Deck 27: Democracy Under Siege

Question 1

What was the chief accomplishment of the National Unity Government in Britain?

A) Taking Britain off the gold standard
B) Imposing protective tariffs to promote the British economy
C) Holding onto the principles of democracy
D) Achieving a balanced budget
E) Reversing deflationary practices

Answer 1

Holding onto the principles of democracy

Question 2

What was the focus of the first five-year plan?

A) Electricity
B) Pig iron
C) Steel
D) Coal
E) All of these.

Answer 2

All of these.

Question 3

Who were the "kulaks" in Soviet Russia?

A) Intellectuals who were purged from the Communist Party.
B) Technical specialists who were suspected of espionage.
C) Women's cadres who collected grain from the agricultural collectives.
D) Peasants who were accused of being wealthy hoarders following NEP.
E) Convicts who were forced into labor gangs.

Answer 3

Peasants who were accused of being wealthy hoarders following NEP.

Question 4

The guiding principle of the five-year plans was based on what?

A) Socialism
B) Gradual transition to communism
C) Command economy
D) Nationalization of industry
E) State-controlled labor forces

Question 5

Which country was a dictatorship in the late 1930s?

A) Britain
B) France
C) Belgium
D) Sweden
E) Greece

Question 6

The most important person promoting diplomacy in the USSR was ______________.

A) Leon Trotsky
B) Maxim Litvinov
C) Sergei Kirov
D) Nikolai Bukharin
E) Grigorii Zinoviev

Question 7

What made the effects of the Great Depression worse?

A) Low tariffs
B) Abandoning the gold standard
C) Underemphasizing balanced budgets
D) Declaring a moratorium on the payment of war debts
E) None of these.

Question 8

The Nazi Party found adherents in which group?

A) The middle classes
B) World War I veterans
C) Students
D) Those hurt most by the depression
E) All of these.

Question 9

Hitler's concept of Lebensraum argued what?

A) Aryans were being persecuted in Russia.
B) The German economy had tanked because of Jewish financial conspiracies.
C) Non-Aryans should be removed from society via eugenics.
D) The German nation needed more room to prosper, so should conquer to the east.
E) Italian fascism was the best model for German economic recovery.

Question 10

Resistance to Stalinization was found mostly among which population in Russia?

A) Urban factory workers
B) Conscripted labor forces
C) Labor unions
D) Workers' Soviets
E) Peasants

Question 11

What happened to the Soviet economy during the Great Depression?

A) It was severely damaged because the United States recalled all foreign loans.
B) There was an ongoing crisis after the end of NEP.
C) There was no effect on Russia because it was not part of the Dawes Plan.
D) Russia struggled to create a balanced economy.
E) War communism was extended from 1918 to 1939.

Question 12

Who wrote a book that could be considered the "alt-right" of the 1930s?

A) Adolf Hitler
B) Benito Mussolini
C) George Orwell
D) Winston Churchill
E) None of these

Question 13

Who attributed the Great Depression to the deflationary policies of the 1920s?

A) Neville Chamberlain
B) John Maynard Keynes
C) Ramsay MacDonald
D) James Keir Hardie
E) Winston Churchill

Question 14

How many Russian peasants starved to death in the winter of 1932-1933?

A) 500,000-1 million
B) 1-3 million
C) 3-5 million
D) 5-7 million
E) 7-9 million

Question 15

What was the primary reason for Hitler's seizure of power as a dictator in Germany?

A) His election to chancellor in 1933
B) The death of President von Hindenburg
C) Passage of the Enabling Act
D) Passage of the Nuremburg Laws
E) A National Socialist majority in parliament

Question 16

Collectivization succeeded ______________.

A) in supporting the kulaks
B) in ending the famine
C) ideologically
D) in doubling the production quotas of livestock
E) in uniting the peasants behind Stalin

Question 17

What connects Spain, Portugal and Austria's political response to the Great Depression?

A) It was liberal.
B) It was democratic.
C) It was explicitly Catholic.
D) It was socialist.
E) It was communist.

Question 18

How many people were put in prison by Franco immediately following the Spanish Civil War?

A) 10,000
B) 50,000
C) 100,000
D) 500,000
E) over 1,000,000

Question 19

What part of the Soviet Union suffered the most from the Great Famine?

A) Georgia
B) Russia
C) Ukraine
D) The Caucasus
E) Siberia

Question 20

Stalinism in the 1930s generated what effect?

