Unit 6: Between the Wars Review

Question 1

Mussolini started ___ in Italy that combined socialism and used violent tactics and propaganda in order to take control.

Accepted Answer

fascism

Question 2

Japan began an aggressive policy of imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries because Japan...

Accepted Answer

needed raw materials for its factories

Question 3

Under Mussolini's rule in Italy,

Accepted Answer

There was a one-party dictatorship

Question 4

Which statement is correct about the economy of the US in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

The US became the world's leading economic power.

Question 5

The graph below indicates the beginning of what world-wide economic disaster?

Accepted Answer

The Great Depression

Question 6

Which of the following is an example of change to American society after WWI?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 7

Term for a state that holds total authority over the society and seeks to control all aspects of the state.

Accepted Answer

Totalitarianism

Question 8

Which of the following are characteristics of Mussolini's rule in Italy?

Accepted Answer

Aggressive pursuit of foreign expansion

Question 9

The key difference between fascism & communism is that communism is led by an authoritarian while fascism is not.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 10

Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

High Tariffs

Question 11

What year was Adolf Hitler made chancellor of Germany?

Accepted Answer

1933

Question 12

What made the Nazi party the only legal party in Germany?

Accepted Answer

The Enabling Act

Question 13

A contributing factor to the Stock Market Crash of 1929 was that people chose to purchase stocks with credit, called

Accepted Answer

Buying on Margin

Question 14

What was Stalin's plan to rapidly industrialize Russia by bringing the entire economy under state control?

Accepted Answer

Five Year Plans

Question 15

What is a significant consequence of The Reichstag Fire?

Accepted Answer

Hitler was able to blame and ban all communists from the Reichstag.

Question 16

"The Night of Broken Glass" or Kristallnacht was an attack perpetrated by the Nazi's to destroy and vandalize what?

Accepted Answer

Jewish synagogues & businesses.

Question 17

Who was the leader of the Bolsheviks during and after the Russian Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Vladimir Lenin

Question 18

Who was the Nazi Propaganda Minister who was a chief contributor to the successive elections for the Nazis and Hitler?

Accepted Answer

Joseph Goebbels

Question 19

Following Lenin's death, who became the communist leader who transformed the USSR into a police state?

Accepted Answer

Joseph Stalin

Question 20

What were the militant supporters of Benito Mussolini in Italy called?

Accepted Answer

Black Shirts

Question 21

What was Stalin's position on religion in the Soviet Union?

Accepted Answer

Atheism was the official state policy

Question 22

Why did Germany experience hyper-inflation in 1923?

Accepted Answer

The German government printed large amounts of money to pay reparations.

Question 23

Most post-WWI writers, including F. Scott-Fitzgerald, wrote about the moral decay of American Society which was called:

Accepted Answer

The Lost Generation

Question 24

The painting below is an example of what type of art pioneered by Pablo Picasso?

Accepted Answer

Cubism

Question 25

Which of the following is a characteristic of a Totalitarian Government?

Accepted Answer

Both red & yellow answers

Question 26

What tool of fascism is BEST being used on Mussolini's fascist headquarters in Rome? ("SI" means yes in Italian)

Accepted Answer

Propaganda

Question 27

Term for large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group in the Soviet Union

Accepted Answer

Collectives

Question 28

What was the intent of the Nuremberg Laws?

Accepted Answer

To keep German people "ethnically pure".

Question 29

Which of the following is a reason why Hitler and the Nazi party were able to come to power?

Accepted Answer

Both yellow & blue answers

Unit 6: Between the Wars Review

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Unit 6: Between the Wars Review

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