History 103 2
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- One of the biggest results of the artistic experimentaation of the 1920's and 1930's was that
- generally accepted standards that distinguished between "good" and "bad" art disappeared.
- The work of Walter Gropius
- embodied the architectural principle that form should follow function.
- The term Bauhaus is associated with
- architecture.
- A troubling economic problem in the 1920's was the depressed state of agriculture caused by
- overproduction and falling prices.
- By 1929 the price of a bushel of wheat was
- at its lowest level in four hundred years.
- On Black Thursday, 24 October 1929,
- the US stock Market crashed.
- At the lowest point of the Great Depression_____________% of US banks were out of business.
- Forty-four
- During the Great Depression most nations
- practiced economic nationalism.
- In response to the Great Depression, economist John Maynard Keynes
- urged the government to expand the money supply and undertake public works to provide jobs.
- Which of the following was not one of the chief actions of Roosevelt's New Deal?
- tighten money supply
- The Russian Civil War that broke out after the revolution was between
- Reds and Whites
- War Communism
- was an unplanned course of nationalization.
- Lenin's New Economic Policy of 1921
- implemented free market reforms.
- "Socialism in One Country" was the philoshpy of
- Stalin
- The First Five-Year Plan was initiated by
- Stalin
- The term fascism was first used by
- Mussolini
- The author of Mein Kampf was
- Adolf Hitler
- The 1935 Nuremberg Laws
- deprived German Jews of their citizenship.
- The Kristallnacht was
- a Nazi arranged attack on thousands of Jewish stores.
- Satyagraha was
- Gandhi's philosphy of passive resistence.
- Which of the following was not one of the foundations of Gandhi's philosphy?
- heavy industrialization.
- Muhammed Ali Jinnah called for the creations of
- Pakistan.
- The May Fourth Movement
- galvanized the Chinese against foreign interference
- The Three Principles of the People was the political philosphy of
- Sun Yatsen
- Mao Zedong's main rival after 1925 was
- Jiang Jieshi
- The Long March
- greatly streghtened Mao Zedong's leadership position
- The Mukden incident
- provided Japan with the excuse to send troops to Manchuria
- The height of Japanese atrocity in China was reached at the Rape of
- Nanjing
- The weakness of the League of Nations was revealed in its inabiltiy to take any substantial action in response to the Italian invasion of
- Ethiopia
- In 1938, Germany sent troops into ___________ and forced its leaders to accept the Anschluss
- Austria
- Adolf Hitler always spoke of the "November Crime" which was the
- signing of the 1918 armistice.
- The high point of appeasement was
- the Munich Conference
- The European part of WWII began with the
- German invasion of Poland
- The German blitzrieg referred to
- a lightning war
- The key to the Allied victories in Europe and Asia was
- industrial capacity
- The Japanese goal in the bombing of Pearl Harbor was
- to weaken the US and establish a defensive Japanese perimeter in teh Pacific
- The Normandy invasion
- crushed German resistance in Europe
- The US interventionist plan for containing communism was known as the
- Marshall Plan
- The Marshall Plan
- was a US plan to rebuild Europe and stop Soviet expansion
- NATO was designed to
- be a regional military alliance against Soviet aggression
- At a meeting of fifty nations at San Francisco in 1945
- the United Nations Charter was signed.
- Ideology, the two competing sides in the Cold war were
- capitialism and communism
- During the Cold War the US policy toward the Soviet Union was one of
- containment
- The Warsaw Treaty Organization
- was formed in response to NATO
- The Korean War resulted in
- such a terrible loss of life that the Soviets and Americans were force to reconcile their differences
- In the Battle of Okinawa the Japanese introduced
- kamikaze pilots
- The Japanese finally surrendered in August 1945
- after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- After the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
- the Nazis eliminated the entire village of Lidice
- "Comfort women" were
- Korean and Chinese women forced into prostitution by the Japanese
- During WWII around ___________ million people perished.
- sixty
- Senator Joseph McCarthy is known for
- his attempt to expose communists in the US government
- Betty Friedan, in her book The Feminine Mystique, wrote about
- how unhappy many American women were
- In 1954 segregation in US schools was declared illegal in
- Brown versus Board of Education
- Charles de Gaulle's vision of a Europe free from superpower domination
- lived on in the formation of the European Community
- By the mid-1960's the Chinese were accusing the Soviets of being
- Revisionists
- The term Vietnamization
- was supposed to mean turning Vietnam War over to the South Vietnamese.
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- never intended to abolish the existing Soviet political and economic system
- When Mikhail Gorgachev discussed the opening of Soviet society to public criticism and admission of past mistakes he used the term
- uskorenie
- Mikhail Gorbachev was rescued from an unsuccessful coup by
- Boris Yeltsin and some loyal Red Army units
- It was ________who finally dismantled the Soviet Communist party and pused the country towards free market reforms
- Boris Yeltsin