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WorksheetsMod Civ Final
Total questions: 150
Worksheet time: 38hrs 30mins
In many cities, socialists set up a council of workers and soldiers called soviets.
True
False
A Commissar taught Communist party policies and loyalty to army units.
True
False
The proletariat consisted of nobles and landowners.
True
False
The Communists created an organization of secret police called the Cheka.
True
False
Nicholas Il was the last tsar in Russia.
True
False
Nicholas II was a strong, effective leader who led Russia during WWI.
True
False
During WW I, Russian soldiers deserted their posts and returned home.
True
False
One reason Russia suffered disastrous losses in WW I was the transportation system broke down and very little
materials made it to the front.
True
False
Rasputin was a well respected holy man who was incredibly intelligent and no threat to the government.
True
False
The November Revolution brought the Bolsheviks to power.
True
False
During the Bolshevik takeover of 1917, they ended private ownership of land and distributed land to peasants.
True
False
Germany helped Lenin get back into Russia so he could gain control and pull Russia out of World War I.
True
False
Lenin died in 1924 at the age of 54.
True
False
After Lenin's death, a struggle among Russian Communist leaders took place between Trotsky and Kerensky.
True
False
After being stripped of party membership, Trotsky fled Russia and was murdered in Mexico in 1940.
True
False
In 1918, the Tsar, his wife, and five children were murdered by the Communists.
True
False
Which of the following groups seized complete control of Russia in 1917?
The Black Hand
The Whites
The Serbian Nationalists
The Bolsheviks
Which of the following is the best explanation for Russia's entrance into World War I?
Russia wanted to punish Serbia for encouraging terrorism.
Russia stood by its one dependable ally, Austria-Hungary.
Russia wanted to defend the Slavic peoples in Serbia.
Russia wanted to avoid facing Germany alone at a later date.
At first, the Allies welcomed the overthrow of Russia's tsar in 1917 because
it allowed Germany to concentrate its forces on the Western Front.
they hoped Russia would become more democratic and a stronger ally.
they believed the spread of Communism would help end the war.
the tsar had recently made a secret alliance with Germany.
Who was the leader of the Bolsheviks in 1917 during the November revolution?
Gregory Rasputin
Karl Marx
V.l. Lenin
Joseph Stalin
During the three-year long civil war in Russia, the "White" armies were composed of
Bolsheviks and other revolutionaries.
German refugees from World War I.
armies from France, Britain, and the United States.
tsarist officers, democrats, and other anti-Bolsheviks
Two factors that led to the tsar's abdication of the throne were
food shortages and victory in battle
food shortages and defeat in battle
Rasputin's influence and Marx's speeches
power of the Duma and the November
Revolution
Why did Lenin adapt Marxist ideas to Russian conditions?
Russia did not have a large force of rural workers.
Russia did not have a large force of urban workers.
Russia was a wealthy country, rather than a poor one.
Russia was ruled by a tsar, not an elected body.
Which one of these events occurred first?
The tsar stepped down
The Bolsheviks gained power
Russia entered WWl
Civil War erupted in Russia
The New Economic Policy of 1921
outlawed all capitalist activities.
allowed small businesses to reopen for
private profit.
provoked armed resistance
led to severe food shortages and a drop in production.
The leader of the provisional government was
Kerensky
Trotsky
Lenin
Nicholas
The New flag in Russia symbolized the union between
Rich and poor
Socialists and Capitalists
Landowners and nobles
Workers and peasants
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was made up of
Only European countries
European and Asian countries
Only Asian countries
None of the above
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk affected Russia in which way (s)?
By signing it, they were allowed to leave WWl
They lost territory and population to
Germany
it allowed Lenin and the Communists to
focus on defeating non-Communists
All of the above
To the war weary people, he promised, "Peace, land, and bread."
