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WH2 Final Exam Review

Total questions: 51

Worksheet time: 1hrs 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What belief system glorifies the state, as opposed to communism, which teaches that the state will one day end?

a)

Imperialism

b)

Monarchism

c)

Militarism

d)

Fascism

2.

(a)   is the purposeful and systematic extermination of a people or ethnic group

3.

Which Austrian Archduke's assassination by a Serbian nationalist started WWI?

a)

Victor Emmanuel II

b)

Franz Ferdinand

c)

Nicholas II

d)

Louis Napoleon

4.

According to Marx, the ​ (a)   are the middle-class property owners, capitalists, and industrialists

Choose from the below words
bourgeoisie
proletariat
5.

What ideology seeks to conserve traditions, habits, and norms as they had existed?

a)

Conservatism

b)

Liberalism

c)

Nationalism

d)

Imperialism

6.

What were the main reasons that the European powers began to expand their empires in the late 19th century?

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7.

(a)   is the right to vote in political elections

8.

Which Kaiser of Germany antagonized Britain by beginning a massive shipbuilding program that threatened British naval domination before WWI?

a)

Wilhelm II

b)

Franz Ferdinand

c)

Otto von Bismarck

d)

Alexander III

9.

After WWI, the Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to pay huge (a)   , payments for war damage

10.

What policy provided 13 billion dollars in aid to Europe after WWII hoping to limit the spread of Communism?

a)

Brezhnev Doctrine

b)

Marshall Plan

c)

Truman Doctrine

d)

Strategic Defense Initiative

11.

List and describe the MAIN causes of WWI.

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12.

During the Cold War, the U.S. implemented a policy of ​ (a)   , preventing the spread of Communism

Choose from the below words
containment
mutually assured destruction
nuclear deterrence
detente
13.

Who invented the first practical steam engine, which made it possible for factories to be built away from sources of water?

a)

James Hargreaves

b)

Richard Arkwright

c)

James Watt

d)

Henry Bessemer

14.

As part of the treaties ending the ​ (a)   , Britain claimed Hong Kong and opened up several ports in China to European trade

Choose from the below words
Opium Wars
Boxer Rebellion
Sepoy Mutiny
Boer War
15.

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?

a)

Operation Overlord

b)

Operation Torch

c)

Operation Husky

d)

Operation Barbarossa

16.

Japanese (a)   pilots suicidally crashed their planes into American ships in an attempt to sink them

17.

Describe the new production techniques that helped manufacturers produce more goods at lower prices during the Industrial Revolution

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18.

Which British prime minister practiced a policy of appeasement with Hitler by giving him the Sudetenland, hoping to avoid war?

a)

Winston Churchill

b)

Clement Atlee

c)

Neville Chamberlain

d)

David Lloyd George

19.

Advocacy for political independence by a particular group of people or nationality is one definition of ​ (a)  

Choose from the below words
nationalism
Imperialism
conservatism
liberalism
20.

The French confidently believed that the ​ (a)   would stop Germany if they ever tried to invade France again

Choose from the below words
Maginot Line
Treaty of Versailles
iron curtain
Berlin Wall
21.

Match the following

a)

Leader of the Nazi Party and dictator of Germany during WWII

1.

Adolf Hitler

b)

dictator of the USSR whose Five Year Plans killed millions and later led the nation during WWII

2.

Joseph Stalin

c)

leader of the Communist Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia and founder of the USSR

3.

Vladimir Lenin

d)

Russian leader who pursued a policy of “peaceful coexistence”, trying to reduce tensions, but was ousted from power after the Cuban missile crisis

4.

Nikita Khrushchev

e)

chancellor of Prussia who sought to unify all Germans into a single nation-state under Prussian control

5.

Otto von Bismarck

22.

Describe how the aggression of the Axis powers and the lack of action by the Allies led to the outbreak and expansion of WWII

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23.

Before WWII, the policy of (a)   used concession to avoid conflict with aggressive nations

24.

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.'?

a)

Atlantic Charter

b)

Selective Service Act

c)

Lend-Lease Act

d)

United Nations Charter

25.

The ​ (a)   promised Mexico U.S. territory if they joined the war against the Allies

Choose from the below words
Zimmerman Telegram
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Treaty of Versailles
Pact of Steel
26.

Who was the Communist dictator of China, whose Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution led to the deaths of millions?

a)

Chiang Kai Shek

b)

Mao Zedong

c)

Kim il Sung

d)

Ho Chi Minh

27.

