World History-4th Quarter Checkpoint

Which statement is true about the major powers involved in World War I and World War II?

• Great Britain and France were allies against Germany.

• Italy did not participate in either war.

• The Soviet Union and Germany were allied against the United States.

• Japan did not participate in either war.

What was the goal of the Manhattan Project?

• to fight against Allied forces

• to defeat the Soviet Union

• to develop nuclear weapons

• to end the Holocaust

What was the “Final Solution”?

• the Nazi youth program

• the top SS members

• the plan for winning the war

• the genocide of Jewish people

Which statement is true about the home front in the Soviet Union during World War II?

• Food and housing shortages resulted from the emphasis on military goods.

• Stalin’s widespread industrial mobilization failed.

• Women were not allowed to work in factories.

• The vast and difficult terrain prevented land battles from taking place.

Which occurred as a result of the Yalta Conference?

• Stalin agreed to free elections in Eastern Europe.

• Japan’s emperor was brought to trial for crimes against humanity.

• Germany was divided into four zones.

• Japan and Germany surrendered unconditionally.

One of the main reasons the United States joined the war was

• because of damage caused by German air raids.

• to prevent the Soviet Union from becoming too powerful.

• to liberate the concentration camps.

• because of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.

In 1958, Mao Zedong began a program known as the Great Leap Forward, which involved

• eliminating old ideas, cultures, customs, and habits.

• using Taiwanese scientists to develop computers.

• industrializing China to be more like the United States.

• combining smaller collective farms into vast communes.

Which was an effect of the United Nations (UN) forces marching across the 38th parallel in 1950?

• The Chinese sent hundreds of thousands of troops into North Korea.

• The UN forces were able to reunite North and South Korea.

• The Soviet Union was able to sneak troops into Afghanistan.

• The North Vietnamese sent more troops into the south.

France, Great Britain, and the United States overcame the Soviet Union’s blockade of West Berlin by

• threatening a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union.

• airlifting supplies from Hamburg, Hanover, and Frankfurt.

• using tanks and trucks to break through the blockade.

• sneaking in supplies through underground tunnels.

Why did Mikhail Gorbachev create the policy of glasnost?

• He felt public dissent hurt morale.

• He needed officials to openly discuss the state of the Soviet Union.

• He wanted an economy that was completely free enterprise.

• He wanted to serve additional terms in leadership.