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1. Which of the following was not a factor in starting
World War I?
A) Nationalism
B) Weakening of the Ottoman Empire
C) Competition for resources in colonial territories
to fuel ongoing technology development
D) Alliances and interactive military plans
E) The Monroe Doctrine
2. In the early twentieth century, the Ottoman
Empire was referred to as the
A) “sick man of Europe.”
B) “Turkish Colossus.”
C) “Evil Empire.”
D) “Threat from the East.”
E) “Scarlet Knights.”
3. What was one of the fundamental weaknesses
limiting the development of military strategy in
Europe?
A) Mobilization was dependent on railroads rather
than individual motor vehicles.
B) Proximity of nations to one another in forming
alliances
C) Lack of a common currency to pay war debts
D) Conflicting political ideology regarding
constitutional monarchies
E) The role of women in the workplace
4. The early-twentieth-century system of
alliances pitted the British, French, and
Russians against
A) the Japanese, Italians, and Germans.
B) the Ottomans, Italians, and Chinese.
C) Austria-Hungary, Japan, and Poland.
D) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary.
E) Syria, Egypt, and Germany.
5. Which of the European nations was least
prepared to go to war?
A) Germany
B) Russia
C) France
D) England
E) Austro-Hungary
6. Most European nations thought the war that
started in 1914 would
A) be won by the fastest-moving army and
the boldest general.
B) be long and costly.
C) end with little expense.
D) help unite the classes.
E) be won by slow perseverance.
7. A unique aspect of the Western Front was
A) that only swords were “legal,” so no guns were
used.
B) the three-hundred-mile-long line of armies from
Switzerland to the North Sea.
C) that women made up a small percentage of the
German fighting force.
D) that there was very little loss of life.
E) the German use of “blitzkrieg” on the
battlefield.
8. A new and potent defensive weapon in
World War I was
A) the automatic pistol.
B) poison gas.
C) napalm.
D) the helicopter.
E) the machine gun.
9. The most significant naval battle of the
Great War was the
A) Battle of the Marne.
B) Battle of the Boyne.
C) Battle of Jutland.
D) Sinking of the Lusitania.
E) Sinking of the Titanic.
10. Which of the following was true of wartime food
rationing?
A) The diets of the German poor improved.
B) The diet of the German population was limited
to one thousand calories per day.
C) Food scarcity led to widespread cannibalism in
Europe.
D) Civilians' diets remained completely
unchanged while prisoners of war were starved.
E) Many Americans starved.
11. During World War I, African Americans in the
United States
A) faced even greater discrimination than
previously.
B) were restricted to agricultural work.
C) were not allowed in the armed forces.
D) migrated north in vast numbers from the
South.
E) gained equality with whites.
12. The Ottoman Turks signed a secret alliance with
A) the United States, hoping to gain Filipino
territory.
B) Germany, hoping to gain Russian territory.
C) Japan, hoping to gain Chinese territory.
D) France, hoping to gain Italian territory.
E) Russia, hoping to gain Austrian territory.
13. The policy decision that most affected
future relations between the Jewish and
Palestinian settlers was embodied in
A) the Balfour Declaration.
B) the Treaty of Brest Litovsk.
C) the Zimmerman Telegram.
D) the Dreyfus Affair.
E) the Doctors' Conspiracy.
14. Who was the leader of the Zionist
movement?
A) Max Planck
B) Albert Einstein
C) Claude Shannon
D) Henry Zion
E) Theodore Herzl
15. The February Revolution in Russia was
led by
A) Vladimir Lenin.
B) Alexander Kerensky.
C) Grigory Kornilov.
D) Leon Trotsky.
E) Rosa Luxemburg.
16. Vladimir Lenin was the leader of the
A) Bolsheviks.
B) Mensheviks.
C) Social Revolutionaries.
D) Provisional Government.
E) Young Turks.
17. Which of the following was not included in
Lenin's plan for Russia?
A) Immediate surrender to Germany
B) Transfer of land to the peasants
C) A return to agrarian society
D) A transfer of all power to the soviets
E) Transfer of factories to the workers
18. In the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Russia
A) won territories from the defeated Germans.
B) gained considerable territory from Turkey.
C) lost territory, including Poland and Finland.
D) ended its horrific civil war.
E) secretly planned to reenter the war.
19. Deaths in World War I numbered between
________ million.
A) 4 and 5
B) 8 and 10
C) 15 and 17
D) 20 and 22
E) 45 and 50
20. The most preferred destination for refugees after
the war was
A) France, which suffered immense casualties and
had an open door immigration policy.
