Question 1

In Mein Kampf, Hitler presents his basic anti-Semitic ideas and his conviction that Germany needed more land for what purpose?

Accepted Answer

A)  Large-scale factories 
B)  Expansion 
C)  Exiling Jews 
D)  Collectivized farming 
A)  Large-scale factories 
B)  Expansion 
C)  Exiling Jews 
D)  Collectivized farming

Question 2

How much lower was global industrial output in 1933 than it had been in 1929?

Accepted Answer

A)  13 percent 
B)  25 percent 
C)  38 percent 
D)  50 percent 
A)  13 percent 
B)  25 percent 
C)  38 percent 
D)  50 percent

Question 3

The Nuremberg Laws

Accepted Answer

A)  ordered all professional Jews to leave Germany. 
B)  created the secret police, the Gestapo. 
C)  deprived German Communists of the right of citizenship. 
D)  stated that anyone with three or more Jewish grandparents was Jewish. 
A)  ordered all professional Jews to leave Germany. 
B)  created the secret police, the Gestapo. 
C)  deprived German Communists of the right of citizenship. 
D)  stated that anyone with three or more Jewish grandparents was Jewish.

Question 4

What did many Russian peasants do to their crops in order to protest collectivization?

Accepted Answer

A)  They traded them. 
B)  They sold them. 
C)  They burned them. 
D)  They hid them. 
A)  They traded them. 
B)  They sold them. 
C)  They burned them. 
D)  They hid them.

Question 5

Use the following to answer questions :
-Popular Front

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 6

Use the following to answer questions :
-Europe first policy

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

Stalin ordered what group to be obliterated as a class?

Accepted Answer

A)  Kulaks 
B)  Intellectuals 
C)  Nobles 
D)  Artists 
A)  Kulaks 
B)  Intellectuals 
C)  Nobles 
D)  Artists

Question 8

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the world suffered through the Great Depression. What were the causes of the economic collapse? How did the United States and the European states respond to this crisis? How effective were their responses? What were the consequences of the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
The cause

Question 9

Why did Japan invade Manchuria in 1931?

Accepted Answer

A)  Japan was after Manchuria's industrial complexes. 
B)  Control of Manchuria would provide Japan with better access to China. 
C)  Japan wanted the mainland territory for Japanese settlers. 
D)  Manchuria was rich in raw materials. 
A)  Japan was after Manchuria's industrial complexes. 
B)  Control of Manchuria would provide Japan with better access to China. 
C)  Japan wanted the mainland territory for Japanese settlers. 
D)  Manchuria was rich in raw materials.

Question 10

The most horrifying aspect of Hitler's ideology and his regime was its anti-Semitism, culminating in the Final Solution, which claimed over 6 million lives including millions of Jews. Describe Nazi policies toward the Jews of Europe, being sure to indicate the basis of Hitler's anti-Semitism. Were ordinary Germans Hitler's willing accomplices?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Hitler's a

Question 11

What could be thought of as the main interest of most conservative authoritarian regimes?

Accepted Answer

A)  Maintaining the status quo 
B)  Territorial expansion 
C)  Engaging in war 
D)  Forcing society into rapid change 
A)  Maintaining the status quo 
B)  Territorial expansion 
C)  Engaging in war 
D)  Forcing society into rapid change

Question 12

One of the first measures the United States took to deal with the financial panic was to raise which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)  Tariffs 
B)  Income tax 
C)  Wages 
D)  The national debt 
A)  Tariffs 
B)  Income tax 
C)  Wages 
D)  The national debt

Question 13

What factors contributed to the Grand Alliance's military success? What were the turning points in the Allies' march to victory?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Members of

Question 14

What was one of Stalin's rationales for the "second revolution"?

