Chapter 29 terms

Question 1

Joseph Stalin

Answer 1

Communist leader of the USSR from the 1920s to the early 1950s

Question 2

Five-Year Plans

Answer 2

system of centralized economic plans in the USSR that resulted in the rapid industrialization of the Soviet economy

Question 3

Benito Mussolini

Answer 3

leader of the Fascist party in Italy, later leader of Italy from 1921-1945

Question 4

Fascism

Answer 4

political belief that encouraged the development of strong nationalism, militarism and aggression

Question 5

Adolf Hitler

Answer 5

leader of the Nazi party in Germany, leader of Germany from 1933-1945

Question 6

Nazis

Answer 6

abbreviation for the National Socialist German Workers’ party, the fascist party in Germany

Question 7

Chiang Kai-Shek

Answer 7

leader of the Chinese nationalists

Question 8

Mao Zedong

Answer 8

leader of the Chinese Communists

Question 9

Long March

Answer 9

movement of Chinese Communists from the nationalist controlled areas in Southern China to a remote area of northwestern China

Question 10

Stalingrad

Answer 10

important Soviet city that controlled access to Russian oil

Question 11

El Alamein

Answer 11

major WWII battle in Egypt

Question 12

Pearl Harbor

Answer 12

American naval base bombed by the Japanese which resulted in US entry into WWII

Question 13

Battle of Midway

Answer 13

battle in the central Pacific over airfields, the first battle fought entirely from the air

Question 14

Hiroshima

Answer 14

Japanese city that the US dropped the first of two atomic bombs on in 1945, leading to the end of the Pacific War

Question 15

Auschwitz

Answer 15

concentration camp designed as a “death camp” to kill Jewish people in Germany

Question 16

Holocaust

Answer 16

attempted genocide of the Jewish people during WWII