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Textbook Guided Reading POD #24 – Europe Clings to Relevance Period ________

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|b. |Weakening of the Ottoman Empire |

|c. |Competition for resources in colonial territories to fuel ongoing technology development |

|d. |Alliances and interactive military plans |

|e. |The Monroe Doctrine |

REF: p. 765-766

2. In the early twentieth century, the Ottoman Empire was referred to as the

|a. |"sick man of Europe." |

|b. |"Turkish Colossus." |

|c. |"Evil Empire." |

|d. |"Threat from the East." |

|e. |"Scarlet Knights." |

REF: p. 766

3. According to the text, why was war considered a good thing at the start of the twentieth century?

|a. |Spread of nationalism |

|b. |For the past century, most wars had been swift and ended with decisive European victories. |

|c. |Widespread desire for revenge for past wrongs |

|d. |Eagerness to assert superiority of weapons technology |

|e. |All of these |

REF: p. 766

4. What turned the political assassination of Franz Ferdinand into a world-wide event involving all of the Great Powers was:

|a. |competition among industrialized nations. |

|b. |the pre-existing system of alliances. |

|c. |the familial squabbles of the royal houses of Europe, all grandchildren of Queen Victoria. |

|d. |the opportunity to incite revolution in China and Russia. |

|e. |the entry of the United States into the fray of war. |

REF: p. 766

5. What was one of the fundamental weaknesses limiting the development of military strategy in Europe?

|a. |Mobilization was dependent on railroads rather than individual motor vehicles. |

|b. |Proximity of nations to one another in forming alliances |

|c. |Lack of a common currency to pay war debts |

|d. |Conflicting political ideology regarding constitutional monarchies |

|e. |The role of women in the workplace |

REF: p. 766-767

6. The early-twentieth-century system of alliances pitted the British, French, and Russians against

|a. |the Japanese, Italians, and Germans. |

|b. |the Ottomans, Italians, and Chinese. |

|c. |Austria-Hungary, Japan, and Poland. |

|d. |Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary. |

|e. |Syria, Egypt, and Germany. |

REF: p. 767

7. Which of the European nations was least prepared to go to war?

|a. |Germany |

|b. |Russia |

|c. |France |

|d. |England |

|e. |Austro-Hungary |

REF: p. 767

8. Most European nations thought the war that started in 1914 would

|a. |be won by the fastest-moving army and the boldest general. |

|b. |be long and costly. |

|c. |end with little expense. |

|d. |help unite the classes. |

|e. |be won by slow perseverance. |

REF: p. 769

9. A unique aspect of the Western Front was

|a. |that only swords were "legal," so no guns were used. |

|b. |the three-hundred-mile-long line of armies from Switzerland to the North Sea. |

|c. |that women made up a small percentage of the German fighting force. |

|d. |that there was very little loss of life. |

|e. |the German use of "blitzkrieg" on the battlefield. |

REF: p. 769

10. A new and potent defensive weapon in World War I was

|a. |the automatic pistol. |

|b. |poison gas. |

|c. |napalm. |

|d. |the helicopter. |

|e. |the machine gun. |

REF: p. 769

11. The only German naval battle utilizing the expensive High Seas Fleet was at the:

|a. |Battle of the Marne. |

|b. |Battle of the Boyne. |

|c. |Battle of Jutland. |

|d. |Sinking of the Lusitania. |

|e. |Sinking of the Titanic. |

REF: p. 769

12. The event which drew the US out of neutrality and into the war was:

|a. |sinking of the Lusitania. |

|b. |German submarines attacking merchant convoys. |

|c. |the bombing of civilians in Alsace Lorraine. |

|d. |the Zimmerman telegram. |

|e. |pressure by Woodrow Wilson. |

REF: p. 773

13. Women during World War I

|a. |joined the work force. |

|b. |refused to support the death and destruction of war on principle. |

|c. |were largely members of the Socialist Party. |

|d. |used their newly won voting privileges to elect pacifist candidates. |

|e. |All of these |

REF: p. 771

14. Which of the following was true of wartime food rationing?

|a. |The diets of the German poor improved. |

|b. |The diet of the German population was limited to one thousand calories per day. |

|c. |Food scarcity led to widespread cannibalism in Europe. |

|d. |Civilians' diets remained completely unchanged while prisoners of war were starved. |

|e. |Many Americans starved. |

REF: p. 771

15. German civilians during the war were significantly affected by:

|a. |crop failures |

|b. |British blockages of supply deliveries. |

|c. |a "turnip winter" |

|d. |rationing in favor of the military. |

|e. |all of these. |

REF: p. 771

16. During World War I, Africa

|a. |was the only region to prosper. |

|b. |provided over a million Africans for armed services. |

|c. |was the scene of the heaviest fighting. |

|d. |united to oppose and overthrow colonial powers. |

|e. |didn't support the war. |

REF: p. 771

17. What methods were not used to gain support for the war effort?

|a. |Employment of women and African Americans |

|b. |Urging people to invest in the war with savings bonds |

|c. |Encouraging the growth of "victory gardens" |

|d. |Writing poetry to instill nationalism and pride |

|e. |Sending children to work in munitions factories instead of going to school |

