Twenty Questions Honors Revolution and Crisis Ch 14 & Ch 15 Sections 1 and 2

Twenty Questions

A state in which the government controls every aspect of public and private life is called… totalitarian

2. Who went on the Long March through China because they had to flee the Nationalists? Communists

3. Who were the Bolsheviks? Who was their leader? Radical Russian Marxist revolutionaries Vladimir Lenin

4. Continuous campaigns of civil disobedience by Indians led Great Britain to do what? Finally granted limited self-rule to India

5. What did the pogroms in Russia do in the late 19 th century? Violently persecuted Jews

6. How did the Russian czars, Alexander III and Nicholas II deal with calls for reform? How did the Russo-Japanese war show the czar’s weakness? They resisted efforts for reform. News of losses sparked unrest and led to revolt

7. Industrial and agricultural revolutions to improve the economy in the USSR began under whose rule? What was the purpose of the Great Purge? Stalin Eliminate opposition to Stalin

8. This group resisted collective farming so the Soviet government sought to eliminate them… kulaks

9. Who developed the theory that the measurements of time and space can vary? Who discussed the unconscious; a power of the mind? Albert Einstein Sigmund Freud

10. Name two problems that the Weimer Republic in Germany had to deal with after WWI… Uncontrollable inflation A lack of democratic tradition Large number of political parties Many felt the government was at fault for the loss of WWI

11. He seized power from the Persian shah and changed the country name to Iran… How was the nationalist movement in Saudi Arabia different from Turkey and Iran? Reza Shah Pahlavi Turkey and Iran pursued modernization, Saudi Arabia did not chose to modernize greatly

12. China entered WWI largely to get their lands back from Germany, but they didn’t. Who was given Chinese lands by the Treaty of Versailles? Japan

13. Nationalists led a successful rebellion against the sultan and reformed the gov’t with the emphasis on modernization…which country was this? Turkey

14. What did the New Deal do to attempt to stimulate the American economy? Increased government spending

15. Who led the Salt March? Gandhi

16. What halted the Chinese Civil War between Nationalists and Communists? Japanese invasion of China

17. Why did Chinese peasants tend to support the Communists instead of the Nationalists? The Communists divided land among the peasants and the Nationalists wanted nothing to do with peasant problems

18. Who urged the idea of returning to heroic values of pride, assertiveness and strength? Friedrich Nietzsche

19. Who was the 1 st person to complete a solo, trans-Atlantic flight? Charles Lindbergh

20. What created an environment for nationalism in SW Asia (after WWI?) Breakup of the Ottoman Empire and Western interest in the region