World History (Ch. 28)

The German torpedoing and sinking of the British liner Lusitania in ______ cost the lives of more than 100 Americans and brought the United States to the brink of joining the war in Europe.

1915

Hitler implemented his planned "Endlösung" ("Final Solution") of European Jews beginning in January ________.

1942

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

Armenians

Adherents to Benito Mussolini's "Fascist" movement, dressed in ______ shirts and organized in paramilitary units, roamed the streets and violently broke up meetings of Communists.

Black

As Iraq was divided by majority Shiites and minority Sunnis, the ___________ inaugurated a policy of divide and rule in their Middle Eastern mandates, while dangling the prospect of eventual independence in front of them.

British

The Munich Agreement of 1938 ceded ethnic Germans living in _____ to the Third Reich—although none of the affected country's leaders was invited to the conference.

Czechoslovakia

The Communist Party of __________ initiated the formation of a Popular Front coalition with the Socialist Party and others in 1936.

France

Among the exiles who returned with Lenin in 1917 were Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin, the hardnosed son of an impoverished ___________ cobbler who had escaped exile in Siberia seven times before 1914.

Georgian

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

Henry Ford

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

Italy

As part of the collectivization of agriculture launched in the Soviet Union, 3-5% of the "wealthiest" farmers, called _________, were "liquidated"—selected for execution, removed to labor camps, or resettled on other land.

Kulaks

The Mukden Incident of 1931 was engineered by the Japanese military to provide a pretext for the annexation of _________.

Manchuria

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

Nanjing

The ________ Amendment to the US Federal Constitution, passed in 1920, gave American women the right to vote.

Nineteenth

____________ was a cultural movement that, associated with French-language writers like Léopold Senghor, fostered pride in African history, culture, and "blackness".

Négritude

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

Under the premiership of General Tojo Hideki, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), _______, and Dutch and British territories on December 7-8, 1941.

The Philippines

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

Early pioneers of Zionism, like ________, advocated the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

Theodor Herzl