Chapter 33-34 Quiz WH

The most famous motto of the Russian Revolution was

"Peace, Land, and Bread" ???

The western front in World War I was

A bloody stalemate

The industrialization of Japan in the nineteenth century most directly led to Japan's adoption of which of the following foreign policies?

A policy of imperial expansion that sought to take advantage of the political and military weakness of neighboring Asian states

Which of the following best describes the 1936 lithograph (entitled The Hero) by German artist George Grosz?

A post-First World War print expressing antiwar sentiment

The leader of the fascist movement in Germany was

Adolf Hitler

Which of these happened FIRST, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914?

Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia

The "mad brute" pictured in the World War I poster above represents

Germany

The members of the Triple Alliance prior to WWI were

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy

Which of the following best supports the contention that the First World War was the first total war?

Governments mobilized large segments of their populations and economies and targeted their opponents' military and economic capabilities.

The term fascism was first used by

Mussolini

Pan-Slavism was actively promoted by

Russia

The situation shown in the image is best understood in the context of which of the following aspects of twentieth-century warfare?

States made full use of their populations and material resources to fight total wars

Why are authoritarian and totalitarian systems considered unlimited governments?

The government leaders have absolute power

According to the Nuremberg Laws, which of the following best describes the criteria used to determine whether a person was a Jew?

The number of Jewish grandparents a person had was used to determine whether a person was a Jew.

Which of the following best explains the historical significance of views such as those expressed in the passage?

They show that, in response to the disruptions of the Great Depression, many political leaders saw it as their duty to take an active role in guiding economic life.

What effect did World War I have on the status of women?

Women in many countries received the vote in the years after the war

Which event is referred to in these headlines?

World War I

Which war produced this image and was known for the use of defensive fortifications such as these?

World War I

The Kristallnacht was

a Nazi-arranged attack on thousands of Jewish stores.

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

The 1935, Nuremberg Laws

deprived German Jews of their citizenship

Durnovo's argument in the second paragraph regarding the effect of war between Germany and Russia on the two countries would prove to be

inaccurate in its prediction that revolution would break out first in the defeated country

Asian reactions to Western claims of racial and cultural superiority, such as the reaction by Shigenobu in the passage, were also instrumental in the period 1918-1945 in the

intensification of anti-imperial resistance activities and independence movements

The Ottoman Empire likely entered into the conflict referred to in the passage because

it had lost significant territory to other European states in the nineteenth century

A troubling economic problem in the 1920s was the depressed state of agriculture caused by

overproduction and falling prices

Moltke's prediction in Source 1 about the consequences of a potential war between Germany and France is most directly explained by the fact that

previous conflicts had stirred intense nationalism in France and Germany

The Russian Civil War that broke out after the revolution was between

reds and whites

The term for the idea that people with the same ethnic origins, language, and political ideals had the right to form sovereign states was

self-determination

Which of the following was the most important factor behind European's readiness to embrace authoritarian political systems in the 1930s?

the economic crisis caused by the Great Depression

Which of the following was not a characteristic of the new total war of World War I?

the extension of laissez-faire capitalism to its greatest freedom

The French were deeply suspicious of German expansion because of

the inability of the French to forget their humiliating defeat in the Franco-Prussian War

The Japanese fought in World War I due to their

their desire to acquire German colonies in Asia.

The Japanese expansion throughout the Pacific during the 1930s was caused by

their need to acquire raw goods to fuel their industry