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World History Final

Total questions: 100

Worksheet time: 50mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is NOT a cause of the issues in Europe that led to war?

a)

nationalism

b)

feudalism

c)

alliance system

d)

militarism

2.

Which alliance was made up of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy?

a)

Triple Alliance

b)

Triple Entente

c)

non-aggression pact

d)

NATO

3.

Which alliance was made up of Britain, France, and Russia?

a)

Triple Alliance

b)

Triple Entente

c)

NATO

d)

Warsaw Pact

4.

What area is considered the "powder keg" of Europe?

a)

Rhineland

b)

Western Front

c)

Balkans

d)

Eastern Front

5.

Who was assassinated alongside his wife in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo?

a)

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

b)

Otto von Bismarck

c)

Kaiser Wilhelm II

d)

Tsar Nicholas II

6.

What was the German idea to defeat France quickly so that they could move and focus on fighting Russia?

a)

trench warfare

b)

Schlieffen Plan

c)

propaganda

d)

no-man's land

7.

What battle saw the Germans pushing all the way towards Paris, only to have to retreat after the allies regrouped and defended the city?

a)

Battle of Tannenberg

b)

Battle of the Bulge

c)

First Battle of the Marne

d)

Battle of Stalingrad

8.

What new fighting technique that began on the Western Front saw heavy casualties with little movement?

a)

blitzkrieg

b)

no-man's land

c)

mustard gas

d)

trench warfare

9.

What was the area between the trenches that had a high chance of death called?

a)

annexed land

b)

blitzkrieg

c)

no-man's land

d)

trench warfare

10.

The Eastern Front primarily took place on the border between which two countries?

a)

Italy/France

b)

Germany/Russia

c)

Germany/France

d)

it took place in Africa

11.

Why was Russia on the verge of collapsing during the Great War?

a)

they were not on the verge of collapsing

b)

they tried to employ guerrilla warfare tactics

c)

the cold conditions were the primary reason they were losing

d)

they were not fully industrialized like the rest of Europe

12.

What passenger ship did a German U-boat sink that was also carrying U.S. citizens and supplies for the war?

a)

Olympia

b)

Titanic

c)

Lusitania

d)

Brittanic

13.

What was the German strategy of sinking any ship without warning, primarily in British controlled water?

a)

U-boat blitzing

b)

rationing

c)

total war

d)

unrestricted submarine warfare

14.

What was the telegram from Germany to Mexico that stated that Germany would help Mexico retake lost lands from the U.S. if they kept the U.S. occupied during the war?

a)

XYZ Note

b)

Zimmerman Note

c)

Treaty of Versailles

d)

Wilson Memo

15.

What is the system in which people would only buy a small amount of certain goods that would be used for the war effort?

a)

total war

b)

unrestricted war

c)

rationing

d)

propaganda

16.

The new leader of Russia in 1917 was who?

a)

Vlad the Impaler

b)

Tsar Nicholas II

c)

Rasputin

d)

Vladmir Lenin

17.

What was the name of the treaty between Germany and Russia?

a)

Versailles

b)

Brest-Litovsk

c)

Paris Accord

d)

INF

18.

The group of people that many people changed their views of coming out of WWI due to their contributions were who?

a)

women

b)

African-Americans

c)

children

d)

Russians

19.

The major battle that Germany pushed towards on the Western Front near the end of that war that ended in their defeat was what?

a)

Battle of Midway

b)

Battle of the Bulge

c)

Battle of Tannenberg

d)

Second Battle of the Marne

20.

Which Allied country had the most combatant deaths during WWI?

a)

Russia

b)

France

c)

United States

d)

Great Britain

21.

Which of the following was NOT a part of the Fourteen Points?

a)

Points 1-4: end to secret treaties, freedom of the seas, free trade, and reduced national armies and navies

b)

Point 5: adjustments of colonial claims, favoring colonial people

c)

Points 6-13: changing borders and making new nations

d)

Point 14: The United Nations

22.

Which of the following was NOT a punishment to Germany through the Treaty of Versailles?

a)

lost territory and military restrictions

b)

reciprocal trade deals

c)

"war guilt"

d)

reparations

23.

Why did the League of Nations, the precursor to the United Nations, fail?

a)

the League of Nations did not help grow spheres of influence

b)

the League of Nations did not fail

c)

the United States didn't join, making it "toothless"

d)

Russia failed to join, leading to the Russian Revolution

24.

