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What technology in the 1920s brought entertainment and information into an individual's private living space?
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Radio.
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Who wrote poems such as "The Wasteland" and "The Hollow Men," portraying postwar life as petty and futile?
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T.S. Eliot
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What artistic movement created streamlined office buildings and designed functional objects for everyday use, expressing optimism about the promise of technology?
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Dystopianism
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By the end of the 1920s, who had achieved virtually complete dictatorship in the Soviet Union?
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Joseph Stalin
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Following the revolt of workers, Lenin introduced
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His New Economic Policy (NEP), which returned parts of the economy to the free market.
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In the 1920s, Poland
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Was weakened by ethnic division and the lack of common cultural and social institutions.
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In Britain, the general strike of union miners in 1926
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Provoked unprecedented middle-class resistance and failed to help the unions.
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In the 1920s, what country was the trendsetter in economic modernization?
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The United States
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In the 1920s,
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Sexuality was addressed more openly, and relationships between young men and women were freer; however, the dominant context for sexuality remained marriage.
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Which two countries did not extend suffrage to women until the close of World War II?
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France and Italy
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Who were the Spartacists?
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A radical socialist faction that favored direct worker control of institutions
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What was the Freikorps?
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A roving paramilitary band of students and demobilized soldiers that helped the Social Democratic Party suppress workers' councils and demonstrators in Germany
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The Treaty of Versailles did all of the following except
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Confirm Germany's claims to its colonies and reincorporate it into the community of nations.
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In 1923, in response to the failure of Germany to make coal payments to France and Belgium,
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The two countries sent troops to occupy the resource-rich Ruhr basin in Germany.
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The Dawes Plan (1924) and the Young Plan (1929)
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Reduced payments by Germany to the victors and restored the value of the German mark.
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