REF: p. 771

18. During World War I, African Americans in the United States

|a. |faced even greater discrimination than previously. |

|b. |were restricted to agricultural work. |

|c. |were not allowed in the armed forces. |

|d. |migrated north in vast numbers from the South. |

|e. |gained equality with whites. |

REF: p. 771

19. The Ottoman Turks signed a secret alliance with

|a. |the United States, hoping to gain Filipino territory. |

|b. |Germany, hoping to gain Russian territory. |

|c. |Japan, hoping to gain Chinese territory. |

|d. |France, hoping to gain Italian territory. |

|e. |Russia, hoping to gain Austrian territory. |

REF: p. 772

20. During the campaigns in the Caucasus, Turkish military maneuvers deliberately caused:

|a. |the destruction of naval access to the Aral Sea |

|b. |the deviation of Russian troops to the southern regions off the Eastern line. |

|c. |forced death march of hundreds of thousands of Armenians. |

|d. |a confrontation with Italian troops who had not honored their part of the Triple Alliance. |

|e. |suppression of secularization within the Turkish state. |

REF: p. 772

21. Zionism was supported as an official policy by which country?

|a. |Russia |

|b. |Germany |

|c. |Britain |

|d. |France |

|e. |The Ottoman Empire |

REF: p. 772

22. Britain's main concern about the Turks was

|a. |getting revenge after they lost at Gallipoli. |

|b. |that the Turks would close off British access to the East. |

|c. |that they would take all of Britain's colonies in Africa. |

|d. |to protect Protestant (Christian) forces in the Ottoman Empire. |

|e. |that they would not allow the British access to archeological digs in the Near East. |

REF: p. 773

23. The policy decision that most affected future relations between the Jewish and Palestinian settlers was embodied in

|a. |the Balfour Declaration. |

|b. |the Treaty of Brest Litovsk. |

|c. |the Zimmerman Telegram. |

|d. |the Dreyfus Affair. |

|e. |the Doctors' Conspiracy. |

REF: p. 773

24. The British tried to defeat the Ottomans by

|a. |landing a large British army in Palestine. |

|b. |using an Arab army against the Turks. |

|c. |sending the Royal Navy to bombard Syria. |

|d. |encouraging Christians to revolt. |

|e. |planning a military coup in the Ottoman army. |

REF: p. 773

25. Who was the leader of the Zionist movement?

|a. |Max Planck |

|b. |Albert Einstein |

|c. |Claude Shannon |

|d. |Henry Zion |

|e. |Theodore Herzl |

REF: p. 772

26. The Russian army during the war

|a. |was smaller than the German forces and was better equipped. |

|b. |was very large but poorly supplied and led. |

|c. |fought in very few battles. |

|d. |was doing very well until the Revolution began. |

|e. |fought the German army to its defeat and occupied Berlin. |

REF: p. 772

27. The February Revolution in Russia was led by

|a. |Vladimir Lenin. |

|b. |Alexander Kerensky. |

|c. |Grigory Kornilov. |

|d. |Leon Trotsky. |

|e. |Rosa Luxemburg. |

REF: p. 772

28. Vladimir Lenin was the leader of the

|a. |Bolsheviks. |

|b. |Mensheviks. |

|c. |Social Revolutionaries. |

|d. |Provisional Government. |

|e. |Young Turks. |

REF: p. 772

29. The October Revolution in Russia began by seizing:

|a. |Petrograd. |

|b. |Moscow. |

|c. |Simferopol. |

|d. |Novgorod. |

|e. |Omsk. |

REF: p. 773

30. Which of the following was not included in Lenin's plan for Russia?

|a. |Immediate surrender to Germany |

|b. |Transfer of land to the peasants |

|c. |A return to agrarian society |

|d. |A transfer of all power to the soviets |

|e. |Transfer of factories to the workers |

REF: p. 773

31. In the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Russia

|a. |won territories from the defeated Germans. |

|b. |gained considerable territory from Turkey. |

|c. |lost territory, including Poland and Finland. |

|d. |ended its horrific civil war. |

|e. |secretly planned to reenter the war. |

REF: p. 773

32. The secret police force in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution was called the

|a. |Third Department. |

|b. |Black Hand Organization. |

|c. |KGB. |

|d. |Cheka |

|e. |People's Will. |

REF: p. 773

33. Which was not one of the significant parts of Wilson's fourteen-point plan to end the war?

|a. |German evacuation of occupied lands |

|b. |Autonomy for nationalities under Ottoman rule |

|c. |Forfeiture of all German agricultural lands |

|d. |Formation of an association of nations to ensure the independence and territorial integrity of all states |

