Final Exam Moodle Quizzes
Kristallnacht was
a Nazi arranged attack
According to Freud, the root of neurotic behavior was
a conflict between conscious and unconscious mental processes
In response to the Great Depression, economist John Maynard Keynes
Urged the government
The leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organized was
Yasser Arafat
In the wake of the Berlin blockade and airlift, the U.S., British and French zones of occupation in western Germany
were combined to form the Federal Republic of Germany
US President Dwight Eisenhower
was a believer in the domino theory
The First Five-Year Plan
was designed to transform the Soviet Union
The Warsaw Treaty Organization
was formed in response to the rearming of Western Germany
The German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
was formed out of the Soviet zone of occupation
In the years after World War I, the idea of progress
was roundly attacked
The official goal of the Nazi regime regarding Jews in the period before World War II was
to pressure them to emigrate
At the lowest point of the Great Depression, what percent of U.S. banks were out of business
44 percent
The leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party was
Adolf Hitler
The Soviet Union fought a costly foreign war from 1979 to 1989 in
Afghanistan
The U.S.-backed government of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in Iran was overthrown in 1979 by
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
The "velvet revolution" brought change to
Czechoslovakia
The notion that space and time are relative to the person measuring them was first articulated in
Einstein's theory of general relativity
The leader of the Arab world in the 1950s 1960s was
Gamal Abdel Nasser
The Russian leader who brought massive reform to the Soviet Union beginning in 1985 was
Mikhail Gorbachev
An active policy of de-Stalinization was begun in 1956 by
Nikita Khrushchev
The writer whose Decline of the West Proposed that European society had entered the final stage of its existence was
Oswald Spengler
The Korean War resulted in
an encouragement of the globalization of the U.S, policy of containment
Ideologically, the two competing sides in the cold war were
capitalism and communism
The Russian civil war that broke out after the revolution was between
communists of Lenin's regime
Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika referred to
decentralizing the economy
The 1935 Nuremberg Laws
deprived German Jews of their citizenship
When Mikhail Gorbachev discussed the opening of Soviet society to public criticism and admission of past mistakes, he used the term
glasnost
All of the following constitute steps taken by Benito Mussolini to consolidate power EXCEPT
instituting a communist system
The spread of photography
led many painters to believe that the purpose of painting was not to mirror reality but to create it
A troubling economic problem in the 1920's was the depressed state of agriculture caused by
overproduction and falling prices
During the Great Depression, most nations
practiced economic nationalism
The policy of detente means
reeducation in hostility between nations
The Brezhnev Doctrine
reserved the right of the Soviet Union
Lenin's New Economic Policy of 1921
temporarily restored the market economy
In the Balfour Declaration of 1917
the British government committed itself to supporting a Jewish homeland
The strategic Arms limitation Talks were signed in 1972 between
the Soviet Union and the United States
On Black Thursday, 24 October 1929,
the US stock market crashed
Discoveries in physics added to the anxiety of the 1920s and 1930s because
they called into question established notions of truth
Which of the following was NOT one of the chief actions of Roosevelt's New Deal?
tighten the money supply
Why was the European Recovery Program, commonly called the Marshall Plan, proposed and implemented
to greatly diminished Soviet influence in Europe
