Question 1

What did the economist John Maynard Keynes believe that governments should do during economic depressions?

Accepted Answer

A)  Spend less and save cash 
B)  Cut services and raise taxes 
C)  Spend more and stimulate the economy 
D)  Suspend stock trading for one year 
A)  Spend less and save cash 
B)  Cut services and raise taxes 
C)  Spend more and stimulate the economy 
D)  Suspend stock trading for one year

Question 2

Use the following to answer questions :
-totalitarianism

Accepted Answer

A) Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to reform capitalism in the United States through forceful government intervention in the economy. 
B) A party formed in 1936 in France that encouraged unions and launched a far-reaching New Deal-inspired program of social reform. 
C) A radical dictatorship that exercises complete political power and control over all aspects of society and seeks to mobilize the masses for action. 
D) A movement characterized by extreme, often expansionist nationalism, anti-socialism, a dynamic and violent leader, and glorification of war and the military. 
E) Launched by Stalin in 1928 and termed the "revolution from above," its goal was to modernize the Soviet Union and generate a Communist society with new attitudes, new loyalties, and a new socialist humanity.
F)Lenin's 1921 policy re-establishing limited economic freedom in the Soviet Union in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry in the face of economic disintegration.
G)Stalin's forcible consolidation, beginning in 1929, of individual peasant farms in the Soviet Union into large, state-controlled enterprises.
H)A private army under Mussolini in Italy that destroyed Socialist newspapers, union halls, and local Socialist Party headquarters, eventually pushing Socialists out of the city governments of northern Italy.
I)A 1929 agreement in which Mussolini in Italy recognized the Vatican as an independent state and agreed to give the church heavy financial support in return for the pope's public support.
J)A movement born of extreme nationalism and racism and dominated by Adolf Hitler from 1933 until the end of World War II in 1945.
K)An act pushed through the Reichstag by the Nazis in 1933 that gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for four years.
L)"Lightning war" using planes, tanks, and trucks, first used by Hitler to crush Poland in four weeks.
M)Hitler's program, based on the guiding principle of racial imperialism, which gave preferential treatment to the Nordic peoples above "inferior" Latin peoples and, at the bottom, "subhuman" Slavs and Jews.
N)The attempted systematic extermination of all European Jews and other "undesirables" by the Nazi state during World War II.
O)The military strategy, set forth by Churchill and adopted by Roosevelt, that called for the defeat of Hitler in Europe before the United States launched an all-out strike against Japan in the Pacific. 
A) Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to reform capitalism in the United States through forceful government intervention in the economy. 
B) A party formed in 1936 in France that encouraged unions and launched a far-reaching New Deal-inspired program of social reform. 
C) A radical dictatorship that exercises complete political power and control over all aspects of society and seeks to mobilize the masses for action. 
D) A movement characterized by extreme, often expansionist nationalism, anti-socialism, a dynamic and violent leader, and glorification of war and the military. 
E) Launched by Stalin in 1928 and termed the "revolution from above," its goal was to modernize the Soviet Union and generate a Communist society with new attitudes, new loyalties, and a new socialist humanity.
F)Lenin's 1921 policy re-establishing limited economic freedom in the Soviet Union in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry in the face of economic disintegration.
G)Stalin's forcible consolidation, beginning in 1929, of individual peasant farms in the Soviet Union into large, state-controlled enterprises.
H)A private army under Mussolini in Italy that destroyed Socialist newspapers, union halls, and local Socialist Party headquarters, eventually pushing Socialists out of the city governments of northern Italy.
I)A 1929 agreement in which Mussolini in Italy recognized the Vatican as an independent state and agreed to give the church heavy financial support in return for the pope's public support.
J)A movement born of extreme nationalism and racism and dominated by Adolf Hitler from 1933 until the end of World War II in 1945.
K)An act pushed through the Reichstag by the Nazis in 1933 that gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for four years.
L)"Lightning war" using planes, tanks, and trucks, first used by Hitler to crush Poland in four weeks.
M)Hitler's program, based on the guiding principle of racial imperialism, which gave preferential treatment to the Nordic peoples above "inferior" Latin peoples and, at the bottom, "subhuman" Slavs and Jews.
N)The attempted systematic extermination of all European Jews and other "undesirables" by the Nazi state during World War II.
O)The military strategy, set forth by Churchill and adopted by Roosevelt, that called for the defeat of Hitler in Europe before the United States launched an all-out strike against Japan in the Pacific.

