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The term “imperialism” means
a) the domination by one country over the
political, economic, or cultural life of another
country or region
b) an absolute monarchy, ruled by a dynasty
c) becoming more similar to your oppressor
d) the process of switching from a communist to
democratic form a government.
Which of the following an example of indirect
rule?
a) the government owns 100% of all businesses,
similar to communism
b) governing a colony through local indigenous
(native) people
c) the creation of a canal for use by the indigenous
people
d) promotion of the culture of “the mother
country” over the native ethnic group
After 1880, European nations sought colonies
in Africa primarily because Europeans were
a) in need of land for their surplus populations.
b) competing for raw materials and markets to
sell finished goods.
c) interested in selling slaves to America.
d) interested in completing their geographic
knowledge of the world.
The Sepoy Mutiny occurred when
a) Cecil Rhodes tried to seize Boer lands
b) Egyptians rebelled against British rule
c) American sailors demanded that Japan open
its ports to trade
d) Indian soldiers protested the use of grease
made from animal fat
Simon Bolivar:
a) found Dr. Livingstone in Africa
b) helped Leopold II create and rule the Congo
Free State
c) defeated Aguinaldo
d) was one of the liberators of South America
e) built the Suez Canal
Which answer below best summarizes the role
of Mohandas Gandhi?
a) was the viceroy of India
b) was an Indian nationalist
c) fought the Zulus
d) led the Sepoy Mutiny
e) led the Boers against the British
The Russo-Japanese War was significant because
a) Russia’s victory marked a new era in Asia
b) Japan’s victory marked a new era in Asia
c) The war marked the end of China’s
independence
d) It led to modernization in Japan
e) It led immediately to the communist revolution
in Russia
The policy of the US towards China at the turn
of the century was based upon
a) military conquest
b) the Open Door Policy
c) forcing China into unequal treaties
d) the Gentleman’s Agreement
e) its desire to import Chinese oil
The Boxer Rebellion
a) was an uprising of Koreans against Japanese rule
b) was an attack by Japanese against the presence
of American ships in Japanese waters
c) was a Chinese revolt against western powers
d) resulted in the British seizure of Hong Kong
e) brought an end to the Tokugawa shogunate
Extraterritoriality refers to
a) the land taken from China by European powers
b) the right of Europeans to obey the laws of their
home country while on Chinese foreign soil
c) the partition of China
d) the power taken by warlords as the Chinese
empire declined
e) the condition of places like Samoa and the
Philippines which were not likely to become
American states
In the early 1800s Britain had an unfavorable
balance of trade with China. It solved the
problem by
a) selling more coal to China
b) making the Chinese addicted to opium
c) withdrawing from the China trade
d) overthrowing the Chinese government
e) boycotting Chinese goods
Which of the following was not a provision of
the Treaty of Nanjing (ending the Opium War)
in 1842?
a) Britain gained control of Hong Kong Island.
b) China pays Britain indemnity- for the war
c) China gives Britain the only port of
international trade.
d) China gives Britain most favored nation
trading status.
US President Woodrow Wilson argued at the
Paris Peace Conference most strongly for
a) Germany to pay reparations.
b) Germany to keep its colonies
c) Russia to end communism.
d) a League of Nations to prevent future wars
France was pleased to see that the Treaty of
Versailles required
a) Germany to build a wall in Berlin
b) Germany to pay reparations.
c) Germany to become communist.
d) Germany to fix the Iron Curtain.
World War I was a _______________, meaning
that it involved a complete mobilization of
resources and people.
a) total war
b) revolutionary war
c) cold war
d) civil war
The German government argued that sinking
the Lusitania was justified because the ship had
been carrying
a) Allied troops
b) British citizens
c) American citizens
d) weapons to the Allies
The German military plan devised by General
Von Schlieffen
a) relied on Germany’s air force
b) depended on help from Great Britain
c) required use of atomic bombs
d) called for war against France & Russia
What day was the armistice signed that marked
the end of WWI hostilities?
