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Unit 8 Test Review
World War I (1914-1918)
1. What is the policy of keeping an army prepared for war and glorifying power?
2. What area was the “powder keg” of Europe before World War I?
3. What led to the formation of the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente?
4. What is a totalitarian state? What methods are used to put it in place?
6. What kind of threats did soldiers face in World War I?
7. What was trench warfare and was it an effective method of warfare?
8. What two European dynasties did not survive World War I?
9. Who was forced to take sole responsibility of the war in the Treaty of Versailles
paying heavy reparations?
10. What was the purpose of Stalin’s Five Year Plans?
11. Who were the Bolsheviks?
Between the Wars (1919-1935)
12. How were the various territories from the Ottoman Empire governed after World
War I?
13. What impact did World War I have on the economy of Europe?
14. What led to the British eventually giving India self-rule?
15. Whose theory of relativity replaced Newton's absolute laws of motion and gravity?
16. Which German political party sought to overturn the Treaty of Versailles and combat
communism?
17. Who seized power from Persia's shah and changed the name of his country to Iran?
18. What did Sigmund Freud teach that changed reason and mental illness?
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World War II (1935-1945)
19. How was German, Italy, and Japan all successful in the early part of World War II?
20. Why did Japan invade Manchuria, China?
21. Why did Hitler target the Jewish population as scapegoats for all of Germany's
troubles?
22. In what way was Japan different from its allies Germany and Italy?
23 What was the policy of appeasement?
24. What combination led to the German defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad?
25. What was the goal of Hitler's "Final Solution"?
26. What was D-Day?
27. What was the event that Roosevel quoted as “…a day which will live in infamy.”
28. What was the Kristallnacht?
Post World War II (1945-
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28. What main leaders participated in Allied military and diplomatic negotiations during
the conclusion of World War II?
29. Which European countries could receive aid through the Marshall Plan?
30. What caused the Japanese emperor to have reduced power after the war?
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