APE Unit 9: Ch. 27 - Dictators & WWII

What problem was faced by most of the underground resistance groups who opposed the Nazis?

Britain and France finally confronted Hitler with the threat of war when he

Why did Hitler have the leadership of the SA storm troopers, killed in 1934?

effort of Nazi state to exterminate all European Jews & other racially inferior groups

Where did Nazi administrators initially gain experience in mass murder?

A movement and political party driven by extreme nationalism and racism and led by Adolf Hitler

act pushed through the Reichstag giving Hitler absolute dictatorial power for four years.

1929 agreement recognizing Vatican as an independent state by Mussolini

radical dictatorship that exercises “total claims” over beliefs and behavior of its citizens

The target of the first of two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 was

The “cult of the Duce” (leader) promoted the image of Mussolini as

Which of the following social groups was part of the new elite class in the Stalinist state?

antisocialism, dynamic & violent leader, glorification of war & military.

Lenin’s New Economic Policy was a political compromise with

Hitler’s program, based on racial imperialism, & preferential treatment to the Nordic peoples

modernizing the Soviet Union; creating a new Communist society with a new socialist humanity

Lenin’s policy attempt to rebuild agriculture & industry in face of economic disintegration

granting Hitler whatever he wanted, including western Czechoslovakia, in order to avoid war.

Many of Stalin's people were deported to forced-labor camps for "reeducation"

What was the purpose of the Enabling Act in 1933?

Which countries in August 1939 signed a nonaggression pact that led directly to war?

As practiced in the 1930s, appeasement was

Stalin’s theory of socialism in one country

What was Germany’s goal in the Battle of Britain?

What characteristics did Communist and fascist dictatorships share?

Why was Mussolini expelled from the Italian Socialist Party?

What was the effect of the 1935 Nuremberg Law?

In late 1920s how did Adolf Hitler shape Nazi Party’s message to appeal to middle-class voters?

Why did Stalin call for the mass murder of the kulaks?

What was the “Europe First” policy adopted by the Allied Powers during World War II?

What was the Holocaust?

The Allies adopted the principle of the unconditional surrender of Germany & Japan in order to

parliamentary government in Italy was breaking down October 1922, largely because of

What was primary goal of the opponents of the Nazis in the Protestant and Catholic churches?

consolidation of individual peasant farms into large, state-controlled enterprises in USSR

Which battle was the decisive turning point in the clash between the Soviet Union and Germany?

Why did Britain adopt a policy of appeasement in its relationship with Hitler?

How did the Nazis manage the northern European states that they conquered?

What was the Nazi Party policy of “coordination”?

According to Hitler’s New Order, which European race was considered subhuman with the Jews?

private militia destroyed socialist newspapers, union halls, & Socialist Party headquarters

How did the Nazi Party seek to promote the idea of the Volksgemeinschaft?

How did real wages for workers &peasants in USSR (1937)compare w/t Russian Empire in 1913?

What was the effect of Lenin’s 1921 New Economic Policy (NEP)?

How did Mussolini build support from big business in Italy?

How did German chancellor Heinrich Brüning cope with the Great Depression in the early 1930s?

selective breeding of human beings can improve general characteristics of a national population

In Stalin’s Soviet Union, women