|e. |Inclusion of local populations to settle territorial disputes |

REF: p. 773

34. Deaths in World War I numbered between ____ million.

|a. |4 and 5 |

|b. |8 and 10 |

|c. |15 and 17 |

|d. |20 and 22 |

|e. |45 and 50 |

REF: p. 774

35. The influenza epidemic of 1918-1919

|a. |was a germ warfare attack by the Germans. |

|b. |killed 1 million. |

|c. |killed 20 million. |

|d. |did not kill people, but killed horses. |

|e. |was contained with the use of antibiotics. |

REF: p. 774

36. The most preferred destination for refugees after the war was

|a. |France, which suffered immense casualties and had an open door immigration policy. |

|b. |the United States, which had immigration quotas. |

|c. |New Zealand, which had a low population. |

|d. |Palestine, which was opened for Zionist settlement. |

|e. |Canada, because it was largely agricultural. |

REF: p. 774

37. Which of the following was not one of the elements in the Treaty of Versailles that angered Germany?

|a. |The infamous "guilt clause" |

|b. |The amount of reparations it had to pay |

|c. |The loss of territory it sustained |

|d. |High tariffs enacted by the allies |

|e. |Elimination of the German air force |

REF: p. 775

38. Which of the following "smaller" delegations was given consideration in the Versailles talks?

|a. |The Japanese proposal of racial equality. |

|b. |W. E. B. Du Bois' call for resolution of the concerns of African people. |

|c. |The demands of the Italians who had switched sides to the Entente. |

|d. |The claims for an independent Arabic state by Faisal. |

|e. |none of these. |

REF: p. 774

39. Woodrow Wilson's proposal for settlement of the European affairs was based on his principle of:

|a. |liberalism. |

|b. |self-determination. |

|c. |home rule. |

|d. |mandates. |

|e. |protectorate status. |

REF: p. 774

40. How did the Bolsheviks win the civil war in Russia after World War I?

|a. |By enlisting the aid of Great Britain in overthrowing the tsar |

|b. |By using democratic elections to stabilize the Duma |

|c. |By forcing the tsar to fight a duel with Lenin |

|d. |Through the military leadership of Leon Trotsky and the Red Army |

|e. |Lenin resigned to get both sides to make peace. |

REF: p. 775

41. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed by

|a. |joining Russia and the Soviet Ukraine. |

|b. |allying Russia, Georgia, and Lithuania. |

|c. |uniting Russia, Siberia, and Kazakhstan. |

|d. |unifying all communist provinces. |

|e. |a United Nations mandate. |

REF: p. 775

42. Lenin's New Economic Policy in 1921

|a. |created "labor brigades" to run factories. |

|b. |gave government full control of agriculture. |

|c. |allowed private ownership of land and all but the largest businesses. |

|d. |made the economy part of the military. |

|e. |outlawed the Christian church. |

REF: p. 775

43. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union planned to pay for industrialization by

|a. |collecting taxes on agricultural production. |

|b. |raising tariffs on all imports. |

|c. |bleeding wealth from neighboring territories. |

|d. |squeezing the peasants. |

|e. |getting large loans from the World Bank. |

REF: p. 775

44. What were the significant differences between contenders for control of the Communist Party after Lenin's death in 1924?

|a. |Stalin wanted to focus on communism's establishment in Russia as "socialism in one country." |

|b. |Trotsky argued for the continuation of the NEP. |

|c. |Stalin wanted an alliance with Germany and Italy because fascism seemed the best way to industrialize Russia rapidly. |

|d. |Trotsky advocated maintaining an alliance with China, convinced that an Eastern Bloc of Communism could overthrow the |

| |industrialized West. |

|e. |There was no significant difference in policies; it was a personal rivalry between Stalin and Trotsky. |

REF: p. 775-776

45. The Communist Party's long-term vision of the Soviet Union focused on creating:

|a. |a modern industrial economy without private property. |

|b. |a balanced economy with agriculture and industry under the auspices of the bourgeoisie. |

|c. |a temporary state of capitalism followed by annihilation of the propertied classes. |

