THE RISE OF FASCISM, TOTALITARIANISM & WORLD WAR II

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

• collectivisation

• economic hardship

• genocide

• secret treaties

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

• Italy’s unification

• Turkey’s modernization

• Revolutions in Russia

• World War II

Which statement best explains why many Germans became discontented with the Weimar Republic in the early 1930s?

• 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.

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

• democracy

• totalitarian

• limited monarchy

• theocracy

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

• widespread starvation
• agricultural self-sufficiency
• the development of cottage industries
• the use of subsistence farming techniques

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

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

• a more friendly foreign policy toward China

• methods of dealing with the United States during the Cold War

• programs to westernize, educate, and enlighten the population

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

• demonstration of laissez-faire capitalism that promoted free enterprise

• form of totalitarianism that glorified the state above the individual

• type of economic system that stressed a classless society

• set of humanist ideas that emphasized the dignity and worth of the individual

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

• deterrence

• appeasement

• preemptive strike

• boycott

The term appeasement is best defined as

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

• a period of peace and prosperity, resulting in cultural achievement

• a declaration of war between two or more nations

• an agreement removing economic barriers between nations

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

• reduced the armaments of major European powers

• gave too much power to the United Nations

• increased sea trade between England and the United States

• allowed the aggressive actions of Germany to go unchecked