The Rise of Fascism and Totalitarian States

Question 1

When Hitler took power, most Germans

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supported, or at least accepted, Nazi rule

Question 2

During the Great Purge in the USSR, top Communist leaders

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were forced to confess to fictitious crimes

Question 3

Mussolini modernize Italy's industrial sector by managing the economy through principles of

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corporatism

Question 4

The anti-Jewish violence that took place throughout Germany on November 9, 1938 was known as

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Kristallnacht

Question 5

Many Germans viewed the Weimar Republic as an illegitimate government because its leaders

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signed the Treaty of Versailles

Question 6

Who ruled Spain as a dictator between 1923 and 1930?

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Miguel Primo de Rivera

Question 7

How did the Nazis take power in Germany?

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by parliamentary election

Question 8

Hitler’s goal of establishing a Third Reich meant that he wanted to

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create a new German Empire

Question 9

The regimes under Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco were similar because they were all

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totalitarian

Question 10

Mussolini believed he was helping restore Italy to glory days of the ancient Roman Empire by

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invading Ethiopia

Question 11

Who organized a new political movement known as fascism in 1919?

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Benito Mussolini

Question 12

The Spanish Civil War was fought between the left-wing Republicans and the right-wing

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Nationalists

Question 13

Which of the following factors helped radicalize German society in the years after World War I?

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our of control inflation

Question 14

Stalin’s First Five-Year Plan focused on

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modernizing agriculture and industry

Question 15

Mussolini believed Italy’s social and economic problems could only be solved by

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a dictator

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