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WH The Rise of Extremism

Basic Review of the Rise of Totalitarian Governments

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Who was "Der Fuehrer"?Adolph Hitler
What was "Mein Kampf"?Hitler's biography explaining his ideas of Nazism and anti-Semitism
What word means extreme prejudice against Jews?Anti-Semitism
What word is a government that controls all aspects of society through bureaucracy and technology and has a strong leader supported by a disciplined ideologically based party?Totalitarianism
What does Aryan Supremacy mean?The Nazi belief that Teutonic people were destined to be the Master Race.
What did Hitler do to repudiate the war guilt clause of the Versailles Treaty?He blamed Jews and communists instead.
What did Hitler do to repudiate reparations?He refused to pay the war debt.
What did Hitler do to repudiate disarmament of the Versailles Treaty?He built up the army secretly again.
What did Hitler do to repudiate Geramny's being stripped of its empire?He had the idea of Deutschum and Anschluss.
What is Deutschtum?The blood tie that unites all Germans regardless of citizenship.
What is the Anschluss?Geographic reunification of all German-speaking people.
What was the significance of the Spanish Civil War?It served as a dress 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" - leader of the Italian rightwing extremists?Benito Mussolini
What was Mussolini's Party?Fascists
Who were Brownshirts?Nazis in Germany
Who were Blackshirts?Fascists in Italy
What is appeasement?Granting concessions to a potential enemy in hopes of peace.
Who supported the Fascists?Large landowners and factory owners, and the Catholic Church
Who was the Divine ruler of Japan?Emperor Hirohito
Why did Japan embark on a course of conquest in the Pacific?To gain resources it lacked, workers and economic world power.
Who was the leader of the Japanese military clique?Hideki Tojo
What historic cultural ideal was reintroduced to gain obedient soldiers in Japan?Samurai code - Bushido
What was Japan's master plan for econmic and political domination of the Pacific?Great East Asia Prosperity Sphere
What document laid out Japan's plans for dimination and included the possibility of bombing Pearl Harbor?The Tanaka Memorial
Why did the Japanese people believe they were racially superior?Their emperor was divine
What did the Fascists political and social goal?To restore the glory of the Roman Empire
What four characteristics did the Axis powers share?Extreme nationalism, militarism, imperialism and totalitarianism.
What outburst of anti-Semitism was a preview of how the Nazis would seek to destroy the Jews?Kristallnacht


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Waukesha South High School
Waukesha, WI

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