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Totalitarianism

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is not true about a totalitarian society?

a)

people have individual freedom

b)

censorship is used

c)

government controls public and private life

d)

police use terror to enforce the will of the government

2.

In a totalitarian society, there is ____ leader(s) that exercises complete control over the nation.

a)

2

b)

3

c)

1

d)

4

3.

Term for a system of government beliefs.

a)

indoctrination

b)

censorship

c)

propaganda

d)

ideology

4.

Which of the following is not a method of totalitarian control?

a)

police terror

b)

indoctrination

c)

propaganda & censorship

d)

persecution of a group (ethnic or religion)

e)

genocide

5.

In a totalitarian state, the purpose of the police it to

a)

spy on citizens

b)

create fear to keep people in line

c)

protect the citizens

d)

crush opposition

e)

protect the rights of the people

6.

To indoctrinate the people, totalitarian governments control the ______ system.

a)

economic

b)

farming

c)

education

d)

religious

e)

industrial

7.

The use of youth groups to instruct people in the government's ideology and develop future leader is an example of

a)

police terror

b)

censorship

c)

propaganda

d)

indoctrination

8.

Term for biased or incomplete information used to sway people to accept a certain belief or action

a)

censorship

b)

gulags

c)

Bolshevik

d)

propaganda

e)

communism

9.

Stalin was the totalitarian leader of

a)

Germany

b)

Soviet Union

c)

Italy

d)

China

e)

North Korea

10.

Censorship restricts a person's freedom of

a)

privacy

b)

speech

c)

religion

d)

travel

11.

A group that is used to place blame on in order to divert it away from the government or the real source of the problem.

a)

scapegoat

b)

kulaks

c)

gulags

d)

terror groups

12.

Where was Joseph Stalin born?

a)

Russia

b)

Germany

c)

Georgia

d)

Ukraine

13.

Who was the totalitarian leader of Germany?

a)

Mao Zedong

b)

Benito Mussolini

c)

Adolf Hitler

d)

Nicolae Ceaușescu

e)

Francois Duvalier

14.

What was Stalin's program for rapid industrial development?

a)

5 Year Plan

b)

Gulags

c)

Private Industrial Development

d)

Communist Manifesto

15.

Read the excerpt from Stalin's 1929 speech on collectivization (gathering of all farm land and resources under government control)


The solution lies in enlarging the agricultural units...and in changing the agricultural base of our national economy....the Socialist way, which is to set up collective farms and state farms which leads to the joining together of the small peasant farms into large collective farms, technically and scientifically equipped, and to the squeezing out of the capitalist elements from agriculture… Now we are able to carry on a determined offensive against the kulaks, to break their resistance, to eliminate them as a class and subsitute for their output the output of the collective farms and state farms.


According to Stalin, what group of people are standing in the way of Stalin's collectivization program?

a)

Kulaks

b)

farmers

c)

factory owners

d)

children

16.

Between 1934 and 1939, the Great Purge was a campaign to eliminate

a)

traditional religious beliefs

b)

food and housing shortages

c)

supporters of the Communist Party

d)

Opposition to Stalin's power

17.

The Great Purge was an example of

a)

indoctrination

b)

propaganda

c)

censorship

d)

police terror

18.

When a leader develops an image of himself to where he is admired, worshiped, idolized and loved by all - it is shaped by fear and propaganda

a)

cult of popularity

b)

cult of personality

c)

religious cult

d)

Indoctrination

19.

A cult of personality depends greatly on

a)

image

b)

wealth

c)

ideology

d)

education