APWH Chapter 25

Which political leader told military leaders in 1933 that he wanted to remove the "cancer of democracy" from their society?

Adolf Hitler

The earliest originator of the concept and practice of fascism was

Benito Mussolini

All of the following were true about conventional aerial bombing during World War II except

Britain was the only belligerent nation whose citizens were not exposed to significant bomb attacks.

Mussolini and Hitler joined forces in support of

Franco's fascist army in the Spanish Civil War.

Major German initiatives in moving toward control of Europe before 1939 included all of the following except the

German seizure of Libya in 1935

All of the following were targets in Japan's military expansion in 1941 EXCEPT

Hawaii

Why was Hitler delayed in his invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941?​

He was required to assist Mussolini in his botched invasion of Greece

By the end of 1926, Mussolini ruled Italy with this title​:

Il Duce

Which of the following was not true about Mussolini's Fascist rule in Italy?

It gave him total control over all aspects of Italian life.

Which of the following statements best characterizes the totalitarian state in the 1930s?

It was an all-compassing, authoritarian dictatorship that subordinated individual needs, and employed police power and mass propaganda to achieve total control.

The concept of a new "Monroe Doctrine for Asia" meant that

Japan would play the role of guiding Asia to prosperity and development

All of the following were artistic works of Nazi propaganda EXCEPT​

Jurgen Habermas' Towards Reconstructing Historical Materialism

The increasingly anti-Semitic phase that moved towards violence in Germany was started with​

Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)

The greatest tank battle during WW II was the Battle of ​

Kursk

The naval battle that established United States naval superiority in the Pacific was the Battle of

Midway

To whip up popular support for his totalitarian regime, Hitler organized gigantic mass rallies in the 1930's in the city of

Nuremberg

Stalin's desire for sole control of the decision making​ led to his first purges of

Old Bolsheviks

In the attempt to avoid a two-front war, in 1939, Hitler signed a non-aggression pact with Stalin limited to​

Poland

Hitler intended to gain more land for Germany in

Russia

At the Yalta Conference,

Stalin agreed to "free elections" in Eastern Europe.

The SA, or Storm Troops, were

The Nazi party militia

Which of the following acts by Hitler did not constitute a violation of the Versailles Treaty?

The abolition of political parties

Among the major results of World War II was

The beginning of a major and world-wide decolonization movement.

After Hitler occupied most of France, the remainder of the country became

Vichy France under Marshal Henri Petain

The Blitzkrieg was

a coordinated sudden attack by land and air forces.

Fascist propaganda for women in Italy that argued for: ​

a woman's duty was to be homemakers and raise children.

On the Eastern Front,

at Stalingrad, Germany lost an army of 300,000.

In forming the Nazi party, Adolf Hitler​

consciously emulated the tactics employed by Mussolini.

The Nazi Party

had 800,000 members by 1932

All of the following brought Hitler support in Germany except

his promise to uphold the Versailles Treaty in spite of its unpopularity.

Aerial bombing of wartime Japan

included the first use of an atomic bomb.

The 250,000 collectivized farms were known as ​

kolkhozes

What was meant by the "phony war?"​

lack of active tactics during the winter of 1939-40.

The Aryan racial state

required the active involvement of the entire German population to achieve its destiny.

Stalin's first two five-year plans

resulted in large increases in the nation's heavy industry and oil production.

In Japan, after 1929,

right-wing extremists began to terrorize and at times murder opponents.

Which of the following was NOT a tactic taken by the Nazi Party to ensure control of all institutions?​

suspending the German Reichstag

At the meeting of the Big Three at Tehran

the Allies decided to partition postwar Germany

Which of the following was not part of Japanese expectations and war strategy?

the American public's support for Franklin Roosevelt's policy of war on Japan

At the Munich Conference of 1938,

the British and the French representatives allowed Hitler to take over the Sudetenland.

World War II in the Far East ended with

the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

The Holocaust included all of the following except

the establishment of execution camps in France

The Nuremberg Laws established the

the legal isolation of German Jews from citizenship and legal rights.

Japan's decision to seize much of Southeast Asia was based primarily on...

the need to secure vital natural resources

The events that allowed Hitler to gain dictatorial powers by "legal" means were

the passage of the Enabling Act by the Reichstag

The purpose of the SS was to

use terror to enforce the policies of the Nazi party

The Cold War

was a major factor in world affairs for several decades after World War II.

The Beer Hall Putsch of 1923

was quickly crushed

Mussolini became prime minister of Italy

when King Victor Emmanuel, reacting to Fascist intimidation, appointed him.

Hitler wrote Mein Kampf

while in jail after the failed Beer Hall Putsch