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MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1) The problem of German reparations and French debt repayments was temporarily and
unsatisfactorily dealt with in the
A) Rockefeller plan.
B) Kellogg-Briand Pact.
C) Dawes Plan.
D) Poincare memorandum.
2) After World War I, Europe's economy was characterized by
A) deflation.
B) stagflation.
C) hyperinflation.
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D) inflation.
3) Which of the following best describes the determinants of the fate of eastern Europe after the war?
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A) Stalin ceded Poland to the west since the area was not vital to Soviet security.
B) The Big Three agreed with Stalin that Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia
would have pro-Soviet governments.
C) Stalin saw eastern Europe as a protective barrier against another attack from the west.
D) B and C
4) The first meeting between the Allied leaders to plot strategy for the end of World War II took place
in
A) London.
B) Potsdam.
C) Teheran.
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D) Tunis.
5) By 1921 the Soviet Union was controlled by
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A) the Proletariat.
B) all of the Soviet peoples.
C) the Mensheviks.
D) the Bolsheviks.
6) The chief obstacle to a smoothly functioning international economy was
A) the rise of Hitler.
B) United States trade policies.
C) the Dawes Plan.
D) the Treaty of Versailles.
7) One of the best-known resistance fighters during World War II was
A) Edouard Daladier.
B) Josip Broz (Tito).
C) Marc Bloch.
D) Georg Runnels.
8) Who exited WWII as the undisputed powers of the world?
A) Britain and France
B) Japan and Germany
C) China and Korea
D) The Soviet Union and the United States
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9) ALL of the following explain why Britain did not act to defend Czechoslovakia in 1938 and 1939
EXCEPT:
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A) in Britain's hierarchy of priorities, defense of the empire ranked above defense of Europe.
B) France's intervention in Czechoslovakia seemed sufficient to protect that nation's interests.
C) defense expenditures had been reduced to devote national resources to domestic services.
D) in Britain's hierarchy of priorities, defense of western Europe ranked above defense of central
and eastern Europe.
10) After World War I, Germany had ALL of the following advantages EXCEPT:
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A) weak states to its east.
B) transportation networks not seriously damaged.
C) Alsace and Lorraine in its possession.
D) a progressive constitution.
11) The Italian Fascist Party particularly appealed to
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A) those who dreamed of creating a united Europe.
B) many former socialists and war veterans who were disillusioned with postwar government.
C) big business and unions.
D) communist activists.
12) Why did Stalin distrust his British and American allies?
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A) American and British withdrawal from the European theater of war until 1944 caused Soviet
anger.
B) The Americans had refused to send the Soviet Union promised economic aid.
C) Campaigns in North Africa and Italy did little to relieve German pressure on the Soviet Union.
D) Stalin had reason to believe that the British and Americans were secretly negotiating with
Hitler to end the war.
13) The European city in which the Jewish residents of a ghetto mounted an unsuccessful military
resistance to the Germans was
A) Munich.
B) Bucharest.
C) Warsaw.
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D) Coblenz.
14) ALL of the following were obstacles for the Weimar Republic EXCEPT:
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A) withdrawal of American loans.
B) the Great Depression.
C) constant wrangling within a multiparty political system.
D) failure to produce real economic growth.
15) Which of the following best describes the situation after World War I?
A) Security and peace now depended on the United States to guarantee a stable balance of power
in Europe.
B) The United States continued to be a mediator in European affairs, balancing the needs of the
French for security with those of the British for economic stability.
C) The United States joined the League of Nations but refused to support military action.
D) The United States refused to sign a separate peace, insisting on a joint peace proposal instead.
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16) One way the French sought to maintain security vis-a-vis the Germans was to
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A) set up a new alliance system with many of the east-central European states.
B) secure strong guarantees of support from the Americans and the British.
C) depend on Great Britain to enforce the provisions of the Versailles treaty.
D) encourage the German economic recovery to eliminate unemployment and potential
discontent.
17) The Non-Aggression Pact of 1939 ensured that
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A) Stalin could pursue international revolution in both France and Britain to further weaken the
resolve of these capitalist states.
B) Germany would not declare war on Britain or France when faced with Polish provocation.
C) Germany would not to interfere if the Soviet Union took eastern Poland, Latvia, and Estonia
after Germany defeated Poland.
D) Germany and the Soviet Union were committed to a war with Britain.
18) ALL of the following concerning women in the Soviet Union are accurate EXCEPT:
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A) women enjoyed absolute equality in the workplace under the Communist regime.
