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Which of the following was a social darwinist argument in favor of Western imperialism
Colonies would bring wealth and prestige to the home country
Western Nations need outlets for their growing populations
Western thought they had a duty to bring their civilization to inferior races
Increased trade would benefit all people
Ethiopia was able to remain independent because
Europeans could not reach its remote location
Europeans agreed to its independence at the conference of Berlin
Ethiopia modernized and imported European weapons
Ethiopia agreed to accept Christianity as its state religion
Rifle cartridges greased with animal fat were a key cause of the
Sepoy rebellion
Mughal rebellion
Taiping rebellion
Armenian genocide
The purpose of the open door policy was to
Bring western-style reforms to China
Protect the British opium trade in China
Carve up China among the European powers
Protect us trading rights in China
Which of the following was a result of the russo-japanese war
Japan gained control of Korea
Russia gained control of Korea
Japan gained control of Taiwan
Russia gained control of parts of Manchuria
The first British colonists to settle in Australia large numbers were
Sugar planters
Whalers
Aborgines
Prisoners
The quotation above expresses the main idea of
The Roosevelt corollary
The Monroe doctrine
Dollar diplomacy
The Platt amendment
French Indochina was made up of
China, India, Burma
China, Vietnam, Thailand
Java, the Moluccas, and Malaya
Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
The Platt amendment gave the United States the right to intervene in the affairs of
Mexico
All of Latin America
Cuba
Panama
United States gained control of the land for the Panama canal by
Invading Panama and seizing the land
Helping the Panamanian revolt against Colombia in exchange for the land
Helping the panamanians win independence from Spain
Backing in invasion of Panama by Columbia
Which of the following events caused Britain to fight in world war 1
Austria gave Serbia an ultimatum
Russia join France to fight Austria
Germany invaded Belgium
Germany invaded Russia
For which of the following reasons did the Schlieffen plan fail
Belgium could not be defeated
Germany did not have a strong army
The United States joined the war
Russia mobilized it's army quickly
A stalemate developed along the western front early in the war because
The United States immediately join the war
Trench warfare made it difficult for either side to win an advantage
The German army fought with outdated weapons
The French army was able to push Germany out
in the Zimmerman Note, Germany offered which of the following to Mexico if it joined the Central Powers
Rule over the North American continent
Three trillion dollars in gold
The return of Mexican lands held by the United States
A fleet of submarines
In general, the provisions of the treaty of Versailles focused mainly on
Increasing German power
Punishing Germany
Decreasing American influence
Strengthening the Ottoman empire
Which of the following groups seized complete control of Russia in 1917
The Black hand
The whites
The Serbian nationalist
The Bolsheviks
By the early 20th century, Britain had built the world's most respected Navy because
It needed to protect its vast overseas empire
It was eager to go to war with Germany
It feared economic competition from Russia
It was a requirement of the treaties it had made
To defend their merchant ships against attacks from German submarines, the allies
Suspended the transport of supplies by ship
Begin shipping supplies using zeppelins
Organize the merchant ships into convoys
Resorted to trench warfare
How was fighting on the Eastern front different from fighting on the Western front
Casualties were much lower on the Eastern front
Trench warfare was not as widespread on the Eastern front
Russian armies were better equipped than countries in the West
The results of battles on the Eastern front where more decisive
Who is the leader of the Bolsheviks in 1917 during the November revolution
Grigori Rasputin
Karl Marx
V i Lenin
Joseph Stalin
American philosopher Henry David Thoreau influenced Mohandas Gandhi through his ideas of
Apartheid
Civil disobedience
Economic policy
Discrimination
As a part of the struggle for Indian independence, Mohandas Gandhi urged Indians to
Boycott British goods
Avoid members of the "untouchable" caste
Attack British-owned factories
Kidnap important British leaders
What can even convince Mindy Indians that India needed to govern itself
Gandhi's boycott of British goods
Armitsar massacre
The salt March
British treatment of The untouchables
