Geography-WWII And The Dictators

Question 1

Who was Joseph Stalin?

Answer 1

Dictator of the Soviet Union

Question 2

What did Stalin do that resulted 10 million deaths?

Answer 2

He wanted to transform Soviet Union into an industrial power and formed collective farms

Question 3

How Stalin keep in power?

Answer 3

Propaganda and fear

Question 4

Who was the leader of the fascist party?

Answer 4

Benito Mussolini

Question 5

Who opposed liberalism and socialism?

Answer 5

Benito Mussolini

Question 6

What did Benito Mussolini do to stay in power?

Answer 6

Outlawed political parties, took over the press, created secret police, organized youth groups to indoctrinate the young, and suppressed strikes

Question 7

Who was Adolf Hitler?

Answer 7

Dictator who killed more six million, started the Nazi party, born in Austria(early life Vienna), started his grow to power in Germany

Question 8

What were hitler’s core beliefs?

Answer 8

Anti-Semitic(Jewish);wanted to have a perfect Aryan race in his country(blue eyes, blond hair)

Question 9

What was the book hitler wrote in jail in 1924?

Answer 9

Mein Kamph(he was in jail because he tried to take over the German army)

Question 10

What was hitler’s main fear?

Answer 10

The growth of communism(largest party)

Question 11

What were hitler’s total state techniques?

Answer 11

Propaganda, mass demonstrations, rear armament of the military, and control of police using terror and nazi ideology(secret police, execution and extermination camps), and took over churches and youth groups

Question 12

What Was the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression pact?

Answer 12

Signed August 23, 1939. Agreed not to attack one another and to divide Poland and recognize each other’s territorial ambitions

Question 13

What was the blitzkrieg?

Answer 13

Hitler’s military tactics(lighting war-surprise attacks)

Question 14

What were the axis powers?

Answer 14

Germany, Italy, and Japan

Question 15

What were the allies?

Answer 15

Britain, France, Soviet Union, China, and USA

Question 16

What were the neutrality acts?

Answer 16

1936: forbid loans to the belligerent countries
1937: “Cash and Carry” principle-all nations must pay for nonmilitary purchases and ship the goods to their own vessels
1939: prohibited the Americans from traveling to the belligerent countries
1940: Lend Lease program- offered to Great Britain, FDR promises to sell, lease, lend, or dispose of any government when he thought it was in the country’s best interest

Question 17

What was the main problem with the treaty of Versailles signed after WWI?

Answer 17

It was signed only for appeasement and it embarrassed Germany because they had to pay back their war debts($57 trillion). The problem with this is Germany still wanted more land and power than the treaty offered. This treaty also left the Germans angry because they lost land to their surrounding nations.

Question 18

How much debt did WWII cause America?

Answer 18

$9 billion in 1940; $98 billion in 1945(all of WWII cost $330 billion-10 times more than WWI)

Question 19

Define totalitarian dictatorship.

Answer 19

Absolute rule by one person or party because they desire power(economy, social lives, and culture)-20th century phenomenon