W11-1 Rise of Dictators

Name a dictator (last name only) who took power in the 1920s of 1930.

(a)  

Which definition best describes fascism?

• a political philosophy of common ownership and means of production

• political theory that promotes international interests above the nation

• political philosophy of becoming independent from government restraint

• political philosophy that glorifies the state over the individual

What agreement proposed an international outlaw of war as a means to solve problems?

• Non-Agression Pact

• Kellogg-Briand Pact

• Hawley-Smoot Act

• Anti-Imperialist League

What is the better-known name of the National Socialist German Worker's Party?

(a)  

What act gave Hitler absolute dictatorial powers of the German legislature for four years?

• Warren Act

• Berlin Crisis Act

• Frankfort Act

• Enabling Act

What term means giving into an aggressor in order to achieve peace and was responsible for the rise of dictators in the 1920s and 1930s?

• containment

• appeasement

• assimilation

• détente

What was decided at the Munich Conference in 1938?

• Hitler must pull out of the Rhineland

• Britain and Germany signed a non-aggression pact

• Germany must disarm

• Czechoslovakia must turn over the Sudetenland to Germany

What action by Germany causes Britain and France to declare war on Germany officially starting World War II?

• invasion of Poland

• sinking a British ship

• assassinating an Austrian prince

• reoccupying the Rhineland

Which dictator ruled the Soviet Union from the 1920s-1950s?

• Stalin

• Hitler

• Mussolini

• Hirohito

Which nations signed a non-aggression pact in 1939?

• Germany

• Soviet Union

• Austria

• Japan

• Poland