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History Topic 14

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What agreement made after WWI caused discontent between Germany and Italy?

a)

The Fourteen Points

b)

The Espionage and Sedation Act

c)

The Treaty of Paris

d)

The Treaty of Versailles

2.

What created a perfect mood for a revolt in Germany and Italy? Select all that apply.

a)

The Depression

b)

Unification of the Axis Powers

c)

National Pride

d)

The Fall of France

3.

What new kind of dictatorship arose around the 1920s?

a)

Reactionary Government

b)

Fascism

c)

Libertarianism

d)

Totalitarianism

4.

True/False: Totalitarianism describes one person's total control of every aspect of a nation

a)

True

b)

False; Multiple people's

5.

True/False: Killing citizens was the primary tactic used to get citizens to agree with totalitarianism.

a)

True

b)

False; Propaganda

6.

Which ruler came into power after Vladimir Lenin?

a)

Adolf Hitler

b)

Joseph Stalin

c)

Andrei Danill

d)

Benito Mussolini

7.

True/False: Lenin ruled using totalitarianism.

a)

True

b)

False; Fascism

8.

What does Stalin mean?

a)

Man of Steel

b)

True Ruler

c)

True Leader

d)

Revolter

9.

Stalin deemed _____ to be a useless industry, and instead replaced it with _____.

a)

Fishing; Farming

b)

Factory work; Farming

c)

Farming; Factory work

d)

Public Works Projects; Inventing

10.

What is the name of Joseph Stalin's mining prisons in Siberia?

a)

The Gulag

b)

The Siberian Railroad

c)

The Stalingrad

d)

The Internment Camps

11.

What allowed Benito Mussolini to arise in Italy?

a)

Hitler placing him in a position of power

b)

Italian Communists supporting Mussolini

c)

The Fear of Communism in Italy

d)

The United States ceasing their support of the Axis Powers

12.

What is the name of Benito Mussolini's secret army and what is the name of the killing of suspected communists in Italy?

a)

The Brown Shirts; The Great Killing

b)

The Green Shirts; The Anti-Commune

c)

The Brown Shirts; The Red Scare

d)

The Black Shirts; The Great Terror

13.

What is a government which reacts against the possibility of a different government?

a)

Reactionary Government

b)

Liberal Government

c)

Republican Government

d)

Fascist Government

14.

Moving down the right side of the government-policy spectrum is Republicans, Reactionary Government, Fascism, and then Totalitarianism. What is the order of the left side of this spectrum?

a)

Liberalism, Socialism, Communism, Totalitarianism.

b)

Liberalism, Communism, Socialism, Totalitarianism

c)

Totalitarianism, Liberalism, Communism, Socialism

d)

Socialism, Communism, Liberalism, Totalitarianism

15.

What is the name of the Democratic Government of Germany before Totalitarianism?

a)

Anschlauss

b)

Weimar Republic

c)

German Reich

d)

There was no Democratic Government

16.

True/False: Hitler was put in jail for massacring a Jewish neighborhood.

a)

True

b)

False; attempting to take over Germany

17.

What book did Hitler write in Jail and what is this book called in English?

a)

Mine Kampf; My Camp

b)

Mine Kampf; My Struggle

c)

Das Kompass; My Compass

d)

Das Kompass; The path

18.

Of the following, which are points spoken about in Hitler's book? (Select all that apply)

a)

The Flaws of Germany

b)

The Solutions to Germany's Problems

c)

Why Germany's Problems stem from Communist ideologies

d)

Why Jews are the root of all of Germany's Problems

19.

What does the word "Nazi" stand for?

a)

National Association Against Jewish Ideals

b)

National Socialist German Workers Party

c)

Natterngezücht Apparat zwölf idealistisch (German for National Totalitarianistic German Party)

d)

It does not stand for anything

20.

What idea did Hitler borrow from Italy's Benito Mussolini and what did Hitler name his adaptation of it?

a)

The Gulag; The Concentration Camps

b)

The Great Terror; The Holocaust

c)

Fascism; Totalitarianism

d)

The Black Shirts; The Brown Shirts

21.

True/False: Hitler's economic policy was to rearm Germany.

a)

True

b)

False; to expand and take from other nations

22.

What Japanese event is sometimes considered the beginning of WWII?

a)

The invasion of the Pacific

b)

The Battle of Coral Sea

c)

The Battle of Midway

d)

The Invasion of Manchuria

23.

Which of the following titles refer to the horrific massacre of the Chinese in Nanjing, led by Japan?

a)

The Rape of Nanjing

b)

The Nanjing Massacre

c)

The Final Reich

d)

Pearl Harbor

24.

True/False: The League of Nations was a leading force which helped combat the dictators spreading their rule.

a)

True

b)

False; They had no effect

25.

What does the German word Reich mean?

a)

Total Control

b)

State

c)

German Owned

d)

Bozo 💀😳

26.

What does the German word Lebensraum mean?

a)

Living Space

b)

Expansion

c)

Artillery

d)

Unification

27.

What areas did Hitler annex to Germany? (Select all that apply)

a)

The Saar

b)

Rhineland

c)

Ethiopia

d)

Spain

28.

What country did Italy attack to get revenge on them for attacking years earlier?

a)

Manchuria

b)

Spain

c)

The neighborhood

d)

Ethiopia

29.

Who was the General who led the Spanish Civil War (the fight for fascism in Spain)?

a)

General Nevil Chamberlain

b)

General Fransisco Franco

c)

General W. Cifuentes

d)

General Horacio Alger

30.

True/False: America wanted to get in the war soon after it began.

a)

True

b)

False; They were originally Isolationist

31.

"America hates war. America hopes for peace. Therefore, America actively engages in the search for peace." - Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 5, 1937

This excerpt is most likely from what Roosevelt-associated work?

a)

The Fireside Chats

b)

The Quarantine Speech

c)

Executive Order 9902

d)

The Selective Service Act