|d. |world domination. |

|e. |a military industrial complex to gain revenge on the Germans. |

REF: p. 775

46. After the crisis for leadership of the Bolshevik party, Trotsky

|a. |won from his support of the Old Bolsheviks. |

|b. |co-ruled with Josef Stalin. |

|c. |was murdered outside the Kremlin. |

|d. |was expelled from the Communist party for "deviation from the party line" |

|e. |was given the military award of the Order of the Red Banner. |

REF: p. 776

47. The German crisis of 1923 was marked by

|a. |Germany's attempts to rebuild its military. |

|b. |German reoccupation of Alsace and Lorraine. |

|c. |the British military takeover of Berlin. |

|d. |Germany recklessly printing money, causing inflation. |

|e. |confiscation of church property by German authorities. |

REF: p. 777

48. Relative calm and prosperity came to German in the mid-1920's when they did all of the following except:

|a. |joined the League of Nations. |

|b. |borrowed money from New York banks to stabilize their economy. |

|c. |received permission to begin re-arming |

|d. |was allowed to renegotiate its debt from the "war guilt clause" |

|e. |began to rebuild its industries. |

REF: p. 777-778

49. In the 1920s, women's lives

|a. |hardly changed at all. |

|b. |changed more than in any previous decade. |

|c. |changed, but only for the better. |

|d. |changed, but only in negative ways. |

|e. |became shorter than at any time in history. |

REF: p. 786

50. Before the twentieth century, what was the only nation in which women had the right to vote?

|a. |Norway |

|b. |Germany |

|c. |England |

|d. |New Zealand |

|e. |Turkey |

REF: p. 786

51. The new social sciences in the 1920s were unsettling because they

|a. |supported ideas of Western superiority. |

|b. |seemed to reinforce bourgeois values. |

|c. |invariably led to communism. |

|d. |challenged Victorian morality and middle-class values. |

|e. |caused the Great Depression. |

REF: p. 787

52. Who was the famous French sociologist who proclaimed, "There are no religions that are false. All are true in their own fashion."

|a. |Charles Edouard Jenneret |

|b. |Max Planck |

|c. |Theodore Herzl |

|d. |Amelia Earhart |

|e. |Emile Durkheim |

REF: p. 787

53. Which of the following transformed the landscape of western Europe and North America more than any other development?

|a. |The automobile |

|b. |Dams and irrigation projects |

|c. |The telegraph |

|d. |New factories and industries |

|e. |Street lights |

REF: p. 788

54. Stalin's First Five-Year Plan stressed

|a. |increases in electricity and heavy industries. |

|b. |production of consumer goods for export. |

|c. |acquiring colonies to protect the Soviet economy. |

|d. |decentralized control and economic incentives. |

|e. |participation in the European Union. |

REF: p. 796

55. The Soviet Union paid for the First Five-Year Plan by

|a. |using revenue from the colonies. |

|b. |borrowing heavily from Western nations. |

|c. |creating a new middle class. |

|d. |seizing neighboring territories. |

|e. |squeezing the peasants. |

REF: p. 796

56. The better-off peasants, or kulaks, reacted to collectivization by

|a. |refusing to recognize the collectives. |

|b. |burning their crops and killing their livestock. |

|c. |attacking the poorest peasants. |

|d. |acquiring more land and becoming more prosperous. |

|e. |acquiring visas to the United States and Israel. |

REF: p. 797

57. Stalin's main tool for implementing terror was the

|a. |KGB. |

|b. |NVKD. |

|c. |People's Commissar. |

|d. |SovNarKom. |

|e. |NEP. |

REF: p. 798

58. How did the Nazi takeover of Germany affect Stalin's second Five-Year Plan?

|a. |It did not change his plan. |

|b. |Stalin intended to produce arms but decided to produce consumer goods instead. |

|c. |It provided Stalin with a new trading partner who also was a militarist. |

|d. |The Nazis demanded that Stalin cancel his second Five-Year Plan. |

|e. |Stalin intended to produce consumer goods but decided to produce arms instead. |

REF: p. 798

59. At the height of the Stalinist terror of the 1930s

|a. |millions of Jews were slaughtered in gas chambers. |

|b. |Moscow was burnt to the ground as part of Stalin's "scorched earth" policy. |

|c. |the USSR joined forces with Germany and Italy to invade Poland. |

|d. |Stalin was killed in a Kremlin coup. |

|e. |millions of ordinary Soviet citizens were sent to gulags, often for no reason. |

