Rise of Totalitarianism Quiz

What is a dictator?

• Someone who helps a country in need
• Someone who gives control of the government to the people
• Someone who gains complete control of a country's government

What was the name of Hitler's form of government which denied individual freedoms took complete power of the Germany?

• democracy
• fascism
• dictatorship 
• monarchy 

No private property, equal distribution of wealth and rule by the working class are the key ideas of what political ideology?

• capitalism

• communism

• democracy

• socialism

Which two ideologies support totalitarian governments that restrict the rights of individuals?

• democracy and capitalism

• absolute and constitutional monarchy

• socialism and communism

• communism and fascism

How did economic depression affect Germany and Italy after WWI?

• They experienced working class revolutions that brought communists to power.

• They blamed their democratic governments and turned to fascism.

• They got economic aid from the League of Nations that helped them recover.

• Democratic movements led to the overthrow of absolute monarchs.

Which dictator gained power by organizing attacks on communists with his Black Shirts and ending a general strike that crippled the economy?

• Adolf Hitler

• Joseph Stalin

• Benito Mussolini

• Napoleon Bonaparte

Which nation did Benito Mussolini invade in 1935 to prove that Italy was becoming an empire?

• Ethiopia

• Austria

• China

• Czechoslovakia

How did Japan react to the Great Depression of the 1930s?

• They developed a trade agreement with the United States.

• They established a military dictatorship and expanded by taking over other Asian nations.

• They developed methods to increase production of artificial silk at a lower cost.

• They signed a treaty to establish an alliance with Great Britain.

What was one reason the Nazi programs and policies of the early 1930s appealed to many people in Germany?

• The people were frustrated with their current political and economic situation.
• Germany had been denied membership to the UN.
• Communism had been forced on them. 
• Germans fear that the British and French would take control. 

Who was the military leader of Japan during WWII?

• Charles De Gaulle
• Winston Churchill
• Hideki Tojo
• Benito Mussolini