B) the United States, which had immigration
quotas.
C) New Zealand, which had a low population.
D) Palestine, which was opened for Zionist
settlement.
E) Canada, because it was largely agricultural.
21. Which of the following was not one of the
elements in the Treaty of Versailles that
angered Germany?
A) The infamous “guilt clause”
B) The amount of reparations it had to pay
C) The loss of territory it sustained
D) High tariffs enacted by the allies
E) Elimination of the German air force
22. How did the Bolsheviks win the civil war in Russia after World
War I?
A) By enlisting the aid of Great Britain in overthrowing the tsar
B) By using democratic elections to stabilize the Duma
C) By forcing the tsar to fight a duel with Lenin
D) Through the military leadership of Leon Trotsky and the
Red Army
E) Lenin resigned to get both sides to make peace.
23. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
was formed by
A) joining Russia and the Soviet Ukraine.
B) allying Russia, Georgia, and Lithuania.
C) uniting Russia, Siberia, and Kazakhstan.
D) unifying all communist provinces.
E) a United Nations mandate.
24. Lenin's New Economic Policy in 1921
A) created “labor brigades” to run factories.
B) gave government full control of
agriculture.
C) allowed private ownership of land and all
but the largest businesses.
D) made the economy part of the military.
E) outlawed the Christian church.
25. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union planned
to pay for industrialization by
A) collecting taxes on agricultural production.
B) raising tariffs on all imports.
C) bleeding wealth from neighboring territories.
D) squeezing the peasants.
E) getting large loans from the World Bank.
26. What were the significant differences between contenders for control
of the Communist Party after Lenin's death in 1924?
A) Stalin wanted to focus on communism's establishment in Russia
as “socialism in one country.”
B) Trotsky argued for the continuation of the NEP.
C) Stalin wanted an alliance with Germany and Italy because fascism
seemed the best way to industrialize Russia rapidly.
D) Trotsky advocated maintaining an alliance with China, convinced
that an Eastern Bloc of Communism could overthrow the industrialized
West.
E) There was no significant difference in policies; it was a personal
rivalry between Stalin and Trotsky.
27. The German crisis of 1923 was marked by
A) Germany's attempts to rebuild its military.
B) German reoccupation of Alsace and Lorraine.
C) the British military takeover of Berlin.
D) Germany recklessly printing money, causing
inflation.
E) confiscation of church property by German
authorities.
28. In 1900, China's population was
A) 100 million.
B) 400 million.
C) 500 million.
D) 700 million.
E) 1 billion.
29. Japan had
A) very few natural resources and little arable land.
B) many natural resources and little arable land.
C) very few natural resources and abundant arable
land.
D) many natural resources and abundant arable
land.
E) a small and unmotivated population.
30. The main beneficiaries of Japan's
prosperity in this period were the zaibatsu,
who were
A) farmers.
B) young men and women of the cities.
C) large corporations.
D) the politicians and military.
E) the wealthy former nobles.
31. What was the result of the Boxer Rebellion of 1900?
A) All foreign powers fled China, creating a power vacuum.
B) Western powers and Japan captured Beijing and demanded
payments.
C) The Boxers overthrew the Dowager Empress Cixi.
D) The Communists captured Beijing and Hong Kong.
E) Opium was finally eradicated from China.
32. Which of the following is not an indication of
China's lack of modernization?
A) The classical exam system for administration
B) A huge population growth that was not
supportable
C) Lack of agricultural changes
D) Heavy taxation
E) Fear of electricity
33. What was the mandate system?
A) The League of Nations members divided a percentage
of wealth generated by all colonies.
B) Colonial rulers administered territories but were held
accountable to the League of Nations.
C) Colonialism was eliminated.
D) Colonies were incorporated into various nations with
all the rights and liabilities of ordinary citizens.
E) An immigration system of guest workers was designed
to supply the former colonizers with inexpensive laborers.
34. In 1923, Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) turned
Turkey into
A) a sultanate.
B) an Islamic state.
C) a secular republic.
D) a Communist state.
E) a “mega-state” through its merger with
Greece.
35. After the Ottoman Empire collapsed following the
First World War, the modern Turkish state
A) was particularly harsh toward women's rights.
B) instituted many progressive reforms.
C) found security in embracing Islamic tradition.
D) clung closely to traditional Turkish customs.
E) returned to feudalism.
36. Egypt in the 1920s
A) had “phony” independence instead of official
British colonialism.
B) was finally independent of British influence.
C) remained a British mandate.
D) seized control of the Suez Canal from Britain.
E) had become one of the dominant world
powers.
