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6. What was the main war that resulted in the regimes high point?

  • Libyan War
  • Abyssinian war
  • WWII
  • WWI

7. What are the main points to Hitlers World View

  • Perceived English weakness in response to Abyssinia, Spanish Civil War and China/Japan war made Hitler think he could dominate Europe alone and Britain would be forced to sign an alliance ( Still a continued hope for alliance)
  • UK will be in conflict with US in C.20 so would want an alliance with Germany to stave off European conflict
  • Stalin replaces foreign secretary with Molotov in 1939, meaning Stalin in willing to work with Germany
  • all of these
  • UK rejection of alliance made Hitler more determined

8. What is the main point in Fascist Italy foreign policy?

  • Their alliance with Britain
  • Their imperialism
  • Their alliance with Germany
  • Invading the USSR

9. What happened in the First two years of war?

  • Hitler thought USSr weakened by purges and by Finnish war in 1939-41 which took longer than expected
  • Stalin taken aback by invasion (Believed temporary truce)
  • All of theses reasons
  • Invaded USSR in 1941 (Thought it'd be easy) - Operation Barbarossa
  • Invaded Poland in 1939 (went well - a warm up for Russia)

10. What did the Planx want to do with Spain but the Army and Church disagreed?

  • They wanted to Join the war
  • They wanted a more imperialist Spain
  • They wanted to have a democracy
  • They wanted to isolate Spain from the world

11. who disagrees with Tim mason and argues Germany went to war for Ideological reasons?

  • Richard Overy
  • Robert Mallet
  • Ebehard Jaeckel
  • Mommsen and Brozet

12. Who argued that Mussolini had a clear FP plan, one of imperialism?

  • Alexander Sanchez
  • Alexander Wakerfuss
  • McGregor Knox and Robert Mallet
  • Richard Bosworth

13. Why is the Economy so important to European Dictatorships?

  • All of these reasons
  • it allows to rebuild the nation and prepare for war
  • It allows them to gain popularity
  • more people will be employed

14. Who argued that Hitler wanted world Domination?

  • Adam Tooze and Milan Hauner
  • Jan Plamber
  • Sarah Davies
  • Sheila Fitzpatrick

15. What did Hitler do in terms of FP leading up to the WWII?

  • Anchluss with Austria 1938
  • Anti-commintern pact with Italy and Japan 1936
  • All of these
  • Peaceful revision of Versailles and leave the League of Nations 1933
  • Molotov/Ribbentrop pact 1939
  • Non-Agression pact with poland 1934

16. what changes occurred in FP?

  • all of these reasons
  • German Four year plan to prepare for war, Goering becomes economic minister
  • Italy entered war later than pact said
  • communist threat looms larger as seen in Spanish civil war and growing industrialisation in USSR