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Chapter 29 Review Questions
1. Describe conservative authoritarianism—as a theory, and its character in Poland,
Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Portugal.
2. What are the characteristics of modern totalitarianism? How does it differ from
conservative authoritarianism?
3. What was the purpose of Lenin’s New Economic Policy?
4. How successful was Stalin’s program of five-year plans for the industrialization of
Soviet Russia? What were its strengths and weaknesses?
5. How does one explain that despite a falling standard of living, many Russians in the
1920s and 1930s willingly worked harder and were happy?
6. Generally, did women gain or lose status and power in the new Stalinist Russian state?
7. What were the circumstances under which Mussolini rose to power in Italy? What
were his goals and tactics?
8. Many Germans in the 1920s and 1930s viewed Hitler as a reformer. What were his
ideas about the problems and the future of Germany?
9. How did the Great Depression affect German political life?
10. What was the role of mass propaganda and psychology in Hitler’s rise to power?
11. Why did Hitler acquire such a mass appeal? Did he improve German life?
12. Describe the Munich Conference of 1938 and Chamberlain’s policy of
appeasement. Why were so many British willing to appease Hitler? What was the
result of the Munich Conference?
13. What was Hitler’s foreign and military policy up to 1938? Was there enough evidence
of aggression to convince the world that Hitler was dangerous?
14. What was the “final solution of the Jewish question”? Why did this occur and who is
responsible?
15. Describe German-Soviet relations between 1939 and 1941. Was war between the two
inevitable?
16. What were the strengths of the Grand Alliance?
17. How did the allies finally defeat Hitler?
Conservative authoritarianism
Hitler’s final solution
Appeasement
anti-Semitism
National Socialist German Workers’ party
General Paul Hindenburg
Kulaks
Nazi Storm Troopers (the SA)
German Social Democrats
Lenin’s New Economic Policy (1921)
Great Depression in Germany (1929-1933)
Russo-German nonaggression pact (1939)
Grand Alliance
Battle of El Alamein, 1942
Normandy invasion, June 6, 1944
Modern totalitarianism
“socialism in one country”
fascism
Weimar Republic
Benito Mussolini
Neville Chamberlain
Nazi Labor Front
Joseph Goebbles
Stalin’s collectivization program
Mussolini’s march on Rome (1922)
Munich Conference (1938)
Stalin’s five-year plans
Battle of Stalingrad, 1942
Battle of the Coral Sea, 1942
Hiroshima and Nagasaki