Level 9 Causes of WWII and Totalitarianism

The most important feature of a totalitarian government is

• An autocratic leader

• rule of the people

• free elections

• Capitalist economy

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of totalitarianism?

• Single party dictatorship

• Police and spies to enforce the will of the state

• Censorship and propaganda

• Free elections

What do Stalin (USSR), Mao Zedong (China), and Hitler (Germany) have in common?

• They wanted world peace and worked to create the United Nations.

• They started an alliance to divide Europe into 2 spheres of influence.

• They lost control of their governments after free and open elections.

• They represented the rise of totalitarian regimes in the 20th century.

Censorship and government propaganda, use of police terror, state-controlled media are of characteristics of -

• Democracy

• Constitutional monarchy

• Communism

• Totalitarianism

What do the governments of Nazi Germany under Hitler, communist Soviet Union under Stalin, and communist China under Mao have in common?

• They were examples of Totalitarian Governments

• All are forms of Absolute Monarchies

• They were models of democratic governments

• Their governments supported free-enterprise