Vocab section 5

Question 1

the king of Britain during the American Revolutionary War

Answer 1

King George III

Question 2

the secret police of the Third Reich in Germany

Answer 2

Gestapo

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Glorious Revolution

Question 4

Propaganda Minister of the Nazi government and a close confidant of the leader, Adolf Hitler. His policy was based on the notion that a lie, repeated often and forcibly, gains the legitimacy of truth.

Answer 4

Joseph Goebbels

Question 5

A close friend of Adolf Hitler, held several high positions. Leadership of the air force, the Luftwaffe

Answer 5

Hermann Goering

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Golan Heights

Question 7

a straight legged style of military marching associated particular with the army of Germany under the Nazis.

Answer 7

goose step

Question 8

The last president of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev came to power in 1985.

Answer 8

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 9

a machine designed for beheading people quickly and with minimal pain during the french revolution.

Answer 9

guillotine

Question 10

a confidant of the leader Adolf Hitler, organized the Nazi elite forces (SS) and secret police (Gestapo). He supervised the execution of millions of Jews in concentration camps during World War II.

Answer 10

Heinrich Himmler

Question 11

Japanese emperor, who came to the throne in the 1920’s. He reigned over the Japanese in World War II.

Answer 11

Hirohito

Question 12

A Japanese city on which the United States dropped the first Atomic Bomb used in warfare on August 6, 1945.

Answer 12

Hiroshima

Question 13

A German political leader of the twentieth century. early program for Germany is contained in his book called Mein Kampf (My struggle)

Answer 13

Adolf Hitler

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Ho Chi Minh

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Holocaust

Question 16

dictator of Iraq who seized power in 1979

Answer 16

Saddam Hussein

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Industrial Revolution

Question 18

The former division between the Communist nations of Eastern Europe, and the non communist nations of western Europe. The term refers to the isolation that the Soviet Union imposed on its satellites in the eastern Bloc

Answer 18

Iron Curtain

Question 19

A Russian Czar. Became famous for his brutality toward his enemies.

Answer 19

Ivan the Terrible

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Jack the Ripper