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W11-1 Rise of Dictators

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Name a dictator (last name only) who took power in the 1920s of 1930.

(a)  

2.

Which definition best describes fascism?

a)

a political philosophy of common ownership and means of production

b)

political theory that promotes international interests above the nation

c)

political philosophy of becoming independent from government restraint

d)

political philosophy that glorifies the state over the individual

3.

What agreement proposed an international outlaw of war as a means to solve problems?

a)

Non-Agression Pact

b)

Kellogg-Briand Pact

c)

Hawley-Smoot Act

d)

Anti-Imperialist League

4.

What is the better-known name of the National Socialist German Worker's Party?

(a)  

5.

What act gave Hitler absolute dictatorial powers of the German legislature for four years?

a)

Warren Act

b)

Berlin Crisis Act

c)

Frankfort Act

d)

Enabling Act

6.

What term means giving into an aggressor in order to achieve peace and was responsible for the rise of dictators in the 1920s and 1930s?

a)

containment

b)

appeasement

c)

assimilation

d)

détente

7.

What was decided at the Munich Conference in 1938?

a)

Hitler must pull out of the Rhineland

b)

Britain and Germany signed a non-aggression pact

c)

Germany must disarm

d)

Czechoslovakia must turn over the Sudetenland to Germany

8.

What action by Germany causes Britain and France to declare war on Germany officially starting World War II?

a)

invasion of Poland

b)

sinking a British ship

c)

assassinating an Austrian prince

d)

reoccupying the Rhineland

9.

Which dictator ruled the Soviet Union from the 1920s-1950s?

a)

Stalin

b)

Hitler

c)

Mussolini

d)

Hirohito

10.

Which nations signed a non-aggression pact in 1939?

a)

Germany

b)

Soviet Union

c)

Austria

d)

Japan

e)

Poland