Chapter 12 Exam

The painting above does which of the following?

Condemns the bombing of a Basque town during the Spanish Civil War.

The Soviet government's agricultural policies referred to in the song directly resulted in which of the following?

The campaign to liquidate the kulaks

Which of the following developments during the Second World War would Franck most likely have cited as evidence to support his arguments in the passage?

Allied firebombing in Germany and Japan had caused massive devastation and civilian casualties, and atomic weapons were vastly more powerful than those used in firebombing.

Which of the following is best supported by the excerpts above?

Any agreement was subject to the state's interpretation of the national interest.

The political cartoon above from the 1930s illustrates

British indifference to aggression by the Axis powers

The table best supports which of the following conclusions?

European powers maintained colonies despite global war and economic depression.

Which of the following best explains the difference between the trends in German unemployment and the trends in British unemployment after 1933 ?

German militarization and public works projects were more successful in reducing unemployment.

Based on the passage and the historical context in which Wedgwood's book was originally published, which of the following most heavily influenced the author's view of the Thirty Years' War?

Growing international tensions in Europe as a result of aggressive nationalism

The agreement described in the passage led most directly to which of the following?

Hitler ordering the invasion of Poland in the belief that Britain and France would not intervene

The exploitation of Sudeten grievances described by Butler in the passage are most directly connected to which of the following features of the Nazi regime?

Its employment of aggressive nationalism as a means of maintaining support at home and gaining advantages abroad

Which of the following arguments would a supporter of using nuclear weapons against Japan have most likely cited to explain the limitations of Franck's arguments in the first and second paragraphs?

Japanese government propaganda instilled fierce, suicidal nationalism in the Japanese population, making Japan unlikely to surrender unconditionally without experiencing the effects of nuclear weapons.

Which of the following groups was the policy described in the passage designed to eliminate?

Landowning kulaks

Sending people to Siberian camps was part of which of the following?

Stalin's efforts to purge political rivals

The primary rationale for Japan's territorial acquisitions in Southeast Asia during the period 1933-1942, as reflected in Map 2, was most similar to the primary rationale for which of the following?

The British East India Company's takeover of other European states' colonial possessions in India

The graph above of the voting (by party) in the German elections from 1928 to 1932 shows which of the following?

The Depression saw an increase in the percentage of votes for Communist and Nazi parties.

The trend shown in the table from 1933 to 1938 had which of the following effects on Germany?

The Nazi party was able to solidify control over German society.

Which of the following best explains why, in the 1956 edition of the book, the author stated, "I no longer think that all wars are unnecessary"?

The Second World War had to be fought to stop the expansion of Nazi Germany in Europe.

Which of the following was the most direct cause of the development in the years 1930 to 1933 illustrated by the table?

The collapse of financial markets after the United States stock market crash

The famine described in the song was a consequence of which of the following?

The drive to modernize the Soviet economy

Contemporaries who agreed with Franck's argument in the second and third paragraphs regarding the need for an international agreement would most likely have made which of the following arguments to support their position?

The end of the war would probably lead to a new rivalry between the victorious states.

The poster is most clearly evidence for which of the following trends in the period it was printed?

The exploitation of economic suffering to promote radical politics

Butler's view of Sudeten German grievances most directly shows the effects of which of the following?

The failure of the post-First World War peace settlement to meet its goals

Which of the following best explains Briand's view as expressed in the passage?

The fears of French and other countries' political leaders of a repeat of the First World War

Which of the following was the most significant factor behind the Russian government's creation of the collective farms described by the author?

The need for rapid economic modernization

European countries undertook infrastructure projects such as the one described in the passage in order to counter the effects of which of the following?

The onset of the Great Depression

The economic conditions portrayed in the poster are most directly a result of which of the following?

The onset of the Great Depression

The perspective of the artist regarding the Treaty of Versailles is best explained by which of the following developments at the time the poster was created?

The onset of the Great Depression undermined the already unstable economy of the Weimar Republic, which was required to pay reparations to the Allies.

The cartoon above by the British caricaturist David Low was published

in the wake of the 1939 nonaggression pact between Germany and Russia

As described by Keshavarz in the first paragraph, which of the following would best explain why European countries were implementing policies to increase the size of their populations?

They wanted to address the effects of the First World War and mobilize for future conflicts.

Based on the context of the passage, what was the most likely fate of Kokurin and his family after he sent the letter?

They were either exiled to a gulag or executed.

Which of the following best describes the likely intent of the poster?

To build support for centrally directed economic modernization programs in the Soviet Union

In addition to their economic value, projects such as those described in the passage were also used by the German government for which of the following purposes?

To glorify the leadership of Adolf Hitler and his government

Shigenobu's criticism of European race-based discrimination against Japanese people is significant mostly because it shows that advocates of Japanese imperialism

adopted the European attitudes about a "civilizing mission" and used those attitudes to justify Japan's own imperial policies

Artworks of the type shown in the image were used for all of the following EXCEPT to

encourage Soviet citizens to embrace Western popular culture

The choice to portray a manual laborer and an engineer in the poster is best explained by the Nazi Party's efforts to

counter the communist and socialist message of class struggle

The establishment of organizations like the German Labor Front is best explained as part of the Nazi Party's program of

dismantling democratic institutions

The poster's portrayal of the two men as former First World War comrades is best explained by the Nazi Party's desire to

exploit feelings of bitterness felt by many Germans about the outcome of the war

Shigenobu's point of view regarding Western attitudes toward Japan as expressed in the passage is significant in that similar ideas were used by members of the Japanese government during the period between the First and the Second World Wars to justify

militarizing the Japanese state and expanding its territories in Asia

The aspirations expressed by Briand in the passage would be most directly undermined by his failure to recognize

the political and economic instability of the German Weimar Republic