Chapter 29 World Civ

The planned massacre of _______ was the one large-scale atrocity of World War I.

Armenians

In the First Five-Year Plan of 1928, a Communist party congress officially decreed the _________as the necessary step toward the Soviet Union's accelerated industrialization.

Collectivization of agriculture

Under the premiership of General Tojo Hideki, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Dutch and British territories on _________.

December 7-8, 1941

In the United States, businessmen such as ____________ financed research on how to prevent the reproduction of genetically "inferior" races.

Henry Ford

President Harry S Truman made the fateful decision to have two experimental bombs dropped on _________on August 6 and 9, 1945.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Mao Zedong, a librarian by training, was an inspiring rural organizer, and he set about developing his ideas of revolution with the heretical idea of:

Inviting peasants into the vanguard of his movement.

The League of Nations imposed sanctions on ________ for its horrifically violent attack, aided by chemical weapons, on Ethiopia in 1935-1936.

Italy

As a result of the Versailles Peace Treaty which brought World War I to an end, a new supra-national _________was entrusted with the maintenance of peace.

League of Nations

Estimates of those slaughtered in the brutal "Rape of _______" of 1937-1938 range between 200,000 and 300,000 people

Najing

In 1939, the German army pioneered a new kind of warfare, a "Blitzkrieg" or "lightning war", in _______.

Poland

In March 1930, Mohandas Gandhi protested a British tax on Indian ______ by embarking on a famous 24-day march.

Salt

In his struggle for Indian independence, Mohandas Gandhi pursued a strategy of "satyagraha" or "________".

Soul-force

The League of Nations, created in the aftermath of the "Great War", included all of the following countries as member states except:

The United States

During the rapid process of Hitler's consolidation of power in Germany, which of the following events took place first?

The fire in the Reichstag

From the very first, World War I was what is known as a _________, a conflict in which the belligerent parties engage in the complete mobilization of available resources in order to secure a military victory.

Total War