Russian Revolution
The year of the February and October Revolutions in Russia
When was 1917?
What is genocide?
Name for German war strategy
What is Blitzkrieg (or lightning war)?
Leader of China who died in 1976
Who is Mao Zedong?
Name for the system of segregation in South Africa
What is Apartheid?
The philosophy of the communists
What is Marxism?
First fascist leader
Who is Benito Mussolini?
When was 1939?
Name for the group of people who took power during the Cultural Revolution, but were removed from power later on
Who are the Gang of Four?
Banks giving these caused the 2007-2008 financial crash
What are home loans?
The leader of the Bolsheviks
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
Russian industrialization led to a famine in this country
Where is Ukraine?
The country with the most effective partisans during the war
What is Yugoslavia?
Name a specific reason why the USSR collapsed
What are economic problems (need to mention the war in Afghanistan, central planning, or cost of building weapons) OR satellites breaking away after they were allowed to speak more freely?
First black president of South Africa
Who is Nelson Mandela?
Name one of the causes of the Revolution of 1905
What is Bloody Sunday or the Russo-Japanese War?
The name for the proxy war in Western Europe where the USSR backed one side and the fascists backed the other side
What is the Spanish Civil War?
Name for the event where Japan committed brutal war crimes in China
What is the Rape of Nanjing?
Name for the event where Chinese protestors were killed by the government
What is the Tiananmen Square Massacre?
The name for the protests after the financial crash in 2007-2008
What is the Occupy Wallstreet Protests?
What the acronym USSR stands for
The wealthier peasants that were killed by Stalin
Who are the kulaks?
Name of the battle that was the turning point in the European theater of the war
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
Russian word for either of the reforms that Gorbachev made
What is perestroika or glasnost?
This French colony in Africa got its independence and was led by Thomas Sankara, which gave it its new name
What is Burkina Faso?