World History
Post WWI Era
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Study Guide
Directions: Answer each question correctly to receive extra credit points.
1. Who was the leader of the Chinese Nationalists and the Communists?
2. What was the Long March?
3. What stopped the Chinese Civil War in 1937?
4. What changes did Kemal Ataturk bring to Turkey?
5. What methods of protest did Gandhi use in India?
6. What was the Amritsar Massacre?
7. What is the Salt March? How were boycotts used by Indians against the
British?

8. Why did the Japanese invade Manchuria? Who did they compare their
Imperialism to?
9. What were the “3 doors” or options Japan had to deal with its growing population?
10. What was the “Rape of Nanjing”?
11. What are 5 causes of the worldwide depression?
12. What are 5 causes of the stock market crash of 1929?
13. What is the New Deal? The 3 R's?
14. What is totalitarianism? What are 5 key traits?

15. What are the similarities and differences between Nazism and Fascism?
16. How was Hitler able to rise to power?
17. What were Hitler’s pure blooded Germans called?
18. What did Orwell mean by “absolute power corrupts absolutely?” Give an example from the movie that applies to this statement.
19. What is a command economy? Which country followed it? What was the 5 year plan?
20. Who were the leaders of Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union? What were their nicknames?