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151
History
10th Grade
06/08/2009

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Term
When Stalin becomes leader of the Soviet Union, who does he replace?
Definition
Lenin
Term
Who was head of the red army?
Definition
Trotsky
Term
What is the name of the government building in Moscow?
Definition
Kremlin
Term
What was the name for Stalin's plan for agriculture?
Definition
Collective Farming
Term
Who were the resisters when Stalin forced people off of their farms called?
Definition
Kulaks
Term
What were the names of the prisons in the Soviet Union?
Definition
Gulags
Term
Who were the big three at the Yalta Conference?
Definition
Stalin, Churchill, and FDR
Term
In China, who was the leader and originator of the Nationalist party?
Definition
Sun
Term
Who was another main Nationalist leader in China?
Definition
Jiang Jiashi
Term
Who led the Communist party and Red China?
Definition
Mao Zedong
Term
What was China's five year plan called?
Definition
The Great Leap Forward
Term
What was the movement called in the 1960's in China?
Definition
The Cultural Revolution
Term
Jiang Jiashi and Mao Zedong combined their armies to keep who out of China?
Definition
Japan
Term
Where did the Japanese first attack when they invaded China?
Definition
Manchuria
Term
What was the movement called when people chased the Communists out of China?
Definition
The Long March
Term
Who was in charge during China's Cultural Revolution?
Definition
Mao Zedong and the Red Guard
Term
Who was the head of the Muslim league during Ghandi's time?
Definition
Jinnah
Term
Jinnah becomes the leader of what country during Ghandi's life?
Definition
Pakistan
Term
Where did Ghandi go to practice law?
Definition
South Africa
Term
What is the actual name for East Pakistan?
Definition
Bangledash
Term
What was the official name of the segregation laws in South Africa?
Definition
Apartheid
Term
What was Ghandi labeled as in South America?
Definition
Colored
Term
What is the technical name for the Hindu communities Ghandi created?
Definition
Ashram
Term
What did not exist in the Ashrams that existed in India and South America?
Definition
Caste Systems
Term
What did Ghandi dress as?
Definition
An Untouchable
Term
What is the holy river of India?
Definition
The Ganges
Term
What kind of person assassinated Ghandi?
Definition
A Hindu
Term
Who was the prime minister of India when Ghandi lived?
Definition
Nehru
Term
Who was the British general that ordered the attack at the massacre of Amristar?
Definition
General Dire
Term
Who was the American President during WWI?
Definition
Woodrow Wilson
Term
What was the US's policy during WWI?
Definition
Isolationism
Term
What was the name of Wilson's plan for the world?
Definition
The 14 Points
Term
What was one of the major points in the 14 Points?
Definition
Self Determination
Term
What was Germany's Policy during WWI, especially in the seas?
Definition
Unrestricted Warfare
Term
What US passenger ship did Germany sink?
Definition
The Lucitania
Term
What was the name of the note from Germany to Mexico that was intercepted by the Brittish?
Definition
The Zimmerman Note
Term
The Serbian organization, the Black Hand, assassinated who? Where?
Definition
Arch Duke Ferdinand, Sarajevo
Term
Who was the Russian leader during WWI?
Definition
Czar Nicholas II
Term
Who did Germany smuggle into Russia during WWI?
Definition
Lenin
Term
What was the name of Germany's attack plan during WWI?
Definition
The Von Schleiffen Plan
Term
What countries consisted of the Triple Entente?
Definition
Italy, France, Britain
Term
What countries consisted of the Triple Alliance?
Definition
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
Term
What was a neutral country that was invaded during WWI?
Definition
Belgium
Term
What was the Battle that saved Paris from the Germans?
Definition
The Somme
Term
What was the most popular style of warfare during WWI?
Definition
Trench Warfare
Term
What weapons were new in WWI?
Definition
Submarine, Airplane, Machine Gun, Poison Gas
Term
What is the term that means an entire country is devoted to war?
Definition
Total War
Term
What were airplanes mostly used for during WWI?
Definition
Surveillance
Term
What is the name of the battle in the Ottoman Empire?
Definition
Galipolee
Term
What was the name of the British officer in Egypt?
Definition
T.E. Lawrence
Term
Where was the WWI armistace signed by the Germans?
