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Chapter 29 Homework
World War II
Monday 3/16/15
957-963
1. In what way was Stalin’s 5 year plans more than just a “mere set of economic measures to speed up
the Soviet Union’s economy”?
2.
What factors led Lenin to abandon war communism and adopt the New Economic Policy?
3.
The book says that creating the NEP was a political necessity for Lenin, what group in particular
did Lenin fear?
4.
How did Stalin’s “Socialism in one country” differ from Trotsky’s “permanent revolution”?
5.
List the steps that Stalin took in defeating Trotsky to follow Lenin.
6.
What was Stalin’s “second revolution”?
7.
Give Stalin’s quote for where Russia was industrially and what Russia needed to do as a
consequence.
8.
In what way was collectivization a “preventative war against the peasantry”?
9.
Cite at least two facts to indicate the success or failure of Stalin’s collectivization plan.
10. What was the most frightening aspect of Stalinist society?
11. What did the death of Sergei Kirov lead to in the Soviet Union in the mid 1930’s?
12. What type of “capital” existed in Soviet Russia?
13. What were the most lasting changes for women under Stalin’s regime?
a.
Cite a fact to support this point.
Tuesday 3/17/15
964-966
1.
According to your book, why did the Italians fight on the side of the Allies in WWI?
a.
Were those promises kept?
2.
What actions mobilized the property owning classes?
3.
Why did each of the following groups oppose the Italian government in 1920?
a. Revolutionary socialists
b.
anti-liberal conservatives
c.
frightened property owners
4.
who were the black shirts
5.
How did Mussolini “legally come to power”?
6.
Because of what two things did Mussolini become dictator?
7.
Who was Giacomo Matteoti, what happened to him and what did it lead to?
8.
What was Mussolini’s famous slogan?
9.
How was Mussolini not a totalitarian ruler?
10. What was agreed to in the Lateran Agreement of 1929?
11. How did Mussolini view the role of women in Italian society?
Wednesday 3/18/15
Pgs. 966-971
1.
Nazism grew out of extreme:
a.
b.
2.
Why did Hitler refer to Karl Lueger as the “mightiest mayor of all times”?
3.
What did Hitler learn from ex-monk Lanz von Liebenfels?
4.
What did the German workers Party (NAZI’s) believe in 1919?
5.
Who was supposed to help Hitler overthrow the Weimar government in 1923? (Also known as the
beer hall putsch)
6.
After his failed attempt to overthrow the government and his subsequent time in prison, how did
Hitler change his strategy for coming to power in Germany?
7.
what did Hitler do to appeal to the German middle class?
8.
Who was Hitler’s minister of propaganda?
9.
what two elite groups did Hitler try to win the support of and how did he do it?
a.
b.
10. How did Hitler become Chancellor in 1933?
11. Who did Hitler blame for the burning of the German Reichstag?
12. What was the enabling act and how was it related to the burning of the Reichstag?
13. What did Hitler do on the night of June 30, 1934 (the night of the long knives)
14. What did the Nuremburg laws do?
15. What happened after a Jewish boy killed a German diplomat in Paris? (also known as
Kristallnacht or the night of broken glass)
16. How did the NAZI’s view women?
Thursday 3/19/15
Questions accompany handout from class.
1.
According to the book “Mein Kampf” what were Hitler’s two significant goals?
a.
b.
2.
Who were the Slavs and how would they be treated if Hitler was successful in achieving his
“Lebensraum”?
3.
What did Germany do in:
a. 1933
4.
b.
1934
c.
1935
What was the purpose of the Lytton commission?
a.
What lesson did aggressive dictators learn from the outcome of the Lytton commission?
5.
Which three countries signed the Stresa accords?
6.
Why were France and England so willing to appease Mussolini after he invaded Ethiopia?
7.
How did the League of Nations and France and England have a wavering policy toward Mussolini
after his invasion of Ethiopia?
8.
What was Hitler’s greatest risk yet taken on March 7, 1936?
9.
Who belonged to the Spanish Popular Front?
10. Who were the Spanish Falangists?
11. In the Spanish Civil War which countries supported the:
a. Republican government
b. Falangists (Fascists) led by Francisco Franco
12. What was Anschluss?
a.
Was this legal?
b.
When did Hitler do it?
c.
How did France, England or the League of Nations respond?
13. Why did Hitler want the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia?
14. How did the French Premier Daladier respond to Germany’s threat against France’s ally
Czechoslovakia?
15. What did British Prime Minister think he achieved at the Munich conference?
Friday 3/20/15
971-975
Nazi Expansion and the Second World War
1. According to your text the guiding and unique concepts of Nazism remained ____________________
and _____________________________.
a. What is the meaning of the German term Lebensraum?
2. What facilitated German expansion?
3. Which countries made up the Grand Alliance?
4. Why did Hitler view the following two agreements as unjust:
a. Versailles Treaty
b. Locarno Pact (this pact was discussed in Chapter 28)
5. What did Hitler do in October 1933?
6. How does the book define Britain's policy of appeasement?
7. Why didn't France and Britain stop Hitler from rearming the Rhineland in March 1936?
Britain:
France:
Look at the map on page 972
8. What territories did Hitler annex in 1938? (there are two)
9. Identify one city in the territory gained by the Soviet Union as a result of their non-aggression pact with
Germany.
10. By what date had Hitler taken over all of Czechoslovakia?
11. What does the timeline on page 973 say happened in:
a. 1924
b. 1925
c. 1932
d. August 1939
12. What is the meaning of the cartoon on page 974?
13. What were the terms of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact signed August 23, 1939?
1.
2.
Monday 3/30/15
975- 984
1. What territory did the Soviet Union gain as a result of Germany's victory over Poland?
a. By what agreement did the Soviet's claim these lands?
2. When and where did the Germans attack after Poland?
3. Who was almost wiped out at Dunkirk?
4. What type of battle was the Battle of Britain? Who fought? Who won?
5. According to your book what should Hitler's strategy have been after his stalemate in the battle of
Britain to defeat the English?
a. What did the Germans in fact do?
b. why does your book say Hitler did this?
6. What events between the US and Japan preceded Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor?
7. How did Hitler view the following groups as he proceeded to create his "new world order"?
A. Slavs
B. Latin people
8. What three interrelated policies allowed Great Britain, the US and the USSR to from a strong alliance
against Hitler?
1.
2.
3.
9. For what country was WWII known as the "Great Patriotic war of the Fatherland"?
10. What was the significance of the following battles?
a. Stalingrad
b. Coral Sea
Tuesday 3/31/15
ACE Practice test for Ch. 29 (you will find this in the links on the web page)
Wednesday 4/1/15
Review
Thursday 4/2/15
Final