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Worksheets10th Grade CP World History Final Exam Study Guide (Part 2)
Total questions: 99
Worksheet time: 3600secs
Which of the following was not true concerning British involvement in India?
The quality of life for many Indians diminished drastically.
The British East India Company ruled for several years.
The British taught the Indians certain Western ideas like political liberty.
The British government eventually took over in India.
Most of Australia’s original settlers were . . .
missionaries.
farmers.
convicts.
prospectors.
What term best describes U.S. foreign policy from the time of Washington to World War I?
alliance
imperialism
isolationism
dominance
Which of the following kept the United States from being totally isolated from world affairs?
expansion of foreign trade and investments by American merchants and businessmen
placement of troops in Mexico by the Spanish
American tolerance for Cuban independence
placement of troops in Cuba by the French
The Sepoy Mutiny was a revolt . . .
of Indian soldiers employed by the East India Company.
by natives of Burma.
by Indian sailors on a British ship.
of Indonesian Muslims.
Which British commander led his forces to defeat an Indian ruler in 1757?
Robert Clive
James Cook
Matthew Perry
Cecil John Rhodes
Thousands of miners poured into South Africa after the discovery of . . .
gold and silver.
gold and diamonds.
diamonds and uranium.
platinum and silver.
Thailand is unique among Southeast Asian countries because . . .
it remained independent.
it became the only French colony.
it was ruled by kings.
it was the largest island nation.
The first major international conflict after the defeat of Napoleon was the . . .
Franco-Prussian War.
Seven Weeks’ War.
Crimean War.
Austro-Prussian War.
Which of the following was a missionary to the cannibals of West Africa?
William Carey
David Livingstone
Karl Peters
Mary Slessor
Which country was forced to give up much of its imperialistic gains due to the Congress of Berlin and the Anglo-Russian Entente?
Germany
Britain
Ottoman Empire
Russia
Who founded the famous Foreign Legion, an elite army unit in West Africa?
Britain
United States
Spain
France
Britain received Hong Kong through the Treaty of . . .
Canton.
Nanking.
Peking.
Shanghai.
Wars between China and Great Britain were fought over the smuggling of . . .
tea.
silks.
gold.
opium.
Which was the first treaty that Japan signed with a Western nation?
Treaty of Nanking
Treaty of Kanagawa
Treaty of Tokugawa
Treaty of Nagasaki
The trend toward international cooperation in the late nineteenth century is demonstrated by all the following except . . .
the Red Cross.
the Universal Postal Union.
Bismarck’s System.
the revival of the Greek Olympic games.
In 1905 and again in 1911, Germany tried to break up the Entente Cordiale by . . .
starting a war in the Balkans.
interfering with France’s interest in Morocco.
taking Russia’s side in the Balkan War.
allowing the British to take Morocco.
The Schlieffen Plan was designed to . . .
knock Italy out of the war before it could play an important role.
win the war before the United States could enter it.
defeat France before Russia could organize for war.
spread out reparation payments.
At what river did the French stop the initial German advance of World War I?
Rhine River
Somme River
Marne River
Seine River
Italy entered World War I because it . . .
was fulfilling its obligation to Germany under the Triple Alliance.
was outraged at the violation of Belgian neutrality.
feared a German invasion.
was promised loans and territory by the Allies.
Italian entrance into the war was important because . . .
the Germans and Austrians were forced to fight on another front.
Italian troops almost immediately knocked Ottoman troops out of the war.
Italian pressure forced the Austrians to sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
the defeat of the Italians encouraged France to begin unrestricted submarinewarfare.
Which leader proposed the Fourteen Points?
Woodrow Wilson
Georges Clemenceau
David Lloyd George
Otto von Bismarck
What ship was sunk by a German submarine on May 7, 1915?
Titanic
Maine
Lusitania
Bismarck
Which British prime minister attended the Paris Peace Conference?
David Lloyd George
Woodrow Wilson
Vittorio Orlando
Winston Churchill
Which Italian prime minister attended the Paris Peace Conference?