Definition
France
Term
Who were the main three at the making of the Treaty of Versaille?
Definition
Lloyd George, Clemenseau, Orlando
Term
What did Germany have to pay to the Triple Entente?
Definition
Reparations
Term
Where was the "buffer zone" located after WWI?
Definition
Between France and the Rhine RIver
Term
What was the German area that they had to give back to France?
Definition
Au Sans Lorraine
Term
What is the name of the area that had a lot of coal during WWI?
Definition
Saar Basin
Term
What is the name of the period between WWI and WWII?
Definition
The Lost Generation
Term
What were Italian Fascists called?
Definition
Black Shirts
Term
What were German Fascists called?
Definition
Brown Shirts
Term
Who led the Black Shirts?
Definition
Mussolini
Term
Where was Hitler jailed? What book did he write there?
Definition
Munich, Mein Kampf
Term
What was the German policy for living space?
Definition
Lebensraum
Term
Where was Germany interested in gaining farm land?
Definition
Russia
Term
What was the name of the American General who was famous for Island Hopping?
Definition
McArthur
Term
What were the two free African countries after the Berlin Conference?
Definition
Ethiopia, Liberia
Term
Who invaded Ethiopia?
Definition
Mussolini and Italy
Term
Who were the two groups in South Africa before England?
Definition
Dutch, Zulus
Term
What is the name of the Economic Policy pursued by Britain with their colonies?
Definition
Mercantilism
Term
What did Europe divide China into? What was the American policy towards this?
Definition
Spheres of Influence, Open Door Policy
Term
What was the name of the Chinese war where the Chinese wanted to throw foreigners out?
Definition
The Boxer Rebellion
Term
What city was known as the "Powderkeg of Europe"?
Definition
Sarajevo
Term
What was the name of the conference that decided the future of Europe?
Definition
The Yalta Conference
Term
What are the names of the three African geographic areas?
Definition
Saharan, Sub-Saharan, Southern
Term
What area did D-Day liberate?
Definition
France
Term
Who were the Middle-Eastern winners of the Nobel Peace Prize?
Definition
Saddat and Begin
Term
What were the 4 areas that Israel won when in battle with their neighboring countries?
Definition
West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, Sinai Peninsula
Term
What are the two divisions of Islam? Which is the most popular except for in Iran?
Definition
Shia & Sunni
Sunni
Term
What philosophy includes the idea of Filial Piety?
Definition
Confucianism
Term
What is another term for Equilibrium Price?
Definition
Market Clearing Price
Term
What keeps prices low in Capitalism?
Definition
Competition
Term
What was the name of the Israel leader who signed the Camp David Agreement?
Definition
Begin
Term
Who was the leader of the Sandanistas?
Definition
Daniel Ortega
Term
Who were other leaders in Nicaragua besides Daniel Ortega?
Definition
Antonia Samoza, Violeta Chamorre
Term
What group did the US support?
Definition
The Contras
Term
Who was the president of Argentina during WWII?
Definition
Juan Peron
Term
What was the name for the uprising of Palestinians?
Definition
Intifada
Term
What is the name for Western Israel?
Definition
Gaza Strip
Term
Who was known as the George Washington of South America? Who did he force out of the lime light?
Definition
Simon Bolivar
Jose De San Martin
Term
Where do Less Developed Countries get money loans?
Definition
International Monetary Fund
Term
What was Hitler's plan to destroy the Jews called?
Definition
The Final Solution
Term
What was Hitler's fatal decision?
Definition
To invade the Soviet Union
Term
What was the Jewish State in Palestine?
Definition
The Zionist Movement
Term
Who gave Palestine to the Brittish?
Definition
The League of Nations
Term
What was Ghandi's demonstration to not buy British products?
Definition
The Salt March
Term
What was Dung Xao Ping's plan?
Definition
The Responsibility System
Term
What was the class of people that lead the Latin American Revolution?
Definition
Creoles
Term
Who is the current president of Venezuela?
Definition
Hugo Chavez
Term
What is the policy where a country takes over all foreign businesses in that country?
Definition
Nationalization
Term
What is the major political party in Mexico?
Definition
PRI
Term
What policy ended when Mandela was elected President of South Africa?
