Chapter 19 Flashcards
Nikolai Bukhatin and the right wing of the Communist Party favored
relatively slow industrialization
The Bolshevik revolution can be characterized as
a world historical movement
While the term “fascism” is still under dispute, the governments regarded as fascists were all of the following except
anti-small business
Through the Lateran Accord of 1929, Mussolini made peace with
the Roman Catholic Church
The Irish national uprising on Easter Monday 1916
was the only rebellion of a national group against any government in WWI
The era of reparations came to an end in 1932 as a result of the
Lausanne Conference
The only central European successor state not to eventually adopt a self-imposed authoritarian government was
Czechoslovakia
In the 1920s, the effect of worldwide improved wheat farming was
decreased agricultural revenues
The Weimar Republic gained stability and self-confidence under the leadership of
Stresemann
A new spirit of hope was brought to Europe by the
Locarno Agreement
The difficulties of the Great Depression included all of the following except
colonial independence
Which of the following is the most accurate statement about Mussolini?
He was original a socialist and became a nationalist during WWI
The Nuremberg Laws
stripped German Jews of their citizenship
France’s Popular Front was a coalition of
left-wing parties
Hitler’s rise to power was largely the result of
miscalculations by political elites
By late 1921, it was clear only _____ remained loyal to the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Bolsheviks
The 21 Conditions of the Comintern sought to destroy
Democratic Socialism
Stalin’s rise to power depended on his
command of the bureaucracy
On what constitutional basis did Hitler issue an Emergency Decree suspending civil liberties?
Article 48
Gosplan oversaw
the entire Soviet economy
Which successor state avoided a self-imposed authoritarian government?
Czechoslovakia
The _____ Republic was the German democratic regime that existed between the end of WWI and Hitler’s coming to power in 1933
Weimar
Following the Paris peace treaties, all of the following transpired EXCEPT
Germany believed treaty provisions were not properly enforced
The replacement of private peasant farms with huge state-run and state-owned farms was called
collectivization
Nazi policy called for German women to do all of the following EXCEPT
occupy key positions in the German gov.
The Lateran Accord of 1929 established that:
the pope was the ruler of the independent Vatican city
While the capitalist economies of W. Europe struggled in the Great Depression, the Soviet Union undertook:
a tremendous industrial advance
The 1935 Nuremberg Laws:
stripped German Jews of their rights
In 1924, this plan reorganized the administration and transfer of reparations, which, in turn, smoothed the debt repayments of to the US
Dawes Plan
Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany:
by legal means
Most scholars agree that all of the following adjectives could be applied to fascist governments EXCEPT
anti-Catholic
Which of the following was NOT a factor that contributed to the intense severity and the extended length of the Great Depression in Europe?
increasing governmental control of economic affairs
_____ orchestrated the imprisonment and execution of millions of Soviet citizens between 1934 and 1939
Stalin
The Soviet Communist Party was ____ in its ideology
atheist
_______, meaning “crystal night,” refers to the broken glass that littered German streets after the looting/destruction of Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany on the orders of the Nazi Party in November 1938
Kristallnacht
Stalin’s rise to power depended on his
command of the bureaucracy
Following the end of WWI, a state of normalcy:
could not be restored
The fascists’ seizure of the Italian gov. can be primarily attributed to the
failure of the king to authorize the army to block the Black Shirt March
Most money the Allies collected in war reparations went to
France
On March 23, 1933, the Reichstag passed a/an ____ that permitted Hitler to rule by decree
Enabling Act
Hitler declared at the Munich Conference:
“I have no more territorial demands to make in Europe”
During this one battle, the Russians lost more men than the Americans lost in combat during the entire war
Stalingrad
Partly because it made new European alignments this, in many respects, is seen as a training ground for WWII
Spanish Civil War
At Potsdam the Allies agreed to
divide Germany into occupation zones
Hitler assigned women a special place in the war effort that included all of the following EXCEPT
women working on the front lines of battles, especially as ambulance drivers
The League of Nations condemned Japan for the use of force against Manchuria and:
did nothing else of substance
The Battle of the Bulge:
was Germany’s last “gasp” in the West
Hitler decided on a “final solution of the Jewish Problem”:
extermination
Hitler’s vision for a new Germany included more living space, known as _____, which would be taken from the Slavs
lebensraum
The term Aunchluss refers to:
the union of Germany with Austria following the 1938 German invasion
The Munich agreement is often considered a classic example of _____
appeasement
When the Germans invaded France:
France’s forces were quickly overcome
Any chance of the British considering terms set by the Germans, in the face of defeat, disappeared when this man became prime minister in May 1940
Churchill
Hitler often spoke of the “new order” that he meant to impose after he had established his _____ throughout Europe
Third Reich
Blitzkrieg means
“lightning strikes,” which is how Hitler hoped to win
The Battle of Britain resulted in
a victory for the British and the abandonment of Hitler’s plans to invade England
The code name for Germany’s invasion of Russia was Operation _____
Barbaroosa
The German invasion of this country was the immediate cause of WWII
Poland
In a secret agreement, signed in August 1939, these two nations agreed to divide Poland amongst themselves
Soviet Union and Germany
The tide turned in favor of the US in the Pacific theatre at this turning point of the war
Battle of Midway
