08 Chapter 14-15 Interwar Years

Who were the Bolsheviks?

• Soldiers in the White Army

• Radical Russian Marxist revolutionaries

• Members of the Duma, Russia’s parliament

• Followers of Rasputin

What was started under Stalin to improve the Soviet Union’s economy?

• Industrial and agricultural revolutions

• Bolshevik and Communist revolutions

• Socialist and totalitarian revolutions

• All of the above

What was the purpose of the Soviet state’s Five-Year Plans?

• Foreign policy

• Political reform

• Social restructuring

• Economic development

What is a totalitarian state?

• A state in which the people have a direct say in their government

• A state in which the people elect representative to the legislature

• A state in which the government controls every aspect of public and private life

• A state in which the working class is glorified and has the greatest voice in government

What did Sun Yixian’s Revolutionary Alliance accomplish?

• Defeating the Kuomintang

• Overthrowing the last emperor

• Spreading Communism in China

• Controlling the rampaging warlords

What was the result of China having a Nationalist government recognized by the world but a Communist party growing in the countryside?

• A social realist art campaign was created to uplift nationalist ideas

• Nationalist groups and armed gangs wiped out the Communists

• Civil war broke out between the two groups

• Communist leaders were forced to work in labor camps

Why did Chinese peasants align themselves with the Communists rather than the Nationalists?

• The Communists divided land among the farmers, while the Nationalists ignored their problems

• The Nationalists relocated thousands of peasants in the Long March

• The Nationalists were forcing China to industrialize through high taxes on farms

• The Communists moved peasants to collective farms, where they prospered

Which group was known for taking a 6,000-mile journey known as the “Long March”?

• Chinese Communists, fleeing the Nationalists

• Chinese Nationalists, fleeing the Communists

• Chinese peasants, fleeing the Japanese invaders

• The Russian White Army, fleeing the Bolsheviks

After World War I, most Europeans nations has what type of government, if only temporarily?

• Fascist

• Socialist

• Communist

• Democratic

What effect did the Dawes Plan have on the economy of postwar Germany?

• It saved Germany from an inflationary crisis and stabilized the economy

• It replaced German marks with the U.S. dollar as the nation’s currency

• It introduced U.S. business into Germany, which provided jobs

• All of the above are true