REF: p. 798

60. The purges were initiated after which of the following events?

|a. |the collapse of the trans-Siberian railway. |

|b. |the murder of Sergei Kirov |

|c. |the Cheka head was replaced by Lavrenty Beria |

|d. |the politburo discovered a plot by the Mensheviks to assassinate Stalin. |

|e. |None of these. |

REF: p. 798

61. The Purges were a series of trials based on the opportunity to do all of the following except:

|a. |Stalin's desire to remove old supporters of Lenin from the Party. |

|b. |the plan to remove Red Army officers suspected of treason. |

|c. |extend industrialization's rapid pace into a third five year plan. |

|d. |prepare the population for a dictatorship of the proletariat |

|e. |spread the terror to the lower levels of the population. |

REF: p. 798

62. Despite the Stalinist terror, Soviet women

|a. |found themselves in more repressed roles. |

|b. |were expected to work only in farm collectives. |

|c. |entered jobs and careers previously closed to them. |

|d. |found their roles in society unchanged. |

|e. |gained equality with men. |

REF: p. 798

63. One of the most outspoken feminists of the Bolshevik Party was

|a. |Irina Krupskaia |

|b. |Anna Akhmatova |

|c. |Alexandra Kollontai |

|d. |Rosa Luxemburg |

|e. |Tatiana Romanova |

REF: p. 800

64. The stock market crash of 1929 turned into

|a. |the deepest, most widespread depression in history. |

|b. |an economic boon to the "common man," as he was now able to afford stock. |

|c. |a minor depression followed by an economic recovery. |

|d. |a "limited" depression in some countries, but not most Western countries. |

|e. |a depression for the United States only. |

REF: p. 799

65. The Smoot-Hawley tariff was

|a. |a tax on raw materials for industrialization. |

|b. |a means to supply the USSR with machines for the Lend-Lease program. |

|c. |an economic embargo imposed by the European Allies against German imports in retaliation for suspension of reparations |

| |payments. |

|d. |a protective tariff on imported goods applied by the United States to stimulate the domestic economy. |

|e. |a plan to tax participants in the League of Nations to pay for rebuilding the European economy. |

REF: p. 799

66. Which two countries were particularly hard hit by the Depression?

|a. |England and Japan |

|b. |Japan and Germany |

|c. |France and Germany |

|d. |England and France |

|e. |Canada and Venezuela |

REF: p. 800

67. Franklin D. Roosevelt's economic recovery plan was:

|a. |New Deal |

|b. |Square Deal |

|c. |New Frontier |

|d. |Fair Deal |

|e. |Trickle Down Economics |

REF: p. 800

68. While the Depression's effects on non-industrialized countries were uneven, those hardest hit were

|a. |those that had lately undergone independence movements. |

|b. |those under colonial mandate. |

|c. |those that depended on the export of raw goods. |

|d. |those, like India, with "infant" industrialization. |

|e. |those that did not have many railroads. |

REF: p. 801

69. China's response to the Depression was

|a. |one of the worst in the non-industrialized world |

|b. |very little, as their problems were more political. |

|c. |to start a revolution for modernization. |

|d. |to make an alliance with Japan for raw materials in exchange for imported finished goods. |

|e. |negligible, as their economy was growing under the auspices of Communism. |

REF: p. 801

70. The South African economy boomed during the Depression because

|a. |it was based on agriculture, not industry. |

|b. |it was not part of the world economy. |

|c. |the Depression made gold more valuable. |

|d. |it was exploited as a colony. |

|e. |of the abundant supply of slave labor. |

REF: p. 802

71. Italy's fasci di combattimento initially comprised mainly

|a. |radical politicians and hired thugs. |

|b. |conservative politicians and the military. |

|c. |disgruntled workers and socialists. |

|d. |unemployed veterans and violent youths. |

|e. |pardoned prisoners. |

REF: p. 802

72. Which of the following was not one of the actions taken by Benito Mussolini?

|a. |He put Fascists in government jobs. |

|b. |He liberalized education. |

|c. |He gave employers control over employees. |

|d. |He crushed all other political parties. |

|e. |He allowed freedom of the press. |

REF: p. 802

73. The slogan repeated in fascist Italy was

|a. |"Il Duce (the leader) is always right." |

|b. |"One Italy, one God, one leader." |

|c. |"Italy for the Italians." |

|d. |"In your heart, you know he's right." |

|e. |"A Commitment to Excellence." |

REF: p. 802

74. What did Adolf Hitler write while in jail in the 1920s?

|a. |The Protocols of the Elders of Zion |

|b. |All Quiet on the Western Front |

|c. |Mein Kampf |

|d. |The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |

|e. |Das Boot |

REF: p. 803

75. Hitler's "master race" reserved intense hatred for

|a. |Italians. |

|b. |Russians. |

|c. |French. |

|d. |Scandinavians. |

|e. |Jews. |

REF: p. 803

76. Hitler's goal for Germany included all of the following except

|a. |the repeal of the Treaty of Versailles. |

|b. |to take over all German-speaking territory. |

|c. |to expand into Poland. |

|d. |to eliminate the Jews from Europe. |

|e. |to divide the Western world from the Eastern by a tripartite pact with Japan. |

