Rise of Dictators

Question 1

Rise of Italian Fascism

Answer 1

1919 Benito Mussolini organizes Fascist Party. 1922 marches to Rome and King VEIII names him Prime minister. 1926 Fascism takes over Parliament and he is Il Duce

Question 2

Black Shirts

Answer 2

attacked socialists and strikers

Question 3

Mussolini settles with Pope

Answer 3

tax exemption for new Vatican City and makes RCC official religion–Pope Pius XI recognizes Italy

Question 4

Response to Italian Fascism

Answer 4

disliked and protests continue

Question 5

1935 Mussolini

Answer 5

invades Ethiopia

Question 6

Spanish Civil War

Answer 6

General Franco leads revolt in 1936 against republic, supported by everyone but Stalin. 500k die

Question 7

Japan after the war

Answer 7

free and modern and great, but needs to imperialize after depression ruins trade

Question 8

Japan is naughty

Answer 8

Manchuria, China–1931 Japan takes over and installs P’u Yi–condemned and leaves L. of Nations. Continues expansion

Question 9

Soviet economy

Answer 9

New Economic Policy–kinda Capitalist

Question 10

Succession after Lenin

Answer 10

24-28 Stalin consolidates slowly over Leon Trotsky

Question 11

Stalin’s rule

Answer 11

28-WWII- -ultra-industrialization, but kills millions from overwork, starvation, and gulags

Question 12

Gosplan

Answer 12

formed to oversee Five-Year Plans

Question 13

First Five Year Plan

Answer 13

1928 collectivization of farms

Fierce resistance, so many are killed or exiled to Siberia

Question 14

Cheka

Answer 14

Secret police with propaganda

Question 15

Great Terror

Answer 15

Stalin wipes out all competitors of any party–even Bolsheviks and Communists