Download File - 7th Grade World History

PASS REVIEW
2015
nd
2
Half
1. What was a result of the development and use of
new weapons, such as the machine gun and poison
gas?
a. tanks,flamethrowers, and huge artillery guns
b. The development of total war
c. Hundreds of thousands of casualties in a
major battle
d. The Russian Revolution
2. The Treaty of Versailles
a. Supported the continuance of the Ottoman
and Austro-Hungarian Empires.
b. Forced Germany to pay huge war damages to
the Allies.
c. Ended the Russian Revolution.
d. Was against forming the League of Nations.
3. The U.S. depression that begin in
1929 spread to other parts of the
world because
a. Americans withdrew money from European
stock markets.
b. War broke out between Greece and Turkey.
c. France occupied the Ruhr Valley in western
Germany.
d. Europeans stopped investing in the U.S. stock
market.
4. What was the major cause of the
Great Depression?
a.
b.
c.
d.
The crash of the U.S. stock market.
The creation of the Dawes Plan.
The rise of Nazism in Germany.
Roosevelt’s New Deal program.
5. Which of the following is an
example of appeasement?
a. The invasion of Ethiopia to regain the glory of
the ancient Romans for Italy.
b. The treaty between the Soviet Union and
Germany that they would not attack each other.
c. The building of a Japanese empire in Asia in the
1930’s.
d. The agreement to let Germany keep the
Sudetenland in exchange for an end to German
expansion.
6. Why did Nazism appeal to many
Germans?
a. They wanted to help unemployed Jewish
people.
b. They thought the Hitler could win World War
I.
c. They were worried about the economy.
d. They thought that a dictator could solve
Germany’s problems.
7. Which of the following best describes where
battles were fought during World War II?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Europe and Asia
Africa and South America
Asia, Africa, and Europe
North America and Africa
8. What aided the rise of totalitarian
governments in Italy and Germany?
a. Prosperous economies an surplus of goods
b. Prosperous economies and the desire to
expand borders
c. Economic problems and a strong
commitment to democratic values
d. Economic problems and little loyalty to
democratic values.
9. What was the “Final Solution”?
a.
b.
c.
d.
The German invasion of the Soviet Union
The Allies’ strategy to win World War II
The Nazi program to kill all European Jews
The alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan
during World War II
10. What was the purpose of the trials
in Nuremburg, Germany, after World
War II?
a. To try Britain and France for their policy of
appeasement
b. To establish an international peace
organization
c. To determine the cause of World War II
d. To try Nazi Leaders for “crimes against
humanity”
11. Which of the following events led
to U.S. involvement in World War II?
a.
b.
c.
d.
The Holocaust
The Bay of Pigs Incident
The bombing of Pearl Harbor
The dropping of the Atomic Bomb
12. Which of the following was
designed to restore economic stability
to Europe following World War II?
a.
b.
c.
d.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The Truman Doctrine
The Warsaw Pact
The Marshall Plan
a.
b.
c.
d.
13. The United Nations developed a
document to address human rights
called the
United Nations Charter
Declaration of Independence
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the
Citizen
14. What organization was formed by
the United States, Canada, and 10
West European countries?
a. The European Union
b. The European Economic Community
c. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
d. The United Nations
15. Which of the following peacefully
ended communist rule in 1989?
a.
b.
c.
d.
The United States, policy of De’tente
Boris Yeltsin elected as president of Russia
Berlin Wall torn down
Glasnost and perestroika reforms
16. Which of the following countries
peacefully ended communist rule in
1989?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Yugoslavia
China
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
17. The leader of Russia responsible for
reforms such as perestroika and glasnot
was
a.
b.
c.
d.
Vladimir Lenin
Mikhail Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin
Vladimir Putin
18. The North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) is meant to benefit
a.
b.
c.
d.
The United States, the Philippines, and Japan
The United States, Canada, and Mexico
The United States, Great Britain, and France
The United States, Cuba, and China
19. The name “Black Shirts” was given
to supporters of ____________.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Victor Emmanuel III
20. The “iron curtain” was a term used to
describe the division between _____.
a. East and West Europe
b. North and South Vietnam
c. East and West Sikkim
d. North and South Korea
21. The outcome, or final result, of the
Korean War was___________.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Atomic destruction of Chinese bases
Victory for the United States
Deadlock, or draw
Victory for North Korea
22. After the United States withdrew
from Vietnam, the country________.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Stayed divided at the 17th parallel
Was taken over by democratic South Vietnam
Returned to French control
Was reunited by Communist North Vietnam
23. The intifada was the armed uprising of Palestinians against
Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Who was the
leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) during the
intifada
a.
b.
c.
d.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Osama bin Laden
Saddham Hussein
Yasir Arafat
24. During the space race, the United States and the
Soviet Union Competed with each other to conquer
outer space. The space race started with the launch of
a.
b.
c.
d.
Sputnik I
Apollo II
Vostok
Telstar
25. The outcome, or final result, or the
Korean War was
a.
b.
c.
d.
Atomic destruction of Chinese bases
Victory for the United States
Deadlock, or draw
Victory for North Korea
26. The atomic bombs used to end
World War II were dropped on______.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Tokyo and Nagasaki
Berlin and Tokyo
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Hiroshima and Berlin
27. A superpower is an extremely powerful nation with more
strength than other nations. The two superpowers during the
Cold War were_________________.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Great Britain and France
The Soviet Union and the United States
The United States and Great Britain
The Soviet Union and Germany
28. The use of military threat, arms buildups, and other
techniques short of all-out war by the United States and
Soviet Union were called the____________.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Hot War
Vietnam War
Cold War
Korean War
29. President Harry Truman adopted a new foreign policy
during the Cold War known as the Truman Doctrine. The main
goal of the Truman Doctrine was ________________.
a.
b.
c.
d.
To stop the spread of communism
To send financial aid of Europe
To expand trade with Europe
To limit the buildup of nuclear weapons
30. Adolf Hilter used a blizkrieg, or
“lightning war,” to conquer_______.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Austria
Poland
Russia
Great Britain
31. The United States responded to the
growing totalitarian threat with a policy of
__________.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Militarism
Isolationism
Appeasement
Aggression
32. In the years between World War I and World War II,
Japan moved toward totalitarian government. Which
group took control of Japan in the 1930’s?
a.
b.
c.
d.
The emperor’s family
Industrialists
Military leaders
Meiji reformers
33. In negotiating at the conference in Munich, Great Britain and
France gave in to Hitler’s demands for control of the
Sudetenland. In doing so they were following a policy of
__________.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Appeasement
Isolationism
Militarism
imperialism
34. To liberate means “to set free.” Which of the
following nations was liberated by the D-Day
invasion?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Italy
Russia
France
Japan
35. Under the Nuremberg Laws,
German Jews were_____________.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Encouraged to become Nazis
Robbed of their citizenship
Encouraged to marry Germans
Ordered to take German-sounding names
36. Hitler’s policies of hate targeted all
the following groups except________.
a.
b.
c.
d.
The Slavs
People of Aryan descent
The Roma (gypsies)
Communists