Chapter 28 Quiz

Black

Adherents to Benito Mussolini's "Fascist" movement, dressed in ______ shirts and organized in paramilitary units, roamed the streets, and violently broke up meetings of communists.

Austria

Which country was incorporated into Nazi Germany in 1938?

The guilt of the Central Powers

Which of the following was not one of Woodrow Wilson's war aims?

Négritude

____________ was a cultural movement that, associated with French-language writers like Léopold Senghor, fostered pride in African history, culture, and "blackness".

Hashemites

"Lawrence of Arabia" helped the members of a prominent family, the ______ from Mecca, to assume leadership of the Arabs for a promised national kingdom in Syria and Palestine.

The establishment of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), charged with enforcing regulations and preventing a repetition of the Stock Market Collapse of 1929.

Among the innovative measures enacted by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the "New Deal" were:

Kulaks

As part of the collectivization of agriculture launched in the Soviet Union, 3-5% of the "wealthiest" farmers, called _________, were "liquidated"—selected for execution, removed to labor camps, or resettled on other land.

1942

Hitler implemented his planned "Final Solution" of European Jews beginning in January ________.

Midway

The naval victory at _______________ gave the United States the initiative in 1942.

British

As Iraq was divided by majority Shiites and minority Sunnis, the ___________ inaugurated a policy of divide and rule in their Middle Eastern mandates, while dangling the prospect of eventual independence in front of them.

Marked the turning point in the European war, with a Soviet victory.

Ending in February 1943, the Battle of Stalingrad:

Nanjing

Estimates of those slaughtered in the brutal "Rape of _______" of 1937-1938 range between 200,000 and 300,000 people

Poland

In 1939, the German army pioneered a new kind of warfare, a "Blitzkrieg" or "lightning war", in _______.

Salt

In March 1930, Mohandas Gandhi protested a British tax on Indian ______ by embarking on a famous 24-day march.

Trench

In World War I, both sides were forced into _______________warfare in northeastern France and Belgium.

Munich

In an attempt to avoid a European war, Neville Chamberlain signed the _______ Agreement in the summer of 1938.

Inviting peasants into the vanguard of his movement.

Mao Zedong was an inspiring rural organizer, and he set about developing his ideas of revolution with the heretical idea of:

Corporate

Mussolini's Fascists claimed that they were inaugurating a "_______ state", which theoretically saw all sectors of society contributing in a systematic, orderly, and hierarchical fashion to the health of the whole.

That nearly half of its budget in the interwar period went to paying off debt from the war.

One of the most significant reasons for the continued stagnation of the British economy after World War I was:

50 percent

South American countries suffered during the Great Depression due to a _______ decline in commodity exports.

Italy

The League of Nations rebuked ________ for its attack on Ethiopia in 1935-1936.

Manchuria

The Mukden Incident of 1931 was engineered by the Japanese military to provide a pretext for the annexation of _________.

The Netherlands intervened on behalf of its neighbor, Belgium, threatening to invade Germany.

The Schlieffen Plan, implemented by the Germans at beginning of World War I, came close to succeeding, but it ultimately failed, for all of the following reasons except:

The Philippines

Under the premiership of General Tojo Hideki, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), _______, and Dutch and British territories on December 7-8, 1941.

Because it required collective military action in case of aggression.

Why was the Treaty of Versailles rejected by the United States Senate?