a) December 7, 1941
b) July 4, 1914
c) November 11, 1918
d) June 6, 1917
All of the following describe trench warfare
EXCEPT
a) unrestricted use of submarines and
torpedoes
b) a no man’s land in the middle where men risk
being shot
c) rats in the trenches eating your food
d) constant artillery strikes and attacks
Necessary steps in mobilization for war include
gathering volunteer troops, supplies and
weapons. If enough men did not volunteer,
then a country had to rely on _______.
a) women to fight
b) threatening death
c) Conscription (draft)
d) cutting off immigration
Which country was not a member of the
Central Powers during WWI
a) Germany
b) Austria-Hungary
c) France
d) Ottoman Empire
Which country was not a member of the Allies
during WWI
a) Great Britain
b) Spain
c) Russia
d) France
Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points were
intended to
a) make the United States, Great Britain, and
France into leading world powers
b) redistribute Germany’s colonies among the
Allied nations
c) serve as the basis of a peace settlement
d) punish Germany for causing World War I
A major cause of the outbreak of World War I
was
a) a decline in the policy of imperialism
b) an increase in acts of aggression by England
c) the existence of opposing alliances
d) the spread of communism throughout
Europe
Which situation was a major reason for the
United States entry into World War I?
a) The League of Nations requested help
b) The Maine was blown up in Havana Harbor
c) Nazi tyranny threatened Western democracy
d) Germany’s use of unrestricted submarine
warfare
Used during World War I to convince most
citizens that their nation’s cause was just and
to stir up national hatreds
a) pop art
b) propaganda
c) planned economies
d) militarism
The inflammatory Zimmerman Telegram proposed
that in the event of war between the U. S. and
Germany:
a) America would send troops to Cuba to
assassinate Fidel Castro.
b) Mexico would join the Central Powers and attack
the United States.
c) Germany would send missiles to Cuba.
d) Germany would use unrestricted submarine
warfare against the Mexicans.
The Second World War
? He was the leader of
the fascist party in Italy
who became the
dictator...
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A.) Joseph Stalin
B.) Adolf Hitler
C.) Vladimir Lenin
D.) Benito Mussolini
E.) Francisco Franco
The Second World War
? Leader of the
German Nazi party
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A.) Heinrich Himmler
B.) Adolf Hitler
C.) Vladimir Lenin
D.) Hermann Goering
E.) Joseph Goebbels
The Second World War
? Prime Minister of the
UK
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A.) Winston Churchill
B.) Charles de Gaulle
C.) Vladimir Lenin
D.) FDR
E.) Francisco Franco
The Second World War
? Led the Soviet Union
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A.) Winston Churchill
B.) Adolf Hitler
C.) Joseph Stalin
D.) FDR
E.) Francisco Franco
The Second World War
? U.S. President when
the war began
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A.) Babe Ruth
B.) Harry Truman
C.) Teddy Roosevelt
D.) Franklin Roosevelt
E.) Douglas MacArthur
The Second World War
? What did Germany, Italy, and Japan have in
common in the 1930s?
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A.) all were communist
B.) all were suffering the Great Depression and
had goals of Imperialism
C.) all angered other nations with their
persecution of the Jews
D.) all were allies of the United States
The Second World War
? Which similarities existed for the U.S. between
the initial stages of World War I & II
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A.) practicing isolationism and focusing only on
the problems of America
B.) remaining neutral while making money from
providing war supplies
C.) one or more events occurred where other
nations forced the US to get involved
D.) All of the above
The Second World War
? In 1938, the height of the policy of
appeasement was reached at this conference
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A.) Yalta Conference
B.) Munich Conference
C.) Potsdam Conference
D.) Clash of Clans Conference
The Second World War
? Which of the following statements does NOT
describe a Fascist government
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A.) places the importance of the nation over the
freedoms of individuals
B.) uses organized violence (police) to suppress
opposition
C.) promises equality for all members of nation
D.) fraudulent elections bring a dictator to power
The Second World War
? On September 1, 1939, Hitler started WWII by
invading this country.
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A.) Poland
B.) Nuremberg
C.) Switzerland
D.) Belgium
The Second World War
? What prompted the US to enter the war in
1941?
