Exam 25: Turmoil between the Wars

In the 1920s Ernest Hemingway wrote about what he saw as a loss of faith by the generation who had experienced World War I in:

The British economist John Maynard Keynes believed that recovery from the Great Depression required first abandoning the:

The term fascio means group or band and derives from the symbol of an ax bundled with sticks that represented the authority of the Roman state.

Artists of the postwar period pushed conventions to new limits.Some,such as the _________,went so far as to reject the existence of reason.

The 1919 election in the Weimar Republic resulted in a coalition government of:

Although Lenin wanted to establish,for the short term,a state-capitalist economic system in Russia,which resembled the successful European wartime economies,the necessities of the civil war pushed the government to a more radical economic system known as:

Nazi Germany stressed its legitimacy by fostering traditional German values such as:

Movies began to have sound in them in:

Architects in the 1920s developed a new style called:

By the 1930s:

To what does the term gulag refer?

Who were the victims of the "Great Terror," and what was the effect on Russia?

After leading a failed attempt to overthrow the Bavarian state government,Adolf Hitler was sentenced to seven months in prison where he wrote his autobiography-cum-political manifesto entitled:

Which of the following statements best describes the way Nazi propagandists tried to portray Hitler?

To facilitate his policy of collectivization,Stalin moved with particular viciousness against a group of peasants known as:

What film by Leni Riefenstahl was a visual hymn to the cultural power of the Nazi regime?

The NEP was primarily successful in the urban centers of Russia,but left the peasants in a difficult position of subsistence living and frequent food shortages.

How was "mass culture" different from older forms of popular culture,and what factors contributed to its rise?

Which of the following technological innovations became a major tool of political campaigning during the Great Depression?

Hitler proclaimed his new government to be the Third Reich,claiming it to be the successor to the First Reich,which was the Roman Empire,and the Second Reich,which was the Carolingian Empire of the Middle Ages.