| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Which of the following countries was NOT totalitarian in the 1930s? | China | 82%
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| Which of the following regimes is not typically totalitarian? | Socialist | 82%
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| What was the outcome of Stalin's five-year plans on industrial output? | Output dramatically increased | 73%
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| Some Japanese military extremists, such as Sadao Araki, believed Japan should return to what type of traditional Japanese government? | Shogunate | 73%
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| Who led the Nationalist Forces in the Spanish Civil War? | Francisco Franco | 68%
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| What German economic crisis unfolded in 1921 and 1923, a result of onerous reparation payments? | Hyperinflation | 68%
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| Which of the following does NOT describe the Stalin regime? | Oligarchy | 68%
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| Who was the Emperor of Japan during World War II? | Hirohito | 64%
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| Which of these is a fascio, the namesake of Fascism? | ![]() | 59%
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| What American silent film actor was visiting that prime minister and was even a secondary target (he happened to be out when it unfolded)? | Charlie Chaplin | 59%
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| Who painted "Guernica", a cubist/surrealist depiction of the city's damage from the Civil War? | Picasso | 59%
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| What event precipitated Mussolini to be named leader of Italy? | The March on Rome | 59%
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| What document gave Hitler virtually unfettered power in Germany shortly after that election? | The Enabling Act | 50%
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| What debunked, pseudoscientific theory influenced Nazi ideology? | Social Darwinism | 45%
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| Who won the Nobel Prize for solving the diplomatic and economic crises that Germany and Europe faced in 1924? | Dawes | 41%
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| What percentage of seats did the Nazi Party win in the election of March, 1933? | 44.5% | 36%
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| What type of "cult" idealizes the leader of a country, usually through propaganda? | Cult of Personality | 36%
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| What percentage of seats did the Nazi Party win in the election of 1938? | 100% | 32%
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| What color of shirt did Mussolini's paramilitary thugs wear? | Black | 32%
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| What country's prime minister was assassinated by extremist naval officers on May 15, 1932? | Japan | 32%
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| What role did Spain have in World War II? | Spain was a testing ground for German military strategy | 27%
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| What characteristic of fascist regimes is not necessarily present in other totalitarian regimes? | Extreme Nationalism | 23%
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| What global event spurred the Japanese military to invade Manchuria? | Protectionist Tariffs | 23%
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| What secret police organization dealt with the enemies of the Bolsheviks under Lenin? | Cheka | 18%
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