David Lloyd George
Woodrow Wilson
Vittorio Orlando
Winston Churchill
What country’s neutrality did the Germans violate as they made their way to France?
Switzerland
Belgium
Luxembourg
Italy
The sinking of the Lusitania was important because . . .
it was the first American ship sunk during the war.
the ship was loaded with arms and ammunition bound for Germany.
American protests forced the Germans to temporarily halt unrestrictedsubmarine warfare.
it demonstrated the sophistication of the German propaganda machine.
Who was the French representative at the Paris Peace Conference?
Charles Dawes
David Lloyd George
Georges Clemenceau
Ferdinand Foch
By signing the Locarno Pact, Germany . . .
recognized its western borders as permanent.
reduced the number of her warships.
promised to renounce war as an instrument of national policy.
reduced her reparations payments.
For the Russians, the greatest advantage of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was that . . .
it kept Lenin out of power.
Russia no longer had to fight.
Russia gained territory.
while Russia lost population, it preserved most of its coal mines.
Which of the following was one of the results of the Treaty of Versailles?
Britain received German warships.
Poland was established as an independent country.
Germany gained colonies in Africa.
The kaiser was executed.
What country signed the Treaty of St. Germain?
Ottoman Empire
Germany
Austria
Russia
Under the Treaty of Versailles, Germany had to grant land to all the following countries except . . .
Belgium.
France.
Denmark.
Russia.
What treaty dismantled the Ottoman Empire?
Treaty of St. Germain
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Treaty of Sèvres
Treaty of Versailles
What was an attempt to disarm the great powers in the early 1920s?
League of Nations
Fourteen Points
Treaty of St. Germain
Washington Naval Conference
What was the name of President Roosevelt’s plan to end the Great Depression?
Fair Deal
New Deal
Real Deal
Big Deal
Square Deal
The Russian czar Alexander III wished to do all the following except . . .
censor the press.
suppress revolutionary ideas.
help exiled Bolsheviks return to their homeland.
force minority groups to become “Russian” in language and religion.
What occurred in October 1929?
Mussolini marched on Rome.
Hitler became chancellor of Germany.
Calvin Coolidge was elected president of the United States.
The American stock market collapsed.
Which U.S. president received most of the blame for the Depression?
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
Warren G. Harding
The Comintern was organized to . . .
promote nationalism in Russia.
found Communist parties in other countries.
give the Russian people a legislative body.
suppress the Nazi Party, which opposed communism.
The New Economic Policy may best be described as . . .
the nationalization of heavy industry.
an attempt to collectivize agriculture.
a temporary retreat from communism to rescue the Russian economy.
the organization of the entire work force into thirteen groups, or syndicates.
What group did Hitler form in 1920 only to purge later on?
Gestapo
Bolsheviks
SA (Sturm Abteilung)
SS (Schutzstaffel)
During World War I the German government helped Bolshevik leaders return to Russia because . . .
it supported a worldwide Bolshevik revolution.
it hoped to strengthen the rule of moderates such as Kerensky.
it was required to do so under terms of the Versailles Treaty.
it hoped the Bolsheviks would disrupt Russia’s war effort.
Which of the following is not associated with Hitler?
Mein Kampf
stormtroopers
Five-Year Plans
Autobahnen
Who led the SS and the Gestapo?
Kemal Ataturk
Leon Trotsky
Heinrich Himmler
Warren G. Harding
Lenin’s demand that Russian peasants turn over their surplus crops to the state was part of . . .
autarky.
pogroms.
war communism.
the New Economic Policy.
Which of the following is a twentieth-century art movement?
cubism
impressionism
classicalism
provincialism
“The Waste Land” was written by . . .
T. S. Eliot.
Walter Gropius.
James Joyce.
Thomas Mann.
The Fascist Party was founded by . . .
Adolf Hitler.
Vladimir Lenin.
Benito Mussolini.
