AP EURO CHAPTER 29-30 TEST QUESTIONS

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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.


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