Student Survive 2 Thrive: Week 31 World History: Years of Crisis 1919-1939

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This world history resource focuses on years of crisis,
including The Great Depression, in the years 1919 to 1939
and includes quiz questions and answers
and video links to related topics.

I utilized World History: Patterns of Interaction (Holt McDougal) for our world history textbook. It has multiple options for different learning styles and covers a wide array of information.

This quiz accompanies Chapter 31: pages 894-921.

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World History Week 31 Years of Crisis: 1919-1939

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In the early 1900s, ___ theorized that space & time are relative
& hypothesized new ideas regarding time, space, energy, & matter.
Answer choices include: Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton,
George Washington Carver, Charles Darwin

The correct answer is Albert Einstein.

A popular theory by the 1920s, ___ developed theories about unconscious,
pleasure-seeking urges that lead people to irrational behavior
& inspired surrealism artists like Salvador Dali.
Answer choices include: Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie,
Sigmund Freud, Alexander Fleming

The correct answer is Sigmund Freud.

Jean Paul Sartre lead a movement called ___, the idea that
there is no universal meaning to life, leaving people to create their
own life meaning through choices/actions.
Answer choices include:
fatalism, optimism, pessimism, existentialism

The correct answer is existentialism.

Pablo Picasso & Georges Braque founded an art form called ___
in which artists transform natural shapes into
geometric forms with sharp angles & edges. Answer choices include:
Pop art, Cubism, photorealism, surrealism

The correct answer is Cubism.

What musical style led by African Americans emerged in the U.S.,
beginning in New Orleans, Memphis, & Chicago, after World War I?
Answer choices include: baroque, patriotic, hip hop, jazz

The correct answer is jazz.

Which of the following was FALSE about an increasing number of women of the 1920s? Answer choices include:
Some women wore shorter, looser garments & cut their hair shorter.
The number of women in medicine, education, & journalism decreased.
Women’s suffrage became law in Austria, Britain, Germany, Sweden, & the U.S.
Labor-saving devices to help with housework did not tend
to result in women having extra leisure time.

The correct answer is:
The number of women in medicine, education, & journalism decreased.

Automobile prices increased drastically after World War I.
Answer choices include: true, false

The correct answer is false.

Which of the following is FALSE regarding entertainment in the 1920s?
Answer choices include:
Radio broadcasting brought news, plays, & sporting events into people’s homes.
Ninety percent of all films were made in Europe & were a serious art form.
Charlie Chaplin was a comic who portrayed a lonely tramp.
Before the late 1920s, movies were silent and had no sound.

The correct answer is:
Ninety percent of all films were made in Europe & were a serious art form.

After World War I, Germany’s currency, called the mark,
was worth far less than it was worth before the war.
Answer choices include: true, false

The correct answer is true.

During the Great Depression and specifically in 1933, what percent
of all American workers were unemployed?
Answer choices include: 5%, 10%, 25%, 50%

The correct answer is 25%.

Franklin D. Roosevelt began a governmental program called the ___
to help the country recover from the Great Depression.
Answer choices include: Raw Deal, Real Deal, Sealed Deal, New Deal

The correct answer is New Deal.

Which of the following is TRUE regarding fascism?
Answer choices include:
They believed that only peaceful nations would achieve success & sought to limit the military. They believed that individual rights were much more important than nationalism.
They sought a classless society in which all people were considered equal.
They wore uniforms of a certain color, used special salutes, and held mass rallies.

The correct answer is:
They wore uniforms of a certain color, used special salutes, and held mass rallies.

Which primary group of people became the scapegoat
(those who were blamed for all of Germany’s troubles) for Nazi ideology?
Answer choices include: Jews, Schutzstaffels, Aryans, Atheists

The correct answer is Jews.

___ was the only democracy that remained in eastern Europe by 1935.
Answer choices include: Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Romania

The correct answer is Czechoslovakia.

In the 1930s, all major democracies were
members of the League of Nations EXCEPT ___. Answer choices include:
Great Britain, Japan, United States, Italy

The correct answer is United States.

Italy invaded ___ in 1935 in order to avenge a
previous defeat in that country.
Answer choices include:
Spain, Ethiopia, Equador, Sudan

The correct answer is Ethiopia.

Which of the following countries was NOT
part of the Axis Powers in 1936?
Answer choices include:
China, Japan, Italy, Germany

The correct answer is China.

___ is the belief that political ties to other countries should be avoided,
maintaining neutrality, particularly in times when other countries are at war.
Answer choices include: Marxism, Nationalism, Realism, Isolationism

The correct answer is isolationism.

Britain & France stepped in to help countries that were being oppressed
by Hitler and Mussolini numerous times in the early 1900s.
Answer choices are: true, false