Vocab set #10

Question 1

a revolution in Russia in 1917-1918.

brought the Bolsheviks, a communist party led by Lenin, to power.

Answer 1

Russian Revolution

Question 2

a war fought in 1904-5 between Russia and Japan

in winning the war, Japan emerged as a world power

Answer 2

Russo-Japanese War

Question 3

the city where the assassination that brought on world war I took place.

Answer 3

Sarajevo

Question 4

a french theologian, received many awards for his humanitarian missionary work in Africa

Answer 4

Albert Schweitzer

Question 5

A war fought between the German kingdom of Prussia and an alliance that included Austria, France, and Russia. Prussia and Britain won, and their victory greatly increased their power.

Answer 5

Seven Years’ War

Question 6

A war fought in 1967 by Israel on one side and Egypt, Syria, and Jordan on the other. Israel victorious

Answer 6

Six-Day War

Question 7

a war fought in the late 1930s in Spain.

The Spanish Fascists won the war and set up Franco’s long rule of Spain as a dictator.

Answer 7

Spanish Civil War

Question 8

an elite corps of combat troops formed originally within the German Nazi Party as a bodyguard for Hitler

Answer 8

SS

Question 9

a soviet political leader of the twentieth century. He ruled the Soviet Union often with extreme brutality.

Answer 9

Joseph Stalin

Question 10

a major battle between German and Soviet troops in World War II. ended with the surrender of an entire German army.

Answer 10

Battle of Stalingrad

Question 11

large numbers of these officials were imprisoned or executed for alleged disloyalty to Stalin.

Answer 11

Stalin’s purge trials.

Question 12

a royal court that began in England in the Middle Ages

It was known for its tyrannical judgments.

Answer 12

star chamber

Question 13

a Scottish family that ruled Britain from the early seventeenth century to the early eighteenth century.

Answer 13

Stuarts

Question 14

a nickname for Louis XIV

Answer 14

sun king

Question 15

prime minister of Britain in 1979.

she resigned from office in 1990

Answer 15

Margaret Thatcher

Question 16

The causes of the war were rooted in national rivalries and in conflict between Roman Catholics and protestants

Answer 16

thirty years war

Question 17

the name given by the Nazis to their government in Germany; Reich is German for “empire”. Adolf Hitler, their leader, believed that he was creating a third German empire, a successor to the Holy Roman Empire and the German empire formed by Chancellor Bismarck in the nineteenth century.

Answer 17

Third Reich

Question 18

Location in Beijing of pro democracy demonstrations that were brutally suppressed in 1989.

Answer 18

Tiananmen Square

Question 19

a Yugoslav military and political leader of the twentieth century established Communist rule in Yugoslavia.

Answer 19

Marshal Tito

Question 20

Warfare marked by slow wearing down of the opposing forces and piecemeal gains at heavy cost . World War I.

Answer 20

trench warfare.