World War I
Interwar
World War II
Rise of Communism
Miscellaneous
100

The murder of this person started World War I

Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand

100
Where did the Great Depression occur?
What is Everywhere (it was global)
100
Give two times at which World War II may have begun

Japanese invasion of Manchuria 1931; Italian invasion of Ethiopia 1935; German invasion of Poland 1939

100

Who led the Chinese Communists to victory in the civil war?

Mao Zedong

100

Who led the Soviet Union during World War II?

Joseph Stalin

200
Name 4 MAIN competitions that led to World War I.
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
200

Name three authoritarian leaders who rose to power during the Interwar Period

Stalin (USSR), Mussolini (Italy), Hitler (Germany), Tojo (Japan)

200

Describe total war by using two examples

Devastating technologies, targeting civilians, destruction of cities and infrastructure, full civilian mobilization (women & children working and/or fighting)

200

What was the program of collective farming and steel manufacturing in 1960s China?

The Great Leap Forward

200

What country was established by the KMT (Guomindang) after their flight?

Taiwan

300

Which of the Entente powers dropped out of the war?

Russia

300

Name two scientific or cultural advances that occurred in the Interwar period

Einstein's theory of relativity; Freud's psychoanalysis and theory of subconscious; abstract art like surrealism and cubism
300

Name three examples of mass ethnic killings due to the extreme nationalism of World War I and/or World War II

The Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, the Nanking Massacre

300

Who reformed communism in China, enacting land reforms and opening the economy to foreign investment?

Deng Xiaoping

300
Name Lenin and Stalin's different economic programs in the 1920s and 30s

NEP & Five Year Plans

400

Name two colonies where troops were recruited by Europe in World War I

British India; German East Africa; French West Africa; NOT Australia / New Zealand / South Africa (all independent)

400

Name the economic system used by most countries at the beginning of the Great Depression, then name the change used to combat the Depression

(Laissez-Faire) Capitalism; Keynesianism

400

Why did the US get involved in World War II & how did the US end the war?

Japanese attack in the Pacific; dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

400
During which event did the CCP reassert control over the country after the disastrous famine? (Little Red Books)

The Cultural Revolution

400

The Interwar period is also known as an age of _____________.  Why?

Anxiety / Disillusionment.  People lost faith in their national narratives, confronted new science and tech, new political unrest, artists found new ways to express their ideas

500

Name 3 of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles

What is 1. Germany is to blame 2. Germany pays reparations 3. Germany demilitarizes 4. Ottoman Empire > mandates 5. League of Nations forms

500

Explain one social change that occurred as a consequence of World War I

Women gained the right to vote in Europe and the US because they had shown loyalty and industry to their countries during the war while demanding equal rights.

500

Explain one way that the Cold War began before the end of World War II

"Europe First" and Stalin's demand for a second front in 1942 goes unanswered; Manhattan Project is kept secret from the Soviets, who steal its plans nonetheless
500

Explain one way that responses to democratic protests differed in communist countries in the late 20th Century.

Tiananmen Square (crushed opposition in China) vs Revolutions of 1989 in Soviet Bloc (peaceful, replaced communist gov'ts with democracies)

500

Explain one way that ineffective global cooperation led to global conflicts in the first half of the 20th Century

The League of Nations had no power to stop overreaches of dictators; appeasement by the British and French enabled Hitler's piecemeal conquests at the expense of small countries, emboldening him further

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