B) the building of the Soviet state exacted a particularly high social cost for women.
C) women were enfranchised in 1917.
D) the reforms gained by women in 1917 were threatened by the 1930s.
19) Which of the following describes Hitler's economic recovery program?
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A) He was committed to making Germany self-sufficient.
B) Big business was strengthened.
C) The recovery was built on armaments as well as consumer spending.
D) All of the above
20) Hitler believed that Germany's loss in World War I was due to
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A) inadequate industrialization.
B) an inefficient military organization.
C) internal weakness brought about by communists, socialists, liberals, and Jews.
D) the military supremacy of the Allies.
21) ALL of the following describe the coming of the Great Depression EXCEPT:
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A) the Great Depression was more serious in extent and duration than any depression before or
since.
B) the United States responded to the international depression by raising tariffs in 1930.
C) Europe was dependent on American credit, especially short-term loans.
D) the Great Depression was limited to Europe because the United States "cut the rope."
22) ALL of the following describe the war in the Soviet Union EXCEPT:
A) the Soviets' best ally was the early and bitter winter of 1941.
B) the sole object of Hitler's attack from the first was Moscow, the capital.
C) the Ukrainians welcomed the German army as liberators.
D) the Soviets used a scorched earth policy to deny the Germans supplies.
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23) Fascism was appealing in post-WWI Europe because
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A) Fascism promised a way out of the economic and political morass of the 1920s and 1930s.
B) Fascism had an Italo/German cachet.
C) it was something totally new to the political scene.
D) adherents felt that its name being rooted in the word feces sent an anti-establishment message.
24) After the United States played decisive roles in World War I and the peace negotiations, it
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A) retreated to a position of selective involvement.
B) enthusiastically entered the League of Nations.
C) threw its total support behind the democracies worldwide.
D) totally isolated itself from world affairs.
25) What led to the Japanese surrender in 1945?
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A) The surrender of much of the Japanese army at Truk
B) The invasion of the home islands by a combined force of British and Americans
C) A merciless bombing campaign directed against population centers ending with the atomic
bombs
D) The death of the emperor and most of the Japanese government in the firebombing of Tokyo
26) ALL of the following describe the New Economic Program (NEP) EXCEPT:
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A) party leaders accepted the NEP because it held the promise of economic stability and thus of
political stability.
B) Lenin called the NEP a "temporary retreat" from communist goals.
C) Bukharin was in charge of the new policy.
D) B and C
27) Which of the following is true of the Great Purge?
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A) Only the military escaped the purges, because Stalin feared a war with Germany.
B) People Stalin regarded as political enemies were labeled "class enemies" and put on trial.
C) The Bolshevik old guard was supervised and approved of the purges.
D) Labor camps were created for special prisoners, only the most dangerous members of the
former tsarist regime.
28) The head of the collaborationist government at Vichy was
A) Joseph Joffre.
B) Edouard Daladier.
C) Charles de Gaulle.
D) Henri-Philippe Petain.
29) ALL of the following describe why Germany and Japan lost WWII EXCEPT:
A) Russian, British, and American alliances were too powerful to overcome.
B) Russia and the United States proved too powerful for Germany and Japan to overcome.
C) the United States' entry into the war swung the balance of power to the Allies.
D) British seapower, long the difference in global conflict, was impossible to overcome.
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30) ALL of the following were major figures in the early Soviet Politburo EXCEPT:
A) Leon Trotsky.
B) Joseph Stalin.
C) Nikolai Bukharin.
D) Nikita Khruschev.
31) The victory of the Soviets in their campaign against the Nazis can be attributed to ALL of the
following EXCEPT:
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A) the sheer number of Soviet citizens.
B) Soviet determination to sacrifice everything for the war effort.
C) Soviet knowledge about their own terrain and weather.
D) the superior equipment Soviet troops received in 1941.
32) The Kellogg-Briand Pact
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A) renounced war.
B) was not signed by the United States.
C) joined the United States and France in a strong defensive alliance.
D) excluded Germany from the League of Nations.
33) ALL of the following were organizing goals Hitler identified for the Nazi state upon attaining
power EXCEPT:
A) immediate elimination of the Jews.
B) economic recovery.
C) Lebensraum, or living space.
D) rearmament.
34) Which of the following statements concerning the nature of the Nazi state is most accurate?
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A) Policy was set by an often chaotic jockeying for power among rival Nazi factions.
B) Despite its militarism, it was a generally democratic state with open elections.
C) It was a monolithic state, ruled and coordinated from the center.
