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The new government of the Weimar Republic faced an uprising of radical Marxists led by Rosa Luxemburg and... |
| | A) | Vladimir Lenin. |
| | B) | Wolfgang Kapp. |
| | C) | Karl Liebknecht. |
| | D) | Friedrick Engels. |
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When the Weimar Republic defaulted on its war reparations bill in January 1923, French and Belgian troops occupied... |
| | A) | Berlin. |
| | B) | the Ruhr Valley. |
| | C) | the Reichstag. |
| | D) | Vichy. |
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The Treaty of Locarno, signed in 1925 by Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, and Belgium... |
| | A) | lowered Germany's redemption payments. |
| | B) | made provisions for the withdrawal of occupying forces from Germany. |
| | C) | guaranteed Germany's frontiers with France and Belgium. |
| | D) | admitted Germany to the League of Nations. |
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Frederick W. Taylor, an efficiency engineer, concluded after conducting time and motion studies that... |
| | A) | the division of labor into thinking by managers and physical labor by workers was extremely important for productivity. |
| | B) | the division of labor would make work mindless and repetitive for laborers. |
| | C) | a conveyor belt could make most types of manufacturing more efficient. |
| | D) | a happy worker was a productive worker. |
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A new form of popular culture to emerge during this period was... |
| | A) | the television. |
| | B) | the radio. |
| | C) | the newspaper. |
| | D) | the novel. |
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In 1919, Austrian-Hungarian admiral Miklos Horthy overthrew Bela Kun's communist regime in... |
| | A) | Yugoslavia. |
| | B) | Hungary. |
| | C) | Poland. |
| | D) | Romania. |
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After Mussolini and his supporters marched on Rome in 1922... |
| | A) | Mussolini was appointed prime minister by King Victor Emmanuel III. |
| | B) | Mussolini was arrested and served two years in prison. |
| | C) | Mussolini became a radical journalist. |
| | D) | Mussolini organized a group known as the National Fascist party. |
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The New Economic Policy, or the NEP, implemented under Lenin's leadership in 1921 was intended to revive the Soviet economy by... |
| | A) | continuing the civil war policies of war communism. |
| | B) | nationalizing all industry, large and small. |
| | C) | creating large collective farms. |
| | D) | providing for a temporary compromise with capitalistic economic policies. |
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In the Soviet Union, the policy of collectivization of agriculture resulted in all of the following except... |
| | A) | growing support of the government by the wealthier peasants, or kulaks. |
| | B) | the collectivization of over 90 percent of the land within ten years. |
| | C) | an effort to eliminate kulaks as a class. |
| | D) | a severe famine in which millions of people died. |
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The crash of the New York stock market in October 1929... |
| | A) | produced an economic depression confined to the United States. |
| | B) | did not produce hardship among the population at large. |
| | C) | produced a global depression that affected the U.S., Europe, and Asia. |
| | D) | was caused by Germany's default on reparations payments. |
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In 1923 in what became known as the "Beer Hall Putsch," Hitler made a grab for power by attempting to... |
| | A) | take over the local government in Munich. |
| | B) | force Hindenburg to appoint him as chancellor. |
| | C) | take over the National Socialist German Workers' Party. |
| | D) | fix elections to the Reichstag. |
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During the "Night of the Long Knives" in 1934, Hitler ordered the SS troops to... |
| | A) | purge his paramilitary organization, the SA. |
| | B) | strike out against Jewish businesses and vandalize Jewish residences. |
| | C) | take over top positions in the government. |
| | D) | attack centers of modern art and literature. |
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Japan was determined to create "a new order in East Asia" and began in 1931 by... |
| | A) | joining Italy and Germany in a military pact. |
| | B) | invading Manchuria in northern China. |
| | C) | engaging in a full-scale war with China. |
| | D) | seizing funds lost during the stock market crash. |
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In the course of the Spanish Civil War, the following did not occur: |
| | A) | Germany and Italy supplied aid to the Falange Party. |
| | B) | Western volunteers fought for the Loyalist cause. |
| | C) | the Soviet Union provided aid for the Loyalists. |
| | D) | the western democracies aided the Spanish Loyalists. |
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At the Munich Conference in 1938, the leaders of Italy, France, and Britain met and agreed that Germany would get... |
| | A) | the Ruhr valley. |
| | B) | the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. |
| | C) | Western Poland. |
| | D) | Austria. |
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In 1939, Germany signed a non-aggression pact with... |
| | A) | Japan. |
| | B) | Italy. |
| | C) | the Soviet Union. |
| | D) | Austria. |
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By June 1940, as the Battle of France came to a conclusion... |
| | A) | French troops had managed to fend off a German blitzkrieg. |
| | B) | an authoritarian French regime was established in the city of Vichy. |
| | C) | the United States entered the war. |
| | D) | Mussolini's troops were defeating the British army in Africa. |
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With the launch of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, German troops... |
| | A) | prepared to enter the Balkans. |
| | B) | met up with Japanese forces. |
| | C) | bombed Britain. |
| | D) | invaded the Soviet Union. |
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In the areas of Europe controlled by the German army, Hitler implemented... |
| | A) | a program of collectivization. |
| | B) | his "New Order." |
| | C) | intense industrialization to supply German troops. |
| | D) | a five year plan. |
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The turning point in the war in the Pacific came when... |
| | A) | American forces were able to move toward Japan in an island-hopping campaign in late spring 1942. |
| | B) | the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. |
| | C) | when the Soviet Union joined the war against Japan in 1945. |
| | D) | when Germany surrendered. |
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In the period after 1924, many western economies perked up, in large part due to the innovations of the American engineer Frederick W. Taylor (1856-1915). How did Taylor help to revolutionize the economies of the Western states? |
| | A) | By inventing the "installment plan" |
| | B) | By inventing the department store |
| | C) | By inventing techniques of "scientific management" |
| | D) | By inventing the aviation industry |
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The exuberant 1920's have often been described by historians as the "Roaring Twenties" or the "Jazz Age". Which of the following statements about this era of Western history is NOT true? |
| | A) | Modernity was welcomed and embraced by all groups |
| | B) | New forms of media revolutionized popular entertainment |
| | C) | Attitudes towards female sexuality changed |
| | D) | The literature of the period displays prevailing feelings of insecurity |
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