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The effects of the Great Depression affected countries around the world differently depending on how connected they were to international circuits of finance or on how reliant they were on exports. Sort the following effects according to whether they match what happened to countries deeply connected or to countries less connected.

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less connected:
- Countries like China, India, and Japan experienced modest economic contraction, but they relied mostly on their own peasant food production.
- These countries experienced less distress.

deeply connected:
- Unemployment skyrocketed, economic output dropped dramatically, and birthrates fell.
- These countries were especially hard hit.

How did different sectors of German society respond to Hitler's Nazism? Match each group to how it responded to Hitler.

among Hitler's most ardent supporters because of his economic successes once in power
- small farmers, artisans, and shopkeepers

despised Hitler and the Nazi Party for their attack on labor unions and stance against the Bolshevik movement
- communists

supported Hitler's rearmament programs and his destruction of labor unions
- business elite and employers

found Hitler's actions unchristian and antithetical to their beliefs
- religious Germans

Place the following events from the Indian Rebellion of the 1850s through the Indian Independence movement in order.

1. indian elites ...
2. Britain extended...
3. a British general ...
4. Mohandas Gandhi...

The poem "Dulce et Decorum Est" was written by British Army officer Wilfred Owen in the final months of World War I (the final line translates to "How sweet and suitable it is to die for one's country"):

False

Fill in the blanks to complete the following passage about the anti-colonial movement in China.

First Blank: The Twenty-one Demands
Second Blank: the New Culture Movement
Third Blank: the Treaty of Versailles
Fourth Blank: the May Fourth Movement

Which countries were members of the Allied powers, and which were members of the Central Powers? Drag each label to the correct area on the map.

Allied: Russia, France, great Britain, etc.
Central: Germany & Ottoman

Which of the following is an example of the most effective response by a country's leaders to the Great Depression?

increasing public spending, even if it increased the national debt.

What is the connection between World War I and the Russian Revolution?

Although the Russian Revolution had deep roots, it was triggered by World War I and probably would not have happened without it.

World War I is considered a global war because extensive fighting spread to nearly every continent and because its effects spread just as far.

False

After World War I, the fascist movement began in Italy. Place the following events in order to understand its emergence and key activities.

1. class conflict..
2. Mussolini and his....
3. thirty thousand....
4. Mussolini formed..

Which of the following are examples of why the human cost of World War I was so steep?

- World War I was a total war that affected people on and off the battlefield.
- Military medicine and military technology had made significant advances by 1914.
- Most armies in World War I were organized into units taken from specific regions

How did anti-colonial movements in Africa and the Caribbean compare to those in other parts of the world?

- Unlike anti-colonial movements in China and India, those in Africa and the Caribbean fueled a movement called pan-Africanism, which stretched beyond national and continental borders and viewed anti-colonialism in terms of race.
- Pan-Africanism and China's New Culture Movement were both elite movements that generally did not reach out to regular folks, and they shared the conviction that political independence would come after cultural revitalization.
- Just like anti-colonial movements in India and China, the ones in Africa and the Caribbean drew strength from disillusionment that came with World War I and the peace settlements.

Compare these two maps: the one on the left depicts the political boundaries of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa in 1914; and the one on the right shows the same area after boundary changes created by the treaties ending World War I. How did World War I change the political geography of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa?

- The old "great powers" of Germany and Austria-Hungary no longer existed as large, powerful nations after World War I, as they had before the war.
- The Austro-Hungarian Empire lost most of its territory, and only remained as two separate countries: Austria and Hungary.

Fill in the blanks to complete the following passage about the background to the Russian Revolution.

1st Blank: 1905
2nd blank: Nicolas
3rd blank: Duma
4th blank: land reform

After Vladimir Lenin's death in 1924, Josef Stalin emerged as leader of the Soviet Union. Place the following events in order to understand the major moments of his leadership.

1. Stalin instituted formal planning..
2. to support his industrialization program..
3. Peasants resisted...
4. Stalin ordered the liquidation..

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