Stalin
Lenin
Trotsky
Nicholas ll
Nazi secret police
(a)
militant supporters of Benito Mussolini
(a)
liberated young women of the Jazz Age
(a)
a class of wealthy farmers whom Stalin destroyed
(a)
"Night of Broken Glass"
(a)
a system of brutal Russian labor camps
(a)
renounced war as an instrument of policy
(a)
a one-party dictatorship that tries to regulate all aspects of its citizens' lives
(a)
encouraged worldwide communist revolution
(a)
an artistic movement that attempts to portray the workings of the unconscious
(a)
In 1928, Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming discovered
Atomic fission
Penicillin
The theory of relativity
psychoanalysis
Lenbensraum means
Expensive living
Living room
Living quarters
Living space
Identify the event when thousands of fascists swarmed their capital to demand that the government make
changes.
March on Moscow
March on Rome
March on Berlin
The Long March
James Weldon Johnson, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay were all part of the
Era of Prohibition
Harlem Renaissance
Jazz Age
Age of Inventions
A German chancellor is similar to
President
Kaiser
Prime minister
King
Stalin requires artists and writers to create their works in a style called
Realist impressionism
Socialist realism
Socialist surrealism
Surreal post-impressionist abstract romanticism.
France occupied Germany's coal-rich Ruhr Valley in 1923
To protest the policies of Adolf Hitler
Because the French wanted to acquire more land
To force striking German miners back to work
Because Germany had fallen behind in reparations
In 1935, the Nazis passed the Nuremberg Laws which
combined all Protestant sects into a single state church.
deprived Jews of German citizenship.
required all young Germans to join the Hitler Youth.
established the Third Reich under Hitler.
What was the one reason authoritarian rule spread in Eastern Europe?
alliances with Hitler
the influence of Mussolini and the Fascists
lack of ethnic conflict
their lack of experience with the
democratic process
The name of illegal bars during Prohibition were known as
speaksoftlies
speakgentles.
speakeasies.
speakloudies.
What 1924 agreement reduced German reparations and provided U.S. loans to Germany?
Dawes Plan
Versailles Treaty
Locarno treaties
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Which art style was composed only of lines, colors, and shapes, sometimes with no recognizable subject at all?
Surrealism
Dada
Abstract
Impressionism
What is the key characteristic of fascism in the 1920’s and 1930’s?
Glorification of human reason
Supremacy of the state
Open political debate
Pursuit of a classless society
The Weimar Republic faced many severe problems, including
The lack of a bill of rights and suffrage for women
Runway inflation and one party tule
Runway inflation and many political parties
the inability to develop a multi-party system
Which of the following terms do not belong with the others?
Fascism
Communism
Nazism
Totalitarianism
What was the name of the series of massacres that Japan committed in China in the 1930s?
Manchuria Massacre
Nanjing Massacre
Rape of Nanjing
Rape of Manchuria
Austrian scientist Sigmund Freud pioneered or discovered
The theory of relativity
Penicillin
Radioactivity
Psychoanalysis
Which of the following does not belong?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Count Basie
Francisco Franco was a fascist dictator from
The Soviet union
Spain
Germany
Italy
In 1928, Stalin proposed a series of__________aimed at building heavy industry, improving transportation, and increasing farm output
Five year plan
Three year plan
Seven year plan
Programs
I Duce was the title of which of the following leaders?
Juan Peron
Adolph Hitler
Fidel Castro
Benito Mussulini
How long did Hitler predict that his Third Reich would last?
500 years
1000 years
250 years
750 years
On Stalins Collectives,
Individual peasants could own small plots of land
Agricultural output skyrocketed in the 1930’s
The government provided tractors, fertilizers, and seed.
Peasants set all prices and controlled access to farm supplies
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
The League of Nations was headquartered in
Paris, France
Geneva, Switzerland
New York, New York
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
How did the League of Nations respond when Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931?
It insisted that the United States solve the problem.
It sent arms and supplies to the Manchurians.
It launched an assault against the invading forces.
It condemned Japan's action but did nothing to stop it.
Stalin sent_____to oppressive labor camps because they resisted his collectivization policy.
The middle class
Business leaders
military officials
Kulaks
The official state religious policy under Communism was
atheism.
Protestantism
Judaism
Catholicism
Which of the following items is unrelated to the others?
Jews
Homosexuals
Gypsies
Aryans
What was the name of Germany's government after World War I?
