Between the Wars – Pretest
On your slip of paper, please clearly print a capital letter T or F for True or False.
1.
The Treaty of Versailles was almost completely successful at peacefully
resolving the major issues of the First World War.
2.
The United States successfully lead the League of Nations to peacefully
resolve international crises during the 1920s and 1930s.
3.
Germany’s payments of the reparations (damages) for starting WWI
helped fuel the boom period of the 1920s.
4.
The Ku Klux Klan expanded its targets to include Jews, Catholics, women,
and other immigrant groups.
5.
Women gained the right to vote in federal elections due to the 19th
Amendment.
6.
In the Scopes “monkey” Trial, the theory of evolution was shown to be an
invalid theory.
7.
Football became America’s pastime during the Twenties.
8.
The first “talkie” full-length movie was “Gone With The Wind.”
9.
Marcus Garvey proposed that Blacks should go “Back to Africa” as an
approach to dealing with the racism and segregation in America.
10. W.E.B. DuBois believed that a “talented-tenth” of African-Americans
deserved equal rights and opportunities immediately.
11. Henry Ford invented the assembly line and mass production.
12. War as a tool of foreign diplomacy was “outlawed” at an international
conference in 1928.
13. Approximately 50% of American adult men had some money invested in
the Stock Market in October of 1929.
14. Approximately 20% of American adult men had some money invested in
the Stock Market in October of 1929.
15. Less than 1% of American adult men had some money invested in the
Stock Market in October of 1929.
16. The Stock Market Crash of October 1929 caused the Great Depression.
17. President Hoover did nothing significant to try and prevent the Great
Depression.
18. When campaigning for president, Franklin Roosevelt explained a
detailed plan for how to get the country out of the Great Depression.
19. Adolf Hitler eventually gained power in Germany by military force.
20. Communism as an ideology means that government owns all forms of
wealth and runs the whole society.