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Final Study Guide

Total questions: 83

Worksheet time: 42mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The three factors of production for industrialization are capital, labor, and land.

a)

True

b)

False

2.

Weakened economic ties between nations were a worldwide impact of industrialization.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

In the 19th century, collective bargaining was carried out between the government and unions.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Laissez-faire policy let owners of industry set working conditions without government interference.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Factors such as long working hours contributed to the shorter life span of those living in cities as opposed to those in the country.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

A positive aspect of industrialization was:

a)

cleaner cities

b)

more goods

7.

Laissez-faire believes in the greatest good for the greatest number of people.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

The Mines Act prevented women and children from working underground.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

What event provoked the secession of the Southern states from the U.S.?

a)

Attack on Fort Sumter

b)

Issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation

c)

Election of Abraham Lincoln

d)

Formation of the Confederate States of America

10.

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

a)

Guaranteed former slaves the right to vote.

b)

Forever abolished slavery in all parts of the United States.

c)

Purchased land from Mexico.

d)

Declared all slaves in the Confederate states as free.

11.

How did the democratic reforms in Great Britain change the government?

a)

Most adult males gained the right to vote by 1884.

b)

British monarchs became symbolic rulers with no political power.

c)

Political power shifted greatly to the elected House of Commons.

d)

All of the above.

12.

Captain Cook claimed _____ for Great Britain in 1770.

a)

Australia

b)

Nova Scotia

c)

Hawaii

d)

Alaska

13.

Thomas Edison invented the first radio.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Which country was the first to give full voting rights to women?

a)
Canada
b)

Australia

c)

Britain

d)

United States

15.

The Zionists were Jews who worked for a homeland in Palestine.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

The people known as the Maori are nomadic inhabitants of Australia.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

The Sepoy Mutiny began after rumors spread that magic water would protect them from bullets.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

The European insistence on the growth of cash crops caused low food supplies in Africa during colonization.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

Geopolitics is an interest in taking land for strategic purposes.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

Western nations desired lands in the Pacific Rim because of their natural resources and strategic location.

a)

True

b)

False

21.

A result of the ___ was Europeans divided Africa into colonies without consulting African leaders.

a)

Boer War

b)

Berlin Conference

c)

Crimean War

d)

Maji Maji Rebellion

22.

What happened as a result of the Sepoy Mutiny?

a)

Rights for Indians increased under British rule.

b)

The British government took direct command of India.

c)

The East India Company was allowed to have soldiers.

d)

Indians gained independence from Britain.

23.

Why did American sugar planters overthrow Queen Liliuokalani?

a)

She wanted to restore the political power of the native Hawaiians.

b)

She placed Sanford B. Dole and several plantation owners in jail.

c)

She denied the sugar planters their civil rights.

d)

She levied a tax on sugar.

24.

The theory of ______ was used to justify imperialist expansion.

a)

paternalism

b)

assimilation

c)

"jewel in the crown"

d)

Social Darwinism

25.

Assimilation encouraged subject people to adopt its institutions and customs.

a)

True

b)

False

26.

Geopolitics is adding a region to the territory of an existing political unit.

a)

True

b)

False

27.

Embroiled means "to bring into discord or conflict."

a)

True

b)

False

28.

Who started a liberal reform movement called La Reforma?

a)

Pancho Villa

b)

Benito Juarez

c)

Lin Zexu

d)

Guangxu

29.

Who came to power in Mexico until he was forced from office in 1910 by the Mexican Revolution?

a)

Francisco Madero

b)

Emiliano Zapata

c)

Dowager Empress Cixi

d)

Porfirio Diaz

30.

Who benefitted the most from the granting of extraterritorial rights in 19th century China?

a)

Chinese peasants

b)

foreigners in China

c)

Chinese Christians

d)

Chinese government officials

31.

What problem did Latin American nations face in the early years of independence?

a)

An unequal distribution of land

b)

Political instability

c)

Inability to repay high interest rate loans

d)

All of the above

32.

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.

a)

False

b)

True

33.

