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Study Guide – Between the Wars Test
1. After the death of Lenin, which two candidates emerged as favorites for the leadership position?
2. Define collectivization.
3. How did Russian farmers react as a result of Stalin’s collectivization?
4. What was the goal of Stalin’s Five Year economic plans?
5. Was he successful? At what cost?
6. Describe the Great Purge.
7. How did living conditions and wages change for factory workers during Stalin’s Five Year Plans?
8. Compare and contrast authoritarian and totalitarian dictatorships.
9. Describe fascism.
10. Describe how Benito Mussolini assumed power of Italy.
11. What does Il Duce mean?
12. How did Mussolini expand his power and control after taking office (give 2 examples)?
13. Explain how Mussolini and Stalin differ in regard to social life and religion. Give examples. Which was
totalitarian, which was authoritarian?
14. Explain how Mussolini and Stalin/Hitler and differed in their responses to opposition political parties? Which
was totalitarian, which was authoritarian?
15. Describe Hitler’s early life? How might it affected his political views?
16. What was the name of the book that Hitler wrote while in prison?
17. Describe how Hitler failed, and then succeeded to take control of Germany.
18. Define Anti-Semitism.
19. Define Lebensraum and describe how it related to the Aryan race?
20. Define ultra-nationalism.
21. How did Hitler plan to spark the German economy?
22. Describe the importance of the Enabling Act (be sure to known when it was passed).
23. What was the significance of the Nuremburg rallies? When were they held? How often?
24. What was the SS and what was their goal? Who was Heinrich Himmler?
25. What was Kristallnacht and when did occur?
26. What restrictions were placed on the Jews between 1935 and 1938?
27. Describe the Treaty of Locarno.
28. Define economic depression.
29. Explain why France occupied the Ruhr Valley?
30. List two factors that played a role in causing the Great Depression.
31. Compare how the governments of Germany, France, and Great Britain responded to economic crisis.
32. Describe Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal? How did it benefit the Untied States?