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