Era of Disillusionment
Who developed theories to explain to explain human behavior?
Sigmund Freud
Which U.S. president received most of the blame for the Depression?
Herbert Hoover
What term was used for the organized government massacres of Jews in Russia?
pogroms
Who allowed the establishment of Duma, but later tried to restrict its powers?
Nicholas II
Who was the leader of the Red Army?
Leon Trotsky
What is expressionism?
the artist tried to paint how he felt about his subject rather than trying to realistically reproduce what he saw
what is the difference between existentialism and expressionism?
What served as France's main defense against the threat of a future German invasion?
the Maginot Line
What did the Russo-Japanese war bring to the table?
brought popular discontent to the surface
Which monk became an adviser to the Russian royal family?
Rasputin
What does USSR stand for?
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Which artist best represented cubism?
Pablo Picasso
Franklin D. Roosevelt's program of relief, recovery, and reform was known as what?
The New Deal
Bolsheviks
What occurred on Bloody Sunday?
Russian troops killed protesters who were attempting to march on Nicholas' winter palace
What system did Stalin institute to accomplish his goal of eradicating those disloyal to his regime?
purges
Which composer best represented The Rite of Spring?
Igor Stravinsky
What did the Statute of Westminster establish?
A British Commonwealth of Nations
Who supported Russian pogroms?
Alexander III
Who was the Menshevik leader of the provisional government?
Aleksandr Kerensky
What did the people's freedom look like after Stalin had stepped up after Lenin?
What little freedom they had under Lenin disappeared rapidly under Stalin
Who wrote "The Waste Land?"
T.S. Eliot
Did Northern Ireland remain under British control even after the Irish Free State was created in 1921?
Yes
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List four general characteristics shared by totalitarian states.
§The use of propaganda to promote the ideas and programs of the state.
§The use of an efficient secret police to arrest and assassinate those who opposed the state and its policies.
§Emphasis on the goals of the state rather than on individual rights or concerns.
§State control of every aspect of life—political, economic, cultural, educational, and religious.
§A government maintained by force and not accountable to the people for its actions.
§A one-party political system led by a powerful dictator.
Why did the German government help Bolsheviks return to Russia?
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they hoped the Bolsheviks would disrupt Russia's war effort
What was the New Economic Policy?
temporary retreat from communism to rescue the Russian economy