Question 1

Please define the following key terms.
-totalitarian state

Accepted Answer

A totalitarian state is a political syst

Question 2

How did radio and movies contribute to the development of mass culture?

Accepted Answer

Radio and movies played a significant ro

Question 3

Please define the following key terms.
-Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf

Accepted Answer

Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf is a novel t

Question 4

For what development was the physicist Walter Heisenberg most noted?

Accepted Answer

A) Developing the uncertainty principle 
B) Being among the first team to split the atom 
C) Resurrecting the scientific predictability of classical physics 
D) Contributing to the development of the atomic bomb 
E) Correcting Einstein's errors in the latter's theory of relativity 
A) Developing the uncertainty principle 
B) Being among the first team to split the atom 
C) Resurrecting the scientific predictability of classical physics 
D) Contributing to the development of the atomic bomb 
E) Correcting Einstein's errors in the latter's theory of relativity

Question 5

Please define the following key terms.
-Hannah Höch and Tristan Tzara

Accepted Answer

Hannah Höch and Tristan Tzara are two si

Question 6

Please define the following key terms.
-Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory

Accepted Answer

Salvador Dalí's "The Persistence of Memo

Question 7

Who were the squadristi?

Accepted Answer

A) Mussolini's closest advisors 
B) Armed bands of fascists who used violence to intimidate enemies 
C) Elite soldiers of the Fascist state 
D) Officers in the Italian military 
E) Military opponents of Mussolini 
A) Mussolini's closest advisors 
B) Armed bands of fascists who used violence to intimidate enemies 
C) Elite soldiers of the Fascist state 
D) Officers in the Italian military 
E) Military opponents of Mussolini

Question 8

What were the key institutions of the Italian fascist state? What did kind of government and society did Mussolini and the fascists hope to create?

Accepted Answer

The key institutions of the Italian fasc

Question 9

Please define the following key terms.
-German Expressionism

Accepted Answer

German Expressionism is an artistic move

Question 10

Please define the following key terms.
-Joseph Stalin

Accepted Answer

Joseph Stalin was a Soviet political lea

Question 11

Please define the following key terms.
-Surrealism

Accepted Answer

Surrealism was an art movement that emer

Question 12

For what was Walter Gropius best known?

Accepted Answer

A) "Socialist realism" paintings 
B) Atonal, experimental music 
C) Revolutionary directions in theater 
D) Post-modern architectural designs 
E) Ideas of functionalism in architecture 
A) "Socialist realism" paintings 
B) Atonal, experimental music 
C) Revolutionary directions in theater 
D) Post-modern architectural designs 
E) Ideas of functionalism in architecture

Question 13

What was the goal of Stalin's first five-year plan?

Accepted Answer

A) To undermine the Western democracies 
B) To bring communism to the United States 
C) To transform the Soviet Union into an industrial state 
D) To reduce the population of the Soviet Union by 10 percent 
E) To acquire substantial territory at the expense of Germany 
A) To undermine the Western democracies 
B) To bring communism to the United States 
C) To transform the Soviet Union into an industrial state 
D) To reduce the population of the Soviet Union by 10 percent 
E) To acquire substantial territory at the expense of Germany

Question 14

Please define the following key terms.
-Great Depression

Accepted Answer

The Great Depression was a severe worldw

Question 15

Much of Europe's prosperity in the 1920s was built on ____.

Accepted Answer

A) budget deficits 
B) loans from the United States 
C) excessive taxation 
D) faulty accounting 
E) the strength of the agricultural sector 
A) budget deficits 
B) loans from the United States 
C) excessive taxation 
D) faulty accounting 
E) the strength of the agricultural sector

Question 16

Please define the following key terms.
-Mohandas Gandhi

Accepted Answer

Mohandas Gandhi, also known as Mahatma G

Question 17

Please define the following key terms.
-Francisco Franco and the Spanish Civil War

Accepted Answer

Francisco Franco was a Spanish general w

Question 18

Please define the following key terms.
-five-year plans

Accepted Answer

Five-year plans are comprehensive econom

Question 19

What development disrupted the hope for the spread of political democracy?

Accepted Answer

A) The decline of the potential voting population 
B) The Great Depression 
C) The rise of authoritarian regimes 
D) The re-emergence of monarchies 
E) The failure of the League of Nations 
A) The decline of the potential voting population 
B) The Great Depression 
C) The rise of authoritarian regimes 
D) The re-emergence of monarchies 
E) The failure of the League of Nations

Question 20

Which of these states was the first to adopt fascism?

Accepted Answer

A) Germany 
B) Spain 
C) Italy 
D) Russia 
E) Canada 
A) Germany 
B) Spain 
C) Italy 
D) Russia 
E) Canada

Exam 26: The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919–1939.

Please define the following key terms. -totalitarian state

How did radio and movies contribute to the development of mass culture?

Please define the following key terms. -Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf

For what development was the physicist Walter Heisenberg most noted?

Please define the following key terms. -Hannah Höch and Tristan Tzara

Please define the following key terms. -Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory

Who were the squadristi?

What were the key institutions of the Italian fascist state? What did kind of government and society did Mussolini and the fascists hope to create?

Please define the following key terms. -German Expressionism

Please define the following key terms. -Joseph Stalin

Please define the following key terms. -Surrealism

For what was Walter Gropius best known?

What was the goal of Stalin's first five-year plan?

Please define the following key terms. -Great Depression

Much of Europe's prosperity in the 1920s was built on ____.

Please define the following key terms. -Mohandas Gandhi

Please define the following key terms. -Francisco Franco and the Spanish Civil War

Please define the following key terms. -five-year plans

What development disrupted the hope for the spread of political democracy?

Which of these states was the first to adopt fascism?

The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations.

The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires.

The Civilization of the Greeks.

The Hellenistic World.

The Roman Republic.

The Roman Empire.

Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World.

European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750–1000.

The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages.

The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power.

The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century.

Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance.

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century.

Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500–1800.

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century.

Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: The Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science.

The Eighteenth Century: An Age of Enlightenment.

The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change.

A Revolution in Politics: The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon.

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society.

Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815–1850.

An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850–1871.

Mass Society in an “Age of Progress,” 1871–1894.

An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894–1914.

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution.

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II.

Cold War and a New Western World, 1945–1965.

Protest and Stagnation: The Western World, 1965–1985.

After the Fall: The Western World in a Global Age (Since 1985)

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