Use the following to answer questions 1-15:
Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
Terms
a. New Deal
b. Popular Front
c. totalitarianism
d. fascism
e. five-year plan
f. New Economic Policy (NEP)
g. collectivization
h. Black Shirts
i. Lateran Agreement
j. Nazism
k. Enabling Act
l. blitzkrieg
m. New Order
n. Holocaust
o. Europe first policy
1.
Launched by Stalin in 1928 and termed the “revolution from above,” its goal was to modernize the Soviet Union and generate a Communist society with new attitudes, new loyalties, and a new socialist humanity. _________________
2.
“Lightning war” using planes, tanks, and trucks, first used by Hitler to crush Poland in four weeks. _________________
3.
A movement born of extreme nationalism and racism and dominated by Adolf Hitler from 1933 until the end of World War II in 1945. _________________
4.
A New Deal–inspired party in France that encouraged unions and launched a far-reaching program of social reform. _________________
5.
The military strategy, set forth by Churchill and adopted by Roosevelt, that called for the defeat of Hitler in Europe before the United States launched an all-out strike against Japan in the Pacific. _________________
6.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s plan to reform capitalism through forceful government intervention in the economy. _________________
7.
The attempted systematic extermination of all European Jews and other “undesirables” by the Nazi state during World War II. _________________
8.
A radical dictatorship that exercises complete political power and control over all aspects of society and seeks to mobilize the masses for action. _________________
9.
Stalin’s forcible consolidation of individual peasant farms into large, state-controlled enterprises. _________________
10.
A 1929 agreement that recognized the Vatican as an independent state, with Mussolini agreeing to give the church heavy financial support in return for the pope’s public support. _________________
11.
A movement characterized by extreme, often expansionist nationalism, anti-socialism, a dynamic and violent leader, and glorification of war and the military. _________________
12.
A private army under Mussolini that destroyed Socialist newspapers, union halls, and local Socialist Party headquarters, eventually pushing Socialists out of the city governments of northern Italy. _________________
13.
Hitler’s program, based on the guiding principle of racial imperialism, which gave preferential treatment to the Nordic peoples above “inferior” Latin peoples and, at the bottom, “subhuman” Slavs and Jews. _________________
14.
An act pushed through the Reichstag by the Nazis that gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for four years. _________________
15.
Lenin’s 1921 policy re-establishing limited economic freedom in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry in the face of economic disintegration. _________________
Answer Key
1.
e. five-year plan
2.
l. blitzkrieg
3.
j. Nazism
4.
b. Popular Front
5.
o. Europe first policy
6.
a. New Deal
7.
n. Holocaust
8.
c. totalitarianism
9.
g. collectivization
10.
i. Lateran Agreement
11.
d. fascism
12.
h. Black Shirts
13.
m. New Order
14.
k. Enabling Act
15.
f. New Economic Policy (NEP)
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