Chapter 27 Questions

Question 1

couple famous for their work in radiation

Answer 1

marie curie

Question 2

psychologist who wrote about the id, ego, and superego

Answer 2

sigmund freud

Question 3

american writer stream of consciousness

Answer 3

faulkner

Question 4

post impressionists or _____ wanted to go beyond the visible world

Answer 4

expressionists

Question 5

rejected christianity, “god is dead”

Answer 5

nietzsche

Question 6

nonsensical art that attacked all accepted standards

Answer 6

dadaism

Question 7

a famous french existentialist was sartre and

Answer 7

camus

Question 8

art that showed a fantastical world of dreams and symbols

Answer 8

surrealism

Question 9

animal farm and 1984

Answer 9

orwell

Question 10

french existentialist, human beings are terribly alone

Answer 10

sartre

Question 11

philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual

Answer 11

existentialism

Question 12

monet, renoir, pissaro were _________ painters

Answer 12

impressionist

Question 13

paintings that tried to capture the momentary overall feeling of light falling on a real scene

Answer 13

impressionism

Question 14

idea that buildings should be useful

Answer 14

functionalism

Question 15

painter who founded cubism

Answer 15

pissaro

Question 16

theory of relativity

Answer 16

albert einstein

Question 17

quantum physics

Answer 17

planck

Question 18

how did germans of all political parties feel about the treaty of versailles?

Answer 18

they wanted it revised and thought it was unfair, they did not participate in the signing and it was forced upon them

Question 19

why is it said that the treaty had fallen between 2 stools

Answer 19

it was too harsh for peace of reconciliation yet it was too soft for piece of conquest

Question 20

did france and great britain see eye to eye on germany

Answer 20

no; france was harsher in their plans for germany and wanted them to pay reparations, while britain felt they should be gentler

Question 21

in his famous economic consequences of the peace, ___________ denounced the treaty of versailles stating that it would impoverish germany and increase economic hardship in all of europe

Answer 21

john maynard keynes

Question 22

the french were authorized to occupy the german rhineland until

Answer 22

1935

Question 23

france signed a mutual defense pact with _________ why?

Answer 23

poland; signed to help garner support against germany (no one else would sign an alliance with france, thus prompting them to seek alliances to protect themselves from germany, leading to them allying with poland and the little entente)

Question 24

what was the little entente

Answer 24

Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia

Question 25

what was the name of the young german republic after WWI?

Answer 25

weimar republic

Question 26

what happened when the germans said they could not pay reparations

Answer 26

britain accepted this fact, but france moved its armies into the german industrial district, the ruhr, to force them to work but the germans went on strike

Question 27

what was the dawes plan

Answer 27

plan to arrange reparations and reduce them, also supply US loans to germany so they can pay off their debt to UK and France and they can pay off the US

Question 28

describe the 1925 locarno agreements

Answer 28

france and germany agreed on a border and italy and britain agreed to stop any german/french invasion

Question 29

in november 1923 adolf hitler proclaimed what

Answer 29

a national socialist revolution would ensue (beer hall putsch)

Question 30

what is mein kampf

Answer 30

hitlers book about socialist revolution written in prison, means "my struggle"

Question 31

there have been many depressions, what was different about the great depression

Answer 31

it was intense and lasted long, and recoverey was slow and uneven

Question 32

what event triggered the collapse

Answer 32

the US stock market crash (black tuesday)

Question 33

the economic slide from 1929-1939 can be attributed to what 2 factors?

Answer 33

- international economy lacked leadership able to maintain stability when crisis came. - poor economic policy in almost every country

Question 34

was the name of roosevelt's program?

Answer 34

new deal

Question 35

of all the western democracies, which responded most successfully to the great depression

Answer 35

scandinavian (social democrats)

Question 36

how did the great depression affect the UK and france?

Answer 36

in the UK they removed their money from the gold standard and instead focused on the national, not international, industry. industries like electronics and automobiles soared and the UK was better off than it had been before the depression france was not heavily industrialized, so the depression came late and lasted a long time. the economic instability also saw political instability, leaving france on the verge of a civil war

Question 37

what was the popular front in france

Answer 37

a short-lived new deal-inspired alliance in france led by leon blum that encouraged the union movement and launched a far-reaching program of social reform union between communists, socialists, and radical parties to stop the fascists.