Forging the Modern World FINAL UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT ANSWERS
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Forging The Modern World
Forging the Modern World FINAL
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT ANSWERS
Why do historians believe victory won in the trenches were thrown away at the table of the
Peace Treaty of Versailles? - CORRECT ANSWER- -
-Take away land from Germany so they can't hurt surrounding countries
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Forging the Modern World FINAL
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT ANSWERS
Why do historians believe victory won in the trenches were thrown away at the table of the
Peace Treaty of Versailles? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-
-Take away land from Germany so they can't hurt surrounding countries
Great Depression - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The economic crisis beginning with the stock
market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s
Herbert Hoover - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔31st President of the United States, Republican
candidate who assumed the presidency in March 1929 promising the American people
prosperity and attempted to first deal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in
the community.
New Deal - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt
administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression.
NRA (National Recovery Act) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Regulated business by
establishing fair codes of competition; established the NIRA, which was declared
unconstitutional in Schechter v US
The Decline of the West - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Written by Oswald Spengler in 1918;
proposes that every culture experiences a life cycle of growth and decline, and that Western
civilization would quickly be overtaken by the "yellow race"
Surrealism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔An artistic movement that displayed vivid dream
worlds and fantastic unreal images
Fascism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A political system headed by a dictator that calls for
extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition
, Frei Korps - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Fanatic German nationalists fighting communists in
street battles in the 1920s, most later joined the Nazi party
Mussolini - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Founded fascism and ruled Italy for almost 21 years,
most of that time as dictator. He dreamed of building Italy into a great empire, but he led his
nation to defeat in World War II (1939-1945) and was executed by his own people.
Black Shirts - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A private army under Mussolini who destroyed
socialist newspapers, union halls, and Socialist party headquarters, eventually pushing
Socialists out of the city governments of Northern Italy.
II Duce - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Benito Mussolini's nickname when he came into power
and it means the 'duke' or the 'leader'
Bavarian Putsch 1923 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-
Mein Kampf (My Struggle) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Work written by Hitler while in
prison in 1923; the book outlines his policies for German expansion, war, and elimination of
non-Aryans
Aryans - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Nomads from Europe and Asia who migrated to India
and finally settled; vedas from this time suggest beginning of caste system
Germanic people seen as the "master race"
Volksgemeinschaft - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔"People's Community"; Nazi attempt to
control all aspects of lives with secret police, massive rallies and parades and heavy
censorship; wanted to spread ideologies so began Hitler Youth Programs to encourage kids to
turn in disloyal adults; also gave loans to people for reproduction of the Aryan race
Dr. Goebbels - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Hitler's propaganda (or "enlightenment") minister.
His job was to make the Nazis look good and to censor nearly everything.
Propaganda master
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