Rise of Dictators Menu 36

Which of these played a major role in the spread of both communism and fascism in Europe between the World Wars?

• The spread of capitalism in Europe

• The League of Nations military policies

• Economic hardship created by the Great Depression

• Territorial changes brought on by the Treaty of Versailles

During the 1930s the leaders of Japan, Germany, and Italy made war more likely by

• engaging in submarine warfare

• refusing to join the League of Nations

• required that the losing nations in WWI pay reparations

• using nationalism to establish warlike attitudes among their populations

Unlike authoritarian governments, totalitarian governments

• allow more personal freedoms

• are found only in Western Europe

• have an official guiding ideology

• are characterized by strict obedience to the state

Following the death of Vladimir Lenin, the Soviet Union imposed a form of government on central Europe that can best be described as

• fascist

• democratic

• military dictatorship

• communist dictatorship

Who was the powerful and ruthless leader of the Soviet Union from 1929-1953 who also ordered the Great Purge in which he had his real and imagined enemies arrested?

• Adolf Hitler

• Joseph Stalin

• Vladimir Lenin

• Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini MOST LIKELY annexed Ethiopia into the colony of Italian East Africa because he

• considered them a potential economic

• wanted to overtake colonies to build a large empire

• saw an opportunity to take strategic land from Germany

• believed he should eradicate an entire group of people

Fascism

• seeks to eliminate conflict between economic and social classes

• rejects the notions of the "rights of individuals"

• believes businesses and governments can work together in a "corporate state"

• suppresses free speech and believes "others" are to blame for domestic problems

• All of the above

Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin could ALL be classified as

• Fascist Rulers

• Communist Rulers

• Socialist Rulers

• Totalitarian Rulers

Which country during the 1900s was LEAST LIKELY to experience a totalitarian structure?

• Britain

• Germany

• Italy

• USSR

The nature of totalitarianism as it differs from authoritarian governments is BEST illustrated in

• the military junta of Myanmar

• the police state of Nazi Germany

• the Islamic absolute monarchy of Saudi Arabia

• the single-party Communist state of the People's Republic of China