AP EURO CHAPTER 29-30 TEST QUESTIONS
Mussolini's ____________ used street violence as a tool for creating chaos and disorder.
Black Shirts
According to Hitler's New Order, the European "race" that was next to the Jews on Hitler's scale of subhumans was the
Slavic race.
In Stalin's Soviet Union, women
were able to pursue professional careers.
By 1945, Hitler and his Nazis had murdered
6 million Jews.
Lenin's New Economic Policy was a political compromise with the
Russian peasants.
How did real wages for workers and peasants in the Soviet Union in 1937 compare with those in the Russian empire in 1913?
They were lower.
The newer comparative studies of fascism identify all of the following as shared characteristics except
alliance with working-class movements.
Stalin's theory of "socialism in one country"
argued that the Soviet Union could build socialism on its own.
Early writers on totalitarianism such as Elie Halévy
asserted that all totalitarian states were closely related.
One of the most important consequences of the Great Purges was the
creation of a new generation of communists loyal to Stalin.
The Nuremberg Laws
deprived German Jews of their rights of citizenship
Mussolini was expelled from the Italian Socialist Party
for urging Italian entry into World War I
One example of the successful resistance of Russian peasants to collectivization was
grudgingly tolerated family plots.
Marshal Henri-Philippe Pétain
headed the Vichy French government that made peace with the Nazis.
The most impressive accomplishments of Stalin's five-year plans occurred in
heavy industry
Hitler's popularity was based on all of the following except
his establishment of equality for women.
The strategic decision that most epitomized Hitler's violent and unlimited ambitions was the
invasion of the Soviet Union
Hitler's Mein Kampf included all of the following basic themes except
land reform
The parliamentary government in Italy was breaking down at the time of the Fascist march on Rome in October 1922 largely because
of the violence perpetrated by Mussolini's own black-shirted militants.
The regimes of Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, and the Stalinist Soviet Union all shared a
profound hatred of Western liberalism
The Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
stated that if either side became involved in war, the other would remain neutral, and included a secret clause dividing up Poland.
In the Battle of Britain (1940)
the German air force sought to win control of the air over Britain.
Hitler acquired absolute dictatorial powers, through the Enabling Act, as a result of
the Reichstag fire
The term Final Solution refers to
the attempted extermination of European Jews by the Nazis.
The Grand Alliance was cemented by all of the following policies except
the decision to exclude France from the Alliance.
Hitler's promise to create "national socialism," a path between capitalism and communism was directed primarily at
the middle and lower-middle classes.
The Lateran Agreement indicated that Mussolini had the support of
the pope and the Catholic church.
All of the following were factors in the success of Stalin's industrialization drive except
the skill of Soviet economists.
Among the objectives of Stalin's first Five-Year Plan were all of the following except
to Russify the ethnic minority groups in the U.S.S.R.
Britain and France finally confronted Hitler with the threat of war when he
used the pretext of German minorities in Danzig to threaten Poland.
According to historian Daniel Goldhagen, most Germans
were Hitler's willing accomplices in the Final Solution.