Who took over rule of Russia after Czar Alexander III?

a)

Lenin

b)

Czar Nicholas II

c)

Stalin

d)

Kaiser Wilhelm II

25.

What is the term that refers to workers who want to rule the country?

a)

plutocrats

b)

autocrats

c)

bourgeoisie

d)

proletariat

26.

Who were the radicals that were willing to sacrifice everything to have the workers rule the country?

a)

Bolsheviks

b)

Mensheviks

c)

bourgeoisie

d)

autocrats

27.

Who was the "holy man" that influenced the czar's wife and gained power in Russia?

a)

Gorbachev

b)

Lenin

c)

Stalin

d)

Rasputin

28.

Which of the following was a group that did NOT make up the Soviets?

a)

workers

b)

bourgeoisie

c)

peasants

d)

soldiers

29.

What did the Bolsheviks become that were a classless society under a dictatorship?

a)

Bourgeoisie Party

b)

Proletariat Party

c)

Communist Party

d)

People's Republic Party

30.

Who was known as the "man of steel?"

a)

Lenin

b)

Trotsky

c)

Czar Nicholas II

d)

Stalin

31.

What is the idea of total control of public and private life in a centralized government?

a)

totalitarianism

b)

total war

c)

oligarchy

d)

aristocracy

32.

What was the event in which Stalin eliminated 8 to 13 million of his own people because he wanted to eliminate any threats to his power?

a)

Storming of the Bastille

b)

Great Purge

c)

Bloody Sunday

d)

Reign of Terror

33.

Which of the following is NOT an aspect of control under a totalitarian government?

a)

police terror

b)

propaganda and censorship

c)

privatization of business

d)

religious and ethnic persecution

34.

What is the type of economy in which the government makes all of the economic decisions?

a)

mixed economy

b)

free market economy

c)

democratic economy

d)

command economy

35.

What did Stalin come up with to help develop the Soviet economy by making impossible quota goals?

a)

Five-Year Plans

b)

Command Plan

c)

Schlieffen Plan

d)

Future Market Development

36.

What are large, government owned farms that are combined from seized land in the Soviet Union?

a)

feudal lands

b)

collective farms

c)

Kulaks

d)

enclosures

37.

Who were the wealthy peasants that resisted the takeover of their lands by the Soviet government?

a)

Soviets

b)

proletariat

c)

Kulaks

d)

Bolsheviks

38.

Who was the leader of the independence movement within India?

a)

Genghis Khan

b)

Nicholas II

c)

Gandhi

d)

Kemal

39.

What action did the Indians take to combat the British by refusing to comply with unjust laws?

a)

a peace treaty

b)

violent uprisings

c)

mass rebellion

d)

civil disobedience

40.

What event happened when the Indians refused to by a particular good from the British due to taxes, leading the to Indians marching to the water near the coast to get their own good?

a)

Long March

b)

Salt March

c)

Final March

d)

they complied with the British

41.

What resource in the Middle East grew business and western interest in the region in the 1920s/30s?

a)

gold

b)

oil

c)

coal

d)

diamonds

42.

Who was the Austrian physician that treated patients with psychological problems?

a)

Niki Lauda

b)

Franz Kafka

c)

Russeau

d)

Sigmund Freud

43.

What was the name of the art movement that tried to link the real world with a dream world?

a)

Surrealism

b)

Existentialism

c)

Post-Modernism

d)

Idealism

44.

What was the emerging style of music in America that was primarily created by African Americans in the 1920s?

a)

Country

b)

Big Band Music

c)

Jazz

d)

Swing

45.

What was the name given to “new” women in the 1920s?

a)

Progressives

b)

Suffragettes

c)

New Agers

d)

Flappers

46.

Who was the American pilot that made a flight by himself from New York to Paris?

a)

Charles Lindbergh

b)

Chesley Sullenberger

c)

Amelia Earhart

d)

Charlie Chaplin

47.

The name of Germany's post-World War I democratic government.

a)

The First Republic

b)

Weimar Republic

c)

The Third Reich

d)

Czarist Regime

48.

What helped slow inflation by loaning money from an American bank to countries and restructured reparation payments?

a)

The Treaty of Versailles

b)

The Dawes Plan

c)

The Kellogg-Briand Pact

d)

Brest-Litovsk Pact

49.

The long business slump that devastated business and farms in America?

a)

Black Tuesday

b)

The Great Depression

c)

The Long March

d)

The Final Recession

50.

