Modern History - Quick Facts

Names, Places, People, Stats

Dictator of Italy

Benito Mussolini

Dictator of Russia

Joseph Stalin

Dictator of Japan

Hideki Tojo

President of the Weimar Republic

Paul Von Hindenberg

(Prior to 1933) Chancellor of the Weimar Republic

Franz Von Pappen

Perpetrator of the Reichstag Fire

Marinus Van Der Lubbe

Head of Nazi propaganda

Joseph Goebells

Head of the SS

Heinrich Himmler

President of the Reichstag, successor of the Reich, creater of the Luftewaffe and Gestapo

Herman Goerring

Head of the Gestapo

Reinhard Hydrich

The Big Four

David Lloyd George (Britian), Georges Clemenceau (France), Woodrow Wilson (USA), Vittorio Orlando (Italy)

Former head of the SA

Ernst Rohm

3 Youth Opposition Groups

Edelweiss Pirates, Swing Kids, White Rose Group

Who issued ‘With Burning Grief’ against Nazism?

Pope Pius XI

2 Church leaders who opposed Nazism

Martin Niemollar, Deitritch Bonhoeffer

First leader of the Bolsheviks

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)

Leader of the Red Army

Leon Trotsky

Members of the Right Faction of the Bolsheviks

Bukharin, Tomsky, Rykov

Members of the Left Faction of the Bolsheviks

Kamenev, Zinoviev, Trotsky

Coal miner who’s name was used to ‘inspire’ & ‘shame’ fellow workers

Aleksei Grigorievich Starkhanov

US President during the Geneva accords?

Harry S. Truman

US president during the 1950s?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

US president in the early 1960s?

John F. Kennedy

US president during the beggining of the Vietnam war?

Lyndon B. Johnson

US president toward the end of the Vietnam war?

Richard Nixon

US president who pulled America out of Vietnam for good?

Gerald Ford

First president of South Vietnam until 1963?

Ngo Dinh Diem

Surrogate first lady of Vietnam during Diem’s reign?

Madam Nhu

CBS news anchor throughout the Vietnam War

Walter Concrite

General leading the US troops in Vietnam

General William Westmoreland

US Secretary of Defense under JFK & LBJ

Robert McNamara

US Secratary of State under Nixon

Henry Kissinger

Leader (physically and spiritually) of North Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh

Military commander of VC & NVA

General Nguyen Giap

Who’s actions sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Rosa Parks

Who led the Montgomery Improvement Association?

Martin Luther King

Who organised the desegregation of Little Rock High?

Daisey Bates

Which member of the Little Rock 9 was unaware of the change of plans?

Elizabeth Eckford

Who continued the Freedom Rides after they were initially called off?

Diane Nash & 22 students

Who organised the March on Washington

Philip Randolf

Who launched the Missisipi Freedom Summer?

Bob Moses

What 3 activists were killed because of their participation in the Mississipi Freedom Summer?

James Chaney (PoC), Micheal Schwerner (not PoC), Andrew Goodman (not PoC)

Who assassinated MLK?

James Earl Ray

Apart from MLK, who was the other key civil rights leader

Malcom X

Where was Hitlers Beer Hall Putsch?

Munich

What 3 placed did the Nazis believe women belonged?

Kitchen, Children, Church

What area of the USSR was commonly used for Gulags/deportations?

Siberia

What city was built under Stalin’s economic policies that became the largest steel plant in the world?

Magnitogorsk

What dam was the largest hydroelectirc dam built in Europe under Stalin?

Dnieper Dam

Where was the final battle against the French in the Indochina decolonisation war?

Dien Bein Phu

Where were the peace talks following French defeat in Vietnam

Geneva, Switzerland

Two towns targeted in diversionary attackes prior to the Tet Offensive?

Tay Ninh, Khe Sahn

Three cities targeted during the Tet Offensive

Siagon, Hue, Da Nang

Who wrote to the US government about My Lai?

Ronald Ridenhour

Where was Charlie Company deployed on a ‘search and destroy’ mission prior to My Lai?

Batang Peninsula

What did the Americans refer to My Lai as?

Pinkville

What famous massacre followed the Tet Offensive in 1968?

