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52 Cards in this Set
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What is government relief for the unemployed in Britain called?
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dole |
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What term is used for organized government massacres in Russia? |
pogroms |
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Which monk became an advisor to the Russian royal family? |
Rasputin |
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Who followed Lenin as dictator of Russia? |
Joseph Stalin
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Communist party members under Stalin known as? |
purges |
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What was the variety of fascism?
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Nazism |
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What title did Mussolini give himself?
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II Duce |
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Who is sometimes considered the father of modern music? |
Igor Stravinsky |
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led the Popular Front- a coalition of French parties |
Blum |
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U.S. president who received most of the blame for the Depression |
Hoover |
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elected president in 1932 |
Roosevelt |
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supported the Russian progroms |
Alexander III |
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Menshevik leader of the provisional government |
Kerensky |
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led the SS and the Gestapo |
Himmler |
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led the Red Army during the civil war |
Trotsky |
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conducted a Reign of Terror to purge his party of disloyal members |
Stalin |
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signed the Lateran Treaties with the Vatican |
Mussolini |
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Four-Year-Plan |
Hitler |
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Ramsay McDonald |
Britain |
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Maginot Line
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France |
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Bloody Sunday |
Russia |
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Fascism |
Italy |
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Weimer Republic |
Germany |
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Louis Sullivan |
United States |
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The Statute of Westminister (1931) established |
a British Commonwealth of Nations. |
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During the period between the First and Second World Wars, France faced all of the following problems except
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industrial unemployment worse than that of any other European country. |
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What occurred in October 1929?
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The stock market crashed. |
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following except |
subsidized health care for the average American. |
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The Russian czar Alexander III wished to do all of the following except
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help exiled Bolsheviks return to their homeland. |
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Which of the following was not a prelude to the revolution in Russia? |
New Economic Policy |
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Lenin's takeover of the Russian government was the result of all of the following except the
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assassination of Nicholas II. |
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Lenin's demand that Russian peasants turn over their surplus crops to the state was called |
war communism |
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The New Economic Policy may best be described as |
a temporary retreat from communism in order to rescue the Russian economy |
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The Comintern was organized to |
found Communist parties in other countries |
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Mussolini's coming to power in Italy? |
The Italians were bitter about the "war guilt" clause in the Treaty of Versailles. |
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Mussolini's attempt to make Italy economically self-sufficient was called
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autarky |
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Mussolini concluded the Lateran Treaties with |
the Roman Catholic Church |
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The Reichstag was formed to |
Republic |
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Which of the following is not associated with Hitler?
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stormtroopers |
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Which of the following was a twentieth-century art movement?
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cubism |
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Frank Lloyd Wright was an American |
architect |
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"The Waste Land" was written by |
T.S. Eliot |
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Although the Irish Free State was created in 1921, Northern Ireland remained under British control. |
T/F? |
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Although France became economically unstable following World War I, it was able to gain political stability. |
T/F? |
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After World War I, most Americans wanted to continue a policy of world involvement. |
T/F? |
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political group with revolutionary ideas. |
T/F? |
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Nikolai Lenin did not follow the teachings of Karl Marx in all points.
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T/F? |
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Lenin in Russia saved the failing communistic economy. |
T/F? |
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The Lateran Treaties established a small independent state known as Vatican City and placed it under the pope's control. |
T/F? |
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Hitler became dictator of Germany when the Nazi party won a majority in the Reichstag. |
T/F? |
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List four of the general characteristic shared by a totalitarian state. |
List four of the factors that assisted Hitler's amazing rise to power in Germany. |
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Map Labels: Germany, Black Sea, Italy, Madrid, USSR, Rome, Spain, Mediterranean Sea, Great Britain, Berlin, Albania, Atlantic Ocean, Czechoslovakia, Baltic Sea, Poland, Moscow, France, and North Sea. |
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