Name:______________________________________ Block:_________ Date:_____________

The Interwar Years, 1919-1939

Matching (2 points each):
Instructions: Match one term, labeled with a letter, to its corresponding description/ definition below. You will all
terms and use each term once.
(A) The New Deal
(F) Collectivization
(K) Adolf Hitler
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2.
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(B) John Maynard Keynes (C) Protectionism

(G) Fascism
(H) Reza Shah Pahlavi
(L) Kemal Ataturk
(M) Lebensraum

_____ Increasing tariffs to increase domestic

production
_____ Program in the U.S. that embraced deficit
spending to impact the economy
_____ Elimination/ collection of private farms by
Stalin.
_____ General rise in prices and pay rates.
_____ Economist who believed that
governments should spend money to influence
the economy (deficit spending)

10.
11. _____ African-American who encouraged
Africans to become aware of their cultural
heritage
12.
13. _____ Hitlers right of superior nations to have
living space.
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(D) Mahatma Gandhi(E) Inflation

(I) W.E.B. Du Bois
(J) Totalitarian State
(N) Mein Kampf
(O) Nazi

14.
15. _____ Leader of Indian Peace movement that
stressed non-violence and civil disobedience
16.
17. _____ Form of government that values the state
over the individual; very nationalist.
18.
19. _____ National Socialist German Workers Party.
20.
21. _____ First president and modernizer of Turkey
22.
23. _____ Leader of the Nazi Party and Der Fhrer
24.
25. _____ Government that aims to rule all aspects
of their citizens lives
26.
27. _____ Leader and Modernizer of Iran
28.
29. _____ Hitlers philosophical work (book).

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Multiple Choice (2 points each):

34.
35. Instructions: Choose the correct answer for each question. Only one term will be correct. Choosing multiple
options will result in a wrong answer.
36.
37. _____ 1. What political group created the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
a.
Communists
b.
Democrats
c.
Socialists
d.
Islamists
38.
39. _____2. When did the Great Depression begin?
a. 1919
b. 1929
c. 1939
d. 1949
40.
41. _____3. Who established a dictatorship in the Soviet Union in 1929?
a. Adolf Hitler
b. Franklin D. Roosevelt
c. Benito Mussolini
d. Joseph Stalin
42.
43. _____4. Who became the dictator of Italy in the early 1920s?
a.
Adolf Hitler
b.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
c.
Benito Mussolini
d.
Joseph Stalin
44.
45.
46. _____5. What group did Nazis persecute in Germany?
a.
Political dissidents
b.
elderly invalids
c.
Jews
d.
All of the above
47.
48. _____6. The Kristallnacht, which happened on November 9, 1938, was:
a.
the inspiration for the anthem of the Nazi Party
b.
a destructive rampage against German Jews led by Nazis
c.
the signing of Hitlers agreement with Russia
d.
the creation of Hitlers secret police under Heinrich Himmler
49.
50. _____7. Hitlers goal was to create a
a.
Third Reich, or German Empire
b.
Third Workers Party
c.
Third Depression
d.
Third Reichstag
51.
52. _____8. The Great Depression was caused primarily by
a.
U.S. stock market crash and overuse of credit
b.
failure of nations to reduce their military forces
c.
new interest in Marxist theory
d.
strengthening of European banks
53.
54. _____9. Which country did NOT experience a totalitarian government in the 1920s and 1930s?
a.
Italy
b.
Germany
c.
USSR
d.
France
55.
56. _____ 10. Leader of Chinas Nationalist Party in 1921.
a. Sun Yat-sen
b. Mao Zedong
c. Chiang Kai-shek
d. Quan Tran
57.
58. _____ 11. Mexican president who distributed land to peasants in the 1930s.
a. Vicente Fox

b.
c.
d.

