APWH Ch 28-30 Review Flashcards

Mr. Fenlon

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