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World History Semester 2 Final

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

All of the following were reasons why the US entered WWI EXCEPT

a)

German use of poison gas was too much to overlook

b)

Ensure that Britain and France would win and pay them back

c)

The Zimmerman telegram

d)

To avenge the sinking of the Lusitania

2.

All of these leaders except who used a fascist government 

a)

Hitler

b)

Stalin

c)

Tojo

d)

Mussolini

e)

Franco

3.

Concentration camp that all others were modeled after, opened in 1933 

a)

Dachau

b)

Auschwitz

c)

Bergen-Belsen

d)

Oslo

4.

What nation became communist in the Western hemisphere and worried the US

a)

Cuba

b)

Venezuela

c)

Nicaragua

d)

Argentina

5.

How did Apartheid begin in South Africa

a)

white colonial descendants of the dutch took power after the British left

b)

Bantus overthrew the Dutch and established their power

c)

the King of South Africa Died resulting in Crisis

d)

Nelson Mandela founded the Apartheid

6.

Which leader was assassinated in Sarajevo in June 1914? 

a)

Franz Ferdinand

b)

Winston Churchill

c)

Adolf Hitler

d)

Joseph Stalin

7.

During which revolution was Czar Nicholas II executed

a)

Russian Revolution

b)

American Revolution

c)

French Revolution

d)

Industrial Revolution

8.

Who said, "I am become death, destroyer of worlds"

a)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Adolf Hitler

d)

Joseph Stalin

9.

Who makes up NATO

a)

US, Canada and Western Europe

b)

Russia, China and India

c)

Japan, South Korea and Australia

d)

Brazil, Argentina and Mexico

10.

WWI was started over secret alliances

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Rasputin was eventually crowned Czar of Russia

a)

True

b)

False

12.

The british took an aggressive stance when confronting Hitler when he took power

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Reagan came up with a genius idea to stop nuclear missiles. The public nicknamed it “Star Trek” 

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Ghandhi preached extreme violence against the British soldiers stationed in India

a)

True

b)

False

15.

The US joined World War I because the Queen promised to sell Alaska

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Francisco Franco took power with the help of the United States

a)

True

b)

False

17.

The US taunted Japan and dared them to bomb Pearl Harbor

a)

True

b)

False

18.

Mikhail Gorbachev was elected the first president in Russia's History

a)

True

b)

False

19.

Nelson Mandela died in prison

a)

True

b)

False

20.

Created the 14-point plan to try and bring world peace after World War I

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

Theodore Roosevelt

c)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

d)

Winston Churchill

21.

Wanted to restore Italy to its former Roman Glory

a)

Mussolini

b)

Napoleon

c)

Julius Caesar

d)

Charlemagne

22.

Father of Russian Communism

a)

Lenin

b)

Stalin

c)

Marx

d)

Trotsky

23.

Continued to lead boycotts and protests from prison

a)

Nelson Mandela

b)

Gandhi

c)

F.W. de Klerk

d)

Mao Zedong

24.

Put China through one of the largest famines in World History

a)

Mao Zedong

b)

Deng Xiaoping

c)

Chiang Kai-shek

d)

Sun Yat-sen

25.

Ruthless leader of Imperial Japan, orchestrated genocides, bombings, and suicide raids

a)

Hideki Tojo

b)

Mao Zedong

c)

Jiang Jieshi

d)

Deng Xiaoping

26.

Reorder the following in chronological order

a)

Cuban Missile Crisis

b)

Nixon Visits China

c)

Cambodian Genocide

d)

Iran Hostage Crisis

e)

Fall of the Berlin Wall

1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
27.

Reorder the following in chronological order

a)

WWII

b)

Creation of the UN

c)

Korean War

d)

Vietnam War

e)

Soviet Afghan War

1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
28.

Whoever shoots first still dies second

(a)  

29.

M.A.I.N. causes of WWI

M ​ (a)  

A ​ (b)  

I ​ (c)   ​

N ​ (d)  

Choose from the below words
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
Machinery
Aggressiveness
Intensity
Narcissism
30.

Japanese suicide attacks

a)

Kamikaze

b)

Harakiri

c)

Seppuku

d)

Shinjū

31.

Man who freed Nelson Mandela

a)

F.W. de Klerk

b)

Thabo Mbeki

c)

Jacob Zuma

d)

Robert Mugabe

32.

Systematic Killings of all Jews in Europe

a)

Holocaust

b)

Final Solution

c)

Genocide

d)

Ethnic Cleansing

33.

Gandhi's idea of peaceful protesting

a)

Civil Disobedience

b)

Sit-Ins

c)

Boycotts

d)

Strikes

34.

Agreement signed after World War I

a)

Treaty of Versailles

b)

The Armistice of Compiègne

c)

The League of Nations Treaty

d)

The Treaty of Trianon

35.

Unknown Man who as the symbol of a revolution

a)

Tank Man

b)

Che Guevara

c)

Rosa Parks

d)

Gandhi