Chapter 26 Quiz B with Explanations

. The Great Depression, which started in 1929, was caused by a significant decline in global lending by

League of Nations Bank.

the United States.

Great Britain.

Germany.

. How did imperial powers react to declining state revenues during the Great Depression?

They increased taxation in their colonies.

They gave colonies independence to reduce costs.

They encouraged the unemployed to migrate to colonies.

They ceased investing in economic development in their colonies.

. How did the Great Depression often impact the family?

It led to closer family ties in the face of economic adversity.

It led to greater patriarchal authority due to worsening economic conditions.

It led to reduced family size in the face of declining resources and uncertainty.

It led to families moving from urban areas to the countryside to work in agriculture.

. Who led opposition to the French occupation of Indochina during the 1930s?

Jiang Jieshi

Ho Chi Minh

Mohandas Gandhi

Diego Rivera

. In what way did governments and politicians during the 1930s often mobilize the masses to build national unity?

They turned to massive propaganda campaigns using the newly invented radio.

They engaged in small local wars or campaigns of colonial expansion.

They encouraged the development of national religious movements.

They appealed to racist sentiment to unify citizens against both internal and external enemies.

. What resulted from the collectivization of farms in the Soviet Union during the 1930s?

Mass starvation

A peasant revolution

Mass migration to cities

Increased grain exports

. How did Chinese nationalist reformers seek to improve the position of women during the 1930s?

By giving women the right to vote and hold political office

By applying social reforms learned from the Japanese

By attacking certain Chinese traditions and encouraging education

By reinvigorating traditional Confucian values and practices

. Why did German leaders from the military, state bureaucracy, and industry support the rise of Hitler to power in 1933?

They supported his anti-Semitic ideals.

They feared a Communist takeover in Germany.

They thought that he would strongly support the German constitution.

They felt that he could be easily manipulated to do their will.

. In 1935 the Nazi government passed the Nuremberg Laws, which took away the citizenship rights of

Communists

Aryans

homosexuals

Jews

. Which country responded to the Great Depression with programs in the 1930s that led to the creation of the modern welfare state?

Sweden

France

The United States

Germany

. What was the theme of Virginia Woolf's novel Three Guineas, published in 1938?

The continuing impact of patriarchy on the world's peoples

Modern industrial society

The growing threats to humanity during the 1930s

Praise for those who worked to end suffering during the Depression

. How did Britain and France respond to Hitler's demands for the Sudentenland region of Czechoslovakia in the fall of 1938?

They mobilized their armies and prepared for war.

They made concessions in order to preserve European peace.

They sought sanctions through the League of Nations.

They asked the United States to act as a mediator between the parties.

. What caused Hitler to abandon the planned invasion of Britain in the fall of 1940?

The destruction of the German navy

The invasion of Russia

The entrance of the United States into the war

The failure of the Battle of Britain

. During World War II, the plan for the systematic elimination of European Jewry by the Nazis was called the

Nuremberg Laws.

Final solution.

T4 project.

Lebensraum plan.

. What was the policy of the U.S. government toward Americans of Japanese descent during World War II?

Japanese-Americans lost their civil rights and were placed into internment camps during the war.

Japanese-Americans along with German- and Italian-Americans were imprisoned for the duration of the war.

Japanese-Americans were quickly drafted into the American armed forces because of their language abilities.

Japanese-Americans were sent back to Japan via neutral countries during the war.

. Those that fought against Nazi occupation in Europe during World War II were called

collaborators.

nationalists.

partisans.

anti-fascists.

. Why were the battles of Midway Island and Guadalcanal so crucial in the U.S. defeat of Japan during World War II?

U.S. victories gave the Allies critical boosts in morale to secure victory over the Japanese.

The Japanese lost critical supply routes.

American victories led to a democratic revolution against Japanese militarism that ended the war.

The Japanese were not able to replace the losses, both in ships and manpower, from these battles.

. Which institution made up of fifty countries emerged in 1945 to replace the League of Nations?

The United Nations

The Allies

The Comintern

The Axis

. In which country did women use nonviolent tactics to oppose increased taxes by the British starting in the 1930s?

Kenya

Nigeria

India

South Africa

. Which leader used a strategy called Satyagraha--truth and firmness--to protest the continued British presence in India during the 1930s?

Subhas Bose

Ho Chi Minh

Mohandas Gandhi

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

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