Section 5 Vocab

Question 1

Gestapo

Answer 1

secret police of the Third Reich in Germany

Question 2

Glorious Revolution

Answer 2

a revolution in Britain in 1688; the Parliament deposed King James II; Parliament gave the crown to King William III, a Dutch prince, and his British wife, Queen Mary II, as joint rulers

Question 3

Joseph Goebbels

Answer 3

was the Propaganda Minister for the Nazis; His policy was based on the notion that a lie, repeated often and forcibly, gains the legitimacy of truth

Question 4

Herman Goering

Answer 4

a close friend of Adolf Hitler; led the Air Force of Germany

Question 5

Golan Heights

Answer 5

a hilly area on the border between Israel and Syria that Israel seized from Syria; Israel has been unwilling to return the area to Syria, its archenemy

Question 6

goose step

Answer 6

a straight-legged style of military marching associated particularly with the German army under the Nazis

Question 7

Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer 7

the last president of the Soviet Union; came to power in 1985

Question 8

guillotine

Answer 8

a machine designed for beheading people quickly with minimal pain during the French Revolution

Question 9

Heinrich Himmler

Answer 9

a confidant of Hitler who organized the Nazi elite forces (SS) and secret police (Gestapo); supervised the execution of millions of Jews

Question 10

Hirohito

Answer 10

Japanese emperor who came to the throne in the 1920s; reigned over the Japanese in World War II

Question 11

Hiroshima

Answer 11

a Japanese city on which the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on August 6, 1945

Question 12

Adolf Hitler

Answer 12

a German political leader of the twentieth century; Hitler’s early program for Germany is contained in his book Mein Kampf

Question 13

Ho Chi Minh

Answer 13

led the communists of Vietnam in their efforts to drive out the forces of Japan in the 1940s

Question 14

Holocaust

Answer 14

the killing of some six million Jews by the Nazis during World War II

Question 15

Saddam Hussein

Answer 15

dictator of Iraq who seized power in 1979

Question 16

Industrial Revolution

Answer 16

the rapid industrial growth that began in England during the middle of the eighteenth century and spread over the next 150 years

Question 17

Iron Curtain

Answer 17

the former division between the communist nations of eastern Europe and the noncommunist nations of Western Europe; refers to the isolation that the Soviet Union imposed on its satellites in the Eastern Bloc

Question 18

Ivan the Terrible

Answer 18

a Russian czar who became famous for his brutality

Question 19

Jack the Ripper

Answer 19

a criminal in London in the late nineteenth century apparently responsible for several ghastly murders by slashing

Question 20

George III

Answer 20

the king of Britain during the American Revolution