Chapter 28 Quiz
The German torpedoing and sinking of the British liner Lusitania in ______ cost the lives of more than 100 Americans and brought the United States to the brink of joining the war in Europe. 1914 1915 1918 1917
1915
Hitler implemented his planned "Final Solution" of European Jews beginning in January ________. 1945 1942 1938 1933
1942
South American countries suffered during the Great Depression due to a _______ decline in commodity exports. 30 percent 50 percent 80 percent 15 percent
50 percent
Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) for the Soviet Union was: A catastrophe for the peasants, with between 6 and 14 million farmers forcibly removed, and the majority killed outright or worked and starved to death. A mixture of private and state investment in factories and small-scale food marketing by peasants. A continuation of the policy of "war communism", in which the Red Army was sent into the countryside to requisition food. A failure, since it never returned the Soviet Union to prewar levels of industrial production.
A mixture of private and state investment in factories and small-scale food marketing by peasants.
As part of the collectivization of agriculture launched in the Soviet Union, 3-5% of the "wealthiest" farmers, called _________, were "liquidated"—selected for execution, removed to labor camps, or resettled on other land. Kulaks Mirs Zemstvos Gulags
Kulaks
Irena Sendler smuggled some 2500 Jewish children out of __________ before being arrested and tortured in 1943. Berlin Copenhagen Warsaw Amsterdam
Warsaw
Once Saad Zaghlul and his Wafd party assumed control of Egypt in 1924, they: Were uninterested in industrial development, leaving Egypt entirely dependent on agricultural production and exports. Threatened to dislodge the British from the Suez Canal zone unless certain concessions were made. Came to a tenuous agreement with Islamist forces, since they were in a precarious minority government. Demanded reparations from the French government for Napoleon's invasion in 1798-1799.
Were uninterested in industrial development, leaving Egypt entirely dependent on agricultural production and exports.
Which country was incorporated into Nazi Germany in 1938? Austria Poland Denmark Czechoslovakia
Austria
_________ is defined as the maintenance of a self-supporting state economic system. Autocracy Autarky Meritocracy Plutocracy
Autarky
Why was the Treaty of Versailles rejected by the United States Senate? Because it was too harsh on the German Empire. Because it established a League of Nations. Because it required collective military action in case of aggression. Because it didn't require Germany pay war reparations to the United States.
Because it required collective military action in case of aggression.
Adherents to Benito Mussolini's "Fascist" movement, dressed in ______ shirts and organized in paramilitary units, roamed the streets, and violently broke up meetings of communists. Red Blue Black Brown
Black
At the beginning of the war in 1914, which countries on the map were part of the Allied Powers? Britain - Germany - Russia Germany - Russia - Italy Britain - France - Russia France - Ottoman Empire - Russia
Britain - France - Russia
As Iraq was divided by majority Shiites and minority Sunnis, the ___________ inaugurated a policy of divide and rule in their Middle Eastern mandates, while dangling the prospect of eventual independence in front of them. British Ottomans Americans French
British
Japan portrayed its imperial bid in the Pacific in the 1930s as the construction of a "Greater East Asia __________ Sphere." Co-Prosperity Imperial Tiger Anti-Colonial
Co-Prosperity
Mussolini's Fascists claimed that they were inaugurating a "_______ state", which theoretically saw all sectors of society contributing in a systematic, orderly, and hierarchical fashion to the health of the whole. Welfare Hygienic Racial Corporate
Corporate
The Communist Party of __________ initiated the formation of a Popular Front coalition with the Socialist Party and others in 1936. The United States The Soviet Union Great Britain France
France
"Lawrence of Arabia" helped the members of a prominent family, the ______ from Mecca, to assume leadership of the Arabs for a promised national kingdom in Syria and Palestine. Baathists Hashemites Sharifs Sauds
Hashemites
In the United States, businessmen such as ____________ financed research on how to prevent the reproduction of genetically "inferior" races. J.P. Morgan Thomas Edison Henry Ford Hiram Maxim
Henry Ford
Mao Zedong was an inspiring rural organizer, and he set about developing his ideas of revolution with the heretical idea of: Purging communists and Comintern agents from his government. Implementing a culture of reading, particularly from the literature of the Zhou period. Incorporating landlords into his leadership and creating fair markets for agricultural land. Inviting peasants into the vanguard of his movement.
Inviting peasants into the vanguard of his movement.
