B. brutality and darkness of the twentieth century.
*24. To resolve the economic problems of Germany and international tensions in Europe, the U.S.
developed the
E. Dawes Plan.
*25. The parliamentary governments of Germany in the mid- to late 1920s were dominated by
E. moderate businessmen.
26. After World War I some historians criticized Gustave Streseman, the most prominent moderate politician in Weimar Germany, for
E. his strident nationalism during World War I.
*27. The "middle way" refers to the
E. Scandinavian response to the Great Depression.
*28. The composer Arnold Schonberg is known for
B. his creation of"twelve-tone" music that abandoned traditional harmony and tonality.
*29. At its height during the Great Depression, unemployment in the United States reached
B. 33 percent.
*30. According to the text, Britain was more ready to conciliate Germany than France following the Versailles peace settlement because
E. the British had depended heavily on the German market for their exports before World War I.
*31. All of the following artistic styles emerged in the Age of Uncertainty except
E. impressionism.
*32. The British political party that emerged during the 1920s as the champion of the working class and the main opposition to the Conservative party was the
A. Labour party.
*33. All of the following statements about the Bauhaus movement are accurate except that it
C. combined expressionism and cubism to form surrealism.
*34. Authors such as Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and William Faulkner wrote about
D. the complexity and irrationality of the human mind.
*35. One of the earliest full-length feature films produced in the United States was
D. Birth of a Nation.
*36. The logical empiricism espoused by Ludwig Wittgenstein argued that
C. philosophy is only the clarification of thoughts.
*37. Challenges to the centrality of rational thought to understand the human condition came from all of the following philosophers except
D. Ludwig Wittgenstein.
*38. Jean-Paul Sartre stressed
E. that individuals must give meaning to life through actions.
*39. Friedrich Nietzsche maintained all of the following except that
A. religious belief provided stability in an absurd world.
*40. The Christian revival alter World War 1 depended heavily on which of the following earlier philosophers and theologians?
B. Soren Kierkegaard.
*41. Albert Einstein's greatest contribution to the destruction of the Newtonian universe was his
C. theory of special relativity.
*42. In The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler argued that
A. the West would soon be conquered by "the yellow race."
*43. The first major public broadcasts of special events by radio were made in
D. 1920.
*44. The British Broadcasting Corporation is representative of
C. a middle path between private networks in the U.S. and direct control on the Continent.
45. To replace the Dual Entente, France turned to a defensive alliance with
A. the "little Entente."
*46. With the U.S. failure to ratify the Versailles Treaty, many French leaders placed their hopes for future security on
B. strict implementation of the treaty.
*47. When Germany refused to make its second reparations payment, France and Belgium
E. occupied the Ruhr district.
*48. German government printing of money to pay unemployment benefits to workers striking in the Ruhr against the Franco-Belgian occupation of 1923 led to
B. hyperinflation.
*49. The political stability of the mid- to late 1920s was due to all of the following except the
D. Munich Agreement.
*50. In the 1920s support for Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party
C. was weak and confined to a few anti-Semites, ultranationalists, and angry veterans.
*51. Buying stocks "on margin" refers to the practice of
D. buying stocks with loans from stockbrokers.
*52. According to the text, the American stock market crash of October 1929 was primarily the result of
D. an imbalance between real investment and speculation.
*53. President Franklin Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration attempted to
C. solve the problem of unemployment.
*54. Swedish response to the Depression involved
E. increasing state spending on public works projects and increasing social welfare benefits.
55. The most fundamental commitment of the New Deal was to
C. use the federal government to provide for the welfare of all Americans.
*56. According to the text, the Great Depression did not hit Britain as hard as the United States or Germany in part because
D. the British economy gradually reoriented away from international markets and toward production of consumer goods for the domestic market.
*57. The Popular Front was formed in response to
D. the growth of fascism.
58. The victory of the Popular Front in the French elections of 1936 indicated the
E. weakness of moderate republicans.
59. John Maynard Keynes's critique of the postwar settlement called for
A. a complete revision of the Versailles settlement.
*60. Leni Riefenstahl's film The Triumph of the Will
B. was a masterpiece of Nazi propaganda.
*61. "spirit of Locarno" referred to the belief that
C. peace was possible.
62. Besides movies, the most popular form of entertainment among the working classes was
B. radio.
63. According to Freud, human behavior
A. is a compromise among instinct, reason, and moral values.
64. In his Road to Wigan Pier, written during the Great Depression and excerpted in "Listening to the Past", George Orwell argues that
B. the availability of cheap luxury goods has helped prevent a revolution in Britain.