Question 3

Some have argued that strong actions by England and France in the mid-1930s would have prevented World War II and that appeasement merely whetted Hitler's appetite. How accurate is this statement?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Hitler's a

Question 4

At the onset of the Great Depression, what actions by nations worsened the economic conditions? What steps could these nations have taken to improve conditions?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Nearly eve

Question 5

What were some of the problems Italy had to deal with before World War II? Did any of these problems change with the war?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Italy had

Question 6

Use the following to answer questions :
-New Order

Accepted Answer

A) Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to reform capitalism in the United States through forceful government intervention in the economy. 
B) A party formed in 1936 in France that encouraged unions and launched a far-reaching New Deal-inspired program of social reform. 
C) A radical dictatorship that exercises complete political power and control over all aspects of society and seeks to mobilize the masses for action. 
D) A movement characterized by extreme, often expansionist nationalism, anti-socialism, a dynamic and violent leader, and glorification of war and the military. 
E) Launched by Stalin in 1928 and termed the "revolution from above," its goal was to modernize the Soviet Union and generate a Communist society with new attitudes, new loyalties, and a new socialist humanity.
F)Lenin's 1921 policy re-establishing limited economic freedom in the Soviet Union in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry in the face of economic disintegration.
G)Stalin's forcible consolidation, beginning in 1929, of individual peasant farms in the Soviet Union into large, state-controlled enterprises.
H)A private army under Mussolini in Italy that destroyed Socialist newspapers, union halls, and local Socialist Party headquarters, eventually pushing Socialists out of the city governments of northern Italy.
I)A 1929 agreement in which Mussolini in Italy recognized the Vatican as an independent state and agreed to give the church heavy financial support in return for the pope's public support.
J)A movement born of extreme nationalism and racism and dominated by Adolf Hitler from 1933 until the end of World War II in 1945.
K)An act pushed through the Reichstag by the Nazis in 1933 that gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for four years.
L)"Lightning war" using planes, tanks, and trucks, first used by Hitler to crush Poland in four weeks.
M)Hitler's program, based on the guiding principle of racial imperialism, which gave preferential treatment to the Nordic peoples above "inferior" Latin peoples and, at the bottom, "subhuman" Slavs and Jews.
N)The attempted systematic extermination of all European Jews and other "undesirables" by the Nazi state during World War II.
O)The military strategy, set forth by Churchill and adopted by Roosevelt, that called for the defeat of Hitler in Europe before the United States launched an all-out strike against Japan in the Pacific. 
A) Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to reform capitalism in the United States through forceful government intervention in the economy. 
B) A party formed in 1936 in France that encouraged unions and launched a far-reaching New Deal-inspired program of social reform. 
C) A radical dictatorship that exercises complete political power and control over all aspects of society and seeks to mobilize the masses for action. 
D) A movement characterized by extreme, often expansionist nationalism, anti-socialism, a dynamic and violent leader, and glorification of war and the military. 
E) Launched by Stalin in 1928 and termed the "revolution from above," its goal was to modernize the Soviet Union and generate a Communist society with new attitudes, new loyalties, and a new socialist humanity.
F)Lenin's 1921 policy re-establishing limited economic freedom in the Soviet Union in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry in the face of economic disintegration.
G)Stalin's forcible consolidation, beginning in 1929, of individual peasant farms in the Soviet Union into large, state-controlled enterprises.
H)A private army under Mussolini in Italy that destroyed Socialist newspapers, union halls, and local Socialist Party headquarters, eventually pushing Socialists out of the city governments of northern Italy.
I)A 1929 agreement in which Mussolini in Italy recognized the Vatican as an independent state and agreed to give the church heavy financial support in return for the pope's public support.
J)A movement born of extreme nationalism and racism and dominated by Adolf Hitler from 1933 until the end of World War II in 1945.
K)An act pushed through the Reichstag by the Nazis in 1933 that gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for four years.
L)"Lightning war" using planes, tanks, and trucks, first used by Hitler to crush Poland in four weeks.
M)Hitler's program, based on the guiding principle of racial imperialism, which gave preferential treatment to the Nordic peoples above "inferior" Latin peoples and, at the bottom, "subhuman" Slavs and Jews.
N)The attempted systematic extermination of all European Jews and other "undesirables" by the Nazi state during World War II.
O)The military strategy, set forth by Churchill and adopted by Roosevelt, that called for the defeat of Hitler in Europe before the United States launched an all-out strike against Japan in the Pacific.

