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WorksheetsWH2 Final Exam Review
Total questions: 51
Worksheet time: 1hrs 9mins
What belief system glorifies the state, as opposed to communism, which teaches that the state will one day end?
Imperialism
Monarchism
Militarism
Fascism
(a) is the purposeful and systematic extermination of a people or ethnic group
Which Austrian Archduke's assassination by a Serbian nationalist started WWI?
Victor Emmanuel II
Franz Ferdinand
Nicholas II
Louis Napoleon
According to Marx, the (a) are the middle-class property owners, capitalists, and industrialists
What ideology seeks to conserve traditions, habits, and norms as they had existed?
Conservatism
Liberalism
Nationalism
Imperialism
What were the main reasons that the European powers began to expand their empires in the late 19th century?
(a) is the right to vote in political elections
Which Kaiser of Germany antagonized Britain by beginning a massive shipbuilding program that threatened British naval domination before WWI?
Wilhelm II
Franz Ferdinand
Otto von Bismarck
Alexander III
After WWI, the Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to pay huge (a) , payments for war damage
What policy provided 13 billion dollars in aid to Europe after WWII hoping to limit the spread of Communism?
Brezhnev Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Strategic Defense Initiative
List and describe the MAIN causes of WWI.
During the Cold War, the U.S. implemented a policy of (a) , preventing the spread of Communism
Who invented the first practical steam engine, which made it possible for factories to be built away from sources of water?
James Hargreaves
Richard Arkwright
James Watt
Henry Bessemer
As part of the treaties ending the (a) , Britain claimed Hong Kong and opened up several ports in China to European trade
What was the codename for the invasion of France, which began on June 6, 1944, and was known as D-day, referring to the day when an attack is launched?
Operation Overlord
Operation Torch
Operation Husky
Operation Barbarossa
Japanese (a) pilots suicidally crashed their planes into American ships in an attempt to sink them
Describe the new production techniques that helped manufacturers produce more goods at lower prices during the Industrial Revolution
Which British prime minister practiced a policy of appeasement with Hitler by giving him the Sudetenland, hoping to avoid war?
Winston Churchill
Clement Atlee
Neville Chamberlain
David Lloyd George
Advocacy for political independence by a particular group of people or nationality is one definition of (a)
The French confidently believed that the (a) would stop Germany if they ever tried to invade France again
Match the following
Leader of the Nazi Party and dictator of Germany during WWII
Adolf Hitler
dictator of the USSR whose Five Year Plans killed millions and later led the nation during WWII
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Communist Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia and founder of the USSR
Vladimir Lenin
Russian leader who pursued a policy of “peaceful coexistence”, trying to reduce tensions, but was ousted from power after the Cuban missile crisis
Nikita Khrushchev
chancellor of Prussia who sought to unify all Germans into a single nation-state under Prussian control
Otto von Bismarck
Describe how the aggression of the Axis powers and the lack of action by the Allies led to the outbreak and expansion of WWII
Before WWII, the policy of (a) used concession to avoid conflict with aggressive nations
What act authorized the president to 'sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of supplies to any country deemed essential to the security of the U.S.'?
Atlantic Charter
Selective Service Act
Lend-Lease Act
United Nations Charter
The (a) promised Mexico U.S. territory if they joined the war against the Allies
Who was the Communist dictator of China, whose Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution led to the deaths of millions?
Chiang Kai Shek
Mao Zedong
Kim il Sung
Ho Chi Minh
What is totalitarianism? And what are its characteristics?
(a) advocated for (b) , a nonviolent program to defy British rule through peaceful strikes
What term describes Germany’s fast-moving attack strategy in WWII, meaning lightning war?
blitzkrieg
Anschluss
Luftwaffe
Lebensraum
The term (a) refers to when a state has economic or political, not physical control, over another state
What term refers to the belief that if South Vietnam fell to communism, the other countries of Asia would fall to communism?
domino theory
Truman Doctrine
passive resistance
Marshall Plan
The ideology of (a) stresses individual rights such as life, liberty, and property and personal freedoms like religion, speech, and press
Which missionary defied the East India Co and entered India in 1794, eventually translating the Bible into twenty different Indian dialects?
William Carey
David Livingstone
Matthew Perry
Cecil Rhodes
Describe the Holocaust. How did it begin and gradually grow in scope? What was the ultimate goal of the Nazis and why?
Serbia's rejection of Austria-Hungary’s (a) on July 28th, 1914, caused Austria to declare war on Serbia
What is the enforcement branch of the UN, led by 5 permanent members, including the U.S. and the Soviet Union?
Security Council
General Assembly
Secretariat
International Court of Justice
The (a) granted (b) its independence under the condition that it remain a perpetually neutral state
Who was the Fascist dictator of Italy during WWII, leading Italy into the war in the hopes of restoring his country to the glory of the Roman Empire?
Victor Emmnauel II
Camillo di Cavour
Giusseppe Garibaldi
Benito Mussolini
During (a) , the night of broken glass, thousands of Jewish businesses were destroyed and is often considered the beginning of the Holocaust
What term refers to a policy of remaining apart from the affairs of other countries?
Isolationism
Fascism
Nationalism
Marxism
On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city of (a) , killing an estimated 80,000 people instantly
Who was the emperor of Japan during WWII, leading the military to gain greater control of the Japanese government and pushing for aggressive expansion?
Hirohito
Chiang Kai-Shek
Tojo Hideki
Sun Yat-Sen
What African kingdom remained one of the few places where European imperialism was halted after defeating the Italians in 1896?
Ethiopia
Egypt
Libya
Liberia
What were the major problems in independent Latin America after the revolutions in the 1800s?
(a) is the belief that all of history has been a struggle between opposing economic classes
Match the following
wrote the Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
known as the “Liberator”, he secured independence for Gran Colombia, which later became Columbia, Venezuela, Panama, and Ecuador
Simon Bolivar
former slave and leader of the Haitian Revolution who led the slave armies to victory against the French
Toussaint Louverture
wrote Wealth of Nations and proposed a system of free trade and unregulated commerce known as laissez faire
Adam Smith
laid the foundation for the modern theories of evolution with his book “The Origin of the Species”
Charles Darwin
(a) were government sponsored massacres which killed thousands of Jews and other minority groups living in Russia during the early 1900s
What term refers to military leaders in Latin America who overthrew the newly established republics after independence in the 1800s and formed dictatorships?
creoles
caudillos
mestizos
peninsulares
According to Marx, the working class are known as the (a)
Which Belgian King claimed the Congo Free State and whose brutal rule led to the deaths of 1 to 15 million Congolese?
Leopold II
Wilhelm II
Nicholas II
Victor Emmanuel II
At the end of the Korean War, a (a) zone near the (b) between North and South Korea was created, dividing the country
