AP WORLD-CHAPTER 29- EXAM QUESTIONS
1) Describe Europe in the mid-1920s in terms of outlook
2) What were the origins of the Kellogg-Briand Act? What did it outlaw?
3) What was the role of veterans groups in Europe in the 1920s?
4) Characterize the economy of Europe during the roaring 20s
5) Where in Western Europe was women’s suffrage not granted in the decade after WW I?
6) What revenue actions did governments take at the outset of the depression in 1929 to try to improve the economy?
7) What was the New Deal?
8) How did Roosevelt use the power of the state to combat the depression?
9) What was the Popular Front in France?
10) What factors led to the rise of fascism in Germany?
11) When did the fascist take power in Italy?
12) What were the key components of Hitler’s political program?
13) What happened to the Nazi party in the German election of 1932?
14) Why was Hitler’s government defined as totalitarian?
15) Describe Hitler’s economic plan
16) What impact did WW II have on European colonies and their political status?
17) What crisis came about in 1956 in the Middle East that symbolized Europe’s diminished status as a global power?
18) How did Algeria gain independence in 1962?
19) How did Vietnam win initial independence in 1954?
20) What did military concept did the U.S. depend on to halt any Soviet advance in Western Europe?
21) Which WW II nations developed nuclear weapons?
22) Define “resistance thinking”
23) How was NATO “comfortable” for its European members?
24) Describe U.S. military spending between the 1950s-1980s
25) What were the goals of the Christian Democrats?
26) Describe the post-WW II constitutions that were developed in Europe
27) How was the Federal Republic of Germany formed?
28) How did the welfare state develop in post war Europe?
29) What programs were typical in European welfare states?
30) How effective was the welfare state in terms of the class system?
31) How effective was the welfare state?
32) How did the government’s economic policies parallel the welfare state?
33) What western nation did not have an economic planning office?
34) Define technocrat
35) What upset the parliamentary systems and the welfare state in the 1960s?
36) Define the Green movement
37) What person’s election marked a return to conservatism in Europe?
38) What signaled a trend toward conservatives in the U.S.
39) Which nations were part of the initial European economic community?
40) What was a currency goal of the European Economic Community?
41) Describe the European economy of the post-1950s
42) What traits were characteristic of a typical European economy after 1950?
43) What factors led to an economic slowdown in the 1970s?
44) What happened to the European peasantry in the late 20 th century?
45) What was the fastest growing sector of the labor force in the West following WW II?
46) What rights were not achieved by women in the west by the late 20 th century?
47) What work did Simone de Beauvoir write in 1949?
48) Who was Betty Friedan?
49) Who was John Keynes, what ideas was he known for?