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| What popular "Radio Priest" told his 10 million listeners to first support and then attack FDR and the New Deal? | Father Charles F. Coughlin |
| This Lousiana political boss, called "the Kingfish," promised to Share the Wealth and make every man a king. | Huey Long |
| This right-wing anti-Semitic demagogue joined Coughlin in the third party (Union Party) challenge to President Roosevelt. | Gerald L. K. Smith |
| How was FDR able to counter the challenges of right-wing demagogues? | He put their issues into New Deal reforms. |
| What did Adolph Hitler do to repudiate the Versailles Treaty? | He blamed Jews and Comunists instead for the war; he refused to pay the war debt; he built up the army again; and he unified Germany with his Nazi ideas of Deutschtum. |
| Who was "Der Fuehrer," leader of the Nazi Party which took control of Germany? | Adolph Hitler |
| What was the Nazi idea of racial superiority? | Aryan Supremacy -The Nazi belief that Teutonic people are destined to be the Master Race. |
| What is Totalitarianism? | A government which controls all aspects of society through bureaucracy and technology and where a strong leader or group is supported by a disciplined ideologically based party. |
| What is the significance of the Spanish Civil War? | It served as a rehearsal for German and Italian troops and weaponry for WW2. |
| What famous Spanish artist painted the horrors of the attack on Guernica? | Pablo Picasso |
| Who was Il Duce, the leader of the Italian Fascist Party? | Benito Mussolini |
| What political party rose to power in Germany under Hitler? | Nazis (brownshirts) |
| Who were called Black Shirts? | Fascists in Italy |
| What was the Fascists' plan for imperialiam? | Restore the Roman Empire |
| What is appeasement? | Granting concessions to a potential enemy in hopes of peace. |
| What agreement signed by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain gave concessions to Hitler in 1938? | The Munich Agreement |
| To promote trade and gain a potential ally, what country finally received diplomatic recognition from the US for the first time since 1917? | Russia |
| The U.S. was still isolationist and adopted what series of laws in the 1930s to prevent American involvement in the European war that was brewing? | Neutrality Acts |
| What event triggered WW2 and caused England and France to declare war on Germany? | Germany's 1939 invasion of Poland. |
| What was FDR's plan to help Britain by trading old navy destroyers for bases in the Caribbean? | Lend-Lease |
| What important steps did FDR take to overcome our military unpreparedness when Europe went to war? | Congress voted for our first peacetime draft and military budgets were increased. |
| Who was the symbolic leader of Japan in WW2? | Emperor Hirohito |
| What group gained control of the Japanese government and proceeded to attack Manchuria and soon launch a full scale assault on China? | The Japanese military clique |
| What right-wing extremist groups in America discredited Nazis and other militarists? | German-American Bund and the Silver Shirts |
| What was Hitler's plan for imperialism? | The Anschluss - put all German speaking people under the Nazi flag. |
| Why did the Fascists think the Italians were superior to others? | They were the heirs classic greatness from Roman times. |
| Who was the political leader of Japan? | Hideki Tojo |
| What was the Japanese plan for imperialism? | Greater East Asia Prosperity Sphere |
| Why did Japan want to conquer other countries? | Because it was poor in resources needed for a modern industrial and military power |
| Why did the Japanese believe they were a superior people? | They were a divinely chosen race and their emperor was divine. |
| What did FDR say America's role would be in a January 1941 speech to Congress? | An Arsenal of Democracy |
| What means a popular speaker or orator who sitrs up people's emotions for his own purposes? | A demagogue |
| What means hatred of Jews andiscrimination against them? | Anti-Semitism |
