WW II Dictators

Question 1

Totalitarian is a

Answer 1

20th century phenomenon

Question 2

Joseph Stalin

Answer 2

Suspicious, cruel, ruthless, & tyrannical

Question 3

What did Joseph Stalin want to do

Answer 3

Wanted to transform Soviet Union into an industrial power & formed collective farms. This led to 10 million deaths

Question 4

What did Joseph Stalin do ?

Answer 4

Purge communist party of people suspected of being traitor. Led to 1 million deaths

Question 5

What kept Joseph Stalin in power

Answer 5

Fear & Massive Propaganda

Question 6

Benito Mussolini

Answer 6

Leader of Fascist Party

Question 7

What did Benito Mussolini do

Answer 7

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

Question 8

What did Benito Mussolini opposed

Answer 8

Liberalism & socialism

Question 9

Where was Adolf Hitler Born

Answer 9

Austria - early life in Vienna

Question 10

Hitler core of beliefs

Answer 10

Anti-Semitic (anti-jew)

Question 11

What did hitler write

Answer 11

wrote “Meinkampf” in jail in 20’s

Question 12

How did hitler win

Answer 12

Won over elite & establishment

Question 13

What did hitler have a fear of

Answer 13

Fear of communists(largest party)

Question 14

What did hitter become

Answer 14

Became chancellor

Question 15

Totalitarianism

Answer 15

Theory of government in which a single party or leader controls the economic,social, & cultural lives of its people

Question 16

Total State Techniques

Answer 16

• propaganda masters
• mass demonstrations
• rearmament of the military
• SS control of police using terror based on Nazi ideology
• churches & youth groups under control

Question 17

Nazi Soviet Nonaggression Pact

Answer 17

Aug.23,1939. agreed not to attack one another and to divide Poland & recognize each others territorial ambitions

Question 18

Blitzkrieg

Answer 18

Germany military tactics or “lighting war”

Question 19

Axis Powers

Answer 19

Germany, Italy, & Japan

Question 20

Allies

Answer 20

Britain, France,Soviet Union, China & USA

Question 21

1935 Neutrality Act

Answer 21

Prohibited arms shipments to all belligerent countries

Question 22

1936 Neutrality Acts

Answer 22

Forbid loans to any belligerents

Question 23

1937 Neutrality Acts

Answer 23

“Cash & Carry” principle: all nations must pay for non military purchases & ship the goods in their own vessels

Question 24

1939 Neutrality Acts

Answer 24

Prohibited Americans from traveling on ships of belligerent nations

Question 25

1940 Neutrality Acts

Answer 25

Lend Lease program offered to Great Britain US becomes the “arsenal of democracy”

Question 26

Selective Service Act

Answer 26

1940

Provided 1.2 million troops trained & 800,000 reserve troops a year

Question 27

W
A
R

Answer 27

W-World War 1
A-Appeasement
R-Rise of Totalitarianism

Question 28

What did Germany lose

Answer 28

Germany lost land to surrounding nations

Question 29

Appeasement

Answer 29

Giving someone something to make them happy & leave you alone

Question 30

War Costs

Answer 30

US Debt 1940-9 billion
US Debt 1945-98 Billion
WWII cost 330 Billion- 10 times the cost of WWI & equivalent to all previous federal spending since 1776