WorksheetsFinal Study Guide
Total questions: 83
Worksheet time: 42mins
The three factors of production for industrialization are capital, labor, and land.
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False
Weakened economic ties between nations were a worldwide impact of industrialization.
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False
In the 19th century, collective bargaining was carried out between the government and unions.
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False
Laissez-faire policy let owners of industry set working conditions without government interference.
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False
Factors such as long working hours contributed to the shorter life span of those living in cities as opposed to those in the country.
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False
A positive aspect of industrialization was:
cleaner cities
more goods
Laissez-faire believes in the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
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False
The Mines Act prevented women and children from working underground.
True
False
What event provoked the secession of the Southern states from the U.S.?
Attack on Fort Sumter
Issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation
Election of Abraham Lincoln
Formation of the Confederate States of America
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Guaranteed former slaves the right to vote.
Forever abolished slavery in all parts of the United States.
Purchased land from Mexico.
Declared all slaves in the Confederate states as free.
How did the democratic reforms in Great Britain change the government?
Most adult males gained the right to vote by 1884.
British monarchs became symbolic rulers with no political power.
Political power shifted greatly to the elected House of Commons.
All of the above.
Captain Cook claimed _____ for Great Britain in 1770.
Australia
Nova Scotia
Hawaii
Alaska
Thomas Edison invented the first radio.
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False
Which country was the first to give full voting rights to women?
Australia
Britain
United States
The Zionists were Jews who worked for a homeland in Palestine.
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False
The people known as the Maori are nomadic inhabitants of Australia.
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False
The Sepoy Mutiny began after rumors spread that magic water would protect them from bullets.
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False
The European insistence on the growth of cash crops caused low food supplies in Africa during colonization.
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False
Geopolitics is an interest in taking land for strategic purposes.
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False
Western nations desired lands in the Pacific Rim because of their natural resources and strategic location.
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False
A result of the ___ was Europeans divided Africa into colonies without consulting African leaders.
Boer War
Berlin Conference
Crimean War
Maji Maji Rebellion
What happened as a result of the Sepoy Mutiny?
Rights for Indians increased under British rule.
The British government took direct command of India.
The East India Company was allowed to have soldiers.
Indians gained independence from Britain.
Why did American sugar planters overthrow Queen Liliuokalani?
She wanted to restore the political power of the native Hawaiians.
She placed Sanford B. Dole and several plantation owners in jail.
She denied the sugar planters their civil rights.
She levied a tax on sugar.
The theory of ______ was used to justify imperialist expansion.
paternalism
assimilation
"jewel in the crown"
Social Darwinism
Assimilation encouraged subject people to adopt its institutions and customs.
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False
Geopolitics is adding a region to the territory of an existing political unit.
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False
Embroiled means "to bring into discord or conflict."
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False
Who started a liberal reform movement called La Reforma?
Pancho Villa
Benito Juarez
Lin Zexu
Guangxu
Who came to power in Mexico until he was forced from office in 1910 by the Mexican Revolution?
Francisco Madero
Emiliano Zapata
Dowager Empress Cixi
Porfirio Diaz
Who benefitted the most from the granting of extraterritorial rights in 19th century China?
Chinese peasants
foreigners in China
Chinese Christians
Chinese government officials
What problem did Latin American nations face in the early years of independence?
An unequal distribution of land
Political instability
Inability to repay high interest rate loans
All of the above
The Opium War between the British and the Chinese resulted in the defeat of China and the signing of a treaty, which gave Britain control of Hong Kong.
False
True
The Roosevelt Corollary gave the United States the right to be “an international police power” in the Western hemisphere.
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False
After losing the Boxer Rebellion, Spain ceded its last colonies to the United States.
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False
The right of nations to self-determination was a guiding principle of the Fourteen Points.
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False
The American public supported the president and believed they should actively take part in the League of Nations.
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False
All of Germany's territories in Africa and the Pacific were declared mandates, or territories to be administered by the League of Nations.
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False
In 1917, Germany returned to its policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, hoping to bring the United States into the war.
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False
What did the Central Powers gain over Russia at the battle near Tannenberg?
German forces killed the czar
Germany drove the Russians into full retreat
Germany seized Russia’s only port
None of the above
Which statement summarizes the Schlieffen Plan that Germany created to prepare for a two-front war?
Attack France first, then Russia.
Attack Russia first, then France.
Send half of the army to France and half to Russia.
Ally with Russia to fight France.
The significance in the Allied victory at the First Battle of the Marne was...
it established a supply line to Russia.
the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie.
it resulted in Germany's having to fight on two fronts.
Russia withdrawing from the war.
Under Stalin's command economy, all economic decisions were made by...
local soviets.
government officials.
The Soviet government decided to eliminate _____ because of their strong resistance to collective farming.
capitalists
kulaks
Jews
Who was one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party?
