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20th Century Leaders
Total War
World War I
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Leader of the Bolsheviks and the first Communist dictator
Who is Lenin?
100
This rapid-fire weapon symbolized fighting in World War I.
What is the machine gun.
100
The treaty ending WWI.
What is Paris Peace Treaty or Versailles?
200
Leader of the Cuban Revolution in the 1960's.
Who is Fidel Castro?
200
There are more of these casualties than combatants.
What are civilians?
200
Two of the underlying causes of WWI.
What is alliances, nationalism, militarism, "war fever," imperialism.
300
In 1994 he became the first black African leader of South Africa.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
300
This strategy was used by the Allies against Japan in the Pacific theater to push it back to its homeland.
What is "island-hopping"?
300
War on the Western Front was characterized by these.
What are trenches?
400
Gandhi led this Indian political party in the 1920's and 1930's.
What is the Indian National Congress?
400
Name of the lightening war approach used by Hitler to end WWII early.
What is blitzkrieg?
400
Crucial Year and Turning point in the war--U.S. enters and Russia pulls out.
What is 1917?
500
Led the Nationalists or the Guomindang in the 1930's in China, forced to Taiwan after the Communist victory.
Who is Jiang Jieshi? (Chiang Kai-shek)
500
Visual--How did this symbolize both "an end and a beginning?"
What is the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
500
This demilitarized zone was Hitler's first target in 1935 in his attempt to "revise" the Treaty of Versailles.
What is the Rhineland?