WW2 history study guide

1.) What is the definition of fascism we are using? A single party, totalitarian government that is not communist.

2.) Who is considered the founder of fascism? Mussolini

3.) How did Mussolini rise to power? He was invited by the king to become the prime minister in Italy

4.) What are the 6 things that Russia, Italy, and Germany all had in common during the pre-WWII era? A single-party dictatorship, state control of the economy, use of police, spies, and terror to enforce the will of the state, strict censorship and government control over the media, unquestioned obedience to a single leader, and the use of schools and media to brainwash people.

5.) What were the basic ideas behind Lenin’s NEP? It allowed for some capitalism in communist Russia

6.) How did Joseph Stalin come to power? He out allies in positions of the communist party

7.) Why did the 5 Year Plan fail? Because it was too much communism too quickly

8.) What is a command economy? All economic depictions made the govt. and not the people in the markets. All farms, factories, and transportation were put under govt. control

9.) What are the Gulags? Labor camps in the Soviet Union in the 1930’s - 1950’s where 2-17 million people died

10.) What government took over in Germany at the end of WWI? Weimer Republic

11.) What is hyperinflation? Makes money almost worthless and prices surge to super high levels

12.) What is the significance of the Beer Hall Putsch? That Hitler was arrested and sentenced to 5 years in jail, where he then wrote Mein Kampf

13.) What is the stab-in-the-back myth? It led to Hitler and others hate for the Jews

14.) What are the Nuremberg Laws? It led to many talented Jews leaving Germany including Einstein

15.) What happened on the Night of Broken Glass? A German boy shot and wounded a German diplomat and the German people retaliated by burning Jewish business,

synagogues, and beating up Jews.