Chapter 15 Study Guide

Question 1

What is a period of low economic activity and rising unemployment?

Answer 1

A depression

Question 2

What was an attempt to reduce German reparations and alleviate the strain on the German economy made through?

Answer 2

Dawes Plan

Question 3

What stripped the Jews of their German citizenship?

Answer 3

The Nuremberg Laws

Question 4

What was the policy of government intervention in the U.S. economy during
the Great Depression called?

Answer 4

The New Deal

Question 5

What is the political philosophy and system that favors a strong central government led by a dictator called?

Answer 5

Fascism

Question 6

In what kind of state does the government seek complete control over people’s lives?

Answer 6

Totalitarian

Question 7

What was the term the Nazis misused to describe their supposed master race?

Answer 7

“Aryan”

Question 8

What was a system in which privates farms are eliminated and peasants work land owned by the government called?

Answer 8

Collectivization

Question 9

What gave power to the German government to pass laws while disregarding the constitution?

Answer 9

The Enabling Act

Question 10

Lenin had a modified version of capitalism that permitted some private ownership
known as what?

Answer 10

New Economic Policy

Question 11

What happened when the United States refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles after World War I?

Answer 11

The United States ended up not being a member of the League of Nations.

Question 12

What was one of the rights reserved for workers in the French New Deal?

Answer 12

Collective Bargaining

Question 13

Germany used loans from the U.S. to pay reparations to Britain and France, _______________________________________

Answer 13

making them vital to the European economy after World War I.

Question 14

What did Economist John Maynard Keynes believe?

Answer 14

That one of the causes of the Great
Depression was unemployment due to declining demand, not overproduction.

Question 15

Uncertainty about the future was exhibited by what in the 1920s?

Answer 15

Art and Science

Question 16

Mussolini and the Italians Fascists used what to manipulate public opinion?

Answer 16

Propaganda

Question 17

Transforming the USSR from an agricultural economy into an industrial economy
was the main goal of what?

Answer 17

Stalin’s Five-Year Plan

Question 18

What was the main reason parliamentary
systems failed in most eastern European states?

Answer 18

States not having a tradition of democracy.

Question 19

The way for authoritarian leaders was paved by what during the Great Depression in Germany?

Answer 19

Inflation and Unemployment

Question 20

A major Nazi propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl was titled what?

Answer 20

Triumph of the Will

Question 21

Hitler’s autobiography that was written during his time in prison, was titled what?

Answer 21

Mein Kampf