Weimar Republic
Deutschland Republic
German Republic
German Democratic Republic
U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a massive package of Depression relief called the
New Deal
Federal Reserve
Fair deal
Great Society
Nazism is the German brand of
Fascism
Democracy
Communism
Marxism
The series of defensive fortifications that France built along its border with Germany following World War I
was known as the
Franco-Deutsch Line
Anti-Germán Invasion Line
Maginot Line
French-German Defensive Line
In what type of an economy does the government make all the decisions?
Command economy
Mixed economy
Free market economy
Capitalist economy
Stalin attempted to make the cultural life of the Soviet Union more Russian by promoting a policy of
Russification
Surrealism
Tsarism
Capitalism
According to Hitler, how was a Jew defined?
By having at least one Jewish grandparent.
By having three out of four Jewish
grandparents.
By having two or more Jewish
grandparents.
By having all four Jewish grandparents
Which of the following was the Nazi secret police?
Cheka
Black Shirts
Gestapo
Storm troopers
Many critics of Stalin’s regime were sent to
Gulags
Penitentiaries
jails
State prisons
The book that Hitler wrote in person was titled
Mein Kampf
Racist thoughts
My Beliefs
Chow mein
How did Hitler achieve power?
Revolution
With help from communists
By legal election
Coup d’ etat
The Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of their citizenship in Germany.
True
False
The atomic bomb was first dropped on Tokyo
True
False
During the Bataan Death March, US soldiers were tortured and killed by the Japanese.
True
False
Aryans" were Stalin's idea of the perfect person with blond hair and blue eyes.
True
False
President Roosevelt had to make the ultimate decision to drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan.
True
False
The D Day invasion took place on the beaches of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944.
True
False
7. The non-aggression pact was an agreement between Germany and Russia to stay out of each other's way in terms of expansion
True
False
The SS were Hitler's guards who tortured or killed Jews or enemies of Germany.
True
False
The Einsatzgruppen were mobile killing squads who massacred Jews.
True
False
Fat man and Little Boy were code names for the Japanese attack at Midway.
True
False
Kamikazes were used by the US to attack Japanese aircraft carriers during suicide missions in the Pacific.
True
False
The Japanese attacked the U.S. at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
True
False
The Germans defeated the Soviet Union during the Battle of Stalingrad.
True
False
Auschwitz was the most famous, notorious death camp located in Poland.
True
False
Kristallnacht was the "night of broken glass" where Germans turned their aggression on Jews, destroying homes, churches,
businesses, etc.
True
False
Location of the first US atomic bombing
(a)
Allowed the US president to aid to American Allie’s
(a)
Site of Allied war strategy meeting
(a)
Giving into an aggressors demands to maintain peace
(a)
Site of major Russian victory over German Troops
(a)
“Lighting War”
(a)
Intended to prevent US involvement in a European war
(a)
Hitler’s plan for the union of Austria and Germany
(a)
German city in which allies held war crimes trials
(a)
Opposition to the war
(a)
German leader known as the desert fox
(a)
Leader of the US who ended WWll
(a)
Spanish,fascist dictator
(a)
Russian leader and ally of US and England
(a)
Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific
(a)
Leader of the US who united the country after the pearl harbor
(a)
Italian, fascist dictator
(a)
Leader of England who appeased Hitlers territorial claims without a fight
(a)
What was the result of the Civil War in Spain
Republic was set up in Spain with the new constitution
Francisco Franco came into power and created a fascist dictatorship
The king of Spain was forced to leave the country
Germany gained control of Spain and made it part of the third Reich
After intense battles on Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the Japanese
prepared to use atomic weapons
tried to become an ally of the Soviet Union
began negotiations with the United States
rejected any suggestions of surrender
43.The U.S. strategy of "island-hopping" in the Pacific
quickly weakened the resolve of Japanese soldiers.
was a failure, forcing the U.S. to use atomic weapons.
pushed Japanese forces into the jungles of Burma and Malaya.
allowed the U.S. to gradually move north toward Japan.
