Exam 3

Question 1

Imperialism

Answer 1

Policy of extending a country’s power and influence through military force.

Question 2

Gavrillo Princip

Answer 2

Killed Franz Ferdinand and accidentally killed Franz wife too.

Question 3

Franz Ferdinand

Answer 3

Archduke of Austria.

Assassinated June 28, 1914.

Question 4

Triple Alliance

Answer 4

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.

Question 5

Triple Entente

Answer 5

Russia, France, and Britain.

Question 6

Central Powers

Answer 6

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottomans, and Bulgaria.

Question 7

George Plekhanov

Answer 7

Leader of Emancipation of Labor.

Question 8

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 8

Set up group called “Union of Struggle”
Made for emancipation of the working class.
(1895 St. Petersburg).

Question 9

The Bolsheviks

Answer 9

Political party lead by Lenin.

Was during the October Revolution in 1917.

Question 10

The Comintern

Answer 10

March 2-6 1919.

Also know as communist international.

Question 11

Benito Mussolini

Answer 11

Italian dictator who followed fascism .

Question 12

Main Kampf

Answer 12

Book wrote by Adolf Hitler.
Was during his 9 months in prison.
Also known as (My Struggle).

Question 13

NSDAP

Answer 13

Nationalsozialistshe Deutsche Arbeiter Partei.

Also know as national socialist German workers’ party.

Question 14

Stalingrad

Answer 14

August 25, 1942- February 2, 1943.

Turning point in ww2.

Question 15

Iron Curtain

Answer 15

Name of a boundary that divided Europe into two separate areas.
From the end of ww2 (1945) to the end of the Cold War. (1991).

Question 16

Truman Doctrine

Answer 16

Created by president Truman in 1947.

Purpose was to aid countries against soviet power with political, military, and economic assistance.

Question 17

Korean War (dates)

Answer 17

June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953

Question 18

The Warsaw Pact

Answer 18

Was a counter alliance formed by Russia against the NATO.

Made May 14, 1955.

Question 19

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Answer 19

Expelled from USSR in 1974.
Great writer.
Arrested and sent to Serbia camps for 8 years.

Question 20

Andrei Sakharov

Answer 20

Awarded Nobel peace prize.

Father of Russian H bomb.

Question 21

Alexander Dubćek

Answer 21

Graduated from Moscow State Law School.

Leader of Prague spring. (March 28- August 21, 1968).

Question 22

Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer 22

Last General Secretary of the Soviet Union.
Was part of the downfall of communism in Russia.
Signed treaty with Ronald Reagan for human rights to stop arm race.

Question 23

Perestroika

Answer 23

Program made during Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev to restructure Soviet economic and political policy.

Question 24

Glasnost

Answer 24

Voicing or freedom of speech.

Question 25

Boris Yeltsin

Answer 25

Russian president in 1991. Demise of the USSR. Creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States. (December 21, 1991) (CIS)

Question 26

1914-1918

Answer 26

Dates of WW1.

Question 27

November 7, 1917

Answer 27

Russian revolution against Bolshevik led by Vladimir Lenin.

Question 28

September 1, 1939

Answer 28

Nazi Germany invaded Poland. | This was known as the act that started WW2.

Question 29

March 5, 1953

Answer 29

Death of Joseph Stalin.

Question 30

Ho Chi Minh

Answer 30

President of north Vietnam. | Joined the communist party and created indochinese communist party.

Question 31

Mao Zedong

Answer 31

Leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). | Led his country through its revolution.

Question 32

Nikita Khrushchev

Answer 32

Led Soviet Union during height of Cold War. Tried to make peace with the west but instigated by putting missiles in Cuba. (Cuban Missile Crisis). Also was apart of de-stalinization.

Question 33

December 8, 1991

Answer 33

Declared end of Soviet government. | Made new alliance called common wealth of independent states.

Question 34

League of Combat

Answer 34

Created by Benito Mussolini. | Was an early exponent of Fascism.