Exam 25: Turmoil between the Wars

The Moscow-White Sea Canal was evidence of the superior new technology and industrialization of Russia,providing a valuable connection from the Moscow factories to the seaports of the north.

After leading a failed attempt to overthrow the Bavarian state government,Adolf Hitler was sentenced to seven months in prison where he wrote his autobiography-cum-political manifesto entitled:

In Mein Kampf,Hitler argues for the popular theory that Germany was betrayed on the inside and that the country needs strong leadership to regain international prominence.

Leon Blum's coalition government in France was termed the:

To facilitate his policy of collectivization,Stalin moved with particular viciousness against a group of peasants known as:

The Five-Year Plan resulted in enormous growth in urban population and in industrialization of Russia.

The event in 1933 that led to Hitler being given unlimited power was the:

The first racially motivated policy of Nazi Germany was their law regarding:

Fascism,as a political form of government developed in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s:

One reason for the increase in support for the National Socialist Party in Germany in elections in the early 1930s was the work of the party's propagandist:

In Nazi Germany's attempt to blur class distinctions in order to infuse a new national spirit in all Germans,they created many organizations such as the _________ for young boys.

The Bolsheviks won the civil war due in no small measure to the hierarchical,disciplined military machine of 5 million men created by the new commissar of war:

Which of the following statements best describes the way Nazi propagandists tried to portray Hitler?

The British economist John Maynard Keynes believed that recovery from the Great Depression required first abandoning the:

The Gestapo (the secret police force of the Nazi regime)investigated most of its cases as a result of:

What was the Night of the Long Knives?

Who were the "Red Leagues"?

The 1919 election in the Weimar Republic resulted in a coalition government of:

Nazi Germany stressed its legitimacy by fostering traditional German values such as:

The interwar period may be viewed as a series of failures typified by all of the following EXCEPT the: