Unit 15: Paper 2 — Authoritarian States (20th Century)
Topic 15.4: Case studies (authoritarian leaders) Questions
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Who served as the public face of Egypt's new republican regime as president before Nasser sidelined him by 1954?
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The Great Terror, a wave of mass arrests, executions and show trials carried out by the NKVD, took place mainly in which years?
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According to the exam-skills guidance for Paper 2, Stalin belongs to the European region, so he should be paired with a leader from a different region such as which of the following?
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On what date was the People's Republic of China proclaimed?
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Which event confirmed Mao as the undisputed leader of the Chinese Communist Party?
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What was the name of the block-level watch groups Castro used to monitor the population for dissent?
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Which law allowed Hitler's cabinet to make laws without the Reichstag, forming the legal basis of his dictatorship?
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Which campaign was Mao's rushed drive to industrialise using communes and backyard furnaces?
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What was the main significance of the Night of the Long Knives in June 1934?
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How did Adolf Hitler first become Chancellor of Germany?
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Choose the correct description of the 1929 Lateran Pacts.
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Which 1935 measure made antisemitism part of German law by stripping Jewish people of citizenship and rights?
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Which party post, held by Stalin from 1922, gave him control over party appointments and formed the basis of his rise to power?
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Who were the young students Mao unleashed during the Cultural Revolution to attack the 'Four Olds'?
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What did the Nazi policy of Gleichschaltung ('coordination') achieve by July 1933?
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Choose the event that directly led to King Victor Emmanuel III appointing Mussolini as Prime Minister in 1922.
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What was the main change introduced by the New Economic Policy (NEP) in 1921?
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On what date did Fidel Castro take power in Cuba as Batista fled the country?
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Choose the name of the Fascist secret police that spied on, jailed and exiled Mussolini's opponents.
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Choose the government department that Juan Perón used to build his early mass following after the 1943 coup.
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