World History Review Semester 2

Question 1

What is the term used to describe the slaughter of European Jews by the Nazis?

Accepted Answer

Holocaust

Question 2

What is the best description of the "blitzkrieg"?

Accepted Answer

A new fast form attack that used both planes and tanks.

Question 3

What was the immediate cause for the start of World War One?

Accepted Answer

Assassination

Question 4

Which of the following was a result of the Six Day War?

Accepted Answer

Israel occupied the Sinai Peninsula and West Bank

Question 5

Prior to the start of WW2 what was the practiced policy of many western European powers called?

Accepted Answer

Appeasement

Question 6

Which of the following communist satellite countries did not gain independence by 1991?

Accepted Answer

North Korea

Question 7

What contributed to the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Accepted Answer

America's secret promise to remove missiles from Turkey.

Question 8

The 38th parallel in Korea and the 17th parallel in Vietnam was used to mark what?

Accepted Answer

Political divisions created by communist and noncommunist

Question 9

Which was not a weapon used during World War One?

Accepted Answer

Atomic Bombs

Question 10

What did the Japanese military do on December 7, 1941?

Accepted Answer

Launched a surprise attack on the US at Pearl Harbor.

Question 11

Which of the following was not a cause of World War One?

Accepted Answer

Industrialization

Question 12

Who were the defendants at the Nuremberg trials?

Accepted Answer

Nazi military and political leaders

Question 13

What does the name "al-Qaeda" mean?

Accepted Answer

The Base

Question 14

Since the 1970s technological advances have changed which of the following?

Accepted Answer

The length of time to travel from one place to another, All of these, The way people communicate across the globe, The way infectious diseases spread

Question 15

What was the area of land in Czechoslovakia given to Hitler due to his demands clalled?

Accepted Answer

Sudetenland

Question 16

Where was the military strategy known as "island hopping" utilized?

Accepted Answer

Pacific Theatre

Question 17

The expansion of Communism into Eastern Europe was a direct result of.....

Accepted Answer

World War Two

Question 18

What was Japan's main reason for trying to control other territories prior to WW2?

Accepted Answer

They needed natural resources

Question 19

What did the Allies agree to at the Yalta Conference?

Accepted Answer

The establishment of the United Nations

Question 20

Britain and France declared war on Germany 2 days after Hitler invaded _____________.

Accepted Answer

Poland

Question 21

What was the system of racial segregation that was practiced in South Africa?

Accepted Answer

Apartheid

Question 22

What is a period of low economic activity and rising unemployment?

Accepted Answer

Economic depression

Question 23

Who was the leader of al-Qaeda that orchestrated the attacks in the US on Sept. 11, 2001?

Accepted Answer

Osama bin Laden

Question 24

At the Potsdam Conference what did Truman demand happen throughout Eastern Europe?

Accepted Answer

To have freely elected governments.

Question 25

Who were the intended victims of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda?

Accepted Answer

Tutsis

Question 26

The Ayatollah Khomeini opposed the Shah of Iran because of which reason?

Accepted Answer

Felt the Shah promoted a culture of greed and materialism

Question 27

When two powers use a third party as a substitute for fighting each other directly it is called

Accepted Answer

Surrogate War, Proxy War

Question 28

To prevent the predicted heavy casualties what did President Truman order to end the war?

Accepted Answer

Drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 29

Mao Zedong emerged as the communist leader of China and was forced to retreat in 1934 known as?

Accepted Answer

The Long March

Question 30

What was the main goal of the United States involvement in Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

Contain and stop the spread of communism from the north.

Question 31

The main reason the United Nations sent troops to Korea in 1950 was to

Accepted Answer

Prevent North Korea from conquering people of South Korea.

Question 32

Which document officially ended World War One?

Accepted Answer

Treaty of Versailles

Question 33

What has fueled the tensions between Iran and Iraq?

Accepted Answer

Disputes over religious differences

Question 34

What was a direct result of the Glasnost policy?

Accepted Answer

Freedom of the press

Question 35

What were the Nuremberg Laws?

Accepted Answer

Laws that excluded and persecuted Jews living in Germany.

Question 36

What was the policy called that restructured the Soviet economy and government.

Accepted Answer

Perestroika

Question 37

How did the US react to the news that the Soviet Union were the first to put a man in space?

Accepted Answer

Determined to not lose the space race

Question 38

Who was arrested in 1962 that led to an armed resistance organized by the ANC?

Accepted Answer

Nelson Mandela

Question 39

The United Nations does all of the following EXCEPT?

Accepted Answer

Provide financial and technical help to developing nations

Question 40

Which event cannot be linked to the collapse of the USSR?

Accepted Answer

Unwillingness to adopt capitalistic practices

Question 41

Pan-Africanism promotes the view that regardless of national boundaries all ......

Accepted Answer

Black Africans should share a common identity

Question 42

What was Mein Kampf?

Accepted Answer

A book written by Adolf Hitler expressing his ideology.

Question 43

How did Saddam Hussein gain the resources to fight against Iran during the 1980s?

Accepted Answer

The US, USSR, and France provided him with weapons

Question 44

Hitler's goal was to create which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Third Reich (German Empire)

Question 45

What was the main purpose of constructing the Berlin Wall?

Accepted Answer

To stop East Germans from fleeing to West Berlin

Question 46

The purpose of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan was to ....

Accepted Answer

Prevent the spread of communism

Question 47

What is the term used to describe the spending of money on the military to prepare for war?

Accepted Answer

militarism

Question 48

Which statement best describes domino theory?

Accepted Answer

If one country falls to communism others near them will fall

Question 49

What is one of the most threatening aspects of today's speed of international travel?

Accepted Answer

People can travel across the globe shorter than incubations

Question 50

Many Middle Eastern Muslims see Islamic fundamentalism as ....

Accepted Answer

Movement to reassert Muslim identity and values

World History Review Semester 2

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World History Review Semester 2

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