THE RISE OF FASCISM, TOTALITARIANISM & WORLD WAR II

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A major cause for the rise of fascism in nations such as Italy and Germany?

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economic hardship

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Many historians believe that the harsh terms found in the Treaty of Versailles helped lead to

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World War II

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Which statement best explains why many Germans became discontented with the Weimar Republic in the early 1930s? Options: The failure to slow population growth in Germany had created shortages of basic necessities. The leaders of the German government were not elected by universal suffrage. The German government had refused to join the League of Nations. Germany was experiencing widespread unemployment and other economic problems.

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Germany was experiencing widespread unemployment and other economic problems.

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In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin governed by means of secret police, censorship, and purges. This type of government is called

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totalitarian

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Joseph Stalin’s policies in Ukraine during the 1930s directly resulted in

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widespread starvation

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Stalin's Five-Year plans and his decision to form collectives are examples of

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strategies to modernize the economy of the Soviet Union through forced communism

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Fascism in Europe during the 1920s and 1930s is best described as a

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form of totalitarianism that glorified the state above the individual

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Before the outbreak of World War II the strategy used by major European powers in reaction to Hitler’s acts of aggression was to use

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appeasement

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The term appeasement is best defined as

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an attempt to avoid conflict by meeting the demands of an aggressor

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The policy of appeasement helped cause World War II because this policy

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allowed the aggressive actions of Germany to go unchecked