World History B Final Exam Study Quiz

How did industrialization affect imperialism?

• Increased production led to a greater need for raw materials and a need for new markets

• A ramp-up in production led to the need for new land to build factories in foreign territories

• Competing European countries believed that conquering territories would provide them with more citizens to tax

• Developing European nations needed to conquer foreign territory to compete with industrialized nations

What was the Japanese period called when the country began to industrialize and modernization?

• Meji Restoration

• Kamakura period

• Showa Reinstatement

• Tokugawa shogunate

How did the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serb, lead to World War I?

• It allowed Russia to ally with Serbia and declare war on Germany

• The alliance between Serbia and Austria-Hungary sparked unrest that stemmed from the failure of the Treaty of Paris

• Alliances forced many countries to go to war in support of either Austria-Hungary or Serbia

• Bismarck's scheme of secret alliances against Serbia provoked the assassination and then the war.

What was the importance of the Battle of Verdun in World War I?

• Massive casualties for both the Allied and Central powers, with little change in territory, showed the deadly nature of attrition warfare

• The decisive German victory turned the tide against the Allies until the United States joined the fight

• The naval battle between Britain and Germany allowed Germany to showcase its U-boats for the first time

• A loss to the Central powers caused Russia, which was not well equipped, to sign a separate peace treaty with Germany

Which analyze effects of World War I on the internal politics of Russia? (select all that apply)

• The war prompted opposing political factions to join in solidarity to support the war effort

• Russia's alliance with emerging democracies of France and Great Britain inspired it to adopt democratic reforms

• Russia's poor performance in the war along with food shortages caused the czar to abdicate

• Communists were able to gain power through a second revolution in the political chaos of the war

What event in 1909 led to the death of Armenian Christians?

• Holocaust

• Adana Massacre

• Nanking Massacre

• Holodomor

What was the main purpose of the League of Nations?

• To restore the economy of Western nations

• To help President Wilson get elected

• To create friendly feelings among countries

• To maintain territorial and political independence

Which names the mass killing of Chinese citizens by the Imperial Japanese Army in 1937?

• Tungchow Mutiny

• Nanking Massacre

• Bataan Death March

• Jinan Incident

Which option most accurately identifies characteristics of Operation Barbarossa

• It was the Italian invasion and conquest of Greece to thwart the German invasion of the Balkans

• It was the attempted aerial and amphibious assault on the British Isles by Germany

• It was the Nazi rescue mission of Mussolini after his capture

• It was the German invasion of the Soviet-controlled Poland during World War II

What allowed for the shift of political and social ideas toward the heightening of anti-Semitism in Germany?

• Joeseph Goebbels flooded Germany with propaganda to magnify the existing anti-Semitic beliefs

• Hermann Goering established the Gestapo to round up Jewish agitators and send them to labor camps

• Heinrich Himmler used stories of the occult to justify the deportation of Jewish citizens to Palestine

• Josef Mengele reorganized the German film industry to portray anti-Semitic ideas and led Germans to put those ideas into action.