Accepted Answer

A)  He thought that the Soviet Union's survival depended on catching up with the West. 
B)  He wanted to finish what Lenin had started. 
C)  He wanted to keep the peasants distracted and prevent them from revolting. 
D)  He was attempting to move agriculture to south Russia. 
A)  He thought that the Soviet Union's survival depended on catching up with the West. 
B)  He wanted to finish what Lenin had started. 
C)  He wanted to keep the peasants distracted and prevent them from revolting. 
D)  He was attempting to move agriculture to south Russia.

Question 15

What can be deduced about the trade policies of the British Conservative Party from this poster?

Accepted Answer

A)  They were anti-tariff. 
B)  Trade relations with Asia were lagging. 
C)  They were pro-tariff. 
D)  The Great Depression was doing little to hurt British trade. 
A)  They were anti-tariff. 
B)  Trade relations with Asia were lagging. 
C)  They were pro-tariff. 
D)  The Great Depression was doing little to hurt British trade.

Question 16

Many of Stalin's new factories were built by engineers from what country?

Accepted Answer

A)  China 
B)  Japan 
C)  Britain 
D)  The United States 
A)  China 
B)  Japan 
C)  Britain 
D)  The United States

Question 17

Hitler acquired absolute dictatorial power as a result of what event?

Accepted Answer

A)  The passage of the Enabling Act 
B)  A wave of strikes by German labor unions 
C)  The death of President Hindenburg 
D)  The assassination of a German diplomat by a Jew 
A)  The passage of the Enabling Act 
B)  A wave of strikes by German labor unions 
C)  The death of President Hindenburg 
D)  The assassination of a German diplomat by a Jew

Question 18

The formation of the Popular Front in France was a response to which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)  The occupation of the Ruhr 
B)  U.S. isolationism 
C)  The growth of communism 
D)  The growth of fascism 
A)  The occupation of the Ruhr 
B)  U.S. isolationism 
C)  The growth of communism 
D)  The growth of fascism

Question 19

Historians believe that the concept of "totalitarianism" may have originated

Accepted Answer

A)  in Bolshevik émigré circles before World War I. 
B)  in the German press during World War I. 
C)  with the total war efforts of World War I. 
D)  among American anticommunists after 1945. 
A)  in Bolshevik émigré circles before World War I. 
B)  in the German press during World War I. 
C)  with the total war efforts of World War I. 
D)  among American anticommunists after 1945.

Question 20

During the Great Depression, what happened to the price of rice in Asia?

Accepted Answer

A)  It fell by two-thirds between 1929 and 1932. 
B)  It tripled by 1932. 
C)  It exceeded the average income by 20 percent. 
D)  It remained the same, but yields decreased. 
A)  It fell by two-thirds between 1929 and 1932. 
B)  It tripled by 1932. 
C)  It exceeded the average income by 20 percent. 
D)  It remained the same, but yields decreased.

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

In Mein Kampf, Hitler presents his basic anti-Semitic ideas and his conviction that Germany needed more land for what purpose?

How much lower was global industrial output in 1933 than it had been in 1929?

The Nuremberg Laws

What did many Russian peasants do to their crops in order to protest collectivization?

Use the following to answer questions : -Popular Front

Use the following to answer questions : -Europe first policy

Stalin ordered what group to be obliterated as a class?

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the world suffered through the Great Depression. What were the causes of the economic collapse? How did the United States and the European states respond to this crisis? How effective were their responses? What were the consequences of the Great Depression?

Why did Japan invade Manchuria in 1931?

What could be thought of as the main interest of most conservative authoritarian regimes?

One of the first measures the United States took to deal with the financial panic was to raise which of the following?

What factors contributed to the Grand Alliance's military success? What were the turning points in the Allies' march to victory?

What was one of Stalin's rationales for the "second revolution"?

What can be deduced about the trade policies of the British Conservative Party from this poster?

Many of Stalin's new factories were built by engineers from what country?

Hitler acquired absolute dictatorial power as a result of what event?

The formation of the Popular Front in France was a response to which of the following?

Historians believe that the concept of "totalitarianism" may have originated

During the Great Depression, what happened to the price of rice in Asia?

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