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Worksheets2021 7th Grade Final Exam Quizizz
Total questions: 92
Worksheet time: 1hrs 12mins
Characteristics of a totalitarian government: (check all that apply
Single ruler (dictator)
Involved in all aspects of life
Fundamentally reshapes society
Broad agreement among the population
Opposition is forbidden & destroyed.
The 3 main totalitarian government in the EARLY 20th century were:
Communist Soviet Union
Fascist Italy
Nazi (fascist) Germany
Tory (conservative) Britain
Communist China
The totalitarian governments in the USSR, Italy, and Germany all: (check all that apply)
Implemented a single absolute system of ideas (ideology
Had a single, powerful political party and leader
Used terror and spying on the population to control their people
Used the tools of government and mass media to spread is propaganda and build broad agreement to their policies and ideas
Built immense battle-stations called "Death Stars"
Fascist parties, and especially the Nazis, emphasized armed conflict. Thus, because the Depression allowed the Nazis to gain power in Germany, and they started WWII, the Great Depression led to WWII.
True
False
The Nazis are the German version of which type of totalitarian political ideology
Communism
Fascism
Syndicalism
Anarchism
Mussolini won the support of many Italians by promoting Italian nationalism, promising to solve the economic problems and to protect them from Communism.
True
False
What political party did Mussolini start?
The Fascist Party
The Communist Party
The National Socialist Party
The Labour Party
Which political/economic ideology did Mussolini follow?
Communism
Anarchism
Monarchism
Fascism
Mussolini gave himself the title "Il Duce" which means "the Leader" in Italian. and gave himself the powers of a dictator.
True
False
After the death of German President von Hindenburg, Hitler made himself dictator with the title "Der Fuhrer" which means "The Leader" in German.
True
False
How do fascists feel about democracy?
They think it is almost as good as fascism.
It gives too much power to the president.
They think it will lead to crisis and weakness.
They think it is the best type of government.
Which of these do fascists typically believe? (Two correct answers.)
That there should be a master race
That the government should be a fair democracy
That society should be inclusive
That equality makes a society weak
Why would a fascist government not want to allow multiple political groups and opinions? (Check all that apply)
Because they are always totalitarian governments
Because they view inclusion, equality, and pluralism as weak
Because they just want to be liked by everyone
Because they want to let people have their own opinions but only after they have convinced them of where they have gone wrong.
Which of the below BEST defines communism?
When every citizen has a right to own their own land
When all means of production (manufacturing) are equally owned by the state
When the state owns the people and their families and everyone works as a slave
According to the original form of Communism, called Marxism...
Workers should make all the money and not the business owners because that would be fair
Business owners should make money off of the workers and workers shouldn't make any money
Stalin and Stalinism were both...
Communist
Fascist
Anarchist
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Who is this fascist dictator of Germany?
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Francisco Franco
Who is this fascist dictator of Italy?
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Francisco Franco
Who is this communist dictator of Russia (Soviet Union)?
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Francisco Franco
Stalin's Five-Year Plans were meant to rapidly industrialize the Soviet Union in order to get it caught up with the rest of Europe.
True
False
As part of the first of Stalin's Five Year Plans to modernize the Soviet Union, Stalin introduced "collectivization" to Soviet farming. What did it do? (check all that apply)
"Collected" all Soviet farms into big, government-owned farms
Forced many peasants off the land
Allowed Stalin to feed the workers in his new industrial cities
Caused millions of people to starve to death
Worked perfectly
How many people were killed during Stalin's 1st Terror from 1929-1930?
1 million
2 million
3 million
Stalin's efforts to modernize the Soviet Union (Russia) would help win what cucial and devastating war at cost of millions of his people's lives?
World War I
World War Z
World War II
The Franco-Prussian War
The Russo-Japanese War
What kind of government did Germany have after WWI and before the Nazi party took over?
Parliamentary Democracy
Totalitarian Dictatorship
Review: What were the consequences Germany faced after WWI? (Check all that apply)
Huge war debt
Loss of territory
Their military was heavily restricted
They had to pay huge reparations to the British and French.
Which economic ideologies/systems were the Nazis opposed to?
(Free-Market) Capitalism
Communism
Corporatism
Government-run capitalism
Hitler took advantage of the Great Depression in Germany by offering the people convenient scapegoats for their problems (Jews) and promising them to restore Germany's greatness.
True
False
Through propaganda and violent intimidation, the Nazis went from being relatively unknown to getting 36% of the vote in Germany.
True
False
Which of the following did Hitler order after he took "emergency power" in Germany? ( check all that apply )
Hitler ordered the creation of Anti Jewish laws.