A) A decline in industry
B) A rebound in agricultural productivity
C) Widespread paranoia as citizens were dispersed into forced labor camps
D) International admiration for Stalin's leadership and management techniques
E) Proof of the viability of a communist state

Question 21

The Munich Conference in 1938 allowed Hitler to take control of which area?

A) Hungary
B) Austria
C) Czech territory
D) Poland
E) Alsace-Lorraine

Question 22

All of the following provided popular resistance to Hitler's ideas except ______________.

A) Thomas Mann
B) Charlie Chaplin
C) Léon Blum
D) Cardinal Pacelli
E) Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Question 23

Over the 1930s, Germany rebuilt what economic industry?

A) Military
B) Heavy industry
C) Communications
D) Agriculture
E) Chemical

Question 24

What was the Night of Long Knives?

A) Hitler's assassination of the president to seize complete control of Germany
B) Widespread destruction of Jewish businesses
C) The elimination of the Communist Party within Germany
D) Hitler's purge of his political opposition and his stormtrooper leaders
E) The first campaign to seize the Sudetenland

Question 25

Which was the first concentration camp to deal with the undesirables in the German population?

A) Auschwitz
B) Dachau
C) Thieresenstad
D) Bergen
E) Treblinka

Question 26

What did the Nuremberg Laws try to do?

A) Require Jews to wear a yellow star to be identified in public.
B) Prevent Jews from leaving Germany with valuables.
C) Restrict Jews from interaction with the Christian population.
D) Make it illegal to be Jewish in Germany.
E) Require Jews to leave Germany within three years.

Question 27

What was Operation Barbarossa?

A) The attempt to convince Japan to attack China
B) The plan to lay siege to Britain in the autumn of 1940
C) The Axis support of Finland to distract Soviet troops from attacking along the Eastern Front
D) Hitler's plan to take over Russia
E) The Allied assault on the Axis in coming up from North Africa through the soft underbelly of central Europe

Question 28

One of the most successful Nazi propaganda pieces, Triumph of the Will , was produced by ______________.

A) Josef Goebbels
B) Heinrich Reinhardt
C) Leni Riefenstahl
D) Sergei Eisenstein
E) Orson Welles

Question 29

What artist glorified the Soviet Union under Stalin?

A) René Magritte
B) Marc Chagall
C) Pablo Picasso
D) Mary Cassatt
E) None of these.

Question 30

Where was the strike which drew the United States into World War II initiated?

A) Leningrad
B) London
C) Pearl Harbor
D) San Diego
E) Stalingrad

Question 31

What was Hitler's secret police force known as?

A) Einsatzgruppen
B) NKVD
C) Blackshirts
D) Gestapo
E) Brigando

Question 32

What was the intention of the Berlin-Rome Axis?

A) To create a cooperative economic union to rebuild their respective militaries
B) To consolidate forces to support the Falangistas in the Spanish Civil War
C) To unify and combat Communism
D) To mutually support expansionist goals
E) To impose fascism across Europe

Question 33

What was the strategy behind the German tactic of Blitzkrieg?

A) Raining down massive artillery shelling on Britain
B) Directing bombing raids by the Luftwaffe
C) Rapidly mobilizing tanks and troops to overwhelm opponents
D) Defying a neutrality pact with Stalin and invade Poland without notice
E) Creating a single front war on the east after neutralizing France

Question 34

Eugenicist theories in Germany focused on what aspect of eliminating the undesirable elements?

A) Intermarriage of suitable members of the population
B) Sterilization of inferior members of the population
C) Euthanasia
D) Denial of social services to the genetically inferior
E) All of these.

Question 35

What was one of the most surprising diplomatic partnerships of the 1930s?

A) The Molotov-Ribbentrop Agreement
B) The Munich-Rome Axis
C) The Tokyo Accords
D) The Sykes-Picot Agreement
E) Lend-Lease Program

Question 36

Who was not considered undesirable under Hitler's racial profiling?

A) Jews
B) Slavs
C) Communists
D) Gypsies
E) Catholics

Question 37

The Vichy government, which collaborated with Germany both politically and in the Holocaust, was in ______________.

A) Norway
B) Belgium
C) France
D) Austria
E) Romania

Question 38

What was the Luftwaffe?

A) The German program of eugenics
B) The new air force
C) A program of managed economy that reduced unemployment to less than 1 percent
D) The attack policy to expand the Reich to the East
E) The secret police

Question 39

Hitler's policies on racial purity put which race at the highest point of supremacy?

