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Which group of people revolted aginst the russian revolutionary provisional government in 1917.

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The Bolshevik Party

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Which leader was influenced by Marxist ideology

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Vladimir Lenin

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How does Vladimir Lenin come to power in Russia

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Lead the Soviet Union of the October Revolution destoryed the Provisional Government

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What is the best example of how Stalin ruled through terror.

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The great purge

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Extreme nationalism combined with militarism and rule by a single dictator best defines which concept?

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Fascism

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6
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Who did the brown shirts follow?

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Germany

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What 2 countries become fascist prior to WWII?

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Germany, Italy

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Which event gave Hitler the excuse he needed to rise to power?

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Reichstag fire

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In Order to justify expanding the territorial borders of Germany, Hitler made which claim.

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Lebensraum

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What was the role of the gestapo in Nazi Germany.

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persecution of political enemies and religious groups

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How did Hitler become chancellor of Germany?

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Staged a fire and blamed the communist and told the people to give him the power to stop them

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Which person imposed totalitarian rule over the Soviet Union in the early twenthy century?

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Joesph Stalin

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Which country annexed Ethiopia in 1936 for colonial purposes?

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Italy

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Which policy did Neville Chamberlain adopt in 1939 as a response to nazi aggression?

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Appeasement

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What is the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact?

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Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics),[a] was a neutrality pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed in Moscow on 23 August 1939 by foreign ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov, respectively.[8] The pact was followed by the German-Soviet Commercial Agreement in February 1940.

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Who led a provisional government in Russia prior to the October revolution?

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Alexander Kerensky

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Put the events of the Russian Revolution in chronological order.

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Nicholas abdicates; Russia leaves WWI; Lenin’s death

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Who is Vladimir Lenin?

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First Leader of Soviet Russia/Soviet Union

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Who is Neville Chamberlain?

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British Prime Minister

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Who is Hirohito?

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Emperor of Japan

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Who is Joseph Stalin?

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Soviet Union Dicator

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Who is Benito Mussolini?

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Leader of the Fascist Party

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Who is Adolf Hitler?

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Nazi Leader of Germany

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Who is Alexander Kerensky?

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Leader of the Provisional Government in Russia

25
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Who is Nicholas II?

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Last czar of Russia

26
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Who is Rasputin?

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Healer who was a friend of the Royal family in russia

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Who are the Bolsheviks?

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Members of the russian social democratuc party, which later became the communist party

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What is the great purge?

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Political repression in soviet union kills 20 million

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What are the Five-Year plans?

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Development of Russian (Soviet Union) economy. The first was a failure, the second was a major success.

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What is the Rape of Nanjing?

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Mass murders and land rape in the capital of China

31
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What is Kirstallnacht?

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The night that Jews were attacked by German citizens

32
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What is the Spanish Civil War?

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Civil war in spain 1936-1939, ends spanish republic

33
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This was the policy adopted by the US leading up to WWII which sought to keep the US out of the war.

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Non-Interventionism

34
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This policy adopted by the British Prime Minister which sought to prevent war by giving into Germany’s aggerssion and demands.

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Appeasement policy

35
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The Anschluss occured when ____ took over ____ in an agreement between the two countries.

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Germany Austria

36
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Be able to identify the Sudetenland, the Rhineland, and the Anschluss of Austria.

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37
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Which two countries sign the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which agrees neither will attach the other during WWII.

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Germany/Soviet Union

38
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What was the largest accomplishment of the March Revolution in Russia?

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Removing the Czar

39
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Adolf Hitler gave several speeches about lebensraum. Which best describes what that word means?

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Territroy that a country needs to develop

40
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Which totalitarian leader successfully marched on Rome with his black shirts and overthrew the italian democracy?

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Benito Mussolini

41
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What impact did WWI have on the Russian Revolution?

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Food Shortage, Tons of Soldiers died because of lack of modernization, Lots of upset people

42
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Which group in nazi Germany acted as a secret police and spied on its own citizens?

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Gestapo

43
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Put events leading up to WWII in chronological order.

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44
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This country is formed by Lenin using Marxist ideas of socialism?

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soviet union

45
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Why does Japan invade Manchuria, China?

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In September 1931, they claimed that Chinese soldiers had sabotaged the railway, and attacked the Chinese army (which had just executed a Japanese spy). The Chinese army did not fight back because it knew that the Japanese were just wanting an excuse to invade Manchuria. … China appealed to the League of Nations.

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What is Bloody Sunday in Russia history?

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Bloody Sunday or Red Sunday is the name given to the events of Sunday, 22 January [O.S. 9 January] 1905 in St Petersburg, Russia, when unarmed demonstrators led by Father Georgy Gapon were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

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