D) The regime was predicated on an intricately run state bureaucracy that took its direction from
Hitler.
35) Hitler's puppet/collaborationist governments were willing to serve the Nazis for ALL of the
following reasons EXCEPT:
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A) the promise of independence.
B) a pragmatic means of negotiating or softening the Nazi oppression.
C) humanitarian concern for their ethnic minorities.
D) a sense of national self-interest and hopes to win back territories lost in the First World War.
36) ALL of the following describe Japanese actions in the Pacific theater EXCEPT:
A) the Japanese viewed southeast Asia as a market for Japanese goods and a supplier of raw
materials.
B) unlike Germany, Japan displayed no racism toward the people it conquered.
C) the Japanese created the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.
D) at first, Japan appealed to southeast Asian leaders as liberators from western colonization and
imperialism.
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37) ALL of the following describe the postwar German economy EXCEPT:
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A) during the war, the German government printed money rather than levy taxes to pay for the
war.
B) only one in three Germans were fully employed in 1923.
C) prices fell as production shifted from war materiel to consumer goods.
D) Allied demands for reparations made inflation worse.
38) Which structural weakness in the world economy in 1929 was a concern?
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A) Low rate of long-term capital investment
B) The increased German reparation payments as a result of the Dawes Plan
C) High prices in the agricultural sector, especially in eastern Europe
D) The cherished desire to keep national currencies independent of one another
39) The Nazi's five major extermination camps (Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Auschwitz)
were located in what is now
A) France.
B) Russia.
C) Poland.
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D) Germany.
40) Appeasement, as it has come to be used in reference to twentieth-century European history, has
taken on the meaning of
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A) giving fair and equitable consideration to international disputes.
B) never negotiating out of fear, but never fearing to negotiate.
C) to concede to demands for fear of conflict.
D) diplomacy by the threat of military might.
41) Sir Oswald Mosley was
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A) First Lord of the Admiralty in Ramsay MacDonald's administration.
B) a popular advocate of supply-side economics and a disciple of John Maynard Keynes.
C) a wealthy Tory politician who opposed any tampering with the British budget during the
Great Depression.
D) the founder of the British Union of Fascists.
42) The second front against Germany and Italy was opened in 1941 by the British in
A) Sicily.
B) Vichy France.
C) Normandy.
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D) North Africa.
43) ALL of the following describe east-central Europe after World War I EXCEPT:
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A) the Allies hoped the new states would buffer Europe from the spread of communism.
B) the region was molded into a dozen sovereign states.
C) the Allies hoped the new states would keep German power from spreading eastward.
D) the Ottoman Empire remained intact.
44) ALL of the following were part of Stalin's policies to catapult the Soviet Union into the modern
world EXCEPT:
A) massive, rapid industrialization.
B) allowing the free market to set prices.
C) deportation of kulaks.
D) collectivization of agriculture.
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45) ALL of the following describe Europe after World War II EXCEPT:
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A) unlike World War I, most of the dead were military, not civilian.
B) most of the dead in the World War had been European.
C) Europe discovered that terrorizing civilians was a hallmark of twentieth-century wars.
D) material destruction was enormous.
46) Resistance movements against Nazi rule developed most strongly after
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A) the world realized that the Nazis were exterminating the Jews.
B) the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940.
C) the German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941.
D) America's entry into the war in December 1941.
47) Which of the following nations aided the republic during the Spanish Civil War?
A) The United States
B) Italy
C) The Soviet Union
D) Germany
48) The international communist organization formed as an association of the various national parties
to coordinate the coming world revolution was the
A) United Soviets.
B) Comosol.
C) Comintern.
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D) Internationale.
49) Hitler's conduct of the war in the Soviet Union differed from the war in the west in that
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A) this conflict was more crucial to Nazi victory because the Japanese were invading the Soviet
Union from the south and Hitler wanted to link with them.
B) Hitler viewed the war in the east as a "holy war"; hence, the Nazi troops were encouraged to
commit the worst atrocities against people in the east.
C) the Nazis felt less was at stake in this theater of the war; hence, it was not as harshly fought.
D) the west represented all that was decadent to Hitler, while the Russians were considered more
like the German Aryans.
50) Which of the following is true of Mussolini's plans of imperial conquest in 1935?
A) Great Britain protested the invasion but France did not, fearing a war with its Italian neighbor.
B) Mussolini turned to Fascist dictator Franco for support.
C) As Mussolini's popularity plummeted, he committed Italy to an attack on Ethiopia.
D) Mussolini's land grab collapsed in the face of the League of Nations' strong position.
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