Getulio Vargas
Lazaro Cardenas
Pancho Villa

59.
60. _____ 12. Franklin D. Roosevelts policy rejecting the use of U.S. military force in Latin America.
a. Good Neighbor Policy
b. Blue Eagle Project
c. Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
d. Gunboat Diplomacy
61.
62. _____ 13. Governments run by select groups of powerful people.
a. Monarchies
b. Oligarchies
c. Democracies
d. Theocracies
63.
64. _____ 14. Chinese Communist Party leader.
a. Sun Yat-sen
b. Mao Zedong
c. Chiang Kai-shek
d. Quan Tran
65.
66. _____ 15. In 1927, Chiang Kaisheks forces turned against the Communists, nearly wiping them out; this event
is called the ___________.
a. Nanjing Massacre
b. Night of Broken Glass
c. Mongolian Murders
d. Shanghai Massacre
67. _____ 16. Movement to unify all Africans.
a. Pan-Africanism
b. Back to Africa
c. Roots
d. Kwanza
68.
69. _____ 17. Deliberate mass murder of an ethnic group.
a. holocaust
b. genocide
c. multi-killing
d. nuclear assault
70.
71. _____ 18. An advocate of nonviolence, Gandhi urged _________ as a powerful method to achieve justice and
bring an end to oppressive British rule in India.
a. civil disobedience
b. civil strife
c. civil rights
d. civil cooperation
72.
73. _____19. What country introduced a Good Neighbor Policy towards Latin American countries in order to
improve their relationship with that region?
a. Canada
b. Mexico
c. United States
d. Cuba
74.
75. _____20. In what country did communists undertake the Long March in 1933?
a. United States
b. Soviet Union
c. China
d. North Korea
76.
77. _____21. Anti-semitism means prejudice towards which group of people?
a. Jews
b. Muslims
c. Athiests
d. Communists
78.
79. _____22. This man became leader of the Nationalists in China after the death of Sun Yatsen.
a. Yuan Shikai

b.
c.
d.

Chiang Kaishek
Mao Zedong
Jackie Chan

80.
81. _____23. What does the economic theory of protectionism believe?
a. defense spending grows the economy
b. high tariffs will increase domestic production
c. people should protect their money by not investing in banks
d. people should buy firearms for protection
82.
83. _____24. Franklin D. Roosevelts economic program that embraced the Keynesian economic principle of deficit
spending.
a. The Good Deal
b. The Compromise
c. The New Deal
d. Democratic Socialism
84.
85. _____25. What is the name of the 6,000 mile march to escape Nationalists that nearly wiped out the Chinese
Communist Party?
a. The March of Death
b. The Long March
c. The Trail of Tears
d. The Fatal Hike
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89.
90. _____26. Which person controlled the Soviet Union in 1929 after either eliminating or exiling his opponents?
a. V.I. Lenin
b. Leon Trotsky
c. Rasputin
d. Joseph Stalin
91.
92. _____27. This fascist leader of Italy went by the nickname Il Duce.
a. Benito Mussolini
b. Mike Piazza
c. Adolf Hitler
d. Julius Caesar
93.
94. _____28. What was Hitlers belief that Germany needed living space?
a. Forward Planning
b. Imperialism
c. Lebensraum
d. Du Hast Mich
95.
96. _____29. Who was the first president and modernizer of Turkey?
a. Reza Khan
b. Saladin
c. Ibn Al Sayeed
d. Kemal Ataturk
97.
98. _____30. What term means the separation of religious influence from governance?
a. secularism
b. deism
c. theology
d. atheism
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Extended Response (10 points):

104.
Instruction: Respond to the question in a persuasive format. Create a thesis a main
statement that guides your argument, provide supporting information/ facts and explain their significance to
your thesis, and wrap up your argument with a conclusion something that restates your thesis and also
concisely covers your supporting information.
105.
106.
What were the causes of the Great Depression, and what made it a global phenomenon? Provide
at least one cause for the great depression and one reason for it expanding throughout the rest of the world
(i.e. two causes for the depression and its spread globally).