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Who did China’s peasants align themselves with in the 1920s?

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Communists

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Which territories were lost under the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?

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  • Finland
  • Estonia
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Poland
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What was the result of China having a nationalist government recognized by the world but a Communist party growing in the countryside?

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Civil War broke out between the two groups

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Which of the following was true of Germany, Italy, and Japan during the early 1930s?

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All three successfully invaded

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What effect did World War 1 have on the literature of the 1920s?

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Writers expressed disillusionment about reason and progress

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What did Sun Yixian’s Revolutionary Alliance accomplish?

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Overthrowing the last emperor

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Under the Treaty of Versailles, to whom did the allies give Chinese territories that had previously been controlled by Germany?

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Japan

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After World War 1, most European nations had what type of government, if only temporarily?

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Democratic

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What was the policy of appeasement?

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The British and French decision to give into aggression to keep peace

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What were soviets under Russia’s Provisional government?

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Local councils

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Approximately how many miles apart are Petrograd and Moscow?

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650

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How was the result of the Nationalist movement in Saudi Arabia different from the results in Turkey and Iran?

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Turkey and Iran pursued modernization more than Saudi Arabia did

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What term was used to identify the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan?

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Axis Powers

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What effect did the Dawes Plan have on the economy of postwar Germany?

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It saved Germany from an inflationary crisis and stabilized the economy

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Who led the famous protest known as the Salt March?

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Mohandas K. Gandhi

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Which leader was responsible for the Great Purge and what group was victimized by it?

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Stalin, members of the Communist Party

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What was one part of Roosevelt’s New Deal program to fight the depression?

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Large public works projects helped to provide jobs

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In what key way are all of the shaded countries and regions related?

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They were taken over by Nazi Germany

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What effect did the nonaggression pact between the Nazis and the Soviets have on the balance of power in Europe?

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It allowed the Axis Powers to continue unchecked

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Who seized power from Persia’s Shah and changed the name of his country to Iran?

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Reza Shah Pahlavi

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How did the Russo-Japanese War show the czar’s weakness?

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News of repeated losses sparked unrest and led to revolt during the war

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What were Franz Kafka, James Joyce, and F. Scott Fitzgerald all known for being?

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What did Germany do to the Rhineland?

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The Rhineland was remilitarized by Germany

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Which of the following does Fascism stress?

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Who were the Bolsheviks?
Radical Russian Marxist revolutionaries
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According to the map, how many Bolshevik uprisings took place between 1905 and 1917?
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How did the May Fourth Movement influence the formation of a Communist Party in China?
Planted the seeds of communist ideology within the minds of intellectuals, established the disillusionment of the Chinese people in the government, and turned the people against Sun Yixian’s beliefs in Western democracy
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Which German political party sought to overturn the Treaty of Versailles and combat communism?
Nazi
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Which of the following is not an art movement from the early 20th century?
Existentialism
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What is a totalitarian state?
A state in which the government controls every aspect of public and private life
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Which bodies of water were used by the White Army and their allies?
* Barents Sea * Black Sea
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What led Great Britain finally to grant India limited self-rule?
Continuous campaigns of civil disobedience by Indians
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What was the goal of U.S. isolationists after World War 1?
That political ties to other countries should be avoided
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In the late 1920s, which of the following did not damage the U.S. economy?
A shortage of workers
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What did the pogroms do that occurred in the late 19th century?
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In or near which city did the westernmost Civil War battle take place?
Brest-Litovsk
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Which revolutions were started under Stalin’s rule as a means to improve the Soviet Union’s economy?
* Industrial Revolution * Agricultural Revolution
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Il Duce was the title of which of the following leaders?
Benito Mussolini
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What is a main idea of the philosophy known as existentialism?
That one should find his or her own meaning in life
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Which group was known for taking a 6,000-mile journey known as the 'Long March'?
Chinese Communists fleeing the Nationalists
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Which of the following did not happen as an immediate result of the Bolshevik Revolution?
A totalitarian state was established
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What event marked the beginning of the Great Depression?
The stock market crash of 1929
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What happened to the rest of Czechoslovakia?
It was annexed to Germany in 1939
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Why did Japan invade Manchuria?
To gain its iron ore and coal deposits
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What was the purpose of the Soviet state’s Five-Year Plan?
Economic development
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How did Czar Alexander III and Nicholas II deal with calls for reform?
They resisted all efforts for reform
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Whose theory of relativity replaced Newton’s comforting belief in a world run by absolute laws of motion and gravity?
Albert Einstein
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Which country did Germany conquer in September 1939?
Poland
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What caused Germans to start taking Adolf Hitler and his message seriously?
The economic crisis brought on by the Depression
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What caused Germans To Start Taking Adolf Hitler and his message seriously?
The economic crisis brought on by the Depression

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