Historical Figures/Events Review

Fascist leader of Italy during WWII

What year did the Meiji Restoration begin in Japan?

Responsible for leading Japan out of isolation through modernization and westernization

Founder of the People's Republic of China (communist) and leader who implemented the Cultural Revolution

Absolute monarch who was killed and beheaded during the French Revolution.

ANC leader who helped dismantle South African Apartheid while in prison

Leader of the Nazis and Fuhrer of the German Third Reich.

What year did the Soviet Union collapse?

Secretive leader of the Khmer Rouge

What year did the French Revolution begin?

Emperor of Japan during WWII; had to declare he was not a god after defeat.

Which of these people is not Chinese?

Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Which of the following events took places between 1966-76?

India's first prime minister following independence and founder of the Cold War nonalignment movement

The primary ideas of capitalism were outlined by which author in The Wealth of Nations

Which of the following leaders was not a communist?

White South African president who worked with Nelson Mandela to dismantle Apartheid

When was the Berlin Conference?

Which of the following events did not happen after World War II?

Longtime dictator of the Soviet Union who helped the country industrialize through 5 Year Plans

Last emperor of Russia; executed during the Russian Revolution

What were glasnost and perestroika?

Enlightenment philosopher responsible for pioneering the idea of natural rights.

Prime Minister of Britain during WWII and coined the phrase "iron curtain" during the Cold War

What global conflict occurred between 1914-1919?

I what decade did Apartheid end in South Africa, and Nelson Mandela elected president?

What Global Conflict occurred between 1839-60?

Which of the following did not occur/start during World War I?

Enlightenment era supporter of women's rights

Famous for helping to united Germany through his Blood & Iron Philosophy

When did the Khmer Rouge rule over Cambodia?

What year was the Berlin Wall taken down?

Which of the following leaders controlled a theocratic government?

Which of the following countries was not split during the Cold War?

When did the Islamic Revolution in Iran take place?

Karl Marx co-wrote the Communist Manifesto with this author.

What was Auschwitz?

Last leader of the Soviet Union responsible for glasnost and perestroika reforms

Vietnamese independence leader who defeated France and the United States

Reformed China through the Four Modernizations following Mao's death.

Modernized and Westernized Turkiye following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire during WWI

Which of the following was not a communist leader?

What Global conflict occurred between 1937-45?

Which of the following did not happen between World War I and World War II

Which of the following people was not a major nationalist independence leader?

Which of the following was not an Enlightenment philosopher?

Leader of Ghana's Independence Movement

Longtime Cuban communist dictator

Which of the following was not a part of the Cold War?

What Global conflict took place between 1945-1991?

Led the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution (1917)

Enlightenment inspired leader of the Haitian Revolution.

Leader of India's nonviolent independence movement

Enlightenment inspired Latin American independence leader.

Theocratic leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran

Member of the Serbian nationalist group, the Black Hand, who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

What group was targeted during the Khmer Rouge's genocide in Cambodia?

The heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne whose assassination led to the outbreak of WWI

Which of these people is not Russian?