Vocab - War And Revolution

Question 1

Total war

Answer 1

War that requires each country involved to mobilize its entire population in the effort to defeat the enemy

Question 2

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 2

1919 treaty that officially ended World War l

Question 3

Russian revolution

Answer 3

Massive Revolution that overthrew the Romanov dynasty in Russia and ended with the seizure of power by communists

Question 4

Stalin

Answer 4

Leader of the Soviet Union from the late 1920s

Question 5

Collectivization of agriculture

Answer 5

Communist policies that ended private ownership of land by incorporating peasants from small family farms into large-scale collective farms.

Question 6

Great Depression

Answer 6

Worldwide economic contraction that began in 1929 with a stock market crash in the United States

Question 7

Fascism

Answer 7

Political ideology that considered the conflict of nations to be the driving force of history, praised violence against enemies

Question 8

Nazi party

Answer 8

German political party dedicated to extreme nationalism and the purification of the German state

Question 9

Holocaust

Answer 9

Name used for the Nazi genocide of Jews and others undesirables in German society

Question 10

Communism in Eastern Europe

Answer 10

Expansion of post–World War II communism imposed with Soviet pressure

Question 11

Chinese revolution of 1949

Answer 11

marks the coming to power of the Chinese Communist Party under the leadership of Mao Zedong

Question 12

Mao Zedong

Answer 12

Chairman of China’s Communist Party and de facto ruler of China in 1949