Ch. 20: Center Collapse-WW/Depression/Global Power Rebalance

Which of the following explains how an assassination in Austria-Hungary triggered World War I?

• The Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente

• The Great Depression and the League of Nations

• The spread of fascism and the fear of communism

• The practice of war socialism and trench warfare

What impact did World War I have on Europe’s colonial empires?

• The war enriched the colonial population in Europe’s empires.

• The war was fought exclusively in the colonies.

• The war drew in laborers and soldiers from the colonies.

• The war offered colonies a means to gain independence.

Which of the following was a term of the Treaty of Versailles?

• Palestine was to be the protected homeland for Jews.

• Germany was to accept sole responsibility for causing World War I.

• The United States was to head the League of Nations.

• The Ottoman Empire was to pay restitution to its Armenian subjects.

Which of the following was a factor in causing the Great Depression?

• U.S. involvement in World War I

• Underproduction in the United States

• State regulation of the economy

• Speculation on the stock market

Which of the following strained Japan’s relations with Western powers in the early 1940s?

• Agreements that granted Japan a larger navy than Britain and the United States

• Japanese military operations in Indochina, Malaya, Indonesia, and Burma

• The oil embargo Japan imposed on the United States, China, and Britain

• Japan’s loss of the German sphere of influence in China to the United States

Which of the following was a distinctive and central feature of the German expression of fascism?

• A single-party dictatorship

• An insistence on a racial revolution

• A view of war as an ennobling experience

• The use of violence as a political tool

Which of the following was a reason for the popularity of the Nazi Party once it seized power in the 1930s?

• Its rejection of rural life, anti-Semitism, and traditional values

• Its success in bringing Germany out of the Great Depression

• Its embrace of parliamentary politics and communism

• Its acceptance of the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles

Which of the following did Japan, Italy, and Germany share in the 1930s?

• Widespread arrest and execution of political opponents

• Aggressive ambition for conquest and empire building

• Strong traditions of parliamentary democracy

• Political takeover by right-wing radical groups

What drew Japan, Germany, and Italy into a political alliance by 1936–1937?

• Fear of global capitalism

• Hostility toward the Soviet Union

• Commitment to communism

• Shared belief in Aryan supremacy

What effect did World War II have on communism?

• It enabled communist parties in Eastern Europe and China to assume power.

• It allowed communism to take root in the Middle East and Africa.

• It discredited the international communist movement and the Soviet Union.

• It transformed communism into a global movement committed to world peace.