Quiz for Gustav Stresemann: Competing Visions of Germany

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Quiz for Gustav Stresemann: Competing Visions of Germany

Question 26.1

1. How did the German Center Party (see Document 26.1) view class as a dimension of political conflict?

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Correct. The answer is d. The party sought to promote an economic program that recognized and balanced the interests of all Germans, regardless of class.
Incorrect. The answer is d. The party sought to promote an economic program that recognized and balanced the interests of all Germans, regardless of class.

Question 26.2

2. Why did the Social Democratic Party (SPD) (see Document 26.2) support the democratic republican government formed after World War I?

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Correct. The answer is a. The SPD saw the democratic republic as conducive to the "liberation of the working class therefore the development of socialism."
Incorrect. The answer is a. The SPD saw the democratic republic as conducive to the "liberation of the working class therefore the development of socialism."

Question 26.3

3. In a number of ways, the SPD program (see Document 26.2) demonstrated the party's support for

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Correct. The answer is b. The SPD program called for equal rights for women before the law and in the workplace, the facilitation of divorce, and "the common education of both sexes by both sexes."
Incorrect. The answer is b. The SPD program called for equal rights for women before the law and in the workplace, the facilitation of divorce, and "the common education of both sexes by both sexes."

Question 26.4

4. With which of these statements would a member of the German People's Party (DVP) (see Document 26.3) have been most likely to agree?

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Correct. The answer is a. The DVP saw communism and socialism as the root cause of most of Germany's problems.
Incorrect. The answer is a. The DVP saw communism and socialism as the root cause of most of Germany's problems.

Question 26.5

5. Which of these political party would have been most likely to support a renewed effort to reacquire German territory lost after World War I (see Documents 26.1, 26.2, and 26.3)?

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Correct. The answer is a. The DVP program explicitly lamented the loss of territory after World War I, using the term Lebensraum, or "living room," to describe that territory. The same term would be used by Adolf Hitler to justify German territorial expansion in the 1930s and 1940s.
Incorrect. The answer is a. The DVP program explicitly lamented the loss of territory after World War I, using the term Lebensraum, or "living room," to describe that territory. The same term would be used by Adolf Hitler to justify German territorial expansion in the 1930s and 1940s.