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Ultranationalism and its aftermath

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Ultranationalism and its aftermath

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  1. Gandhi's campaign for Indian independence is studied as an example of

    1. a) ultranationalism
    2. b) nationalism pursued through non-violent resistance
    3. c) the failure of self-determination
    4. d) internationalism

  2. Nazi propaganda under Goebbels relied heavily on

    1. a) open public debate
    2. b) translations into many languages
    3. c) detailed statistical argument
    4. d) repetition of simple messages and control of every major medium

  3. The Nuremberg trials were significant because they

    1. a) punished Germany with reparations
    2. b) established that individuals can be held criminally responsible for state actions
    3. c) created the United Nations
    4. d) ended the Second World War

  4. The Great Depression contributed to the rise of extremist movements because

    1. a) it had no effect on politics
    2. b) it began in 1945
    3. c) mass unemployment discredited existing governments and made radical promises attractive
    4. d) it made every country wealthier

  5. Ultranationalist regimes of the 1930s typically justified expansion by claiming

    1. a) the nation needed more territory and had a right to rule inferior peoples
    2. b) that all nations were equal
    3. c) that empires were outdated
    4. d) that borders should be decided by the League of Nations

  6. The Holocaust was

    1. a) the systematic murder of about six million Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators
    2. b) the famine in Soviet Ukraine
    3. c) the bombing of German cities
    4. d) the internment of Japanese Canadians

  7. Appeasement in the 1930s refers to

    1. a) rearming as fast as possible
    2. b) conceding to Hitler's demands in the hope of avoiding another war
    3. c) forming alliances against Germany
    4. d) expelling Germany from the League of Nations

  8. Canada's rejection of the MS St. Louis in 1939 is studied because it shows

    1. a) national interest being defined in a way that excluded refugees fleeing persecution
    2. b) the success of the League of Nations
    3. c) Canada's open immigration policy of the period
    4. d) Canada's early opposition to Nazi Germany

  9. Decolonization refers to

    1. a) the founding of the United Nations
    2. b) European states acquiring new colonies
    3. c) the end of the Cold War
    4. d) colonies gaining independence and becoming sovereign states

  10. Fascism can be characterised by

    1. a) rule by an elected parliament
    2. b) extreme nationalism, a single leader and the subordination of the individual to the state
    3. c) a free market with minimal government
    4. d) worker ownership of the means of production

Answer key · Ultranationalism and its aftermath

Social Studies 20-1 · maddyhelps.com

  1. b) nationalism pursued through non-violent resistance — Mass non-cooperation, boycotts and civil disobedience made the colony ungovernable without mass violence by the nationalists. Independence in 1947 nonetheless came with a partition that killed enormous numbers, which the course also asks you to weigh.
  2. d) repetition of simple messages and control of every major medium — Radio, film, posters, rallies and schooling all carried the same few messages, and competing sources were suppressed. Identifying the technique is more useful than memorising particular slogans.
  3. b) established that individuals can be held criminally responsible for state actions — Following orders was rejected as a defence, and crimes against humanity were prosecuted for the first time. The principle runs directly to the International Criminal Court, created in 2002.
  4. c) mass unemployment discredited existing governments and made radical promises attractive — Economic collapse plus national humiliation is the combination the course asks you to look for. Germany's crisis was deepened by reparations and its dependence on American loans.
  5. a) the nation needed more territory and had a right to rule inferior peoples — Lebensraum in Germany and the new Roman Empire in Italy both dressed conquest as national necessity. The step from believing your nation superior to acting on it is the one Related Issue 2 keeps returning to.
  6. a) the systematic murder of about six million Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators — Roma, disabled people, Polish civilians, political prisoners and others were also murdered in enormous numbers. It is the case against which the Genocide Convention was written.
  7. b) conceding to Hitler's demands in the hope of avoiding another war — The Munich Agreement of 1938 handed over the Sudetenland; Germany took the rest of Czechoslovakia within six months. Memories of the slaughter of 1914–18 made the policy far more understandable at the time than it looks now.
  8. a) national interest being defined in a way that excluded refugees fleeing persecution — The ship carrying over 900 Jewish refugees was turned away by Cuba, the United States and Canada; many of those returned to Europe later died in the Holocaust. Canada apologised in 2018.
  9. d) colonies gaining independence and becoming sovereign states — Most of it happened between 1945 and 1975, and it roughly tripled UN membership. Self-determination — the idea that a people should govern itself — is the principle it appealed to.
  10. b) extreme nationalism, a single leader and the subordination of the individual to the state — Fascism glorifies the nation, concentrates power in a leader, and treats the individual as existing for the state. It is ultranationalism turned into a system of government.