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CHAPTER 30 & 31 Test Review
1. What is the name of the permanent court of arbitration created at the Hague in 1899?
World Court
2. What region of Europe became the biggest trouble spot, producing the most
diplomatic crises, prior to the beginning of World War I?
The Balkans
3. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Ferdinand triggered which event?
World War I
4. What resulted from German submarine warfare during World War I?
U.S. entry into the war
5. What weapons or tactics were part of the Western Front of World War I?
a. machine guns
b. mustard gas
c. trench warfare
6. What did the Brest-Litovsk treaty during World War I do?
gave the Germans portions of western Russia
7. Treaty of Versailles Facts:
a. Russia and Germany were not represented
b. France got back its Alsace and Lorraine provinces
c. Germany faced large reparation payments to the Allies
8. What happened with the League of Nations?
was never joined by the U.S.
9. When was World War I?
1914-1918
10.
What term describes American foreign policy between the end of World War I
and beginning of World War II?
political isolationism
11.
Which nations made up the Triple Entente of World War I?
France, Britain, Russia
12.
What is the policy western leaders used toward Hitler during the 1930s?
appeasement
13.
Germany’s invasion of which country triggered the beginning of World War II?
Poland
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14.
What German military strategy, meaning “lightning war”, was used during the
invasion in question 13?
Blitzkrieg
15. What happened after Germany moved its troops through the Ardennes and trapped
French troops between the Germans and English Channel at Dunkirk?
Britain sent the Navy and civilian vessels to rescue the French troops
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Characteristics of the Battle of Britain:
a. the Royal Air Force was fighting the German Luftwaffe
b. the British had radar to detect German airplanes
c. Britain was able to repel Hitler
17. Why did the U.S. entered World War II?
Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor
18. Describe General Douglas MacArthur’s island-hopping strategy in the Pacific during
World War II.
skipping Japanese strong points to get closer to the Japanese homeland
19. When was World War II?
1939-1945
20. What is the “date which will live in infamy,” a phrase President Franklin Roosevelt used
to describe the attack on Pearl Harbor?
December 7, 1941
21. Operation Barbarossa, launched in June 1941, was Germany’s invasion of which
country?
Soviet Union
22. Give the correct chronological order of Nazi Germany’s policies carried out during the
Holocaust.
Nuremberg Laws, Kristallnacht, Final Solution
23. What was the massive Allied invasion at Normandy on June 6, 1944 called?
Operation Overlord (D-Day)
24. Who was the Supreme Allied Commander who led this invasion at Normandy?
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
25. Which cities did the U.S. destroy with atomic bombs?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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26. Why did the U.S. use atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki?
to force Japan to surrender without invasion
27. In the west during the 20th century :
a. political radicalism became a popular solution to government inadequacy
b. women across western Europe and the U.S. had gained voting rights
c. after World War II, western nations established economic planning programs
28. What was the result of raising tariffs at the onset of the Great Depression?
it weakened trade and hurt the international economy
29 Which term describes the establishment of government programs in western countries,
such as unemployment insurance and medical care?
Welfare state
30 Which were programs to combat economic depression in the U.S. in the 1930s by
enacting social insurance measures and used government spending to stimulate the
economy?
New Deal
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