A) Aryans
B) Slavs
C) Jews
D) Gypsies
E) Caucasians

Question 40

What was Léon Blum able to accomplish in French politics?

A) He overturned the politics of appeasement proposed by Chamberlain.
B) He reached a détente with Comintern.
C) He formed a Popular Front coalition between Socialism, Communist, and Radical parties to work cooperatively against Nazism.
D) He established an alliance of the scientific community to raise conscious awareness against warfare.
E) He brought together radical anarchosyndicalists with conservative Republicans to object to the Spanish Civil War.

Question 41

Why were the reasons behind and effect of Stalin's Great Purges?

Question 42

Collaboration under Nazi direction was established in all of the following countries except ______________.

A) Vichy France
B) Slovakia
C) Finland
D) Poland
E) Croatia

Question 43

Einsatzgruppen were ______________.

A) the secret police force who arrested, tortured, and executed political opposition to Hitler
B) mobile killing squads charged with eliminating undesirables
C) a series of camps in Poland designed for efficient disposal of Jews
D) plans to relocate the entire population of undesirables into newly conquered Russian lands
E) generals in charge of concentration camps with quotas to implement the Final Solution

Question 44

What country liberated Berlin on May 8, 1945?

A) France
B) The United States
C) Britain
D) The Soviet Union
E) All of these.

Question 45

Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt met during the war to discuss postwar goals. The most important of these was the conference at ______________.

A) Teheran
B) Yalta
C) Crete
D) Kiev
E) Beirut

Question 46

The greatest defeat to Germany was at the battle in ______________.

A) Kalininigrad
B) Leningrad
C) Moscow
D) Kursk
E) Novosibirsk

Question 47

What was the effect of the five-year plans and collectivization on the Soviet Union?

Question 48

How was the Final Solution conceived of and enacted?

Question 49

Discuss the differing responses to the Great Depression in Europe.

Question 50

Women's participation in the war (on both sides) was found in all of the following areas except ______________.

A) munitions manufacturing
B) ground support in the military
C) nursing
D) bus drivers
E) bomber pilots

Question 51

According to Keynes, what caused the Great Depression, and what could bring the economy into recovery?

Question 52

Analyze the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi Party.

Question 53

Discuss the reactions of religious leaders to World War II.

Question 54

What was Hitler's two-stage approach to conquering Europe? What brought it to an end?

Question 55

The American effort to create an atomic bomb that could end the war was called what?

A) Operation Firestrike
B) The Manhattan Project
C) Operation Overlord
D) D-Day
E) The Enola Gay

Question 56

The French resistance movement was led by ______________.

A) François Mitterand
B) Charles de Gaulle
C) Henri Pétain
D) Maurice Deschamps
E) Paul Reynaud

Question 57

What was the purpose and effect of the conferences attended by Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt?

Question 58

The campaign to liberate France was termed ______________.

A) Operation Overlord
B) Operation Barbarossa
C) Operation Normandy
D) Battle of the Marne
E) Battle of the Boats

Question 59

What were the government policies toward Aryans and non-Aryans in 1930s Germany?

Question 60

The debut of an organized solution for extermination of the Jews was at the ______________.

A) Yalta Conference
B) Teheran Conference
C) Wannsee Convention
D) Geneva Accords
E) Warsaw Pact

Question 61

Francisco Franco fought for the pro-democracy forces in the Spanish Civil War.

Question 62

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
Gestapo

Question 63

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
Munich Conference

Question 64

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
Mein Kampf

Question 65

Collaborationist governments assisting Nazis were established in Slovakia and Croatia.

Question 66

How did Churchill convince Americans to assist Britian against Germany in World War II?

Question 67

The propaganda masterpiece Triumph of the Will was directed by Joseph Goebbels.

Question 68

The first victims in the Great Purges were the leaders of the NKVD.

Question 69

Hitler broke the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact first.

Question 70

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
kulaks

Question 71

The focus of the first five-year plan was collectivized agriculture.

Question 72

After consultation with scientists about efficient methods, Nazis killed millions of Jews with insecticide in death camps.

Question 73

Operation Overlord brought millions of troops across the English Channel to occupied France.

Question 74

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
Nuremburg Laws

Question 75

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
Aryan Race

Question 76

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
Night of Long Knives

Question 77

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
Concentration camp

Question 78

Lodz, Poland had the largest Jewish population of any European city.

Question 79

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
Virginia Woolf

Question 80

The French Popular Front was led by Charles de Gaulle.