Question 1

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 apparatchiki

Accepted Answer

Apparatchiki (singular: apparatchik)

Wh

Question 2

Before his March on Rome, Mussolini's resume included all the following EXCEPT

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A) elementary school teacher. 
B) editor of the socialist paper, Avanti . 
C) service at the front in World War I. 
D) seizure of Fiume in 1919. 
E) founder of the Fascist Party. 
A) elementary school teacher. 
B) editor of the socialist paper, Avanti . 
C) service at the front in World War I. 
D) seizure of Fiume in 1919. 
E) founder of the Fascist Party.

Question 3

The Communists under Lenin created an effective Red Army by

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A) making military service compulsory. 
B) forcing tsarist officers to serve and by keeping them under close surveillance. 
C) machine-gunning retreating soldiers. 
D) strict discipline. 
E) all of the above 
A) making military service compulsory. 
B) forcing tsarist officers to serve and by keeping them under close surveillance. 
C) machine-gunning retreating soldiers. 
D) strict discipline. 
E) all of the above

Question 4

On its way to becoming a one-party state, interwar Austria

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A) repeatedly demonstrated a lack of support for a union with Germany. 
B) experienced continuous stress between the Viennese working class who were anticlerical and socialist, and peasants who were Catholic and antisocialist. 
C) the middle class came to see themselves as partners with the Social Democrats. 
D) was unable to introduce social reforms to assist the working class. 
E) experienced an economic boom both in agriculture and industry. 
A) repeatedly demonstrated a lack of support for a union with Germany. 
B) experienced continuous stress between the Viennese working class who were anticlerical and socialist, and peasants who were Catholic and antisocialist. 
C) the middle class came to see themselves as partners with the Social Democrats. 
D) was unable to introduce social reforms to assist the working class. 
E) experienced an economic boom both in agriculture and industry.

Question 5

France experienced all the following in the interwar period EXCEPT a

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A) less painful Great Depression than either Germany or the United States. 
B) right-wing movement that sought to unite all the classes and restore French greatness. 
C) quick recovery from the Great Depression. 
D) failed fascist pseudo-revolt in 1934. 
E) Popular Front of leftist parties who introduced extensive reforms such as the forty-hour week. 
A) less painful Great Depression than either Germany or the United States. 
B) right-wing movement that sought to unite all the classes and restore French greatness. 
C) quick recovery from the Great Depression. 
D) failed fascist pseudo-revolt in 1934. 
E) Popular Front of leftist parties who introduced extensive reforms such as the forty-hour week.

Question 6

According to the text, Hitler used elements of "circus showmanship, church pageantry, American advertising and [wartime propaganda]." In concrete terms this meant all the following EXCEPT an awareness that

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A) the masses must be reached. 
B) propaganda must reduce everything to simple slogans. 
C) the message must be varied and original to be effective. 
D) mass meetings bind people together and turn despair into a sense of mission and optimism. 
E) slogans should be incessantly repeated "like hammer blows." 
A) the masses must be reached. 
B) propaganda must reduce everything to simple slogans. 
C) the message must be varied and original to be effective. 
D) mass meetings bind people together and turn despair into a sense of mission and optimism. 
E) slogans should be incessantly repeated "like hammer blows."

Question 7

In the totalitarian state, the individual​

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A) ​was allowed to retain private moral judgment. 
B) ​was able to question authority if dictated by conscience. 
C) ​existed for the purpose of enabling the state to build a new social order. 
D) ​could hold unorthodox opinions if they were kept private. 
E) ​none of the above 
A) ​was allowed to retain private moral judgment. 
B) ​was able to question authority if dictated by conscience. 
C) ​existed for the purpose of enabling the state to build a new social order. 
D) ​could hold unorthodox opinions if they were kept private. 
E) ​none of the above

Question 8

Right-wing intellectuals in Germany attacked democracy during the Weimar Republic

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A) as a barrier to the true unity of the German nation. 
B) by drawing on the traditions of the nineteenth-century Volkish thinkers . 
C) by glorifying instincts and race over reason. 
D) and longer for a German state that would emphasize order and authority. 
E) all of the above 
A) as a barrier to the true unity of the German nation. 
B) by drawing on the traditions of the nineteenth-century Volkish thinkers . 
C) by glorifying instincts and race over reason. 
D) and longer for a German state that would emphasize order and authority. 
E) all of the above

Question 9

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 Lateran Accords

Accepted Answer

The Lateran Accords were a series of agr

Question 10

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 Mein Kampf

Accepted Answer

Mein Kampf, which translates to "My Stru

Question 11

The series of Five-Year Plans did NOT​  result in

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A) a significant expansion of heavy industry. 
B) a drop in real wages. 
C) Western-style efficiency. 
D) a sense among many that a new world was being built. 
E) harsh discipline and forced productivity. 
A) a significant expansion of heavy industry. 
B) a drop in real wages. 
C) Western-style efficiency. 
D) a sense among many that a new world was being built. 
E) harsh discipline and forced productivity.

Question 12

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 corporative system

Accepted Answer

The corporative system is a method of or

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT true of t he W ar C ommunism created during the Russian Civil War ?