REF: p. 803

77. Hitler's popularity came in large part from the German people's belief that

|a. |he was a religious, as well as a political, leader. |

|b. |the German Communist Party should rule Europe. |

|c. |economic well-being outweighed a loss of liberty. |

|d. |he was literally the second coming of Jesus Christ. |

|e. |All of these |

REF: p. 803

78. What were the reasons for the politics of "appeasement"?

|a. |Fear of war |

|b. |Fear of communism |

|c. |Lack of familiarity with fascist tactics |

|d. |Belief that one's word was as good as a contract, according to Neville Chamberlain |

|e. |All of these |

REF: p. 804

79. In 1935, Mussolini took advantage of the weakness of the Western democracies and

|a. |invaded Ethiopia. |

|b. |launched a bombing campaign against France. |

|c. |ended diplomatic relations with Britain. |

|d. |sent military aid to Germany. |

|e. |annexed Sicily. |

REF: p. 804

80. Hitler's first invasion with a newly rearmed Germany was in

|a. |Czechoslovakia |

|b. |Poland |

|c. |Austria. |

|d. |Belgium. |

|e. |Finland. |

REF: p. 804

81. Hitler signed a "secret pact" with which world leader in 1939?

|a. |Japan |

|b. |Italy. |

|c. |USSR |

|d. |Spain |

|e. |Yugoslavia |

REF: p. 805

82. The German Blitzkrieg meant, literally,

|a. |death from above. |

|b. |no surrender. |

|c. |total war. |

|d. |lightning war. |

|e. |secret war. |

REF: p. 808

83. In the early years of World War II, the Soviet Union invaded which of the following countries?

|a. |Germany and Japan |

|b. |Germany and Italy |

|c. |Poland and the Baltic States |

|d. |France and China |

|e. |Greece and Turkey |

REF: p. 808

84. Why was the winter of 1939-40 termed a period of "phony war?"

|a. |The revelation of the Soviet-German pact over Poland was revealed. |

|b. |Britain and France declared war on Germany but took no action. |

|c. |The perception was that there was no real war without US involvement. |

|d. |The Soviet Union did not actively fight, but let winter kill off most of their enemies. |

|e. |none of these. |

REF: p. 808

85. The Battle of Britain was conducted primarily by

|a. |air attacks. |

|b. |submarines. |

|c. |naval warships. |

|d. |ground force invasion on the beaches at Hastings. |

|e. |detonating a magneto-electric pulse on London to wipe out all electric power. |

REF: p. 808

86. Hitler's resumption of offensive tactics in 1940 focused on which area?

|a. |Scandanavia and Belgium |

|b. |France |

|c. |North Africa |

|d. |Hungary |

|e. |Poland |

REF: p. 808

87. Per his earlier writings in Mein Kampf, Hitler's plan for Russia was

|a. |to enslave the Slavic people and create "living space" to the East. |

|b. |complete genocide of all Bolsheviks. |

|c. |to work in cooperation with Stalin to execute all Jews. |

|d. |to take over the fertile agricultural lands of western Russia. |

|e. |to install Catholicism in place of the Russian Orthodox Church. |

REF: p. 809 | p. 803

88. One of the fiercest battles on the Eastern front between USSR and Germany was at

|a. |Lvov |

|b. |Stalingrad |

|c. |Moscow |

|d. |Riga |

|e. |Odessa. |

REF: p. 810

89. The German army was routed from North Africa by which army?

|a. |British |

|b. |Moroccan. |

|c. |Egyptian |

|d. |Arabic |

|e. |Italian. |

REF: p. 810

90. The prime motivation for the Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia was

|a. |its abundant oil and rubber production. |

|b. |the opportunity to defeat Western powers. |

|c. |to keep the Japanese people satisfied. |

|d. |to keep the United States from entering the war. |

|e. |to avenge the execution of Japanese sailors in 1938. |

REF: p. 810

91. On December 7, 1941,

|a. |the Yalta Conference took place and set in motion the plans for the Axis defeat. |

|b. |Japanese planes bombed the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. |