Definition
Apartheid
Term
What was JFK's unsuccessful attempt at Cuba?
Definition
Bay of Pigs
Term
Who was head of the Italian Fascist party?
Definition
Mussolini
Term
What historical event happened on June 6, 1944?
Definition
D-Day
Term
Who was the supreme ally commander at Normandy?
Definition
Eisenhower
Term
Who was the main British General during WWII?
Definition
Montgomery
Term
What is another name for a lengthy Recession?
Definition
Depression
Term
Who was the chinese leader when China was faced with the threats of Japan and Communism?
Definition
Jian Yi Shi
Term
Who attacked China on what is now called the Rape of Nanjiang?
Definition
Japan
Term
What was the American WWI policy?
Definition
Neutrality
Term
What event used every single kind of boat to save British soldiers from France?
Definition
Dunkirk
Term
What was the last dynasty in China?
Definition
Manchu
Term
What organization was chartered in San Francisco and then moved elsewhere?
Definition
United Nations
Term
What organization helped Mexico's Economy?
Definition
NAFTA
Term
What was the European equivalent for NAFTA?
Definition
European Union
Term
Who was the man that held Yugoslavia together until his death?
Definition
Tito
Term
Where is Darfur located?
Definition
Sudan
Term
The country of Eritrea broke away from what other country?
Definition
Ethiopia
Term
After FDR died, who succeeded him?
Definition
Truman
Term
Who was the President that fired General McArthur?
Definition
Truman
Term
What Korean beach did McArthur invade?
Definition
Inchan
Term
Who was the leader of Vietnam?
Definition
Ho Chi Min
Term
What book did Adam Smith write? What subject did it go over?
Definition
"Wealth of Nations"
Leizefaire Capitalism
Term
Where was the conference held when Europe carved up Africa?
Definition
Berlin
Term
What act ended WWI?
Definition
The Germans signing the Armistace.
Term
What problem are African Nations suffering from if they have economic problems? What was it caused by?
Definition
One Crop
Imperialism
Term
What country was Chavez in charge of?
Definition
Venezuela
Term
What country was Batista in charge of?
Definition
Cuba
Term
What country was ToJo and Hirohito in charge of?
Definition
Japan
Term
What country was Peron in charge of?
Definition
Argentina
Term
What country was Chamorro in charge of?
Definition
Nicaragua
Term
What country was Ortega in charge of?
Definition
Nicaragua
Term
What is Kuonmintang? Who was its leader?
Definition
China Nationalist Party
Sun
Term
What was the name of the airplane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima/Nagasaki? What kind of airplane was it? Where did it take off from?
Definition
Enola Gay
B29
Tinian
Term
Where are the holiest cities for Muslims found?
Definition
Saudi Arabia
Term
What country is considered the "mother of all religions"?
Definition
India
Term
Who was the first leader of Taiwan?
Definition
Jiang Jieshi
Term
What philosophy includes the 5 relationships? What is the first one?
Definition
Confucianism, Subject to Leader
Term
Who funds the international Monetary Fund (IMF)?
Definition
World Bank
Term
Where did the French surrender to the Germans in WWII?
Definition
Railroad Car
Term
What was the name of the building that was burned that Hitler blamed on the Communists?
Definition
Reichstag
Term
Where were large rallies held during WWII?
Definition
Nuremburg
Term
What was the name of the trials for war crimes after WWII? What was the number one defense?
Definition
Nuremberg Trials
Nuremberg Defense
Term
Who's idea was the Responsibility System?
Definition
Dung Xia Ping
Term
Who was the German general in Egypt during WWII?
Definition
"Desert Fox"
Rommel
Term
Who was the main British general in Egypt during WWII? What was the main battle in Egypt?
Definition
Montgomery
El Alamein
Term
What battle was Hitler's last ditch effort to win the war?
Definition
Battle of the Bulge
Term
What was Brazil's major economic problem?
Definition
Debt
Term
What was the line established by the French top block the Germans?
Definition
Majino Line
Term
What ship did the Japanese surrender on during WWII?
Definition
USS Missouri
Term
Who was the only friend of Spain to keep Franco from ruling?
Definition
Soviet Union
Term
Which organization keeps oil prices low?
Definition
OPEC
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