WWII Study Guide

Question 1

taking of land/property

Answer 1

imperialism

Question 2

building weapons or a strong military

Answer 2

militarism

Question 3

exalts nation above individual - centralized autocratic government headed by doctoral leader, economic/social regiment, suppression of opposition

Answer 3

fascism

Question 4

leaders who control all aspects of society

Answer 4

totalitarian dictator

Question 5

Germany’s dictator

Answer 5

Adolfo hitler

Question 6

how dictators took control of society

Answer 6

1. promising simple solutions to their nations problems
2. rebuilding national pride (propaganda)
3. providing scapegoats
4. absorbing power, taking away individual rights, and crushing opposition

Question 7

Italy’s dictator :

Answer 7

Benito Mussolini

Question 8

Japan’s dictator :

Answer 8

Hideki Tojo and Emperor Hirohito

Question 9

how did Franco Francisco come to power in Spain?

Answer 9

won Spanish civil war

Question 10

how did Joseph Stalin come to power in Russia

Answer 10

took control of communist nation

Question 11

why did hitler join the German army instead of the Austrian army?

Answer 11

Austrian army rejected him

Question 12

name of hitler’s most famous book? where did he write it?

Answer 12

mein kampf and prison

Question 13

who was Paul Von Hindenburg

Answer 13

president of Weimar Republic

Question 14

what was reichstag? what happened to it?

Answer 14

parliament/congress –> dissolved

Question 15

what did the enabling act do?

Answer 15

transferred reichstag power to president

Question 16

Hitler’s invasion of this country is considered the start of WWII

Answer 16

Poland

Question 17

what was the name of hitlers empire?

Answer 17

the third reich

Question 18

extreme pride in ones nationality or country

Answer 18

nationalism