Unit 7 (1900-Pres.)

Question 1

Tsar Nicholas II

Answer 1

A corrupt Russian leader who let people starve while he lived in luxury

Question 2

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 2

Russian leader who first brought communism to Russia

Question 3

Sun Yat-Sen

Answer 3

Chinese revolutionary who helped overthrow the Qing Dynasty and establish the Chinese Nationalist Party which drew power from the cities and competed with the communists for power

Question 4

Mustafa Kemal

Answer 4

Led a revolution in Turkey to drive out the Europeans

Question 5

Porfirio Diaz

Answer 5

A Mexican dictator who was disliked for how he supported economic imperialism and allowed foreign countries to have influence. He arrested a political opponent named Madero, starting the Mexican Revolution

Question 6

Francisco Madero

Answer 6

A political opponent to Porfirio Diaz who won and established the PRI and a constitution that focused on land redistribution, universal suffrage, and public education

Question 7

Joseph Stalin

Answer 7

Killed many Ukrainians en masse in his attempt to industrialize Russia by collectivizing farms and selling most of their crops however this led to widespread famines not only in Ukraine but in Russia as well

Question 8

Frank D Roosevelt

Answer 8

President of the US during the Great Depression

Question 9

Ghandi

Answer 9

An Indian who led peaceful rebellions in India against British imperialism such as the Salt March (they weren’t allowed to make their own salt so they walked down to the beach and picked some up)

Question 10

Russian Revolution

Answer 10

Caused by corrupt government rule, terrible working conditions, humiliation in the Russo-Japanse War, and high costs from WWI and led to the collapse of the Russian Empire

Question 11

Taiping Rebellion

Answer 11

A revolt led by Hong Xiuquan and caused by foreign wars (Boxer Rebellion, Opium Wars…) weakening China, leading to the end of the Qing Dynasty

Question 12

Mexican Revolution

Answer 12

A revolt against the corrupt leader Porfirio Diaz leading to Francisco Madero coming into power with new reforms like land redistribution, universal suffrage, and public education.

Question 13

MANIA

Answer 13

Military, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; causes of WWII

Question 14

Mandates

Answer 14

States under European control who were promised independence if they proved they could govern themselves

Question 15

Poland

Answer 15

A new country made out of the fall of the Ottoman Empire

Question 16

Ottoman Empire

Answer 16

A Shia gunpowder empire from the 1450-1750s that collapsed after WWI because they failed to industrialize and could not manage the vast groups of people and amount of land they had

Question 17

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 17

Signed at the end of WWI and put all the blame on Germany

Question 18

Five Year Plan

Answer 18

Stalin’s attempts to industrialize by setting five year economic production plans that workers had to meet

Question 19

Gulag

Answer 19

Prisons in Russia

Question 20

Collectivization

Answer 20

Making all farmland a collective for everyone to use rather than it being privately owned

Question 21

New Deal

Answer 21

FDR’s way of getting out of the Great Depression by solving the problem (by spending money to help things getting moving in the economy again), helping those in need, and making sure it never happened again

Question 22

Facism

Answer 22

A political system that emphasizes nationalism, militarism, imperial expansion, totalitarianism (complete control over all aspects of society), and corporatism

Question 23

Corporatism

Answer 23

An economic system where businesses are privately owned by the state controls what they make

Question 24

PRI Party

Answer 24

Francisco Madero’s Institutional Revolutionary Party which continued for decades

Question 25

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Answer 25

An imperialist plan by Japan to conquer China, Korea, and the Phillippines by force

Question 26

INC

Answer 26

The Indian National Congress, led by Gandhi that fought for equal rights and independence

Question 27

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 27

Laws that discriminated against Jewish people

Question 28

Atomic Bomb

Answer 28

A piece of total-war technology first developed and used in the US on Japan to get them to surrender at the end of WWII

Question 29

Propaganda

Answer 29

Sources of information that make people feel a certain way towards something like a group of people or political ideology.

Question 30

Total Warfare

Answer 30

When a nation’s domestic and militaristic populations are both devoted to helping win a war through rations, help in the factory, and more.

Question 31

Armenian Genocide

Answer 31

The Ottomans believed that Christian Armenians were helping the Russians, leading to millions of them dying or fleeing the country

Question 32

Famine in Ukraine

Answer 32

Ukrainian peasants resisted collectivization set by Stalin by killing livestock and burning crops but lead to the deaths of millions

Question 33

Rape of Nanking

Answer 33

The capital of China was invaded by Japanese soldiers who raped or killed thousands of Chinese

Question 34

The Holocaust

Answer 34

The mass genocide of Jews and later anyone who opposed Hitler in Germany who tried to create a total nationalistic and fascist country

Question 35

Bosnian Genocide

Answer 35

Thousands died after a Serb leader wanted a small division of Yugoslavia after the Soviet Union fell to be cleaned of all Muslims

Question 36

Rwandan Genocide

Answer 36

A conflict between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups over control and blame for the death of the Hutu president

Question 37

Sudan and Darfur

Answer 37

The Darfur were non-Arab Jews who wanted self-rule and when they revolted, the Sudan attacked

Question 38

Janaweed

Answer 38

Arab-Sudanese who were sent to kill people in Darfur