The governmental program under FDR that created public work projects to employ people.

a)

RKO

b)

The New Deal

c)

The Great Society

d)

The War on Poverty

51.

Who used the “black shirts” to stoke fear in his country to help secure his power?

a)

Hitler

b)

Stalin

c)

Mussolini

d)

Tojo

52.

The idea of appeasement is:

a)

giving into an aggressor to keep peace.

b)

swapping captured troops.

c)

making a peace pact that is a comprise from both parties.

d)

the demand that a rival power give up their sovereignty.

53.

What was the policy that the United States followed that kept them out of the business of other countries?

a)

laissez-faire

b)

isolationism

c)

non aggression pacts

d)

autocracy

54.

What was the name of the day on which stock markets plummeted near the start of the Great Depression?

a)

Black Friday

b)

The First Day

c)

Black Tuesday

d)

The Dark Day

55.

The title of the German leader

a)

Fuhrer

b)

Il Duce

c)

President

d)

Czar

56.

The title of the Italian leader

a)

Fuhrer

b)

Czar

c)

Il Duce

d)

Prime Minister

57.

What was the name of the book that Hitler wrote while he was in jail?

a)

Communist Manifesto

b)

Das Kapital

c)

Mein Kampf

d)

The Zimmerman Note

58.

Who was the general in Spain that led the military to a fascist takeover of the government?

a)

Francisco Franco

b)

Francisco Lindor

c)

Julio Franco

d)

Carlos Colon

59.

The alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan was known as:

a)

The Allies

b)

The Triple Entente

c)

The Axis Powers

d)

The Triple Alliance

60.

After planning to absorb Austria and Czechoslovakia, Germany wanted to form and became the:

a)

First Reich

b)

Austrian-Hungarian Empire

c)

Triple Entente

d)

Third Reich

61.

What country did Germany and the Soviet Union split up in their nonaggression pact?

a)

Austria

b)

Poland

c)

Czechoslovakia

d)

France

62.

Which of the following would be part of the first wave of Hitler's blitzkrieg?

a)

infantry

b)

battle ships

c)

airplanes and tanks

d)

tear gas

63.

How did Hitler make his way into France?

a)

He took countries and went around the Maginot line

b)

He broke the Maginot line head on

c)

He made a pact with France

d)

He had Spain attack France

64.

What was the name of the place where the Allied forces were trapped on a beach while they tried to escape?

a)

Edinborough

b)

Paris

c)

Dunkirk

d)

Normandy

65.

What was the name of the battle where Hitler targeted the RAF so that he could become the ruler of Europe?

a)

Battle of Stalingrad

b)

Battle of Britain

c)

Battle of the Bulge

d)

Operation Dynamo

66.

What country did Mussolini go after in Africa to get to the oil in the Middle East?

a)

Morocco

b)

South Africa

c)

Nigeria

d)

Egypt

67.

Who was the German general that Hitler sent to Africa to help deal with the British?

a)

Rommel

b)

Romulus

c)

Remus

d)

Wilhelm

68.

What was the name of the operation that Hitler conducted to invade the Soviet Union?

a)

Operation Zeppelin

b)

Operation Dynamo

c)

Operation Barbarossa

d)

Operation Dumbo

69.

What was the name of the secret deal that FDR and Churchill made that upheld free trade and the choice of people to make their governments?

a)

Atlantic Charter

b)

nonaggression pact

c)

Neutrality Acts

d)

NAFTA

70.

What event happened on December 7th, 1941 to get the United States into World War II

a)

Operation Barbarossa

b)

The Battle of Dunkirk

c)

D-Day

d)

Pearl Harbor

71.

Who was the Japanese Admiral that led their fleet?

a)

Yamamoto

b)

Tojo

c)

Yamaha

d)

Okada

72.

What was the name of the raid on Tokyo that made Japan seem vulnerable?

a)

Dunkir

b)

Iwojima

c)

Midway

d)

Doolittle

73.

What is the battle in which American forces hid behind the Horizon and eventually forced Yamamoto to withdraw?

a)

Wake Island

b)

Tokyo

c)

Midway

d)

Coral Sea

74.

Who was the leader of the Allied forces in the Pacific?

a)

Churchill

b)

de Gaulle

c)

MacArthur

d)

Yamamoto

75.

What was known as the "Night of Broken Glass"?

a)

Sauerkraut

b)

Kristallnacht

c)

Stille Nacht

d)

Mein Kampf

76.