My Lai Massacre

What was the capital of North Vietnam?

Hanoi

Where did the famous civil rights bus boycott occur?

Montgomery, Alabama

Where was Little Rock High?

Little Rock, Arkansas

Where did the Freedom Rides depart from and then meet with MLK?

Washington → Atlanta, Georgia

Which cities in Alabama did the Freedom Riders experience abuse?

Anniston, Birmingham & Montgomery

Where were the Freedom Riders arrested?

Jackson, Mississipi

Where were the Freedom Riders aiming to finish the bus route?

New Orleans, Louisiana

Where did the Freedom Summer take place?

Mississipi

Where was Emmett Till murdered?

Money, Mississipi

Where were the victims of the Mississipi Burnings abducted from?

Philadelphia

Where was MLK assassinated?

Memphis, Tennessee

What percentage of Germany’s steel production came from the Ruhr?

80%

How many German Marks was 1 USD worth in November 1923?

130 billion

How many members did the Nazi party have before and after the Beer Hall Putsch?

3000 (1920), 60 000 (1923)

By 1932, how many people were unemployed in Germany?

6 million

What were the Presidential election voting stats for Hindenberg and Hitler?

Hindenburg: 53% Hitler: 37%

How much of the Reichstag vote did Hitler need to pass the Enabling Act, and what percentage of that was Nazi?

75% was needed → 30% Nazis, other 45% was bullied politicains

By 1939, what percentage of German housholds had a radio?

70%

How many
1. Jews
2. Roma Sinti
3. Disabled
4. Homosexual
people were killed in the Holocaust?

1. 6 million

2. 220-500 000

3. 70 000

4. 15 000

How many
1. Soldiers were killed
2. Civilians were killed
3. Starved
4. Emigrated
in the/because of the Russian Civil War?

1. 800 000

2. 7 million

3. 5 million

4. 2 million

How much grain was taken from famers by the government under the NEP?

50%

After the revolution, what percentage of the Russian population were peasants and what percentage was proletariat?

80% & 10%

Between 1929-1932, how many new hands entered the urban workforce in Russia?

12 500 000 - 8 500 000 from rural areas

How many people did the famine created by collectivisation between 1932-1933 kill?

10 - 15 million

What percentage did grain procument rise in Russia from 1928 -1934?

15% → 34%

How much did grain exports rise in Russia between 1929-1931?

0.029 million tons → 5.05 million tons

How much did livestock numbers drop in Russia between 1928-1938?

Cattle: 60.1 million → 50.9 million
Sheep: 97.3 million → 57.3 million

How much did the
1. Steel
2. Coal
3. Oil
4. Electricity
industries rise by in Russia from 1928 - 1940?

1. 4 million tons → 18 million tons

2. 5 million tons → 166 million tons

3. 11.6 million tons → 31 million tons

4. 5 billion kilowatts → 48 billion kilowatts

How many were deported from Russia during dekulakisation 1930-1931?

1.8 - 2 million

How many civilians died during the Vietnam war?

4 million

How many US military personelle served and died in Vietnam?

2.7 million served, 58 200 died

How much was the Vietnam War costing the US per year by 1970?

20 million USD

How many NLF and civilians were killed at the Tet Offensive, and how many people became refugees?

NLF → 60 000
Civilians → 12 500
Refugees → 1 million

How many NLF/NVA soldiers were killed in the Vietnam war?

1.1 million

How many South Vietnamese soldiers were killed during the Vietnam war?

250 000

How many tons of bombs were dropped on Vietnam between 1964-1971?

6.2 million

How many liters of defoliant chemicals were dropped on Vietnam throughout the war, and what perentage of that was Agent Orange?

72 million liters, 61% of that was Agent Orange

How many people currently still feel the effects of Agent Orange in Vietnam?

3 million.

How many Americans participated in the October 1969 National Moratorium?

2-3 million

How many PoC left southern farms following WW2?

4 million

How much did the NAACP’s membership increase by between 1940-1945

50 000 → 450 000

What percentage of bus uses in Montgomery were PoC prior to the Boycott?

75%

How many protestors rallied together in Washington for the March on Washington?

200 000