Question 7

By 1938, Hitler's domestic policies had resulted in which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)  Heavy taxation to pay for his highways, sports stadiums, and rearmament programs 
B)  A steady drop in unemployment 
C)  Greater economic equality for women 
D)  Little improvement in the average standard of living 
A)  Heavy taxation to pay for his highways, sports stadiums, and rearmament programs 
B)  A steady drop in unemployment 
C)  Greater economic equality for women 
D)  Little improvement in the average standard of living

Question 8

Use the following to answer questions :
-Black Shirts

Accepted Answer

A) Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to reform capitalism in the United States through forceful government intervention in the economy. 
B) A party formed in 1936 in France that encouraged unions and launched a far-reaching New Deal-inspired program of social reform. 
C) A radical dictatorship that exercises complete political power and control over all aspects of society and seeks to mobilize the masses for action. 
D) A movement characterized by extreme, often expansionist nationalism, anti-socialism, a dynamic and violent leader, and glorification of war and the military. 
E) Launched by Stalin in 1928 and termed the "revolution from above," its goal was to modernize the Soviet Union and generate a Communist society with new attitudes, new loyalties, and a new socialist humanity.
F)Lenin's 1921 policy re-establishing limited economic freedom in the Soviet Union in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry in the face of economic disintegration.
G)Stalin's forcible consolidation, beginning in 1929, of individual peasant farms in the Soviet Union into large, state-controlled enterprises.
H)A private army under Mussolini in Italy that destroyed Socialist newspapers, union halls, and local Socialist Party headquarters, eventually pushing Socialists out of the city governments of northern Italy.
I)A 1929 agreement in which Mussolini in Italy recognized the Vatican as an independent state and agreed to give the church heavy financial support in return for the pope's public support.
J)A movement born of extreme nationalism and racism and dominated by Adolf Hitler from 1933 until the end of World War II in 1945.
K)An act pushed through the Reichstag by the Nazis in 1933 that gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for four years.
L)"Lightning war" using planes, tanks, and trucks, first used by Hitler to crush Poland in four weeks.
M)Hitler's program, based on the guiding principle of racial imperialism, which gave preferential treatment to the Nordic peoples above "inferior" Latin peoples and, at the bottom, "subhuman" Slavs and Jews.
N)The attempted systematic extermination of all European Jews and other "undesirables" by the Nazi state during World War II.
O)The military strategy, set forth by Churchill and adopted by Roosevelt, that called for the defeat of Hitler in Europe before the United States launched an all-out strike against Japan in the Pacific. 
A) Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to reform capitalism in the United States through forceful government intervention in the economy. 
B) A party formed in 1936 in France that encouraged unions and launched a far-reaching New Deal-inspired program of social reform. 
C) A radical dictatorship that exercises complete political power and control over all aspects of society and seeks to mobilize the masses for action. 
D) A movement characterized by extreme, often expansionist nationalism, anti-socialism, a dynamic and violent leader, and glorification of war and the military. 
E) Launched by Stalin in 1928 and termed the "revolution from above," its goal was to modernize the Soviet Union and generate a Communist society with new attitudes, new loyalties, and a new socialist humanity.
F)Lenin's 1921 policy re-establishing limited economic freedom in the Soviet Union in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry in the face of economic disintegration.
G)Stalin's forcible consolidation, beginning in 1929, of individual peasant farms in the Soviet Union into large, state-controlled enterprises.
H)A private army under Mussolini in Italy that destroyed Socialist newspapers, union halls, and local Socialist Party headquarters, eventually pushing Socialists out of the city governments of northern Italy.
I)A 1929 agreement in which Mussolini in Italy recognized the Vatican as an independent state and agreed to give the church heavy financial support in return for the pope's public support.
J)A movement born of extreme nationalism and racism and dominated by Adolf Hitler from 1933 until the end of World War II in 1945.
K)An act pushed through the Reichstag by the Nazis in 1933 that gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for four years.
L)"Lightning war" using planes, tanks, and trucks, first used by Hitler to crush Poland in four weeks.
M)Hitler's program, based on the guiding principle of racial imperialism, which gave preferential treatment to the Nordic peoples above "inferior" Latin peoples and, at the bottom, "subhuman" Slavs and Jews.
N)The attempted systematic extermination of all European Jews and other "undesirables" by the Nazi state during World War II.
O)The military strategy, set forth by Churchill and adopted by Roosevelt, that called for the defeat of Hitler in Europe before the United States launched an all-out strike against Japan in the Pacific.

