World History Final-quizzes
Who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914?
A Bosnia Serb nationalist
What was the "encomienda" system?
A grant awarding colonists the right to the labor of the Native Americans.
What was the "repartimiento"?
A required annual labor service to the Spanish by all adult male Indians.
Which of the following was supported by the Taiping rebellion?
An egalitarian society
How would you best describe the term "globalization"?
An unprecedented era of interconnections between regions.
According to the Map 16-1, in the 15th and 16th centuries the Portuguese claimed what territory in the Americas?
Brazil
Which of the following statements describes the opium trade?
Britain brought opium from India in return for tea.
Apartheid was a policy in South Africa that legally separated what groups?
Christians from non-Christians
How can Nazi views on women be characterized?
Conservative and traditional, but with a greater economic role.
In Latin America, the independence movements usually originated with what group?
Creole elite
Which term best describes agricultural labor in 19th century Latin America?
Debt peonage
Which of the following statements captures how people thought about the crises of the 1930s?
Democracy and capitalism were under threat.
Who were the radical leaders of the Mexican Revolution in 1911?
Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa
The "blank check" refers to what policy in the days before World War I?
Germany's commitment to support Austria's attack on Serbia.
Which of the following statements is true about Africa by the 1980s?
It was largely free from imperial European rule.
Fascists like Benito Mussolini relied on sentiments from what views to build their policies and support?
Nationalism
According to mercantilist theory, the national economy was given priority, and it could only grow if what was true?
The home country and the colonies traded exclusively with each other.
The post-1945 history of the Middle East has been dominated by which of the following?
The increased importance of Middle Eastern oil production in the global economy.
How was Bismarck's complicated system of alliances upset at the end of the 19th century?
The new king William's decision not to renew Germany's treaty with Russia.
Which of the following statements best characterizes a major political trend in Latin America since 1945?
The new middle classes have supported the authoritarian governments.
Which of the following statements is true about the voyages of Christopher Columbus?
They changed the environment and nature in both Europe and the Americas.
What were the Nuremburg Laws of 1935?
They denied Jews citizenship and prohibited contact with them.
How did the social problems of the New Deal ease the economic downturn?
They provided jobs to people who would have been unemployed.
Which number best represents how many countries became independent in Asia and Africa from 1945 to 1960?
36
What was the major cause behind the start of the Opium war in 1839?
China tried to ban the opium trade.
What was one of the results of the new imperialism in the early 20th century?
European imperialist control of Africa.
What was one of the results of the Versailles treaty of 1918?
Germany accepted responsibility to pay reparations.
Which of the following was not a part of the New Deal reform plan?
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Which statement best characterizes the achievements of Nelson Mandela?
He led anti-apartheid movements and became the first black president of South Africa.
How did Benito Mussolini come to power in 1922?
He was appointed prime minister by the king.
Who was responsible for the conquest of the Aztecs in the early 16th century?
Hernan Cortez
Why was the Nazi message so popular?
It appealed to the lower middle class devastated by inflation.
What was one of the important legacies of the Boxer rebellion?
It convinced conservative Chinese leaders to stop clinging to old ways.
Why was the Mexican election of 2000, which brought Vicente Fox to power, a watershed election?
It ended one-party rule (the PRI) in Mexico.
Why did Marxism (communism) appeal to the Chinese?
It offered China a way to industrialize without going through the stage of capitalism.
What was the Enabling Act of 1933?
It permitted Hitler to rule by decree for 4 years.
How did the Schlieffen Plan propose Germany avoid a two-front war?
It proposed attacking France first and then Russia in order to prevent a two-front war.
Which of the following statement best reflects the achievements of the New Deal?
It stabilized social welfare and mitigated the worst effects of the depression but did not end it.
What was the purpose of the "One Hundred Days of Reform" begun by the Chinese emperor in 1895?
It was an effort to update Confucianism and reform China.
All of the following statements describe the Atlantic slave trade, EXCEPT which one?
It was the first instance of contact between African and European civilizations.
Why did the United States strongly support the "open door" policy in China?
It would allow all nations to trade on equal terms in China.
Why did the Versailles settlement foster both resentment and discontent in numerous countries?
Many believed the provisions of the treaty were not being enforced.
The "Long March" of 1934 refers to what event?
Mao's retreat inward to regroup his communist forces.
The Guomindang was a political party in China most closely associated with what ideology?
Nationalism
Why did the European voyages of discovery primarily originate?
Over competition for riches of the spice trade.
The term "kulaks" refers to what group in imperial Russia?
Prosperous farmers who owned the land.
What was one of the legacies of Spanish rule in the Americas?
Roman Catholicism
Who were the members of the Triple Entente?
Russia, Britain, and France
In the mid-19th century, the movement La Reforma began as an opposition to the rule of which leader?
Santa ana
The term "independent homelands" referred to regions (or reserves) in what country?
South Africa
Who were the "conquistadors"?
Spanish adventurers who sought to gain wealth and glory for themselves.
What was Kristallnacht (1938)?
The Nazi destruction of Jewish stores and synagogues.
The United States became an imperialist power in the late 19th century by obtaining control over what Asian country?
The Philippines
Which of the following statements best reflects the essence of the self-strengthening movement in China?
The adoption of western technology within traditional Confucian structures.
The leader of the Taiping rebellion claimed to be who?
The brother of Jesus
What were the results of Stalin's "Great Purges" and use of the Gulags, or labor camps?
The deaths of millions of peasants.
Which of the following statements is true about Europe after World War I?
The large empires (Austrian, Russian and Ottoman) were now gone.
Which of the following statements is true about Latin American countries even after the wars of independence in the mid-1820s?
They were still economically dependent on external states.
What was the goal of Stalin's collectivization policy?
To increase agricultural output through government ownership and control.
Why did Great Britain intervene in, and then establish greater control over, Egypt in the late 19th century?
To protect access to the Suez canal
Why did the U.S. led coalition invade Iraq in 2003?
To topple the regime of Saddam Hussein
Which type of fighting dominated the battles of World War I?
Trench warfare
Who led the Revolution in Russia in 1917 with the cry "peace, bread, and land"?
Vladiimir Lenin