Multiple Choice Chap 27

The "cult of the Duce" (leader) promoted the image of Mussolini as

A powerful strongman embodying the best qualities of the Italian people.

Stalin's theory of socialism in one country

Argued that the Soviet Union could build socialism on its own

Why did Britain adopt a policy of appeasement in its relationship with Hitler?

British conservative leaders underestimated Hitler.

As practiced in the 1930's, APPEASEMENT was

British policy that aimed to give Hitler whatever he wanted in order to avoid war.

How did german chancellor Heinrich Bruning try to cope with the Great Depression in the early 1930's?

By cutting government spending and squeezing wages and prices.

In Stalin's Soviet Union, women

Could enter the ranks of specialists in industry and science

Which countries in August 1939 signed a nonaggression pact that led directly to war?

Germany and the Soviet Union.

Why did Stalin call for the mass murder of Kulaks?

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

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

He deemphasized the anti-capitalist elements of National Socialism and vowed to fight communism.

why was Mussolini's expelled from the Italian Socialist Party?

He urged Italian entry into World War I

Why did Hitler have the leadership of the SA storm troopers, roughly one hundred individuals, killed in 1934?

He wanted to win the support of the traditional military, but the SA leaders had expected appointment to top positions in the army.

The target of the first two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 was

Hiroshima

What was the "Europe first" policy adopted by the allied powers during the World War II?

Hitler would be defeated before the Allies mounted an all-out assault on Japan.

What was the effect of the 1935 Nuremberg Law?

It defined as Jewish anyone having three or more Jewish grandparents.

What was the effect of Lenin's 1921 New Economic Policy?

It encouraged peasants to sell their surpluses in free markets and allowed private traders and small manufacturers to do business again.

What was the purpose of the Enabling Act in 1933?

It gave Hitler dictatorial powers for four years.

Lenin's New Economic Policy was a political compromise with

Russian Peasants

Which battle was the decisive turning point in the clash between the Soviet Union in Germany?

Stalingrad

According to Hitler's New Order, which European race was considered subhuman along with the Jews?

The Slavic Race

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

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

How did the Nazis seek to legitimatize 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.

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.

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

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

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

To preserve religious life in Germany

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

Used the pretext of German minorities in Danzig to threaten Poland