What were the name of the places that Hitler moved the Jews to in segregated areas?

a)

internment camps

b)

gulags

c)

walled-cities

d)

ghettos

77.

What was the name of Hitler's plan that including the systematic killing of Jewish people and others through genocide?

a)

Enigma

b)

the Final Solution

c)

the Answer

d)

the End

78.

What was the major outcome of the Battle of Stalingrad?

a)

The British advanced in Africa

b)

The Soviets lost Stalingrad

c)

The Germans were on the defensive

d)

The Germans won the battle

79.

What did anti-Japanese propaganda and the fear from the attacks on Pearl Harbor result in for Japanese Americans?

a)

internment camps

b)

gulags

c)

concentration camps

d)

social promotion

80.

At what beach did D-Day primarily take place?

a)

Alsace Lorraine

b)

Dunkirk

c)

Normandy

d)

Rhine

81.

At what battle on the Western front did Hitler make a desperate attempt to split the Allied forces?

a)

Battle of El Alamein

b)

Battle of Stalingrad

c)

Battle of the Bulge

d)

Battle of Bunker Hill

82.

What places did the United States use atomic bombs at?

a)

Tokyo

b)

Hiroshima

c)

Kyoto

d)

Nagasaki

83.

What political party grew rapidly right after the war in France and Italy?

a)

Bull-Moose

b)

Democrats

c)

Republicans

d)

Communists

84.

What were the war criminals in the Nuremberg Trials charged with?

a)

extortion

b)

extermination

c)

first degree murder

d)

crimes against humanity

85.

What was the name of the meeting between the U.S., Britain, and the Soviet Union over the dividing of Germany into zones?

a)

The Versailles Meetings

b)

The Yalta Conference

c)

The Munich Conference

d)

The General Assembly

86.

What was the international organization that was supposed to protect members against aggression?

a)

The League of Nations

b)

Enigma

c)

NATO

d)

The United Nations

87.

What did Truman find the Soviets in violation of after they installed communist governments in places such as Poland?

a)

The Treaty of Versailles

b)

The Atlantic Charter

c)

The Warsaw Pact

d)

NATO

88.

What was the division between democracy in Western Europe and communism in Eastern Europe called?

a)

the Great Barrier Reef

b)

the Athenian Wall

c)

the iron curtain

d)

the Great Wall

89.

What was the ultimate goal of the policy of containment?

a)

blocking the spread of Soviet influence

b)

the defeat of Germany

c)

stopping the spread of communism

d)

defeating fascism

90.

What did opponents of the Truman Doctrine argue?

a)

the allies of America were not doing their part

b)

that Truman wasn't doing enough

c)

Truman should drop more A-bombs

d)

America shouldn't interfere in other nations affairs

91.

What was to provide food, machinery, and materials to rebuild Europe?

a)

the Atlantic Charter

b)

The Berlin Airlift

c)

the Marshall Plan

d)

the Great Escape

92.

What event saw British and American planes flying food and supplies into West Berlin to give relief and aid?

a)

the Great Compromise

b)

the Great Escape

c)

the Berlin Airlift

d)

the Atlantic Charter

93.

What was the organization that had countries join the U.S. in saying that an attack on one was an attack on all?

a)

the Warsaw Pact

b)

NATO

c)

the United Nations

d)

the League of Nations

94.

The communist leader in China was:

a)

Bruce Lee

b)

Xi Jingping

c)

Mao Zedong

d)

Jiang Jieshi

95.

What was the name of the militia that Mao encouraged to make revolution in schools?

a)

the Red Army

b)

the White Army

c)

the Rebel Army

d)

the Red Guard

96.

What was the name of the location that separated N. and S. Korea?

a)

The Berlin Wall

b)

The Mason-Dixon Line

c)

The Great Wall

d)

The 38th Parallel

97.

What river did the N. Koreans push get pushed back to that almost ended the war?

a)

Seoul

b)

Yalta

c)

Yalu

d)

Geneva

98.

When did the Korean War officially end?

a)

1953

b)

1959

c)

1945

d)

it hasn't yet

99.

Who was the Vietnamese nationalism leader who turned to communism for aid in removing France from Vietnam?

a)

Hanoi

b)

Saigon

c)

Dien Bien Phu

d)

Ho Chi Minh

100.

What was the idea that if one Asian country fell to communism, then they all would?

a)

the theory of relativity

b)

the Domino Theory

c)

the Truman Doctrine

d)

the Marshall Plan