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AP WH WWI and WWII

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The president who was elected at the end of the Great Depression who proposed a series of policies to promote economic growth in the United Stated during the 1930's was

a)

Herbert Hoover

b)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

c)

Woodrow Wilson

2.

Alongside Militarism, International Alliances, Nationalism, and Imperialistic tensions, which event sparked the outbreak of World War I?

a)

Attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, 1941

b)

Germany's Invasion of Poland, 1939

c)

Bolshevik coup d'etat in Russia, 1917

d)

Assassination of the Austrian Archduke in Bosnia, 1914

3.
- "Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy form the Triple Alliance." 
- "Serbian Nationalism Grows in the Balkans" 
- "Archduke Franz Ferdinand Assassinated in Bosnia."
The events in these headlines contributed most directly to the... 
a)
Beginning of WWI
b)
Outbreak of the Cold War
c)
Development of Fascist Europe
d)
Beginning of WWII 
4.

Roughly based on US president Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points, what is the name of the treaty that ended WWI in June 1919?

a)

Paris Peace Treaty

b)

Treaty of Paris

c)

Treaty of Versailles

d)

Treaty of London

5.

Who wrote the Treaty of Versailles?

a)

Triple Entente (Britain, France, USA)

b)

Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy)

6.
The United States president at the beginning of WWII was
a)
Hirohito
b)
Harry Truman
c)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
d)
Winston Churchill
7.

The leader of the Soviet Union/Russia during WWII was

a)

Vladimir Lenin

b)

Joseph Stalin

c)

Leon Trotsky

d)

Winston Churchill

8.

Who was the leader of Great Britain during World War II?

a)

Winston Churchill

b)

Benito Mussolini

c)

Joseph Stalin

d)

Franklin Roosevelt

9.

Which answer best describes the groups of ethnic, nationalist and social peoples targeted by the Nazis throughout the duration the WWII era?

a)

Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, Communists, Pols and Slavs

b)

Christians, Catholics, Communists and Jews

c)

Spanish nationalists, Communists, Jews,

d)

American sympathizers, Catholics, Communists, Gypsies

10.

In which WWII event did Japan use the strategy of surprise attack to bomb the United States as a result of the Steel and Oil Embargo?

a)

D-Day on the shores of France

b)

Pearl Harbor

c)

Invasion of Poland

d)

V-E Day

11.

The map shows which event during WWII?

a)

Allied D-day Invasion

b)

Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor

c)

Soviet Invasion of Poland

d)

Nazi Blitzkrieg of Europe

12.

What years did WWII begin and end?

a)

1938-1951

b)

1945-1951

c)

1939-1945

d)

1936-1944

13.

The Germans asked Mexico to join them in fighting the United States. In return for Mexico's participation, the victorious Germans would have given Mexico the southwestern United States. This was was the content of the

a)

Treaty of Versailles, officially ending the WWI

b)

North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement, favorable trading rights to central Europe

c)

Non-aggression Pact between the United States and Mexico during WWI

d)

Zimmerman Note, which resulted in the US entering WWI.

14.

In January 1918, President Wilson spoke to Congress about the war aims of the nation. His plan ultimately became known as the _______________________ and was designed to create a lasting peace in the world.

a)

Fourteen Points

b)

Treaty of Versailles

c)

Wilson's suggestions

d)

League of Nations

15.

In 1919, after communist revolutionaries known as Bolsheviks overthrew the czar in Russia, established the Soviet Union, and called for a worldwide revolution to destroy capitalism, people in the United States began to fear communists. This fear of international communism was called __________________.

a)

Socialism

b)

The Red Scare

c)

The Immigrant Scare

d)

The Isolationism Movement

16.

The project code named the Manhattan Project was hiding what?

a)

The U.S. building Nuclear Weapons

b)

Internment Camps built to hold Japanese

c)

Secret plant building new airplanes

d)

New submarine technology

17.

What is Propaganda?

a)

Classic illustrations used instead of photographs

b)

Illustrations that influence people to be apart or support the war

c)

Illustrations that influence you to think a certain way

d)

Advertising Illustrations

18.

Fascism in Europe during the 1920s and 1930s can best be described as

a)

laissez-faire capitalism that promoted free enterprise

b)

a type of economic system that stressed a classless society

c)

a program of humanistic ideas emphasizing individual dignity

d)

a political system that glorified the nation over the individual

19.

one reason the Bolsheviks gained peasant support during the Russian Revolution was because the Bolsheviks promised to

a)

redistribute land to peasants

b)

abolish peasant communes and the practice of Orthodoxy

c)

industrialize Russian rural farms

d)

remain at war with Germany and Austria-Hungary

20.

"... a group of men[...] assembled north of France to rest and dig for the night. The artillery was still firing furiously, bu the enemy's bombardment ceased suddenly about 10:00 am. and now only occasional shells from long -range rifles would explode in the vicinity [...] Yet it was with that methodical care that this characteristic of worn out men that we prepared out foxholes, carrying board and iron sheeting from abandoned machine gunners dugouts in order to make our 'houses' as comfortable as possible, even though for only one night."

-William l. Langer, Gas and Flame in World War I


What type of warfare during WWI is described in this passage?

a)

Guerilla warfare

b)

nuclear weaponry

c)

biochemical weaponry

d)

trench warfare