World War II (Part One)

Question 1

what two main forms of regimes were started?

Answer 1

totalitarian and fascism

Question 2

a government that exerts total control over a nation and dominates every aspect of life

Answer 2

totalitarian

Question 3

what uses terror to suppress individual rights and silences any form of opposition

Answer 3

totalitarian

Question 4

a philosophy that emphasizes the importance of the nation or an ethnic group and the supreme authority of the leader

Answer 4

fascism

Question 5

what did all three dictators have in common?

Answer 5

they each ruled some form of fascism

Question 6

the leader that ruled a vicious form of communism and does not respect the rights of individuals

Answer 6

Joseph Stalin

Question 7

what leader took over after the death of Lenin?

Answer 7

Stalin

Question 8

when farms are owned and run by the state

Answer 8

collective farming

Question 9

what happened when Stalin tried to modernize farming?

Answer 9

production fell dramatically and there was a food shortage throughout the country

Question 10

what happened to the resistant farmers?

Answer 10

millions died and some were sent into labor camps

Question 11

what was Stalin’s goal for the Soviet Union?

Answer 11

turn it into an industrial power

Question 12

what were rural laborers sent to do?

Answer 12

run industrial centers such as iron, steel, oil and coal industries

Question 13

how did this idea of turning the Soviet Union into an industrial power show effect?

Answer 13

standard living fell: there was a shortage on essential products

Question 14

the process of removing enemies and undesirable individuals from power

Answer 14

purges

Question 15

a series of “show trials” only verdict was guilty in 1934

Answer 15

The Great Purge

Question 16

what was the reign of terror?

Answer 16

an attempt to purify the Communist Party where more than 7 million were arrested and a million were executed or ended up in forced labor camps

Question 17

who became head of the Fascist Party in Italy after WWI?

Answer 17

Benito Mussolini

Question 18

what did Benito Mussolini vow?

Answer 18

to end Italy’s economic problems

Question 19

what did Mussolini do?

Answer 19

outlawed other political parties and suspended elections

Question 20

what were Mussolini’s expansionist goals?

Answer 20

wanted to conquer more land so he invaded Ethiopia and controlled it a year later

Question 21

what political group did Hitler join?

Answer 21

the “National Socialistic German Worker’s Party” aka Nazi Party

Question 22

philosophies and policies of this party; a form of Fascism shaped by Hitler’s fanatical ideas about German nationalism and racial superiority

Answer 22

Nazism

Question 23

what was Hitler enraged about?

Answer 23

the Versailles Treaty

Question 24

how did Hitler rise to power?

Answer 24

he was a natural speaker and appealed to the German worker and those suffering after WWI

Question 25

what caused Hitler to get jailed for five years?

Answer 25

he tried to overthrow the German government in 1923

Question 26

the name of the German Federal government replaced imperialists form after WWI

Answer 26

Weimar Republic

Question 27

what did Hitler do while he was jailed?

Answer 27

started writing an autobiography called Mein Kampf

Question 28

what does Mein Kampf stand for?

Answer 28

My Struggle

Question 29

what did Hitler's autobiography outline?

Answer 29

Nazi philosophy, Germany's problems, his plans for nation

Question 30

what did the autobiography criticize?

Answer 30

the Jewish race--blames them for defeat in WWI

Question 31

what was the so-called "Aryan Race"?

Answer 31

blond, blue-eyed Germans; called for removing those who were undesirable

Question 32

what sets the foundation for the Holocaust?

Answer 32

Hitler's autobiography w all I of his policies

Question 33

what main dictators rose at the beginning of world war II?

Answer 33

Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler