CH 25 - 27 Quiz

What is the composer Arnold Schönberg known for?

His creation of twelve-tone music that abandoned traditional harmony and tonality.

What was the effect of the 1935 Nuremberg Laws?

It defined as Jewish anyone having three or more Jewish grandparents.

Who was the director of Triumph of the Will, a brilliant piece of cinematic propaganda based on the 1934 Nazi Party rally at Nuremberg?

Leni Riefenstahl.

In the early twentieth century, the traditional arts and amusements of people in villages and small towns were overshadowed by. . .

Modern mass media such as cinema and radio.

Lenin's New Economic Policy was a political compromise with. . .

Russian peasants.

Which battle was the decisive turning point in the clash between the Soviet Union and Germany?

Stalingrad.

What did Germany's Auxiliary Service Law require?

That all men between seventeen and sixty work at jobs considered critical to the war effort.

Why were the Balkans considered the "powder keg of Europe"?

The Ottoman Empire had been forced to give up its territory in the region, leading to growing ethnic nationalism.

How did the moderate Social Democrats in Germany put down the radical Communist Spartacist Uprising?

They called on bands of demobilized soldiers called Free Corps to crush the uprising.

What was the common effect of western-front offensives during the First World War?

They caused the slaughter of massed infantry units.

As practiced in the 1930s, APPEASEMENT was. . . a) an American policy that favored isolation from European quarrels. b) a Soviet policy that emphasized the need to concentrate on internal matters like the five-year plan and ignore European issues. c) a British policy that aimed to give Hitler whatever he wanted in order to avoid war. d) a French policy that avoided any controversial foreign policy actions that might provoke a civil war in between Republicans and Fascists.

c) A British policy that aimed to give Hitler whatever he wanted in order to avoid war.

In 1923, which German politician called off passive resistance in the Ruhr and agreed in principle to pay reparations?

Gustav Stresemann.

How did Henri-Philippe Pétain maintain order among French troops by late 1917?

He formed a tacit agreement with the troops that there would be no more grand offensives.

Gabriel Marcel found the answer to the postwar broken world in. . .

The Catholic Church.

What problem was faced by most of the underground resistance groups who opposed the Nazis?

They were not well unified, for they had differing political goals.

What was the February Revolution in Russia in 1917? a) A planned and coordinated Communist takeover of the government b) An unplanned uprising of hungry and angry people in the capital c) Originally a peasant rebellion that moved from the provinces to the cities d) A military coup in which the tsar was forced to abdicate in the midst of a mutiny

b) An unplanned uprising of hungry and angry people in the capital.

How did Lenin's and the Bolsheviks' view of the Marxist party in Russia differ from the Mensheviks' view of the party?

The Bolsheviks wanted a small, disciplined party, while the Mensheviks wanted a democratic party with mass membership.

What did Marcel Proust attempt to do in his novel "Remembrance of Things Past?"

Discover the inner meaning of bittersweet memories of childhood and youthful love.

What was the Holocaust? a) The German policy of deliberately starving Soviet prisoners of war b) The firebombing of German cities by American and British bombers c) The systematic effort of the Nazi state to exterminate all European Jews during the Second World War d) A scorched-earth policy adopted by the German army as it retreated from the Soviet Union after the defeat at Stalingrad

c) The systematic effort of the Nazi state to exterminate all European Jews during the Second World War.

Why did the Germans accept the Treaty of Versailles? a) They realized that some of the provisions would permit them to establish German authority toward the east. b) They believed it was the best agreement they would receive from the Allied Powers. c) They believed that neither France nor Great Britain would enforce the provisions of the treaty that Germany disliked. d) They had little alternative, especially as the naval blockade was still in place and the German people were starving.

d) They had little alternative, especially as the naval blockade was still in place and the German people were starving.

In twentieth-century literature, the stream-of-consciousness technique uses a) a linear line of language without punctuation or capitalization. b) a series of visual images to express emotions. c) a series of disjointed references and observations for the reader to decipher. d) internal monologues to explore the psyche.

d) internal monologues to explore the psyche.

The parliamentary government in Italy was breaking down at the time of the Fascist march on Rome in October 1922, largely because of a) mutinies in the Italian fleet. b) mass unemployment. c) the general strike against the government declared by the Catholic Church. d) the violence perpetrated by Mussolini's own black-shirted militants.

d) the violence perpetrated by Mussolini's own black-shirted militants.