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World War II & Cold
Test REview
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Extreme love for one’s country was widespread throughout Europe is called______. | Nationalism |
| What political party did led the revolution in Russia? | Bolsheviks |
| In 1917, a man named _____________________________ took control of the government & dethroned Czar Nicholas II with the help of his political party. | Vladimir Lenin |
| What was the treaty that ended World War 1? | Treaty of Versailles |
| The newly formed Soviet Union government is a perfect example of ________________. | Communism |
| The Great Depression was a worldwide event but, one country felt it worse than any other; ___________ was that country. | Germany |
| The Nazi ruler idolized and was impressed by ________________, leader of the black shirt party in Italy. He can also be called the father of modern fascism. | Benito Mussolini |
| The Nazi party was led by ________________. | Adolph Hitler |
| Germany went from a ______________ style of government to a ___________ style when the enabling Act was passed. | democratic; autocratic |
| Hitler was elected by the _______ but became an autocratic ruler after the Reichstag was burned down by Communist Terrorists | Reichstag |
| Germany, Japan and Italy are known as the | Axis Powers |
| When Germany invaded ____________ World War II began. | Poland |
| After Germany and Italy surrender, America gets Japan to surrender by _______________ | dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| The allied forces were able to liberate France from Nazi control after which important battle? | D-day |
| Russia is able to push the Nazis out of Russia at which important battle? | Stalingrad |
| The mass murder of millions of Jews by way of Concentration Camps was known as __________ | Holocaust |
| ____________________________________ figuratively divided Eastern and Western Europe | The Iron Curtain |
| ________________ was the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Vladimir Lenin | Joseph Stalin |
| The Soviet Union controlled the people of Eastern Europe through ______________________. | puppet governments |
| _____________ were a series of economic plans developed by Stalin to improve the Soviet Union through building roads and factories | Five year plans |
| Through the Marshall Plan, the United States helped rebuild her World War II allies in __________________________ and stop the spread of communism. | Western Europe |
| members of the ____________________________ refused to trade with NATO nations. | Warsaw Pact |