Ap world Chapter 34: The Age of Anxiety

Lenin's New Economic Policy of 1921

temporarily restored the market economy.

According to Freud, the root of neurotic behavior was

a conflict between conscious and unconscious mental processes.

A troubling economic problem in the 1920s was the depressed state of agriculture caused by

overproduction and falling prices

The leader of the fascist movement in Germany was

Adolf Hitler

The writer whose Decline of the West proposed that European society had entered the final stage of its existence was

Oswald Spengler.

The notion that space and time are relative to the person measuring them was first articulated in

Einstein's theory of general relativity.

At the lowest point of the Great Depression, what percentage of U.S. banks were out of business?

44 percent

The Nazi eugenics measures in the 1930s served as a precursor to the wholesale extermination of people classified as racial inferiors.

True

In Karl Barth's Epistle to the Romans, he

attacked the liberal Christian theology that had embraced the idea of progress

Which of the following was NOT one of the chief actions of Roosevelt's New Deal?

tighten the money supply

CORRECT:

give workers the right to organize and bargain collectively, provide social security in old age, guarantee minimum wages, create jobs through public works projects

The spread of photography

led many painters to believe that the purpose of painting was not to mirror reality but to create it

According to Werner Heisenberg, it is impossible to specify simultaneously the position and the velocity of a subatomic particle; this is known as the "uncertainty principle."

True

The term fascism derives from the fasces, an ancient Roman symbol of punitive authority consisting of a bundle of wooden rods strapped together around an axe.

True

The term "lost generation" was coined by

Gertrude Stein.

"War communism"

was an unplanned course of nationalization

Postwar intellectuals lamented the decline of western society.

True

The First Five-Year Plan was

designed to transform the Soviet Union from an agricultural nation into an industrial one.

The father of psychoanalysis was

Sigmund Freud.

John Maynard Keynes

urged governments to stimulate the economy by increasing the money supply.

Which of the following was NOT one of the new artistic movements of the twentieth century?

impressionism

CORRECT: expressionism, cubism, dadaism, surrealism

As the Great Depression destroyed capitalist economies, international cooperation broke down and governments turned to their own resources and practiced economic nationalism.

True

Discoveries in physics added to the anxiety of the 1920s and 1930s because they

called into question the established notions of truth.

Lenin's New Economic Policy allowed the Russian government to take control of all industries and allowed for no privately-owned enterprises.

False

The official goal of the Nazi regime toward Jews in the period before World War II was

to pressure them to emigrate

The guiding force behind Italian fascism was Benito Mussolini, who seized power as dictator in 1926 and ruled Italy as Il Duce.

True

One of the most significant results of the artistic experimentation of the 1920s and 1930s was that

generally accepted standards that distinguished between "good" and "bad" art disappeared.

Which individual's surname means "man of steel"?

Stalin

Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party attracted members of mainstream society, who were frightened by the specter of socialist revolution.

False

The leading proponent of cubism was

Pablo Picasso.

The Russian civil war that broke out after the revolution was between

Reds, being the communists of Lenin's regime; and Whites, comprising a collection of anti-communist groups.

The deliberate violation of perspective by Japanese artists influenced

Edgar Degas

The uncertainty principle is associated with

Heisenberg

Who wrote, "Man's historical experience has been one of steady failure, and there are no grounds for supposing it will be ever anything else"?

Niokolai Berdiaev

An integral part of Stalin's drive for industrialization was the collectivization of agriculture.

True

The author of All Quiet on the Western Front was

Erich Maria Remarque