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| Who was the leader of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War? | Ho Chi Minh |
| The incompetence of this Russian Tsar was one reason the Russina Revolution began. | Nicholas II |
| Who was Lenin's successor? | Joseph Stalin |
| Name the two European countries that became mandator powers in the Middle East after WWI. | Great Britain and France |
| Competition over these was a background cause of World War I. | Colonies |
| Who was the leader in they Knyan struggle for independence? | Jomo Kenyatta |
| Who was the founder of Buddhism? | Siddhartha Gautama |
| Who was the leader of Cambodia that is considered to be a perpetrator of genocide? | Pol Pot |
| Who was the military leader of Japan after WWI and during WWII? | Hideki Tojo |
| How did the Korean War End? | It was a stalemate but communism ws contained to North Korea |
| What is appeasement? | Policy of satisfying demands of an unsatisfied party in hopes of keeping peace |
| What are "guest workers"? | People allowed in a country to work (temporarily) but not to become citizens |
| What country participated in the Korean War on the side of North Korea? | China |
| What WWII conference is considered to ba a strating point for the Cold War? | Yalta |
| Who was the leader of the Indian independence movement? | Mohandas Gandhi |
| What was Sri Lanka originally called? | Ceylon |
| Identify two former French mandates in the Middle East | Lebanon and Syria |
| In this religion people worship many forms of one God | Hinduism |
| Identify the Cold War event that brought the world to the bink of nuclear war. | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| What was Lenin's plan to allow for some free enterprise? | New Economic Policy (NEP) |
| T/F: The United States was a member of the League of Nations. | False |
| Who was the president of the United States during World War I? | Woodrow Wilson |
| The systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group is defined as _______. | Genocide |
| What is the European Recovery Program, which helped countries in Europe rebuild after WWII, commonly known as? | The Marshall Plan |
| What were some of the ramifications of the world depression in the 1930? | High unemployment in industrial countries/bank failures/collapse of credit and prices in world trade/Nazi party's growth/placing blame on Jews for economic collapse? |
| How was the League of Nations a cause of World War II? | The League of Nations was weak (US did not join)/could only use economic sanctions/was unable to stop aggressive acts by countries like Italy, Germany and Japan. |
| What is deterrence? | Theory that having large amounts of nuclear weapons by both superpowers would prevent nuclear attack because both sides could strike back with devastating power |
| Identify the two opposing military alliances of the Cold War period. | NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and the Warsaw Pact |
| Name four empires that came to an end as a result of WWI. | Russian, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian and German |
| Who was the U.S. President when IIWW began? Ended? | Franklin D. Roosevelt/Harry S. Truman |
| What was the League of Nations? | International cooperative organization established after World War I to preven furture wars |
| When did the United States enter WWI? Why? | In 1917 after remaining neutral for three years/German use of submarine warfare among other reasons |
| What was the "Iron Curtain"? | Term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the division between Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War |
| T/F: Free market economies lower the standard of living with an expanding lower class. | False - produes rising standards of living with an expanding middle class |
| Identify the following leaders of WWII: *British Prime Minister, *Nazi Dictator of Germany, *Soview Dictator | Winston Churchill (GB), Adolf Hitler (Germany), and Joseph Stalin (USSR) |
| The Cold War was a rivalry between different political and econmic systems. Identify them. | Democracy and the free enterpreise system versus dictatorship and communism |
| Name the U.S. General who oversaw the U.S. occupation of Japan after WWII. | Douglas MacArthur |
| What group was the victim of genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire? | Armenians |
| Who was the U.S. general and leader of the D-Day invasion during WWII? | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Name the country that Germany invaded in 1939 marking the beginning of WWII. | Poland |
| Where were atomic bombs dropped during WWII? | Hiroshima and Hagasaki (Japan) |
| Who was responsible for the "Great Purge" in the Soviet Union? | Stalin |
| In what year did the Stock Market Crash occur? | 1929 |
| What country ended its involvement in WWI before th ewar had ended? | Russia |
| Why did the Nazis blame for Germany's economic collapse? | Jews |
| What is fascism? Who was th efascist leader of Italy? | A militaristic form of dictatorship that glorifies the state over the individual, stresses the need for a strong central government and suppresses any opporition/Benito Mussolini |
| What were some of the causes of the worldwide deptression? | Germany reparations/expansion of production and dominance of the U.S. in the global economy/high protective tariffs/excessive expansion of credit and the Stock Market Crash of 1929 |
| What happened to Germany after WWII? What happened to the German capital of Berlin? | Divided between Farnce, Great Britain, the U.S. and th eSoviet Union (allies): the capital of Berlin (located in the Soviet Union's sector of divided Germany) was also divided four ways |
| What was Bangladesh originally called | East Pakistan |
| Name the country that Algeria won its independence from after WWII? | France |
| Identify three monotheistic religions | Judaism, Christianity and Islam |
| What nation did Mussolini invade in the interwar period? | Ethiopia |
| Who was the emperor of Japan during WWII? | Hirohito |
| What event began the liberation of Western Europe in World War II? | D-Day invasion |
| Religious differences between these two groups divided the Indian independence movement. What two countries were formed? | Hindus (India) and Muslims (Pakistan) |
| Name the religion that is concentrated in Israel and North America today. | Judaism |
| What was eliminated from Japan after World War II with a guarantee of securit from teh U.S.? | Offensive military capabilities |
| How did the Vienam War end? | With Vietnam reunited as a communist country. |
| What was the Policy of Containment? | Truman's policy for preventing the spread of communism |
| What is apartheid? What country had a policy of apartheid? | The separation of the races/South Africa |
