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World History II Final Exam Review - Unit 6

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 51mins

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1.

...we realize that without power, without a strong army and a strong navy, there can be no walfare for us. The means of fighting the battle for existence in this world without strong armaments on land and water, for a nation soon to count sixty million, living in the center of Europe...have not yet be found.

Source: Prince Bernhard von Bulow, German chancellor, speech to the government, 1899.

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This excerpt demonstrates

a)

Militarism as a cause of World War I

b)

The Treaty of Versailles as a cause of World War II

c)

Great Britain and France's failure of appeasement causing World War II

d)

Imperialism as a cause of World War I

2.

Source: German political cartoon, "The British Octopus: Freedom of the Seas (England is the Bloodsucker of the World)", 1917.

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This cartoon demonstrates

a)

Nationalism as a cause of World War II

b)

German and Japanese expansionism as a cause of World War II

c)

The rise of Hitler as a cause of World War II.

d)

Imperialism as a cause of World War I

3.

Select ALL that apply: The Triple Entente, or Allied Powers during World War I

a)

Russia

b)

Great Britain

c)

Ottoman Empire

d)

France

4.

Select all that apply: The Triple Alliance, later the Central Powers of World War I

a)

Italy (until 1915)

b)

Germany

c)

Austria-Hungary

d)

Serbia

5.

Click the map to study the data. All of the following explain the casualties data of World War I EXCEPT

a)

Russia's military was underfunded and led poorly

b)

Colonization by the British Empire and France accounted for a high casualty count

c)

The Central Powers were victorious in World War I

d)

Aerial and submarine warfare led to higher casualty counts

6.

Source: Female workers at a British munitions factory, World War I (1914-1918).

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This image demonstrates _____, which does not separate the wartime involvement of soldiers and civilians.

a)

Civil war

b)

Total war

c)

Proxy war

d)

Cold war

7.

In both World Wars, women performed traditionally masculine jobs (for the time) out of necessity. Select all that apply.

a)

First responders

b)

Miners

c)

Mechanics

d)

Police officers

8.

All of the following were long-term causes of the Russian Revolution EXCEPT

a)

The ineffective rule of Tsar Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia

b)

The Russian royal family's association with controversial figure Rasputin

c)

The centuries-long economic strife of the lower classes

d)

Failures during the Russo-Japanese War and World War I

e)

Russia's lost of its prized colony, the Congo

9.

All of the following were political effects of the Russian Revolution EXCEPT

a)

The establishment of a republic under Stalin

b)

The end of the Russian monarchy and execution of the royal family

c)

A civil war between pro-monarchists and pro-Communists

d)

The creation of the Soviet Union under Lenin's communist regime

10.

The political cartoon claims that the Treaty of Versailles

a)

Prevented a second World War

b)

Established the bylaws of the Nazi Party

c)

Led to the rise of Adolf Hitler

d)

Ended the Nazi regime in Germany

11.

The solution lies in enlarging the agricultural units . . . and in changing the agricultural base of our national economy. . . .the Socialist way, which is to set up collective farms and state farms which leads to the joining together of the small peasant farms into large collective farms, technically and scientifically equipped, and to the squeezing out of the capitalist elements from agriculture. . . . Now we are able to carry on a determined offensive against the kulaks, to break their resistance, to eliminate them as a class and substitute for their output the output of the collective farms and state farms.

Source: A 1929 speech delivered by Joseph Stalin, during which he explains the collectivization policy.

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All of the following were components of Joseph Stalin's collectivization policy EXCEPT

a)

Seizing private farmland for the ownership of the state

b)

Forced labor, at times in isolation

c)

State control of agriculture

d)

Incentivizing wealthy farmers to willingly donate their harvests

12.

All of the following were practices by twentieth-century totalitarian regimes EXCEPT

a)

Dictatorship and one-party rule that exercises absolute authority

b)

A dynamic leader that unites people and symbolizes the government

c)

Using modern technology and communication to spread propaganda

d)

The people loaning their power to elected government officials

13.

Select all that apply: The Axis Powers of World War II

a)

United States

b)

Germany

c)

Italy

d)

Japan

14.

Select all that apply: the Allied Powers of World War II

a)

United States

b)

Switzerland

c)

Great Britain

d)

Soviet Union

15.

This political cartoon is criticizing Great Britain and France's appeasement policy, which

a)

Created an alliance between Great Britain, France, and Nazi Germany

b)

Left Nazi Germany's expansionism and militarism unchecked

c)

Successfully prevented Germany's invasion of several Eastern European states

d)

Strongly enforced the articles of the Treaty of Versailles

16.

The impact of the United States' use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki included all of the following EXCEPT

a)

Securing the United States' position of a global superpower

b)

Destruction of two Japanese cities, as well as long-term health effects of its citizens

c)

Ending World War II

d)

The Soviet Union joining NATO during the Cold War

17.

Select all that apply: The Nazi Party employed all of the following tactics in their execution of the Holocaust EXCEPT

a)

Forcing the Jewish people to self-identify in public by wearing a yellow star

b)

Legal discrimination against the Jewish people, e.g. barring them from certain professions

c)

Dehumanization via propaganda, e.g. referring to the Jewish people as "vermin"

d)

Persecution by the forced displacement of the Jewish people to concentration camps

e)

Organization of the SS and police forces under one objective: eliminating "racial, social, and political enemies" of the Nazis