World History 2 Virginia SOL practice Interwar through Independence

Question 1

Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader

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Ho Chi Minh

Question 2

Presidentof the United States of America. Droppedthe bomb to end the WW 2.

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Truman

Question 3

Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People'sRepublic of China

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Mao Zedong

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13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the Soviet Union and Cuba vs the United States.

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Il Duce; in 1919 he founded the Fascist Party. Sought to bring back the Glory of Rome.

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Mussolini

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South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa

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Mandela

Question 7

code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World WarII. Ultimately failed.

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Barbarrossa

Question 8

Was Germany’s new democratic government after WW 1. Paved he way for Hitler to rise to power.

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Weimar Republic

Question 9

genocidal mass slaughter of Tutsi by the Hutu in this country

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Rwanda

Question 10

Night of broken glass which signaled the real start of eliminatingthe Jews from German life.

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Krystalnacht

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Leader of the Nazi party. Strongly anti-semitic.

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Hitler

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Hitler’s first major defeat.

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Battle of Britain

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6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord duringWorld War II.

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D-Day

Question 14

ledIndia to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedomacross the world.

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Gandhi

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War 1 that endedin stalemate 38th parallel.

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Korea

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Chinese reformist leader of the People's Republic ofChina. Allowed some Capitalism.

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Deng Xiaoping

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Japan’s Minister of War during WW 2. In charge when the Kamikaze manual was being used.

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Tojo

Question 18

Heis considered the founding father of the Kenyan nation.

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Kenyatta

Question 19

Last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Perestroika and Glasnost

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Gorbachev

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Communist leader of USSR after Lenin. 5-year plans and Collectivization of farms.

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Stalin

Question 21

World War IIand served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces.

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Eisenhower

Question 22

February4–11, 1945, was the World War II FDR, Churchill, and Stalin, meet to discuss post war

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Yalta

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