Western civ test 4

Which best describes the policy of détente that Social Democrats in Europe pursued?

A progressive relaxation of Cold War tensions

In 1954, Vietnam obtained independence from

France

Which statement accurately describes the "Europe first" policy adopted by the Allied powers during World War II?

Germany would be defeated before the Allies mounted an all-out assault on Japan.

Why did Stalin call for the mass murder of the kulaks?

He believed that as landowners they would eventually embrace capitalism and become a threat to socialist progress.

Which statement describes the purpose of the Enabling Act in 1933?

It gave Hitler dictatorial powers for four years.

Which statement describes the assertions of the theories of Albert Einstein?

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

Why did OPEC declare an oil embargo on the United States in 1973?

The United States had aided Israel in its war with Egypt and Syria in 1973.

Where did Nazi administrators initially gain experience in mass murder?

The murder of Germans with physical and mental disabilities prior to the war

How did the Nazi Party seek to promote the idea of the Volksgemeinschaft?

They created mass organizations such as the Hitler Youth and held mass rallies to spread Nazi ideology and enlist volunteers.

How did the Nazis seek to legitimize their racial policies?

They established research institutes and academies that measured and defined racial differences to disguise prejudice as science.

Which statement describes the duties of the German Einsatzgruppen (Special Task Forces)?

They followed the German army into central Europe, systematically murdering "undesirables" as they moved from town to town.

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

They occupied the Ruhr district.

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

They were not well unified due to their differing political goals.

As practiced in the 1930s, appeasement was

a British policy that aimed to give Hitler whatever he wanted in order to prevent war.

The "cult of the Duce" (leader) promoted the image of Mussolini as

a powerful strongman.

The American stock market crash of October 1929 was primarily the result of

an imbalance between real investment and speculation.

In the twentieth century, John Maynard Keynes was known for

criticizing the Treaty of Versailles for economic reasons.

For artists such as the Dadaists and Surrealists, the purpose of art was to

expose the meaningless of modern life and society.

Advancements in military weaponry and the space race

fostered a revolution in computer technology.

The Brezhnev Doctrine stated that the Soviet Union and its allies

had the right to intervene in any East Bloc country if necessary to preserve Communist rule.

The German government's printing of money to pay unemployment benefits to workers striking in the Ruhr against the Franco-Belgian occupation of 1923 led to

hyperinflation.

Poland differed from the other East Bloc states in the 1970s and 1980s because

of its independent agriculture and vigorous church.

Immediately after the Second World War and until Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union

reinstated a harsh dictatorship.

The signatories of the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, initiated by French prime minister Aristide Briand and U.S. secretary of state Frank B. Kellogg, agreed to

renounce war as an instrument of international policy.

The Helsinki Accords of 1975 called for

respect for human rights and the recognition of existing political boundaries.

In art, music, architecture, and literature, modernists

shattered long-held assumptions about form and function.

Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization campaign called for

the Communist Party to retain its monopoly on political power.

In his philosophical writings, Friedrich Nietzsche argued that

the Western world's emphasis on rationality had repressed the true passions that drive human activity and creativity.

Breaking the Berlin blockade in 1948-1949 resulted in

the creation of West Germany and East Germany.

In his writings on human psychology, Sigmund Freud asserted that

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