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| 13530915164 | the term "lost generation" was coined by? | Gertrude Stein | 0 | |
| 13530915165 | the writer whose "Decline of the West" proposed that European society had entered the final stage of its existence was? | Oswald Spengler | 1 | |
| 13530915166 | in Karl Barth's "Epistle to the ROmans", he? | attacked liberal christian theology that embraced the idea of progress | 2 | |
| 13530915167 | The author of All Quiet on the Western Front was? | Erich Maria Remarques | 3 | |
| 13530915168 | Who wrote, "Man's historical experience has been one of steady failure, and there are no grounds for supposing it will be ever anything else"? | Niokolai Berdiaev | 4 | |
| 13530915169 | in the years after World War I, the idea of progress? | came under attack, especially science and technology. | 5 | |
| 13530915170 | in Jose Ortega y Gaset's "Revolt of the Masses", he points out that? | the masses were destined to destroy the highest achievements of Western Society | 6 | |
| 13530915171 | John Maynard Keynes? | the most influential economist of the 20th century- fundamental cause of depression was not excessive supply, but inadequate demand | 7 | |
| 13530915172 | the notion that space and time are relative to the person measuring them was first articulated in? | Einstein's theory of special relativity | 8 | |
| 13530915173 | in a purely scientific sense, the uncertainty principle proposes that? | it is impossible to specify simultaneously the position and velocity of a subatomic particle | 9 | |
| 13530915174 | Discoveries in physics added to the anxiety of the 1920s and 1930s because? | it carried broader philosophical ramifications-called into question established notions of truth/violated law of cause and effect | 10 | |
| 13530915175 | the father of psychoanalysis was? | Sigmund Freud | 11 | |
| 13530915176 | According to Freud, the root of neurotic behavior was? | sexual drives and fantasies | 12 | |
| 13530915177 | the spread of photography | heightened the aversion to visual realism- painters began to think of canvas not as a reproduction of reality, but as an end in itself | 13 | |
| 13530915178 | which of the following groups was not one of the new artistic movements of the 20th century? | was: expressionists, cubists, abstractionists, dadaists, surrealists | 14 | |
| 13530915179 | the painter who was influenced by the "primitive" art of Tahiti was? | Paul Gauguin | 15 | |
| 13530915180 | the deliberate violation of perspective by Japanese artists influenced? | European artists to take similar liberties with realism | 16 | |
| 13530915181 | which of the following was not an accurate match between artist/ artistic influence? | Picasso-African art forms, Gauguin-Tahiti, Ludwig Mies von der Rohe-modern architecture | 17 | |
| 13530915182 | one of the biggest results of the artistic experimentation of the 1920s and 1930s was that? | all artists were acknowledged to have a right to their own reality, and accepted standards of "good/bad" art disappeared | 18 | |
| 13530915183 | the work of Walter Gropius? | featured simplicity of shape/extensive use of glass and always embodied that form must follow function | 19 | |
| 13530915184 | the term Bauhaus is associated with? | an institution that brought together architects, designers, and painters from several countries | 20 | |
| 13530915185 | a troubling economic problem in the 1920s was the depressed state of agriculture caused by? | a troubling economic problem in the 1920s was the depressed state of agriculture caused by? | 21 | |
| 13530915186 | by 1929, the price of a bushel of wheat was? | at its lowest level in 400 years | 22 | |
| 13530915187 | on Black Thursday, 24 October 1929? | a wave of panic selling on the New York Stock Exchange caused stock prices to plummet | 23 | |
| 13530915188 | at the lowest point of the Great Depression, what percentage of US banks were out of business | 44% | 24 | |
| 13530915189 | During the Great Depression, most nations? | experienced some economic difficulties- especially the ones who relied on imports from the US | 25 | |
| 13530915190 | in response to the Great Depression, economist John Maynard Keynes? | urged governments to play an active role and stimulate the economy by increasing the money supply | 26 | |
| 13530915191 | which of the following was not one of the chief actions of Roosevelt's New Deal? | was: legislation to prevent the collapse of banking system, provide jobs, give workers their rights to organize/bargain, guarantee minimum wages, provide social security at an old age | 27 | |
| 13530915192 | the Russian Civil War that broke out after the revolution was between? | Bolsheviks and Whites (Red and whites) | 28 | |
| 13530915193 | War Communism? | a policy of hasty and unplanned nationalization that the new Russian rulers embarked on- annulled private property, assumed control of banks, etc. | 29 | |
| 13530915194 | Lenin's New Economic Policy of 1921? | temporarily restored the market economy and some private enterprise to Russia | 30 | |
| 13530915195 | This individual believed in a philosophy of promoting communism primarily in the Soviet Union rather than trying to export the revolution to other nations? | Stalin | 31 | |
| 13530915196 | the First Five-Year Plan? | replaced the NEP with a plan for rapid economic development- aims were to transform the USSR from a predominantly agricultural country to a leading industrial power | 32 | |
| 13530915197 | the term fascism was first used by? | Benito Mussolini | 33 | |
| 13530915198 | The leader of the fascist movement in Germany was? | ... | 34 | |
| 13530915199 | the 1935, Nuremberg Laws | deprived German Jews of their citizenship and prohibited marriage between Jews and other Germans | 35 | |
| 13530915200 | the official goal of the Nazi regime toward Jews in the period before World War II was? | emigration | 36 | |
| 13530915201 | the Kristallnacht was? | the "night of broken glass"-the Nazi's arranged for the destruction of Jewish stores, synagogues, etc | 37 |
