European History

Question 1

The Berlin Wall separated the North from the South.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 2

Which of the following led to German reunification?

Accepted Answer

The collapse of the Soviet Union.

Question 3

What marked the end of the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

destruction of the Berlin Wall

Question 4

The Soviet Union was formed before WWI.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 5

What would a person wanting a fascist movement want?

Accepted Answer

Strong authoritarian government called a dictatorship.

Question 6

Which of the following correctly identifies anti-Semitism?

Accepted Answer

Racial bias or prejudice against Jews.

Question 7

What happened to people who spoke out against Hitler in Germany?

Accepted Answer

Some were put in prison; others were murdered.

Question 8

What did Adolf Hitler use to persuade people to think that Jews were to blame for Germany’s problems?

Accepted Answer

Propaganda

Question 9

What was the most damaging part of the Treaty of Versailles economically for Germany?

Accepted Answer

Paying war reparations to the Allies.

Question 10

What did the countries involved in the Cold War disagree on?

Accepted Answer

The type of government Germany should have.

Question 11

Germany’s citizens were furious over the Treaty of Versailles.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

What was the name of the dividing line that separated East and West Germany?

Accepted Answer

Iron curtain

Question 13

What is an armistice?

Accepted Answer

Formal cease fire.

Question 14

What event led to WWI?

Accepted Answer

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand I of Austria-Hungary.

Question 15

The “space race” was a competition between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

What type of government did the Soviet Union have?

Accepted Answer

Communist

Question 17

Propaganda helped German citizens believe Hitler’s racial ideologies.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

What was the name of the forced labor and extermination of nearly 11 million Jews called?

Accepted Answer

Holocaust

Question 19

What was the ultimate goal for the U.S. during the years of the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

To stop the spread of communism.

Question 20

Who were the Allied powers in WWI?

Accepted Answer

Great Britain, France, Serbia, and Russia

Question 21

Adolf Hitler was in charge of the Central Powers during WWI.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 22

During the Cold War, the buildup of weapons was called the arms race.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 23

Who were the Central powers during WWI?

Accepted Answer

Germany, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, and Austria-Hungary

Question 24

The stock market crash of 1929 started in the U.S.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

What began as a direct result of Germany’s outrage over the Treaty of Versailles?

Accepted Answer

Rise of Nazism

Question 26

The Treaty of Versailles blamed WWI on Britain.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 27

Which of the following was an EFFECT of the worldwide depression following WWI?

Accepted Answer

Farmers lost their land and banks closed.

Question 28

Who took control of Russia after Czar Nicholas II of Russia?

Accepted Answer

Vladimir Lenin

Question 29

What is nationalism?

Accepted Answer

love for one’s country

Question 30

Which of the following statements BEST describes the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

period of intense competition between the United States and Soviet Union

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