Road to WWII Test

Question 1

What was Hitler’s autobiography called?

Answer 1

Mein Kampf

Question 2

What was the Beer Hall Putsch?

Answer 2

The failed Nazi attempt to overthrow the Weimar Government

Question 3

Mussolini formed modern Europe’s first ___ government.

Answer 3

Fascist

Question 4

Fascist governments are often led by what kind of leaders? Often called dictators.

Answer 4

Totalitarian

Question 5

Where did Joseph Stalin use the threat of forced labor against his opposition?

Answer 5

Gulags

Question 6

He carried out murderous ___ of suspected rivals within the Communist Party.

Answer 6

Purges

Question 7

What group did the Nazi’s use to beat up opposition? ___ shirts

Answer 7

Brown shirts

Question 8

What group was used in Italy to help Mussolini take over control of the government? ___ shirts

Answer 8

Black shirts

Question 9

At what event did King Victor Emmanuel III fear that the Black shirts would riot in 1922?

Answer 9

March on Rome

Question 10

Who was the leader of the USSR that forcibly pushed for 5 Year Plans?

Answer 10

Joseph Stalin

Question 11

What pushed for increased agricultural and industrial production?

Answer 11

5 Year Plans

Question 12

What were the huge, government controlled farms that thousands of peasants were forced to work on called?

Answer 12

Collectives

Question 13

Who took the title of IL Duce after receiving the blessings from the Pope in 1928?

Answer 13

Mussolini

Question 14

What does IL Duce mean?

Answer 14

Leader

Question 15

Who was Japan’s leader that was treated like a god and had little influence over the Japanese government?

Answer 15

Hirohito

Question 16

What were the military leaders and officials that made decisions regarding expansion and acquiring of raw materials called?

Answer 16

Ultranationalists

Question 17

What is propaganda?

Answer 17

Information used to influence people’s opinions

Question 18

Which leader heavily used Propaganda in order to promote his racial views?

Answer 18

Hitler

Question 19

What was the master race that Hitler believed Germans belonged to called?

Answer 19

Aryans

Question 20

What does Anti-Semitic mean?

Answer 20

Hostile or prejudiced against Jews

Question 21

Describe Fascism

Answer 21

Had a sense of nationalism, dictators, and centralized power

Question 22

Describe a totalitarian state

Answer 22

Dictator controls every aspect of life, centralized government, and a sense of nationalism.

Question 23

What did Hitler promise?

Answer 23

End of reparations, create jobs, re-arm Germany

Question 24

How did the Soviet Union’s Communist party force people to obey under Stalin?

Answer 24

KGB, torture, and purges

Question 25

Who controlled the government in Japan?

Answer 25

Military

Question 26

Which country invaded Manchuria?

Answer 26

Japan

Question 27

Which country invaded Ethiopia?

Answer 27

Italy

Question 28

Anschluss was the Union of Austria and ___

Answer 28

Germany

Question 29

Which country invaded Albania?

Answer 29

Italy

Question 30

Which country violated the Treaty of Versailles by invading the Rhineland?

Answer 30

Germany

Question 31

Which country demanded the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia?

Answer 31

Germany

Question 32

Which countries participated in the Spanish Civil War?

Answer 32

Italy, Germany, USSR

Question 33

The Rape of Nanjing (Nanking?) was carried out by what country?

Answer 33

Japan

Question 34

What policy prevented FDR and the United States from entering the war?

Answer 34

Isolationism

Question 35

What policy did not allow weapon sales to any nation at war?

Answer 35

1st Neutrality Act

Question 36

What policy allowed non-military items to be sold to nations at war, including fuels?

Answer 36

2nd Neutrality Act

Question 37

What had the Cash and Carry Policy- US would sell weapons only if the country paid in cash and picked up the weapons?

Answer 37

Amendment to 2nd Neutrality Act

Question 38

What were 3 issues that created a perfect storm for the total aggression?

Answer 38

The US Isolationist Policy, they had just fought WWI about 20 years prior, and economic hardships from the Great Depression.

Question 39

What are 5 anti Semitic laws/decrees that Nazis placed on Jews in Nazi rule?

Answer 39

They were fired from jobs, banned from intermarriage, couldn't be actors, couldn't go to school, and Jewish businesses were boycotted

Question 40

What are 3 reasons that Antisemitism existed?

Answer 40

Religious differences, economic jealousy, and political differences.