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WH Unit 10 Quiz

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What terrorist attack does Hitler blame on a Dutch communist causing fear throughout Germany?

a)

Reichstag (German Congress) is burnt down

b)

Assassination of President Hindenburg

c)

Bombing of several newspaper offices

d)

Attacks on Jewish synagogues

2.

What is the name given to Hitler's killing of 6 million Jewish people during World War II?

a)

The Gestapo

b)

The Blitz

c)

The Great Terror

d)

The Holocaust

3.

The area of Czechoslovakia inhabited by ethnic Germans coincided with the country's western border, that formed a mountainous U shape. What was the name given to this region?

a)

Anschluss

b)

Saarland

c)

Sudetenland

d)

Rhineland

4.

What term describes the extreme drop in value of a currency that happened in Germany during the Great Depression?

a)

hyperinflation

b)

capitalism

c)

demand shift

d)

mercantilism

5.

Which of the following is NOT a trait of Fascism?

a)

ultra-nationalism

b)

public ownership

c)

traditionalism

d)

class based society

6.

Which of the following represents something that Hitler and Mussolini had in common?

a)

They both won elections to gain their power

b)

They both made partnerships with the military

c)

They both formed gangs of supporters that resorted to political violence

d)

They both encouraged free speech and healthy opposition to their ideas

7.

What were the main goals of Stalin's First 5 Year plan?

a)

to collectivize farms and industrialize the economy

b)

to give equal rights and representation to the peasants

c)

to integrate Belarus and Ukraine as equal partners within the Soviet Union

d)

to allow free market principles to grow the Russian economy naturally

8.

Why did Hitler make arguments for the existence of a pure Aryan race in Germany?

a)

It united Europeans under a common ethnic bond

b)

to manipulate the bruised ego and mistreatment of Germans after the loss of World War I

c)

To eliminate class divides within Germany and unite people under a single identity

d)

It allowed him to create elite military units that were genetically superior

9.

Which of the following is NOT a condition for the rise of Fascism?

a)

Weak Democracy

b)

Bad Economy

c)

Fear of outside forces

d)

Independent media sources

10.

Which of the following led to the naming of Mussolini as Prime Minister in 1922?

a)

The March on Rome

b)

The Beer Hall Putch

c)

The Treaty of Versailles

d)

The Munich Agreement

11.

What was the immediate result of the fire shown in the image here?

a)

The Japanese invasion of China

b)

The passage of the Enabling Acts giving Hitler absolute power

c)

The return of Italy to a monarchy

d)

The German invasion of Poland in the following year

12.

Which of the following is most common in a totalitarian government?

a)

free elections

b)

divine authority to rule

c)

multiple political parties

d)

creation of a police state

13.

Which act is considered the official start of World War II?

a)

The Japanese invasion of China

b)

The annexation of Austria in 1938

c)

The remilitarization of the Rhineland

d)

The German invasion of Poland

14.

After which meeting did British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain claim that we will have "Peace in Our Time"? (Less than a year before the start of World War II)

a)

The Potsdam Conference

b)

The Munich Agreement

c)

the Yalta Conference

d)

the Congress of Vienna

15.

What term did Hitler use to describe his goal of creating room for all ethnic Germans?

a)

Spazio Vitale

b)

Lebensraum

c)

Sturmabteilung

d)

Mein Kampf

16.

What is the subject of the image shown here?

a)

The economic struggles of Europe prior to World War II

b)

The rise of Fascism within Germany

c)

The creation of the Axis powers

d)

The policy of appeasement in the years before World War II

17.

Explain the growth of antisemitism in Germany in the years prior to World War II.

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18.

Compare and contrast Fascist and Communist ideologies and then explain how they ultimately are implemented in similar fashions.

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