chps 30 + 31 test

Question 1

proletariat

Answer 1

the workers

Question 2

bolsheviks

Answer 2

group of revolutionaries led by lenin

Question 3

lenin

Answer 3

leader of the bolsheviks and first ruler of the soviet union

Question 4

rasputin

Answer 4

eccentric monk assasinated because of his corrupt influence on the russian royal family

Question 5

provisional government

Answer 5

temporary government led by alexander kerensky

Question 6

soviet

Answer 6

local governing council

Question 7

communist party

Answer 7

a political party practicing the ideas of karl marx and lenin

Question 8

joseph stalin

Answer 8

revolutionary leader who took control of the communist party after lenin

Question 9

totalitarianism

Answer 9

government that had total control over people’s lives

Question 10

great purge

Answer 10

arrest, exile, or killing of thousands of suspected enemies of the communist party

Question 11

command economy

Answer 11

economy in which the government makes all the economic decisions

Question 12

five-year plans

Answer 12

plans to develop the soviet union’s economy

Question 13

collective farm

Answer 13

large, government-owned farm

Question 14

sun yixian

Answer 14

one of the first leaders of the kuomintang; “father of modern china”

Question 15

kuomintang

Answer 15

nationalist party of china that overthrew the qing dynasty

Question 16

may fourth movement

Answer 16

chinese nationalist protest against china’s fate as decided by the treaty of versailles

Question 17

mao zedonf

Answer 17

leader of the communist revolution in china

Question 18

jiang jieshi

Answer 18

leader of the chinese nationalist party

Question 19

long march

Answer 19

escape of communists to safety after being surrounded by nationalist forces

Question 20

rowlatt acts

Answer 20

laws to prevent indians from protesting british actions

Question 21

amritsar massacre

Answer 21

the slaughter of indians by the british

Question 22

mohandas k. gandhi

Answer 22

leader of the movement for indian independence from britain

Question 23

civil disobedience

Answer 23

disobeying the law for the purpose of achieving some higher goal

Question 24

salt march

Answer 24

a march to the sea to protest british salt tax

Question 25

mustard kemal

Answer 25

leader of turkish nationalists who overthrew the last ottoman sultan

Question 26

coalition government

Answer 26

temporary alliance of several political parties

Question 27

weimar republic

Answer 27

government of germany after WWI

Question 28

great depression

Answer 28

severe economic downturn that followed the collapse of the US stock market in 1929

Question 29

franklin d. roosevelt

Answer 29

president of the US during the depression

Question 30

new deal

Answer 30

roosevelt’s program for creating jobs and improving the american economy

Question 31

facism

Answer 31

political movement based on nationalism that gives power to a dictator and takes away individual rights

Question 32

benito mussolini

Answer 32

fascist leader of italy

Question 33

adolfo hitler

Answer 33

fascist leader of germany

Question 34

nazism

Answer 34

german brand of facism

Question 35

mein kampf

Answer 35

book by hitler outlining his beliefs and goals for germany

Question 36

lebensraum

Answer 36

living space

Question 37

appeasement

Answer 37

giving in to keep peace

Question 38

axis powers

Answer 38

germany, italy, and japan

Question 39

francisco franco

Answer 39

spain’s fascist dictator

Question 40

isolationism

Answer 40

belief that political ties with other countries should be avoided

Question 41

third reich

Answer 41

german empire

Question 42

munich conference

Answer 42

meeting of world powers in 1938 that allowed hitler to take part of czhechoslovakia