APWH Chapters 34 Multiple Choice Stem Question Study Guide

The term "lost generation" was coined by ___________________.

Gertrude Stein.

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

Oswald Spengler.

In Karl Barth's "Epistle to the Romans", he

attacked liberal Christian theology that embraced the idea of progress.

The author of "All Quiet on the Western Front" was _____________.

Erich Maria Remarque.

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.

In the years after World War I, the idea of progress

came under attack (especially science and technology).

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

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.

The uncertainty principle is associated with _____________.

Werner Heisenberg's paper, "About the Quantum-Theoritical Reinterpretation of Kinetic and Mechanical Relationships".

In a purely scientific sense, the uncertainty principle proposes that _______________________________.

it is impossible to specify simultaneously the position and velocity of a subatomic particle.

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

carried broader philosophical ramifications.

According to Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, the root of neurotic behavior was

sexual drives and fantasies.

The spread of photography

led many painters to believe that the purpose of paintings was not too mirror relativity but create it

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

WAS NOT: impressionists.

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

all artists were acknowledged to have a right to their own reality.

The deliberate violation of perspective by Japanese artists influenced _________________.

European artists to take similar liberties with realism.

The leading proponent of cubism was _________________.

Picasso?

A troubling economic problem in the 1920s 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, ___________________.

a wave of panic selling on the New York Stock Exchange caused stock prices to plummet.

At the lowest point of the Great Depression, what

percentage of U.S. banks were out of business?

forty-four percent.

During the Great Depression, most nations

experienced some economic difficulties.

Economist John Maynard Keynes , who _________________________, responded to the Great Depression by _____________________________________.

was the fundamental cause of the Great Depression; urged governments to play an active role and stimulate the economy by increasing the money supply.

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

WAS NOT: Tighten the money supply?

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

Bolsheviks ("reds") and Whites ("whites").

"War communism"

was the Bolshevik policy of nationalizing industry and seizing private land during the civil war.

Lenin's New Economic Policy of 1921

implemented free market reforms.

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

Joseph Stalin.

That individual's First Five-Year Plan was _____________________.

to replace Lenin's NEP with an a ambitious plan for rapid economic development.

All of the following constitute steps taken by Benito Mussolini, who started the first fascist movement, consolidated power by doing all of the following EXCEPT

instituting a communist system of government.

Adolf Hitler, the leader of the fascist movement in Germany, and his political party pushed through the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, which

deprived German Jews of their citizenship

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

Jewish emigration.

The "Kristallnacht" was ____________________.

the "night of broken glass".