Twenty Questions 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. What country was promised reforms that would lead to self-government from Britain if they aided Britain during WWI? India (and its people)

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? What impact did involvement in WWI have on Russia’s czarist government? They resisted efforts for reform. Revealed the weaknesses of czarist rule and their military leadership

7. Who made the economic decisions under the command economy system put in place by Stalin? What was the purpose of the Great Purge? Government officials Eliminate opposition to Stalin

8. What was the purpose of the Soviet state’s Five-Year Plans that were put into place by Stalin? Economic development

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 “weapons” did totalitarian governments use to control the people? Police terror Secret police Propaganda education