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A) It  was a response to plummeting agricultural production. 
B) It  involved the state taking over the means of production. 
C) It   mobilized resources for the Communist war effort. 
D) It  created intense opposition. 
E) It led to increased worker productivity in factories. 
A) It  was a response to plummeting agricultural production. 
B) It  involved the state taking over the means of production. 
C) It   mobilized resources for the Communist war effort. 
D) It  created intense opposition. 
E) It led to increased worker productivity in factories.

Question 14

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. What challenges and obstacles undermined the Weimar Republic?

Accepted Answer

The Weimar Republic, established in Germ

Question 15

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 führer

Accepted Answer

The term "führer" refers to a leader or

Question 16

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).   
 Locate and label the one state in Central and Eastern Europe that remained a democracy during its entire existence in the interwar period.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Instructions: Please use this outline map of...

Question 17

Which country remained a well-functioning democracy until 1939?

Accepted Answer

A) Austria 
B) Czechoslovakia 
C) Germany 
D) Italy 
E) none of the above 
A) Austria 
B) Czechoslovakia 
C) Germany 
D) Italy 
E) none of the above

Question 18

Stalin's industrialization campaign included all the following EXCEPT

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A) a concerted attempt to expand the consumer goods sector. 
B) a determination to catch up with the West in the space of a few years. 
C) intensified exploitation of the peasants and workers. 
D) a massive expansion of heavy industry. 
E) continuing growth despite the global Great Depression. 
A) a concerted attempt to expand the consumer goods sector. 
B) a determination to catch up with the West in the space of a few years. 
C) intensified exploitation of the peasants and workers. 
D) a massive expansion of heavy industry. 
E) continuing growth despite the global Great Depression.

Question 19

The Comintern was all the following EXCEPT

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A) Lenin's political tool for world revolution. 
B) also known as the Communist International. 
C) an attempt to organize C ommunist parties or parties sympathetic to the C ommunists in the world. 
D) the basis of the Gulag, the future system of forced labor camps. 
E) made other C ommunist parties into agents of the Soviet Union. 
A) Lenin's political tool for world revolution. 
B) also known as the Communist International. 
C) an attempt to organize C ommunist parties or parties sympathetic to the C ommunists in the world. 
D) the basis of the Gulag, the future system of forced labor camps. 
E) made other C ommunist parties into agents of the Soviet Union.

Question 20

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).   
 Locate and label the following: the first Fascist state, the most powerful Fascist state, and General Franco's state.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Instructions: Please use this outline map of...

Exam 29: An Era of Totalitarianism

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? apparatchiki

Before his March on Rome, Mussolini's resume included all the following EXCEPT

The Communists under Lenin created an effective Red Army by

On its way to becoming a one-party state, interwar Austria

France experienced all the following in the interwar period EXCEPT a

According to the text, Hitler used elements of "circus showmanship, church pageantry, American advertising and [wartime propaganda]." In concrete terms this meant all the following EXCEPT an awareness that

In the totalitarian state, the individual​

Right-wing intellectuals in Germany attacked democracy during the Weimar Republic

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Lateran Accords

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Mein Kampf

The series of Five-Year Plans did NOT​ result in

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? corporative system

Which of the following is NOT true of t he W ar C ommunism created during the Russian Civil War ?

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. What challenges and obstacles undermined the Weimar Republic?

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? führer

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). Locate and label the one state in Central and Eastern Europe that remained a democracy during its entire existence in the interwar period.

Which country remained a well-functioning democracy until 1939?

Stalin's industrialization campaign included all the following EXCEPT

The Comintern was all the following EXCEPT

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). Locate and label the following: the first Fascist state, the most powerful Fascist state, and General Franco's state.

The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations

The Hebrews: a New View of God and the Individual

The Greek City-State Democratic Politics

Greek Thought From Myth to Reason

The Hellenistic Age Cultural Diffusion

The Roman Republic City-State to World Empire

The Roman Empire a World-State

Early Christianity a World Religion

The Heirs of Rome Byzantium Islam and Latin Christendom

The High Middle Ages Vitality and Enewal

The Flowering of Medieval Culture the Christian Synthesis

The Late Middle Ages Crisis and Dissolution

The Renaissance Transition to the Modern Age

The Reformation the Shattering of Christian Unity

European Expansion Economic and Social Transformations

The Rise of Sovereignty Transition to the Modern State

The Scientific Revolution the Universe Seen As a Mechanism

The Age of Enlightenment Reason and Reform

The French Revolution the Affirmation of Liberty and Equality

The Industrial Revolution the Great Transformation

Thought and Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century

Revolution and Counterrevolution 1815-1848

Thought and Culture in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Realism and Social Criticism

The Surge of Nationalism From Liberal to Extreme Nationalism

The Industrial West Responses to Modernization

Imperialism Western Global Dominance

Modern Consciousness New Views of Nature Human Nature and the Arts

World War I the West in Despair

Thought and Culture in an Era of World Wars and Totalitarianism

World War II Western Civilization in the Balance

Europe After World War II Recovery and Realignment 1945-1989

The Troubled Present

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In the totalitarian state, the individual

The series of Five-Year Plans did NOT result in