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World Cultures Ch11 Test Review
1. The main cause of the___ was Russia's desire to gain land on the Black Sea from the Ottoman Empire.
2. In 1907, ___lost a long fight to maintain its independence when Britain and Russia took over the country and divided it
into spheres of influence.
3. The part of India that was under direct British rule was known as the ___. This term is also used to refer to the period of
British rule over India.
4. In the 1800s, the Zulu chief ___ used highly disciplined warriors and good military organization to create a large state in
southern Africa.
5. ___ was the leader of the Filipino nationalists who claimed that the United States had promised immediate
independence of the Philippine Islands after the end of the Spanish-American War.
6. The opposition of Dutch settlers to British policy in South Africa turned violent during the ___.
7. The ___began after rumors spread among Indian soldiers that the cartridges of their rifles were sealed with beef and
pork fat.
8. The overthrow of ___, the last monarch of Hawaii, was accomplished in the late 1800s by a group of American sugar
planters.
9. ___ managed to maintain the independence of Ethiopia by exploiting imperialistic rivalries between European nations
and by building up a modern arsenal that helped his forces defeat an Italian army.
10. ___ was a British colony that combined diverse cultures and long-term rival groups.
11. Why was India called the "jewel in the crown"?
12. How did Menelik II keep colonial interests out of Ethiopia?
13. Why did thousands of Boers move north in the Great Trek?
14. What was the main reason for the Crimean War?
15. What happened as a result of the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885?
16. What set the stage for Vietnamese resistance against the French?
17. Why did some U.S. business leaders want Hawaii to be annexed to the United States?
18. What was the main cause of inadequate food supplies in Africa during European colonization?
19. Which of the following leaders used modernization to successfully keep their countries from foreign control?
24. Why did Britain take control of the Suez Canal?
25. Why did the Maji Maji rebellion fail?
26. What happened as a result of the Sepoy Mutiny?
27. Why did the British style of government in Nigeria work better with the Hausa-Fulani than the Igbo and Yoruba?
28. Why did American sugar planters overthrow Queen Liliuokalani?
29. How were Muhammad Ali's policies and European colonial policies similar?
30. Why did Western nations desire lands in the Pacific Rim?
31. All of the following places were located on the Pacific Rim EXCEPT
32. The term Raj is used to refer to the period of Indian history during which India was
33. In 1907, which of the following was divided into spheres of influence by Russia and Britain?
34. The main difference between European colonies and protectorates in Africa had to do with their
35. The European policy of paternalism reflected the belief that Africans should be
36. Malaysia became the world's leading exporter of
37. The main reason for British colonization of Singapore was to obtain use of its
38. Queen Liliuokalani was the last monarch of
39. As a direct result of the Spanish-American War, the United States acquired all of the following EXCEPT
40. The sepoys were
Using the exhibit, choose the letter of the best answer. (2 points each)
20. What area of Africa had no British holdings?
21. On which continent did a British colony extend farther north than Great Britain?
22. Which continent had the greatest number of British colonies?
23. On which of these continents did Britain control the smallest land area?
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11. Why were Germany and Austria-Hungary known as Central Powers?
12. What region was referred to as the "powder keg" of Europe?
13. World War I was a "total war" in the sense that
14. The system of rationing was designed to limit
15. The purpose of propaganda during World War I was to
16. The Zimmermann note, which pushed the United States to enter the war, exposed the German plan to
17. The armistice signed near Paris in November 1918 brought an end to
18. What were the Fourteen Points?
19. Who was forced to assume sole responsibility for the war under the Treaty of Versailles?
20. Why did Bismark seek alliances that later became the Triple Alliance?
21. In 1917, Germany returned to its policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, hoping to
22. Why did Italy refuse to support its ally Germany?
23. Which of the following was a goal of the Allies' Gallipoli campaign?
24. What did the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare refer to?
25. How did the Treaty of Versailles affect postwar Germany?
26. What was the American public's opinion about joining the League of Nations?
27. What impact did the war have on the economy of Europe?
28. What event in Sarajevo ignited the Great War?
29. What was trench warfare intended to accomplish?
30. Which statement summarizes the Schlieffen Plan that Germany created to prepare for a two-front war?
31. Which of the following was used to widen the war?
32. What gamble did Germany make before the United States entered the war?
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Ch14s1-2
1. This was Russia's first parliament.
2. He was the last Romanov czar of Russia.
3. He was the major leader of the Bolsheviks.
4. This is another name for the Revolution of 1905.
5. This was overthrown by the Bolshevik Revolution.
6. This group masterminded the revolution in November 1917.
7. This type of organized violence against Jews was encouraged by Alexander III.
8. This man's influence on Czarina Alexandra led a group of Russian nobles to murder him.
9. This general uprising forced the czar to abdicate.
10. For Russia, this ended with the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which cost Russia a large chunk of territory.