The Roosevelt Corollary gave the United States the right to be “an international police power” in the Western hemisphere.

a)

True

b)

False

34.

After losing the Boxer Rebellion, Spain ceded its last colonies to the United States.

a)

True

b)

False

35.

The right of nations to self-determination was a guiding principle of the Fourteen Points.

a)

True

b)

False

36.

The American public supported the president and believed they should actively take part in the League of Nations.

a)

True

b)

False

37.

All of Germany's territories in Africa and the Pacific were declared mandates, or territories to be administered by the League of Nations.

a)

True

b)

False

38.

In 1917, Germany returned to its policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, hoping to bring the United States into the war.

a)

True

b)

False

39.

What did the Central Powers gain over Russia at the battle near Tannenberg?

a)

German forces killed the czar

b)

Germany drove the Russians into full retreat

c)

Germany seized Russia’s only port

d)

None of the above

40.

Which statement summarizes the Schlieffen Plan that Germany created to prepare for a two-front war?

a)

Attack France first, then Russia.

b)

Attack Russia first, then France.

c)

Send half of the army to France and half to Russia.

d)

Ally with Russia to fight France.

41.

The significance in the Allied victory at the First Battle of the Marne was...

a)

it established a supply line to Russia.

b)

the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie.

c)

it resulted in Germany's having to fight on two fronts.

d)

Russia withdrawing from the war.

42.

Under Stalin's command economy, all economic decisions were made by...

a)

local soviets.

b)

government officials.

43.

The Soviet government decided to eliminate _____ because of their strong resistance to collective farming.

a)

capitalists

b)

kulaks

c)

Jews

44.

Who was one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party?

a)

Mao Zedong

b)

Mustafa Kemal

c)

V.I. Lenin

d)

Karl Marx

45.

The Nationalists were forced to go on the Long March, fleeing from Mao's Communist forces.

a)

True

b)

False

46.

The Great Purge was a campaign to eliminate all Communist Party members and other citizens who threatened Stalin's power.

a)

True

b)

False

47.

Mustafa Kemal became the Republic of Turkey's first president.

a)

True

b)

False

48.

National protest in China, in which people demonstrated against foreign interference.

a)

Amritsar Massacre

b)

May Fourth Movement

c)

civil disobedience

d)

Five-Year Plans

49.

Killing by British troops of 400 Indians gathered to protest Rowlatt Acts.

a)

Amritsar Massacre

b)

May Fourth Movement

c)

civil disobedience

d)

Five-Year Plans

50.

Deliberate and public refusal to obey a law considered unjust.

a)

Amritsar Massacre

b)

May Fourth Movement

c)

civil disobedience

d)

Five-Year Plans

51.

Outlined by Joseph Stalin for the development of the Soviet Union's economy.

a)

Amritsar Massacre

b)

May Fourth Movement

c)

civil disobedience

d)

Five-Year Plans

52.

Hitler's main method for achieving lebensraum was to...

a)

attack Jews

b)

crash the stock market

c)

conquer other countries

d)

gain iron and coal

53.

By 1935, the only eastern European country that was still a democracy was...

a)

Austria

b)

Poland

c)

Czechoslovakia

d)

Germany

54.

The _____ saved a postwar Germany from an inflationary crisis and stabilized the economy.

a)

Great Depression

b)

New Deal

c)

Munich Conference

d)

Dawes Plan

55.

The _____ was held to address the problems of a German threat to the nation of Czechoslovakia.

a)

Munich Conference

b)

Weimar Republic

c)

Dawes Plan

d)

New Deal

56.

Who urged the idea of returning to the heroic values of pride, assertiveness, and strength?

a)

Sigmund Freud

b)

Friedrich Nietzsche

c)

Benito Mussolini

57.

The New Deal involved attempts to stimulate the American economy by increasing _____.

a)

minimum wage

b)

government spending

58.

To instruct in a principle or ideology.

a)

Indoctrinate

b)

Regime

59.

