1. CHAPTER 17
REVIEW

2. What is a totalitarian state?
A government that aims to control the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens

3. 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

4. What surrealist painter painted everyday objects that separated them from their normal contexts?
Salvador Dali

5. Who was the propaganda minister for Nazi Germany?
Joseph Goebbels

6. What is an economic depression?
A period of low economic activity and rising unemployment

7. Who led the Spanish military in a revolt against the democratic government?
Francisco Franco

8. What were the “Nuremberg Laws”?
They excluded Jews from German citizenship and forbade marriages between Jews and Germans

9. What author and novel was the most famous example of the “stream of consciousness” technique?
James Joyce and Ulysses

10. What was the New Deal?
Franklin Roosevelt’s policy of increasing public works programs and passing new legislation

11. What Spanish general established a dictatorship that was authoritarian rather than totalitarian?
Francisco Franco

12. What did the Treaty of Locarno guarantee?
Germany’s new western borders with France and Belgium

13. What was the purpose of Stalin’s Five Year Plans?
To transform the USSR from an agricultural into an industrial economy

14. What was the Kristallnacht?
It was a destructive Nazi rampage against the Jews

15. Who wrote the literary works Steppenwolf and Siddhartha?
Hermann Hesse

16. 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

17. What was the leading policy making body of the Communist Party?
The Politburo

18. What important factor (belief) led many Germans to accept Hitler and the Nazi Party?
The belief that Hitler had ended Germany’s economic depression

19. What type of artists tried to express in their art their revulsion for what they saw as the insanity of life?
Dadaists

20. What was the Triumph of the Will?
A Nazi documentary film that forcefully conveyed the power of National Socialism

21. Who was V.I. Lenin’s successor in Russia?
Joseph Stalin

22. Where were the people sent who opposed the Nazi regime?
Concentration camps

23. END OF CHAPTER REVIEW