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The Twentieth Century: A Brief Global History, 6/e

Richard Goff, Eastern Michigan University
Janice Terry, Eastern Michigan University
Walter Moss, Eastern Michigan University
Jiu Hwa Upshur, Eastern Michigan University

The Era of Revolution and War

Short Answer Questions


1		1. How did mass production and labor efficiency theories (Taylorism) change people's lives in the interwar years?



2		2. What was the global economic effect of the First World War?



3		3. Explain the primary causes of the Great Depression?



4		4. What prompted the French writer Romain Rolland to comment, in 1919, that the Versailles Settlement was a "Sad Peace! Laughable interlude between the massacres of peoples"?



5		5. How did the First Five-Year Plan and the collectivization of agriculture transform the lives of the people of the Soviet Union?



6		6. What were the primary sources of instability in interwar Europe?



7		7. Why were many Americans convinced that the 1920s marked the restoration of "normalcy"?



8		8. How did Mexico's revolution typify the problems of Latin American nations in the interwar era?



9		9. Why was it so difficult to establish centralized authority in China after the 1911 Revolution?



10		10. Explain the advantages enjoyed by the Indian Independence Movement over other anticolonial movements in Africa and Asia in the 1920s and 1930s.



11		11. In what ways did British promises destabilize the Middle East?



12		12. How did authoritarian governments garner so much support in the interwar years?



13		13. Why was aggression in the 1930s met largely with silence and ineffective gestures?



14		14. Why is the Second World War referred to as the first "total war"?

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