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Whose theory of relativity replaced Newton's comforting belief in a world run by absolute laws of motion and gravity? |
Albert Einstein |
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What were Franz Kafka, James Joyce and F. Scott Fitzgerald all known for being? |
novelists |
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After World War I most European nations had what type of government, if only temporarily? |
Democratic |
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What event marked the beginning of the Great Depression? |
The stock market crash of 1929 |
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What was one part of Roosevelt's New Deal program to fight the Depression? |
Large public works projects helped to provide jobs. |
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Il Duce was the title of which of the following leaders? |
Benito Mussolini |
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Which German political party sought to overturn the Treaty of Versailles and combat communism? |
Nazi |
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Which three countries successfully invaded other nations in the 1930's? |
Italy, Germany and Japan |
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What term was used to identify the alliance of Germany, Italy and Japan? |
Axis Powers |
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What was the goal of U.S. isolationists after World War I? |
To avoid political ties to other countries should be avoided. |
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What country did Germany conquer in September 1939? |
Poland |
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What did Germany do to the Rhineland? |
Germany remilitarized the Rhineland. |
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What happened to the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia between 1935-1939? |
It was annexed by Germany. |
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What happened to the rest of Czechoslovakia in 1939? |
It was annexed to Germany |
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What do Austria, Czechoslovakia and the Western half of Poland all have in common? |
They were all taken over by Nazi Germany |
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What is a main idea of the philosophy known as existentialism? |
That everyone should find their own meaning in life |
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Name three things that damaged the U.S. economy in the 1920's. |
1. soaring stock prices 2. an uneven distribution of wealth 3. a surplus of agricultural products |
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What caused Germans to start taking Adolf Hitler and his message seriously? |
The economic crisis brought on by the Depression |
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What does fascism stress? |
Nationalism |
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What percentage of people were out of work during the peak unemployment in the United States Great Depression? |
about 20 percent |
