APWH-Unit 6

Which of the following is the most important reason why the balance of power among European nations changed significantly during the 19th and early 20th centuries?

• Britain's industrial output increased rapidly, leaving other countries behind.
• France gained many more colonies and came to dominate the oceans.
• A newly-organized Germany gained military and economic power.
• The Netherlands and Belgium demanded more land space in Europe and in Africa.

During the early 20th century before 1914, Pan-Slavism most directly weakened the political unity of 

• Italy
• Germany
• Russia
• Austria-Hungary

Which of the following countries did not fight on the Eastern Front during World War I?

• Austria-Hungary
• Russia
• France
• Germany

Which of the following was the most important factor that stimulates the passage of women's suffrage measures in Britain. Germany, Austria, and the United States between 1918 and 1920?

• the development of new women;s rights movements
• women working in traditional male jobs during World War I
• increasing prosperity that allowed higher pay for women
• the closing of the wage gap between men and women

"His Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of that object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine."
The Balfour Declaration quoted above was a statement that was inspired primarily by Britain's need to 

• contain instability caused by Zionist protests
• win World War I
• combat Arab unrest in the Middle East
• undermine the political influence of Austria-Hungary

Which of the following accurately compares events in Russia and China between 1900 and 1920?

• The governments of both countries adopted communism to guide their economic development.
• China gained political and economic stability, but Russia did not.
• Both countries experiences revolutions that deposed authoritarian rulers.
• Russia participated in World War I, but China did not.

A significant factor that escalated the panic that hit the U.S. stock market in 1929 was

• low inventories of goods for sale
• debts owed to the U.S. by Latin American countries
• over-regulation of the market during the 1920s
• the practice of buying stocks on the margin

Which of the following types of warfare was more characteristic of World War I than World War II?

• trench warfare
• use of planes and aircraft carriers
• use of the atomic bomb
• bombing raid launched on cities

The map above reflects an important trend during the mid-twentieth century toward

• globalization
• decolonization
• fragmentation
• modernization

The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan reflected the U.S. Cold War policy of 

• detente
• self-determination
• containment
• preemption