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A.) imprisonment of Jews in concentration camps
B.) the assassination of Archduke Francis
Ferdinand
C.) Hitler’s invasion of Poland
D.) the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
The Second World War
? The conditions imposed by the Treaty of
Versailles after World War I helped lay the
foundation for the...
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A.) rise of fascist Germany
B.) cold war
C.) bombing of Pearl Harbor
D.) Bolshevik revolution in Russia
The Second World War
? Which idea was included in the provisions of
the Treaty of Versailles to show the intent of the
Allies to punish the Central Powers for their role
in World War I?
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A.) all nations shall maintain open covenants of peace
B.) Germany will accept full responsibility for causing
the war
C.) freedom of the seas will be maintained
D.) territorial settlements shall be made along clearly
recognizable lines of nationality
The Second World War
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? During the mid-1930s, which characteristic was
common to Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and
Communist Soviet Union?
A.) emphasis on increased trade with other
countries
B.) government ownership of the means of
production and distribution
C.) encouragement of individual freedom of
expression in the arts
D.) one-party system that denied basic human
rights
The Second World War
? In 1940, as in today, censorship, mass arrests, and
a secret police force are most characteristic of…
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A.) democracies
B.) constitutional monarchies
C.) totalitarian regimes
D.) republics
The Second World War
? Which of the following took place on D-Day?
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A.) Hitler committed suicide and Mussolini was
killed
B.) The Luftwaffe bombed British Cities and took
over England
C.) Franklin Delano Roosevelt died
D.) a turning point in the war, Germany was
defeated in France, a second front was opened
against Nazi troops in France
The Second World War
? Appeasement means…
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A.) negotiation and compromise in order to avoid
armed conflict
B.) to break alliances and declare war in the name
of Fascism
C.) government bailout of companies in order to
fix the Great Depression
D.) lightning war
The Second World War
? Hitler’s blitzkrieg tactics were…
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A.) a new form of trench warfare that used
tanks exclusively for the first wave of attack
B.) a form of attack that used tank divisions
supported by air attacks, resting very little
between attacks
C.) a strategy in which German used tunnels &
guerilla warfare to beat the enemy quickly
The Second World War
? Hitler persecuted the Jews because
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A.) he believed the Jews were a superior race
B.) Jewish businesses were more successful than
German businesses
C.) the Nuremberg Laws gave Jewish citizens too
many civil rights
D.) he claimed that the presence of Jews in
Germany threatened to harm the purity of the
German race
The Second World War
? On December 7, 1941, the Japanese
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A.) launched a full-scale invasion of Southern
China
B.) attacked the British colony on the Bataan
Peninsula
C.) attacked Manchuria
D.) launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific
fleet at Pearl Harbor
The Second World War
? What strategy did the allies develop in response
the physical geography of the Pacific theater of
war?
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A.) trench warfare
B.) blitzkrieg
C.) kamikaze missions
D.) island hopping
The Second World War
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? Which of the following is the best justification
for President Truman’s decision to use the atomic
bomb to end World War II?
A.) Experts projected that it would take one million
Allied soldiers to invade the Japanese home islands
B.) Kamikaze fighters were inflicting heavy damage on
Allied ships and personnel
C.) The USA ran out of money to make more Atomic
bombs
D.) Lacking support from other Allied Nations, it was
impossible to win the war on the ground
The Second World War
? All of the following were results of World
War II except:
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A.) the division of Germany.
B.) the loss of colonial empires by European
nations.
C.) American occupation of Japan
D.) trials held against those accused of
committing war crimes
The Second World War
? This battle proved to be a major turning point in
the war in the Pacific theater
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A.) Pearl Harbor
B.) Philippines
C.) Iwo Jima
D.) Midway
The Second World War
? One of the first major defeats on the German
army occurs in this Russian city
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A.) Berlin
B.) Moscow
C.) Stalingrad
D.) Prague
The Second World War
? Major areas of fighting included land in all of
the following except...
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A.) North Africa
B.) France
C.) Russia
D.) United States