Commodore Matthew Perry is best known for taking
which action?
A) leading the British East India Company
B) rescuing Europeans during the Boxer Rebellion
C) justifying European spheres of influence in
China
D) opening Japan to American and European
influences
100
Which event sparked the outbreak of World War I?
A) attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan
B) Germany's invasion of Poland
C) Bolshevik coup d'état in Russia
D) assassination of the Austrian Archduke
100
The Treaty of Versailles contributed to the economic
collapse of Germany after World War I by
A) mandating economic reforms in Germany
B) requiring that Germany pay for war damages
C) placing a quota on goods exported from
Germany
D) devaluing German currency
100
An incompetent government, massacres on Bloody
Sunday, and the high costs of World War I were
causes of the
A) Mexican Revolution
B) Boxer Rebellion
C) Sepoy Mutiny
D) Russian Revolution
100
"Mussolini Attacks Ethiopia" (1935)
"Germany Takes the Rhineland Back" (1936)
"Germany and Russia Divide Poland" (1939)
These headlines might be used to illustrate the
weakness of the
A) United Nations
B) Congress of Vienna
C) Warsaw Pact
D) League of Nations
200
. One way in which Emperor Meiji of Japan and Kemal
Atatürk of Turkey are similar is that they both
A) crushed secessionist movements
B) worked to modernize their nations
C) conquered eastern neighboring territories
D) protested against economic sanctions
200
The Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente
contributed to the start of World War I by
A) failing to include Germany and France as
members
B) threatening countries in the Western Hemisphere
C) allowing Japanese aggression in Korea
D) increasing tensions between European
countries
200
. Which political leader gained power as a result of
the failing economy of the Weimar Republic?
A) Adolf Hitler
B) Francisco Franco
C) Benito Mussolini
D) Charles de Gaulle
200
Which slogan is associated with the Bolshevik
(Russian) Revolution?
A) “An Eye for an Eye”
B) “Peace, Land, and Bread”
C) “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”
D) “Take up the White Man’s Burden
200
Which geographic factor enabled the German
blitzkrieg to succeed?
A) swift running rivers
B) mountain ranges
C) relatively flat terrain
D) tropical climate
300
Japan's policy of expansion in the early 20th century
was motivated by
A) a lack of natural resources
B) a plan to end unequal treaties
C) the need to increase cultural diffusion
D) the desire to spread communism
300
During World War I, developments in military
technology led to
A) an early victory by the Allied powers
B) the establishment of industrial capitalism
C) the use of poisonous gas and submarine
attacks
D) an increase in ethnic tension in western Europe
300
The term appeasement is best defined as
A) an attempt to avoid conflict by meeting the
demands of an aggressor
B) a period of peace and prosperity, resulting in
cultural achievement
C) a declaration of war between two or more
nations
D) an agreement removing economic barriers
between nations
300
Which leader based his rule on the ideas of Karl
Marx and Friedrich Engels?
A) Neville Chamberlain
B) Vladimir Lenin
C) Adolf Hitler
D) Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek)
300
Which of these World War II events happened first?
A) Battle of Britain
B) D-Day invasion
C) invasion of Poland
D) dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima
400
A comparison of the French Revolution (1789) and
the Russian Revolution (1917) illustrates that
A) political and economic inequalities often lead
to demands for change
B) democratic governments generally result from
revolutions
C) revolutions are based on a single grievance
D) privatization eventually leads to class struggle
400
Which situation is an example of totalitarianism in
Germany in the 1930s?
A) frequent meetings of the German Reichstag
B) decline of the German economy
C) strict government control of the press
D) negotiation of a nonaggression pact with the
Soviet Union
400
. One similarity of Fascism and Communism as
practiced in the 1930s was that both systems
generally
A) provided for power to be held by hereditary
rulers
B) promoted ethnic diversity
C) supported the democratic election of the head
of state
D) suppressed the views of the opposition
400
The primary purpose of Joseph Stalin's five-year
plan was to
A) increase agricultural and industrial output
B) limit the wealth of the upper class
C) increase the production of consumer goods
D) limit immigration of ethnic minorities
400
Which sequence of events is in the correct
chronological order?
A) rise of Nazism Treaty of Versailles
German invasion of the Soviet Union
B) Treaty of Versailles rise of Nazism
German invasion of the Soviet Union
C) German invasion of the Soviet Union rise of
Nazism Treaty of Versailles
D) Treaty of Versailles German invasion of the
Soviet Union rise of Nazis
500
Which individual is associated with the phrase blood
and iron as related to the unification of Germany?
Otto Von Bismarck
500
Which region was described as “the powder keg of
Europe” prior to World War I?
Balkans
500
During the 1930s, a joint act of appeasement by the
British and French was giving what piece of land to Hitler
Sudetenland
500
Forced famine in Ukraine (1932-1933) was a direct
result of which policy implemented by Stalins 5 Year Plan
collectivization/collective farms
500
During World War II, the Allied invasion of France on D-Day (June 6, 1944) was significant because it forced the Germans to fight a...