MWH_Ch. 16 Totalitarian Regimes

Which country emerged from WWI in the best financial shape?

• France
• Russia
• Britain
• the United States

Which statement best characterizes the mood of much of the world at the end of WWI?

• People looked forward to the postwar world with hope.
• The sense of optimism had been shattered.
• Winners and losers of the war looked for revenge.
• People looked for ways to return to how things were before the war.

Better technology allowed factories to make more products faster during a time when people were buying less, which resulted in

• overproduction.
• general strike.
• disarmament.
• Finance.

Which crisis in finance triggered the Great Depression?

• Many businesses began to close.
• The general strike.
• The stock market crashed.
• American banks demanded repayment of foreign loans.

Italians accepted the use of violence by the Fascists because

• they had lost faith in constitutional government.
• it was used sparingly.
• the Fascists were less ruthless than the leaders of the constitutional government.
• they wanted to see the Church restored to power in Italy.

Mussolini gained power by promising to...

• grant independence to Italian colonies.
• share power with the Communists.
• end corruption and replace turmoil with order.
• give every Italian a free college education.

What was most important to the Fascists?

• agriculture
• the individual
• Marxism
• the state

Mussolini was responsible for building the first...

• totalitarian state.
• March on Rome.
• ideology.
• Il Duce.

Which is NOT true of Fascism?

• Fascists reject democracy.
• Fascism is rooted in extreme nationalism.
• Fascists value individual rights.
• Fascists believe in aggressive foreign expansion.

After World War I, which of the following was a problem Italy faced?

• high unemployment and high taxes
• unrest in their new territory on the Adriatic
• overproduction
• strict government control