Chapter 26 Quiz A with Explanations

. What caused the U.S. stock market to lose two-thirds of its value in 1929?

The collapse of the London stock market

The failure of many large manufacturing firms

The Federal Reserve Bank's tightening of credit

A significant drop in global commodity prices

. What caused a steep price decline globally of many commodities in the mid-1920s?

Record crop production

A significant drop in demand

The expansion of plantation agriculture

New European agricultural policies

. How did those still employed in the United States and Europe benefit from the Great Depression?

Opportunities of advancement were greater.

Government programs increased wages.

Health care became more readily available.

Prices for consumer goods were considerably lower.

. What ideology began to appeal to workers in many countries during the Great Depression?

Liberalism

Communism

Nationalism

Anarchism

. What type of state emerged during the 1930s that mobilized the masses, created centralized government, and relied on violence to maintain control?

Totalitarian

Socialist

Democratic

Imperial

. What was the purpose of the five-year plan introduced by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1929?

Further implementation of Lenin's New Economic Policy

Revival of the economy due to global depression

Rapid industrialization

Increased agricultural productivity

. What was the solution of the Japanese military and their supporters to the economic problems of the 1930s?

Imperial expansion

Massive military spending

Reintroduction of the shogunate

Increased industrialization

. How did the Japanese military react to the revival of China under Nationalist government in the 1930s?

They encouraged Western imperialist powers to isolate China both diplomatically and economically.

They developed alternative plans of expansion that focused on Southeast Asia and India.

They supported the Chinese communists with both financial material assistance to destabilize the Nationalist government.

They used propaganda to mobilize the masses and to encourage the continued militarization of society.

. How did the Nazi government improve German economic conditions after coming to power in 1933?

Through currency devaluation

Through government spending

Through protective tariffs

Through trade with the Soviet Union

. How did the U.S. government's policy toward the Great Depression change with the election of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932?

It doubled its efforts to protect internal American markets from competition.

It increased the taxation of colonies such as the Philippines to help pay off debt.

It worked to directly aid those who were unemployed through public works projects.

It passed legislation to eliminate all business regulation to stimulate the economy.

. What led to the collapse of the Popular Front in France during the 1930s?

Opposition from the upper classes

The growth of a Communist party

Corruption within Léon Blum's party

The failure to address economic problems

. In an effort to expand its colonial holdings, Italy invaded which country in 1935?

Albania

Ethiopia

Libya

Czechoslovakia

. Germany rapidly conquered Poland in September of 1939 using a new military strategy called

Kristallnacht.

kamikaze.

strategic bombing.

Blitzkrieg.

. Why were more civilians killed than soldiers during World War II?

Civilians died due to the spread of contagious diseases.

Governments diverted all public assistance from civilians to the war effort.

Civilians were attacked to damage national morale and to reduce a nation's ability to make war.

Civilians were often forced by armies to work on the front lines as laborers.

. In Allied countries during World War II, who made important contributions both in the civilian workforce and in the military?

Women

World War I veterans

New immigrants

Young adults

. Which Indian nationalist recruited an army to support the Japanese during World War II?

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Subhas Bose

Jawaharlal Nehru

Mohandas Gandhi

. What major battle during World War II marked a turning point in the European conflict?

Moscow

Sicily

Britain

Stalingrad

. Rather than invade Japan, the United States relied on the use on which weapon to end the war against Japan in 1945?

Strategic bombing

Propaganda

The atomic bomb

Blitzkrieg

. What action by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II contributed to the start of the Cold War?

The conquest of Japan

The occupation of eastern Europe and Germany

The collapse of the United Nations

The occupation of the Balkans

. In which way would movements led by Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom contribute to civil rights activism in the post-war United States?

They encouraged the activists to adopt methods of civil disobedience and nonviolence.

They helped the emerging movement to turn to violence and intimidation to secure change.

They invigorated the activists to expand their involvement in politics to create change.

They strengthened the movement by encouraging a mix of both violent and passive tactics.

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