Unit VI Rise of Totalitarianism Studyguide

This test will include multiple choice, true/false, matching, and time occurrences questions. There will be no essay. You may be asked to know where the countries we studies are on a map. These countries include: France, Italy, Germany, Russia, and Spain. In order to study for the test I sugest you look at your notes, readings_ and worksheets, videoguides, and your textbook (Chpt. 14 Section 1 & 2 and Chpt 15 sections 2 and 3). Knowing the significance of these terms and questions will definitely help. Remember, this studyguide is to help you focus your studies- not everything on this studyguide may be o the test and there might be other material_ not listed below that may be on the test.

What were the terms of the Versailles Treaty in regards to Germany?

Czar Nicholas II

Peter the Great

Alexander II

Bolsheviks

Romanovs

Anastasia

Mensheviks

Social Revolutionaries

New Economic Plan

Five-Year Plans

Whites

Reds

Lenin

Rasputin

Trotsky

How was Czarist Russia like France before the French Revolution? (think social conditions – privileged and underprivileged classes)

Gulag

“Peace, Bread, and Land”

What was Czarist Russia like?

Kulak

Purges

Totalitarianism

Collective Farming

Autocrat

Abdicate

What happens to Ethiopia in 1935?

What year did the Russian Revolution take place?

March Revolution

War Communism

Rasputin

What are the beliefs of Fascists? (hint: look at the reading “What is an Ideology”

What are the beliefs of Communists?

Official and unofficial information on women’s rights, housing, and education under Stalin in the Soviet Union?

Stalin

Mussolini

Lateran Pacts

March on Rome

Black Shirts

Fasces

Haile Selassie

Italian Lake

March on Rome

What were Mussolini’s beliefs?

Hitler

What was the economic situation like in Germany between 1918 and 1923? Weimer Government

What were Hitler’s first steps toward war?

Why did the Germans support Hitler in 1932?

Who did the Nazis blame for Germany’s WWI defeat?

Describe the common pattern that developed in many European countries after World War I

Beer Hall Putsch

Tripartite Pact

What was Japan’s government like in the early 1920s?

Showa Period

Peace and Preservation Act of 1925

Diet

Why do militarism and imperialism in Japan rise in the latter part of the 1920s?

Manchuria

Manchukuo

Flying Tigers

Rape of Nanking

Causes of the Russian Revolution?

East Asia Co-Prosperity Pact

Name 2 world powers that emerged from WWI in better financial shape than when the war started?

Dawes Plan

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Washington Conference

Which event started the worldwide depression of the 1930s?

Why did the Japanese soldiers commit so many atrocities in Nanking?

USS Panay

Stimson Doctrine

Spanish Civil War

National German Socialist Workers Party

Russo-Japanese War

How did Japan react to the League of Nations condemnation of their actions in Manchuria?

What were the nick names of Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini?

9 Power Treaty?

Francisco Franco

King Alfonso

Republicans (in Spain)

Nationalists (Spain)

“Death Solves all problems”- who said this?

“Believe, Fight, Obey!”- who said this?

“Fascism was not worked out beforehand with detailed elaboration, it was born of need for action.”- who said this?

“When you lie tell big lies.”- who said this?

“He got the trains running on time.” – Who is this referring to?