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Genocide and Dictators

Total questions: 53

Worksheet time: 27mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What happened during Hitler's childhood that could have triggered some of his violent tendencies.

a)

Beatings and abuse from his mother.

b)

Beatings and abuse from his father.

c)

His tendency to murder small animals.

d)

Poverty in his household.

2.

While living in __________, Hitler was exposed to anti-Semitic literature.

a)

Berlin

b)

Kiev

c)

the family home

d)

Vienna

3.

After a failed coup attempt, Hitler laid out his plans for extermination of the Jews by _____________.

a)

writing about it in letters home to his mother.

b)

writing a weekly column for the newspaper despite being homeless.

c)

making speeches at Nazi party conventions.

d)

writing about them in Mein Kampf, an autobiography he wrote in prison.

4.

How many Jewish people did Hitler have exterminated?

a)

140 million.

b)

27.8 million.

c)

5.5 Million

d)

762,000

5.

What vehicle was designed by Adolf Hitler to be reliable, cheap transportation for the German people.

a)

Volkswagen Corrado

b)

Mercedes-Benz

c)

BNW (Berlin-Nazi-Wagen)

d)

Volkswagen Beetle

6.

Which of the following is a way that Joseph Stalin raised money for Lenin's Communist Revolution?

a)

fundraising

b)

making speeches

c)

murder for hire

d)

protection rackets

7.

How did Stalin end up in charge of the Soviet Union in 1924?

a)

John Lennon was assassinated.

b)

Vladmir Lenin was assassinated.

c)

Vladmir Lenin died after a series of strokes.

d)

Vladmir Lenin gave Stalin the office of President.

8.

While his people struggled to survive a famine, Stalin _____.

a)

vacationed for 6 months out of the year.

b)

worked to provide his people with food from other countries.

c)

instituted programs that would help teach the starving people how to grow crops.

d)

enslaved his people and rationed them with even less food.

9.

___________'s fascist ideas were the inspiration for Adolf Hitler.

a)

Joseph Stalin

b)

Hideki Tojo

c)

Benito Mussoli

d)

Elvis Presley

10.

What caused Hideki Tojo to harbor extreme hatred for the U.S. and Teddy Roosevelt?

a)

The Treaty of Portsmouth

b)

The Treaty of Versailles

c)

The Australian/American War

d)

The Japanese Civil War

11.

How long was Tojo in control of Japan before he ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor

a)

About a month

b)

About two months

c)

One week

d)

One year

12.

Attacks ordered by Tojo in which airplanes were piloted directly into ships like missiles.

a)

Banzai

b)

Oragami

c)

Tamagachi

d)

Kamikaze

13.

What happened to Tojo after the war?

a)

He committed suicide.

b)

He was executed by firing squad.

c)

He stood trial for his crimes and was hung.

d)

He stood trial for his crimes, then committed suicide in jail by shooting himself in the chest.

14.

Mao Zedong was influenced to become a Communist when he began reading the writings of ________ while working at Peking University.

a)

Karl Marx

b)

Joseph Stalin

c)

Kim Jong Il

d)

Vladmir Lenin

15.

Why did so many Chinese people die from starvation during Mao's rule?

a)

Japan was hit with a potato famine, and they didn't know how to grow anything else.

b)

Mao was forcing the Japanese people to only eat 3 days a week, by law.

c)

Mao wanted Japan to be an industrial country instead of agrarian, and had displaced most of the farmers growing the food.

d)

North Korea offered to help, but could not grow enough food for themselves because of U.S. sanctions after the Canadian War.

16.

Kim iL Sung was the _______ person of the Kim dynasty to rule in North Korea

a)

1st

b)

2nd

c)

3rd

d)

4th

17.

System dividing North Korea's people into 3 classes: core, wavering, and hostile.

a)

Kongbun

b)

Croissant

c)

Songheim

d)

Songbun

18.

Which statement is true of the "hostile" class in North Korea?

a)

These people have the least opportunity for success.

b)

All of these people are executed.

c)

These people have the most opportunity for success.

d)

These people are forced into the military for 3 generations.

19.

Under which North Korea leader did the famine of 1992-present start?

a)

Kim Jong Un

b)

Kim Jong iL

c)

Kim iL Sung

d)

Hideki Tojo

20.

Who is the current leader of North Korea?

a)

Nobody

b)

Kim Jong Un

c)

Kim iL Sung

d)

Kim Jong iL

21.

Papa Doc and the black Haitian majority did not like the _________________ people who made up most of the elite class.

a)

mulatto

b)

black

c)

white

d)

hispanic

22.

Who were the Tonton Macoute?

a)

Papa Doc's bitter enemies.

b)

Papa Doc's rural militia.

c)

The native people of Haiti prior to Papa Doc.

d)

The Political Party which Papa Doc belonged to.

23.

The Tonton Macoute were named after a Haitian bogeyman. What did the bogeyman do?

a)

He lured children into a prison wagon with candy.

b)

He caught unruly children and fed them to piranhas.

c)

He caught unruly children in gunnysacks and ate them for breakfast.

d)

He caught mulatto children and ate them for lunch.

24.

Papa Doc ordered all ________________ in Haiti to be shot on sight because he feared that one of his political rivals could transform into one.

a)

black cats

b)

black men

c)

black dogs

d)

white rabbits

25.

Religion that Papa Doc practiced.

a)

Catholicism

b)

Witchcraft

c)

Hindu

d)

Vodou

26.

Papa Doc claimed that he killed ______________ with a Vodou Curse.

a)

Bobby Kennedy

b)

John F. Kennedy

c)

Pol Pot

d)

Elvis Presley

27.

