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WorksheetsAdams World History FINAL
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Which description accurately portrays Leon Trotsky.
Right hand man to Vladimir Lenin, assisted in the Bolshevik Revolution and Russian Civil War
Created communism in the "Communist Manifesto", which outlined ideas towards achieving a perfect society.
He created his political ideologies based off of Communism and was the leader of the Red Army and the Bolsheviks.
The Emperor of Russia during the Russian Civil War, he made awful decisions, and was very foolish man who destroyed the Empire.
Who helped Vladimir Lenin return to Russia after his exile in order to de-stabalize their opponent in WWI?
Germany
Great Britain
France
United States
Siberian monk who became the advisor to the Tsar and his wife. Was killed by a group of nobles.
Rasputin
Kerensky
Kornilov
Alexei
Tsar Alexander II is known most for his decision to ______________.
emancipate the serfs
start the February Revolution
conduct pogroms against Russian Jews
create the duma
A Bolshevik believes in ________.
monarchy
socialism/communism
democracy
fascism
Leader of the Duma and the Provisional Government, he could not create a functioning government for Russia.
Kerensky
Lenin
Kornilov
Trotsky
Tsar of Russia who abdicated his throne in 1917
Nicholas II
Alexander II
Alexander III
Gregory Rasputin
Who were the "Reds" in the Russian civil war?
Bolshevik army
supporters of Nicholas II
a full communist state
White army
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk did what?
got Russia out of WWI
was signed by Nicholas II
Russia was blamed for WWI
created the Soviet Union
What was the duma?
A legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia.
Russian secret police
Ownership by the government of an asset, corporation, or industry.
A philosopher who saw the struggles of the working class during the industrial revolution and came up with a theory advocating class war
What is an autocracy?
A system of government by one person with absolute power.
A Country's trade and financial systems are based on private ownership for profit rather than run by the government.
A socialist manifesto written by Marx and Engels (1848) describing the history of the working-class movement according to their views.
Bolsheviks led by Leon Trotsky and Lenin claimed power in name of the soviets and proclaimed a full-scale revolution with support of workers and troops
What was the October Revolution?
Bolshevik takeover of Russia in 1917
Provisional Government taking over for Nicholas II
Alexander II's emancipation of the serfs
Civil war between the Red and the Whites
Who was Karl Marx?
A philosopher who saw the struggles of the working class during the industrial revolution and came up with a theory advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
A philospher who strongly encourages capitalism.
Last tsar of Russia. He was killed by the Bolsheviks.
The dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953.
Before the 1905 Revolution, Russia suffered what humiliating defeat?
Russo-Japanese War
Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Stalingrad
Reds vs. Whites
What were soviets?
Elected councils formed during the Russian Revolution
class struggle and revolution
Bolsheviks
secret police
What happened to Tsar Alexander II?
assassinated by a radical group called the Narodnaya Volya ("The People's Will")
died of natural causes
failed to emancipate the serfs
signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Tsar Alexander III was known for what kind of rule?
large-scale repression
free and open democracy
Fascist rule
reform
Tsar Nicholas II abdicated after what event?
Bloody Sunday
February Revolution
October Revolution
1905 Revolution
The Romanov family was executed because _________
The Bolsheviks feared that the White Army would re-install the monarchy if they were captured
They supported democratic rule
Rasputin was running the country
The White Army did not want them to return
How did Russia do in World War One?
Terribly; they were unprepared and suffered defeat after defeat.
Remarkably well. Victory after victory
Russia left the war after 1 year.
Russia's army was well-prepared and had too many resources.
One of the fateful decision made by the Provisional Government was ____________
staying in WWI
pulling out of WWI
supporting autocracy
winning the Russo-Japanese War
One of the ways Rasputin was able to assert himself into the Romanov's world was his ability to:
calm the hemophiliac heir to the throne, Alexei
share his views about Marxism
dance beautifully
show that democracy was a better system than autocracy
What was the event known as "Bloody Sunday" about?
Nicholas II's troops fired upon protestors in 1905
Raputin's execution
the abdication of Nicholas II
the first battle of the Civil War between the Reds and the Whites
Lenin's popular phrase that won him support among the lower class was __________
"Peace, Land, and Bread"
"War, Land, and Government"
"Peace, Democracy, and Shame"
"Never Surrender"
Mao Zedong believed the Communists should seek support from the
ruler of Germany.
urban working class.
peasant population.
radical military groups.
Who took over the Guomindang after the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925?
Mao Zedong
Chiang Kai-shek
Yuan Shikai
Gao Xingzu
In 1931 the Japanese military seized __________ and set up a puppet state there (Pu Yi placed on the throne).
