Mr. Fenlon
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| 354467596 | What group succeeded the initial revolutionary government of Russia? | Bolsheviks | 0 | |
| 354467597 | Who were the Cristeros? | conservative peasant movement in Mexico (1920s, tried to stop secularism) | 1 | |
| 354467598 | Who was the leader of the Russian government after the March Revolution? | Kerensky | 2 | |
| 354467599 | What is a soviet? | council of workers (took over city government and arrested the tsar's ministers, ending imperial rule) | 3 | |
| 354467600 | In which city did the Russian Revolution begin in 1917? | St. Petersburg | 4 | |
| 354467601 | At the end of WWI, what nation was the dominant foreign power in Latin America? | the United States | 5 | |
| 354467602 | What region of Europe produced the crisis that led to WWI? | Balkans | 6 | |
| 354467603 | What major nation was not a member of the UN? | China | 7 | |
| 354467604 | What 2 European powers were directly involved in the Balkan diplomacy? | Russia backed Serbia, Germany backed Austria-Hungary | 8 | |
| 354467605 | In which country did the Allies land in 1944 to open a 2nd front against the Germans? | France (Normandy) | 9 | |
| 354467606 | What led to Britain's victory in the Battle of Britain? | (strong leadership by Churchill and coalition cabinet) innovative air tactics, radar tracking | 10 | |
| 354467607 | What precipitated Japan's surrender? | atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | 11 | |
| 354467608 | The Chinese Nationalist Party received early foreign assistance from which country? | Soviet Union (helped the Whampoa Military Academy) | 12 | |
| 354467609 | What was the initial goal of the May Fourth movement? | (transform China into) liberal democracy | 13 | |
| 354467610 | What resulted from Stalin's agricultural policies? | decrease in food production, famine for farmers, because the government took their grain to feed the factory workers | 14 | |
| 354467611 | What is a kulak? | prosperous landed peasant (in Russia) | 15 | |
| 354467612 | Where was the center of the Communist Party in China 1934-1940s? | Shanxi (in northwest China) | 16 | |
| 354467613 | After the death of Sun Yatsen's death, who seized control? | Chiang Kai-Shek (and warlord allies) | 17 | |
| 354467614 | What nation profited the most by warfare in Asia 1914-1919? | Japan | 18 | |
| 354467615 | What events led to the outbreak of WWI? | a Serbian nationalist assassinated Archduke Ferdinand (the Austro-Hungarian heir) | 19 | |
| 354467616 | What made WWI a global event? | Great Britain, France, and Germany (colonial powers) brought their allies and colonies into the fight | 20 | |
| 354467617 | By 1915, how would you describe the fighting on the Western Front? | stalemate (trench warfare and horrendous casualties) | 21 | |
| 354467618 | In what year did the German forces on the Western Front agree to end the fighting? | 1918 | 22 | |
| 354467619 | Approximately how many people died as a result of WWI? | 10 million | 23 | |
| 354467620 | What promises did Hitler make to the people of Germany? | employment, political stability, remilitarization, turn back Soviet Union communists, get rid of Versailles restrictions | 24 | |
| 354467621 | What was the name of Stalin's agricultural policy? | collectivization | 25 | |
| 354467622 | WWII began in what year? | 1939 | 26 | |
| 354467623 | What countries were members of the Axis powers? | Germany, Italy, and Japan | 27 | |
| 354467624 | Of which party was Hitler the leader? | National Socialist (Nazi) | 28 | |
| 354467625 | Which country did the Japanese march into in 1931, declaring it an independent state? | Manchuria | 29 | |
| 354467626 | In 1942, the Nazi high command finalized the destruction of the Jewish race in what city? | Wannsee | 30 | |
| 354467627 | With whom did Hitler sign a non-aggression pact in 1939? | Soviet Union | 31 | |
| 354467628 | What country supported Spain's republicans during the Spanish Civil War? | Soviet Union | 32 | |
| 354467629 | Who was the leader of fascist Italy? | Benito Mussolini | 33 | |
| 354467630 | What artistic style was the official preference under Stalin? | socialist realism | 34 | |
| 354467631 | What was the name of the Nazi puppet government in France? | Vichy | 35 | |
| 354467632 | Where was Israel to be established in 1948? | Palestine | 36 | |
| 354467633 | What year did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor? | 1941 | 37 | |
| 354467636 | What contributed to the fall of France to the Germans in WWII? | weak, divided leadership (of the republic) and blitzkrieg | 38 | |
| 354467638 | Where did President Roosevelt meet with the other major allies in 1945? | Yalta Conference in Soviet Crimea | 39 | |
| 354467640 | In what nation were white settlers able to retain their position of supremacy in Africa? | South Africa | 40 | |
| 354467642 | What institution was created as a result of WWII? | the United Nations | 41 | |
| 354467644 | The German invasion in 1941 of which country shifted the balance of power in Europe? | Soviet Union | 42 | |
| 354467647 | By which decade had the European colonization of most of black Africa come to an end? | 1960s | 43 | |
| 354467649 | Which battle was Hitler's last ditch effort to repel the Allied armies? | Battle of the Bulge | 44 | |
| 354467651 | When did the Mexican Revolution begin? | 1910 | 45 | |
| 354467653 | What allowed the German armies to move quickly in WWI to overwhelm the French/Belgians? | railways | 46 | |
| 354467655 | What foreign power was a major factor in Chinese domestic history from the mid-1880s to 1945? | Japan | 47 | |
| 354467657 | By the mid-1920s, how could western Europe best be described economically? | improving, but not regaining dominance | 48 | |
| 354467659 | Women in both wars contributed this way regarding labor: | factory jobs | 49 |
