WorksheetsModern European History 1900-Today
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 32mins
What country shot the Archduke Francis Ferdinand on June 28, 1914?
Serbia
Germany
Austria-Hungary
France
Besides the Archduke's assassination, what caused World War I?
capitalism
nationalism
Communism
alliances
Which countries created the Triple Alliance?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, & Italy
Germany, Austria-Hungary, & Russia
France, Great Britain, Serbia, & Russia
France, Great Britain, United States, & Serbia
Which countries created the Triple Entente?
France, Great Britain, Russia
France, Great Britain, Russia, Serbia
Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary
France, Germany, United Kingdom
During World War I, Germany's group changed their name from Triple Alliance to what?
Axis Powers
Central Powers
Allied Powers
Allies
What is a devotion and loyalty to one's country?
nationalism
Communism
Holocaust
superpowers
A period of tense rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union.
World War I
World War II
Cold War
Holocaust
An agreement between countries is called?
alliance
strategy
dictator
Great Depression
After World War I, the Treaty of Versailles said that Germany had to...?
Pay billions of dollars in damages caused by the war.
Take the blame for World War I
Slash the size of its army
keep its colonies overseas.
How did Germany force America into World War I?
Germany kept attaching American ships.
Germany bombed America.
Germany attacked Washington D.C.
Who was the U.S. president at the end of World War I?
Woodrow Wilson
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
What new technologies were invented during World War I?
trench warfare
machine guns
poison gases
tanks
A global economic crisis in the 1930s is known as?
Holocaust
Great Depression
World War II
Cold War
Who was Italy's dictator before World War II?
Adolph Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Vladimir Lenin
Benito Mussolini
How did Adolph Hitler rise to power?
He promised the Germans that he would strengthen Germany.
He promised to rebuild the military and economy.
He promised to get rid of the Jews.
He promised to discriminate against the French.
What country was Hitler trying to take over when France and Great Britain said enough is enough?
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Austria-Hungary
France
An attempt by the Nazi government during World War II to eliminate Europe's Jew?
Cold War
Holocaust
World War I
Great Depression
When did the Allies start to win World War II?
When the U.S. troops landed at Normandy, France.
When Russia pulled out of World War II.
When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
When the Germans took control of Poland.
After World War II, what group was formed to try to keep the peace?
United Kingdom
United Nations
European Allies
Treaty of Versailles
Who was the prime minister of England after World War II?
Adolph Hitler
Woodrow Wilson
Winston Churchill
Joseph Stalin
Who were the two superpowers after World War II?
United States and Germany
France and Soviet Union
Soviet Union and United States
England and France
Who brought democracy to the Soviet Union?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Joseph Stalin
Richard Nixon
Vladimir Lenin
Which country divided into two countries after the Cold War?
Czechoslovakia
Belarus
Lithuania
Yugoslavia
Which country divided up into 5 countries after the Cold War due to ethnic tension?
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Serbia
Ukraine
What helped unify Europe after the Cold War?
European Union
United Nations
nationalism
common market
