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What was the worst pandemic in history that complicated the process of demilitarization and economic recovery?

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Spanish Flu

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By 1933, unemployment in industrial societies reached thirty million. This period was called?

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Great Depression

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The form of capitalism that was proven to be self-correcting when left to its own devices is called?

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Laissez-faire

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The distrust of democracy in Italy and Germany led to the rise of charismatic leaders who embraced what political philosophy?

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Fascism

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In 1917, communism ruled in what had been Russia—now called the?

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USSR

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Who edged communism towards a new direction by the 1930s?

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Joseph Stalin

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This political philosophy emerged with the dictatorship of Mussolini in Italy.

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Fascism

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What form of fascism emerged with the dictatorship of Hitler in 1933?

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Nazism

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Lenin was the first to promise and carry out this form of conflict.

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Class warfare

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Collectivization was enforced most ruthlessly against which group?

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Kulaks

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Lenin’s economic policy was called?

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New Economic Policy

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Stalin’s ambitious plan for rapid economic development was called?

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First Five-Year Plan

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This ideology invoked the primacy of the state and demanded subordination of the individual.

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Fascism

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Fascist movements emphasized a belligerent form of nationalism called?

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Chauvinism

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Exaggerated racism and fear of foreign peoples is called?

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Xenophobia

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In 1929, the Vatican signed this, which guaranteed full sovereignty to the pope.

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Fourth Lateran Treaty

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This weak young democracy left many Germans doubtful about democracy.

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Weimar Republic

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The party that made its first major appearance in 1923 during the Beer-Hall Putsch was called?

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Nationalist Socialist German Worker’s Party (Nazi Party)

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What was the event on 30 June 1934, when Hitler’s political opponents were arrested or killed?

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Night of the Long Knives

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When German leader von Hindenburg died in August 1934, Hitler proclaimed himself Führer and declared this new regime?

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Third Reich

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This organization was established under Hermann Goering to ferret out enemies of the state.

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Gestapo

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Lenin’s death led to a power struggle for control of this political party in the new Soviet state.

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Communist Party

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The frontrunner in the contest for control of the Communist Party was?

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Leon Trotsky

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Who was the challenger who had the advantage of being Secretary General of the Communist Party in 1922?

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Josef Stalin

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The execution of Trotsky led to the initiation of these purges to eliminate potential rivals and opposition figures.
Show Trials
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Under Stalin’s constitution, this Council was appointed by the Supreme Soviet.
Council of the People’s Commissars
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In the USSR, the Central Committee constituted the party’s executive and constitutional authority known as?
Politburo
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In 1928, Stalin abandoned Lenin’s NEP and decreed this series of economic plans.
Five-Year Plans
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A brutal revolution overtook Soviet agriculture as these peasants came under fire.
Kulaks
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This forced act of seizing agriculture caused famine in Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
Collectivization
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The assassination of this heir to the Austrian Throne led to WWI.
Francis Ferdinand
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Austrian investigators linked the assassination of the Austrian heir to a terrorist group called?
Black Hand
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This Serbian nationalist went to Sarajevo intending to assassinate the Austrian heir.
Gavrilo Princip
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Germany’s confidence in a short war was based on a plan devised by this man.
Alfred von Schlieffen
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Who ordered the Russian army to mobilize?
Nicholas II
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The German war plan called for Germans to pass through this neutral country to hit France.
Belgium
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By September 1914, the British and French successfully fought off the Germans at this location.
Marne River
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Millions fought in trenches that stretched from the North Sea through Belgium and northern France to Switzerland. This was called the?
Western Front
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A coalition of Britain, France, and Russia was called the?
Allies (or Allied Powers)
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The coalition of Germany, Austria, and the Ottomans was called the?
Central Powers
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The First World War was called this by those who experienced it.
Great War
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On January 18, 1915, the Japanese presented the Chinese government with a secret document called?
Twenty-One Demands
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In Russia, the war amplified existing stresses to such an extent that this dynasty was forced to abdicate.
Romanov
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The tsar was forced to abdicate in favor of this government in 1917.
Provisional Government
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In May 1915, this British passenger ship was sunk, killing 124 Americans.
Lusitania
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On 25 Feb., 1917, British authorities sent this famous telegram to Wilson.
Zimmerman Telegram
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To fend off criticism, the US stirred up patriotic fever and created this propaganda organization in 1917.
Committee on Public Information
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In this document, President Wilson called for 'a free, open-minded and absolutely impartial adjustment of colonial claims'.
Fourteen Points
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This document consisted of five individual treaties that redrew European boundaries.
Peace of Paris
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The centerpiece of the Peace was the Treaty of Versailles, which included the 'war guilt clause' known as?
Article 231
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During Hitler’s first years in power, he passed this legislation, which suspended the constitution for four years.
Enabling Act
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In early 1936, Hitler sent troops into this supposed demilitarized zone in violation of treaty terms.
Rhineland
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In March 1938, Germany annexed Austria in a move referred to as?
Anschluss
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War was narrowly averted by this agreement between Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier, and Neville Chamberlain.
Munich Pact
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The signed agreement mentioned in the Munich Pact stated that Germany would annex only this territory.
Sudetenland
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Six months after signing the appeasement agreement, Hitler sent troops into the rest of this nation-state.
Czechoslovakia
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In 1939, Italy and Germany signed this, which established strong links between them.
Pact of Steel
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In 1939, this agreement between Hitler and Stalin guaranteed neutrality.
Nazi-Soviet Pact (or Non-Aggression Pact)
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The invasion on 1 Sept. 1939 of this nation changed everything, prompting Britain and France to declare war on Germany.
Poland
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The Soviet Union and Germany employed this tactic of lightening strikes from all sides.
Blitzkrieg
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France believed they were protected from German invasion by this.
Maginot Line
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Some French people fought on under the leadership of this man who headed the French Resistance.
Charles de Gaulle
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When Paris fell, Marshall Pétain formed this new government to accept defeat.
Vichy
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In this famous attack, up to 1,000 German planes attacked British airfields and factories in a single day.
Battle of Britain
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The development of this warning system helped Britain anticipate German planes.
Radar
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On this infamous night, spontaneous riots against Jews broke out causing destruction of Jewish shops.
Kristallnacht
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When German armies arrived in the Soviet Union in 1941, the Nazis dispatched these troops to kill entire populations.
Action Squads (Einsatzgruppen)
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At this meeting held in January 1942, leading Nazi bureaucrats discussed the implementation of the final solution.
Wannsee Conference
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Who signed a concordat with Adolf Hitler in 1933, allowing Catholics to practice freely in Germany?
Pope Pius XII
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These trials of Nazi war criminals came at the end of the war and formed the first International military tribunal.
Nuremberg Trials

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