What was a result of prohibition, which was made law in the United States in 1919
Greater freedom for women
An increase in organized crime
Voting rights for more citizens
The development of jazz music
How did the League of Nations respond when Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931
It insisted that United States solve the problem
It's an arms and supplies the manchurians
It launched an assault against the invading forces
It condemned Japan's action but did nothing to stop it
U.s. President Franklin d Roosevelt proposed a massive package of depression relief called the
New deal
Federal reserve
Fair deal
Great society
What was a key characteristic of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s
Glorification of human reason
Supremacy of the state
Open political debate
Pursuit of a classless society
Someone attempted to make the cultural life of the Soviet Union more Russian by promoting a policy of
Russification
Surrealism
Tsarism
Capitalism
What 1924 agreement reduced German reparations and provided us loans to Germany
Dawes plan
Versailles treaty
Locarno treaties
Kellogg-briand pact
In 1935, the Nazis passed the Nuremberg laws, which
Combine all protectant sects into a single state Church
Deprived Jews of German citizenship
Required all young Germans to join the Hitler youth
Establish the third reich under Hitler
Which of the following was a result of the work of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein
The discovery of penicillin
The discovery of atomic fission
The development of liquid-fueled rocket
The development of the polio vaccine
After most of Ireland became self-governing in 1922, what why did the Irish Republican Army (IRA) continue to fight the British
The IRA wanted reparations from Britain
The IRA wanted a socialist government
Northern Ireland remained under British rule
Northern Ireland one in independence from the Irish free state
In Britain during the 1920s, the labour party supported
Upper class conservatives
A gradual move toward socialism
Legislation limiting the power of workers to strike
Middle class business interests
Which statement is correct about the economy of the United States in the 1920s
The US economy was hurt by an unstable political scene
Do us enjoyed the benefit of a command economy
The US economy was hurt by crushing reparation payments
The us became the world's leading economic power
Under Mussolini's rule in Italy,
A democracy was put in place
The socialist came into power
There was a one-party dictatorship
Free speech was encouraged
What was the cause of Stalin's Great Purge
Peasants did not want to give up their land to the state
Central planters did not achieve production goals
Stalin feared rival party leaders
The kulaks resisted collectivization
What measure did the Nazi's take that was a rejection of the Versailles treaty
They launched large public work projects
They rearmed Germany
They passed the Nuremberg laws
They established the Gestapo
The Eastern European nations that were carved out of old European empires after world war I
A large industrial economies
Had rich Democratic traditions
Lacked capital to develop industry
We're mostly free of ethnic tensions
Hitler decided to invade the Soviet Union because
He wanted to protect the Germans living in Russia
He wanted the Soviet Union's vast natural resources
The Soviets had betrayed him by ceasing the Baltic states
Soviets had helped the British at Dunkirk
The US strategy of "Island hopping" in the Pacific
Quickly weakened the resolve of Japanese soldiers
Was a failure, forcing us to use atomic weapons
Push Japanese forces into the jungles of Burma and Malaya
Allowed the US to gradually move north towards Japan
What was one of Stalin's major goals in Eastern Europe after world war II
To debate the proper course of socialism
To lead Eastern Europe to economic prosperity
To create a protective buffer zone of friendly governments
To improve education and protect refugees
The Truman doctrine was rooted in the idea of
Appeasement
Containment
Pacifism
Aggression
The League of Nations voted sanctions against which country for invading Ethiopia in 1935
Germany
Italy
Bulgaria
Japan
What was usually the first stage of Hitler's blitzkrieg strategy
Fast moving ground troops quickly overwhelm the enemy
The luftwaffe attacked ground targets from the air
Cities where shield by modern battleships
Fast moving tanks quickly rolled across enemy territory
What u.s. action influenced the Japanese decision to attack the United States in 1941
U.s. ban the sale of iron, steel, and oil to Japan
The US demanded that Japanese forces leave Manchuria
The u.s. occupy the important island of Midway
