Chapter 19- WW2 Ap Euro

A mixed economy is ___.

one in which economic decisions are made by the government, business, and labor

In the two decades following the end of World War I, what belief did the governments and societies of Eastern and Western Europe share?

The Soviet Union posed the greatest threat to Europe's security.

How did Marxists view the economic downturn that became known as the Great Depression?

They welcomed it because they believed it signaled the imminent downfall of capitalism.

Most of the money the Allies collected in war reparations went to ________.

The United States

The 1936 Popular Front government of France consisted of an alliance of which of the following political parties?

Socialists, Radicals, and Communists

Between 1928 and 1940, Soviet industrial production ________.

rose dramatically

Under Lenin's New Economic Policy, ________.

private economic enterprise was permitted

Fascists won a majority in the Italian Chamber of Deputies in ________.

1924

The majority of the founding members of the Fasci di Combattimento were ________.

war veterans

The Lateran Accord of 1929 established that ________.

the pope was ruler of the independent Vatican City

Adolf Hitler became the chancellor of Germany ________.

by legal means

Support for Hitler was particularly strong among groups such as ________.

farmers, war veterans, and the young

The 1935 Nuremberg laws ________.

deprived German Jews of their citizenship

Which successor state avoided a self-imposed authoritarian government?

Czechoslovakia

What country was once known as the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes?

Yugoslavia

What minority looked to Hitler to resolve their nationalist ambitions?

the Germans of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia

Germany's struggle for economic security resulted in the ________.

establishment of the Nazi dictatorship

The Wall Street crash of October 1929 was the result of ________.

virtually unregulated financial speculation

American investment capital that had been pouring into Europe began to decline by 1928 as a result of ________.

money being diverted into the booming New York stock market

The pretext for the onset of the ________ was the assassination of Sergei Kirov on December 1, 1934.

Great Purges

Which of the following best characterizes Communist Party members who joined following the Great Purges?

Stalin Loyalists

The Fascists' seizure of the Italian government can be primarily attributed to the ________.

failure of the king to authorize the army to block the Black Shirt March

Mussolini's brokering of the Lateran Accord resulted in ________.

approval among Italians, bringing increased respectability to Mussolini's regime

The outflow of foreign capital from Germany beginning in 1928 undermined the brief prosperity and resulted in an economic crisis ending ________.

parliamentary government

The suspending of civil liberties and arrests of Communists or alleged Communists in Germany was a direct result of ________.

the Reichstag fire

Which of these had a destabilizing effect on the successor states in the 1920s and 1930s?

rampant nationalism

The new Poland was constructed from the countries of ________.

Russia, Germany, and Austria

Which of these was a powerful factor in the rise of both Mussolini and Hitler?

wounded national pride

In the Nazi ideology, women were considered first and foremost as _________.

mothers