history powerpoints

Question 1

arrested and killed during a failed communist uprising in germany in January 1919

Answer 1

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht

Question 2

germany after WW1 wound be known as the

Answer 2

Weimar Republic

Question 3

led the Turks in the Turkish war for independence

first pres of turkey secular nation state muslim world

Answer 3

Mustafa kemal ataturk

Question 4

series of compromises design to stabilize europe but was actually destabilizing in a number of way

Answer 4

the treaty of versailles

Question 5

1924; an american plan for germany’s reparations and the ally’s war loan debts

Answer 5

the dawes plan

Question 6

Nazi Germany’s invasion of the soviet union, june 1941

Answer 6

operation barbossa

Question 7

stalin eliminated his political opponent and much of the soviet elite including the highest commanders in the red army

Answer 7

The Great Purge

Question 8

the complete domination of public and private life by the state

Answer 8

totalitarianism

Question 9

hitler claims emergency calls for elimination of civil liberties effectively ending democracy in the weimar republic

Answer 9

reichstag fire decree

Question 10

hatred of or discrimination against jews

widespread in central and eastern europe in the 19th and early 20th century before hitler’s rise to power

Answer 10

anti-semitism

Question 11

first polish pope
first non Italian pope in 500 years
elected in 1978

Answer 11

Pope John Paul II

Question 12

leader of Czechoslovakia’s velvet revolution- 1989

Answer 12

Vaclav Havel

Question 13

leader of solidarity in Poland

1980-1989

Answer 13

Lech Walesa

Question 14

warriors of God

anti soviet insurgency in afghanistan

Answer 14

Mujahideen

Question 15

wealthy saudi commander in the mujahideen in Afghanistan in the 1980s

Answer 15

Osama bin Laden