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WorksheetsGenocide and Dictators
Total questions: 53
Worksheet time: 27mins
What happened during Hitler's childhood that could have triggered some of his violent tendencies.
Beatings and abuse from his mother.
Beatings and abuse from his father.
His tendency to murder small animals.
Poverty in his household.
While living in __________, Hitler was exposed to anti-Semitic literature.
Berlin
Kiev
the family home
Vienna
After a failed coup attempt, Hitler laid out his plans for extermination of the Jews by _____________.
writing about it in letters home to his mother.
writing a weekly column for the newspaper despite being homeless.
making speeches at Nazi party conventions.
writing about them in Mein Kampf, an autobiography he wrote in prison.
How many Jewish people did Hitler have exterminated?
140 million.
27.8 million.
5.5 Million
762,000
What vehicle was designed by Adolf Hitler to be reliable, cheap transportation for the German people.
Volkswagen Corrado
Mercedes-Benz
BNW (Berlin-Nazi-Wagen)
Volkswagen Beetle
Which of the following is a way that Joseph Stalin raised money for Lenin's Communist Revolution?
fundraising
making speeches
murder for hire
protection rackets
How did Stalin end up in charge of the Soviet Union in 1924?
John Lennon was assassinated.
Vladmir Lenin was assassinated.
Vladmir Lenin died after a series of strokes.
Vladmir Lenin gave Stalin the office of President.
While his people struggled to survive a famine, Stalin _____.
vacationed for 6 months out of the year.
worked to provide his people with food from other countries.
instituted programs that would help teach the starving people how to grow crops.
enslaved his people and rationed them with even less food.
___________'s fascist ideas were the inspiration for Adolf Hitler.
Joseph Stalin
Hideki Tojo
Benito Mussoli
Elvis Presley
What caused Hideki Tojo to harbor extreme hatred for the U.S. and Teddy Roosevelt?
The Treaty of Portsmouth
The Treaty of Versailles
The Australian/American War
The Japanese Civil War
How long was Tojo in control of Japan before he ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor
About a month
About two months
One week
One year
Attacks ordered by Tojo in which airplanes were piloted directly into ships like missiles.
Banzai
Oragami
Tamagachi
Kamikaze
What happened to Tojo after the war?
He committed suicide.
He was executed by firing squad.
He stood trial for his crimes and was hung.
He stood trial for his crimes, then committed suicide in jail by shooting himself in the chest.
Mao Zedong was influenced to become a Communist when he began reading the writings of ________ while working at Peking University.
Karl Marx
Joseph Stalin
Kim Jong Il
Vladmir Lenin
Why did so many Chinese people die from starvation during Mao's rule?
Japan was hit with a potato famine, and they didn't know how to grow anything else.
Mao was forcing the Japanese people to only eat 3 days a week, by law.
Mao wanted Japan to be an industrial country instead of agrarian, and had displaced most of the farmers growing the food.
North Korea offered to help, but could not grow enough food for themselves because of U.S. sanctions after the Canadian War.
Kim iL Sung was the _______ person of the Kim dynasty to rule in North Korea
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
System dividing North Korea's people into 3 classes: core, wavering, and hostile.
Kongbun
Croissant
Songheim
Songbun
Which statement is true of the "hostile" class in North Korea?
These people have the least opportunity for success.
All of these people are executed.
These people have the most opportunity for success.
These people are forced into the military for 3 generations.
Under which North Korea leader did the famine of 1992-present start?
Kim Jong Un
Kim Jong iL
Kim iL Sung
Hideki Tojo
Who is the current leader of North Korea?
Nobody
Kim Jong Un
Kim iL Sung
Kim Jong iL
Papa Doc and the black Haitian majority did not like the _________________ people who made up most of the elite class.
mulatto
black
white
hispanic
Who were the Tonton Macoute?
Papa Doc's bitter enemies.
Papa Doc's rural militia.
The native people of Haiti prior to Papa Doc.
The Political Party which Papa Doc belonged to.
The Tonton Macoute were named after a Haitian bogeyman. What did the bogeyman do?
He lured children into a prison wagon with candy.
He caught unruly children and fed them to piranhas.
He caught unruly children in gunnysacks and ate them for breakfast.
He caught mulatto children and ate them for lunch.
Papa Doc ordered all ________________ in Haiti to be shot on sight because he feared that one of his political rivals could transform into one.
black cats
black men
black dogs
white rabbits
Religion that Papa Doc practiced.
Catholicism
Witchcraft
Hindu
Vodou
Papa Doc claimed that he killed ______________ with a Vodou Curse.
