section 1 Flashcards

1
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What kind of government did Lenin set up?

A

Communist government in the Soviet Union

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2
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Who gained power after lenins death?

A

Joseph Stalin

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3
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What did Joseph Stalin rule as?

A

A totalitarian dictator

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4
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What is a totalitarian state?

A

Or where a single party controls the government and peoples lives

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5
Q

in a totalitarian state,
citizens do not _________ and
criticism is ________

A

ask questions

punished

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6
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Even though Stalin modernized industry and agriculture, his methods were _______

A

brutal

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7
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What did Stalin do to peasants?

A

He made them handover land and animals to government run up farms.

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8
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What did Stallon do to his political enemies or the people who resisted to do what he told them to do?

A

they were executed

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9
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What party did Benito Mussolini have?

A

The Fascist party

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10
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who were fascists supported by?

A

business leaders and landowners

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11
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What Italian anger did Mussolini play on? why?

A

the Versailles Treaty. didn’t give Italy all the territory it wanted

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12
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what parties did Mussolini outlaw?

A

all political parties except his own

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13
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what did Mussolini promise to restore?

A

the greatness of Ancient Rome

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14
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What did Mussolini began a program of?

A

military aggression

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15
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Why did Ethiopia fall when Italy invaded?

A

The league of Nations responded weakly when the Ethiopian Empire asked for help

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16
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What was another name for the Nazis?

A

The national Socialist German workers party

17
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Who led the Nazis?

A

Adolf Hitler

18
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Why did Hitler play anger on the Versailles treaty?

A

It blamed Germany for World War I and made them pay heavy war cost

19
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Who did Hitler use as scapegoats?

A

Jews and other traitors

20
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When Hitler became head of the German government, what did he create?

A

He created a militaristic totalitarian state

21
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who did Hitler preach that Germans belonged to?

A

a superior race

22
Q

What did Hitler want to do to all European Jews?

A

To kill all of them

23
Q

Hitler claimed that Germany had a right to do what? then where did his troops move into?

A

Expand to the east. Rhineland

24
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since Japan suffered a Great Depression, what did the Japanese do?

A

the looked to military leaders

25
Q

like hitler, Japanese leaders preached __________

A

racial superiority

26
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why did Japanese military leaders set out to expand into Asia?

A

they needed natural resources

27
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Why did Japanese forces seize Manchuria in northeastern China?

A

Manchuria was rich with coal and iron

28
Q

What was the name of the state that the Japanese set up in Manchuria?

A

Manchukuo

29
Q

Who did China call on for help?

A

The league of Nations

30
Q

What did the league of Nations do for the Japanese?

A

The league condemned Japanese aggression but did little else

31
Q

Did the United States recognize Manchukuo?

A

no

32
Q

Who passed the first of the series of neutrality acts?

A

Congress

33
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What did neutrality acts ban?

A

they banned arms sales and loans to countries at war

34
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what did congress warn americans?

A

not to travel on ships of countries at war

35
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Why did Pres. Hoover reject the Roosevelt corollary?

A

He said that the United States no longer claimed the right to intervene in Latin American affairs

36
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In Roosevelts good neighbor policy what did Roosevelt move toward?

A

Building friendlier relations with Latin America

37
Q

Why did the United States canceled the platt amendment?

A

it limited Cuban independence