37. Which of the following did not result when far more Jewish
immigrants than anticipated arrived in Palestine?
A) The British tried to limit Jewish immigration.
B) Jewish settlers were smuggled in by militant Zionists.
C) The country was torn by strikes and guerilla war.
D) Britain was hated by both sides and much of the Arab
world.
E) The unauthorized immigrants were deported.
38. In the 1920s, women's lives
A) hardly changed at all.
B) changed more than in any previous
decade.
C) changed, but only for the better.
D) changed, but only in negative ways.
E) became shorter than at any time in
history.
39. Before the twentieth century, what was the
only nation in which women had the right to
vote?
A) Norway
B) Germany
C) England
D) New Zealand
E) Turkey
40. The new social sciences in the 1920s were
unsettling because they
A) supported ideas of Western superiority.
B) seemed to reinforce bourgeois values.
C) invariably led to communism.
D) challenged Victorian morality and middle-class
values.
E) caused the Great Depression.
41. Who was the famous French sociologist who
proclaimed, “There are no religions that are false.
All are true in their own fashion.”
A) Charles Edouard Jenneret
B) Max Planck
C) Theodore Herzl
D) Amelia Earhart
E) Emile Durkheim
42. Which of the following transformed the
landscape of western Europe and North America
more than any other development?
A) The automobile
B) Dams and irrigation projects
C) The telegraph
D) New factories and industries
E) Street lights
43. Which was not one of the significant parts of Wilson's
fourteen-point plan to end the war?
A) German evacuation of occupied lands
B) Autonomy for nationalities under Ottoman rule
C) Forfeiture of all German agricultural lands
D) Formation of an association of nations to ensure the
independence and territorial integrity of all states
E) Inclusion of local populations to settle territorial
disputes
 44. These innovations,
including Albert
Einstein’s theory of
relativity, the
development of quantum
mechanics, and the
emergence of the big
bang theory,
transformed human
understanding of the
natural world during the
20th century.
 45. This event occurred
in 1918 as a result of
internal factors, such as
civic unrest, and external
factors, mainly the
empire’s defeat during
WWI and its occupation
and partitioning by the
victors. After a war of
independence, Turkey
emerged as a successor
state in 1923.
 46. This revolution
took place in two parts
in 1917. In February
of that year, the last
Romanov tsar was
removed from power.
A second uprising in
October installed the
communist Bolsheviks
as the country’s
leaders.
 47. This event occurred
in 1911 as a result of
mounting internal and
external pressures, such
as ineffective leadership,
declining food levels,
and the Boxer Rebellion.
Revolutionaries led by
Sun Yat-sen installed a
new Republic of China in
place of the old imperial
system.
 48. This Jewish
nationalist movement
supports the continued
establishment of a
Jewish state, Israel, in
Palestine.
 49. This form of war,
employed during both
World War I and World
War II, relies on the use
of ideologies such as
fascism, nationalism,
and communism, to
mobilize all of a nation’s
resources to wage war.
It also involves not just
soldiers, but a country’s
citizens as well.
 50. This conflict, fought
from 1914 to 1918, pitted
the Allied Powers (led by
Italy, France, Great Britain,
and later the United
States) against the Central
Powers ( led by Germany).
This war employed new
techniques such as trench
warfare and home front
efforts to involve a nation’s
complete populace in the
conflict.
 51. This international
organization was
created by the Treaty
of Versailles following
World War I and was
first envisioned by
Woodrow Wilson in his
14 points.
 52. This process
places a nation or
nations under the
political and economic
control of another,
stronger power.
 53. This ideology
glorifies war and the
role of the military
within society.
 54. This treaty, signed
in 1919, ended WWI.
The treaty forced
harsh reparations on
Germany and redrew
the map of Europe; no
country was
particularly satisfied
with its terms. The
treaty is often cited as
a cause of WWII.
 55. This plan
encompassed Woodrow
Wilson’s goals for the
Treaty of Versailles that
included selfdetermination of nations,
peace without victory,
disarmament, fair
treatment of colonial
peoples, and the
creation of the League of
Nations.
 56. This Russian
revolutionary founded
the Bolshevik party
and led the Russian
Revolution in 1917
with a promise of
“Peace, Land, Bread.”
After the revolution, he
became the first head
of the Soviet Union.
 57. This Chinese
leader, known as the
Father of Modern China,
helped overthrow the
Qing Dynasty and
served as the nation’s
leader from 1911-12 and
1923-25. He promoted
the Three Principles of
the People-nationalism,
democracy, and
socialism-as a way to
govern China.