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

Chapter 23: Darkening Decades

True or False Quiz

1
Women in France and Italy received the right to vote in the years immediately after World War I.
A)True
B)False
2
In post-war France, conservatives continued to express anti-German nationalism.
A)True
B)False
3
During the inter-war period, Britain was preoccupied with solving the Irish problem and fending off nationalist opposition in Asia and Africa.
A)True
B)False
4
The United States enthusiastically took on a leadership role in world affairs after World War I ended.
A)True
B)False
5
Charles Dawes of the United States created a plan to codify the French and Belgian occupation of German territory.
A)True
B)False
6
The inter-war period witnessed the rise of "movie stars" and popular fascination with their careers.
A)True
B)False
7
The Bauhaus school of architecture embraced older styles, such as columns, arches, and ornamentation, in an effort to hold on to the pre-war period.
A)True
B)False
8
New attitudes toward sex emerged and were reflected in different styles of clothing and concern about hygiene.
A)True
B)False
9
The unconscious, the irrational, and personal psychological experience played a prominent role in the works of writers such as James Joyce and Franz Kafka.
A)True
B)False
10
In the post-war world, non-European economies such as those of the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan grew at the expense of declining national economies in Europe.
A)True
B)False
11
Propaganda, ritual, and choreographed mass meetings were not important for the consolidation of power by dictators such as Mussolini and Hitler.
A)True
B)False
12
Mussolini presented his fascist doctrine in Mein Kampf.
A)True
B)False
13
The Great Depression helped to cause a drastic reduction in popular support for the Nazi Party.
A)True
B)False
14
The Nuremberg laws of 1935 stripped German Jews of their citizenship and rights.
A)True
B)False
15
The German rearmament undertaken by Hitler in the 1930s did not violate the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
A)True
B)False
16
When women received the vote in most European states at the end of the First World War, their voting patterns revolutionized politics and severely upset the old political party structure throughout Europe and America.
A)True
B)False
17
In post-war period, more and more women found jobs in the service sector of the economy, in such positions as sales clerks, social workers, nurses, telephone operators, manicurists, and hairdressers.
A)True
B)False
18
In his seminal book The Decline of the West, written in 1918, Oswald Spengler argued that World War I clearly signaled that the West, which had been so dominant over world civilization for hundreds of years, was now entering into a period of crisis and decay.
A)True
B)False
19
Mussolini managed to take control of Italy although the end of World War I had left Italy with a full treasury and a thriving economy.
A)True
B)False
Sherman: The West in the World, Fourth Edition
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