|c. |Japan surrender to the United States to end World War II. |

|d. |the Soviet Union invaded north China. |

|e. |the United States army invaded the home islands of Japan. |

ANS: B REF: p. 811

92. The key to victory in the Pacific Ocean was

|a. |holding the Philippine Islands. |

|b. |aircraft carriers. |

|c. |the base at Pearl Harbor. |

|d. |the atomic bomb. |

|e. |short supply lines. |

REF: p. 811

93. The start of the final Allied push to end the war in Europe began on June 6, 1944, known as

|a. |The Big One |

|b. |D-Day |

|c. |Operation Caprica |

|d. |The Norman Invasion |

|e. |Battle of the Bulge |

REF: p. 812

94. The final defeat of Japan took longer than victory over Germany in large part because

|a. |of fanatical Japanese resistance. |

|b. |the Japanese had captured so much more territory. |

|c. |the United States had concentrated its efforts on Germany. |

|d. |the Allies were unsure of whether to use the atomic bomb. |

|e. |ice floes surrounded the islands of Japan. |

REF: p. 812

95. The end of the war in the Pacific arena was controversial because of

|a. |the U.S. use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |

|b. |the refusal of the United States to consider any alternatives. |

|c. |international objection to the slaughter of civilian populations. |

|d. |the environmental effects of radioactivity. |

|e. |the economic devastation that would occur to the rest of Japan. |

REF: p. 812-813

96. Soviet deaths during World War II numbered between ____ million.

|a. |2 and 3 |

|b. |5 and 6 |

|c. |10 and 12 |

|d. |20 and 25 |

|e. |45 and 50 |

REF: p. 814

97. Which of the following scientific and technological innovations were not spurred by World War II?

|a. |Synthetic rubber |

|b. |Machine guns |

|c. |Antibiotics |

|d. |Nuclear weapons |

|e. |Radar |

REF: p. 814

98. The Holocaust is estimated to have killed ____ Jews.

|a. |500,000 |

|b. |1 million |

|c. |3 million |

|d. |6 million |

|e. |10 million |

REF: p. 814

99. Which group was not murdered by the Nazis in the interest of "racial purity"?

|a. |Homosexuals |

|b. |The disabled and mentally ill |

|c. |Aryans |

|d. |Gypsies |

|e. |The Polish elite |

REF: p. 816

100. Which of the following was not a result of increased United States production during World War

II?

|a. |It ended the Depression and unemployment. |

|b. |It created a post-World War II consumer boom. |

|c. |It helped improve nutrition in the United States. |

|d. |The economy performed at a minimal level. |

|e. |It was double that of all the Axis nations. |

REF: p. 817

101. One of the most significant long-lasting consequences of World War II in the United States was the

|a. |recruitment of women and minorities into the labor force. |

|b. |end of any German military threat. |

|c. |loss of the U.S. Pacific colonies. |

|d. |encouragement of racial discrimination. |

|e. |extension of mandatory retirement until age sixty-five. |

REF: p. 817

102. The main cause of environmental stress during World War II was the

|a. |scarring of battlefields by enormous armies. |

|b. |tremendous number of refugees. |

|c. |economic development, which increased demand for raw materials. |

|d. |bombing of cities into ruins. |

|e. |massive numbers of diseased corpses. |

REF: p. 818

103. Which is most true of the communist states by the 1980s and 1990s?

|a. |They were uniform in character. |

|b. |They were subservient to the USSR. |

|c. |They had never engaged in an armed conflict with another communist state. |

|d. |Deep divisions had appeared among communist states. |

|e. |The collapse of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact states was widely foreseen and predicted in the 1980s. |

REF: p. 882

104. The policy of restructuring the Soviet Union as authorized by Mikhail Gorbachev was known as

|a. |perestroika. |

|b. |glasnost. |

|c. |samizdat. |

|d. |kulak. |

|e. |tanizat. |

REF: p. 882

105. Solidarity was

|a. |a labor union of Polish shipyard workers. |

|b. |supported by the Catholic Church in Poland. |

|c. |a union that caused the Polish government to impose martial law. |

|d. |a potent force with nationally recognized leaders. |

|e. |all of these. |

REF: p. 882

106. The playwright who was elected president of Czechoslovakia in 1990 was

|a. |Nicolae Ceausescu. |

|b. |Vaclav Havel. |

|c. |Lech Walesa. |

|d. |Petr Andropov. |

|e. |Andrei Sakharov. |

REF: p. 883

107. East Germany was united with West Germany in

|a. |1975. |

|b. |1980. |

|c. |1985. |

|d. |1990. |

|e. |1998. |

REF: p. 883

108. What powerful force ultimately caused the USSR to dissolve?

|a. |Racism |

|b. |Mercantilism |

|c. |Nationalism |

|d. |Capitalism |

|e. |Pacifism |

REF: p. 883

109. The result of the hard-line Communist coup against Gorbachev was that

|a. |Boris Yeltsin led popular resistance to the coup. |

|b. |disgust with communism boiled over. |

|c. |the Russian Republic effectively took the place of the USSR. |

|d. |the coup failed. |

|e. |All of these |

REF: p. 883

110. The Soviet Union was dissolved in

|a. |1991. |

|b. |1985. |

|c. |1979. |

|d. |1994. |

|e. |None of these |

REF: p. 883

111. After the fall of the Soviet Union, nationalism and diversity undermined the Balkan nation of

|a. |Czechoslovakia |

|b. |Greece |

|c. |Yugoslavia |

|d. |Bulgaria |

|e. |Estonia. |

REF: p. 883

112. Ethnic cleansing in the Balkans occurred between

|a. |Christian Serbians and Muslims. |

|b. |Serbians and Ottomans. |

|c. |Greeks and Serbians. |

|d. |Russians and Croatians. |

|e. |Albanians and Armenians. |

REF: p. 883

113. NATO forces were dispatched to the Balkans and used air strikes against Serbia to stop ethnic

cleansing in:

