Social Studies Review

This is the oldest of the three religions, and its followers were nearly wiped out during the Holocaust.

• Christianity

• Judaism

• Islam

• Hinduism

Canada has to work with the U.S. to solve the problem of acid rain because the U.S. _______________________.

• is the source of much of Canada's air pollution.

• purchases many of the goods that Canada produces in its factories.

• has reduced the amount of acid rain and understands how to solve the problem.

• is careful to keep air pollution from leaving the U.S. & entering Canada.

The US and the USSR had major conflicts over how to reestablish the government of Germany. The US wanted it to be _____, while the USSR wanted it to be _____.

• socialist, communist

• democratic, socialist

• democratic, oligarchic

• democratic, communist

Russian regular citizens (serfs) were happy and wealthy under Czar Nicholas II.

• True

• False

Which was an effect of British settlement of Australia?

• Aborigines remained in their homelands.

• Many Aborigines became factory workers in order to survive.

• Thousands of Aborigines died of smallpox and other diseases.

• Aborigines were elected to representative positions in the colonial government.

One way that Brazil's government is different from the U.S. government is that it __________________.

• has a president as chief executive

• does not allow 16-year-olds to vote

• requires citizens aged 18-70 to vote

• has a legislature called the Congress

The economic depression in Germany_____.

• is one reason Hitler was able to come to power

• began several years before World War I

• only lasted for about two years

• actually had its beginnings in Great Britain

Who was the leader of the Nazi Party?

• Joseph Stalin

• Czar Nicholas II

• Vladimir Lenin

• Adolf Hitler

What type of government was in Russia after Czar Nicholas' fall?

• Republic

• Autocracy

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

In the 1930’s Adolf Hitler blamed his country’s financial problems on the ______.

• Communists

• British

• Jews

• Americans