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Imperialism, World War I, Interwar Period, World War II
Imperialism, World War I, Interwar Period, World War II
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Review of late 1800s until the end of World War II
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1
Neville Chamberlain is famous for saying "peace in our time" after the conclusion of
German troops move into the Rhineland
the Nazi invasion of Poland
The Munich Conference
Nazi-Soviet Nonagression Pact
2
The original Man of Steel wasn't Clark Kent, but
Franklin Roosevelt
Adolf Hitler
Winston Churchill
Joseph Stalin
3
The concept of "uncertainty principle" was proposed by
Freud
Einstein
Heisenberg
Keynes
4
With the creation of "modern" and "postmodern" art
students of art were taught specific "good" and "bad"
Lines between "good" and "bad" were blurred
Artists developed new mediums for art
public opinions on art became more important
5
Scientific discoveries in the early 20th century solidified religious truth.
False
True
6
World War II was the first total war in world history
True
False
7
An example of a "concessionary company," which had political control over a territory is
French Protectorate
British East India Company
Virginia Company
British Protectorate
8
Emilio Aguinaldo is a revolutionary leader of
Brazil
Mexico
Argentina
Philippines
9
Passed during the Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, the Roosevelt Corollary stated
The U.S. claimed North & South America
Created the "Open Door Policy" in regards to trade in China
The U.S. would only get involved in European affairs
Closed U.S. borders to immigrants and international business
10
During World War I, German success against the Russians was a succinct western front victory
Trur
False
11
As European imperialism spread, how many Europeans migrated overseas?
five million
five hundred million
fifteen million
fifty million
12
The Nazis were effective in crushing Polish and French troops with what tactic?
Blitzkrieg, or lightning war
Annexation of the Sudetenland
Anschluss, or unification with Austria
Einsatzgruppen, or the SS
13
The March Revolution of 1917 in Russia
happened after the assassination of Tzar Nicholas II
Led to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire
created a reformist government in Russia
led to the French defeat in The Great War
14
Which African colony successfully defeated German imperialists?
Ghana
South Africa
Tanganyika
Algeria
15
The United States sought to colonize Brazil with the publication of "White Man's Burden"
False
True
16
Popular opinion of the times that WWI would not last long emphasized
the unique nature of religion in war
The wildly enthusiastic nature of the belligerents
the use of mercenary troops to fight
the fear of a protracted war like the Crimean War
17
The end of the Romanov dynasty was with the death of
Tzar Alexander II
Tzar Nicholas II
Tzarina Catherine the Great
Tzar Alexander I
18
The largest, and most famous, death camp during World War II
Auschwitz
Dachau
Treblinka
Bergen-Belsen
19
Adolf Hitler was not the founder of fascism. Instead it was which leader?
Benito Mussolini
Francisco Franco
Leon Trotsky
Vladimir Lenin
20
Which French painter was influenced by Japanese art?
Gauguin
Degas
Monet
Picasso
21
Hitler believed that the signing of the armistice in 1918 destroyed German aspirations.
True
False
22
With the unification of Germany, industry rose to equal
the United Kingdom at 14% of global output
the world's largest
9% of industrial output between Germany and England
62% of global deman
23
As part of the imperialistic goals, which country is known for the saying "Asia for Asians?"
Vietnam
Korea
Japan
China
24
Japan was charged with war crimes for forcing 500,000 women into prostitution from China and
Indochina
the Philippines
Fiji
Korea
25
How were the Allies able to defeat the Axis powers?
Failure of Axis generals to win battles
Development of the atomic bomb
Larger armies due to the draft
Increased capacity for industrial output
26
The Rape of Belgium was the cause for the expansion of WWI into Africa, Asia, and the Pacific.
False
True
27
Captain Cook landed his boat in modern Botany Bay, or
Melbourne
Sydney
Cape Town
New South Wales
28
After the Great War, Britain and France used the "mandate system" to colonize the Mid East
False
True
29
The Japanese fought in World War I in order to
Take Russian colonies in the Pacific
Take over German colonies in Asia
desire to expand borders of Japan into British territories
expand the boundaries of Sino-Japanese empire
30
A famous socialist writer in the 1920's is credited with coining "the lost generation." Who?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ray Bradbury
John Steinbeck
Gertrude Stein
31
Which treaty was responsible for the Russian exit from World War I?
Treaty of Trianon
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Soviet-German Nonagression Pact
Treaty of Versailles
32
China is responsible for creating the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere"
False
True
33
While originally settled by convicted criminals, Australia was quickly populated by
the aristocracy and independently wealthy
Aboriginals and Kiwis
prospectors and rancers
sheep and cows that outnumbered people
34
Hitler made the same mistake as Napoleon in invading Russia in winter. He also was stopped by
the entrance of the US into the war
The defeat of Mussolini in Italy
the Warsaw Ghetto uprising
an assassination plot
35
Japan gained Manchuria and became an imperial power after
Opium Wars
Korean War
Russo-Japanese War
Sino-Japanese War
36
The loss of the Alsace and Lorraine territories made France leery of German expansionism, why?
German defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo
The division of Poland between Germany and USSR
The humiliating defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War
An economic alliance between Germany and Britain
37
The Rape of Nanjing was the worst Japanese atrocity in China
False
True
38
Who is famous for coining the term "social Darwinism?"
Cecil Rhodes
Herbert Spencer
Rudyard Kipling
Otto von Bismarck
39
Due to improvements in farming techniques, the price of wheat
increased dramatically worldwide
lowest price seen since the 1500s
comparable to today's price
low in industrialized nations and high in others
40
After World War II, Germany was split into the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and
Federal Republic of Germany
Unified Republic of West Germany
Union of Republican Capitalists of Germany
Berlin Protectorate
41
The author of "The Inequality of Human Races" believed that
Intellectually superior but morally inferior to other races
Europeans were superior to everyone else
arrogant and lazy
42
Black Thursday, October 24, 1929 is known as
Stalin's first 5 Year Plan
U.S. Stock Market crash
Kuomingtang defeat Communist China
When Hitler tried to overthrow the Wiemar Republic
43
The Soviet-German Nonagression Pact was successful in
Outlined anti-Semitic ideals
Laying the plans for a German betrayal of Russia
Dividing eastern Europe between Germany and Russia
Set in motion the Anschluss plan
44
Late to the game in gaining African colonies, Germany's sole possession in Africa was
Togoland
Zaire
Rhodesia
Congo
45
Sigmund Freud is known for his therapeutic style called "psychoanalysis"?
False
True
46
Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau wrote Essay on the Inequality of the Human Race
False
True
47
A violation of a nonagression pact, Operation Barbarossa was the Nazi plan for
Code name for the US landing at Normandy
the invasion of the Soviet Union
British resistance to Nazi aggression
The invasion plan to defeat France and install the Vichy
48
After the death of Stalin, Soviet Russia instituted the "Brezhnev Doctrine" which
an economic plan for Soviet development
said USSR would invade any socialist country under threat
Plan to rebuild Eastern Europe after World War II
containment policy to stop the spread of capitalism
49
Indochina, modern day Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos were under which European country's control?
France
Portugal
Netherlands
United Kingdom
50
Besides Jews, Roma, and the mentally/physically handicapped, Hitler hated
Vichy France
communist Russia
capitalist Great Britain
fascist Italy
