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28 Cards in this Set
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Whose theory of relativity replaced Newton's comforting belief in a world run by absolute laws of motion and gravity?
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Albert Einstein
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What were Franz Kafka, James Joyce and F. Scott Fitzgerald all known for being?
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Novelists
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What event marked the beginning of the Great Depression?
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Stock market crash of 1929
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What was one part of Roosevelt's New Deal program to fight Depression?
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Large public works projects helped to provide jobs.
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Il Duce was the title of which of the following leaders?
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Benito Mussolini
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Which German political party sought to overturn the Treaty of Versailles and combat communism?
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Nazi
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What term was used to identify the alliance of Germany, Italy and Japan?
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Axis Powers
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What is a main idea of the philosophy known as existentialism?
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That one should find his or her own meaning in life.
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What is not an art movement from the early 20th century?
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Existentialism
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What effect did the Dawes Plan have on the economy of postwar Germany?
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It saved Germany from an inflationary crisis and stabilized the economy.
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What caused Germans to start taking Adolf Hitler and his message seriously?
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The economic crisis brought on by the Depression.
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Which of the following does fascism stress?
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Nationalism.
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What was the policy of appeasement?
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The British and French decision to give into aggression to keep peace.
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Why did Japan invade Manchuria?
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To gain its iron ore and coal deposits.
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What effect did the nonaggression pact between the Nazis and the Soviets have on the balance of power in Europe?
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It allowed the Axis Powers to continue unchecked.
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How did Sigmund Freud's ideas weaken faith in reason?
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He believed that much of human behavior is irrational.
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Why did millions of Germans turn against the leaders of the Weimar Republic?
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The had signed the Treaty of Versailles.
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What fear added to the appeal of fascism in Italy and Germany?
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A Communist Revolution
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Why did Hitler target the Jewish population as scapegoats for all of Germany's trubles?
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Hatred of Jews, or anti-Semitism, was a key part of Nazi ideology.
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The Munich Conference came to symbolize the dangers of what?
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Appeasement
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What important role did Winston Churchill play during this period?
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He warned that the policy of appeasement was a disaster.
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During the global depression, war debts caused great suffering in?
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Germany
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The titles of Hitler's book "Mein Kampf in English is...
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My Struggle
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Hitler's main method for achieving lebensraum was to ....
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conquer other counties
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Naxism was the German form of...
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Facism
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All of the following Joined the Axis Powers EXCEPT...
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Soviet Union
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Who was the leader of the Third Reich?
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Adolf Hitler
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The Munich Conference was held to address the problems of a German threat to the nation of?
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Czechoslovaia
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