11. This was the influential local council of workers, peasants, and soldiers, formed by social revolutionaries in cities such as Petrograd.
12. After the assassination of this man's reform-minded father by revolutionaries, he determined to strengthen "autocracy, orthodoxy, and
nationality" in Russia.
13. How did the reigns of Alexander III and Nicholas II help pave the way for revolution?
14. How did the Russo-Japanese war show the czar's weakness?
15. Who were the Bolsheviks?
16. Under Joseph Stalin's command economy system, all economic decisions were made by
17. The Soviet government decided to eliminate kulaks because of their strong resistance to
18. Between 1934 and 1939, the Great Purge was a campaign to eliminate
19. Which of the following is a weapon of totalitarianism?
20. What did the pogroms do that occurred in the late 19th-century Russia do?
21. Which revolutions were started under Stalin's rule as a means to improve the Soviet Union's economy?
22. All of the following were goals of the Five-Year Plans EXCEPT
23. What were soviets under Russia's provisional government?
24. What is a totalitarian state?
25. What was the purpose of the Soviet state's Five-Year Plan?
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World Cultures Ch15(s2-4)
1. After World War I, most European nations had what type of government, if only temporarily?
2. In 1920, a dictatorship ruled?
3. What effect did the Dawes Plan have on the economy of postwar Germany?
4. The New Deal involved attempts to stimulate the American economy by
5. What caused Germans to start taking Adolf Hitler and his message seriously?
6. All of the following were common to both fascism and communism EXCEPT
7. The title of Hitler's book Mein Kampf in English is
8. By 1935, which of the following eastern European countries was still a democracy?
9. Hitler's main method for achieving lebensraum was to
10. Nazism was the German form of
11. All of the following countries took control of other countries' territory during the 1930s EXCEPT
12. Il Duce was the title of which of the following leaders?
13. All of the following joined the Axis Powers EXCEPT
14. Which of the following was the leader of the Third Reich?
15. During Spain's civil war, Francisco Franco was the leader of
16. The Munich Conference was held to address the problems of a German threat to the nation of
17. Why did Japan invade Manchuria?
18. What effect did the nonaggression pact between the Nazis and the Soviets have on the balance of power in Europe?
19. Which German political party sought to overturn the Treaty of Versailles and combat communism?
20. What was the goal of U.S. isolationists after World War I?
Ch16 Quiz Review
1. The Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact in 1939 with
2. Great Britain and France entered World War II because of the invasion of
3. The Germans first successfully used the blitzkrieg in an attack on
4. Charles de Gaulle was the
5. How did the Lend-Lease Act benefit the United States?
6. All of the following were advantages for the British in fighting the Battle of Britain EXCEPT
7. The Atlantic Charter was a declaration of the right to freedom of
8. Why is Isoroku Yamamoto famous?
9. What was the U.S. response to Japanese aggression in Southeast Asia in mid-1941?
10. Who went on the Bataan Death March, and why?
11. Which of the following events turned the tide of the war in the Pacific against Japan and allowed the Allies to begin taking the offensive?
12. Why were the Pacific islands attacked and seized during the Allied "island hopping" chosen?
13. Who was the mastermind of the "island-hopping" strategy?
14. Which of the following was the location of a Nazi extermination camp?
15. Which of the following was addressed by the Nuremberg Trials?
16. How did Kristallnacht demonstrate Nazi persecution of Jews?
17. What was the goal of Hitler's "Final Solution"?
18. How were the Holocaust and Hitler's "Final Solution" related?
19. Who was the supreme commander of the Western Allied forces in Europe?
20. Which of the following occurred on D-Day?
21. What was the main target of the kamikazes?
22. Which of the following did Stalin repeatedly urge Churchill and Roosevelt to do in order to relieve German pressure on Soviet armies?
23. Which general led the victorious troops in the Battle of El Alamein?
24. Why were thousands of Japanese Americans interned in relocation camps?
25. Which of the following cities was NOT extensively damaged during the war?
26. Which of the following nations paid the greatest price in terms of the number of lives lost during the war?
27. In which of the following nations was the pre-war government allowed to return to power after the war?
28. What group was tried at the Nuremberg Trials?
29. Who led efforts to draw up the Japanese constitution?
30. Who organized and oversaw the demilitarization of Japan?
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41. What were the causes of European imperialism in Africa?
1.
What conditions did Russia face that caused its withdrawal from WWI, and what effect did its withdrawal have on the war?
2.
WWI is considered a major turning point in history. How did the war change the nature of warfare, the map or Europe, and the
outlook of modern society?
Identify ONE key trait of a totalitarian state. How did Stalin use the "weapons" of totalitarianism to force that trait onto
Soviet society?