Who warned that the policy of appeasement was a disaster?

a)

Franklin Roosevelt

b)

Winston Churchill

c)

Neville Chamberlin

d)

Joseph Stalin

60.

"Mein Kampf", written by Benito Mussolini, sets forth his beliefs and goals for Germany.

a)

True

b)

False

61.

Appeasement is a government controlled by a temporary alliance of several political parties.

a)

True

b)

False

62.

Hitler blamed the Jewish population for all of Germany's troubles because they had aided the Allies during World War 1.

a)

True

b)

False

63.

Allied invasion of European mainland during World War 2.

a)

Holocaust

b)

ghettos

c)

democratization

d)

D-Day

64.

Mass slaughter of Jews by the Nazi government before and during World War 2.

a)

Holocaust

b)

ghettos

c)

democratization

d)

D-Day

65.

City neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live.

a)

Holocaust

b)

ghettos

c)

democratization

d)

D-Day

66.

The process of creating a government elected by the people.

a)

Holocaust

b)

ghettos

c)

democratization

d)

D-Day

67.

Great Britain and France entered World War 2 because of the invasion of...

a)

Auschwitz

b)

Czechoslovakia

c)

Nagasaki

d)

Poland

68.

Who was the mastermind of the "island-hopping" strategy?

a)

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

b)

General George Patton

c)

Chester Nimitz

d)

Douglas MacArthur

69.

The crucial lesson that was learned in the Battle of ______ was that Hitler's advances could be blocked.

a)
Guadalcanal
b)

Midway

c)

Britain

d)

Stalingrad

70.

Why were thousands of U.S. citizens put in internment camps during the war?

a)

They were radioing helpful information to the Germans

b)

They were of German descent and falsely labeled as enemies

c)

They were of Japanese descent and falsely labeled as enemies

d)

They had known of the attack on Pearl Harbor in advance

71.

"A date which will live in infamy" refers to the _____.

a)

dropping of the atomic bomb.

b)

attack on Pearl Harbor.

72.

The Lend-Lease Act benefitted the United States economy through _____.

a)

selling arms to the Allies.

b)

cutting oil supplies to Japan.

73.

General _____ was the supreme commander of the Western Allied forces in Europe.

a)

George Patton

b)

Dwight Eisenhower

c)

Douglas MacArthur

74.

Gradual withdrawal of American troops and replacement with South Vietnamese forces.

a)

Vietnamization

b)

SALT

c)

containment

d)

intimidated

75.

Meetings which the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to limit nuclear weapons.

a)

Vietnamization

b)

SALT

c)

containment

d)

intimidated

76.

Policy to stop spread of Communism by helping weak countries resist Soviet advances.

a)

Vietnamization

b)

SALT

c)

containment

d)

intimidated

77.

To make timid; fill with fear.

a)

Vietnamization

b)

SALT

c)

containment

d)

intimidated

78.

In the 1940s and 1950s, what did the region described as being "behind the iron curtain" include?

a)

a. democratic nations of Western Europe

b)

b. German Democratic Republic, or East Germany

c)

c. Soviet Union only

d)

d. Soviet Union and its satellite nations

79.

The Bay of Pigs was a failed attempt to overthrow...

a)

a. Nikita Khrushchev

b)

b. Fidel Castro

c)

c. Mao Zedong

d)

d. Ho Chi Minh

80.

What event increased U.S. spending on education and technology?

a)

Soviet launching of a space satellite

b)

Chinese-Soviet treaty of friendship

c)

establishment of the Warsaw Pact

d)

Cuban Missile Crisis

81.

Which of the following circumstances contributed to the breakdown of the alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union?

a)

a. United States inclusion in the Security Council

b)

b. Stalin's promise to aid in the war against Japan

c)

c. Stalin's unfulfilled promise of free elections

d)

d. Stalin's nonaggression pact with Hitler

82.

The purpose of the Truman Doctrine was to support countries that rejected communism.

a)

True

b)

False

83.

Ayatollah Khomeini was an exiled Iranian religious leader that opposed Western influences.

a)

True

b)

False