The West in the World, 4th Edition (Sherman)

Chapter 23: Darkening Decades

Multiple Choice Quiz

1
The new government of the Weimar Republic faced an uprising of radical Marxists led by Rosa Luxemburg and
A)Vladimir Lenin.
B)Wolfgang Kapp.
C)Karl Liebknecht.
D)Friedrich Engels.
2
When the Weimar Republic defaulted on its war reparations bill in January 1923, French and Belgian troops occupied
A)Berlin.
B)the Ruhr Valley.
C)the Reichstag.
D)Vichy.
3
The Treaty of Locarno, signed in 1925 by Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, and Belgium,
A)lowered Germany's redemption payments.
B)made provisions for the withdrawal of occupying forces from Germany.
C)guaranteed Germany's frontiers with France and Belgium.
D)admitted Germany to the League of Nations.
4
Frederick W. Taylor, an efficiency engineer, concluded after conducting time and motion studies that
A)the division of labor into thinking by managers and physical labor by workers was extremely important for productivity.
B)the division of labor would make work mindless and repetitive for laborers.
C)a conveyor belt could make most types of manufacturing more efficient.
D)a happy worker was a productive worker.
5
A new form of popular culture to emerge during this period was the
A)television.
B)radio.
C)newspaper.
D)novel.
6
In 1919, Austrian-Hungarian Admiral Miklos Horthy overthrew Béla Kun's communist regime in
A)Yugoslavia.
B)Hungary.
C)Poland.
D)Romania.
7
After Mussolini and his supporters marched on Rome in 1922,
A)Mussolini was appointed prime minister by King Victor Emmanuel III.
B)Mussolini was arrested and served two years in prison.
C)Mussolini became a radical journalist.
D)Mussolini organized a group known as the National Fascist Party.
8
The New Economic Policy, or NEP, implemented under Lenin's leadership in 1921 was intended to revive the Soviet economy by
A)continuing the civil war policies of war communism.
B)nationalizing all industry, large and small.
C)creating large collective farms.
D)providing for a temporary compromise with capitalistic economic policies.
9
In the Soviet Union, the policy of collectivization of agriculture resulted in all of the following EXCEPT
A)growing support of the government by the wealthier peasants, or kulaks.
B)the collectivization of over 90 percent of the land within ten years.
C)an effort to eliminate kulaks as a class.
D)a severe famine in which millions of people died.
10
The crash of the New York stock market in October 1929
A)produced an economic depression confined to the United States.
B)did not produce hardship among the population at large.
C)produced a global depression that affected the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
D)was caused by Germany's default on reparations payments.
11
In 1923 in what became known as the "Beer Hall Putsch," Hitler made a grab for power by attempting to
A)take over the local government in Munich.
B)force Hindenburg to appoint him as chancellor.
C)take over the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
D)fix elections to the Reichstag.
12
During the "Night of the Long Knives" in 1934, Hitler ordered the SS troops to
A)purge his paramilitary organization, the SA.
B)strike out against Jewish businesses and vandalize Jewish residences.
C)take over top positions in the government.
D)attack centers of modern art and literature.
13
In the period after 1924, many Western economies perked up, in large part due to the innovations of the American engineer Frederick W. Taylor (1856-1915). How did Taylor help to revolutionize the economies of the Western states?
A)by inventing the "installment plan"
B)by inventing the department store
C)by inventing techniques of "scientific management"
D)by inventing the aviation industry
14
The exuberant 1920s have often been described by historians as the "Roaring Twenties" or the "Jazz Age." Which of the following statements about this era of Western history is NOT true?
A)Modernity was welcomed and embraced by all groups.
B)New forms of media revolutionized popular entertainment.
C)Attitudes towards female sexuality changed.
D)The literature of the period displays prevailing feelings of insecurity.
15
In addition to Nehru, who helped lead the drive for Indian independence from Great Britain?
A)Markievicz
B)Gandhi
C)Stresemann
D)Ben Gurion
16
Which "plan" facilitated the withdrawal of occupying forces from Germany after WWI?
A)Stresemann Plan
B)Luxemburg Plan
C)Dawes Plan
D)Coolidge Plan
17
Who wrote the famous poem, The Waste Land, which demonstrated the artistic ethic of post-WWI society?
A)T. S. Eliot
B)Fritz Lang
C)Sergei Epstein
D)Otto Dix
18
Which famous German architectural school influenced building design worldwide?
A)Lindberg school
B)Dix school
C)Nietzsche school
D)Bauhaus school
19
Who was the most widely-read post-WWI philosopher?
A)Kafka
B)Nietzsche
C)Spengler
D)Joyce
20
Which artistic movement stressed the absence of purpose in life and gained acclaim in the post-WWI era?
A)Dada movement
B)existential movement
C)romantic movement
D)classical movement
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