What is totalitarianism? And what are its characteristics?

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28.

​ (a)   advocated for ​ (b)   , a nonviolent program to defy British rule through peaceful strikes

Choose from the below words
Mahatma Gandhi
passive resistance
Jomo Kenyatta
Ayatollah Khomeini
mujahideen
self-determination
29.

What term describes Germany’s fast-moving attack strategy in WWII, meaning lightning war?

a)

blitzkrieg

b)

Anschluss

c)

Luftwaffe

d)

Lebensraum

30.

The term (a)   refers to when a state has economic or political, not physical control, over another state

31.

What term refers to the belief that if South Vietnam fell to communism, the other countries of Asia would fall to communism?

a)

domino theory

b)

Truman Doctrine

c)

passive resistance

d)

Marshall Plan

32.

The ideology of (a)   stresses individual rights such as life, liberty, and property and personal freedoms like religion, speech, and press

33.

Which missionary defied the East India Co and entered India in 1794, eventually translating the Bible into twenty different Indian dialects?

a)

William Carey

b)

David Livingstone

c)

Matthew Perry

d)

Cecil Rhodes

34.

Describe the Holocaust. How did it begin and gradually grow in scope? What was the ultimate goal of the Nazis and why?

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35.

Serbia's rejection of Austria-Hungary’s ​ (a)   on July 28th, 1914, caused Austria to declare war on Serbia

Choose from the below words
ultimatum
armistice
disarmament
36.

What is the enforcement branch of the UN, led by 5 permanent members, including the U.S. and the Soviet Union?

a)

Security Council

b)

General Assembly

c)

Secretariat

d)

International Court of Justice

37.

The ​ (a)   granted ​ (b)   its independence under the condition that it remain a perpetually neutral state

Choose from the below words
Treaty of London
Belgium
Treaty of Utrecht
Treaty of Paris
The Netherlands
Austria
38.

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?

a)

Victor Emmnauel II

b)

Camillo di Cavour

c)

Giusseppe Garibaldi

d)

Benito Mussolini

39.

During (a)   , the night of broken glass, thousands of Jewish businesses were destroyed and is often considered the beginning of the Holocaust

40.

What term refers to a policy of remaining apart from the affairs of other countries?

a)

Isolationism

b)

Fascism

c)

Nationalism

d)

Marxism

41.

On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city of ​ (a)   , killing an estimated 80,000 people instantly

Choose from the below words
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Okinawa
Iwo Jima
42.

Who was the emperor of Japan during WWII, leading the military to gain greater control of the Japanese government and pushing for aggressive expansion?

a)

Hirohito

b)

Chiang Kai-Shek

c)

Tojo Hideki

d)

Sun Yat-Sen

43.

What African kingdom remained one of the few places where European imperialism was halted after defeating the Italians in 1896?

a)

Ethiopia

b)

Egypt

c)

Libya

d)

Liberia

44.

What were the major problems in independent Latin America after the revolutions in the 1800s?

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45.

(a)   is the belief that all of history has been a struggle between opposing economic classes

46.

Match the following

a)

wrote the Communist Manifesto

1.

Karl Marx

b)

known as the “Liberator”, he secured independence for Gran Colombia, which later became Columbia, Venezuela, Panama, and Ecuador

2.

Simon Bolivar

c)

former slave and leader of the Haitian Revolution who led the slave armies to victory against the French

3.

Toussaint Louverture

d)

wrote Wealth of Nations and proposed a system of free trade and unregulated commerce known as laissez faire

4.

Adam Smith

e)

laid the foundation for the modern theories of evolution with his book “The Origin of the Species”

5.

Charles Darwin

47.

(a)   were government sponsored massacres which killed thousands of Jews and other minority groups living in Russia during the early 1900s

48.

What term refers to military leaders in Latin America who overthrew the newly established republics after independence in the 1800s and formed dictatorships?

a)

creoles

b)

caudillos

c)

mestizos

d)

peninsulares

49.

According to Marx, the working class are known as the ​ (a)  

Choose from the below words
proletariat
bourgeoise
50.

Which Belgian King claimed the Congo Free State and whose brutal rule led to the deaths of 1 to 15 million Congolese?

a)

Leopold II

b)

Wilhelm II

c)

Nicholas II

d)

Victor Emmanuel II

51.

At the end of the Korean War, a ​ (a)   zone near the ​ (b)   between North and South Korea was created, dividing the country

Choose from the below words
38th parallel
demilitarized
44th parallel
50th parallel
disarmament
containment