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Rise of Dictators & Economic Depression

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What momentous event in 1929 gradually turned into a wide-ranging disaster?

a)

the U.S. stock market crashed

b)

the Nazis came to power in Germany

c)

the Hindenburg airship blew up in New Jersey

d)

Joseph Stalin came to power in the U.S.S.R.

2.

The United States had become a huge source of loans for financing post WWI recovery where?

a)

Asia

b)

Africa

c)

Europe

d)

South America

3.

Who was more likely to lose their jobs during the Great Depression?

a)

Men

b)

Women

4.

The Nazi party used violence to discredit what democratically run government, which was struggling to keep order in Germany?

a)

the German Federation

b)

the Weimer Republic

c)

National German Socialist Party

d)

Bavarian Socialist Republic

5.

Even though it contained huge amounts of fertile land, the Soviet Union had major issues with _____________.

a)

having enough farmers

b)

Kulaks, or well-to-do peasants

c)

food scarcity

d)

an overabundance of mechanized farming equipment

6.

What region of the Soviet Union was hit hardest (saw the most deaths) by Stalin's collectivization of agriculture?

a)

Finland

b)

Belorussia

c)

Poland

d)

Ukraine

7.

Conservative German leaders persuaded who to appoint Hitler chancellor with the idea that he would be easier to control than the Communists?

a)

President Konrad Adenauer

b)

Premier Vladimir Lenin

c)

King Victor Emanuel

d)

President Paul von Hindenburg

8.

What legislation in 1933 granted Hitler virtually unchecked power?

a)

the Enabling Act

b)

the Nuremberg laws

c)

the People's Community Act

d)

the Citizenship Law

9.

This episode of Crash Course refers to the process of Jewish people slowly losing their rights as what?

a)

Social distancing

b)

Social death

c)

Social isolation

d)

Social emasculation

10.

In 1936, German troops occupied what industrial region on its western border in violation of the Treaty of Versailles?

a)

Czechoslovakia

b)

Austria

c)

Rhineland

d)

Sudetenland

11.

In 1938, the son of a harassed Jewish couple killed an official, which the Nazis used as an excuse for a rampage against synagogues, businesses, homes, and individuals, a horrific event that came to be known as what?

a)

Spartacist Uprising

b)

the Beer Hall Putsch

c)

Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)

d)

the Night of the Long Knives

12.

Hitler was allowed to claim what former German territory having a large ethnically German population from the newly formed Czechoslovakia.

a)

Sudetenland

b)

Austria

c)

the Rhineland

d)

the Polish Corridor

13.

This was the policy of major Ruropean powers such as France and Great Britain of allowing Hitler to expand Germany in hopes of not causing a conflict?

a)

Positive Integration

b)

Annexation

c)

Liebenstraum

d)

Appeasement

14.

In 1936 Mussolini joined in the fascist expansion by invading what country?

a)

Greece

b)

the Balkans

c)

Ethiopia (Abyssinia)

d)

France

15.

In 1931 Japan invaded and occupied what region of China following a potentially staged incident?

a)

Mongolia

b)

Manchuria

c)

Hong Kong

d)

Taiwan