WHAP Unit 7-9

Which of the following statements is an accurate comparison of the Ottoman, Russian, and Qing Empires in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

• Prior to their collapse, each of the empires attempted a series of Western-style reforms, but the ruling elites eventually failed to support the needed changes.

• These land based empires collapsed due to a variety of internal and external factors, including WWI, failure to modernize and revolution

• The Ottoman and Russian Empires survived because of the adoption of some Western-style reforms while the Qing failed because it refused to alter centuries of Chinese tradition.

• The Ottoman Empire and Qing dynasty both lost territory to aggressive European powers while Russia, acting as an aggressor, expanded its empire during this time.

Improved wartime technology during World War I led to

• Smaller nations becoming part of larger nations after the war

• A smaller number of refugees during the war

• Increased casualties in battles fought during the war

• A slowdown in transportation improvements after the war

“At school the teachers say it is our patriotic duty to stop using foreign words. I didn’t know what they meant by this at first, but now I see it—you must no longer say ‘adieu’ [‘farewell’] because that is French. It is in order to say ‘lebwohl’ [‘farewell’ in German] instead. We also have a little tin box in which we’ll put some small change in every time we slip up and use a foreign word. The contents of this little war savings box will go towards buying knitting wool. We must now knit woollen things for the soldiers.”

Diary of a twelve-year old German girl, August 1914

The passage above best exemplifies which of the following processes shortly after the outbreak of the First World War?

• The increasingly authoritarian methods used by European teachers

• The strengthening of nationalist sentiment throughout Europe

• The emergence of a pan-European antiwar movement

• The key role European women played in sustaining the war effort

1. Which of the following best describes the 1936 lithograph (entitled The Hero) by German artist George Grosz?

• A propaganda poster prepared by the Nazi Party

• A protest poster against the atrocities of the atomic bomb

• A representation of a Holocaust victim

• A post-First World War print expressing antiwar sentiment

The mobilization of state resources during World War II:

• Occurred in fascist, democratic, and totalitarian states

• Occurred in only fascist states like Germany and Italy through corporate/labor cooperation

• Occurred in only colonies of imperial powers in order to better serve their rulers

• Occurred in only countries that were lead by powerful dictators like Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini

Which of the following is NOT one of the extreme beliefs that people turned to during the low period of economic activity?

• Totalitarianism

• Fascism

• Mercantialism

• Ultra-nationalism

Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons why so many people died during World War II?

• Weapons became much more deadly such as tanks, airplanes, and the atomic bomb.

• Deadly trench warfare

• Total War tactics

• The bombing of enemy cities with bombs dropped from airplanes

Which of the following was NOT one of the decisions made at the Potsdam Conference?

• Truman demands free elections in Eastern Europe, Stalin says no

• Germany will be unified again which ends the Cold War

• Truman and Churchill become untrusting of Stalin and the Soviet Union beginning the Cold War

• Nazi officials will be arrested and placed on trial for crimes against humanity

Stalin was most successful in:

• Industrializing the Soviet Union

• Expanding access to consumer goods

• Extending suffrage to a majority of the population

• Improving higher education possibilities for both men and women

It could be said that World War II began in Asia in 1931

when which nation invaded Manchuria?