What was Stalin arrested for several times and sent to Siberia?
Campaigns against the tsar.
What was Stalin's "purge" called?
the Great Terror
In what year did India finally become completely independent from Great Britian?
1947
The severe drought that hit the Midwest and Southwest was called what?
The Dust Bowl
What was one of the battles/wars that Gandhi was recognized for helping with?
Boer Wars and Zulu Rebellion
What was the Quit India movement designed to do?
Free India from British rule during WWII
What does Stalin mean?
"Man of steel"
What were the special prison labor camps that Stalin had set up for anyone and everyone who opposed him called?
Gulags
What did the Depression make older people do after it was finally over?
Tighten their pocketbooks and save for lean times.
Under Roosevelt's New Deal what happened to the government?
It tripled in size
Where did Gandhi realize that steep recism for Indians exhisted?
South Africa
At the end of the Salt March how many people were there to see Gandhi, making it too embarassing for the government to arrest him at that time?
50K
What was Stalin's last name given to him at birth?
Dzhugashvili (Joo gush VEE lee)
How did Stalin care for Lenin's widow?
He had her poisoned
What did the British do to try to get their Depression Era woes taken care of?
Protest marches to voice their problems
What were the shantytowns of scrap material nicknamed?
Hoovervilles
What was Gandhi's college degree from University Gollege in London in?
Law
What was the common kitchen item that Britian had a firm grasp on and laws about?
Salt
The seminary expelled him in 1899 for what offence?
Studying Marxism
What did Lenin fear about Stalin and tried to warn the Russians but it was too little, too late?
That Stalin was overzealous in rising to leadership and that he was a power-hungry troublemaker.
What are worldwide markets dependent on?
the strength of the US market
Describe the downward spiral of events that happened when money started running short after the stock market crash?
no money, no spending, companies went broke, workers were fired b/c of no work, gave up homes...
How old was Gandhi when he married?
13
What was special about the clothes Gandhi wore?
He made the cloth and clothes himself.
The seminary that Stalin attended was a breeding ground for what type of people?
Revolutionaries
What happened to Lenin that catapulted Stalin into the position of "spokesman" for Lenin?
An attempted assassination of Lenin by a gunshot which ended up causing several strokes before his inevitable death.
People who own stocks in any stock market are called?
Stockholders or shareholders
Within weeks of the crash approximately how much money was drained out of Wall Street?
$30 billion
What does Mahatma mean?
"Great Soul"
What was the meaning of the new name that Gandhi gave to the "untouchable" caste?
Children of God
What are the two things that Stalin's dad did?
Made shoes and drank
Lenin made Stalin the "Commissar of Nationalities", what does he want Stalin to do in this position?
He was to manage all of the non-Russians in the Soviet Union.
What was the team consisting of Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill at the end of WWII called?
"The Big Three"
What year did the stock market crash?
1929
What was Mohandas Gandhi's preferred method to deal with conflict?
being nonviolent
What did Gandhi hope would raise the status of Indians among the British?
The Indians willingly participating the WWI