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WorksheetsMixed Bag WC2
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
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Class
Date
1.
Which aspect of warfare is emphasized in this passage about World War I?
a)
importance of civilian support
b)
impact of government propaganda
c)
shortage of manpower on the battlefield
d)
role of military technology
2.
During its climb to power in the 1930s and 1940s, the Chinese Communist Party under Mao Zedong developed a strategy that focused on what?
a)
taking over cities
b)
building peasant support
c)
sponsoring nonviolent protests
d)
strengthening traditional Confucian values
3.
Which aspects of World War II home-front culture do these 1940s posters reflect?
a)
national pride and employment opportunities
b)
mobilization and draft
c)
military expenditures and regulations
d)
conserving resources and sacrificing
4.
After World War II, a key reason the Soviet Union established satellite nations in Eastern Europe was to do what?
a)
ease tensions with the Chinese government
b)
expand trade opportunities with Western Europe
c)
rotect its western border from attack
d)
maintain freedom of the seas
5.
Which factor was a major consideration at the time India was being partitioned?
a)
creation of uniform land areas
b)
equal distribution of natural resources
c)
tensions between Hindus and Muslims
d)
territorial disputes between Britain and France
6.
One way in which Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping are similar is that both did what?
a)
granted autonomy to satellite countries
b)
promoted a multiparty political system
c)
encouraged religious dissenters to seek freedom
d)
incorporated capitalist ideas into communist societies
7.
Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi are closely associated with movements to --
a)
establish theocratic rule
b)
guarantee rights and liberties
c)
introduce socialistic economic principles
d)
support military juntas
8.
By the late 1500s, the Ottoman Empire governed an area that extended from --
a)
southwestern Asia to eastern Europe and into northern Africa
b)
the Arabian Peninsula across northern Africa and into southern Spain
c)
Mongolia across the central Asian kingdoms
d)
the Indian subcontinent to the Straits of Malacca
9.
Which change is most closely associated with Peter the Great of Russia?
a)
establishment of Moscow as the capital city
b)
extension of Russia’s borders to the Northern Caucuses and Ukraine
c)
westernization and modernization of the country
d)
emancipation of the serfs on private estates
10.
What was an economic result of the Columbian exchange?
a)
establishment of a feudal land system in Europe
b)
development of a European-dominated global trade network
c)
introduction of slash-and-burn farming techniques in the Americas
d)
creation of the Hanseatic League
11.
Which term is defined as land grants and taxation policies used in colonial Latin America by the Spanish to provide labor in the fields?
a)
encomienda system
b)
mercantilism
c)
Middle Passage
d)
capitalism
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