Unit 7 MKP

Question 1

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 1

-President of the United States during World War I
-drafted a peace plan for the end of the war known as the Fourteen Points

Question 2

Mustapha Kemal (Ataturk)

Answer 2

-Led the Turkish national movement in the Ottoman Empire
-Led to the collapse of the empire
-Became first President of Turkey

Question 3

V.I. Lenin

Answer 3

-Leader of the Bolsheviks during the 1917 October Revolution in Russia
-Helped establish the USSR
-Signed a peace treaty with the Germans that took Russia out of World War I
-Proposed a state of capitalism in 1921

Question 4

Jospeh Stalin

Answer 4

-Leader of the USSR during World War II and the early years of the Cold War
-Created a command economy with his Five-Year Plans
-Kept power through purges and deportations

Question 5

Adolf Hitler

Answer 5

-Fascist leader of Germany at the center of World War II in Europe and the Holocaust

Question 6

Sun Yat-sen

Answer 6

-Co-founder of the Guomindang Party in China
-Participated in the 1911 revolution against the Qing Dynasty
-Served as the president of the newly founded Provisional Republic of China

Question 7

Winston Churchill

Answer 7

-British politician who became prime minister of Great Britain during World War II
-Coined the term “Iron Curtain” at the beginning of the Cold War

Question 8

Franklin Roosevelt

Answer 8

-President of the United States during the Great Depression and World War II
-Created the New Deal program to help out citizens during the Great Depression

Question 9

Hideki Tojo

Answer 9

-Japanese politician who served as prime minister during World War II
-Directly responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor
-At the end of the war, he was put on trial for war crimes linked to prisoner of war camps

Question 10

Benito Mussolini

Answer 10

-Key figure in the creation of fascism
-Became the leader of the National Fascist Party in Italy
-During World War II, he allied Italy with Nazi Germany

Question 11

Mohandas Ghandi

Answer 11

-Led India to independence from Great Britain using non-violent civil disobedience

Question 12

Pol Pot

Answer 12

-Cambodian revolutionary who became the leader of the Khmer Rouge
-His attempts to forcibly create an agrarian socialist society became the Cambodian Genocide

Question 13

Porfirio Diaz

Answer 13

-Served seven terms as PResdeint of Mexico for a total of 31 years
-His regime brought order, ended political turmoil, and promoted economic development
-But was also unpopular due to civil repression and political conflicts

Question 14

Fransisco Madero

Answer 14

-Mexican revolutionary who served as the 33rd Mexican president
-Wealthy land owner who advocated for social justice and democracy

Question 15

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Answer 15

-Last German Emperor and King of Prussia
-Despite strengthening Germany’s position as a global power, he is considered one of the antagonists responsible for the outbreak of hostilities resulting in World War I

Question 16

Tsar Nicholas II

Answer 16

-Autocratic ruler of Russia
-Forced to abdicate in 197
-He and his family were assassinated by Bolsheviks in 1918

Question 17

Arthur Balfour

Answer 17

-British conservative statesman
-Issued the Balfour Declaration in 1917 announcing support for the establishment of a “national homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine” which was then apart of the Ottoman Emprie