Unit 6 - Global Change

Question 1

This is the belief that all nations should have their own states and those states should represent their interests

Answer 1

self-determination

Question 2

An alliance organized by the United States to develop and protect its allies.

Answer 2

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

Question 3

The belief that each nation should determine its own destiny.

Answer 3

Self-determination

Question 4

Genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923.

Answer 4

Armenian genocide

Question 5

Pretty much defines itself. Wars in trenches.

Answer 5

Trench warfare

Question 6

Leader of Nazi Germany

Answer 6

Adolf Hitler

Question 7

The historical belief that a Jewish state should be established in the area of what is now Israel.

Answer 7

Zionism

Question 8

Leader of fascist Italy

Answer 8

Benito Mussolini

Question 9

Form of government marked by military and police coercion.

Answer 9

Fascism

Question 10

Form of government marked by government involvement and surveillance of most aspects of life.

Answer 10

Totalitarianism

Question 11

The revolution that deposed the last tsar of Russia.

Answer 11

Russian Revolution

Question 12

The first leader of the Soviet Union.

Answer 12

Vladimir Lenin

Question 13

The leader of the Soviet Union during WWII. Noted for implementing totalitarianism and causing famine.

Answer 13

Josef Stalin

Question 14

Organization of the countryside into communes.

Answer 14

Collectivization

Question 15

The appropriation of private property in a nation-state.

Answer 15

Nationalization

Question 16

First leader of Communist China. Noted for the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution

Answer 16

Mao Zedong

Question 17

A failed attempt at collectivizing and industrializing the Chinese countryside

Answer 17

Great Leap Forward

Question 18

A rebellion against not-communist-enough intellectuals and members of the Communist Party, instigated by Mao.

Answer 18

Cultural Revolution

Question 19

A period of economic losses across the Americas and Europe.

Answer 19

Great Depression

Question 20

Plans for the centrally administered economies of China and the Soviet Union.

Answer 20

Five Year Plan

Question 21

Name given to the strategy of extremely rapid tank and mechanized infantry movements in Germany’s invasion of France in WWII.

Answer 21

Blitzkrieg

Question 22

Name given to the Nazi campaign of genocide.

Answer 22

Holocaust

Question 23

Organization founded after WWII to facilitate international cooperation.

Answer 23

United Nations

Question 24

Former territory of the Ottoman Empire.

Answer 24

Palestine

Question 25

State founded in 1948 following a civil war in Palestine.

Answer 25

Israel

Question 26

Series of proxy wars and military build-up between the US and USSR.

Answer 26

Cold War

Question 27

A strategy taken by the USA to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring allies. Aimed at preventing states from leaning socialist through military, economic, and cultural means.

Answer 27

Containment

Question 28

A wall built by the socialist government of East Germany to stop their citizens from defecting to West Germany.

Answer 28

Berlin Wall

Question 29

The leader of socialist Cuba.

Answer 29

Fidel Castro

Question 30

An international incident following the United States' discovery of a Soviet attempt to build a missile base in Cuba. Ended with the Soviet Union removing the missiles in exchange for concessions.

Answer 30

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 31

A Catholic ideology promoting the independence of oppressed peoples.

Answer 31

Liberation theology

Question 32

An organization aimed at promoting pan-Islamic unity and creating Islamic states.

Answer 32

Muslim Brotherhood

Question 33

A technological revolution that vastly increased world food production with genetically modified crops and chemical fertilizers.

Answer 33

Green Revolution

Question 34

A war fought between China and North Korea on one side and a UN peacekeeping force and South Korea on the other.

Answer 34

Korean War

Question 35

The leader of China from 1977 to 1997. Known for improving relations with the United States and Europe as well as implementing limited capitalist reforms.

Answer 35

Deng Xiaoping

Question 36

The last leader of the Soviet Union. Known for relaxing censorship and police powers.

Answer 36

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 37

Gorbachev's policy of "openness," in which censorship was reduced and many government documents were made public.

Answer 37

Glasnost

Question 38

Gorbachev's policy of "restructuring" or implementing free market reforms

Answer 38

Perestroika

Question 39

Genocide committed by the Hutu ethnic group against the Tutsi ethnic group in Rwanda.

Answer 39

Rwandan genocide

Question 40

War between the United States, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia on one side and Iraq on the other.

Answer 40

Gulf War