World History People and Places AD 1917 - 1947
The Allies included Britain, France, Russia and what late-comer to the conflict in 1917? | United States |
What Communist revolutionary was smuggled into Russia by Germany in 1917 overthrowing Tsar Nicholas II? | Vladimir Lenin |
Who was the last Habsburg Emperor who tried for two years to peacefully end the conflict and who was beatified by the Catholic Church in 2004? | Karl of Austria |
Who was the first aviator to cross the Atlantic from New York to Paris in the Spirit of St. Lous? | Charles Lindbergh |
What fascist dictator came to power in Italy in 1922? | Benito Mussolini |
What were the Siberian prisons where Russian dictator Joseph Stalin sent anyone suspected of opposing him? | Gulags |
What is the unofficial name of Adolph Hitler’s racist party which came to power in Germany in 1933? | Nazi |
What Nationalist General defeated the clergy-murdering communis republicans in the Spanish Civil War in 1936? | Francisco Franco |
What were Japanese suicide pilots who crashed into Allied Naval units in World War II called? | Kamikaze |
Who was the leader who gained India’s independence from Britain in 1947? | Mohandas Ghandi |