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27 Cards in this Set
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What scientist developed the theory of relativity? |
Albert Einstein |
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What type of painting tried to put real life items in a dream like setting (Salvador Dali’s clocks)? |
Surrealism |
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Where were most of the movies produced in the U.S. during the 1920s? |
Hollywood |
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What did the majority of people have in their homes for news and entertainment in the 1920s? |
Radio |
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What type of movies did they have before 1927? |
Silent (no sound) |
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What type of passenger transportation became popular in the 1920s? |
Airplane |
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What are three labor-saving devices used by housewives in the 1920s? |
Refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, electric irons |
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Who was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic? |
Charles Lindbergh |
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Who was the Austrian physician who did studies on the unconscious mind? |
Sigmund Freud |
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Women gained a new sense of independence in the 1920s, including the right to vote in many countries. |
True |
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What style of music developed by African-American musicians became popular in the U.S. in the 1920s? |
Jazz |
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What is a temporary alliance of political parties? |
Coalition government |
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Severe economic slump that followed the crash of the U.S. stock market in 1929- |
Great Depression |
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What is seen as the starting point of the Great Depression in the U.S.? |
stock market crash of 1929 (Black Tuesday) |
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Reform program began by FDR to help bring the U.S. out of the depression- |
New Deal |
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What were three weaknesses of the U.S. economy? |
Uneven distribution of wealth, overproduction by farmers, overproduction by manufactures/Americans buying less |
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How did Germany recover from their economic crisis? |
Dawes Plan |
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After WWI, inflation was so bad in Germany that their money became so worthless that they would burn it. |
True |
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Which fascist dictator promised to pull Germany out of the depression? |
Adolf Hitler |
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Who was the U.S. President during much of the depression and promised to help the people? |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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Who is the fascist dictator who rose to power in Italy? |
Benito Mussolini |
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What political party did Adolf Hitler join after WWI? |
National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi) |
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What is the name of the book Hitler wrote while in prison? |
Mein Kampf |
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Giving in to an aggressor, hoping to avoid war- |
appeasement |
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Germany, Italy, Japan- |
Axis Powers |
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Hitler broke rules of the Treaty of Versailles and was allowed to get away with it. |
True |
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Who does Hitler sign a non-aggression pact with that says neither country will attack each other for 10 years? |
Stalin (Soviet Union) |
