People
Who was the British Prime Minister during WWII?
Winston Churchill
Who took command of the Communist Party after Lenin died?
Stalin
What strategy did the Russians use on Germany’s invasion attack?
Scorched-Earth policy
What “fell'', that was a symbol of communism falling in Eastern Europe?
Berlin Wall
Railway that connects Eastern Russia to the Atlantic Ocean
What is the Trans-Siberian Railway?
Who was the first president of the newly formed democratic Russian Federation?
Boris Yeltsin
What was China’s new communist country called after their civil war?
People’s Republic of China
What two cities were bombed that forced Japan to surrender and end the war?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What means “openness” and allowed criticism of the government and freedom of the press?
Glasnost
Who was the new Soviet leader that took the place of Stalin and what program did he start to purge the Soviet Union of the memory of Stalin?
Destalinization
Who was the founder of the newly formed Chinese Communist Party?
Mao Zedong
Who led the revolution against the Cuban dictator Bautista and then became dictator of Cuba himself?
Fidel Castro
What was the turning point in the war in the Pacific?
Battle of Midway
In 1971, how did China reach out to the U.S. to build a relationship between the two countries?
Ping Pong Tournament
What was the mass slaughter of civilians, especially Jews, by German Nazis during WWII?
Holocaust
Who was the founder of the Fascist Party in Italy?
Mussolini
A protest by students and workers against European Imperialist nations and the Treaty of Versailles that gave no power of the country back to the Chinese government
What was the May 4th Movement in China
What took away all rights of Jews within Germany?
Nuremberg Laws
China’s military was ordered to slaughter unarmed student protesters in April of 1989 where
Tiananmen Square
Name the event that led to hundreds of factory workers being shot after approaching the Czar’s Winter Palace in protest of poor working conditions.
Bloody Sunday
After a war with Chechnya, Boris Yeltsin resigned, naming who as the next president of the Russian Federation?
Vladimir Putin
Who was the Marxist revolutionary leader of the Bolshevik Party?
Lenin
What is D-Day?
The Allied invasion of German controlled Europe on the beaches of Normandy, in northern France
What policy did the Serbian military start to rid Bosnia of their Muslim population?
Ethnic Cleansing
What is totalitarianism
Complete control of society by the government