WWII Unit 1.1 Vocab Quiz: The Interwar Years 1918-32

What was the Treaty between the Central Powers and Soviet Russia in 1918 that resulted in pulling Russia out of World War I and ceding massive territories in Eastern Europe to Germany and the Central Powers? These lands would be taken from Germany in the treaty to end World War I.

• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

• Treaty of Versailles

• Kellogg-Briand Pact

• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

What was the peace treaty at end of World War I between the Allied Powers and Germany? Resulted in Germany accepting blame for the war, forcing them to pay reparations, depriving them of domestic and overseas territories, and stripping them of an armed forces.

• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

• Treaty of Versailles

• Kellogg-Briand Pact

• Treaty of Locarno

What was the intergovernmental organization founded in 1920 meant to prevent aggressive war. The US never joined the it which left it weak and unable to prevent a second World War.

• The Pact of Steel

• NATO

• Kellogg-Briand Pact

• League of Nations

What was the federal republic of Germany formed in 1919 that replaced the Empire of Germany? It was forced to accept the blame of World War I and was accused of selling-out German honor by the Nazis.

• Munich Soviet Socialist Republic

• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

• The Weimar Republic

• Democratic Republic of East Germany

What was the Marxist-Leninist state that existed between 1922-1991, consisting of various "communist" republics ruled by the Russian Communist Party centered in Moscow? A one-party state that saw itself as the leader of international communism.

• Munich Soviet Socialist Republic

• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

• Weimar Republic

• Provisional Republic of Russia

Who was the Fascist dictator of Italy whose paramilitary organization (The Black shirts) seized control of the Italian state in 1921 and was proclaimed Prime Minister by King Victor Emmanuel III? He ceded the Vatican to the Catholic Church, promoted militarism, anti-communism, and promised a revival of the Ancient Roman Empire.

• Gian Galeazzo Ciano

• Giovanni Gentile

• Benito Mussolini

• Alcide De Gasperi

What is the reactionary political ideology that views the individual as belonging to the state and the state being led by a single party or leader? Characterized as being ultra-nationalistic, anti-communist, anti-democratic, and imperialist. Traditional class or race hierarchies remain in place or are promoted.

• Marxist-Leninism

• Democratic Liberalism

• Fascism

• Scientific Racism

What is the political system in which the government has total control over the lives of individual citizens and all power is concentrated into a single leader or party? It can be a far right-wing or far left-wing movement.

• Absolute monarchy

• Post-communist kleptocracy

• Totalitarianism

• Tyrannical Robocracy

What was the international agreement in 1928, sponsored by American and French leaders, that outlawed the use of aggressive war? It would later be cited by the victorious allies in the post-WWII war crimes trials as justification for charging and executing suspected war criminals.

• Pact of Steel

• Anti-commintern Pact

• Molotov-Ribbentrop Nonaggression Pact

• Kellogg-Briand Pact

What was the American loan program to assist Germany in paying its reparations payments and reduce the post-war financial crisis and hyperinflation in Europe? It stabilized the German economy in the mid-1920s, and ended the French evacuation of the Ruhr, but the loans meant that Germany would end up owning even more money, and the program ended after the 1929 stock market crash in the USA.

• League of Nations

• Dawes Plan

• Washington Conferences

• Sykes-Picot Agreement