history- rise of the dictators

Question 1

Characteristics of a totalitarian state

Answer 1

Ideology
Dynamic leader 
Dictatorship and one-party rule
State control of society
Modern technology
Methods of enforcement 
State control of individuals

Question 2

Totalitarianism definition.

Answer 2

A form of government in which the national government takes control of all aspects of both public and private life

Question 3

Characteristics of a fascist state

Answer 3

Supported by middle class, industrialists, and military
Examples: Italy Spain Germany
Authoritarianism 
State over individual 
Charismatic leader
Action oriented
Nationalist 
Racist (nazism)
One-party rule 
Supreme leader
Economic functions controlled by state corporations or the state
Censorship
Indoctrination 
Secret police

Question 4

How did nazism sprout from fascism

Answer 4

Nazism + racism = fascism

Question 5

2 types of totalitarian govts

Answer 5

Fascism and communism

Question 6

Similarities between fascism and communism

Answer 6

Same control methods:
Terror
Secret police
Censorship 
Indoctrination,etc

Question 7

Differences between communism and fascism

Answer 7

Total opposites
Ex:
Fascism = has social classes, communism = classless society
Fascism= people own private property, communism= state owns everything

Question 8

Conditions in Italy after ww1

Answer 8

Chaos bc of secret deal with allies that eventually backfired
Inspired by Russian revolution

Question 9

Il Duce

Answer 9

“The boss” in Italian -> Mussolini

Question 10

How does Italy violate the League of Nations

Answer 10

Italy will invade Ethiopia

Question 11

What does the League of Nations do when Mussolini violated it

Answer 11

They just condemned the action

Question 12

Why did Mussolini invade Ethiopia

Answer 12

He told the Italian people it’d bring them riches, but in reality he wanted revenge for the humiliating defeat when it previously tried to conquer and colonize Ethiopia, but was defeated

Question 13

Why was mussolinis invasion condemned

Answer 13

Because he used poison gas which became illegal after ww1

Question 14

Treaty of Versailles provisions and how hitler overcame them

Answer 14

Militarize the Rhine land

Trained more than 100,00 soldiers secretly

Question 15

Weimar Republic

Answer 15

Led by chancellor
Women can vote
Has bill of rights

Question 16

Conditions in Germany after ww1

Answer 16

Lots of debt and reparations

Numerous political parties

Question 17

Inflation/ hyperinflation

Answer 17

So much debt -> tried to print more money, but that made the money worthless and more economic problems

Question 18

Great Depression

Answer 18

Unemployment and stock market crash -> Dawes plan not working bc US can’t give Germany money to pay France

Question 19

Beer Hall Putsch

Answer 19

Hitler’s attempt to take over govt

Question 20

Mein Kampf

Answer 20

Hitler’s book

Basic book of nazi goals and ideology

Question 21

Nazism

Answer 21

Fascism and racism

Question 22

Third Reich

Answer 22

Hitler’s master race of Germans that will dominate Europe for a thousand years

Question 23

Night of long knives

Answer 23

Hitler’s only purge

Has hundreds of brown shirts shot for gaining considerable power

Question 24

Brown shirts

Answer 24

Hitler’s private army made of veterans and stree thugs

Question 25

SS

Answer 25

Elite enforcers

Question 26

Gestapo

Answer 26

Hitler’s secret police

Question 27

Lebensraum

Answer 27

Living space for Germans

Question 28

Anschluss

Answer 28

The union of Austria and Germany

Prohibited by treaty if versailles, hitler does it anyway

Question 29

Appeasement

Answer 29

Giving into aggressor

Question 30

Responses of the League of Nations and why thy were like this

Answer 30

They did nothing because they wanted to prevent another war

Question 31

Munich conference

Answer 31

Germany France Great Britain and Italy met and said that Germany could take Sudetenland as long as he promised not to take rest of Czechoslovakia (Munich agreement)

Question 32

Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis

Answer 32

Italy formed an alliance with Germany and Japan

Become axis powers in ww2

Question 33

What was the nazi-soviet non-aggresssion pact and why was it made

Answer 33

It is made because hitler invades Czechoslovakia and says he will for Poland -> Poland asks Britain and France for help-> Britain and France ask Soviet Union to help and create a two front war-> Soviet Union still salty about ww1 -> Germany and Soviet Union promise not to attack each other

Question 34

Why did fascism appeal to ppl in Italy and Germany

Answer 34

People feared communism and fascist leaders made it sound like fascism would solve all of their problems

Question 35

How did Mussolini come to power

Answer 35

He was appointed prime minister of Italy -> didn’t do it violently but will tell ppl he did it by force to make himself sound better

Question 36

Black shirts

Answer 36

Mussolinis secret police

Question 37

How did Hitler come to power

Answer 37

Appointed chancellor -> communists begin to get more seats in Reichstag-> at this point Hitler already made people hate communists -> so when he asked them for temporary emergency power they voted yes bc he said they’d need them in case the communists try something-> ppl voted their rights away

Question 38

Neville Chamberlain

Answer 38

British prime minister

Encouraged appeasement

Question 39

Winston Churchill

Answer 39

Britains prime minister

Question 40

Franklin D Roosevelt

Answer 40

President of America at the time

Question 41

Austria, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, Rhineland

Answer 41

Ways Hitler disobeyed treaty of Versailles / Munich agreement / broke the rules

Question 42

What would lead to the outbreak of ww2

Answer 42

After Poland asks for help from Britain and France , eventually Hitler invades Poland which angers Britain and France (will help Poland)