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What is government relief for the unemployed in Britain called?

dole

What term is used for organized government massacres in Russia?

pogroms

Which monk became an advisor to the Russian royal family?

Rasputin

Who followed Lenin as dictator of Russia?
Joseph Stalin


What was the murdering of thousands of


Communist party members under Stalin known as?


purges
What was the variety of fascism?

Nazism
What title did Mussolini give himself?

II Duce

Who is sometimes considered the father of modern music?

Igor Stravinsky

led the Popular Front- a coalition of French parties

Blum

U.S. president who received most of the blame for the Depression

Hoover

elected president in 1932

Roosevelt

supported the Russian progroms

Alexander III

Menshevik leader of the provisional government

Kerensky

led the SS and the Gestapo

Himmler

led the Red Army during the civil war

Trotsky

conducted a Reign of Terror to purge his party of disloyal members

Stalin

signed the Lateran Treaties with the Vatican

Mussolini

Four-Year-Plan

Hitler

Ramsay McDonald

Britain
Maginot Line

France

Bloody Sunday

Russia

Fascism

Italy

Weimer Republic

Germany

Louis Sullivan

United States

The Statute of Westminister (1931) established

a British Commonwealth of Nations.
During the period between the First and Second World Wars, France faced all of the following problems except

industrial unemployment worse than that of any other European country.
What occurred in October 1929?

The stock market crashed.


The New Deal attempted to provide all of the


following except


subsidized health care for the average American.
The Russian czar Alexander III wished to do all of the following except

help exiled Bolsheviks return to their homeland.

Which of the following was not a prelude to the revolution in Russia?

New Economic Policy
Lenin's takeover of the Russian government was the result of all of the following except the

assassination of Nicholas II.

Lenin's demand that Russian peasants turn over their surplus crops to the state was called

war communism

The New Economic Policy may best be described as

a temporary retreat from communism in order to rescue the Russian economy

The Comintern was organized to

found Communist parties in other countries


Which of the following was not a cause for


Mussolini's coming to power in Italy?


The Italians were bitter about the "war guilt" clause in the Treaty of Versailles.
Mussolini's attempt to make Italy economically self-sufficient was called

autarky

Mussolini concluded the Lateran Treaties with

the Roman Catholic Church

The Reichstag was formed to


provide a legislative body in the Weimer


Republic

Which of the following is not associated with Hitler?

stormtroopers
Which of the following was a twentieth-century art movement?

cubism

Frank Lloyd Wright was an American

architect


"The Waste Land" was written by

T.S. Eliot


True/False


Although the Irish Free State was created in 1921, Northern Ireland remained under British control.


T/F?

Although France became economically unstable following World War I, it was able to gain political stability.


T/F?

After World War I, most Americans wanted to continue a policy of world involvement.


T/F?


The Mensheviks were considered a radical


political group with revolutionary ideas.



T/F?
Nikolai Lenin did not follow the teachings of Karl Marx in all points.

T/F?


The abandonment of capitalist principles by


Lenin in Russia saved the failing communistic


economy.



T/F?

The Lateran Treaties established a small


independent state known as Vatican City and placed it under the pope's control.


T/F?

Hitler became dictator of Germany when the Nazi party won a majority in the Reichstag.



T/F?


Essays:


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.

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.