Rise of Dictators & Economic Depression

What momentous event in 1929 gradually turned into a wide-ranging disaster?

• the U.S. stock market crashed

• the Nazis came to power in Germany

• the Hindenburg airship blew up in New Jersey

• Joseph Stalin came to power in the U.S.S.R.

The United States had become a huge source of loans for financing post WWI recovery where?

• Asia

• Africa

• Europe

• South America

Who was more likely to lose their jobs during the Great Depression?

• Men

• Women

The Nazi party used violence to discredit what democratically run government, which was struggling to keep order in Germany?

• the German Federation

• the Weimer Republic

• National German Socialist Party

• Bavarian Socialist Republic

Even though it contained huge amounts of fertile land, the Soviet Union had major issues with _____________.

• having enough farmers

• Kulaks, or well-to-do peasants

• food scarcity

• an overabundance of mechanized farming equipment

What region of the Soviet Union was hit hardest (saw the most deaths) by Stalin's collectivization of agriculture?

• Finland

• Belorussia

• Poland

• Ukraine

Conservative German leaders persuaded who to appoint Hitler chancellor with the idea that he would be easier to control than the Communists?

• President Konrad Adenauer

• Premier Vladimir Lenin

• King Victor Emanuel

• President Paul von Hindenburg

What legislation in 1933 granted Hitler virtually unchecked power?

• the Enabling Act

• the Nuremberg laws

• the People's Community Act

• the Citizenship Law

This episode of Crash Course refers to the process of Jewish people slowly losing their rights as what?

• Social distancing

• Social death

• Social isolation

• Social emasculation

In 1936, German troops occupied what industrial region on its western border in violation of the Treaty of Versailles?

• Czechoslovakia

• Austria

• Rhineland

• Sudetenland