Rulers
Who was the last ruling Incan Emperor, who was executed by the Spanish?
Atahualpa
What is the movement of people to cities called?
Urbanization
Why did the peasants in China support Mao Zedong and the communists?
Mao Zedong said that land would be distributed to peasants.
What term was used to identify the WW2 alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan?
Axis Powers
In 1940s and the 1950s, what did "behind the iron curtain" region include?
Soviet Union and its satellite nations
Who was the Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba?
Fidel Castro
What method did Gahndhi use to protest against British Rule?
Nonviolent protests
What is an island 100 miles off the coast of China, were nationalists fled communist, also known as the Republic of China?
Taiwan
Where were the atomic bombs dropped?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What was the alliance between the Soviet Union and their Eastern European Communist allies against the Western capitalist countries during the Cold War?
Warsaw Pact
Which French King was an absolute ruler, known as the Sun King, and built a magnificent palace at Versailles, and went into debt with the Spanish wars of succession?
Louis XIV
What was the policy of appeasement?
To allow an aggressive behavior in order to prevent war.
This program was started by Mao Zedong, it combined collective farms into People's Communes, failed because there was no incentive to work harder, ended after 2 years because of famine and crop failures?
Great Leap Forward
Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain during WW II; vows no surrender against Hitler?
Winston Churchill
What were developing countries not aligned with either the U.S. or the Soviets called?
Third World Countries
Who abdicated from his throne in March 1917, during the March Revolution, as there is a revolt of protesters, this time, with the troops of the Czar supporting the protesters?
Nicholas II
U.S Policy of providing aid to countries threatened by communism, including Greece and Turkey is called?
Truman Doctrine
What was the Open-door policy in China?
To allow all counties to trade with China
What was the WW II "Lighting war", type of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939?
Blitzkreig
Who was the U.S. President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
President Kennedy
Who earned his nickname for his great acts of cruelty directed toward all those with whom he disagreed, especially the boyars (nobles) even killing his own son. He became the first ruler to assume the title Czar of all Russia?
Ivan the Terrible
What was the movement to end slavery called? It was ended in the British empire in 1833 and the U.S. in 1865.?
Abolitionist Movement
Qing Dynasty
What did Hitler's do that violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles?
He built his army back up.
What were the Pro-communist South Vietnamese guerilla fighters called?
Viet Cong