Economics and Labor
This period of time, from 1929 to World War Two, was marked by a period of slow business activity and high unemployment. An extra 100 points if you can also name what the day the stock market crashed was called.
What is the Great Depression? What is Black Tuesday?
This Fascist leader became the dictator of Italy in 1922.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
This is what Joseph Stalin's Name means. Also an extra 200 Points if you can say what his name originally was.
WHat is the Man of Steel? What is Dzhugashvili?
This is the Title that Hitler took once he became the Dictator.
What is "der Fuhrer".
This is the name of the Period in Japan marked by military dictatorship and expansion.
What is the Showa Period?
This event of unionization caused the British economy to come to halt in 1926.
What is the General Strike?
This is the name of Italy's Secret Police.
What is the OVRA? (Organization of Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascists)
This Period of Time was marked by Stalin getting rid of his political opponents.
What is the Great Purge?
This was the name of the German government before Hitler took power. An extra 200 points if you can describe why Paul von Hindenburg was a weak leader.
What is the Weimar Republic? What is because he was old, a war guy with no wars to do, and easily influenced?
This Spanish leader led his Nationalist Party to power from the Spanish Civil War.
Who is Francisco Franco?
This French Policy gave rights to workers, allowed for collective bargaining, gave workers better working hours and wages.
What is the French New Deal?
Describe what a Fascis looks like.
What is a Bundle of Rods bound together and tied around an axe?
This describes a Totalitarian State.
What is the government controlling every aspect of your life? (Economic, Political, and Social)
This riot in Munich got Hitler thrown in Prison, where he wrote his book Mein Kampf. He loudly proclaimed "The revolution has begun!"
What is the Beer Hall Putsch?
This man was the President of the Republic of China. For an extra 300 Points, name the American forces that helped China against the Japanese invaders.
Who is Chiang Kai-Shek? What are the Flying Tigers?
With the decline of Britain and France, these two countries became the new industrial leaders.
What are Japan and the United States of America?
This organization was created to education Children on Fascist Party values.
What is the Young Fascists or the Sons of the Wolf?
These Two policies, make up the Party Line of Stalinist Russia. Describe how Collective Farms fit with this for an Extra 400 Points.
What is Atheism and Five Year Plans? Collective Farms were a part of the Five Year Plans and created these large Government run farms. They were inefficient and led to famine in Russia.
Describe Lebensraum. Explain why it was important for Hitler's Germany. (You don't need to give this in question form.)
Lebensraum means living space. This meant that Hitler wanted to expand the German Empire, to include German/Ayran Peoples. This could help them expand and become this great empire, like they were during the Holy Roman Empire and Germany in the 1970s.
This Massacre in China resulted in the deaths of 200,000 to 300,000 Chinese individuals. It also resulted in many war crimes, such as sexually violating their victims.
What is the Rape of Nanjing or the Nanking Massacre?
The economic idea, spearheaded by John Maynard Keynes deals with a government funded by borrowing money rather than taxes.
What is deficit spending?
These make up the 4 qualifications of Fascism.
What are the Glorification of the State, Anti-Communism, Anti-Democracy, and Glorification of Military/Military Sacrifices?
Describe a specific example of Stalin using Propaganda in his grab for power.
What is the use of Pravda as a news organization, the removing of individuals of photographs, or the use of blacklisting individuals from the Politburo to control them and their messaging?
Describe why the Berlin Olympics was important for Germany, and why it was important for non-Ayran peoples.
Germany saw this as important because it was their opportunity to show the world how great and grand German was. They could display their achievements on a world stage. It was a propoganda plot.
Non-Aryan peoples saw it as important because Jesse Owens' four gold medals proved that the Aryan race was not Superior like the Nazis claimed.
These were the two incidents that Japan fabricated leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War.
What is the Mukden incident and the Marco Polo Bridge Incident?