World Wars and Cold War Test Review: Europe

What event angered Austria-Hungary and led to WWI?

• a Slave entered a parade
• the Ottoman Empire refused them independence
• Gavrilo Princip was assassinated
• a Slav assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand 

When did the two halves of Germany reunite?

• immediately after World War II

• at the start of the cold war

• when the European Union was formed

• after the Soviet Union lost control of Eastern Europe

How has the European Union benefited it's member nations?

• The EU has shielded member nations from trade with other parts of the world.

• The EU has converted European currencies to U.S. dollars

• The EU has helped members compete more successfully with larger economies

• The EU has promoted agriculture as a substitute for manufactoring.

What is the purpose of the United Nations?

• A means to solving international conflict

• Stop Germany during World War II

• A formal way to start wars

• An organization that gives/takes away rights.

Since World War II, which of the following changes has taken place in many nations of Southern Europe?

• They have adopted communism

• They have converted to christianity

• They have withdrawn international trade

• They have become democracies

Which Eastern European country peacefully split into two separate countries in the 1990's?

• Herzegovina

• Czechoslovakia

• Yugoslavia

• Macedonia

When was the use of chemical weapons in warfare introducted?

• WWI

• WWII

• at the beginning of the cold war

• during revolts against communism

Which of the following was the government-sponsored murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis?

• the black death

• feudalism

• the holocaust

• the cold war

The direct effect of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe was that traditions and identity have grown stronger in the region.

• True

• False

In the past century, why have many emigrants from Eastern Europe come to the United States

• to seek political freedom and economic opportunity

• to be reunited with their American friends and families

• to settle in a country with a climate better suited to agriculture

• to spread European values and culture to America.