One way fascist leaders in the 1920s and 1930s gained popular support was by
A) appealing to national pride.
B) promising to maintain peace with other countries.
C) limiting military influence in the government.
D) attracting foreign investment for industrial development.
2.
The Nazis blamed most of Germany’s pre– World War II social and economic problems on Jews and the
A) industrialists.
B) Catholics.
C) communists.
D) military.
3.
Authors Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald are identified with
A) the classical era.
B) naturalism.
C) the lost generation.
D) romanticism.
4.
How did the Cheka (secret police) help Lenin gain control of Russia?
A) They negotiated peace with Germany.
B) They infiltrated the Czar’s army.
C) They used terror tactics against the enemies of Bolshevism.
D) They organized the redistribution of the land.
5.
Lenin hoped that the Russian Revolution of 1917 would
A) inspire the Russians to continue the European war effort.
B) persuade the combatants in Western Europe to sign an armistice.
C) counter U.S. military presence in Eastern Europe.
D) incite similar socialist rebellions throughout Europe.
6.
“Particular obstructive workers who refuse to submit to disciplinary measures will be subject, as non-workers, to discharge and confinement in concentration camps.”
Vladimir Lenin, Decree of November 14, 1919.
The excerpt above describes Lenin’s method for dealing with those who opposed
A) the establishment of a communist government.
B) the implementation of a market economy.
C) technological advances in industry.
D) Russian involvement in World War I.
7.
Stalin’s “Great Purge” from 1934 to 1939
A) eliminated the army’s dominance in state decisions.
B) replaced agricultural workers with technology.
C) brought about the death of millions of people.
D) expanded Soviet agriculture at the expense of industry.
8.
In the struggle to gain control of the Soviet Union in the 1920s, Stalin’s chief political rival was
A) Romanov.
B) Bukharin.
C) Trotsky.
D) Kerensky.
9.
Both the Italian Fascists and the German Nazis gained power partly because they
A) carefully followed accepted democratic political practices.
B) represented the ideas of compromise and prudent government.
C) used terror tactics against political opponents.
D) had the support of an electoral majority of their nations’ peoples.
10.
Which of the following does not describe Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, and Stalin’s Russia?
A) They were all totalitarian governments.
B) Political opponents were killed in each state.
C) All three nations wanted to expand their borders.
D) Marxist principles governed all economic activity.