Practice Test 3 3 Benito Mussolini organized embittered war veterans white collar professionals and young people into a paramilitary force known as a Sturmabteilung or Brownshirts b Fasci de combattimento or Blackshirts c Legion of the Archangel Michael or Greenshirts d All of the Above e None of the Above Fascists had a revolutionary agenda a demanding an end to the traditional politico social order based on birth and wealth replacing it with one based on physical superiority mental ability and party membership b demanding an end to the traditional politico social order based on birth and wealth replacing it with one based on class identity and party membership c demanding an end to the traditional politico social order based on birth and wealth replacing it with one based on religious identity and party membership d All of the Above e None of the Above Fascists believed that the nation state was a A dead organism capable of nothing but entropy and decomposition b An abstract entity capable of leaving planet Earth and exploring the universe c A living organism capable of growing or expanding and becoming ill d All of the Above e None of the Above Fascists glorified a Social Darwinian struggle b violence c brotherhood d All of the Above e None of the Above National Socialism was a variant of fascism that emphasized socialism in one country and class enemies a b expansion of the nation state and extreme racism c expansion of individual rights and equality of all people d All of the Above e None of the Above Adolf Hitler constructed a private army paramilitary known as the a Fasci dei combattimento or blackshirts b Sturmabteilung or brownshirts c Rote armee fraktion or redshirts d All of the Above e None of the Above The internal police of the party Hitler s personal bodyguard and the group that carried out Hitler s agenda in World War Two was the The National Socialist German Worker s Party and other extreme nationalist and anti Semitic parties attempted to overthrow the Weimar Republic in the a Sturmabteilung b Schutzstaffel c Geheime Staats Polizei d All of the Above e None of the Above a March on Rome b Attack on the Winter Palace c Beer Hall Putsch d All of the Above e None of the Above a Mein Kampf b Kommunistisches Manifest c Die Nibenlungenlied d All of the Above e None of the Above While in prison Hitler wrote a book outlining his agenda for a racially pure and politically and economically powerful German Reich called The groups targeted by Hitler for extermination included the feeble minded mentally ill and physically disabled Jews Gypsies career criminals and homosexuals a b c Slavic peoples and Communists d All of the Above e None of the Above Benito Mussolini dissolved all cultural and political associations in Italy replacing them with a vertical organizations or corporations of workers employers teachers administrators farmers women and children all members of the Fasci di combattimento b horizontal organizations or unions of workers teachers farmers migrant laborers all members of the Socialist Party c diagonal organizations of nobles clerics and peasants all members of the Christian Party d All of the Above e None of the Above Benito Mussolini believed that a vacation was a social duty and essential to the well being of the nation state b murder was a social duty and essential to the well being of the nation state c work was a social duty and essential to the well being of the nation state d All of the Above e None of the Above Two groups of organized individuals might have prevented Mussolini s domination of Italy they were the a Roman Catholic Church and the King b Roman Catholic Church and the Mafia c Roman Catholic Church and the Communists d All of the Above e None of the Above Mussolini wanted to recreate the Mongol World Empire the Byzantine Empire the Roman Empire a b c d All of the Above e None of the Above a Lateran IV Council b Vatican II Council c Lateran Accord d All of the Above e None of the Above Vatican City became an independent city state located in Italy as a result of the Because of the Reichstag Fire a national emergency the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act which a suspended the Constitution and enabled the President and Chancellor to rule by decree for four years b made Hitler the Chancellor and suspended the Constitution c allowed the Reichstag to try Hitler for attempting to overthrow the government d All of the Above e None of the Above Once he became the sole ruler of Germany Hitler coordinated all institutions of the nation state society and economy under the control of the National Socialist German Worker s Party in what was called a Socialism in one country b Gleichschaltung c The New Deal d All of the Above e None of the Above Hitler broke the Versailles Peace treaties when he rearmed Germany and occupied the Rhineland rearmed Germany and occupied Bohemia rearmed Germany and occupied Alsace Lorraine a b c d All of the Above e None of the Above During the 1930s Hitler made the argument that the Greater Germany must be created and that German military intervention was necessary to protect the rights and lives of Germanic peoples in a Austria Czechoslovakia and Poland b Austria France and Great Britain c Austria the United States and Australia d All of the Above e None of the Above a who was and was not a Jew b who was and was not a American c who was and was not an Aborigine d All of the Above e None of the Above The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor defined The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor a barred marriage and sexual relations between Aryans and Jews and the Citizenship Law revoked their rights to be citizens of the Reich b barred marriage and sexual relations between Aryans and Gypsies and the Citizenship Law revoked their rights to be citizens of the Reich c barred marriage and sexual relations between Aryans and Africans and the Citizenship Law revoked their rights to be citizens of the Reich d All of the Above e None of the Above Kokutai was a moral vision of Japan bound to the a Emperor and the Family through the virtues of filial piety and loyalty b Kaiser and the Family through the virtues of filial piety and loyalty c President and the Family through the virtues of filial piety and loyalty d All of the Above e None of the Above Patriotic societies formed in Japan eager to a destroy the evil advisors of the Emperor and saw the USSR and the US as enemies of b destroy the evil