Revolutions & Regime Change
This Russian revolutionary group seized power in 1917 and established a communist state.
Who are the Bolsheviks?
This acronym summarizes the long-term causes of WWI
What is MAIN: Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
This global economic crisis began with the 1929 U.S. stock market crash.
What is the Great Depression?
This tactic, meaning 'lightning war,' was used by Germany to quickly conquer territories.
What is blitzkrieg?
This genocide targeted 6 million Jews during WWII.
What is the Holocaust?
This Chinese leader overthrew the Qing Dynasty and founded the Chinese Republic in 1911.
Who is Sun Yat-sen?
This group’s assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand triggered WWI.
What is the Black Hand?
This British economist promoted government spending during recessions.
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
This U.S. naval base was bombed by Japan in 1941, prompting U.S. entry into WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This atrocity was committed by Japanese troops in China in 1937.
What is the Rape of Nanking?
This uprising in 1905 began with a peaceful workers' protest in front of the Winter Palace.
What is Bloody Sunday?
This brutal method of warfare defined much of the Western Front in WWI.
What is trench warfare?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This U.S. plan aimed to provide relief, recovery, and reform during the Depression.
What is the New Deal?
This battle marked the turning point on the Eastern Front between Germany and the USSR.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This term refers to Stalin's man-made famine in Ukraine.
What is the Holodomor?
This plan by Stalin aimed to rapidly industrialize the Soviet Union and collectivize agriculture.
What is the Five-Year Plan?
This German tactic of unrestricted attacks on ships was a key reason the U.S. entered WWI.
What is submarine warfare (U-boat attacks)?
This economic plan by Lenin reintroduced limited capitalism in the USSR.
What is the New Economic Plan (NEP)?
This conference in 1945 planned for the postwar world and division of Germany.
What is the Yalta Conference?
This Cambodian dictator led a genocide through forced labor and purges.
Who is Pol Pot?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This Mexican political party dominated for most of the 20th century and claimed to represent revolutionary ideals.
What is the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party)?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This intercepted German proposal asked Mexico to ally against the U.S. in WWI.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
This form of government arose in Italy and Germany promising national renewal.
What is fascism?
(DAILY DOUBLE) These cities suffered the use of an atomic bomb in warfare.
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This Hutu-led atrocity in 1994 killed up to a million Tutsis.
What is the Rwandan Genocide?