World Civ II

Black

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.

Georgian

Among the exiles who returned with Lenin in 1917 were Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin, the hardnosed son of an impoverished ___________ cobbler.

Warsaw

Irena Sendler smuggled some 2500 Jewish children out of __________ before being arrested and tortured in 1943.

Corporate

Mussolini's Fascists claimed that they were inaugurating a "_______ state", which theoretically saw all sectors of society contributing in a systematic, orderly, and hierarchical fashion to the health of the whole.

50 percent

South American countries suffered during the Great Depression due to a _______ decline in commodity exports.

hitler and stalin invaded poland

What started WWII

Austria

Which country was incorporated into Nazi Germany in 1938?

The guilt of the Central Powers

Which of the following was not one of Woodrow Wilson's war aims?

Négritude

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

September 1, 1939

what day did WWII begin

Kulaks

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.

Japan portrayed its imperial bid in the Pacific in the 1930s as the construction of a "Greater East Asia __________ Sphere."

Co-Prosperity

1942

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

Salt

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

The fire in the Reichstag.

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

Theodor Herzl

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

Marked the turning point in the European war, with a Soviet victory.

Ending in February 1943, the Battle of Stalingrad:

Nanjing

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

Poland

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

Munich

In an attempt to avoid a European war, Neville Chamberlain signed the _______ Agreement in the summer of 1938.

Nonviolence

In his struggle for Indian independence, Mohandas Gandhi pursued a strategy of ______________.

Hashemites

Lawrence of Arabia" helped the members of a prominent family, the ______ from Mecca, to assume leadership of the Arabs for a promised national kingdom in Syria and Palestine.

Inviting peasants into the vanguard of his movement.

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

France

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

Italy

The League of Nations rebuked ________ for its attack on Ethiopia in 1935-1936.

Manchuria

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

19th

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

The removal of Anatolian farmers into urban factories and schools.

Under Kemal Atatürk, the Turkish parliament introduced all of the following measures to Turkey except:

Japan invaded the US (pearl harbor) december 7, 1941

what caused the US to join WWII?

September 2, 1945

when did WWII end?