G.S. 3-20

Question 1

(1) The ban on manufacturing and selling alcoholic beverages that lasted from 1919 until 1933 is called… (2) Which amendment created this?

Answer 1

(1) prohibition
(2) 18th amendment

Question 2

Illegal bars that people attended during prohibition

Answer 2

speakeasy

Question 3

An African American cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s

Answer 3

Harlem Renaissance

Question 4

What was the name of the Austrian physician who pioneered psychoanalysis, a method of studying how the mind works and treating mental disorders

Answer 4

Sigmund Freud

Question 5

A painful time of global economic collapse, starting in 1929 and lasting until about 1939

Answer 5

The Great Depression

Question 6

In 1922, who reached an agreement with Britain to become a self-governing free nation?

Answer 6

Ireland

Question 7

he reduction of armed forces and weapons is called

Answer 7

disarmament

Question 8

The central banking system of the United States, which regulates banks

Answer 8

Federal Reserve

Question 9

An international agreement signed by almost every nation in 1928, to stop using war as a method of national policy

Answer 9

KellogBrian pact

Question 10

Any centralized, authoritarian government system that is not communist whose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights

Answer 10

fascism

Question 11

Name of the fascist leader in Italy from 1922 – 1945

Answer 11

Benito Mussolini

Question 12

A planned march of thousands of fascist supporters to take control of Rome in 1922, which led to Mussolini being given the legal right to control Italy

Answer 12

March on Rome

Question 13

Members of the militant combat squads of Italian fascists set up under Mussolini

Answer 13

Black Shirts

Question 14

A government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens’ lives

Answer 14

totalitarian

Question 15

Under Stalin’s regime in Russia, it became a state policy that citizens maintain the belief that there is no god. This is called

Answer 15

atheism

Question 16

What was the name for the wealthy farmers who resisted collectivization in Russia?

Answer 16

kulaks

Question 17

In the Soviet Union, a system of forced labor camps in which millions of criminals and political prisoners were held under Stalin

Answer 17

gulags

Question 18

The type of economy in which government officials make all basic economic decisions

Answer 18

command economy

Question 19

A series of nationwide economic plans under Stalin that focused on building heavy industry and improving transportation

Answer 19

Five Years plan

Question 20

Hostility or prejudice against Jewish people

Answer 20

anti-semitism

Question 21

Laws approved by the Nazi party in 1935, depriving Jews of German citizenship as well as taking away other rights

Answer 21

Nuremberg Laws

Question 22

While in prison, Hitler wrote a book that would become a guide for future Nazi goals and ideologies. The book translates to mean “My struggle”

Answer 22

Mein Kampf

Question 23

The government in Germany from 1919 to 1933, which hoped to bring an end to Germany’s post war economic and political problems

Answer 23

Weimar Republic

Question 24

Secret police in Nazi Germany

Answer 24

Gestapo

Question 25

On November 9 and 10, 1938, Hitler staged a Nazi-led attack on Jewish communities all over Germany, Austria, and portions of Czechoslovakia called

Answer 25

Night of Broken Glass “Kristallnacht”