UPSC World History – Chapter 11: The World between the Wars – Depression, Fascism and Nazism (20 MCQs)

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UPSC World History – Chapter 11: The World between the Wars – Depression, Fascism and Nazism (20 MCQs) – 20 questions, subject: History. Every question has the correct answer with a one-line explanation; tap "Show Answer". Free practice for TNPSC, UPSC, SSC, Bank and RRB exams – Shanmugam IAS Academy, Coimbatore.

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1.  

The Wall Street Crash took place in:

Correct Answer: D [October 1929]

Explanation:

Share prices on Wall Street collapsed on Black Thursday (24 October) and Black Tuesday (29 October) 1929.

2.  

The New Deal was introduced by:

Correct Answer: C [Franklin D. Roosevelt]

Explanation:

from 1933.

3.  

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) was written by:

Correct Answer: A [John Maynard Keynes]

Explanation:

Keynes's General Theory (1936) argued that governments should spend and run deficits in a slump to raise demand.

4.  

The "March on Rome" (1922) brought to power:

Correct Answer: C [Mussolini]

Explanation:

After the Fascist March on Rome in October 1922, King Victor Emmanuel III appointed Mussolini Prime Minister.

5.  

Hitler became Chancellor of Germany on:

Correct Answer: D [30 January 1933]

Explanation:

President Hindenburg appointed Hitler Chancellor legally on 30 January 1933, after the Nazis became the largest Reichstag party.

6.  

The Tennessee Valley Authority (1933) was part of:

Correct Answer: B [the New Deal]

Explanation:

The TVA, set up in 1933, built dams and supplied electricity as part of Roosevelt's New Deal.

7.  

Japan left the League of Nations in 1933 after the League condemned its action in:

Correct Answer: A [Manchuria]

Explanation:

Lytton Report.

8.  

The Munich Agreement (1938) handed to Germany:

Correct Answer: A [the Sudetenland]

Explanation:

At Munich in September 1938 Britain and France agreed that Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland be handed to Germany.

9.  

The Kellogg–Briand Pact (1928) aimed to:

Correct Answer: D [renounce war as an instrument of national policy]

Explanation:

The 1928 Kellogg–Briand Pact renounced war as an instrument of national policy.

10.  

Consider the following statements:

1. Britain left the gold standard in 1931.
2. The Ottawa Conference (1932) introduced imperial preference.
3. The Smoot–Hawley Act reduced US tariffs.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Correct Answer: B [1 and 2 only]

Explanation:

Britain left gold in 1931 and Ottawa (1932) adopted imperial preference; statement 3 is false as Smoot–Hawley raised tariffs.

11.  

Assertion (A): Support for the Nazi Party rose sharply after 1929.

Reason (R): The Depression caused mass unemployment in Germany.

Correct Answer: A [Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A]

Explanation:

Depression unemployment (about six million in Germany) drove voters to the Nazis, the largest Reichstag party by July 1932.

12.  

The bombing of Guernica (1937) took place during:

Correct Answer: A [the Spanish Civil War]

Explanation:

German aircraft supporting Franco bombed the Basque town of Guernica in April 1937, during the Spanish Civil War.

13.  

The Lateran Treaty (1929) was signed between Mussolini and:

Correct Answer: B [the Pope]

Explanation:

The Lateran Treaty (1929) between Mussolini's Italy and the Holy See recognised Vatican City as an independent State.

14.  

Which law in March 1933 gave Hitler the power to make laws without the Reichstag?

Correct Answer: D [Enabling Act]

Explanation:

The Enabling Act of March 1933 let Hitler's cabinet make laws without the Reichstag, the legal basis of dictatorship.

15.  

The British Prime Minister associated with the policy of appeasement at Munich was:

Correct Answer: D [Neville Chamberlain]

Explanation:

Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement in September 1938, giving the Sudetenland to Germany to avoid war.

16.  

The Indian doctor who joined the Congress medical mission to China in 1938 and died there in 1942 was:

Correct Answer: B [Dwarkanath Kotnis]

Explanation:

Dr Dwarkanath Kotnis went with the 1938 Congress medical mission to China, stayed on and died there in 1942.

17.  

Arrange the following in chronological order:

1. Munich Agreement
2. Wall Street Crash
3. March on Rome
4. Hitler becomes Chancellor

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Correct Answer: C [3-2-4-1]

Explanation:

1922, 1929, 1933, 1938.

18.  

The Glass–Steagall Act (1933) dealt with:

Correct Answer: C [banking regulation and deposit insurance]

Explanation:

The Glass–Steagall Act (1933) separated commercial and investment banking and created deposit insurance (FDIC).

19.  

The Anschluss of 1938 was the union of Germany with:

Correct Answer: D [Austria]

Explanation:

In March 1938 German troops entered Austria and it was annexed to Germany – the Anschluss.

20.  

The Nazi–Soviet Non-Aggression Pact was signed on:

Correct Answer: B [23 August 1939]

Explanation:

Germany and the USSR signed the non-aggression pact, with a secret plan to divide Poland, on 23 August 1939.

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