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1.Which of the following characteristics is common among the avant-garde?
a) The rupture of the idea that relates art and representation of beauty.b) The continued use of the grotesque.c) Support for academic art.d) The representation of speed.
a) The rupture of the idea that relates art and representation of beauty.
. Which of these events define World War I?
a) New weapons appeared and a total submarine war was established by Germany.b) War propaganda was especially important and nationalist, promoting hatred of the enemy.c) The war meant a change in the role of women.d) All are correct.
d) All are correct.
Causes of the WW1
- Colonial expansion
- Armed peace
- Formation of the blocs
- Inestability in the Balkans
How do you define the pre-revolutionary Russia?
It was an autocratic system based on the Tsars total authority. The economy was based on a semi-feudal agriculture but in large cities industrialization and the proletariat emerged.
Explain why the Crash of '29 became the Great Depression of the 1930s and affected all countries
Banks did offer loans, demand reduced, crisis expanded over all sectors of the economy. Unmeployment rose...
Because of the weight of the USA in the world´s economy the crisis quickly expanded.
2. What is the name of the pictorial style that reduces shapes to geometric elements and superimposes different perspectives on the same canvas?
a) Futurism.b) Cubism.c) Fauvism.d) Expressionism.
b) cubism
In which treaty did the winning powers of the First World War impose their conditions?
a) In the Peace of Brest-Litovsk.b) In the Treaty of Versailles.c) In the Paris Agreement.d) In the Luxembourg Pact
b) Versailles
Characteristics of the War
The use of new weapons
The implication of the civil population
The global scope of the war
The new role of women
What happened in 1905?
A peaceful demonstration in front of the Winter palace was severely repressed by the army. It was known as the bloody sunday. Strikes and protest s afterwards forced the Tsar to the creation of a Duma.
What was the name of the economic recovery program that President Roosevelt implemented in the United States to get out of the Great Depression? What did it consist of?
New deal
Bank system was reformed.
Farmers were protected.
Social aids and public works were implemented.
3. What was the Russian Revolution?
a) The process by which the tsarist regime began to own or control assets or activities that belonged to the private sector.b) The process of nationalization of industry, collectivization of lands, and the establishment of the state monopoly of commerce in the USSR.c) A series of strikes and demonstrations that ended with the creation of soviets.d) The set of events that caused the fall of the tsarist regime and the creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
d) The set of events that caused the fall of the tsarist regime and the creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
8. What was the main tactic on the Western Front during World War I?
a) Guerrilla warfare.b) Trench warfare.c) The war of attrition.d) The war of extermination.
b) Trench warfare.
Treatie of Versailles. what did it establish?
It was declared guilty of th war and had to pay large amounts of money
Lost Alsace and Lorraine
Their colonies were taken away
His army was severely reduced, and its militarization was forbidden.
What happened in February 1917?
People was discontent for the outcome of the war and the food shortages.
A large demostration in Saint Petesburg asking for "Peace, Bread and land" marched. The army supported the protesters and the tsar abdicated.
A provisional liberal government was formed. Russia became a Republic.
Totalitarian systems characteristics
Single party, charismatic leader, Rights limitation, Nationalism, territorial expansion, use of propaganda, physical coercion, economic intervention...
4. What influenced the start of World War II?
a) That Europe would lose its economic hegemony in favor of the United States.b) THE desire for revenge of the United Kingdom and France.c) The feeling of injustice that was born in Germany due to its harsh peace conditions.d) The rise of the middle classes to political and economic control.
c) The feeling of injustice that was born in Germany due to its harsh peace conditions.
What was the March on Rome?
a) A protest march of the Italian labor movement.b) A march of thousands of "black shirts" who threatened to take over the Government by force.c) A march of Italian priests towards the Vatican.d) A march of soldiers to protest the consequences of the war.
b) A march of thousands of "black shirts" who threatened to take over the Government by force.
Some consequences of the war
- 16 millions of dead
- 30 mill were injured
- Europe´s production declined. Europe was in debt
- The rise of the USA as a world leader
- social transformation
What happened in October 1917?
The Bolsheviks seized power because of the people´s discontent with the provisional government
After not getting the expected results in the elections, the Bolsheviks dissolved the assembly and created the first communist government led by Lenin.
5. With what element do we identify Russia before its revolution process?a) Great importance of industrialization in the country's economy.b) Semi-feudal system.c) Implementation of a democracyd) Hegemonic power.
b) Semi-feudal system.
10. What were the causes of the crisis of the 1930s?
a) Agricultural overproduction.b) Industrial overproduction.c) Stock market speculation and debt.d) All are correct.
d) All are correct.
what was the Schlieffen plan?
A Germn plan to quickly defeat France and avoid a two fronts war
What measures were taken by Lenin?
- Signed the peace treaty of Brest Litovks and withdrawl the war.
- Land expropriation and nationalisation
- Industries and transports were nationalised