King Norodom Sihanouk allowed ________________________ to take refuge in Cambodia.

a)

Democratic Viatnamese

b)

American Army

c)

Communist Russians

d)

Communist Vietnamese

28.

Which of the following governments of Cambodia cooperated best with the United States

a)

Norodom Sihanouk's kingdom

b)

The Khmer Republic

c)

The Khmer Rougue

d)

Vietnam Occupation

29.

Which of the following were NOT targets of persecution and abuse from Pol Pot and the Khmer Rogue?

a)

Buddhist Monks

b)

Ethnic Thai

c)

Ethnic Vietnamese

d)

Communists

30.

Name given to the tracts of land that people were forced to farm in Cambodia, which were also the locations of executions.

a)

The Yaws

b)

The Killing Fields

c)

The Blood Gardens

d)

The Mass Graves of Agriculture

31.

How did Pol Pot die?

a)

He was executed after a UN Tribunal.

b)

He died in prison after a UN Tribunal in the 90s.

c)

The US came in and killed him in Operation Urgent Fury.

d)

He died while under house arrest in the 90s.

32.

The Balkans region is made up of several countries now, but it used to be ______________________.

a)

Germany

b)

Turkey

c)

Macadamia

d)

Yugoslavia

33.

Which of the following Balkan countries experienced the most genocide and violence?

a)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

b)

Romania

c)

Serbia

d)

Estonia

34.

Which of these people were not the targets of persecution in the Bosnian genocide?

a)

Bosnian Muslims

b)

Croats

c)

political leaders

d)

Serbians

35.

How has the UN been able to identify over 6000 of the victims of the Bosnian genocide?

a)

By DNA analysis of mass graves.

b)

Confessions from the Scorpions

c)

Confessions from Serbian leaders.

d)

They have only been able to make educated guesses.

36.

Which group were the primary targets of the Rwandan genocide?

a)

The Hutu

b)

The Tutsi

c)

The Twa

d)

The Whites

37.

Traditionally herded cattle and were viewed as the supreme class in Rwanda for many generations.

a)

The Twa

b)

The Tutsi

c)

The Hutu

d)

The Whites

38.

Traditionally farmed the land and were viewed as second class citizens in Rwanda for many generations.

a)

The Twa

b)

The Tutsi

c)

The Hutu

d)

The Wachati

39.

Pygmy people; the first indigeonous settlers of Rwanda.

a)

The Twa

b)

The Tutsi

c)

The Hutu

d)

The Wachutu

40.

Country that controlled Rwanda until 1962.

a)

Britain

b)

France

c)

Belgium

d)

The United States

41.

President Juvenal Habyarimana ran a ______________ one- party regime.

a)

Twa-controlled

b)

Tutsi-controlled

c)

Hutu-controlled

d)

White-controlled

42.

_____________________ led the RPF in in raids on Rwanda in an attempt to take it back for the ____________.

a)

Paul Kagame; Tutsi

b)

Paul Kagame; Hutu

c)

Juvenal Habyarimana; Tutsi

d)

Juvenal Habyarimana; Hutu

43.

600,000 Tutsis were killed in the Rwandan genocide, which was __________ of their population in the country.

a)

1/3

b)

2/3

c)

1/2

d)

88%

44.

___________________ organized by the Hutu Power movement encouraged citizens, even the youth, to murder their Tutsi neighbors.

a)

Laws

b)

TV adversisements

c)

Radio broadcasts

d)

Concerts

45.

The smallest group affected in the Rwandan Genocide was the ________, who were completely innocent but lost 10,000 out of only 30,000 people.

a)

The Tutsi

b)

The Twa

c)

The Hutu

d)

The Creole

46.

Grenada is located.......

a)

In the area of Europe that used to be Yugoslavia.

b)

In the Caribbean, specifically in the West Indies.

c)

In the Middle East

d)

In the Caribbean, on the same island as the Dominican Republic.

47.

The first Prime Minister of Grenada, who presided over a government that was still part of the British Commonwealth.

a)

Bernard Coard

b)

Eric Gairy

c)

Maurice Bishop

d)

Hudson Austin

48.

Overthrew the government that was part of the British Commonwealth, and replaced it with a moderate socialist Marxist regime.

a)

Eric Gairy

b)

Bernard Coard

c)

Maurice Bishop

d)

Hudson Austin

49.

Overthrew the moderate socialist government, in an attempt to create a government that worked more closely with the USSR

a)

Bernard Coard

b)

Maurice Bishop

c)

Hudson Austin

d)

Ronald Reagan

50.

Was executed by his deputy Prime Minister and Hudson Austin's army.

a)

Maurice Bishop

b)

Bernard Coard

c)

Francois Duvalier

d)

Eric Gairy

51.

Which of the following reasons was NOT a factor in Ronald Reagan's decision to invade Grenada in 1983?

a)

The construction of a large airstrip in Grenada by the Cubans.

b)

The radical communist military government takeover.

c)

The proximity of Grenada to the United States.

d)

The importance of continuing the nutmeg trade with Grenada.

52.

The U.S. invaded Grenada in ________________.

a)

Operation Homefront

b)

Operation 'Murican POWAAA

c)

Operation Urgent Fury

d)

Operation Urgent Storm

53.

What major event does Grenada have in common with the area that we live in?

a)

The impact of Hurricane Ivan

b)

The impact of Hurricane Katrina

c)

The invasion of Cuba

d)

The impact of Navy Federal on the local economy