History Quiz: The Rise Of Dictators
- 1.Many Italians supported the Fascist party because it:
- A.
Promised to improve the economy
- B.
Was the only political party
- C.
Pledged to unite Italy and Germany
- D.
Ended the influence of the Church
- 2.Under Mussolini's rule in Italy...
- A.
A democracy was put in place
- B.
The socialists came into power
- C.
There was a one-party dictatorship
- D.
Free speech was encouraged
- 3.What was the appeal of Mussolini's fascist government to Italians?
- A.
The fascists supported democratic ideals.
- B.
The fascists supported a classless society.
- C.
The fascists ended political feuding in government.
- D.
The fascists worked for socialist change.
- 4.What was the main purpose of Stalin's five-year plans?
- A.
To turn the Soviet Union into a military power
- B.
To increase farm production
- C.
To produce more consumer goods
- D.
To turn the Soviet Union into a modern industrial power
- 5.On Stalin's collectives...
- A.
Individual peasants could own small plots of land
- B.
Agricultural output skyrocketed in the 1930's
- C.
The government provided tractors, fertilizers, and seed
- D.
Peasants set all prices and controlled access to farm supplies
- 6.Stalin attempted to make the cultural life of the Soviet Union more Russian by promoting a policy of...
- A.
Russification
- B.
Surrealism
- C.
Tsarism
- D.
Capitalism
- 7.What was the cause of Stalin's Great Purge?
- A.
Peasants did not want to give up their lands to the state
- B.
Central planners did not achieve production goals
- C.
Stalin feared rival party leaders
- D.
The kuklaks resisted collectivization
- 8.What was the drawback of being among the Soviet elite under Stalin?
- A.
The elite often suffered from Stalin's purges
- B.
The elite could not get scarce consumer goods
- C.
The elite could not join the Communist Party
- D.
The elite could not find good housing
- 9.Which group sharply criticized the Weimar Republic as too weak and longed for another strong leader like Bismarck?
- A.
Women's groups
- B.
Communists
- C.
Socialists
- D.
Conservative Germans
- 10.
- A.
They launched large public works projects
- B.
They rearmed Germany
- C.
They passed the Nuremberg Laws
- D.
They established the Gestapo
- 11.In 1935, the Nazis passed the Nuremberg Laws which
- A.
Combined all Protestant sects into a single state church
- B.
Deprived the Jews of German citizenship
- C.
Required all young Germans to join the Hitler Youth
- D.
Established the Third Reich under Hitler
- 12.Which of the following helped Adolf Hitler gain power in Germany?
- A.
The promise of a new democracy
- B.
The Great Depression
- C.
Big business and labor
- D.
The support of the Weimar government
- 13.
- A.
Most Germans were barely affected by Nazism
- B.
The Nazis controlled all aspects of German life
- C.
The Nazis controlled the government but had little influence on other German institutions
- D.
The Nazis kept firm control over Germany but followed moderate and tolerant policies
- 14.France occupied Germany's coal rich Ruhr Valley in 1923
- A.
To protest the policies of Adolf Hitler
- B.
Because the French wanted to acquire more land
- C.
To force striking German miners back to work
- D.
Because Germany had fallen behind in reparations
- 15.
- A.
Dawes Plan
- B.
Versailles Treaty
- C.
Locarno treaties
- D.
Kellogg-Briand Pact
- 16.What political and economic challenges did the Western world face in the 1920's and 1930's, and how did various countries react to these challenges?
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