Hitler' blitzkrieg tactics
allowed Germany to take over much of
Europe by 1940
strained Germany's resources
inspired Britain to establish an air force
had not effect on Norway and Denmark
The concept of total war included
encouraging freedom of the press
manufacturing whatever would bring the Most profit
the regulation of wages and prices
expanding the rights of citizens
46.The leader of the D Day invasion was
Patton
Eisenhower
MacAurthur
Hitler
.The Bataan Death March took place in the
Philippines
Burma
Malaya
None of the above
Who made the final decision to use the atomic bomb?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
General Douglas MacAurthur
President Harry Truman
General Dwight Eisenhower
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 seizing the Baltic states.
the Soviets had helped the British at Dunkirk.
Midway and the Coral Sea were
the first American aircraft carriers
sites of Japanese naval victories over the US
where the main Japanese prison camps we’re located
sites of the U.S. naval victories over Japan
•What event marked the beginning of World War Il?
The Nazi-Soviet Pact
The German invasion of Poland
The Anchluss
Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland
On of the reasons the Allies won the war in Europe was
that Hitler underestimated the will of
France to fight
the huge productive capacity of the United States
the development of the atomic bomb by The United States
The Execution of Mussulini
53.Hitler justified Germany's aggression by stating that
Germans had the right to conquer inferior people
he wanted to preserve order in Czechoslovikia
he wanted to spread communism to
Austria and other countries
he felt that other European leaders
approved of his policies
Why did Germany invade the Soviet Union?
Hitler wanted the country's natural resources
Russian Nazis asked for help
Hitler wanted to punish Stalin for breaking
the Nazi-Soviet Pact
Hitler was angry that Russian troops
burned factories and crops
55.The Big Three were
Stalin, Eisenhower, and Churchill
Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini
Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Stalin
Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
The Atlantic Charter was an agreement between
the United States and Japan to hold peace Talks
Japan and Germany to divide up Eastern Europe
the United States and Britain to destroy
the Nazis
the United States and Britain to defeat
Japan
57.During D Day, the country that was invaded was
Germany
England
Spain
France
58.The German air force was almost grounded by the time of the D-Day invasion because
the Germans feared their planes would be destroyed in the air.
the Germans had little fuel due to Allied bombing.
so many German pilots had been killed in the war.
so many German aircraft were in need of repair.
How did Germany's location affect its chances to win the war?
It had to fight several fronts
It was too close to Great Britain
It was too far from the US
Troops had to cross several mountain
ranges to fight
Hitler's "final solution" was his plan to
convince Britain to join the Axis powers
form an alliance with Japan
invade the Soviet Union
ruthlessly murder all European Jews
61.The Battle of the Bulge was
a massive German counterattack against The Allies
the Allied invasion of southern France Following D day
a German attack on the Soviet Red Army Outside Berlin
a successful Soviet encirclement of Berlin in 1945
Which was one reason for the development of the policy of appeasement?
Western democracies saw the desire for peace as weakness
Japan, Germany, and Italy saw the desire for peace as weakness
Britain could not confront Hitler without strong French support
Fascism was considered less of a threat
than communism
What did the Nazi-Soviet Pact accomplish for Germany?
It allowed the union of Austria and Germany.
It allowed the union of Germany and Hungary.
It gave Germany a free hand in Poland.
It gave Germany a free hand in the Sudetenland.
What was one of Stalin's major goals in Eastern Europe after World War Il?
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
What was one reason given for dropping atomic bombs on Japan?
to frighten the Germans
to stop kamikaze attacks
to eliminate Japanese army bases
to end the war without invading Japan
the bolief that one communist victory would lead to many others
(a)
nations that are stronger than other powerful nations
(a)
The US and its allies
(a)
US policy on Communism to prevent further expansion
(a)
brought on high taxes and greater government rogulation
(a)
seen as a particular threat to the balance of terror during the SALT talks
(a)
led the Cuban Revolution in 1959
(a)
the Soviet leader after Stalin
(a)
brought the world to the brink of nuclear war in 1962
(a)
The Soviet Union and its allies
(a)
What aspect 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
What was a change that took place during the Cuban Revolution?
Freedom of the press was guaranteed.
Political freedom was restricted.
Cuba joined SEATO.
The U.S. dropped the embargo on Cuba.
