Rise of Stalin & Mao

Question 1

What is the Great Leap Forward of 1958?

Accepted Answer

Mao&#x27;s five plan expand on five year plan by creating more collective farms, Communes: collective farms that held 25,000+ people, China reintroduced a little Capitalism, Red Guards : protest against capitalism w/ Mao&#x27;s famous quotes book

Question 2

What happend during German Hyperinflation?

Accepted Answer

no taxes during WWI>printed cash... it lost value, The Dawes Plan: $200M loan form US= currency stablized; better reparations, Germany Inflation: money loses value and prices increase

Question 3

What is the Weimar Republic?

Accepted Answer

German govt. or "German Reich": 1.Kaisers, 2.Weimar Rep, 3.Nazi Germany, 1st democratic govt in Germany, alot of political parties, blamed for WWI, bblamed for Treaty of Versailles>Nazi Party rose from the Weimar Republic, Russia+China turns>Communism; EU politcs lack; countries form democracies

Question 4

What were Sun Yat-Sen&#x27;s 3 Principles?

Accepted Answer

Nationalism, rights, people&#x27;s livelihood... however it failed, led to chaos

Question 5

What is the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

stocks were worthless and people could not pay debts, econmic decline: low production, high unemployment by stock market crash

Question 6

Which countries responeded to the Great Depression?

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Germnay: blame Jewish people for economic issues/WWI, Britain: regulatedcurrency; passed high tariffs; avoided political upheaval, US: FDR passed the New Deal: adressed the unemployed, France: 5 govt. forms and collapse; struggle bus until WWII

Question 7

Which is not an outcome of the Five Year Plans of 1928?

Accepted Answer

1934 Great Purge: eliminated ppl against Stalin; Red Army, Soviet Air Force

Question 8

How did Hitler rise to power?

Accepted Answer

pessure made President Hindenburg name Hitler as Chancellor of Germany, Reichtag burned down> Enabling act: Hitler power to make laws ignore German, Hindenburg dies>Hitler becomes Presidency or Fuhrer(leader) of Germany

Question 9

The Nuremberg Race Laws were passed in ________?

Accepted Answer

Germany; sepearted Germans based on "blood purity" like Jim Crow Laws

Question 10

What did Czar Nicholas(Tsar) II do shortly after Bloody Sunday?

Accepted Answer

Duma: Russia&#x27;s first parliament of moderates, wants constitutional monarchy

Question 11

What event led up to the abdication of Czar Nicholas(Tsar) II and his family?

Accepted Answer

1917 March Revolution: women rioter stike, soldiers sided w/ them.

Question 12

What peace treaties were created before Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

1925 Locarno: Germany admits to League of Nations, Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact: pledge by countries to renounce war

Question 13

Which are improtant Economic terms?

Accepted Answer

Stocks: value of a buisness raised through sale of shares, Shares: a part or portion of a large amount> divided among a num. of people, Buying on Margin: paying a small down payment and borrow; like credit card

Question 14

What happened during 1946-1949 in China?

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Nationalists=advantage, outnumbered> US gave $2B, nationalists>communists, Mao gains control of China>spilts>"The People&#x27;s Republic of China"+Taiwan, Chinese Civil War begins prior to pre-WWII

Question 15

What happened in the Berlin Olympics of 1936?(note:Beer Hall Putsch is a COUP)

Accepted Answer

Aryan Ubermensh: Hitler eager to show off his power 2 world.. but lost, Jesse Owens: African American athelete who won 4 gold medals against German

Question 16

What did NOT happen in the late 1920s and pre-Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Coalition Government: political parties cooperate to form a government.

Question 17

What is true about the Bolsheviks?

Accepted Answer

Led by Lenin and gained control over the soviets... Marxism introduced, N 1917 made Kerensky&#x27;s prov. govt. fall... he and Mensheviks disappear, Gulags: Russian forced labor camps... land distributed among peasants

Question 18

How did the Nazi Party change?

Accepted Answer

appeals majority of people w/ broad ideas of nationalism, Hitler realizes that taking govt. thru peace is better than force

Question 19

What happened in Germnay in response to Hiter&#x27;s Work?

Accepted Answer

Hitler/Nazis spend money on public works similar to the New Deal, Germans learned to be grateful for the Nazis, Millions of jobs created and ended Great Depression

Question 20

Who becomes the President of the Nationalists Republic of China?

Accepted Answer

Chiang: recognized USA+GB; USSR didn&#x27;t like; NOT trusted; Civil War lasts

Question 21

Define the paramilitary known as the Schutzstaffel(The SS)...pick the best one

Accepted Answer

secret police for power in Nazi Germany: Stormtroppers, created terror

Question 22

Who led the German Workers Party shortly after WWI?

Accepted Answer

Adolf Hitler: joined German Wokrers Party>NSDAP=Nazi Party

Question 23

Where countries were involved during 1917 Treaty of Versailles?

Accepted Answer

Chinese declare war on Germany>warlords take over China, Japan and China are given land

Question 24

Benito Mussolini(II Duce) became first facist dictator in 1920, define Fascism:

Accepted Answer

totalitarian movement that promotes exrreme form of nationalim

Question 25

Who led the Chinese Nationalist Party?

Accepted Answer

Chaing Kai-Shek: head of the Kumintang after Sun Yixan; allied w/ Mao

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