Question 9

Why did Japan lose the war in the Pacific? Was there a turning point in the fighting?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Several fa

Question 10

What was the New Deal? In what ways did it succeed, and in what ways did it fail?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
The New De

Question 11

Describe Stalin's "revolution from above." What factors prompted Stalin's actions, and what were his goals? How successful was the revolution?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
The "revol

Question 12

Who had the more totalitarian government, Benito Mussolini or Joseph Stalin?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Totalitari

Question 13

How did Britain respond to the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

A)  It worked to encourage production and increase exports. 
B)  It instituted large-scale deficit spending policies. 
C)  It followed orthodox economic theory and concentrated increasingly on domestic markets. 
D)  It increased investments in its colonies. 
A)  It worked to encourage production and increase exports. 
B)  It instituted large-scale deficit spending policies. 
C)  It followed orthodox economic theory and concentrated increasingly on domestic markets. 
D)  It increased investments in its colonies.

Question 14

In September 1940, Japan signed a formal alliance with what country?

Accepted Answer

A)  The United States 
B)  China 
C)  Germany 
D)  The Soviet Union 
A)  The United States 
B)  China 
C)  Germany 
D)  The Soviet Union

Question 15

Use the following to answer questions :
-New Deal

Accepted Answer

A) Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to reform capitalism in the United States through forceful government intervention in the economy. 
B) A party formed in 1936 in France that encouraged unions and launched a far-reaching New Deal-inspired program of social reform. 
C) A radical dictatorship that exercises complete political power and control over all aspects of society and seeks to mobilize the masses for action. 
D) A movement characterized by extreme, often expansionist nationalism, anti-socialism, a dynamic and violent leader, and glorification of war and the military. 
E) Launched by Stalin in 1928 and termed the "revolution from above," its goal was to modernize the Soviet Union and generate a Communist society with new attitudes, new loyalties, and a new socialist humanity.
F)Lenin's 1921 policy re-establishing limited economic freedom in the Soviet Union in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry in the face of economic disintegration.
G)Stalin's forcible consolidation, beginning in 1929, of individual peasant farms in the Soviet Union into large, state-controlled enterprises.
H)A private army under Mussolini in Italy that destroyed Socialist newspapers, union halls, and local Socialist Party headquarters, eventually pushing Socialists out of the city governments of northern Italy.
I)A 1929 agreement in which Mussolini in Italy recognized the Vatican as an independent state and agreed to give the church heavy financial support in return for the pope's public support.
J)A movement born of extreme nationalism and racism and dominated by Adolf Hitler from 1933 until the end of World War II in 1945.
K)An act pushed through the Reichstag by the Nazis in 1933 that gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for four years.
L)"Lightning war" using planes, tanks, and trucks, first used by Hitler to crush Poland in four weeks.
M)Hitler's program, based on the guiding principle of racial imperialism, which gave preferential treatment to the Nordic peoples above "inferior" Latin peoples and, at the bottom, "subhuman" Slavs and Jews.
N)The attempted systematic extermination of all European Jews and other "undesirables" by the Nazi state during World War II.
O)The military strategy, set forth by Churchill and adopted by Roosevelt, that called for the defeat of Hitler in Europe before the United States launched an all-out strike against Japan in the Pacific. 
A) Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to reform capitalism in the United States through forceful government intervention in the economy. 
B) A party formed in 1936 in France that encouraged unions and launched a far-reaching New Deal-inspired program of social reform. 
C) A radical dictatorship that exercises complete political power and control over all aspects of society and seeks to mobilize the masses for action. 
D) A movement characterized by extreme, often expansionist nationalism, anti-socialism, a dynamic and violent leader, and glorification of war and the military. 
E) Launched by Stalin in 1928 and termed the "revolution from above," its goal was to modernize the Soviet Union and generate a Communist society with new attitudes, new loyalties, and a new socialist humanity.
F)Lenin's 1921 policy re-establishing limited economic freedom in the Soviet Union in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry in the face of economic disintegration.
G)Stalin's forcible consolidation, beginning in 1929, of individual peasant farms in the Soviet Union into large, state-controlled enterprises.
H)A private army under Mussolini in Italy that destroyed Socialist newspapers, union halls, and local Socialist Party headquarters, eventually pushing Socialists out of the city governments of northern Italy.
I)A 1929 agreement in which Mussolini in Italy recognized the Vatican as an independent state and agreed to give the church heavy financial support in return for the pope's public support.
J)A movement born of extreme nationalism and racism and dominated by Adolf Hitler from 1933 until the end of World War II in 1945.
K)An act pushed through the Reichstag by the Nazis in 1933 that gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for four years.
L)"Lightning war" using planes, tanks, and trucks, first used by Hitler to crush Poland in four weeks.
M)Hitler's program, based on the guiding principle of racial imperialism, which gave preferential treatment to the Nordic peoples above "inferior" Latin peoples and, at the bottom, "subhuman" Slavs and Jews.
N)The attempted systematic extermination of all European Jews and other "undesirables" by the Nazi state during World War II.
O)The military strategy, set forth by Churchill and adopted by Roosevelt, that called for the defeat of Hitler in Europe before the United States launched an all-out strike against Japan in the Pacific.

