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WorksheetsIntro to World History 1500 to Present Day
Total questions: 58
Worksheet time: 50mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What country was NOT part of the Age of Exploration?
a)
England
b)
Spain
c)
Asia
d)
France
2.
What country did Christopher Columbus sail for?
a)
France
b)
England
c)
America
d)
Spain
3.
How did Ferdinand Magellan die?
a)
He drowned
b)
He ate some bad seafood
c)
He got in a fight that ended badly
d)
He died of natural causes
4.
What is the heliocentric theory?
a)
There is no sun
b)
The sun is smaller than the Earth
c)
The sun is the center of the universe
d)
There is no moon
5.
What did Galileo use to support the heliocentric theory through observation?
a)
Thermometers
b)
Barometers
c)
Rulers
d)
Telescopes
6.
Which conquistador destroyed the Aztecs?
a)
Ferdinand Magellan
b)
Hernan Cortes
c)
Christopher Columbus
d)
Francisco Pizarro
7.
Who developed the idea of the three branches of government?
a)
John Locke
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
Montesquieu
d)
Thomas Hobbes
8.
According to Thomas Hobbes, the goverments function is to...?
a)
Keep everyone happy
b)
Keep everyone healthy
c)
Protect people from their own selfishness
d)
Tell everyone what is going on outside of their country
9.
How did Isaac Newton come up with the idea of gravity?
a)
Someone told him
b)
An apple fell on his head
c)
He read a book about it
d)
He fell down
10.
True or False: The American colonies declared their independence in July of 1775
a)
True
b)
False
11.
Patrick Henry's quote, "I am not a Virginian, I am an American" was meant to
a)
urge colonists to join forces
b)
express his anger at the South
c)
defend resistance to violence
d)
abolish slavery
12.
What is considered the first battle of the American Revolution?
a)
Lexington and Concord
b)
Bunker Hill
c)
Trenton
d)
Yorktown
13.
Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
a)
Thomas Jefferson
b)
Ben Franklin
c)
George Washington
d)
John Adams
14.
Colonists who chose to side with the British were known as
a)
Redcoats
b)
Loyalists
c)
Neutrals
d)
Patriots
15.
This treaty formally ended the American Revolution
a)
Treaty of Ghent
b)
Treaty of Paris of 1763
c)
Treaty of Boston
d)
Treaty of Paris of 1783
16.
How did the Enlightenment and the American Revolution influence the French Revolution?
a)
the people of France overthrew their absolute monarchy
b)
absolute monarchy was strengthened
c)
support for absolute monarchy increased
d)
France was divided into three estates
17.
What do these pie charts reveal about the causes of the French Revolution?
a)
all the estates were taxed equally
b)
the upper classes paid the most taxes
c)
the poorest classes paid all the taxes
d)
the third estate was the wealthiest
18.
What was the significance of the rise of Napoleon for the French Revolution?
a)
he made France a democracy
b)
he abolished the monarchy
c)
he instituted the Reign of Terror
d)
he ended the revolution
19.
What were the causes of World War I?
a)
alliances, socialism,communism, realism
b)
imperialism, capitalism, mercantilism, fascism
c)
militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism
d)
communism, nazism, racism, militarism
20.
Who was assassinated which led to the outbreak of WWI?
a)
Wilhelm II
b)
Franz Ferdinand
c)
Nicolas II
d)
George V
21.
Which weapon was not a new technology introduced in WWI?
a)
atomic bomb
b)
submarine
c)
tank
d)
poison gas
22.
Which countries made up the Triple Alliance?
a)
Germany, Italy, Japan
b)
Russia, Germany, France
c)
United States, Belgium, Romania
d)
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
23.
Who was the President of the United States during WWI?
a)
Woodrow Wilson
b)
Grover Cleveland
c)
Teddy Roosevelt
d)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
24.
Which countries made up the Triple Entente?
a)
Great Britain, China, India
b)
France, Spain,United States
c)
Russia, Norway, Finland
d)
Great Britain, France, Russia
25.
Which weapon caused the most casualties during WWI?
a)
tank
b)
airplane
c)
machine gun
d)
zeppelin
26.
To conserve energy during World War I, the Fuel Administration introduced
a)
longer workdays
b)
corn-based fuels
c)
daylight savings time
d)
victory gardens
27.
What country made an offer to Mexico proposing an alliance between the two (and a promise of regaining land if they won)
a)
Bulgaria
b)
Austria-Hungary
c)
France
d)
Germany
28.
Feeling of intense pride in one's homeland is
a)
militarism
b)
reparations
c)
nationalism
d)
imperialism
29.
Which one of these was NOT one of the underlying causes of WWI?
a)
Militarism
b)
Alliances
c)
Isolationism
d)
Nationalism
30.
