World history 2

Question 1

What three nations fought the battle of Waterloo?

Accepted Answer

Britain, France and Prussia

Question 2

The first atomic bomb was dropped here on August 6th, 1945 by the United States?

Accepted Answer

Hiroshima

Question 3

How did fascism affect the German economy?

Accepted Answer

Helped bring Germany out of the great depression

Question 4

At the Munich Conference, the allies appeased Hitler and gave him what?

Accepted Answer

Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia)

Question 5

Which explorer discovered America?

Accepted Answer

Columbus

Question 6

This Asian nation went from a command economy to a semi-capitalist and is the 2nd largest today

Accepted Answer

China

Question 7

Which event triggered the surrender of Japan, ending World War 2?

Accepted Answer

The United State dropping atomic bombs on Japanese cities

Question 8

Which of these would be an example of fascism?

Accepted Answer

Brutal suppression of the opposition via emotional appeal

Question 9

Chinese initiative led by Mao Zedong that was intended to promote industrialization and tech.

Accepted Answer

Great Leap Forward

Question 10

Which technological innovation would best assist the modern feminist movement?

Accepted Answer

Birth Control pills

Question 11

During World War One which country invented the tank?

Accepted Answer

Britain

Question 12

In which war were concentration camps first used?

Accepted Answer

Boer War

Question 13

Which international organization triggered a recession in the 1970s through a fuel embargo?

Accepted Answer

OPEC

Question 14

What caused Russia to withdraw from WW1?

Accepted Answer

The October Revolution

Question 15

What is the name of the Treaty that officially ended World War I?

Accepted Answer

Versailles

Question 16

Where was Alexander the Great born?

Accepted Answer

Macedon

Question 17

Which event was the OFFICIAL start of WWII in Europe?

Accepted Answer

The invasion of Poland

Question 18

Which of the following was a main cause of World War 2?

Accepted Answer

Germany and Japan using military force to get resources

Question 19

Which American civil rights leader championed peaceful protest and equality between races?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 20

Allies land on the beaches of France in the largest invasion in history to free France?

Accepted Answer

D-Day

Question 21

Who was the President of the United States for the majority of World War 2?

Accepted Answer

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 22

Who was the first Governor of Australia?

Accepted Answer

Arthur Philip

Question 23

Why did Japan ultimately decide to attack the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor?

Accepted Answer

The U.S. cut off vital natural resources to Japan

Question 24

The term anti-semitic means hatred toward who?

Accepted Answer

Jews

Question 25

What important event happened after WW2?

Accepted Answer

The forming of the U.N.

Question 26

What was the affect of Karl Marx's writing on the world?

Accepted Answer

It spurned revolutions throughout the globe

Question 27

The British drive back German advances and take control of North Africa?

Accepted Answer

El Alamein

Question 28

The Communists took power in China in which year?

Accepted Answer

1949

Question 29

Air battle between the Luftwaffe and Royal Air Force. First time German expansion is stopped?

Accepted Answer

Britain

Question 30

Which of the following is NOT a reason for the rise in exponential population growth?

Accepted Answer

increased death rates

Question 31

These 4 Asian nations industrialized between 1960-2000 becoming incredibly successful economies

Accepted Answer

Four Asian Tigers

Question 32

During the French Revolution which king was executed?

Accepted Answer

Louis XVI

Question 33

What was the most common Egyptian weapon?

Accepted Answer

bow and arrow

Question 34

The following image was a symbol of pride from which major turning point battle?

Accepted Answer

Britain

Question 35

The Russian civil was between which two sides?

Accepted Answer

The reds and the whites

Question 36

The United States secret program to develop an atomic bomb?

Accepted Answer

Manhattan Project

Question 37

Mao Tse-tung was responsible for how many people's deaths in peacetime?

Accepted Answer

70 million

Question 38

What was Emperor Augustus also known as?

Accepted Answer

Octavian

Question 39

Which of these is a transnational movement that unites people based on racial ancestry?

Accepted Answer

Pan Africanism

Question 40

How long did the Roman Empire go for?

Accepted Answer

507 years

Question 41

Severe weather, freezing temperatures and starvation led to the German defeat here?

Accepted Answer

Stalingrad

Question 42

military and political alliance, anti-communist countries

Accepted Answer

NATO

Question 43

Whose reforms essentially dismantled the communist elements of the Chinese economy?

Accepted Answer

Deng Xiaoping

Question 44

What does the term "the Blitz" refer to?

Accepted Answer

Bombing of British cities

Question 45

In which Soviet city did the German army's invasion of Russia falter?

Accepted Answer

Stalingrad

Question 46

Which Chinese leader founded the People's Republic of China?

Accepted Answer

Mao Zedong

Question 47

Which of these is NOT a component of the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

A war of skirmishes among superpowers

Question 48

Which American president was responsible for abolishing slavery?

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln

Question 49

During the Holocaust the largest number of Jews came from which country?

Accepted Answer

Poland

Question 50

Mikhail Gorbachev’spolicy of “openness” which allowed greater freedom and ended most censorship

Accepted Answer

Glasnot

Question 51

The Nazi SS was headed by which man?

Accepted Answer

Himmler

Question 52

All of the following are causes of the First World War EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

the assassination of key Church figures

Question 53

Which leader of the Soviet Union turned the nation into a totalitarian state built around them?

Accepted Answer

Stalin

Question 54

Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet union took place in which year?

Accepted Answer

1940

Question 55

Which Nazi was in charge of the German Luftwaffe during World War Two?

Accepted Answer

Hermann Goering

Question 56

What invention helped the British to win the Battle of Britain?

Accepted Answer

Radar

Question 57

With the Nazi-Soviet Pact, Hitler and Stalin decided to divide up what territory?

Accepted Answer

Poland

Question 58

World War Two took place between what years?

Accepted Answer

1939-1945

Question 59

A major American Naval base was attacked by Japan in December of 1941?

Accepted Answer

Pearl Harbor

Question 60

The French Revolution began in what year?

Accepted Answer

1789

Question 61

What was the name of the gladiator slave who led a revolt against Rome?

Accepted Answer

Spartacus

Question 62

Who was the British Prime Minister for most of WWII?

Accepted Answer

Winston Churchill

Question 63

The following individual was the leader of what country?

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 64

What island was Napoleon born on?

Accepted Answer

Corsica

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