He stopped freedom of the press and shut down newspapers.
Hitler ordered his radical supporters and rivals to be arrested and even executed.
Hitler ordered other political parties to break up.
German public went along with what Hitler was doing because he used the people's fear and anger about Germany's problems to get them to support him and his promise to fix it all.
True
False
Which of the following helped Adolf Hitler to rise to power in Germany?
Poor economic conditions following World War I
The Treaty of Versailles
Loss of land and prestige from losing World War I
All of the Above
What were France, Russia, and Britain called during WWI?
Central Powers
Allied Powers
How did Imperialism cause WWI?
It led to competition and rivalry between the powerful countries in Europe
It led to rebellions around the world
It led to the creation of the League of Nations
In what TWO ways did nationalism lead to WWI?
It inspired the people of the major nations of Europe to be more introspective
It helped nations to end their imperialist ways around the world
It created rivalries, competition, and grudges between the major powers in Europe
It led to the rise of nationalist movements in the Balkans that created political instability and conflict between many of the major powers in Europe
In what TWO ways did militarism lead to WWI?
It led both the major and minor nations of Europe to form alliance systems in order to counter the threat of their neighbors growing militaries.
It led nations to form international peace organizations to try and prevent disagreements
As nations built up their militaries it led to a series of arms races between the major powers in Europe creating tension and mistrust
How did alliances contribute to WWI?
They prevented the major powers of Europe from fighting because they were worried about facing their enemies allies
They backfired, rather than preventing war, they dragged all of the major nations of Europe into the war.
In what year did WWI start?
1914
2014
1926
1918
Russia was the country with the highest number of deaths during the first world war
True
False
What were the czars?
An army
A religion
Russian emperors
A country
The strong and vibrant leader of the Bolsheviks
Vladimir Lenin
Josef Stalin
Leon Trotsky
Alexander Kerensky
Which group of people revolted against the Russian revolutionary provisional government in October of 1917?
A. the Bolsheviks
B. the Czarists
C. the nobility
D. the clergy
Which group of people revolted against the Russian revolutionary provisional government in October of 1917?
A. the Bolsheviks
B. the Czarists
C. the nobility
D. the clergy
The Allied Powers following WWI were in bad economic shape because: (check all that apply)
They had lost a lot of their workforce to WWI
They had made a lot of money selling supplies to the Americans
They had spent a lot of money on WWI
They discovered a new, faster, 3 parsec route for completing the "Kessel Run".
Many people start a revolution because they want to...
elect their leaders democratically
Love the idea of war
Large investments of money by large American banks in the British and French war efforts was the main "real" reasons that the United States got involved in WWI.
True
False
If big American banks had invested in the British and French war efforts, would the US government had a self-serving financial motive for making sure that Germany could make its reparation payments to the British and French?
No, because the big American banks losing money wouldn't have any effect on the US economy
No, because the US government was only interested in preventing a war over missed payments.
Yes, because if the Germans couldn't make their payments the British and French wouldn't be able to pay back the american banks
Germany was in in even worse shape than the British or French because:
They had lost a lot of their workforce to WWI
They lost the war and as part of the Treaty of Versailles had to pay billions of dollars in reparations to the British and French
They had paid for the war by borrowing money counting on gaining territory when they won.
Due to the loans they took out to pay for the war and the reparations Germany was in DEEP debt.
All of the other answers are correct.
What are "reparations"?
Repayment of money someone or nations or group of people lost due to damages done by another nation, person, or group of people that were the payer's fault
Repair jobs done by plumbers
industrial workers
WWI Veterans
How much money in reparations did the Germans owe? (Check all that apply)
$33 Billion
120 billion gold marks
£ 6.6 billion (pounds sterling)
300,000 Imperial Credits
The German government printed a lot of new money in order to pay their loans and reparations. What did this cause in Germany? (check all the apply)
Overproduction and underconsumption
Hyperinflation of prices
buying stocks on the margin
the rapid decrease in value of the German mark.
When you increase the supply of something, like the Germans did with their money by printing more of it, what happens to the value?
It decreases because the item has become LESS rare, or in the case of paper money there is less gold represented by more and more paper.
It increases because the item becomes MORE rare or, in the case of paper money, the more money a government prints the more gold magically appears in the banks.
The value of somethings stays the same no matter ho much of it there is to buy or use.
In Germany, in 1922-1923, the German mark became worthless because of the excess printing of money. This caused "hyperinflation" or extreme inflation, which was where prices shot up to astronomical levels to compensate for the loss of value of the mark.
True
False
One of the main reasons stock prices rose artificially high in the 1920s?
