Week 7

Question 1

What becomes a major tool of political compaigning during the Great Depression?

Answer 1

radio

Question 2

Artists of the pos-WWI period pushed conversations to new limits. Some, such as the _______, went so far as to reject the very idea of aesthetics.

Answer 2

dadaists

Question 3

The Stalin revolution of the 1920’s and 1930’s extended even into the families of ordinary Russians with Stalin’s policy of:

Answer 3

making divorce difficult and abortions illegal except to save the mother’s life

Question 4

The term “fascia” means group or band and derives from the symbol of an ax bundled with sticks that represented the authority of the Roman state. True or False?

Answer 4

True

Question 5

During the unstable period following the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II, many armed bands grew in number and influence. Among them were Freikorps, who were:

Answer 5

• Anti-Marxist
• Anti-Semitic
• Antiliberal

Question 6

The Nazis were especially popular among Germany’s young ppl bc of their liberal social and cultural policies. True or False?

Answer 6

False

Question 7

The event in 1933 that led to Hitler being given unlimited power was the:

Answer 7

Reichstag Fire

Question 8

The Nuremberg Decrees of 1935:

Answer 8

deprived Jews of citizenship in the Reich

Question 9

In the Russian Civil War, who were the “Whites”?

Answer 9

royalists opposed to the new communist regime

Question 10

Stalin had originally been destined for a career in the priesthood before taking up revolutionary politics. True or False?

Answer 10

True