Chapter 29: Review Questions
1. Summarize the political, psychological and economic results of
World War I
2. Characterize the Roaring 20’s.
3. Explain why Italy was the first country in Western Europe to
experience a sweeping change of its governmental form.
4. Discuss evidence of political and social change for women in the
West in the 1920’s.
5. Describe how the United States was so successful in this rapid
economic advance after the war.
6. Identify some political and social changes among the settler
societies in this era.
7. Describe the factors that led to Japan’s shift form a liberal
democracy to a military-controlled government.
8. Was the Great Depression inevitable? Why or why not?
9. Define totalitarianism.
10. Compare totalitarianism in the USSR and Germany.
11. Summarize the effects of the Great Depression on the politics in
Latin America.
12. What were the reasons that Japan embarked on a foreign policy of
conquest.
13. How did the economic crisis affect patterns of social behavior?