Revolutions and Nationalism
Who was the leader of the Russian Bolshevik Party?
Vladimir Lenin
True or False. After WWI people turned away from religion to focus on modernist views
True
Who was the Desert Fox?
Erwin Rommel
Detente was a policy of...
Treating nations with flexibility to decrease tensions (X6)
Who was Golda Meir?
Israeli Prime Minister
What Year did East Timor regain its independence?
2002
How does a totalitarian state attempt to make citizens obey its rulers?
Through state control and enforcement
What happened when the banks stopped making profit on their loans?
The banks closed
How did Japan's immediate conquest after Pearl Harbor go?
Japan was able to take hold of Guam, Wake Island, and the Philippines (It went well)
Why did president Eisenhower embargo Cuba?
Because Castro nationalized all the US owned sugar mills
True or False. Afghanistan is a democratic nation in 2024
False
Which modern day country had the city at the heart of the Ottoman Empire?
Turkey (X2)
The Chinese Nationalist party was known as the...
Koumintang (X2)
Despite losing the presidential election, Hitler was given the title of____________
Chancellor (X2)
Hitler's "final solution" refers to...
The systematic murder of the Jewish
What caused the Chinese to send 300,000 troops to North Korea during the war?
UN troops pushed the North Koreans to the Yalu river on the Chinese border
What is Diaspora?
The global dispersal of the Jewish people
How long did it take for Denmark to fall to the Germans?
4 hours
The commander who led the successful revolt of Turkish Nationalist was...
Mustafa Kemal
What piece of land did the Germans want from the Czechs?
The Sudetenland
What statement is true about the American Homefront during the war?
They focused more on military production than consumer production
What played a key role in the Chinese, Russian and French Revolutions?
The Peasants desire to end class structure for an equal society
The first African colony to gain Independence was...
Ghana
What was Iran's original name?
Persia
Who was the magical wizard that influenced the Russian Tsar?
Rasputin
How did women in society change after WWI
Voting, drove cars, smoked/drank, sought new careers
Why did the Americans utilize internment camps?
There was prejudice against Japanese people and the President called for Japanese-Americans to be sent to camps
rue or False. The Geneva conventions were adopted in 1949 to address the treatment of POWs and civilians during war but they are no longer enforced
False
What caused East Pakistan to break away from West Pakistan?
West Pakistan did not share foreign aid equally
What are the characteristics of demilitarization?
Taking military weapons out of a country, weakening the police force, weakening the military forces
What nation kept its Islamic traditions?
Saudi Arabia
How did Hitler use the press/Media?
As a propaganda Tool
What did Hitler's Nuremberg Laws from 1935 mean for Jewish people in Germany?
They lost their citizenship and were not allowed to marry non-Jewish people
Who was the British Prime Minister known as "The Iron Lady"?
Margaret Thatcher
Who was Aung San Suu Kyi?
She was a Burmese political leader
What was the first domino that signaled an economic crisis was looming?
Farmers crops lost their value and were unable to pay their loans to the banks
What is the purpose of religious persecution in a totalitarian regime?
To have a scapegoat
What was the basic theory of Sigmund Freud?
That humans inherently seek pleasure and follow unconscious desires
How many men were saved at Dunkirk?
338,000 men
How long did the Cuban Missile Crisis last?
13 days
Who was Kwame Nkrumah?
He was the first leader of Ghana
What Policy did France and Britain use to keep peace in Europe?
Appeasement
What army did the red army fight?
The white army
What did John Maynard Keynes suggest governments do to fix their economies?
They should intervene in the economy and help the unemployed
The battle that drew the war to a close was...
The Battle of the Bulge
Who was Pol Pot?
The Communist Leader of Cambodia
Who was Anwar Sadat?
He was the Egyptian president who launched attacks during the Yom Kippur War
What was the purpose of the Yalta Conference?
To divide Germany into occupation zones by the Allies
What was the vent where the Chinese Communists walked for a long time called?
The Long March
What was the annexation of Austria called?
Anschluss
What battle crippled the Japanese fleet?
The battle of Midway
Who was Jiang Jieshi (or Chang Kai Shek)
A nationalist leader in China who fought against the Red Army
Why was there little ethnic or religious strife in Central Asian during the Soviet's rule?
The Soviets ruled with an iron fist and and kept hostility down through use of force
Who was Ahmed Ben Bella?
He was the first leader of Algeria