Chapter 15

Question 1

Who was the psychologist who challenged the idea that we understand our own motivations?

Answer 1

Sigmund Freud

Question 2

What is the core belief of existentialism?

Answer 2

You determine your purpose in life; There is no universal meaning to life

Question 3

Which philosopher argued for the power of emotion and instinct over human reason?

Answer 3

Friedrich Nietzsche

Question 4

What novel introduced “stream-of-consciousness” as a style of writing?

Answer 4

“Ulysses”

Question 5

Which of the following was NOT an art movement of the early 1900’s?

Answer 5

WAS: Cubism, Existentialism, Dadaism, Surrealism, ((Functionalism - an architect style; not art movement))

Question 6

What new musical style evolved in America in the 1920’s?

Answer 6

jazz

Question 7

What two forms of transportation made a great impact in the 1920’s?

Answer 7

automobiles and airplanes

Question 8

What two forms of entertainment made a great impact in the 1920’s?

Answer 8

radio and movies

Question 9

What was the name of the new German government?

Answer 9

Weimar Republic

Question 10

Who was the physicist who challenged Newton’s view of the universe?

Answer 10

Albert Einstein

Question 11

Which of the following was not a primary causes of the Great Depression in America?

Answer 11

WAS:
uneven distribution of wealth,
overproduction by business and agriculture,
decline in demand for consumer goods

Question 12

What event set off the Great Depression in 1929?

Answer 12

Stock Market Crash in Wall Street, New York

Question 13

Which American president is associated with the recovery from the Great Depression?

Answer 13

President Franklin Roosevelt

Question 14

What was the name he gave to his economic program?

Answer 14

The New Deal

Question 15

Fascism was a term coined in what country?

Answer 15

Italy

Question 16

Who was the first Fascist leader?

Answer 16

Benito Mussolini

Question 17

What was his “nickname”? (first fascist leader)

Answer 17

Il Duce

Question 18

What was the name for Germany’s form of Fascism?

Answer 18

Nazism

Question 19

Who was the leader of Germany’s fascists?

Answer 19

Adolf Hitler

Question 20

What was his “nickname”? (Germany’s fascist leader)

Answer 20

Der Fuhrer

Question 21

What was the name of the book he wrote in prison?

Answer 21

Mein Kampf

Question 22

What is the translation for the German word lebensraum?

Answer 22

living space

Question 23

What 1938 event destroyed Jewish synagogues, stores and homes?

Answer 23

Kristallnacht, Night of Broken Glass

Question 24

What was the Japanese emperor’s name?

Answer 24

Emperor Hirohito

Question 25

What iron- and coal-rich area of Asia did Japan covet?

Answer 25

Manchuria (Northeast part of China),

Question 26

What city was savagely attacked by Japan in 1937?

Answer 26

(The Rape of) Nanjing

Question 27

Italy invaded what African country in the 1930s?

Answer 27

Ethiopia

Question 28

What policy did the British use to try to keep Hitler in check?

Answer 28

appeasement

Question 29

The (illegal) German air force supported which European fascist in the late 1930s?

Answer 29

Francisco Franco

Question 30

What was the term for the American foreign policy of the time?

Answer 30

isolationism

Question 31

What was the German name for their vision of an empire?

Answer 31

The Third Reich

Question 32

Germany was able to pursue its aims because which country agreed not to attack for 10 years?

Answer 32

Russia (agreed to split poland)

Question 33

What was Germany’s primary economic problem in the 1920’s?

Answer 33

inflation; reparations