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Modern World History 2nd Semester Review
Modern World History 2nd Semester Review
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#World History #WWI #WWII #Cold War #Interwar Years #Modern World History
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1
How do you win in thermonuclear war?
Star Wars
M.A.D
First Strike!
The only winning move is not to play
2
Led Communist Revolution in China
Mao Zedong
Jiang Jieshi
Sun Yixian
Mohandas Gandhi
3
Small Mustache, tries to take over the world
Adolf Hitler
Adolf
Charlie Chaplin
Hitler
4
Leader of Communist Vietnam
Stalin
Fidel Castro
Hitler
Ho Chi Minh
5
Turning point in the war in the Pacific during WWII
Battle of Midway
Battle of Guadacanal
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Britain
6
If one country falls to communism, neighboring countries will fall to communism
Marshall Plan
Iron Curtain
Containment
Domino Theory
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Why were the Balkans known as the Powder Keg of Europe?
Most of the region was ethnically similar
They held most of the regions weapons stores
They liked to party
they were constantly in conflict
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In what way did the colonies NOT participate in WWI?
By providing supplies
by providing another arena of fighting
By providing soldiers
By starting the war
9
Policy of Great Britain and France giving in to Hitler's demands in order to keep the peace.
Total War
Non-aggression Pact
Appeasement
Containment
10
Crazy "magical" advisor to the Czar.
Trotsky
Nicholas II
Rasputin
Lenin
11
Cause and Effect: Choose the Cause
Buying stocks on Margin
Great Depression
12
Which was NOT a limitation put on Germany after WWI?
trading sanctions
War debt (reparations)
limited army
Loss of territory
13
Which of These Events DID NOT bring the United States into WWI
Sinking of Lusitania
Zimmerman Note
Attacks on Pearl Harbor
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
14
Germany's last effort to win the war during the end of WWII
Battle of Britain
Battle of the Bulge
D-Day
Battle of Stalingrad
15
What was the goal of the 5 year plan in Russia?
To win all the sports
to get rid of all political prisioners
To catch up economically with the west
To graduate high school in 5 years
16
Fascist Leader of Italy
Mussolini
Francisco Franco
Hitler
Churchill
17
Cause and Effect: Choose the Cause
Rise of Hitler
Limitations put on Germany after WWI
18
Cause and Effect: Choose the Cause
Trench Warfare
Millions of deaths during WWI
19
Lead Communist Revolution and took over after the Czar abdicated. Based ideas on Karl Marx's.
Trotsky
Stalin
Lenin
Putin
20
The goal of stopping the spread of Communism during the Cold War
Brinksmanship
Containment
Yalta
Iron Curtain
21
Created Totalitarian State in Soviet Union
Rasputin
Nicholas II
Stalin
Lenin
22
Cause and Effect: Choose the Cause
The Long March
Strengthened resolve of the communist party in China
23
Lost Generation Author
Steven King
Salvador Dali
William Shakespeare
F. Scott Fitzgerald
24
Cause and Effect: Choose the Cause
Cuban Communist Revolution
Cuban Missile Crisis
25
NOT a Surrogate war during the Cold War
Vietnam
Korea
Iraq
Afghanistan
26
Which Central Power lost all of its empire and was broken up into separate countries after WWI?
Germany
Russia
Austria-Hungary
France
27
President during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Reagan
Kennedy
Nixon
Obama
28
Why was it called the Cold War?
It was fought in the arctic
It was fought during the winter
No fighting between the two superpowers, just tension
Thermonuclear detonations cause a decrease in temperature
29
What was Lenin's secret police?
CIA
Cheka
Bownshirts
KGB
30
Attack France First to Avoid a Two Front War
Rasputin
Zimmerman
Schlieffen
Woodrow Wilson
31
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a totalitarian state?
Police Terror
Basic liberties
Censorship
Dynamic Dictator
32
Cause and Effect: Choose the Cause
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Pearl Harbor
33
What is the Lost Generation?
soldiers killed during WWI
Ppl who spend too much time binge watching, neglecting life
Writers looking for the meaning of life
displaced people after a war
34
Country Germany invaded that finally started WWII
Poland
Russia
Belgium
France
35
Lead Great Britain during WWII and the Blitz
Hitler
Eisenhower
Churchill
Roosevelt
36
How did the alliance system help create WWI?
By making any one side too afraid to attack
By countries being allowed to share information
By making one small conflict into a large one
by all agreeing to start war at the Berlin Conference
37
Last Czar of Russia
Stalin
Nicholas I
Lenin
Nicholas II
38
Why was China's "Great Leap Forward" unsuccessful?
It was sabotaged by the CIA
China didn't have the resources necessary
Communism exploits the working class
Poor Planning
39
Leader of Fascist Spain
Mussolini
Hitler
Franco
Churchill
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Why did Great Britain, France, and Russia form the Triple Entente?
To protect against a growing German Army.
To protect against Austrian Agression
To establish trade routes
To bulster defenses
41
NOT a reason the Soviet Union Fell
Protest Movements
Economic Troubles
Reform Leaders
We dropped A-bombs on Moscow
42
Surrealist Painter of Persistence of Memory
Leonardo Di Vinci
Hitler
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Salvador Dali
43
Ramped up U.S. defense spending and tried to create the Shtar Warz missile defense system.
Ronald McDonald
Ronald Reagan
Han Solo
Luke Skywalker
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His assassination caused the start of WWI
Gavrillo Princep
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Aurther Zimmerman
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Country Germany took over
before
WWII
France
Austria
Denmark
Belgium
