Interwar Years

A quality about a leader that makes people eager to follow him/her

• They are cool

• Indoctrination

• Propaganda

• Charisma/Cult of Personality

One Nazi Goal was to

• Promote communist revolutions

• Increase war reparations

• Stamp out racism in Europe

• Purify German culture

Which statement best describes national economy in Germany shortly after World War I?

• In most areas, wartime industry brought significant economic gains in the country

• Germany was upset about reparations, but were easily able to make their payments

• The German currency deflated, making it easy for most Germans to live well.

• With France in control of the Ruhr, inflation of currency, and reparations Germany was in near-collapse.

Kristallnacht was a defining event in the Holocaust because was

• a Nazi death camp

• a set of racial laws

• an attack on Jewish homes and businesses

• an area where Jews were confined

Which of the following groups seized complete control of Russia in 1917?

• the Black Hand

• the Bolsheviks

• the Serbian nationalists

• the Whites

In 1935, the Nazis passed the Nuremberg Laws, which

• combined all protestant sects into a single state church

• required all young Germans to join the Hitler Youth

• deprived Jews of German citizenship

• established the Third Reich under Hitler

The “lost generation” of writers who gathered in Paris were considered “lost” because

• the war had left them with a sense of meaninglessness

• they wrote about soldiers who were unable to return home

• their homes were destroyed in the war shifting boundaries meant

• they no longer lived in their nations of origin

Stalin’s “five year plans” were aimed at

• building heavy industry and improving transportation and infrastructure

• raising the poor people’s standard of living

• giving factory owners private control

• revealing the injustice of the Great Purge

In what way did fascists differ from communists?

• Communists supported a classless society, while fascists supported defined classes

• Communists wanted to spread communism only within their own nation, while fascists were more concerned with spreading their beliefs internationally

• Fascists set up one party states, while communists set up multiparty states

• Communists used terror to achieve their goals, while fascists used political methods

The Great Purge tried to eliminate

• artists and dancers

• the Gulags

• the secret police

• anyone Stalin saw as a threat