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World History Final Spring 2017
World History Final Spring 2017
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Columbia High School 9th grade World History Final
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1
Appeasement is the policy of making peace
True
False
2
Germany’s invasion of Poland sparked the beginning of World War II
True
False
3
Shares of companies are called?
Corporations
Assembly Line
Interchangeable Parts
Stock
4
The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of White fighter pilots
True
False
5
Who developed the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
Guglielmo Marconi
Alfred Nobel
Orville and Wilbur Wright
6
Rural towns in England that sent members to Parliament despite having the necessary population
Slum Towns
Rotten Boroughs
Shanty Towns
Villas
7
Law that imposed high tariffs on imported grain but was repealed in 1846
Tariff of 1816
Wheat Laws
Corn Laws
Free Trade
8
Who invented dynamite?
Alfred Nobel
Guglielmo Marconi
Samuel Morse
Orville and Wilbur Wright
9
These ditches were dug by both sides of the war. Soldiers slept, ate, & fought for weeks here.
Trenches
canyons
holes
Canals
10
ideal of society that seeks to apply biological concepts of Darwinism to sociology & politics
Survival of the Fittest
Socialism
Social Darwinism
Communism
11
Who was head of the Communist Party
Winston Churchill
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
12
German U-boats sank this ship off the coast of Ireland in May 1915, killing 128 Americans.
The Lusitania
Bismarck
The Liberator
The Alabama
13
The systematic genocide of about six million European Jews by the Nazis during World War II
Murder
extermination
Holocaust
Genocide
14
Controlled limits on the amount of certain goods that civilians could buy during wartime
Lend Lease Act
Interment
appeasement
Rationing
15
Liberal Prime Minister alternated his terms with Benjamin Disraeli
Winston Churchill
William Gladstone
William Penn
Oliver Cromwell
16
organizations created by workers to fight for better pay, hours, and benefits
Socialism
Labor Unions
Communism
Afleck
17
Dictator of Germany who wrote Mein Kampf?
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Winston Churchill
Joseph Stalin
18
The two houses of British Parliament are
Senate and Representatives
Whigs and Torres
Conservative and Liberal
Lords and Commons
19
The Code name of the project that developed the atomic bomb was known as the Manhattan
True
False
20
American plan to give aid to Europe after World War II to help rebuild war torn areas?
American Plan
Truman Plan
Roosevelt Plan
Marshall Plan
21
Who said all forms of life evolved into their present state over millions of years
Charles Darwin
Louis Pasteur
Thomas Edison
Florence Nightingale
22
Disaster in 1845 Ireland that caused one million to die of starvation
Revelation
Food Storage
Potato Famine
War of 1812
23
Britain, France, Soviet Union, United States, and China make up the Axis powers.
False
True
24
Britain, France, and Russia made an alliance called
The Central Powers
DDT
The Triple Entente
Axis Powers
25
Camps used by Nazis to imprison “undesirable” members of society were called?
Work Camps
Death Camps
Concentration Camps
Ghettos
26
Rosie the Riveter was a fictional character used in World War II propaganda
True
False
27
Gorbachev was the last leader of the Soviet Union
True
False
28
Who invented the radio?
Alfred Nobel
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Samuel Morse
Guglielmo Marconi
29
____ , _____ , and ______ were new technologies used by both sides during World War I
Tanks, machine guns, and trenches
Zeppelins, Tanks, and U-Boats
all of the above
Submarines, Gas, and Airplanes
30
Meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin in February 1945 to discuss the end of WWII
League of Nations
United Nations
Warsaw Pact
Yalta Conference
31
French built waterway in Egypt that linked the Mediterranean with the Red Sea
Strait Gilbartar
Suez Canal
Panama Canal
Nile River
32
Allied victory in Japan was known as V-J Day
False
True
33
Who developed a new process for making steel from iron?
Thomas Edison
Henry Ford
Alfred Noble
Henry Bessemer
34
German rocket scientist brought to America after the War.
Werner Von Braun
Charles Darwin
Florence Nightingale
Thomas Edison
35
Why did the United States remain neutral at the start of WWII?
The Recession
The Great Depression
The Holocaust
Communism
36
Workers adding parts to a product that moves along a belt from one work station to the next
Stock
Interchangeable Parts
Assembly Line
Corporations
37
General who ruled over Spain as a military dictator for 36 years until his death
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Winston Churchill
Francisco Franco
38
The structure built that divided East and West Berlin for nearly 40 years?
Iron Curtain
Hadrian's wall
Hoover Dam
The Berlin Wall
39
The sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram, caused which country to enter the WW I
Britain
United States
Canada
Ireland
40
What event prompted the U.S. to enter World War II?
Communism
The Holocaust
Zimmerman Note
Pearl Harbor
41
He rose to power in France and set up the Second Empire
Calvin the Just
Philip II
Charles V
Napoleon III
42
a nonbinding agreement between two countries to follow common policies
armistice
ultimatum
entente
alliance
43
government where a single party controls the economic, social, & cultural lives of its people
totalitarianism
Communism
fascism
Socialism
44
The right to vote is called suffrage
True
False
45
The famous speech was given by Winston Churchill
Tear down the this wall
Warsaw Pact
Ain't I woman
Iron Curtain
46
Germany, Italy, and Japan make up the Allied Powers
True
False
47
“Blitzkreig” means lightening war
False
True
48
Who made up the Central Powers during World War I?
Britain, Russia, and France
Italy, Germany, and United States
Italy, Germany, and Austria Hungary
Metropolis, Gotham, and Central City
49
What date did the attack on Pearl Harbor occur?
February 2, 1944
June 6th ,1944
December 4th, 1944
December 7th, 1941
50
His assassination by the Black Hand ignited World War I
Bismarck
William I
Franz Ferdinand
William Garrison
51
______was known as the worst concentration camp, where over 1 million Jewish people were killed
Dunkirk
Omaha
Auschwitz
Nuremberg
52
Identical components that could be used in the place of one another is known as
Stock
Interchangeable Parts
Assembly Line
Corporation
53
Who invented the electric light bulb?
Thomas Edison
Henry Bessemer
Alfred Nobel
Henry Ford
54
defense alliance between the Soviet Union and seven satellites in Eastern Europe in 1955
Iron Curtain
United Nations
Red Scare
Warsaw Pact
55
The nuclear arms race between America and the Soviet Union?
Hoover Dam
Korean Conflict
Iron Curtain
The Cold War
56
Who developed the first airplane?
Guglielmo Marconi
Samuel Morse
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Alfred Nobel
57
The spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause
armistice
propaganda
contraband
atrocities
58
Conservative Prime Minister that pushed the Reform Bill of 1867
William Penn
William Gladstone
Benjamin Disraeli
Winston Churchill
59
Trials in which Nazi leaders were charged with war crimes was called the Geneva Convention
False
True