Bobby Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Pol Pot
Elvis Presley
King Norodom Sihanouk allowed ________________________ to take refuge in Cambodia.
Democratic Viatnamese
American Army
Communist Russians
Communist Vietnamese
Which of the following governments of Cambodia cooperated best with the United States
Norodom Sihanouk's kingdom
The Khmer Republic
The Khmer Rougue
Vietnam Occupation
Which of the following were NOT targets of persecution and abuse from Pol Pot and the Khmer Rogue?
Buddhist Monks
Ethnic Thai
Ethnic Vietnamese
Communists
Name given to the tracts of land that people were forced to farm in Cambodia, which were also the locations of executions.
The Yaws
The Killing Fields
The Blood Gardens
The Mass Graves of Agriculture
How did Pol Pot die?
He was executed after a UN Tribunal.
He died in prison after a UN Tribunal in the 90s.
The US came in and killed him in Operation Urgent Fury.
He died while under house arrest in the 90s.
The Balkans region is made up of several countries now, but it used to be ______________________.
Germany
Turkey
Macadamia
Yugoslavia
Which of the following Balkan countries experienced the most genocide and violence?
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Romania
Serbia
Estonia
Which of these people were not the targets of persecution in the Bosnian genocide?
Bosnian Muslims
Croats
political leaders
Serbians
How has the UN been able to identify over 6000 of the victims of the Bosnian genocide?
By DNA analysis of mass graves.
Confessions from the Scorpions
Confessions from Serbian leaders.
They have only been able to make educated guesses.
Which group were the primary targets of the Rwandan genocide?
The Hutu
The Tutsi
The Twa
The Whites
Traditionally herded cattle and were viewed as the supreme class in Rwanda for many generations.
The Twa
The Tutsi
The Hutu
The Whites
Traditionally farmed the land and were viewed as second class citizens in Rwanda for many generations.
The Twa
The Tutsi
The Hutu
The Wachati
Pygmy people; the first indigeonous settlers of Rwanda.
The Twa
The Tutsi
The Hutu
The Wachutu
Country that controlled Rwanda until 1962.
Britain
France
Belgium
The United States
President Juvenal Habyarimana ran a ______________ one- party regime.
Twa-controlled
Tutsi-controlled
Hutu-controlled
White-controlled
_____________________ led the RPF in in raids on Rwanda in an attempt to take it back for the ____________.
Paul Kagame; Tutsi
Paul Kagame; Hutu
Juvenal Habyarimana; Tutsi
Juvenal Habyarimana; Hutu
600,000 Tutsis were killed in the Rwandan genocide, which was __________ of their population in the country.
1/3
2/3
1/2
88%
___________________ organized by the Hutu Power movement encouraged citizens, even the youth, to murder their Tutsi neighbors.
Laws
TV adversisements
Radio broadcasts
Concerts
The smallest group affected in the Rwandan Genocide was the ________, who were completely innocent but lost 10,000 out of only 30,000 people.
The Tutsi
The Twa
The Hutu
The Creole
Grenada is located.......
In the area of Europe that used to be Yugoslavia.
In the Caribbean, specifically in the West Indies.
In the Middle East
In the Caribbean, on the same island as the Dominican Republic.
The first Prime Minister of Grenada, who presided over a government that was still part of the British Commonwealth.
Bernard Coard
Eric Gairy
Maurice Bishop
Hudson Austin
Overthrew the government that was part of the British Commonwealth, and replaced it with a moderate socialist Marxist regime.
Eric Gairy
Bernard Coard
Maurice Bishop
Hudson Austin
Overthrew the moderate socialist government, in an attempt to create a government that worked more closely with the USSR
Bernard Coard
Maurice Bishop
Hudson Austin
Ronald Reagan
Was executed by his deputy Prime Minister and Hudson Austin's army.
Maurice Bishop
Bernard Coard
Francois Duvalier
Eric Gairy
Which of the following reasons was NOT a factor in Ronald Reagan's decision to invade Grenada in 1983?
The construction of a large airstrip in Grenada by the Cubans.
The radical communist military government takeover.
The proximity of Grenada to the United States.
The importance of continuing the nutmeg trade with Grenada.
The U.S. invaded Grenada in ________________.
Operation Homefront
Operation 'Murican POWAAA
Operation Urgent Fury
Operation Urgent Storm
What major event does Grenada have in common with the area that we live in?
The impact of Hurricane Ivan
The impact of Hurricane Katrina
The invasion of Cuba
The impact of Navy Federal on the local economy
