Pretest 1
1. Who invented the telegraph?
2. What is NOT true of BOTH Manuel Hidalgo and José Morelos?
3. What state in the United States was NOT part of the Mexican Cession?
1. Samuel F. B. Morse
2. They were both indigenous Mexicans.
3. Oregon
1. Who was the U.S. president when the Allies declared VJ Day (Victory in Japan)?
2. Why was Adolf Hitler not tried for war crimes after WWII?
3. Which of the nations does NOT have veto power in the United Nations?
1. Harry S. Truman
2. He died by suicide before the war ended.
3. Japan
1. Karl Marx criticized the ________ because he believed they would always exploit the ________.
2. Roughly how many people died during the Reign of Terror?
3. A violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group is called ________.
1. bourgeoisie; proletariat
2. 20,000–40,000
3. a pogrom
1. Which battle is considered the turning point in the Pacific Theater?
2. The Nazis believed in a master race called ________.
3. The first satellite to orbit the earth was called ________.
1. Midway
2. the Aryans
3. Sputnik
1. Which protestant leader broke with the Catholic Church to maintain his political power?
2. Spain’s purpose in sending their armada against England was ________.
3. Which gunpowder empire lasted the longest?
4. The dynasty that replaced the Ming was ________.
1. Henry VIII/8th
2. to punish England for choosing Protestantism
3. the Ottoman Empire
4. the Qing (Manchu) dynasty
1. When a group of people move from their ancestral homelands and settles far away, it is known as a ________.
2. Which country controlled the Netherlands before they achieved their independence?
3. Which Ottoman ruler conquered the Byzantine Empire?
1. Diaspora
2. Spain
3. Mehmed II
1. Who was the leader of the Communists in Vietnam during the interwar years?
2. What region of Czechoslovakia was given to Germany prior to WWII?
3. The rescue operation for British soldiers after France surrendered to the Nazis is called ________.
1. Ho Chi Minh
2. the Sudetenland
3. the Miracle of Dunkirk
1. Which American plant has actually killed more people than smallpox?
2. The invention of the ________ helped the Protestant Reformation.
3. Which Asian nation is associated with a feudal system similar to the one Europe had during the Medieval period?
1. Tobacco
2. printing press
3. Japan
1. One of the effects of WWI was that colonies in ________ and ________ pushed for more independence.
2. Which region of Asia had a Japanese puppet government in the 1930s?
3. Hitler’s first defeat in Europe was against which nation?
1. Africa; Asia
2. Manchuria
3. Britain
1. Which nation used joint-stock companies?
2. Why did Afro-Eurasians have so many more deadly diseases than the Americas?
3. Why were men more desired as slaves in the Atlantic slave system?
4. Which of the early astronomers in the Scientific Revolution was forced by the Catholic Church to recant his findings?
1. England
2. They had far more domesticated animals.
3. They had more physical strength and stamina than women did.
4. Galileo Galilei
1. The Indians whom the British East India Company employed as soldiers were called ________.
2. China fought a costly war against Britain in the 1800s, which was caused by ________.
3. What was the catalyst for the Mexican Revolution of 1910?
1. Sepoys
2. China destroying British Opium
3. a rigged election
1. The Berlin Wall was constructed by which Soviet Leader?
2. Cambodia’s communist regime was led by ________.
3. Queen Elizabeth II visited which African nation shortly after it achieved independence?
1. Nikita Khrushchev
2. Pol Pot
3. Ghana
1. American sugar planters seized control of which Pacific Island nation in 1893?
2. What was the name of the progressive group in the Ottoman Empire that tried to modernize the Ottomans by emphasizing Turkish nationalism?
3. What was the name of the system where Russian peasants could not own land and had to provide labor?
1. Hawaii
2. the Young Turks
3. serfdom
1. Which Chinese program forcibly collectivized Chinese farms?
2. The United States tried, unsuccessfully, to overthrow the Communist government of Cuba with what event?
3. What happened during “The Year of Africa?”
1. the Great Leap Forward
2. the Bay of Pigs invasion
3. Many African nations gained their independence.
1. Which Japanese leader closed Japan from foreign trade and influence?
2. What did Baron de Montesquieu believe about governmental power?
3. What is NOT a good definition of industrialization?
4. What was NOT represented in the French Parliament prior to the French Revolution?
1. Tokugawa
2. He believed it functioned best when it was divided between different branches.
3. the decline of monarchies and the rise of democratic systems
4. France’s colonial possessions
1. Which country was NOT a member of the Triple Entente?
2. One of the major objectives in the Middle East front of WWI was to prevent the Allies from accessing which resource?
3. Germany was forced to create a DMZ in which region of their country?
1. Germany
2. oil
3. Rhineland
1. Which document conflicted with the Palestinian Arab path to independence?
2. Which country violated the policy of détente with an invasion of Afghanistan?
3. Today China’s system is ________ communism, but they no longer practice ________ communism.
1. the Balfour Declaration
2. the Soviet Union
3. political; economic
1. Who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
2. What was NOT a new weapon used in WWI?
3. Who is the author of the Fourteen Points?
1. a Serbian named Gavrilo Princip
2. atomic bombs
3. Woodrow Wilson (U.S. president)
1. What did the Balfour Declaration say?
2. Who said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”?
3. Who became the leader of China after the death of Mao Zedong?
1. It argued that an independent state should be created for Jews.
2. Ronald Reagan
3. Deng Xiaoping
1. Which Latin American leader is known as The Liberator?
2. Which countries did Mexico NOT fight in the 1800s?
3. Which region was the recipient of the greatest number of immigrants during the 1800s?
4. The balance of power idea, where no European nation would be allowed to become too powerful, came from ________.
1. Simón Bolívar
2. Britain
3. the United States
4. the Congress of Vienna
1. Which of the rulers did NOT lose his empire at the end of WWI?
2. Scandinavian countries adopted which kinds of governments as a response to the Great Depression?
3. What was NOT a result of the Russian Five-Year Plan?
1. Vittorio Emmanuel II (Italy)
2. socialist states
3. Religions became more powerful and present in Russia.
BONUS QUESTION: What is the organization of nations that border the Pacific Ocean called?
BONUS ANSWER: APEC
1. Which group planned to break away from the Ottoman Empire, in part due to the growing Turkish nationalism of the Ottomans?
2. How did the United States contribute to global prosperity in the 1920s?
3. What was NOT a result of the Russian Five-Year Plan?
1. Arab Muslims
2. by loaning money to help European nations recover
3. Religions became more powerful and present in Russia.
BONUS QUESTION: Which country is associated with Brexit?
BONUS ANSWER: Great Britain
Bonus Questions:
1. The term for the period of time when the British crown ruled India is ________.
2. The colony at Cape Town (in modern-day South Africa) was originally colonized by which European nation?
3. The United States seized Hawaii, in part, due to U.S. companies in Hawaii that were growing ________.
Bonus Answers:
1. the British Raj
2. the Netherlands
3. sugar