Mao Zedong
Mustafa Kemal
V.I. Lenin
Karl Marx
The Nationalists were forced to go on the Long March, fleeing from Mao's Communist forces.
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False
The Great Purge was a campaign to eliminate all Communist Party members and other citizens who threatened Stalin's power.
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False
Mustafa Kemal became the Republic of Turkey's first president.
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False
National protest in China, in which people demonstrated against foreign interference.
Amritsar Massacre
May Fourth Movement
civil disobedience
Five-Year Plans
Killing by British troops of 400 Indians gathered to protest Rowlatt Acts.
Amritsar Massacre
May Fourth Movement
civil disobedience
Five-Year Plans
Deliberate and public refusal to obey a law considered unjust.
Amritsar Massacre
May Fourth Movement
civil disobedience
Five-Year Plans
Outlined by Joseph Stalin for the development of the Soviet Union's economy.
Amritsar Massacre
May Fourth Movement
civil disobedience
Five-Year Plans
Hitler's main method for achieving lebensraum was to...
attack Jews
crash the stock market
conquer other countries
gain iron and coal
By 1935, the only eastern European country that was still a democracy was...
Austria
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Germany
The _____ saved a postwar Germany from an inflationary crisis and stabilized the economy.
Great Depression
New Deal
Munich Conference
Dawes Plan
The _____ was held to address the problems of a German threat to the nation of Czechoslovakia.
Munich Conference
Weimar Republic
Dawes Plan
New Deal
Who urged the idea of returning to the heroic values of pride, assertiveness, and strength?
Sigmund Freud
Friedrich Nietzsche
Benito Mussolini
The New Deal involved attempts to stimulate the American economy by increasing _____.
minimum wage
government spending
To instruct in a principle or ideology.
Indoctrinate
Regime
Who warned that the policy of appeasement was a disaster?
Franklin Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Neville Chamberlin
Joseph Stalin
"Mein Kampf", written by Benito Mussolini, sets forth his beliefs and goals for Germany.
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False
Appeasement is a government controlled by a temporary alliance of several political parties.
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False
Hitler blamed the Jewish population for all of Germany's troubles because they had aided the Allies during World War 1.
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False
Allied invasion of European mainland during World War 2.
Holocaust
ghettos
democratization
D-Day
Mass slaughter of Jews by the Nazi government before and during World War 2.
Holocaust
ghettos
democratization
D-Day
City neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live.
Holocaust
ghettos
democratization
D-Day
The process of creating a government elected by the people.
Holocaust
ghettos
democratization
D-Day
Great Britain and France entered World War 2 because of the invasion of...
Auschwitz
Czechoslovakia
Nagasaki
Poland
Who was the mastermind of the "island-hopping" strategy?
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
General George Patton
Chester Nimitz
Douglas MacArthur
The crucial lesson that was learned in the Battle of ______ was that Hitler's advances could be blocked.
Midway
Britain
Stalingrad
Why were thousands of U.S. citizens put in internment camps during the war?
They were radioing helpful information to the Germans
They were of German descent and falsely labeled as enemies
They were of Japanese descent and falsely labeled as enemies
They had known of the attack on Pearl Harbor in advance
"A date which will live in infamy" refers to the _____.
dropping of the atomic bomb.
attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Lend-Lease Act benefitted the United States economy through _____.
selling arms to the Allies.
cutting oil supplies to Japan.
General _____ was the supreme commander of the Western Allied forces in Europe.
George Patton
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
Gradual withdrawal of American troops and replacement with South Vietnamese forces.
Vietnamization
SALT
containment
intimidated
Meetings which the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to limit nuclear weapons.
Vietnamization
SALT
containment
intimidated
Policy to stop spread of Communism by helping weak countries resist Soviet advances.
Vietnamization
SALT
containment
intimidated
To make timid; fill with fear.
Vietnamization
SALT
containment
intimidated
In the 1940s and 1950s, what did the region described as being "behind the iron curtain" include?
a. democratic nations of Western Europe
b. German Democratic Republic, or East Germany
c. Soviet Union only
d. Soviet Union and its satellite nations
The Bay of Pigs was a failed attempt to overthrow...
a. Nikita Khrushchev
b. Fidel Castro
c. Mao Zedong
d. Ho Chi Minh
What event increased U.S. spending on education and technology?
Soviet launching of a space satellite
Chinese-Soviet treaty of friendship
establishment of the Warsaw Pact
Cuban Missile Crisis
Which of the following circumstances contributed to the breakdown of the alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union?
a. United States inclusion in the Security Council
b. Stalin's promise to aid in the war against Japan
c. Stalin's unfulfilled promise of free elections
d. Stalin's nonaggression pact with Hitler
The purpose of the Truman Doctrine was to support countries that rejected communism.
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False
Ayatollah Khomeini was an exiled Iranian religious leader that opposed Western influences.
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False
