Final Exam Quiz (S2)

Credited with the discovery of Radioactivity

In what way was the Nazi-Soviet Pact similar to the treaty that created the Axis?

The main rivalry between Germany and Britain was the direct result of

Why did Lenin feel he needed to adapt pure Marxist ideas to fit Russia's conditions?

Mussolini was inspired by Hitler

What was one reason Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931?

Which group of people were targeted and blamed for causing the problems in Nazi Germany?

Which factor was a cause of BOTH revolutions in Russia in 1917?

The 6 million Jews who were killed in the Holocaust represented what percentage of pre-war Jewish population in Europe

Which of the following was an indirect result of the work of Einstein and Curie?

What did surrealism have in common with the stream-of-consciousness technique and Freud's work?

Soviet leader who turned the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state

How did the Ottoman control of the Dardanelles & German submarine warfare in the Atlantic have a similar impact on WWI?

The event in Germany in which mobs of people attacked Jewish citizens across all of Germany

A final set of demands is called

Ideas that are spread in order to promote a cause or damage an opposing cause

Resulted in the deaths of 5-8 million people, mostly Kulaks, from starvation

How did the battles of Midway and the Coral Sea differ from earlier naval battles?

In the Soviet Union, women were treated mainly as equals to men

Soviet organization given the task of bringing about communist revolutions in other countries.

Payments for war damage

Which statement best describes Western countries' attempt to end the Great Depression?

Who benefited most from the treaty ending the war between Germany and Russia?

How did WWI affect artistic movements in the 1920s?

Which of the following is true of women during WWI?

The Kaiser of Germany was first cousins with (there are two correct answers)

Which of the following actions did the Nazis take specifically to implement Hitler's "Final Solution?

Which political issue challenged both Britain and France following WWI?

When they met at Yalta, the Big Three disagreed about

The group who claimed responsibility for the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was known as the

Lenin believed that a socialist revolution could succeed in Russia if

Which listing represents the order in which these Allied nations joined the war against the Axis powers?

Which of the following was NOT under government control in the Soviet Union (under Stalin)?

The name of the ship containing Jewish refugees that were refused entry into the US after being refused entry into Cuba

The chief goal of the League of Nations was to

Communist leader who competed with Stalin for power after Lenin's death

The Allied forces supported the White side of the Russian Civil War. This contributed to...

The primary problem Germany faced in WWI was

Which was a cornerstone of Hitler's anti-Semitic beliefs?

What type of economy did Stalin develop through his 5-year plans?

How did the aftermath of WWI affect the international economy?

To protect themselves from another German invasion, the French built the

The counter revolutionary fighting force was known as the

What was one result of the Yalta Conference?

Who planned to cut off the Ottoman Empire from helping Germany by attacking the central powers?

The document in Europe that declared war would no longer be used as a foreign policy tool was

What is one way that the Eastern Front was different from the Western Front?

Why did the invasion of Poland launch World War II?

The term given to represent the generation of people that fought in WWI was the

Communist officials whose job was to teach citizens about communist ideas and beliefs

Credited with the study of psychoanalysis

to prepare military forces for war

What was the result of the Allie's intervention in Russia's civil war?

The economist who argued that the government should step in more to regulate and help the economy

The person who became the US president and started to move them out of the Great Depression was

The night of sanctioned violence against Jews in Germany was called

What is the primary reason that concentration camps were created in 1933?

Economic plan created by FDR

The territory that the French and Germans had been arguing over prior to WWI

Why did support for Hitler increase in the 1930s?

Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler were all Fascists

Which of the following played a role in Hitler’s rise to power?

Which of the following was a cause of the economic slump mentioned above?

The art form that was a revolt against civilization, used the slogan “we spit on humanity”

The War officially ended on (WWI)

From Hitler's point of view, what was the chief impact of the Nazi-Soviet Pact?

The three countries that originally made up the Triple Entente were

Why was the Battle of the Bulge significant?

The person who came up with the 14 points during the Peace Treaty in Versailles was

Book written by Adolf Hitler in which he lays out his beliefs and vision for Germany

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of fascism?

Large farms owned by peasants as a group were called

Why did emerging knowledge about the extent of the Holocaust help increase demand and support for a Jewish homeland?

What was the main reason the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor?

The event which led to King Victor Emmanuel handing over control to Mussolini

Who was Douglas MacArthur?

Democratic government set up in Germany after World War I.

Which of the following is a reason why Western countries refused to accept more refugees in the late 1930s?

The program that was used in the US to stimulate the economy during the Depression was called the

What was one economic effect of World War II?

The Soviet Secret Police

The name of the Russian parliament while the czar held power

Japan fought on which side during WWI?

Which of the following ruled their countries as a totalitarian dictator?

The invasion of Okinawa was a direct result of the

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last.", This quotation most accurately reflects

Article 231 in the Treaty of Versailles was also referred to as the

The treaty that Russia was forced to sign with Germany to withdraw from WWI was called Treaty of

Which of the folllowing represents an example of silent Jewish resistance

The last name of the last Russian czar was

 Mussolini glorified violence in his many of his speeches and statements

Russia was slow to industrialize because…

Local council of workers and soldiers

The man who helped cure the czar's son of hemophilia

Which of the following actions was a direct violation of the treaty that ended World War I?

Lenin's economic plan that allowed limited capitalism

The group of people who faced persecution from the Ottoman Empire during the war were the

 The global economic slump that began at the end of the 1920s

In contrast to Lenin's "war communism," his New Economic Policy of 1921

Which of the following statements correctly describes Hitler's "Final Solution"?