Question 16

What was the goal of the British policy of appeasement?

Accepted Answer

A)  To prepare the way for a German-British alliance 
B)  To lull Germany into a false sense of security 
C)  To buy time to rearm 
D)  To avoid another general war 
A)  To prepare the way for a German-British alliance 
B)  To lull Germany into a false sense of security 
C)  To buy time to rearm 
D)  To avoid another general war

Question 17

What made the Grand Alliance such a powerful adversary against Hitler and Nazi Germany?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
The Grand

Question 18

Italian workers felt cheated by World War I because they had been promised what in exchange for fighting?

Accepted Answer

A)  New labor unions 
B)  Secularization of the state 
C)  Tax cuts 
D)  Social and land reforms 
A)  New labor unions 
B)  Secularization of the state 
C)  Tax cuts 
D)  Social and land reforms

Question 19

What kinds of Germans were critical of Nazism?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Critics of

Question 20

Whose support did Mussolini gain with the Lateran Agreement?

Accepted Answer

A)  The pope and the Catholic Church 
B)  Italian labor unions 
C)  Nazi Germany 
D)  The military officer class 
A)  The pope and the Catholic Church 
B)  Italian labor unions 
C)  Nazi Germany 
D)  The military officer class

Exam 30: The Great Depression and World War Ii, 1929-1945

What did the economist John Maynard Keynes believe that governments should do during economic depressions?

Use the following to answer questions : -totalitarianism

Some have argued that strong actions by England and France in the mid-1930s would have prevented World War II and that appeasement merely whetted Hitler's appetite. How accurate is this statement?

At the onset of the Great Depression, what actions by nations worsened the economic conditions? What steps could these nations have taken to improve conditions?

What were some of the problems Italy had to deal with before World War II? Did any of these problems change with the war?

Use the following to answer questions : -New Order

By 1938, Hitler's domestic policies had resulted in which of the following?

Use the following to answer questions : -Black Shirts

Why did Japan lose the war in the Pacific? Was there a turning point in the fighting?

What was the New Deal? In what ways did it succeed, and in what ways did it fail?

Describe Stalin's "revolution from above." What factors prompted Stalin's actions, and what were his goals? How successful was the revolution?

Who had the more totalitarian government, Benito Mussolini or Joseph Stalin?

How did Britain respond to the Great Depression?

In September 1940, Japan signed a formal alliance with what country?

Use the following to answer questions : -New Deal

What was the goal of the British policy of appeasement?

What made the Grand Alliance such a powerful adversary against Hitler and Nazi Germany?

Italian workers felt cheated by World War I because they had been promised what in exchange for fighting?

What kinds of Germans were critical of Nazism?

Whose support did Mussolini gain with the Lateran Agreement?

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