The League of Nations rebuked ________ for its attack on Ethiopia in 1935-1936. Germany xItaly Great Britain The Soviet Union
Italy
The Mukden Incident of 1931 was engineered by the Japanese military to provide a pretext for the annexation of _________. Sakhalin Island Manchuria Korea Okinawa
Manchuria
Ending in February 1943, the Battle of Stalingrad: Resulted in an Allied victory, with a large deployment of American troops coming to the aid of the Soviets to relieve the siege. Allowed the Germans to focus their attention on expanding into Central and South Asia. Resulted in the deposition of Joseph Stalin and his exile to the United States. Marked the turning point in the European war, with a Soviet victory.
Marked the turning point in the European war, with a Soviet victory.
The naval victory at _______________ gave the United States the initiative in 1942. Rabaul Iwo Jima Midway Leyte
Midway
In an attempt to avoid a European war, Neville Chamberlain signed the _______ Agreement in the summer of 1938.
Munich
Estimates of those slaughtered in the brutal "Rape of _______" of 1937-1938 range between 200,000 and 300,000 people Beijing Chongqing Hanoi Nanjing
Nanjing
The ________ Amendment to the US Federal Constitution, passed in 1920, gave American women the right to vote. Tenth Twenty-first Sixteenth Nineteenth
Nineteenth
In his struggle for Indian independence, Mohandas Gandhi pursued a strategy of ______________. Violent revolution Religious orthodoxy Nonviolence Direct democracy
Nonviolence
____________ was a cultural movement that, associated with French-language writers like Léopold Senghor, fostered pride in African history, culture, and "blackness". Noir, C'est Beau Négritude France-Afrique Africa for the Africans
Négritude
In 1939, the German army pioneered a new kind of warfare, a "Blitzkrieg" or "lightning war", in _______. Poland The Soviet Union Italy Great Britain
Poland
In March 1930, Mohandas Gandhi protested a British tax on Indian ______ by embarking on a famous 24-day march. Temples Cotton Rubber Salt
Salt
One of the most significant reasons for the continued stagnation of the British economy after World War I was: That workers demanded high wages in the aftermath of the war effort and businesses reacted too quickly to their demands by raising them. Full employment (i.e. a 4% unemployment rate) was reached in 1920, and businesses could not find an adequate work force to staff their businesses. That nearly half of its budget in the interwar period went to paying off debt from the war. The General Strike of 1926 dragged on for 10 months, causing the rise of Oswald Mosley's "Blackshirt" movement.
That nearly half of its budget in the interwar period went to paying off debt from the war.
The Schlieffen Plan, implemented by the Germans at beginning of World War I, came close to succeeding, but it ultimately failed, for all of the following reasons except: Austro-Hungarian forces were less effective than anticipated against the Russians. The Netherlands intervened on behalf of its neighbor, Belgium, threatening to invade Germany. The Russian army mobilized more quickly than expected. The first Battle of the Marne resulted in a French-British victory in early September 1914.
The Netherlands intervened on behalf of its neighbor, Belgium, threatening to invade Germany.
Under the premiership of General Tojo Hideki, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), _______, and Dutch and British territories on December 7-8, 1941. Christmas Island New Zealand The Philippines Easter Island
The Philippines
Among the innovative measures enacted by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the "New Deal" were: The establishment of Medicare, as a health-care system designed to assist retired senior citizens. The establishment of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), charged with enforcing regulations and preventing a repetition of the Stock Market Collapse of 1929. The introduction of the highest trade tariffs in American history, which triggered retaliatory tariffs in other countries and stimulated world commerce. The creation of the Mississippi Valley Authority, a public-private cooperative institution that regulated the flow of the river to Louisiana.
The establishment of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), charged with enforcing regulations and preventing a repetition of the Stock Market Collapse of 1929.
During the rapid process of Hitler's consolidation of power in Germany, which of the following events took place first? The remilitarization of the Rhineland. The fire in the Reichstag. The Munich Agreement. The passage of the "Enabling Act".
The fire in the Reichstag.
Which of the following was not one of Woodrow Wilson's war aims? Freedom of the seas Self-determination for all peoples The guilt of the Central Powers Rights of neutral powers
The guilt of the Central Powers
Under Kemal Atatürk, the Turkish parliament introduced all of the following measures to Turkey except: Women's suffrage. The Latin alphabet. European family law The removal of Anatolian farmers into urban factories and schools.
The removal of Anatolian farmers into urban factories and schools.
In World War I, both sides were forced into _______________warfare in northeastern France and Belgium. Tank Cavalry Trench Lightning
Trench
