who developed theories about the power of the part of the mind called the unconscious?
- What was the major cause of the collapse of the stock market?
- The Munich Conference came to symbolize the dangers of what?
- _________ was Germany’s secret police.
- What is the name of the art movement that incorporates the concept of the unconscious mind?
- How did Sigmund Freud’s ideas weaken faith in reason?
- What impact did radio have after the war?
- What is the name of the philosophy that rejects the idea of universal values?
- What were Franz Kafka, James Joyce, and F. Scott Fitzgerald all known for being?
- After World War I, most European nations had what type of government, if only temporarily?
- What event marked the beginning of the Great Depression?
- Who is the “Lost Generation” writer who wrote the novel The Great Gatsby?
- The Munich Conference was held to address the problems of a German threat to the nation of
- Whose theory of relativity replace Newton’s comforting belief in a world run by absolute laws of
motion and gravity?
- Il Duce was the title of which of the following leaders?
- What is the musical style that captured a sense of the new freedom of the postwar years?
- What is the term for the relationship between the speed of light and the measurements of time
and space?
- What was the policy of appeasement?
- Why did Japan invade Manchuria?
- Who developed the theory that the measurements of time and space can vary?
- During the global depression, war debts caused great suffering in which country?
- The title of Hitler’s book Mein Kampf in English is
- Hitler’s main method for achieving lebensraum was to
- Nazism was the German form of
- The New Deal involved attempts to stimulate the American economy by
- Which German political party sought to overturn the Treaty of Versailles and combat
communism?
- What term was used to identify the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan?
- Which of the following does fascism stress?
- Manchuria was invaded in 1931 by which country?
- The leader of the Third Reich was
ESSAY: Choose 1
-What effects did World War I have on the writers, painters, and musicians who worked
in the postwar years?
-What do you think President Franklin D. Roosevelt meant when he said that the only
thing the United States had to fear was fear itself?
-What political and social factors led to the fall of several European democracies in the
1920s and 1930s?
-How were the effects of America’s isolationism and Britain’s policy of appeasement
similar?
-How did technology change the daily life after World War I?