The assassin who killed Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie was Gavrilo Princip, a member of the ______ nationalist group The Black Hand.
a)
German
b)
Serbian
c)
Russian
d)
American
31.
The assassination that triggered WWI occurred in what city?
a)
Vienna, Austria
b)
Sarajevo, Bosnia
c)
Moscow, Russia
d)
Belgrade, Serbia
32.
The Schlieffen Plan was Germany's military strategy to achieve what goal?
a)
avoid a two-front war with France and Russia
b)
gain an alliance with Britain and France
c)
knock Italy out of the war
d)
Keep the United States out of the war
33.
The 2 sides that emerged in WWI were called the:
a)
Axis and Allies
b)
Allies and Central Powers
c)
Reds and Whites
d)
East and West
34.
What was Russia called after World War I?
a)
Poland
b)
Soviet Union
c)
Hungary
d)
Romania
35.
Which country got smaller after World War I?
a)
France
b)
England
c)
Italy
d)
Germany
36.
Imperialism caused
a)
increased efforts to solve problems between countries
b)
decreased competition between countries
c)
increased competition between countries
d)
decreased tension between countries
37.
Which option below was one of the causes of the Great Depression?
a)
High Taxes
b)
Too much regulation of the stock market
c)
Equally distributed wealth between wealthy and unwealthy
d)
Unequal distribution of wealth
38.
One of the causes of the Great Depression occured when people would purchase products on an installment plan, but what caused this method to fail?
a)
People would by less than they could afford.
b)
People could not afford monthly payments, so they would not be able to finish paying for the product.
c)
People paid too much up front for the product.
d)
Demand for consumer goods was low, so people would not even want to buy these luxury goods.
39.
Violating the Treaty of Versailles, hitler invaded the demilitarized?
a)
sudetenland
b)
rhineland
c)
czechoslovakia
d)
austria
40.
Codename for building of atomic bomb
a)
operation overlord
b)
manhattan project
c)
blair witch project
d)
project 832
41.
Normandy beach was site of
a)
allied saving of French at dunkirk
b)
allied invasion of German occupied france
c)
Allied invasion of russia
d)
Japanese invasion of france
42.
What was the end date of the war in Europe?
a)
V-E Day
b)
V-J Day
c)
V-8 day
d)
VH 1 day
43.
Put these events in order
a)
nagasaki,Iwo jima,okinawa, hiroshima
b)
Iwo Jima, Okinawa ,Nagasaki, hiroshima
c)
Okinawa, Iwo jima, Hiroshima, nagasaki
d)
Iwo jima, Okinawa, Hiroshima , nagasaki
44.
violating the treaty of Versailles, hitler built up the Air Force or
a)
royal air force
b)
Option 2*navy
c)
Marines
d)
Luftwaffe
45.
British leader at Munich Conference
a)
King charles
b)
Churchill
c)
Mussolini
d)
Chamberlain
46.
Turning point in war in Europe was battle of....
a)
el alamein
b)
midway
c)
Iwo jima
d)
Stalingrad
47.
What were doolittles raids
a)
raids by doolittles in germany
b)
Raids by Doolittle in tokyo
c)
Raids by Doolittle in italy
d)
Raids by Doolittle over china
48.
idea for doolittles raids were awkward because...
a)
navy planes took off from army ship
b)
army planes took off from navy ship
c)
Air Force taken off army ship
d)
led by kamikaze planes
49.
last offensive by Germany
a)
battle of Britain
b)
battle of Stalingrad
c)
Battle of the Bulge
d)
battle of midway
50.
The decision to drop atonic bomb was made by ...
a)
FDR
b)
Truman
c)
einstein
d)
Oppenheimer
51.
What event hardened western leaders against the newly formed USSR?
a)
Treaty of Versailles
b)
Treaty of Brest Litovsk?
c)
Berlin Blockade
d)
building of Iron Curtain
52.
What diplomatic meeting is often credited with being the beginning of the Cold War?
a)
Potsdam
b)
Berlin Meeting
c)
Atlantic Charter
d)
Yalta
53.
Who was the leader of Communist North Vietnam?
a)
Mao Tse-tung
b)
Chou En-lai
c)
Ho Chi Minh
d)
Chain Kai-shek
54.
Vietnam had previously been a colony of what nation?
a)
Great Britain
b)
China
c)
Japan
d)
France
55.
What began the space race?
a)
Sputnik
b)
the Berlin Wall
c)
the Berlin Blockade
d)
the Cuban Missile Crisis
56.
Which of the following allowed LBJ to conduct a war without a formal declaration by congress?
a)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
b)
NSC 68
c)
War Powers Resolution
d)
Nuremberg Trials
57.
What did the 38th parallel separate?
a)
Korea
b)
Vietnam
c)
Berlin
d)
Hungary
58.
What country's intervention against the United States changed the course of the Korean War?
a)
USSR
b)
Japan
c)
France
d)
China
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