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WorksheetsRise of Dictators & Economic Depression
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What momentous event in 1929 gradually turned into a wide-ranging disaster?
the U.S. stock market crashed
the Nazis came to power in Germany
the Hindenburg airship blew up in New Jersey
Joseph Stalin came to power in the U.S.S.R.
The United States had become a huge source of loans for financing post WWI recovery where?
Asia
Africa
Europe
South America
Who was more likely to lose their jobs during the Great Depression?
Men
Women
The Nazi party used violence to discredit what democratically run government, which was struggling to keep order in Germany?
the German Federation
the Weimer Republic
National German Socialist Party
Bavarian Socialist Republic
Even though it contained huge amounts of fertile land, the Soviet Union had major issues with _____________.
having enough farmers
Kulaks, or well-to-do peasants
food scarcity
an overabundance of mechanized farming equipment
What region of the Soviet Union was hit hardest (saw the most deaths) by Stalin's collectivization of agriculture?
Finland
Belorussia
Poland
Ukraine
Conservative German leaders persuaded who to appoint Hitler chancellor with the idea that he would be easier to control than the Communists?
President Konrad Adenauer
Premier Vladimir Lenin
King Victor Emanuel
President Paul von Hindenburg
What legislation in 1933 granted Hitler virtually unchecked power?
the Enabling Act
the Nuremberg laws
the People's Community Act
the Citizenship Law
This episode of Crash Course refers to the process of Jewish people slowly losing their rights as what?
Social distancing
Social death
Social isolation
Social emasculation
In 1936, German troops occupied what industrial region on its western border in violation of the Treaty of Versailles?
Czechoslovakia
Austria
Rhineland
Sudetenland
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?
Spartacist Uprising
the Beer Hall Putsch
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
the Night of the Long Knives
Hitler was allowed to claim what former German territory having a large ethnically German population from the newly formed Czechoslovakia.
Sudetenland
Austria
the Rhineland
the Polish Corridor
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?
Positive Integration
Annexation
Liebenstraum
Appeasement
In 1936 Mussolini joined in the fascist expansion by invading what country?
Greece
the Balkans
Ethiopia (Abyssinia)
France
In 1931 Japan invaded and occupied what region of China following a potentially staged incident?
Mongolia
Manchuria
Hong Kong
Taiwan
