Unit 2: The Twentieth Century Crisis

Question 1

After the war, Britain ruled Iraq and Palestine as what?

Answer 1

mandates

Question 2

How did Mohandas Gandhi protest British laws?

Answer 2

civil disobedience to protest unjust laws

Question 3

Quickly turning the USSR from an agricultural to an industrial economy was done by…

Answer 3

Stalin

Question 4

Trench warfare caused the immobilization of troops on what?

Answer 4

the Western Front

Question 5

Under whose leadership, did the Bolsheviks become a party dedicated to violent revolution?

Answer 5

Lenin’s

Question 6

What country did Hitler invade that resulted in Britain and France declaring war on Germany?

Answer 6

Poland

Question 7

What did Japan do to address labor shortages?

Answer 7

brought in Korean and Chinese workers

Question 8

What did Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill agree to do at the Tehran Conference?

Answer 8

agreed to a partition of postwar Germany

Question 9

What does a fascist government do?

Answer 9

a strong central government controlled by a dictator

Question 10

What does the concept of total war mean?

Answer 10

it involves complete mobilization of resources and people

Question 11

What is the Cold War?

Answer 11

a period of political tension following WWII

Question 12

What was Great Britain’s policy of appeasement?

Answer 12

was based on the belief that the satisfaction of reasonable demands would maintain peace in Europe

Question 13

What was Hitler’s form of attack that used tank divisions supported by air attacks called?

Answer 13

blitzkrieg, or ‘lightning war’

Question 14

What was Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy?

Answer 14

rejected the use of U.S military force in Latin America

Question 15

What was the official party of the Mexican Revolution known as?

Answer 15

Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)

Question 16

What was the slaughter of European Jews by the Nazis known as?

Answer 16

the Holocaust

Question 17

Who became the spokesperson for a new world order based on democracy and international cooperation?

Answer 17

Woodrow Wilson

Question 18

Who did Mao Zedong lead on the Long March?

Answer 18

People’s Liberation Army

Question 19

Who introduced many modern reforms in Turkey?

Answer 19

Ataturk

Question 20

Who invaded Manchuria?

Answer 20

an extremists group of middle level Japanese officers acting without government approval

Question 21

Who used methods of civil disobedience to protest unjust laws?

Answer 21

Ghandi

Question 22

Why was the battle of Stalingrad a crushing defeat for Germany?

Answer 22

the entire German Sixth Army was lost

Question 23

What did the Cheka begin?

Answer 23

Lenin’s secret police that destroyed all those who opposed the new regime

Question 24

What area did Hitler demand in Northwestern Czechoslovakia?

Answer 24

Sudetenland

Question 25

What is the Iron Curtain?

Answer 25

Imaginary division between Europe and the USSR

Question 26

What is the Potsdam Period?

Answer 26

A conference in 1945 at which Truman suggested free elections throughout Eastern Europe for new govs

Question 27

What was a provision of Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 27

That Germany was responsible for WWI