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Chapter 27

Chapter Review

Chapter Review


This activity contains 36 questions.

	Who advocated government spending to end economic depression?   Adam Smith John Maynard Keynes Karl Marx David Ricardo

	payments and international war-debt settlement complicated Europe's post-war economies.

	Britain's National Government's steps to end the depression cut unemployment almost by half.    True  False

	Hitler's chief vehicle of police surveillance was the ______.   SS SA Cheka SO

	Much of the western world naively admired Soviet economic growth without considering its cost in human lives.    True  False

	The Conference in the summer of 1932 ended the era of reparations.

	How did Britain's National Government respond to the depression?   cut taxes lowered tariffs abandoned the gold standard all of these answers

	Gosplan   was the Soviet State Planning Comission. was a political organization. was the Soviet secret police. was Stalin's economic policy.

	The Communist Party was sometimes known as the .

	By the 1930s, significant support for the Nazi party within Germany came from all of the following EXCEPT   intellectuals. war veterans. farmers. the young.

	The Plan recognized the administration and transfer of reparations which, in turn, smoothed the debt repayments to the United States.

	The "Great Purges"   targeted "Old Bolsheviks." punished dissent within the Communist Party. led to spectacular show trials. all of these answers

	Hitler became chancellor through coup d'etat.    True  False

	The Laws robbed German Jews of their citizenship.

	Which of the following characterizes Mussolini's economic policies in the 1930s?   state annexed the means of production outright agricultural collectivization and rapid industrialization a planned economy organized into syndicates land nationalized to raise agricultural output

	Between the years 1928 and 1940 Soviet industry appears to have grown by 400 percent.    True  False

	The Act allowed Hitler to rule by decree.

	Nazi Economic Policy included   allowing laborers to change jobs. bargaining with unions. public works spending. all of these answers

	By 1937, over 90 percent of Soviet had been collectivized.

	Germans believed they were part of a master race called "."

	Stalin reversed the Comintern policy and allowed foreign Communist parties to cooperate with non-communists in order to   present a liberal image to the world. gain access to foreign technology. resist Nazism and Fascism. subvert and overthrow noncommunist governments.

	Nazi ideology advocated conservative, traditional roles for German women.    True  False

	Between 1939 and 1980 the proportion of the Soviet population living on the land fell from two-thirds to one-third.    True  False

	Italian fascists sought to steer an economic course between and a liberal laissez-faire system.

	The was the coalition of French left-wing parties.

	The ranks of the SA were swelled by unemployed German men.    True  False

	Which of the following measures was not taken by Blum's government?   creating the National Wheat Board to manage the production and sale of grain ensuring collective bargaining between employers and unions establishing the forty hour work week all of these answers

	Stalin's economic policy was driven towards rapid .

	Outline the causes of the Depression of the 1930s. Why was it so much more severe and longer-lasting than previous depressions? Could it have been avoided?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	What was the problem with agricultural commodity prices in Europe in the 1920s? What was the effect on European farmers? Did this problem have an impact on people in other parts of the world? Explain.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	Compare and contrast Great Britain and France's political responses to the Great Depression. What is most significant in explaining the differences of: The personal qualities of different leaders? The different policies leaders pursued? The two nations' different cultures and histories? Or other factors?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	Discuss Hitler's economic policies. Why were they successful? Compare and contrast his economic policies with those used in Britain, Italy and France. Why were some nations more successful than others in responding to the Depression?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	Hitler's rise to power is often cited as an example of the significance of the individual in history, the role that personality can play in shaping events. (This is the so-called "Great Man" interpretation of history.) Do you think this interpretation is valid, or were circumstances and events beyond the control of any single individual more important in the rise of Nazism in Germany?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	In Nazi ideology, what was the role of women? Compare and contrast this with the roles assigned to women under Italian fascism and Soviet Bolshevism. (Refer to Chapter 27 for comparison/contrast information.)   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	Why did Stalin decide on the policy of rapid industrialization? Why did this require the collectivization of agriculture? What obstacles stood in the way of collectivization, and how did Stalin overcome them?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	What are the characteristics of a "police state?" How necessary is terror and intimidation in the consolidation of an authoritarian regime? How did Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin use terror to achieve their goals?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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