GLOBAL FORCES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURYChapter 4

  1. Matching #1: use the letters to match each term to the phrase that correctly identifies it. (note: a German-English dictionary may be helpful)
  1. ___ KristallnachtA. stormtroopers
  2. ___ VolksdeutschB. segregation of the races
  3. ___ GrossraumC. living space
  4. ___ BlitzkriegD. secret police
  5. ___ AutarkyE. German army
  6. ___ EinsatzgruppenF. concentration camp
  7. ___ IrredentaG. mechanized warfare
  8. ___ LuftwaffeH. public works project
  9. ___ HeimatI. Ethnic German
  10. ___ Der FuhrerJ. German-Austrian union
  11. ___ SchutzstaffelK. German airforce
  12. ___ GestapoL. central Europe
  13. ___ LebensraumM. extermination squads
  14. ___ AutobahnN. elite guard
  15. ___ GhettoO. economic self-sufficiency
  16. ___ SturmabteilungP. pogrom
  17. ___ MitleuropaQ. German homeland
  18. ___ DachauR. lost territories
  19. ___ AnschlussS. the leader
  20. ___WehrmachtT. greater Germany
  1. Fill in the Blanks:

Hitler’s anti-Semitic policies were first outlined in the (1) ______

of 1935.

The (2) ______indicated that the direction of German territorial expansion would be eastward… DER DRANG NACH OSTEN or the “drive toward the east.”

Saboteurs who work behind the front lines are called (3) ______

During the Spanish Civil War, Germany and Italy actively supported the

(4) ______under (5) ______

while the Republicans received their main support from the (6) ______

The British and French response to the fighting was to from a (7) ______

______

Hitler’s dream of a greaterGermany included the (8) ______

Of Czechoslovakia, German-speaking (9) ______

and the (10) ______

The name given to the Nazi policy of Jewish genocide was the (11) ______

Hitler established his supportive alliance system by signing the (12) ______

Pact with Italy and the (13) ______Pact with Japan in 1936. It was also during this year that Hitler, in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, (14) ____

______

Hitler’s early attempt to annex Austria by force was thwarted by the threat of military intervention by (15) ______

The conditions of the (16) ______Pact allowed Germany to annex the Sudetenland.

In 1939, Hitler and Stalin agreed to a (17) ______

Pact which allowed Hitler to attack Poland on (18) ______

Germany’s first concentration camp was established at (19) ______; the first extermination camp was set up at (20) ______.

  1. Matching #2: Match the name with the appropriate descriptions using the letters of the descriptions.
  1. ____ Konrad HenleinA. S.S. Leader… responsible for the death camps
  1. ____ Hermann GoringB. Austrian chancellor assassinated in 1938.
  1. ____ Eduard BenesC. German chancellor who lost power to Hitler.
  1. ____ Adolf EichmannD. Czechoslovakian president in 1938.
  1. ____ Ernst RohmE. Nazi leader in Czechoslovakia during Munich

Crisis.

  1. ____ Neville ChamberlainF. Hitler’s chief aid… head of the Luftwaffe.
  1. ____ Franz von PapenG. Spanish dictator after 1939 victory in civil War.
  1. ____ Francisco FrnacoH. British prime minister who signed the Munich

Pact.

  1. ____ Engelbert DolfussI. S.A. leader assassinated on Night of the Long

Knives.

  1. ____ Heinrich HimmlerJ. Head of the Jewish Bureau, architect of the Final

Solution

  1. For Hitler to achieve his foreign policy objectives, he had to overcome the resistance of France and the Soviet Union. How did he achieve this before 1939?

(a)France: ______

______

(b)the Soviet Union: ______

______

  1. Briefly outline the positions taken by the British to the following German actions.

German re-militarization: ______

______

German re-occupation of the Rhineland: ______

______

German aid to the fascists in the Spanish Civil War: ______

______

German demands for the Sudetenland: ______

______

German demands for access across the Polish Corridor: ______

______

German invasion of Poland: ______

______

  1. Give 3 examples of Hitler’s “Jewish Policy” prior to the start of World War II.

(a) ______

______

(b)______

______

(c)______

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  1. What were Stalin’s motives for signing the Non-Aggression Pact with Germany in 1939? (Give and explain two motives.)

(a)______

______

(b)______

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  1. Give and explain three reasons why Chamberlain was agreeable to Hitler’s annexation of the Sudetenland.

(a)______

(b)______

(c)______