Post War Uncertainty
True or False. After WWI people turned away from religion to focus on modernist views
True
What event is often considered the start of the Great Depression?
The Stock Market Crash in 1929
True or False. Mussolini was more successful at furthering his fascist causes than Hitler was
False
What policy did the USA use in order to keep peace?
Isolationism
Who was the Italian Fascist Dictator?
Benito Mussolini
What was true about the automobile after World War I?
Automobiles benefitted from war time innovations
what happened when the banks stopped making profit on their loans?
The banks closed
True or False. Many people in Germany supported Hitler early on because he improved the economy.
True
Why did Hitler continue to invade neighboring nations?
The League of Nations did not have the capacity to stop him so his actions went unchecked
What action did Mussolini take after becoming dictator of Italy?
He enforced his rule through terror and violence
Why did new art forms such as cubism and expressionism emerge in culture after WWI?
Art began to evolve as a symbolic response to political and economic changes that were happening globally
Which American President pulled America out of the Great Depression
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
Despite losing the presidential election, Hitler was given the title of__________
Chancellor (X2)
What Policy did France and Britain use to keep peace in Europe?
Appeasement
What popular music emerged in America in the 1920s?
Jazz (X2)
How did new technologies affect society after World War I?
Technology became an important tool in advertising and increased consumer spending
What was the first domino that signaled an economic crisis was looming?
Farmers crops lost their value and were unable to pay their loans to the banks
Hitler believed that _______ were the superior race and that _____ were inferior
Aryans, Jews
What piece of land di Germany want from the Czechs?
The Sudetenland
Why was the Kellogg-Briand Pact ineffective
it lacked any military to support it
What was the basic theory of Sigmund Freud?
That humans inherently seek pleasure and follow unconscious desires
What did John Maynard Keynes suggest governments do to fix their economies?
They should intervene in the economy and help the unemployed
How did Hitler use the press/Media?
As a propaganda Tool
What was the annexation of Austria called?
Anschluss
How did women in society change after WWI
Voting, drove cars, smoked/drank, sought new careers