Deck 11: The Russian Revolution and the Rise of the Soviet Union, 1905-1940

Question 1

Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will documented

A) an anti-Jewish pogrom
B) a Nazi party rally
C) the 1936 Olympic Games
D) the beer hall putsch

Answer 1

a Nazi party rally

Question 2

Hitler hired Riefenstahl to make a film for the Nazis because he wanted

A) a propaganda film
B) a neutral portrayal of his movement
C) a critical portrayal of German issues
D) popular entertainment

Answer 2

a propaganda film

Question 3

Postwar, what undermined many democratic regimes across Europe?

A) ethnic rivalries
B) economic strength
C) communist plots
D) the Jews

Answer 3

ethnic rivalries

Question 4

In 1919, Italy gave all adult men the right to vote, and this resulted in

A) a stronger liberal democracy
B) women's riots
C) economic weakness
D) weaker liberal parties

Question 5

Fascists recruited middle and upper class support by playing on fears of

A) nationalism
B) economic decline
C) communist revolution
D) imperial decline

Question 6

Mussolini's paramilitary squads were attractive to

A) women
B) older men
C) young men
D) communists

Question 7

The core of fascist belief was

A) nationalism
B) economic equality
C) liberal democracy
D) working class power

Question 8

Hitler imbibed his anti-Semitic beliefs from

A) his parents
B) his youth in Vienna
C) Nazi party ideology
D) his years in France

Question 9

High German reparations payments resulted in

A) the collapse of the mark
B) a weak French economy
C) the collapse of the dollar
D) the Great Depression

Question 10

Hitler, and other fascists, depended for success on

A) traditional political networks
B) support from the USSR
C) the support of monarchies
D) new forms of media

Question 11

The Weimar government handled the Great Depression poorly because of

A) fears of US power
B) fears of inflation
C) fears of communism
D) fears of a Jewish takeover

Question 12

What event did Hitler use as an excuse to move against German communists?

A) the Night of Long Knives
B) the Night of Broken Glass
C) the burning of the Reichstag
D) the Nuremberg rally

Question 13

What event marked the beginning of open persecution of German Jews?

A) the Night of Long Knives
B) the Night of Broken Glass
C) the burning of the Reichstag
D) the Nuremberg rally

Question 14

One of the main contributors to economic recovery under the Nazis was

A) spending on social programs
B) money stolen from Jews
C) spending on vacation packages
D) spending on rearmament

Question 15

Unlike Communism, the Nazis' basic goal was

A) cultural revolution
B) a new economic structure
C) social revolution
D) world revolution

Question 16

How did Hitler develop anti-Semitic beliefs? Why were these beliefs acceptable in Germany in the 1930s?

Question 17

How are Fascism and Communism different? What are their different methods and goals? In what ways are their methods similar, and why?

Question 18

How did propaganda play an important role in the spread of fascism? In what ways did new forms of media aid fascist regimes?