World Wars
This Italian leader was captured and hung upside-down?
Mussolini
Who was the first leader of the Bolsheviks?
Lenin
What group of nobles received hereditary land in Russia?
Boyars
What Chinese dynasty followed the Mongol Yuan dynasty?
Ming
Who wrote about the 'invisible hand' of capitalism?
Adam Smith
Germany invaded this country to try to outflank France (Schlieffen Plan).
Belgium
What was the 90,000-person Communist march in China called?
The Long March
Which Russian ruler modernized the army and built St. Petersburg?
Peter the Great
What religion spread through Sufi mystics?
Islam
What economic policy supports government control and high exports?
Mercantile
What was the major air campaign where the RAF defended Britain?
The Battle of Britain
What document helped inspire the Haitian Revolution?
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
What farming system in the USSR grouped peasants?
Collectivization
What city was the Aztec capital?
Tenochtitlan
What was the labor class created by economic changes in Europe? (think Marx)
Proletariat
Which agreement divided the Middle East between Britain and France?
Sykes-Picot Agreement
What helped spark the French Revolution among the 3rd Estate? (Food shortages and _____)
high taxes
Who succeeded Lenin with the slogan 'Socialism in one country'?
Stalin
What empire formed when Muslims conquered Northern India?
Delhi Sultanate
What new government structure appeared post-WWII to manage economies?
Welfare State
What was the name of the meeting where the Allies decided the post-war order? (not Tehran or Potsdam)
Yalta
Which Mexican leader led a peasant land reform rebellion?
Zapata
What mountain range did Stalin move factories beyond during WWII?
Urals
What area did Japan invade before WWII for farmland?
Manchuria
This type of crank-operated "machine gun" was used by industrialized nations to subjugate and colonize non-industrialized nations.
Gatling Gun