CHAPTER 17 REVIEW
What is a totalitarian state? A government that aims to control the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens
How did the Enabling Act allow Hitler to establish a totalitarian state? By giving the government the power to ignore the constitution for four years
What surrealist painter painted everyday objects that separated them from their normal contexts? Salvador Dali
Who was the propaganda minister for Nazi Germany? Joseph Goebbels
What is an economic depression? A period of low economic activity and rising unemployment
Who led the Spanish military in a revolt against the democratic government? Francisco Franco
What were the “Nuremberg Laws”? They excluded Jews from German citizenship and forbade marriages between Jews and Germans
What author and novel was the most famous example of the “stream of consciousness” technique? James Joyce and Ulysses
What was the New Deal? Franklin Roosevelt’s policy of increasing public works programs and passing new legislation
What Spanish general established a dictatorship that was authoritarian rather than totalitarian? Francisco Franco
What did the Treaty of Locarno guarantee? Germany’s new western borders with France and Belgium
What was the purpose of Stalin’s Five Year Plans? To transform the USSR from an agricultural into an industrial economy
What was the Kristallnacht? It was a destructive Nazi rampage against the Jews
Who wrote the literary works Steppenwolf and Siddhartha? Hermann Hesse
The Dawes Plan was created by an international commission to deal with runaway inflation in Germany. What did the Dawes Plan propose? It reduced Germany’s reparations debt
What was the leading policy making body of the Communist Party? The Politburo
What important factor (belief) led many Germans to accept Hitler and the Nazi Party? The belief that Hitler had ended Germany’s economic depression
What type of artists tried to express in their art their revulsion for what they saw as the insanity of life? Dadaists
What was the Triumph of the Will? A Nazi documentary film that forcefully conveyed the power of National Socialism
Who was V.I. Lenin’s successor in Russia? Joseph Stalin
Where were the people sent who opposed the Nazi regime? Concentration camps
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