Hirohito
Hong Kong
Manchuria
Manilla
__________ condemned Japanese aggression against China, but did not prevent the slaughter in Nanking.
Hirohito
The League of Nations
The ultranationalists
The Axis Powers
Despite leaning toward greater democracy in 1920s Japan, political parties were influenced by its powerful business leaders, called ______________.
hirohito
guomindang
zaibatsu
taiping rebels
Better technology allowed factories to make more products faster during a time when people were buying less, which resulted in
overproduction.
general strike.
disarmament.
finance.
Mussolini gained power by promising to
grant independence to Italian colonies.
share power with the Communists.
replace chaos with order.
give every Italian a free college education.
Mussolini's "combat squad" supporters who marched with him on the infamous "March on Rome" were known as the
Brown Shirts
Red Shirts
Black Shirts
Blue shirts
What was most important to the Fascists?
agriculture
the individual
Marxism
the state
Which is NOT true of Fascism?
Fascists reject democracy.
Fascism is rooted in extreme nationalism.
Fascists value individual rights.
Fascists believe in aggressive foreign expansion.
When Fascists in Italy made a bid for power, tens of thousands participated in the
totalitarian state.
Proclamation of Naples.
March on Rome.
Black Shirts.
Stalin believed that __________ were resisting collectivization by killing farm animals and burning crops. He ordered the destruction of these "wealthy peasants."
the kulaks
the collectives
the gulags
the Comintern
Which phrase best describes the Gulag?
large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group
an organization of wealthy farmers
a system of brutal labor camps
organizations aiding revolutionary groups around the world
What was one unintentional result of Stalin's purges?
Stalin increased his power through his terror tactics.
Stalin got rid of many of the nation's most skilled and talented workers, soldiers, and thinkers.
Stalin got rid of any rivals who were plotting against him.
Stalin discouraged the people's dissent.
Hitler's secret police were known as the
Gestapo.
The Black Shirts
Third Reich.
Nuremberg Laws.
The __________ deprived Jews of German citizenship and placed severe restrictions on them.
Nuremberg Laws
Gestapo
Ruhr Valley
chancellor
The Nazis indoctrinated young people by
encouraging marriages as quickly as possible.
giving them the best health care available.
sending them to Switzerland.
creating the "Hitler Youth."
Stalin's proposals to build heavy industry, improve transportation, and increase farm output were called
terror tactics.
socialist realism.
the great purges.
five-year plans.
After World War One, which nation emerged as the world's leading economic power?
Germany
Japan
the United States
Great Britain
What did Hitler do while he was imprisoned for the failed attempt to seize power in Munich?
Hitler became a Christian.
Hitler planned the invasion of France.
Hitler wrote Mein Kampf.
Hitler organized a network of Gestapo spies.
Fascists are ideologically most closely allied with
Marxists.
socialists.
nationalists.
communists.
the process of forcing Russian culture on all ethnic groups in the Soviet Union
Great Purge
Lenin-cloning
Commintern
Russification
Communists favor international action and the creation of a ______________ society
fascists
aristocratic
chaotic
classless
Was the democratic government which ruled over Germany from 1919 to 1933. Germany's first democracy and it failed miserably.
Mein Kampf
Maginot Republic
2nd Reich
Weimar Republic
"Night of Shattered Glass" when Nazis burned Jewish synagogues and destroyed thousands of Jewish businesses.
Lebensraum
Collectivization
Kristallnacht
Einsatzgruppen
Full name of Nazi Party = ___________
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
National German Communist Party
National Socialist German Workers’ Party
National Communist Party
After the emperor was overthrown, what two political parties emerged in China?
Republican & Democrats
Nationalist & Communist
Fascists & Socialsts
The People for Republic of China & The Japanese Communist Party
What was Hitler's belief that German people needed more 'living space' called?
Anschluss
Lebensraum
Gleichschaltung
Nazism
Where was Hitler born?
Germany
Poland
Berlin
Austria
What was the event where Hitler and the Nazi's attempted to overthrow the government in 1923?
Night of Long Knives
Kristallnacht
Beer Hall Putsch
Final Solution
What was the event in 1938 where German Jews were arrested, killed, sent to concentration camps, and had their temples and businesses destroyed?
Night of Long Knives
Kristallnacht
Beer Hall Putsch
Final Solution
South African Policy of legal separation of the races
Apartheeid
Decolonization
Apartheid
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Great Leap forward
Long Marh
Tiananmen Square massacre
Cultural Revolution
The Great Leap Forward was
very successful
did not change much in China.
was very unsuccessful
all the above
What was Pol Pot’s goal?
