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WorksheetsEuropean History Test
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 18mins
This was a period during WWII when Nazi Germans killed 6 million Jews:
Cold War
Russian Revolution
Holocaust
Rise of Fascism
WWII was fought between the following dates:
1914-1918
1947-1991
1939-1945
1963-1967
Because of the Russian Revolution, the Soviet government changed to:
Communism
Democracy
Monarchy
Confederation
The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union in which no shots were fired was the:
Holocaust
Russian Revolution
WWII
Cold War
The Russian Revolution began in:
1947
1939
1991
1917
Of the following choices, who could be considered the MOST autocratic leader?
Harry Truman
Benito Mussolini
Franklin Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
What was the Zimmerman note?
Hitler’s speech about the Jews
Note about sinking the Lusitania
Britain’s letter of surrender
Note asking Mexico to fight against the U.S. during WWI
What other name is given to World War I?
The Great War
The Holocaust
The German Revolution
The Cold War
What was America’s position at the beginning of WWI?
On the side of the Central Powers
Neutral
On the side of the Allied Powers
On the side of the Axis Powers
What event finally led the U.S. to declare war on Germany and enter WWI?
Communism
Treaty of Versailles
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Sinking of the Lusitania and Zimmerman Note
In what year did WWI break out in Europe?
1914
1939
1918
1945
The part of the Treaty of Versailles most damaging to Germany was:
Giving up land
Reparations
Reducing the military
Accepting full responsibility for the war
In 1932, Hitler assumed what leadership role in Germany?
Prime Minister
King
Vice President
Chancellor
During the 1920s, Germans were very unhappy because of:
Democratic reforms
The Treaty of Paris
High unemployment and poverty
Religious persecution
Czar Nicholas II was an:
Autocrat
Investor
Democrat
Italian trader
The dividing line that separated the town of Berlin was the:
Iron Curtain
Great Wall of Berlin
Berlin Wall
Mason-Dixon Line
The Eastern Bloc of Germany was led by the:
United States
Soviet Union
Nazi Party
Confederate States of America
The Western half of Germany was mostly:
Democratic
Fascist
Communist
Christian
In 1939, Germany invaded:
The United States
France
Great Britain
Poland
The Russian Revolution started because of:
A corrupt dictator
Break-up of the Soviet Union
The Cold War
Food shortages
In 1939, France and England declared war on Germany, starting:
WWI
WWII
The Russian Revolution
The Cold War
The breakup of the Soviet Union marked the end of:
WWI
WWII
The Russian Revolution
The Cold War
______________ is the largest country of the former Soviet Union.
Germany
France
Poland
Russia
Which country’s unification led to the collapse of the Soviet Union during the Cold War?
Austria-Hungary
Russia
Poland
Germany
As a result of the Holocaust, the United Nations created ________________, a Jewish state in 1948.
Russia
Germany
Israel
Poland
Who was the leader of the Bolsheviks who took control of Russia during the Russian Revolution?
Czar Nicholas II
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Lenin
Adolf Hitler
During WWI, who was the leader of Russia before the Bolsheviks took control?
Czar Nicholas II
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Lenin
Adolf Hitler
Which allied country did not sign the Treaty of Versailles?
Germany
Great Britain
France
The United States
What event started the worldwide depression?
1928 Presidential election
War debt
Bank failures
The U.S. stock market crash
Fascism, Nazism, and Communism are all forms of what type of government?
Democratic
Totalitarian
Oligarchic
Federal
Germany’s unstable government led up to the:
Worldwide depression
Russian Revolution
Rise of Nazism
League of Nations
Anti-Semitism is prejudice against:
Germans
Muslims
Jews
Americans
Which event caused the United States to enter World War II?
The Holocaust
The bombing of Pearl Harbor
The Zimmerman note
The Great Depression
What caused Japan to surrender in World War II?
The bombing of Pearl Harbor
Germany’s surrender
The dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan
The break-up of the Soviet Union
Which dictator established a totalitarian regime called the “Third Reich”?
Stalin
Hitler
Mussolini
Lenin