The u.s. condemned German aggression in Europe
During world war II, "Rosie the riveter" came to symbolize
The Ally nurses who cared for wounded troops on the front lines
The woman who worked in us manufacturing plants
The importance of obeying rules for food and gas rationing
The woman who worked in British manufacturing plants
In 1942, what priority did Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin set in the war
To achieve victory in Asia before trying to achieve in Europe
To destroy the German Navy before invading Western Europe
To achieve victory in Europe before trying to achieve it in Asia
To open a second front in Western Europe in 1943
What stopped the German advance during the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941
The Marshy land near Moscow
Superior Soviet weaponry
The Soviet victory at Stalingrad
The terrible winter of 194-42
What was the Manhattan project
The allied plan for the invasion of Europe
I plan to increase war production in the US industry
A codename for the invasion of Guadalcanal
A code name for the atomic bomb research
Who were the kamikaze
The pro-war group within the Japanese government
Japanese pilots who crashed into allied warships
The ruling class in Japanese society
The name of the Japanese carrier group at Midway
What happened at Dunkirk in the spring of 1940
The British waited for Germans to attack and the phony war
British forces successfully retreated across the English channel
France signed German surrender documents
The Germans launched their invasion to Britain
What aspects of the Cold war arms race made it so terrifying
The weapons were more powerful than ever before
There were many superpowers with hydrogen bombs
The weapons were being used as fast as they were built
Many countries involved were very small and unstable
A "red scare" was the fear of
A nuclear attack on the Soviet Union
A Soviet invasion of Europe
Communist of the United States
Invasion of South Vietnam
After world war II, the United States offered assistance to war-torn European nations there which of the following
Solidarity
Glasnost
The Gulf of Tonkin resolution
The Marshall plan
The Great leap Forward in the cultural revolution where social reform programs led by which leader
Mao Zedong
Ho chi Minh
Kim II sung
Pol pot
What happened to the defeat of Chinese nationalist
They fled to North Vietnam
They fled to the island of Taiwan
They fled to the Soviet Union
They were all killed by the communists
During the Korean war, which nation provided hundreds of thousands of troops to help North Korea
The United States
South Korea
Japan
China
Which alliance was dedicated to the security of communist nations in Europe during the Cold war
The Khrushchev alliance
The North Atlantic treaty organization
The central treaty organization
The Warsaw pact
What was the main goal of the national liberation front, or Viet Cong
To overthrow South Vietnam's government
You kept your Ho chi Minh
To fulfill the Domino theory
Do you support the Chinese nationalists
During the Vietnam war, the Tet offensive
Was a major victory for Chinese forces
Turn American public opinion against the war
Was North Vietnam's final defense
Brought the United States into the war
The Khmer rouge was responsible for
The Gulf of Tonkin resolution
Helping peasant farmers in Cambodia
Committing genocide in Cambodia
Aiding the boat people of Cambodia
In the 1990s, China's economic reforms led to
An economic boom
Democratic reforms
Revolution
War with the Soviet Union
Filipino president Ferdinand Marcos
Chief power through the Huks, a revolutionary group
Strongly supported free elections in his country
Supported the peasants overr the wealthy elite
Became a dictator and cracked down on the basic reforms
The Middle East has strategic global importance because
It has large oil and gas reserves
It is the crossroads of the world
Most Nations have democratic governments
Most Nations have free trade agreements with the United States
The British decision to partition British India into two countries was influenced by
The fear of violence between the Hindus and Sikhs
The fear of violence between the Hindus and Muslims
The desire that Bangladesh be independent
The desire that Sri Lanka be independent
Why has Jerusalem been a stumbling block in peace negotiations between Arabs and Israelis
It was a capital of Palestine until Israelis took it
Hamas has its main base of operations here
Jerusalem is sacred to both Jews and Muslims
Israelis has forced all Palestinians to leave Jerusalem
Weapons that can release disease-carrying organisms such as smallpox are called
Nuclear weapons
Conventional weapons
Chemical weapons
Biological weapons
