Chapter 35 Answers – Flashcards
Unlock all answers in this set
Unlock answersquestion
The writer whose The Decline of the West proposed that the European society had entered the final stage of existance was
answer
Oswald Spengler
question
In Karl Barth's Epistle to the Romans he
answer
attacked liberal Christian theology that had embraced the idea of progress
question
In the years after World War I the idea of progress
answer
was roundly attacked
question
In Jose Ortega's and Gasset's Revolt of the Masses he points out that
answer
the masses were destined to destroy the highest achivements of western society
question
The notion that space and time are relative to the person measuring them was first articulated in
answer
Einstein's theory of General Relativity
question
The uncertainty principle is associated with
answer
Heisenburg
question
John Maynar Keynes
answer
discussed the end of laissez-faire capitalism
question
Discoveries in physics added to the anxiety of the 1920s and 1930s because
answer
they called into question th established notion of truth
question
The father of psychoanalysis was
answer
Sigmund Freud
question
According to Freud, the root of neurotic behavior was
answer
a conflict between conscious and unconscious mental processes
question
The spread of photography
answer
led many painters to believe that the purpose of painting was not to mirror reality but to create it
question
Which of the following groups was not one of the new artistic movements of the 20th century?
answer
impressionists
question
The deliberate violation of perspective by Japanese artists influenced
answer
Edgar Degas
question
One of the biggest results of artistic experimentation of the 1920s and 1930s was that
answer
generally accepted standards that distinguished between "good" and "bad" art disappeared
question
A troubling economic problem in the 1920s was the depressed state of agriculture caused by
answer
overproduction and falling prices
question
By 1929 the price of a bushel of wheat was
answer
at its lowest price in four hundred years
question
On Black Thursday, October 24, 1929
answer
the U.S stock market crashed
question
At the lowest point in the Great Depression ______% of the U.S. banks were out of business.
answer
44
question
During the Great Depression most nations
answer
practiced economic nationalism
question
In response to the Great Depression, economist John Maynard Keynes
answer
urged the government to expand the money supply and undertake public works to provide jobs
question
The Russian Civil War that broke out after the revolution was between
answer
Reds and Whites
question
War Communism
answer
was an unplaneed course of nationalism
question
Lenin's New Economic Policy of 1921
answer
implemented free market reforms
question
Socialism in One country was the philosophy of
answer
Stalin
question
The first Five Year Plan was initiated by
answer
Stalin
question
The term fascism was first used by
answer
Mussolini
question
The 1935 Nuremburg Laws
answer
deprived German Jews of their citizenship
question
The Kristallnacht was
answer
a Nazi arranged attack on thousands of Jewish stores
question
Which of the following was not one of the foundations of Gandhi's philosophy
answer
heavy industrialization
question
The May Fourth Movement
answer
galvanized the Chinese against foreign interference
question
The three principle of the people was the political philosophy of
answer
Sun Yatsen
question
Mao Zedong's main rival after 1925 was
answer
Jiang Jieshi
