Chapter 15 Study Guide

I. Multiple Choice

- Adolf Hitler was born in ______in 1889.

- Hitler viewed Jews as a separate ______, not just a different religion.

- Who was the first person to successfully complete a solo, trans-Atlantic flight?

- Who developed theories about the power of the part of the mind called the unconscious?

- What was the major cause of the collapse of the stock market?

- The Munich Conference came to symbolize the dangers of what?

- ______was Germany’s secret police.

- What is the name of the art movement that incorporates the concept of the unconscious mind?

- How did Sigmund Freud’s ideas weaken faith in reason?

- What impact did radio have after the war?

- What is the name of the philosophy that rejects the idea of universal values?

- What were Franz Kafka, James Joyce, and F. Scott Fitzgerald all known for being?

- After World War I, most European nations had what type of government, if only temporarily?

- What event marked the beginning of the Great Depression?

- Who is the “Lost Generation” writer who wrote the novel The Great Gatsby?

- The Munich Conference was held to address the problems of a German threat to the nation of

- Whose theory of relativity replace Newton’s comforting belief in a world run by absolute laws of motion and gravity?

- Il Duce was the title of which of the following leaders?

- What is the musical style that captured a sense of the new freedom of the postwar years?

- What is the term for the relationship between the speed of light and the measurements of time and space?

- What was the policy of appeasement?

- Why did Japan invade Manchuria?

- Who developed the theory that the measurements of time and space can vary?

- During the global depression, war debts caused great suffering in which country?

- The title of Hitler’s book Mein Kampf in English is

- Hitler’s main method for achieving lebensraum was to

- Nazism was the German form of

- The New Deal involved attempts to stimulate the American economy by

- Which German political party sought to overturn the Treaty of Versailles and combat communism?

- What term was used to identify the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan?

- Which of the following does fascism stress?

- Manchuria was invaded in 1931 by which country?

- The leader of the Third Reich was

ESSAY: Choose 1

-What effects did World War I have on the writers, painters, and musicians who worked in the postwar years?

-What do you think President Franklin D. Roosevelt meant when he said that the only thing the United States had to fear was fear itself?

-What political and social factors led to the fall of several European democracies in the 1920s and 1930s?

-How were the effects of America’s isolationism and Britain’s policy of appeasement similar?

-How did technology change the daily life after World War I?