AP World Review Period 4 (1900-present)

Lenin's approach was adopted by the groups of Russian Marxists known as 

• anarchists
• Mensheviks
• Bolsheviks
• Decembrists

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

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

Which of the following was NOT a Cold War strategy?

• Both the Soviet Union and the United States renewed colonization efforts in Latin America and the Middle East
• The United States supported totalitarian dictatorships in some Latin American and Middle Eastern Countries
• The Soviet Union supplied Middle Eastern nations with military supplies and advisors
• The Unites States and the Soviet Union built up huge arsenals of traditional, biological, and nuclear weapons in order to prevent war

Which of the following was the most important factor in bringing about the end of the Cold War?

• The breakdown of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and China
• The end of civil conflicts in Southeast Asian nations such as Cambodia, the Koreas and Vietnam
• The spread to other nations of nuclear technology and the ability to create weapons of mass destruction
• The economic costs to both the united States and the Soviet Union required to sustain the conflict

Stalin's system of economic planning occurred under the

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

All of the following were results of the Soviet-American arms race during the Cold War EXCEPT

• Sputnik and the space race
• diminished military sizes and spending due to technology
• the Helsinki Accords
• was through third parties (wars by proxy)

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

• Sarajevo
• Prague
• Budapest
• Berlin

In order to avoid a two-front war, Hitler signed a non-aggression pact with this country in 1939

• Austria
• Poland
• the Soviet Union
• Spain

Which of the following was NOT a factor leading to the development of fascism in Germany?

• treaty arrangements that forced Germany to accept blame for WWI
• impact of the depression
• the division of Germany and Berlin, the ecapital, into zones of occupation by the allies
• the recent and shaky tradition of parliamentary government forced upon Germany in the form ofthe Weimar Republic