WH Unit 6 Assessment Quizs

Use the excerpts and your knowledge of Social Studies to answer the following question. This German historian [Fritz Fischer] demonstrates, by a detailed examination of the documents, ... that the German government, if they did not actually want war in 1914, were at any rate prepared to face the risk of it in pursuit of their general aims. They systematically encouraged their Austrian allies to provoke war with Serbia, even when they saw that it could not be localized. — James Joll, 'The 1914 Debate Continues,' Past and Present (1966) Fischer suggests that this and other evidence may show that the Germans were themselves using the assassination a reason for launching a preventive war and that, far from being mainly concerned about the future of Austria-Hungary, they were now exploiting their ally as an excuse for starting it. — Laurence Lafore, The Long Fuse (1971) According to these excerpts, historian Fritz Fischer believes that –

• the outbreak of World War I was accidental.

• the Serbian assassins of Archduke Franz Ferdinand were largely responsible for the war.

• Germany’s aggressive conduct led to the outbreak of the wars.

• Germany entered the war to obtain new colonies.

What does the diagram show about the economic impact of globalization?

• Globalization promotes the exchange of goods and services between nations.

• Globalization has caused most nations to create new barriers to trade.

• Globalization causes nations to move production to foreign locations where labor costs are higher.

• Globalization prevents nations from focusing on producing what they make best.

Cabinet posts in the United States have been created for a variety of reasons. What was the primary reason for the creation of the Department of Homeland Security?

• To provide relief to Americans dealing with severe natural disasters.

• To respond to the threat of terrorism after September 11, 2001.

• To ensure that airline passengers can fly on an airplane despite air traffic deregulation.

• To respond to the bombing at Oklahoma City by American terrorists in 1995.

Use the chart and your knowledge of Social Studies to answer the following question. 1. Which of the following events is correctly paired with one of its major effects?

• World War I (1914–1918) → The end of European imperialism in the Middle East

• Russian Revolution (1917) → The defeat of the world’s first Communist government

• World War II (1939–1945) → The division of Germany into two parts

• Communist Victory in China (1949) → The capture of Chinese Nationalists on Taiwan

How did President Wilson’s Fourteen Points influence the Treaty of Versailles and related treaties after World War I?

• The treaties formed new countries based on nationality and created a League of Nations.

• The negotiations for the treaties were conducted in public rather than in private.

• Based on Wilson’s Fourteen Points, Germany paid large reparations and lost its colonies, army, navy and some of its territory.

• Because of Wilson’s Fourteen Points, Russia refused to participate in the treaty negotiations.

Which of the following completes the chart?

• Stalin promised free elections in Poland but failed to keep his pledge.

• Eastern Europeans felt safer with pro-Soviet, communist governments.

• Stalin and Truman openly attacked each other at the Potsdam Conference in 1945.

• The Allies disagreed over whether Germany should be occupied. gro

Which of the following occurred in response to the trend shown in the bar graph?

• Anxious military leaders encouraged the outbreak of war before rival countries built larger armies.

• Russia grew too poor to increase its military expenditures any further.

• Military leaders became too busy with their troops to interfere any longer in politics.

• France and Britain became more militaristic than Germany and Russia were.

Which of the following events in Hitler’s lifetime might explain the attitude satirized in this cartoon?

• German landowners, industrialists and military leaders had opposed the Weimar Republic.

• The Nazi Party under Hitler created a private army of “Brown Shirts” to increase their power in Germany.

• Otto von Bismarck had unified Germany through a policy of “blood and iron.”

• Germany had faced a two-front war from 1914 to 1917, when Hitler had been in the German army.

How were the Korean and Vietnam Wars different?

• In Korea, communists fought against non-communists.

• Atomic weapons were used in Korea but not in Vietnam.

• Communist forces won in Vietnam, but Korea remained divided.

• America fought with allies in Vietnam but not in Korea.

In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak .... I remembered how each time that democracies failed to act it had encouraged the aggressors to keep going ahead. Communism was acting in _____?_____ just as Hitler, Mussolini and the Japanese had acted ten, fifteen and twenty years earlier .... If the Communists were permitted to force their way into the Republic of _____?_____ without the opposition of the free world, no small nation would have the courage to resist threats and aggression by stronger Communist neighbors.

• China

• Vietnam

• Korea

• Germany