WorksheetsMWH_Ch. 16 Totalitarian Regimes
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which country emerged from WWI in the best financial shape?
a)
France
b)
Russia
c)
Britain
d)
the United States
2.
Which statement best characterizes the mood of much of the world at the end of WWI?
a)
People looked forward to the postwar world with hope.
b)
The sense of optimism had been shattered.
c)
Winners and losers of the war looked for revenge.
d)
People looked for ways to return to how things were before the war.
3.
Better technology allowed factories to make more products faster during a time when people were buying less, which resulted in
a)
overproduction.
b)
general strike.
c)
disarmament.
d)
Finance.
4.
Which crisis in finance triggered the Great Depression?
a)
Many businesses began to close.
b)
The general strike.
c)
The stock market crashed.
d)
American banks demanded repayment of foreign loans.
5.
Italians accepted the use of violence by the Fascists because
a)
they had lost faith in constitutional government.
b)
it was used sparingly.
c)
the Fascists were less ruthless than the leaders of the constitutional government.
d)
they wanted to see the Church restored to power in Italy.
6.
Mussolini gained power by promising to...
a)
grant independence to Italian colonies.
b)
share power with the Communists.
c)
end corruption and replace turmoil with order.
d)
give every Italian a free college education.
7.
What was most important to the Fascists?
a)
agriculture
b)
the individual
c)
Marxism
d)
the state
8.
Mussolini was responsible for building the first...
a)
totalitarian state.
b)
March on Rome.
c)
ideology.
d)
Il Duce.
9.
Which is NOT true of Fascism?
a)
Fascists reject democracy.
b)
Fascism is rooted in extreme nationalism.
c)
Fascists value individual rights.
d)
Fascists believe in aggressive foreign expansion.
10.
After World War I, which of the following was a problem Italy faced?
a)
high unemployment and high taxes
b)
unrest in their new territory on the Adriatic
c)
overproduction
d)
strict government control
11.
In what ways did fascists differ from communists?
a)
Communists wanted to spread communism internationally, while fascists were most concerned about strengthening their own nation.
b)
Fascists supported a classless society, while communism defined classes.
c)
Fascists set up one party states, while communists set up multiparty states.
d)
Communists used terror to achieve their goals, while fascists used political methods.
12.
In accordance with the ideas of Marx, __________ became an official state policy in Russia under Stalin.
a)
kulaks
b)
atheism
c)
access
d)
conform
13.
What was daily life like for the average Russian under Stalin?
a)
People worked fewer hours and had a higher standard of living.
b)
Workers were not allowed to take vacations.
c)
Housing, meat, fresh food, and clothes were scarce.
d)
Farmworkers were not permitted to travel to the cities without a pass.
14.
What was one unintentional result of Stalin's purges?
a)
Stalin increased his power through his terror tactics.
b)
Stalin got rid of many of the nation's most skilled and talented workers, soldiers, and thinkers.
c)
Stalin got rid of any rivals who were plotting against him.
d)
Stalin discouraged the people's dissent.
15.
How did Stalin build up a "cult of personality" around himself?
a)
Stalin used propaganda.
b)
Stalin began to visit the collective farms.
c)
Stalin presided over the show trials as chief justice.
d)
Stalin began to travel to western nations.
16.
What were the public "show trials" in Moscow between 1936 and 1938?
a)
Stalin's officials were put on trial for the deaths of some four million people during the Great Purge.
b)
Since there was no free press, "show trials" were fake trials publicized to encourage obedience to Stalin.
c)
Immigrant farmers were put on trial for insisting on their own land within Russian borders.
d)
Trials in which former Communist leaders confessed to crimes after officials tortured them or threatened their families.
17.
Which phrase best describes the Gulag?
a)
large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group
b)
an organization of wealthy farmers
c)
a system of brutal labor camps
d)
organizations aiding revolutionary groups around the world
18.
The Soviet Union developed a __________ in which government officials made all basic economic decisions.
a)
socialist realism
b)
Comintern
c)
command economy
d)
russification
19.
Why did Nazis condemn jazz?
a)
Jazz reminded them of Brecht's Threepenny Opera.
b)
Jazz had African-American roots.
c)
Nazis were only allowed to listen to music with a marching beat.
d)
They were fond of American culture.
20.
Hitler's secret police were known as the
a)
Gestapo.
b)
regime.
c)
Third Reich.
d)
Nuremberg Laws.
21.
What was one reason that the Weimar Republic failed?
a)
The Weimar Republic took the blame for WWI and signed the Treaty of Versailles.
b)
The Weimar Republic had only one political party.
c)
The Weimar Republic passed laws that discriminated against Jews and Catholics.
d)
The Weimar Republic was not democratic.
22.
The __________ deprived Jews of German citizenship and placed severe restrictions on them.
a)
Nuremberg Laws
b)
Third Reich
c)
Ruhr Valley
d)
chancellor
23.
Hitler believed his German government, the __________________, would rule Europe for a thousand years.
a)
Third Reich
b)
Gestapo
c)
Nazi
d)
Ruhr Valley
24.
How did Hitler come to power in 1933?
a)
a coup d' etat
b)
by legal election
c)
with support of the army
d)
with help from Communists
25.
One Nazi goal was to...
a)
promote communist revolution
b)
increase war reparations
c)
purify German culture
d)
returning to a monarchy
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