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Chapter 15 Review Questions
á Answer each of the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. Make sure to answer the questions in complete sentences. You will be graded based upon the thoroughness of your answers.
Section 1: An Age of Uncertainty
1. Explain why the ideas of Einstein and Freud were so revolutionary.
2. Explain the ideas of Nietzsche and Sartre and how they influenced literature.
3. Explain the different artistic movements of the 1920s including Cubism, Dada Movement and Surrealism.
4. Explain how technology and culture influenced life in the 1920s
Section 2: A Global Depression
1. Explain the new governments that were formed in Europe after WWI.
2. Analyze the weaknesses of the Weimar Republic.
3. Explain how each of the following attempted to stabilize Europe:
a. Dawes Plan
b. Lorcano Treaty
c. Kellogg-Briand Pact
4. Explain the main causes of the US stock market crash in 1929.
5. Why did the US stock market crash cause a global depression?
6. What did Europe do to try to recover from the Great Depression?
7. What did the US do to try to recover from the Great Depression?
Section 3: Fascism Rises in Europe
· Write a one page paragraph on why this statement proved true in Germany and Italy. Be sure to use specifics from the section.
“History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people get a government strong enough to protect them from fear and starvation, their democracy succeeds; but if they do not they grow impatient. Therefore, the only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government.” ~Franklin Roosevelt, 1938
EXTRA CREDIT: Could this statement apply to any nations today? How?
Section 4: Aggressors on the March
1. Why did the Japanese invade Manchuria?
2. Why did Britain and France take no action against Italian aggression?
3. What laws did isolationists want passed? Why?
4. What were some effects of appeasing Hitler after his invasion of the Rhineland?
5. What were the immediate results of the invasion?
6. Why was the Munich Conference unsuccessful?
7. How did other countries help Franco’s Nationalist forces bring about the collapse of Republican resistance?
8. Why did Stalin sign an agreement with Germany?