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- Resistance to Stalin's Five Year Plan contributed to famine/starvation (especially in Soviet Ukraine)a. true b. false
- While the Nazis became the most popular political party in Germany, Hitler lost the 1932 presidential electiona. true b. false
- __?__ provided Weimar Germany with $200 million in loans and initiated a period of recovery between 1923 and 1929a. british banksb. french banksc. russian banks d. american banks
- The Weimar gov inherited the consequences of the Treaty of Versillaes & a weakened economy (high unemployment, debt)a. true b. false
- Five Year Plan = private land was confiscated in order to create communal farms owned by the gov (kolkhoz)a. true b. false
- Five Year Plan = surplus grain was sold to raise money in order to buy industrial equipmenta. true b. false
- Stalin, however, replaced the NEP with his first Five Year Plana. a. true b. false
- Russia's provisional gov (Duma) was dominated by __?__ (moderate socialists) who favored some democracy/capitalisma. mensheviksb. bolsheviks
- The Bolsheviks (Red Army) also defeated numerous separatists who sought independence from Russia's Bolshevik governmenta. true b. false
- The Bolsheviks administered the Soviet Union (a Marxist empire) after their victory in the Russian Civil War (1922)a. true b. false
- Five Year Plan = the government moved surplus farmers to urban centers where they performed factory labora. true b. false
- In 1906 Tsar Nicholas II created Russia's first constitution and its first parliament (the Duma)a. true b. false
- __?__ = Lenin/USSR initially incorporated some elements of capitalism in order to remedy Russia's economic sufferinga. new economic policy (NEP)b. Five Year Plan
- The Bolsheviks executed Tsar Nicholas II and his family during the October Revoution (1917)a. a. true b. false
- The Red Army (Bolsheviks) defeated the White Army (tsar OR provisional gov) during the Russian Civil Wara. true b. false
- The Bolshevik government surrendered to the Central Powers (Treaty of Brest Litovsk)a. true b. false
- During the __?__ the Bolsheviks overthrew Russia's provisional government & assumed unilateral control of Russiaa. february revolution (1917)B. october revolution (1917)
- A network of labor councils (soviets), led by the Bolsheviks (radical Marxists), challenged the provisional governmenta. true b. false
- While fighting World War I, Russia experienced TWO revolutions in 1917a. true b. false
- The Bolsheviks demanded (1) Russia's withdrawal from WWI, (2) the redistribution of land, & (3) industrial labor reformsa. true b. false