Chapter 26 Quiz C with References

. The event that kicked off the Great Depression worldwide was _____.

A worldwide drought.

The end of WWI.

The beginning of WWII.

The US stock market crash.

. The Great Depression became a global collapse because _____.

US banks lent money around the world.

The US was in debt to many other countries.

Everyone did business in the US because of the strength of the dollar.

All of the above.

. Women became breadwinners during the Great Depression because they were better able to find jobs _____.

In factories.

In domestic work.

In childcare.

In professions like nurse and teacher.

. Desperation led to strikes and labor unrest world wide and governments responded with _____.

Conciliation for union organizers.

Armed force.

Subsidized food.

Jobs programs.

. Stalin mobilized Russian workers behind central economic planning using the specter of _____.

Government control of labor.

Foreign invasion.

Foreign economic competition.

Fears of capitalism.

. The military took power in Japan by offering a solution to the Great Depression:

Government takeover of the economy.

Massive public works programs.

Conquest of nearby regions to provide more resources.

A return to a feudal state run by the samurai.

. Hitler and the Nazi Party relied on a free press to promote their vision for Germany and ensure their political success.

True.

False.

. Democracies rallied in support of individual rights and well being, though limited to ____.

Whites.

Men.

The wealthy.

The middle class.

. The Depression intensified competition among nations for access to land, markets, and resources.

True.

False.

. Authoritarian regimes in Germany, Italy, and Japan all based their aggression on _____.

National militaristic traditions.

Ethnic superiority.

Their victory in WWI.

Their avoidance of the Great Depression.

. World War II began in Asia.

True.

False.

. The 'home front' was just as important as any battle front because ____.

War was now being fought live on television.

Keeping civilian morale up was key to victory.

Victory depended on industrial production.

Civilians paid the cost of the war with loans and bonds.

. The Allies brought about victory by remaining united throughout the war.

True.

False.

. During WWII the Allies bombed _____.

Industrial targets.

Military targets.

Civilian targets.

All of the above.

. US leaders thought that they could defeat Japan easily in 1945 but decided to drop the atomic bomb on them anyway.

True.

False.

. Stalin felt that the USSR needs a buffer zone of loyal European states _____.

Because his aim was Soviet world domination.

As a safeguard against a revived Germany.

In order to anger his former Allies.

To prevent Japanese expansion.

. In the 20th century, nations saw military capacity as the measure of national greatness.

True.

False.

. Nigerian women used traditional, nonviolent tactics to protest unfair taxes, including _____.

Painting their bodies.

Singing and dancing.

Protesting naked.

All of the above.

. One of the major religious influences on Indian nonviolence was _____.

Jainism.

Christianity.

Buddhism.

Islam.

. Gandhi saw nonviolent protest as passive.

True.

False.

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