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- 1. Multiple Choice
A system of government that exerts complete control over its citizens; individuals have no rights and all opposition to the government is suppressedMonarchyTotalitarianismDemocracyCommunism - 2. Multiple Choice
Totalitarian countries are characterized by
free and open discussions of ideas
a multiparty system with several candidates for each office
government control of newspapers, radio and television
government protection of people’s civil liberties
- 3. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the name of the work camps in Siberia where Stalin would send "enemies of the state"?GulagsConcentration CampsInternment CampsVeritags
- 4. Multiple ChoiceThe use of print or images to convey a particular message, idea, or value.PropagandaCensorshipGulagDuma
- 5. Multiple Choice
Starting in 1932, which area saw a horrendous famine that may have killed as many as 7 million people?
Ukraine
Mongolia
Estonia
Latvia
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhat is Collectivisation?Stalin’s measure of allowing peasants to own their own farmsStalin’s measure of merging small individual farms into larger collective farms (kolkhoz)Stalin’s measure of focusing on building heavy industriesStalin’s measure of allowing Kulaks to take over the farms of poorer peasants
- 7. Multiple Choice
What was the name of Stalin's secret police?
Cheka- NKVD
Cheka- NPCC
Chevka-NTSS
Chevka-NTRC
- 8. Multiple Choice
The famine in Ukraine during the 1930s resulted from the Soviet government’s attempt to ...
End a civil war
implement free-market practices
collectivize agriculture
introduce crop rotation
- 9. Multiple ChoiceWhat does the USSR stand for?Union of Socialist Soviet RepublicsUnited Soviet Socialists RepublicUnion of Soviet Socialist RepublicsUnion of Soviets Socialists Republics
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWhich kind of industry was the most important to Stalin?Heavy industryMilitary industryConsumer goods industryNaval industry
- 11. Multiple Choice
A major goal of Joseph Stalin’s five-year plans was to
encourage communist revolutions in the colonies of the European powers
transform the Soviet Union into an industrial power
expand the Soviet Union’s borders to include warm-water ports
reduce the amount of foreign aid coming from the Western Hemisphere
- 12. Multiple Choice
Which statement best describes the political
situation in the Soviet Union immediately after
Lenin's death in 1924?
The nation adopted a constitutional
monarchy
Trotsky and his followers assumed full
control of the Communist Party
Popular elections were held to choose a
new General Secretary
A power struggle developed among
Communist Party leaders
- 13. Multiple Choice
The main purpose of the many purges and public
trials that took place in the Soviet Union in the 1930s
was to
force the Jewish people to leave the
Soviet Union
eliminate opposition to Joseph Stalin and
his government
establish a free and independent court
system in the Soviet Union
reform the outdated and inadequate
agricultural system
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the proletariat?the upper class of societythe middle class of societythe workersthe professional class of workers
- 15. Multiple ChoiceWhat did Stalin call his programs that were meant to catch Russia's industry up with the rest of the world?5 Day Plans5 Month Plans5 Year Plans5 Decade Plans
- 16. Multiple ChoiceWhat is one of the negative impact of collectivization?Many peasants, especially Kulaks, killed their own animals, burnt and hid their grainsA new class of wealthy peasants (Kulaks) formedPeasants could own small farmsNumber of peasants increased due to collectivization
- 17. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following is NOT an impact of the Five-Year plans?Expansion of the industrial workforceSoviet Union became an industrial base for powerful arms industryGrowth of consumer industriesWastage and overproduction in the haste to meet industrial targets
- 18. Multiple Choice
What was the goal of communism, according to Marx?
the oppression of the working class
a more equal and fair society
making everybody rich
making everybody poor
- 19. Multiple Choice
What is the basis of Capitalism?
welfare programs
a democratically elected leadership
high taxes
private ownership of the means of production
- 20. Multiple Choice
Which were the classes created by early capitalism?
aristocrats and peasants
lords and ladies
bourgeoisie and proletariat
workers and owners of capital
- 21. Multiple Choice
What did Marx predict for the future?
The poor would all be killed by the rich
The poor would realize that they had no power
The workers would rise up and overthrow the Capitalist system
education and personal development would bring about a peaceful transformation
- 22. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following is NOT a reason why the purges happened.Stalin just didn’t like anyonecontrol peasants and workersremove oppositionto protect the government
- 23. Multiple ChoiceWhose murder triggered off the purges?KirovTrotskyKamenevZinoviev
- 24. Multiple Choice
What job title did Stalin have in the communist party?
General Secretary
Military Specialist
Gulag Specialist
Red Army Leader
- 25. Multiple ChoiceWhen Russia became a communist nation it changed its name to...MarxismBolshevik NationThe Soviet Union
- 26. Multiple ChoiceWhat is Collectivisation?Stalin’s measure of allowing peasants to own their own farmsStalin’s measure of merging small individual farms into larger collective farms (kolkhoz)Stalin’s measure of focusing on building heavy industriesStalin’s measure of allowing Kulaks to take over the farms of poorer peasants
- 27. Multiple Choice
Stalin killed many Communist Party members in what event?
The Great Purge
Terror Famine
Kristallnacht
Dust Bowl
- 28. Multiple Choice
Which of the following dictators were fascists? (Select all that apply)
Emperor Hirohito
Francisco Franco
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
- 29. Multiple Choice
Which of the following dictators were communists?
Emperor Hirohito/Gen. Hideki Tojo
Francisco Franco
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussoloni
Joseph Stalin
- 30. Multiple Choice
Which of the following allowed for the rise of dictators in Europe during the 1930s?
The Treaty of Versailles
The election of FDR in the US.
Hyperinflation and an economic depression.
Unstable democratic governments.
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