Paul von Hindenburg.
Which of the following was not a cause for Mussolini’s coming to power in Italy?
Italy had gained very little from its support for the Allies in World War I.
Strikes, inflation, and debt plagued the economy.
The Italians were bitter about the “war guilt” clause in the Treaty of Versailles.
Landowners and industrialists feared a Communist revolution.
How did Adolf Hitler treat German Christians?
He supported the churches.
He persecuted Christians who did not support him.
He allowed them to worship as normal
He didn’t even know about them.
The Spanish Civil War is called a “dress rehearsal” for World War II because . . .
Germany discovered Britain’s weakness.
the civil war’s results were identical to those of World War II.
Spain prepared for its role in World War II.
Germany and Italy tried out new weapons under battle conditions.
In 1931 Japan invaded the Chinese province of . . .
Formosa.
Manchuria.
Midway.
Mongolia.
Before Germany demanded and received the Sudetenland, the region had been a part of . . .
Austria.
Belgium.
Czechoslovakia.
Denmark.
Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek called a truce in their civil war because
the League of Nations asked them to.
the Japanese invaded China.
Mao renounced his communist beliefs.
they had reached an agreement on sharing power in China.
The world was shocked in August 1939 when Hitler announced that Germany had signed a nonaggression pact with . . .
Britain.
Italy.
Japan.
the Soviet Union.
Hitler’s militarizing the Rhineland violated which treaties?
Locarno and Versailles
Locarno and Warsaw
Versailles and Kellogg-Briand
Warsaw and Potsdam
Hitler was surprised when France and Britain declared war following his invasion of . . .
Austria.
Belgium.
Poland.
Russia.
The Germans defeated France in 1940 because the French . . .
surrendered without a fight.
had abandoned the Maginot Line.
did not expect Hitler to come through the forests of the Ardennes.
were surprised by Spain’s attack on France.
After Hitler conquered France, resistance continued through the Free French movement led by . . .
Édouard Daladier.
Charles de Gaulle.
Henri Pétain.
Pierre Vichy.
The Italian army was severely defeated by British forces in . . .
Albania.
Ethiopia.
North Africa.
Switzerland.
Blitzkrieg means . . . .
living space.
air force.
standing army.
lightning war.
Which of the following was not a reason that Britain won the Battle of Britain?
Churchill inspired the British people to persevere.
Germans did not bother bombing any civilian targets.
Pilots of the Royal Air Force fought in a heroic fashion.
British people remained tough in the face of hard circumstances.
Which word refers to divisions of German tanks?
sitzkrieg
panzer
blitzkrieg
Luftwaffe
What French World War I hero ruled for the Germans in Vichy France?
Marshal Henri Pétain
Ferdinand Foch
Charles de Gaulle
Marquis de Lafayette
Who was the Japanese military leader during World War II?
Hideki Tojo
Sun Yat-sen
Chiang Kai-shek
Mao Zedong
The miracle at Dunkirk was . . .
the victory of French troops over the Germans.
a battle between American and Japanese aircraft carriers.
the retreat to safety of Allied soldiers.
the American victory that followed D-day.
When Winston Churchill said, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few,” he was referring to the . . .
flotilla of ships that saved British soldiers at Dunkirk.
American invasion of the Philippines.
Americans who died at Pearl Harbor.
pilots of the Royal Air Force.
Where was the second atomic bomb dropped?
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
Tokyo
Yamaha
According to the text, what has prevented the outbreak of another world war?
direct intervention of the United Nations
threat of nuclear war
stronger alliances between UN member nations
international focus on solving worldwide humanitarian problems
What happened on June 6, 1944?
Victory Europe Day (V-E Day)
Victory Japan Day (V-J Day)
D-Day
bombing of Pearl Harbor
How did the U.S. Marines prevent the Japanese from breaking their code?
They used a complicated super computer.
They changed the code so frequently that it stayed unbroken.
They used Navajos speaking their own language.
They used a special code that transposed letters for numbers.
