western civ chapter 27
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.
How did Mussolini build support from big business in Italy?
He left big business to regulate itself.
Which of the following best characterizes the "new fascist man" that Mussolini promoted?
He was to be a virile, patriotic warrior
Why did Hitler have the leadership of the SA storm troopers, roughly one thousand individuals, killed in 1934?
Hitler wanted to win the support of the traditional military, but the SA leaders had expected appointment to top positions in the army.
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 purpose of the Enabling Act in 1933?
It gave Hitler dictatorial powers for four years
How did industrial production in the Soviet Union in 1937 compare with that in 1928?
It was far higher.
Lenin's New Economic Policy was a political compromise with the
Russian peasants.
The decisive turning point in the clash between the Soviet Union and Germany came at the Battle of
Stalingrad
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.
How did the fascist vision of society differ from the communist vision of society?
The fascist vision emphasized a community rooted in the bonds of nationalism, while the communist vision emphasized a society rooted in its classlessness.
How did the Nazis seek to give legitimacy to their racial policies?
They established research institutes and academies 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, systematically 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
In the early 1930s, German chancellor Brüning tried to cope with the Great Depression by
cutting government spending and squeezing wages and prices.
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.
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.