Practice Test 3 2 The goal of the International Workers of the World IWW was a b to promote the solidarity of Germans in the revolutionary struggle to overthrow the Weimar Republic to promote worker solidarity in the revolutionary struggle to overthrow the employing class to promote the solidarity of Russians in the revolutionary struggle to overthrow the Tsar c d All of the Above e None of the Above The International Workers of the World encouraged all workers including a immigrants women and African Americans to join them in the fight for social justice as equals b mutants avengers and hobbits to join them in the fight for social justice as equals racists fascists and national socialists to join them in the fight for social justice as c equals d All of the Above e None of the Above The International Workers of the World fought to establish trade unions and create workers solidarity in the service and teaching professions a hunting and gathering b c agricultural forestry and mining industries d All of the Above e None of the Above Members of the International Workers of the World included a Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin b Mithrandir Galadriel and Radagast c Helen Keller Dorothy Day and Mary Mother Jones d All of the Above e None of the Above The Russian Revolution occurred in a 1916 b 1917 c 1918 d All of the Above e None of the Above The Russian Revolution was a two part event Alexander Kerensky overthrew the Tsar in March and a Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks overthrew Kerensky s provisional government in November November b Benito Mussolini and the Fascists overthrew Kerensky s provisional government in c Mao Zedong and the People s Liberation Army overthrew Kerensky s provisional Real political authority in the early part of the Russian Revolution rested in the hands of the government in November d All of the Above e None of the Above a Sturmabteilung b Bonus Army c Schutzstaffel d All of the Above e None of the Above The soviets were a committees of Soldiers Sailors and Industrial Workers who governed whole sections of b committees of Starks Lannisters and Wildings who governed whole sections of major c committees of Nobles Peasants and Princes of the Blood who governed whole sections major Russian cities and regions Russian cities and regions of major Russian cities and regions d All of the Above e None of the Above As a result of the terrible privations of the First War World the Russian people demanded a War Starvation and Slavery from the Provisional Government b War Rearmament and Lebensraum from the Provisional Government c Peace Bread and Land from the Provisional Kerensky Government d All of the Above e None of the Above Vladimir Ilyich Lenin believed that any revolution benefited from a a secret organization of trained leaders capable of fighting the political police and withstanding torture of an autocratic state b an well known and recognizable group of union organizers capable of demonstrating peacefully in the streets c a strong paramilitary organization capable of fighting a conventional war d All of the Above e None of the Above Unlike the Kerensky provisional government Lenin once he established control over the Soviets in St Petersburg and Moscow took Russia out of the war in the a Treaty of Westphalia signed in March 1918 b Treaty of Versailles signed in March 1918 c Treaty of Brest Litovsk signed in March 1918 d All of the Above e None of the Above As Lenin solidified his control over the region between St Petersburg and Moscow a civil war broke out between the Red Army and the White Armies the Blue Army and the White Armies the Purple Army and the White Armies a b c d All of the Above e None of the Above Lenin had the upper hand in the civil war because a he had a well organized and well commanded army b he held the industrial base of Russia c he had the Tsar and his family under house arrest d All of the Above e None of the Above Lenin plunged his enemies into chaos in July 1918 when a he released the Tsar and his family b he executed the Tsar and his family c he sent the Tsar and his family to a gulag in Siberia d All of the Above e None of the Above When Lenin declared that a state of war communism existed in Russia he requisitioned all grain from the peasants in order to feed his army and industrial workers a centralized all executive authority in his hands and nationalized all major industries b c enforced his rule through the ruthless use of secret police and revolutionary terror d All of the Above e None of the Above After the Lenin and the Bolsheviks won the Civil War Lenin established the New Economic Policy which meant a a mixed economy in which the party as the state controlled the banks and major industries but allowed peasants living in communes to have private property for their own use and to sell crops grown on those plots at farmer s markets b a party dominated planned economy in which the party as the state controlled all major c a free market economy in which supply and demand created industries and each peasant industries and communal lands possessed his own profit making farm d All of the Above e None of the Above Lenin believed that it was necessary to export the revolution in order to strangle the capitalist West at its most vulnerable point its democracies in Europe and the United States its dictatorships in Europe and Central and South America its colonial empires in Africa and Asia a b c d All of the Above e None of the Above Joseph Stalin was a ruthless man who maintained a tight control over the Communist Party and its members through a careful blackmail secret police Siberian exile and selective purges murders b ample jobs safety nets for the impoverished and financial security for the middle class c uniformed paramilitaries secret police eugenics program and concentration camps d All of the Above e None of the Above Stalin wanted to make the Soviet Union into a great power swiftly calling his program a Five Year Plans encouraging rapid industrialization quotas low wages and shoddy b Rapid and forced collectivization of Soviet agriculture resulting in large scale famine c Manipulation of public opinion through the use of newspapers radio and film emphasizing the necessity of hard work discipline and the traditional family Two important figures in the colonial world of the 1920s and 1930s were socialism in one country a expansion to the East b c democracy for all d All of the Above e None of the Above