What did Hitler order regarding the Jews early in the war?
He ordered them out of the country.
He ordered them to live in ghettos.
He ordered them into concentration
He ceased persecution of them.
V-E Day took place on . . .
December 7, 1941.
May 8, 1945.
August 6, 1945.
September 2, 1945.
What began in 1949 when the Soviets developed their first atomic bomb?
Cuban Missile Crisis
violent, antiwar protests
Berlin airlift
arms race
The immediate cause of the Korean War was the . . .
North Korean invasion of South Korea.
withdrawal of the Soviet occupation force.
invasion of MacArthur at Inchon.
Chinese invasion of North Korea.
What U.S. movement centered on equal rights for black citizens and issues like school desegregation?
civil rights movement
apartheid
Great Society
counterculture movement
The purpose of the Cultural Revolution was to . . .
bring China's industry up to Western standards.
reform the Chinese state.
renew the zeal of the Chinese revolution.
allow free-market reforms.
One of the most serious crises of the Cold War occurred in 1962 when the United States insisted that . . .
the Soviet military move out of China.
Israel be allowed to join NATO.
Soviet missiles be removed from Cuba.
Castro be removed from Cuba.
What has the PLO continued to demand since 1964?
a separate Palestinian state
to take over Syria
an alliance with Russia
the right to develop nuclear weapons
The Viet Cong was . . .
the government of North Vietnam.
the secret police of North Vietnam.
a group of Communist guerrillas in South Vietnam.
the Congress of South Vietnam.
In 1948 a crisis developed over Western access to . . .
Berlin.
Bulgaria.
Korea.
Poland.
Charles De Gaulle helped bring about the Fifth Republic’s constitution which provided for a . . .
strong judicial system.
strong legislature.
weak military.
strong president.
What president brought renewed confidence and hope to America in the 1980s by reducing government regulations and lowering taxes?
George H. Bush
Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
Gorbachev’s goal in introducing perestroika was to . . .
reduce military spending.
promote open discussion.
intimidate the United States.
increase industrial productivity.
Which of the following was not a part of the Vietnam War?
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Vietnamization
U-2 incident
Tet offensive
What is considered to be one of the fastest growing transnational crimes in the world?
diamond theft
human trafficking
hijacking of airliners
racism
The ground invasion of Iraq in the first Gulf War was preceded by . . .
an invasion of special forces troops three weeks before.
a heavy naval bombardment for four months.
a five-week bombing campaign.
a two-week bombing campaign.
What is the “world’s largest democracy”?
Brazil
United Kingdom (UK)
India
China
In 1997 control of Hong Kong passed to . . .
China.
Japan.
South Korea.
Vietnam.
What is the term for the uprisings that occurred in many Muslim nations like Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, and Syria?
Christian revolt
Shiite rebellion
Arab Spring
ISIS uprising
When did the first Gulf War begin with airstrikes being launched on Iraq?
May 2004
December 2011
January 1991
October 2001
Who tried to maintain dominance over Bosnia even if it meant slaughtering Bosnian people?
Russia
Greece
Serbia
Croatia
The countries that border the Persian Gulf are almost exclusively . . .
Jewish.
Christian.
Hindu.
Muslim.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) refers to . . .
the amount of money each person in a country makes.
all the money printed within a country.
all the goods and services produced within a geographic border.
the principle product a country produces.
Greece has been experiencing a . . .
civil war in recent years.
major drought in recent years.
debt crisis in recent years.
drug crisis in recent years.
Iran is a majority . . .
Shiite Muslim nation.
Christian nation.
Sunni Muslim nation.
Kurdish nation.
The Asian country with the greatest percentage of protestant Christians is . . .
the Philippines.
Vietnam.
China.
South Korea.
Why have many African countries suffered civil wars?
National unity supersedes ethnic loyalties.
Policies differ over how to feed the people.
Ethnic loyalties supersede national unity.
Groups disagree over whether to save endangered wildlife.