Create a dictatorship
To form a communist Agrarian utopia
Destroy the government
To kill all Cambodians
All of the Above
Mecca and Medina, the two holy sites in Islam, are located in which country?
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Iran
Syria
Many of the jihadists trained for the Afghan war would mature into the jihadists of al Qaeda and ISIS, encouraged by Saudi __________ teachings.
Shia
Wahhabi
democratic
socialist
The two major ethnic groups in Rwanda are:
Hera and Tari
Hutu and Tari
Hutu and Tulsi
Hutu and Tutsi
President Truman believed that using atomic weapons on Japan would enable the United States to avoid the heavy casualties an invasion would produce.
True
False
Hitler demanded, and was given, what area in Czechoslovakia?
Slovenia
Parma
Danzig
Sudetenland
Two days after Hitler’s invasion of ____, Britain and France declared war on Germany.
Poland
Austria
France
Soviet Union
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese
launched a full-scale invasion of Southern China.
attacked the British colony on the Bataan Peninsula.
launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor.
invaded Alaska.
Great Britain’s policy of ____ toward Germany was based on the belief that the satisfaction of reasonable demands would maintain peace in Europe.
firm resistance
detente
Anschluss
appeasement
At ____, heroic efforts by the British Royal Navy and civilians in private boats managed to evacuate 338,000 Allied troops from the beaches of the English Channel.
Danzig
Maginot Line
Normandy
Dunkirk
Nazi extermination camp in Poland, the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. Close to a million Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and others were killed there
Berlin
Maginot
Auschwitz
Leningrad
Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war (foreshadowed a split among the Allies)
Munich Conference
Yalta Conference
Berlin Conference
Truman Doctrine
What was the Luftwaffe?
German army force
German naval force
German air force
It was Hitler’s idea of Expansionism that eventually led to war.
A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe
Warsaw Pact
Siege of Leningrad
Marshall Plan
North Atlantic Trade Organization
A secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb
Fatherland Project
Manhattan Project
American Command Project
Star Wars project
An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO
Warsaw Pact
Marshall Plan
United Nations
Anschluss
Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause (used widely during WWII)
annexation
propaganda
pacificsm
isolationism
1947 - Stated that the U.S. would support any nation threatened by Communism
United Nations
FDR's Five Points
Potsdam Declaration
Truman Doctrine
During World War II, __________ was surrounded and besieged by the German Wehrmacht, which cut off all supplies going into the city and trapping the people inside for 900 days
Paris
Moscow
Leningrad
Vienna
Anschluss refers to
the German air force.
the union of Germany and Austria.
the region of Czechoslovakia annexed by Germany.
Hitler's belief in the superiority of the German people
Which African nation was invaded by Italy in 1935?
Ethiopia
Libya
Egypt
Tunisia
At the Munich Conference of 1938
the British and French chose appeasement as their strategy with the Germans and convinced Czechoslovakia to give up the Sudetenland.
the United States agreed to form an alliance with Great Britain and France in order to defend Europe from German aggression.
the French ceded control of the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine to Germany.
Italy agreed to withdraw from Ethiopia, and Germany agreed to withdraw from Sudetenland.
Which of the following countries made up the Axis powers?
Great Britain, France, Russia, and the United States
Japan, Germany, and Italy
Russia, Germany, and Japan
United States, Great Britain, and France
The opposition of all war is known as
pacifism.
neutrality.
appeasement.
nationalism.
Which country did Germany and the Soviet Union agree to divide up between them in the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939?
Czechoslovakia
Poland
France
Hungary
The enormous power of the German military was revealed in their "lightning war", or __________ against Poland in 1939.
Luftwaffe
Vichy
Zerstörung
blitzkrieg
After the Allies liberated France, Germany launched a bloody counterattack in a desperate attempt to stave off defeat known as the Battle of
Berlin.
Stalingrad.
El Alamein.
the Bulge.
American forces embarked on a campaign known as __________, with the goal of recapturing some Japanese-held islands which were used as steppingstones to the next objective.
the Pacific theatre
island-hopping
Operation Free Asia
the Tokyo Plan
Kamikaze pilots
were sent only on the most dangerous missions.
rebelled against Japanese rule, joining the Allies in late 1944.
helped the Nazis during their assault on the British islands.
crashed their explosive-laden airplanes into American warships.
Which Japanese city was the target of the second atomic bomb, dropped by the United States on August 9, 1945?
Tokyo
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Kyoto
May 8, 1945, the day after Germany surrendered, officially became known as
V-E Day.
Memorial Day.
V-J Day.
Veterans Day
Where in Germany did the Allies have Axis leaders tried for "crimes against humanity"?
Hamburg
Berlin
Nuremberg
Würzburg
