Ch. 27 HIS

Britain adopted a policy of appeasement in its relationship with Hitler for all of the following reasons except

Britain was militarily weak, having disarmed after the First World War.

In Stalin's Soviet Union, women

Could enter the ranks of specialists in industry and science

Why did Stalin call for the liquidation of the Kulaks?

He believed that as landowners they would eventually embrace conservative capitalism and become great enemies of socialist progress.

In the late 1920s, how did Adolf Hitler shape the Nazi Party's message to appeal to middle-class voters?

He deemphasized the anticapitalist elements of National Socialism and vowed to fight communism.

What was the purpose of the Enabling Act in 1933?

It gave Hitler dictatorial powers for four years

How did the Nazi Party seek to promote the idea of the Volksgemeinschaft?

The Nazis created mass organizations such as the Hitler Youth and held mass rallies to spread Nazi ideology and enlist volunteers.

In the Lateran Agreement, how did Mussolini resolve the status of the Catholic Church in Italy?

The Vatican was recognized as an independent state that received heavy support from the Italian state.

Where did Nazi administrators initially gain experience in mass murder?

The murder of Germans with physical and mental disablities prior to the war.

Why did Nazis treat the northern European states that they conquered preferentially?

They considered the Scandinavian people to be racially related to the Germans.

How did the Nazis seek to give legitimacy to their racial policies?

They established research institutes and academics that measured and defined racial differences in order to present prejudice in the guise of enlightened science.

What were the duties of the Einsatzgruppen (Special Action Units)?

They followed the German army into central Europe, systemically murdering undesirables as they moved from town to town.

What problem was faced by most of the underground resistance groups who opposed the Nazis?

They were not well unified, for they had differing political goals.

For what goal did the Soviet government under Stalin aggressively intervene in all aspects of life?

To create a society without classes for social leveling

What was Germany's goal in the Battle of Britain?

To gain air supremacy in anticipation of an invasion of Great Britain.

The new elite class in the Stalinist state included all of the following except

financiers with access to needed capital.

The Second World War claimed the lives of how many soldiers and civilians?

over 50 million

All of the following are examples of how totalitarianism owed much to the practices and attitudes adopted by governments during the total war of World War I except

states sought to ethnically cleanse their populations.

Mussolini was expelled from the Italian Socialist party for

urging Italian entry into World War I

Britain and France finally confronted Hitler with the threat of war when he

used the pretext of German minorities in Danzig to threaten Poland.

What was the primary goal of the opponents of the Nazis in the Protestant and Catholic churches?

To preserve religious life in Germany.