AP World History WWI-WWII

A program of loans that was designed to aid Western European nations rebuild from WWII's devastation was the

• The MacArthur Plan
• The Marshall Plan
• The Churchill Plan
• The Dreyfus Affair

What battle site in 1914, during WWI, forced Germany to abandon its general plan for winning the war quickly?

• Verdun
• Marne
• Ypres
• Somme

The factors destabilizing the balance of power in Europe in the late 1800s and early 1900s included all the following EXCEPT

• the rise of socialist and communist movements in European nations
• the strong sense of nationalism led by many European nations
• conflict over ethnic and religious differences in some nations
• German aggression on the continent under von Bismark

Adolf Hitler was the political and ideological leader of the

• Conservative Union
• Social Democratic Party
• National Socialist Workers Party
• Christian Democratic Party

The most important impact of the demilitarization of Japan after World War II was the

• increase in anti-American sentiment and protest throughout Japan
• deportation of Japanese-Americans held in internment camps back to Japan
• ability to devote a significant share of the nations budget to industrialization
• reassignment of Japan's colonies to the United States

Which of the following is NOT accurate concerning the signing of the final set of treaties that ended World War I?

• Russia was rewarded for its service by being given substantial Baltic territories
• Austria-Hungary was divided into Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia
• Germany was forced to accept blame for the war and pay huge war reparations
• A League of Nations was formed but in time provided ineffective

All of the following were new scientific revolutions immediately AFTER WWI EXCEPT

• theory of relativity
• the Bessemer process
• sociology
• quantum physics

In which of these nations was the Truman Doctrine first put to use?

• Greece and Turkey
• Poland and West Germany
• Turkey and Czechoslovakia
• Poland and Greece

Stalin's system of economic planning occurred under the

• Peace, Land and Bread reforms
• NEP
• kulaks
• Five Year Plans

Which city was the symbolic point for the beginning and end of the Cold War?

• Sarajevo
• Prague
• Budapest
• Berlin