|a. |Albania. |

|b. |Montenegro |

|c. |Bosnia-Herzogovinia |

|d. |Kosovo |

|e. |Croatia |

REF: p. 883-884

114. After serving two terms as a democratic but authoritarian president of Russia, Vladimir Putin

|a. |became director of a private natural gas company |

|b. |returned to be a service officer in the KGB |

|c. |engineered the election of his protégé and became Prime Minister. |

|d. |retired to his palace in Sochi. |

|e. |became a professor of political science at Harvard. |

REF: p. 909

115. In 2002, the European Union promoted economic growth and free trade by

|a. |signing NAFTA agreements. |

|b. |taking advantage of loans from the United Nations. |

|c. |bringing a law suit against the Tri-Lateral Commission. |

|d. |adopting a common currency, the euro. |

|e. |unifying all of Europe into one single country. |

REF: p. 904

116. The North American Free Trade Agreement

|a. |raised tariffs with Canada. |

|b. |allowed the world free trade with North America. |

|c. |was never agreed to. |

|d. |eliminated tariffs among the United States, Canada, and Mexico. |

|e. |was one of the great accomplishments of the European Union. |

REF: p. 905

117. The World Trade Organization was founded to

|a. |end international trade. |

|b. |reduce trade barriers and enforce international trade agreements. |

|c. |combat terrorism. |

|d. |promote protectionism. |

|e. |protect labor unions. |

REF: p. 906

118. Why does the World Trade Organization attract critics and protests?

|a. |It is dominated by communist sympathizers. |

|b. |It donates its profits to antiabortion advocates. |

|c. |It is extremely pro-labor. |

|d. |Many fear the loss of job opportunities as manufacturers relocate to poorer countries. |

|e. |It has been exposed as a "front" for the CIA. |

REF: p. 906

119. An important force to promoting human rights has been through philanthropic bodies known as:

|a. |nonprofit organizations. |

|b. |non-aligned nations. |

|c. |nongovernment organizations. |

|d. |private charities. |

|e. |transnational conglomerates. |

REF: p. 917

120. The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights reflected

|a. |its intention to remove guns from the U.S. population. |

|b. |an international consensus against racism and imperialism. |

|c. |its intention to try leaders of the major powers as war criminals. |

|d. |its understanding of slavery as a culturally defined phenomenon. |

|e. |all of these. |

REF: p. 917

121. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has most often been criticized because

|a. |there has been no attempt to enforce it. |

|b. |it is too vague and unclear. |

|c. |its "universal" principles are largely Western in origin. |

|d. |it does not demand equality for women. |

|e. |All of these |

REF: p. 917

122. "NGOs" is an acronym for

|a. |nuclear grade ores. |

|b. |network global operations. |

|c. |nations gaining oil. |

|d. |nongovernmental organizations. |

|e. |national gender opposition. |

REF: p. 917

123. Although immigrants from developing nations bring many benefits to a new country, they

|a. |normally returned home after only a few months. |

|b. |vote for conservative candidates in general elections. |

|c. |were expelled from most European countries in the late 1990s. |

|d. |face anti-immigrant discrimination and resentment. |

|e. |None of these |

REF: p. 892-893

124. Anti-immigrant feelings in industrialized nations are mostly due to

|a. |labor shortages in the host country. |

|b. |illegal activity among immigrant groups. |

|c. |an ethnically derived sense of nationality. |

|d. |expanding economic opportunity. |

|e. |all of these. |

REF: p. 893

125. Which of the following is not true about technological innovation after World War II?

|a. |It gave rise to an economic expansion and increased productivity. |

|b. |It changed the way people lived, worked, and played. |

|c. |It caused a decline in world agricultural production due to the focus on technology, leading to widespread starvation. |

|d. |It intensified environmental destruction. |

|e. |It increased the power of industrialized nations relative to the developing world. |

REF: p. 893

126. As Western economies recovered from World War II, most

|a. |new technologies increased labor requirements. |

|b. |consumers sought new goods to purchase. |

|c. |people wanted to stop government spending on the production of weapons. |

|d. |industries resisted applying new technologies. |

|e. |governments insisted on "balanced budget" amendments. |

REF: p. 893

127. The most influential technology of the last three decades has been

|a. |the computer. |

|b. |nuclear energy. |

|c. |industrial robots. |

|d. |jet airplane transportation. |

|e. |the combustion engine. |

REF: p. 893

128. The primary agent of technological change is the

|a. |small businessman. |

|b. |transnational corporation. |

|c. |government. |

|d. |university. |

|e. |research laboratory. |

REF: p. 894

129. What factors have contributed to the globalization of fast food?

|a. |later marriage ages in modern industrial societies |

|b. |busy schedules mean less family meals |

|c. |increased immigration and travel. |

|d. |greater cultural promotion in various media |

|e. |all of these |

REF: p. 896

130. Which country has arguably the worst environmental record?

|a. |The United States |

|b. |England |

|c. |The former Soviet Union |

|d. |China |

|e. |Canada |

REF: p. 897

131. Efforts to preserve the environment include

|a. |the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act. |

|b. |promoting the use of solar and wind power. |

|c. |manufacturing fuel-efficient cars. |

|d. |recycling efforts. |

|e. |all of these. |

REF: p. 897

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