Section 10 Vocab

Question 1

Russo-Japanese Waar

Answer 1

a war fought in 1904-5 between Russian and Japan. winning the war, Japan emerged as a world power

Question 2

Sarajevo

Answer 2

the city where the assassination that brought on World War I took place

Question 3

Albert Schweitzer

Answer 3

a French theologian who received many awards for his humanitarian missionary work in Africa

Question 4

Seven Years’ War

Answer 4

a war fought between the German kingdom of Prussia and an alliance that included Austria, France, and Russian. Prussia and Britain won and their victory greatly increased their power

Question 5

Six-Day War

Answer 5

a War in 1967 by Israel on one side and Egypt, Syria, and Jordan on the other. Israel was victorious

Question 6

Spanish Civil War

Answer 6

A war fought in the late 1930s in Spain. The Spanish fascists won the war and set up Franco’s long rule as a dictator

Question 7

SS

Answer 7

An elite corps of combat troops formed originally within the German Nazi party as a bodyguard for Hitler

Question 8

Joseph Stalin

Answer 8

a Soviet political leader of the twentieth century. ruled the Soviet Union with extreme brutality

Question 9

Battle of Stalingrad

Answer 9

a major battle between German and Soviet troops in World War II; ended with the surrender of and an entire German army; a major turning point of the war in favor of the Allies

Question 10

Stalin’s purge trials

Answer 10

large numbers of official were imprisoned or executed for alleged disloyalty to Stalin

Question 11

Star Chamber

Answer 11

a royal court in England in the Middle Ages known for its tyrannical judgements

Question 12

Stuarts

Answer 12

a Scottish family that ruled Britain from the early seveneenth centry to the early eighteenth century

Question 13

Sun King

Answer 13

nickname for Louis XIV

Question 14

Margaret Thatcher

Answer 14

Prime Minister of Britain in 1979; resigned form office in 1990

Question 15

What were the causes of the war rooted in for the Thirty Years’ War?

Answer 15

causes of the war were rooted in national rivalries and in conflict between Roman Catholics and Protestants; for all the bloodshed there was no decisive winner or loser

Question 16

Third Reich

Answer 16

the name given by the Nazis to their government in Germany; Reich is German for empire

Question 17

What did Hitler believe about his Third Reich?

Answer 17

He believed that he was creating a third German empire that was a successor to the Holy Roman Empire and the empire formed by Chancellor Bismarck in the nineteenth century

Question 18

Tiananmen Square

Answer 18

location in Beijing of prodemocracy demonstrations that were brutally suppressed in 1989

Question 19

Marshal Tito

Answer 19

a Yugoslav military and political leader of the twentieth century; established communist rule in Yugoslavia

Question 20

trench warfare

Answer 20

warfare marked by slow wearing down of the opposing forces and piecemeal gains at heavy cost; this happened especially in World War I

Question 21

Russian Revolution

Answer 21

a revolution in Russian in 1917-1918 that brought the Bolsheviks, a communist party led by Lenin, to power