Deficit Spending
Buying on Margin
Federal Reserve System
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
The loss of value of the German mark and the hyper inflation hurt the economies of Britain and France because...
The British and French used the mark too.
The British and French relied on trade with Germany and they couldn't afford German prices because of the hyperinflation
The Germans weren't able to make their reparations payments and the British and French economies desperately needed those payments to help them recover and pay their own debts.
The Russians, now the Soviets, because they had a new Communist government, defaulted on their war debts. Why?
The Russians/Soviets were involved in the the Russian Civil War at the time and so couldn't afford to pay
The Communists felt that the war debts were run up by the previous government and os weren't the new Soviet government's problem
Both of the other answers are correct
The economies of the European colonies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, because of their dependence on their colonizing countries' economies, were also hurt by what was going on in Europe.
True
False
Why did the US sinking into the Great Depression drag the rest of the world's economies into the Great Depression? (check all that apply)
They US had been loaning money to Germany so that it could make its reparations payments to the British and French
The British and French relied on German reparations to make their own debt payments to the US and its banks.
When the US couldn't continue loaning money, Germany's economy collapsed, followed by Britain and France's
European imperial countries like Britain and France spread the damage to their colonies who were dependent on them
The extreme expenditure on the Death Stars came back to haunt them when both of them were destroyed.
British economist John Maynard Keynes, argued that governments around the world need to go into debt in order to spend money to help jump start their countries' economies.
True
False
Where did fascist dictators seize power during the 1920s and 1930s? (check all that apply)
Brazil
Spain
Germany
Italy
Russia
Hitler, the fascist dictator of Germany, mainly used deficit spending on what to help Germany get out of the Great Depression?
Hospitals
The Military
Schools
Hitler's rebuilding of the German military to get Germany out of the Great Depression, despite it being a violation of the Treaty of Versailles, was ignored because...(check all that apply)
Other countries agreed that the Treaty had been unfair
No one wanted another war
Everyone was suffering from the Depression so couldn't afford to fight another war against Germany
All of the other answers are correct
The Nazis are the German version of which type of authoritarian political ideology
Communism
Fascism
Syndicalism
Anarchism
What are the four characteristics of revolutions?
Dissident elites
Mass frustration
Shared motivations
State crises
Not enough Jedi to keep the peace in the Republic
The American colonies declared their independence from
Britain, aka England
The Spanish Empire
The Galactic Empire
The Imperium of Man
The French Empire
What are dissident elites?
Rich, influential, educated people who SUPPORT the existing government
Rich, influential, educated people who OPPOSE the existing government
Rich, influential, educated people who are DON'T CARE about the existing government
Mass frustration is...
when there are a LARGE number of people who are mad about how the government is running things due to lack of food, money and/or other necessities
when there are a SMALL number of people who are mad about how the government is running things due to lack of food, money and/or other necessities
when there are a large number of people who are satisfied with how the government is running things due to lack of food, money and/or other necessities
"Shared motivations" means...
There are many people who were inspired by the same motivational speaker
There are MANY people with the similar reasons and goals for rebelling against the government
There are FEW people with the similar reasons and goals for rebelling against the government
"State crises" are...
When the government can't decide what kind of government it wants to be
when the government is weak, failing, and is unable to fix multiple problems that are facing its people
when everything is going smoothly and things are great
What are some problems that cause mass frustration and/or might be considered state crises?
People are starving
The Government is out of money
there is a very costly, unpopular and bloody war going on
The government is harsh and unfair in it treatment of people
the government is weak, corrupt, or unwilling to do anything to help its people
Which of the following are events that caused the American Revolution?
The Stamp Act
The Townshend Acts
Order 66
The Boston Massacre
The Intolerable Acts
When a government strips it citizens of its human or civil rights is a common cause of mass frustration.
True
False
Most of the events that cause the mass frustration for the American Revolution involved what TWO things?
Taxes put on the colonies to help pay the British government's debts
Revolutionary Tribunal
The depriving of the colonists of their right to be represented in Parliament especially on tax issues
A widespread famine in the colonies.
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin are all examples of what revoltionary characteristic for the American Revolution?
Satisfied elites
Dissident elites
Jedi
Mass frustrations
The fact that the British government was on the far side of the ocean and therefore unable and unwilling to understand, and then address the colonist issue is an example of which revolutionary characteristic?
Dissident elites
Mass frustration
Shared motivations
State crises
What is one key thing that is NOT one of the characteristics of revolutions that we have listed, that is something that seperates a revolution from a rebellion?
a revolution is successful
a revolution is bloodless
a revolution brings very little changes
a revolution is ALWAYS about creating a new country
