AP Euro chapter 26

What idea does the functionalist architecture of Le Corbusier promote?

A. Buildings should be built without ornamentation and instead be practical structures with clean straight lines

What was an important factor in both the rapid growth of the American stock market in the 1920s and its collapse in October 1929?

A. Buying on margin

What is the composer Arnold Schönberg known for?

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

The German government printing of money to pay unemployed benefits to workers striking in the Ruhr against the Franco-Belgian occupation of 1923 lead to

A. Hyperinflation

What did the Swedish response to the depression involve?

A. Increasing social welfare benefits and state spending on public works projects

In civilization and Its Discontents (1930), Freud argued that civilization required

A. Individuals to renounce their irrational instincts in order to live peaceably in groups

What did the theories of Alber Einstein assert?

A. Matter and energy are interchangeable, linking the apparently infinite universe with the subatomic world

In the early 20th century, the traditional arts and amusements of people in villages and small towns where overshadowed by

A. Modern mass media such as cinema and radio

What was the main argument of logical positivism in the 20th century?

A. Philosophy is the only logical clarification of thoughts

What did President Franklin Roosevelt national recovery administration attempt to do?

A. Plan and control the US economy

In his philosophical writings, Friedrich Nietzsche argued that

A. The Western world had over emphasized rationality and stifled the authentic passions that drive human activity and true creativity

What kind of world did Franz Kafka portray in fiction like The Trial (1925)?

B. A pessimistic world in which helpless individuals are crushed by inexplicably hostile forces

What did orthodox economists believe in the 1930s

B. Balanced budgets were the key to economic growth

What agreement did the United States developed to resolve the economic problems of Germany and international tensions in Europe in 1924?

B. Dawes plan

The 19th century danish theologian Søren Kierkegaard taught that

B. God's existence could not be proven, but believers must take a leap of faith and accept the existence of a majestic God

What was the British political party that emerged in the 1920s as the main opposition to the Conservative party?

B. Labour Party

What did Jean-Paul Sartre mean by the expression "existence precedes essence"?

B. Since there are no timeless or absolute truths, people must struggle to find their essence after they're born, completely on their own

Unemployment in the US average only 5% in the 1920s but in 1933 soared to about

C. 30%

In 20th century literature, the stream of consciousness technique uses

C. A linear line of language without punctuation or capitalization

Why was the great depression slow to affect France?

C. France was less industrialized then the other major continental powers in Europe and somewhat isolated from the world economy

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

C. Gustav Stresemann

In the 20th century, what was John Maynard Keynes known for?

C. He denounced the Treaty of Versailles for economic reasons

What did the popular front do after its 1936 victory in France

C. It encourage the union movement and launched a far reaching program social reforms that included a forty hour work week

Which political group dominated the parliamentary government of Germany in the mid to late 1920s

C. Moderate businessman

In the 20th century, Werner Heisenberg established the "uncertainty principle", which postulates that

C. Nature it's self is ultimately unknowable and unpredictable and lacks any absolute objective reality

The signatories of the 1928 Kellogg Briand pact, initiated by French prime minister Aristide Briand and US secretary of state Frank B. Kellogg agreed to

C. Renounce war as an instrument of international policy

The German communist party, noisy and active in the 1920s, reserved their greatest hatred and sharpest barbs for

C. Social Democrats

The great depression did not hit written as hard as the United States or Germany in part because

C. The British economy had moved away from international markets and toward the production of goods for the domestic market

How did France and Belgium react when Germany refused to make it second reparations payment

C. They occupied the Ruhr district

Gabriel Marcel found the answer to the postwar broken world in

D. Calvinist theology

What did Marcel Proust attempt to do in his novel remembrance of things past?

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

Who was the director of triumph of the will, a brilliant piece of cinematic propaganda based on the 1934 Nazi party rally at Nuremberg?

D. Leni Riefenstahl

In his writings on human psychology, Sigmund Freud asserted that

D. The id is the unconscious source of sexual and aggressive instincts

For artists such as the Dadaists and surrealist, what was the purpose of art?

D. To expose the bankruptcy of modern society and produce radical social change