Between the Wars

Test ReviewBetween the WarsA ___state is a government that aims to control the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens.SocialistEuropeanCommunisttotalitarianAnswer: D Totalitarian.How did Benito Mussolini gain the support of the Catholic Church?He threatened to execute the pope, his bishops, and cardinals.He gave the Church money and official recognition.He expanded Vatican Citys land greatly by giving it control over half of Rome.He assigned Squadristi to be food tasters for the pope.Answer: BHe gave the Church money and official recognition.True or False?Hitler wrote Mein Kampf while he was in jail for leading an armed uprising.True.The purpose of Stalins Five Year Plans was toTransform the USSR from an agricultural into an industrial economy.Strengthen the Red Army so that it could take back lost territoriesReduce the massive poverty and improve the standard of living.Drastically boost food production to end the widespread famines.

Answer: ATransform the USSR from an agricultural into an industrial economy.The ___was the leading policy-making body of the Communist Party.SquadristiNEPPolitburoUlemaAnswer: CThe PolitburoAn___is a period of low economic activity and rising unemployment.Economic cycleExpressionist cycleEconomic depressionInflationary period.Answer: CEconomic DepressionTo deal with runaway German inflation, an international commission created the Dawes Plan, which.Cancelled Britains reparation debt, angering the Axis Powers.Reduced Germanys reparations debt.Reduced the interest rates paid by Germany on its foreign loans.Increased the price paid by foreign markets for German products.Answer: BReduced Germanys reparations debt.Fascism glorifies the state above the individual by emphasizing the need forA strong central government led by a dictatorial ruler.A communal system of play in which the state owns the means of production.Special taxes to help pay for public works programs.Volunteers to help build bridges, roads, and public buildings.Answer: AA strong central government led by a dictatorial ruler.Who led the Spanish military in a revolt against the democratic government?Richard BlaineFrancisco FrancoBenito MussoliniLeon TrotskyAnswer: BFrancisco FrancoWho was the successor to Lenin in Russia?Who is Joseph Stalin?Stalin had this man expelled from the party and, probably, had him murdered.Who is Leon Trotsky?

Modified capitalist system Lenin used to avoid economic disaster.What is the New Economic Policy, or NEP?System in which private farms were eliminated and the government owned the land.What is collectivization?

Its meaning is living space.What is Lebensraum?Night of shattered glassWhat is Kristallnacht?Hitlers birthplace.What is Austria?The National Socialist German Workers Party was otherwise known as this.What is Nazi?

This legislation gave Hitler supreme power.What is the Enabling Act?What were the Nuremberg Laws?They excluded Jews from German citizenship and forbade marriages between Jews and Germans.They banned books, magazines, and newspapers not strictly approved by the Nazi government.They outlawed all religion in Germany, making Hitlers regime a completely secular state.They imposed high fines for citizens having loud, boisterous parties in their homes.Answer: AThey excluded Jews from German citizenship and forbade marriages between Jews and Germans.A factor in leading many Germans to accept Hitler and the Nazis wasHitlers abolition of the Reichstag.The regimes temporary suspension of all crime for four years.The Catholic Churchs support of the new regime.The belief that Hitler had ended Germanys economic depression.Answer: DThe belief that Hitler had ended Germanys economic depression.

The Great Depression was caused primarily byEconomic downturn and the U.S. stock market crash.Failure of nations to reduce their military forces.New interest in Marxist theories.Strengthening of European banks.Answer: AEconomic downturn and the U.S. stock market crash.Hitlers goal was to create aThird Reich, or German Empire.Third Workers PartyThird DepressionThird ReichstagAnswer: AThird Reich, or German Empire.Hitlers political theories were based on all of the following EXCEPTRacism, especially anti-Semitism.Darwinian social struggle.CommunismnationalismAnswer: CCommunism