Unit 5 review

Question 1

Rasputin

Answer 1

Rasputin was an illiterate peasant that self proclaimed himself a “holy man”. The tsarina came to him hoping that he could help her son.

Question 2

Nicholas II

Answer 2

Nicholas II was the last czar of Russia.

Question 3

Lenin

Answer 3

Lenin promised to pull Russian troops out of World War I, and he became the first communist president.

Question 4

Bolsheviks

Answer 4

Bolsheviks were the communist group that took over Russia after the civil war.

Question 5

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Answer 5

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ended Russian participation in World War I.

Question 6

Gandhi

Answer 6

Gandhi launched several nonviolent actions against British rule.

Question 7

Boycott

Answer 7

Boycott is to withdraw from an event, commercial, or social relations as a punishment or a protest.

Question 8

Flappers

Answer 8

Flappers were young women that rejected old ways in favor of new exciting freedom.

Question 9

Pablo Picasso

Answer 9

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor. He is known as one of the best artists of all time.

Question 10

5 Years Plan

Answer 10

The 5 years plan was a plan to increase industrial output and agricultural output.

Question 11

Kulaks

Answer 11

Kulaks were peasants that worked on the huge farms.

Question 12

Chancellor

Answer 12

Chancellor was the title held by the prime minister.

Question 13

Albert Einstein

Answer 13

Albert Einstein was best known for being one of the greatest physicists of all time and saying E=Mc squared.

Question 14

Sigmund Freud

Answer 14

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian physician who challenged faith in reason.

Question 15

Charles Lindbergh

Answer 15

Charles Lindbergh was an American aviator who is best known for flying across the Atlantic Ocean in his monoplane, Spirit of St. louis.

Question 16

Weimar Republic

Answer 16

The Weimar Republic signed the Treaty of Versailles.

Question 17

Margin

Answer 17

Margin is buying stocks for 20% of their value.

Question 18

Great Depression

Answer 18

The Great Depression was a financial panic that started with the stock market crash in the United States, banks closed, under consumption, overproduction, and uneven distribution of wealth.

Question 19

Collectivization

Answer 19

Collectivization is the forcible consolidation of peasant farmers into large state controlled farms.

Question 20

Model T

Answer 20

Model T was one of the most bought cars in the United States that was made using assembly lines and giving many people jobs.

Question 21

The New Deal

Answer 21

The new deal was Theodore Roosevelt’s slogan when he ran for president.

Question 22

Untouchables

Answer 22

Untouchables were people of the lowest class, who did the dirtiest work for a very low pay.

Question 23

Kellog Briand-Pact

Answer 23

Kellog Briand-Pact said that no country could threaten war.

Question 24

John Keynes

Answer 24

John Keynes was a British economist who denounced the Treaty of Versailles.

Question 25

Business Cycle

Answer 25

Business cycle was expansion, peak, contraction, and trough.

Question 26

Benito Mussolini

Answer 26

Benito Mussolini was the dictator of Italy, that lead them to join the Nazis in World War II.

Question 27

Adolf Hitler

Answer 27

Adolf Hitler was a World War I veteran and the leader of the Nazis.

Question 28

Gulag

Answer 28

Gulag was a system of labor camps in Russia.

Question 29

Dada Art

Answer 29

Dada was a type of art that rejected all traditional conventions and believed that there was no sense or truth in the world.

Question 30

Overproduction

Answer 30

Overproduction was the production of goods that exceeded the demand for them.

Question 31

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 31

The Nuremberg Laws said that Jews were deprived of German citizenship Jews must wear the yellow star of David as identification

Question 32

Kristallnacht

Answer 32

The Kristallnacht is when Nazi mobs destroyed Jewish homes and businesses and beat up Jews.

Question 33

Fascism

Answer 33

A political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of rights and a dictatorial one-party rule.

Question 34

Atheism

Answer 34

Atheism is not believing God.

Question 35

Mein Kampf

Answer 35

Mein Kampf (My struggle) was a book written when Adolf Hitler was in prison.

Question 36

Venustainia Caranza

Answer 36

Venustainia Caranza was the first elected president in Mexico.

Question 37

Pan-Africanism

Answer 37

Pan-Africanism emphasized unity and strength of Africans.

Question 38

Enabling act

Answer 38

Enabling act was the law that gave Hitler dictatorial rule.

Question 39

Provisional Government

Answer 39

The Provisional Government was a temporary government in Russia that stayed in World War I.

Question 40

Surrealism

Answer 40

Surrealism is an attempt to portray the working of the unconscious mind.

Question 41

Good Neighbor Policy

Answer 41

Good Neighbor was FDR’s promise that the U.S will interfere less with Latin America.

Question 42

Third Reich

Answer 42

Third Reich was the name for Hitler’s Empire.

Question 43

Speakeasies

Answer 43

Speakeasies were illegal underground bars.

Question 44

Ruhr Valley

Answer 44

Ruhr Valley was the area France and Belgium entered with troops to take Germany’s things.