Final Exam

Question 1

Who was the creator of the idea of communism?

Answer 1

Karl Marx

Question 2

Who was the Tsar of Russia between 1894 and 1917?

Answer 2

Nicholas II

Question 3

The consequence of the depression brought politicians from moderate, centrist parties to lose out to __________ parties to the Right and Left of the political spectrum.

Answer 3

extremist

Question 4

President Wilson wanted to create an association of nations to talk about world conflicts before another war could break out. It was called ____.

Answer 4

the League of Nations

Question 5

The revolution of 1905 caused farm laborers and soldiers to create worker-dominated councils called “______.”

Answer 5

soviets

Question 6

The leader of the Bolsheviks who over threw the provisional government in Russia was _____.

Answer 6

Vladimir Lenin

Question 7

Cross out the word that doesn’t belong in one of the blanks:

By 1932 the value of _______ had fallen to one-third of its value in 1929, while many of Europe’s most respected __________ houses and _________ teetered on the brink of collapse.

Answer 7

trade
banking
currencies

word that doesn’t belong: governments

Question 8

In Germany the road to economic recovery took a rather different form. Under the _______ , 1933, the state not only controlled trade and the movement of foreign exchange, but also prices, wages, and banking.

Answer 8

Nazis

Question 9

The Russian Civil War was fought between the ___.

Answer 9

Reds and Whites

Question 10

The parliament, or congress, Nicholas created in 1905 was called the ______.

Answer 10

Duma

Question 11

What year was the United States’ stock market crash?

Answer 11

1929

Question 12

What took place in the early 1920s when Germany, Hungary and Austria resorted to printing money to pay for everything: war, economy, welfare.

Answer 12

hyperinflation

Question 13

The name of the political party that was communist in Russia was called the _____.

Answer 13

Bolsheviks

Question 14

The modern world has never experienced an economic crisis as severe as the

Answer 14

Great Depression

Question 15

Article 231 of the treaty, better known as the “__________________,” forced Germany to accept full responsibility for starting World War I and pay enormous reparations for Allied war losses.

Answer 15

war guilt clause

Question 16

After WWI, _________ had become the world’s most powerful economy.

Answer 16

America

Question 17

By 1922 the Bolsheviks were in charge of the country that would be renamed the ___.

Answer 17

Soviet Union

Question 18

In December 1917 Lenin signed the treaty of ______ which took Russia out of WWI.

Answer 18

Brest-Litovsk

Question 19

Which 5 nations who participated in WWI were NOT at the Paris Peace Conference?

Answer 19

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey and Russia

Question 20

The “Big Four” leaders of the victorious Western nations were ____.

Answer 20

Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, George Clemenceau, and Vittorio Orlando

Question 21

Tsar Nicholas’s wife had an advisor named ____.

Answer 21

Rasputin

Question 22

Tell me which of the “Big Four” nations wanted in the peace conference? Write the names of Italy, United Stated, England and France in the appropriate lines.

1. To rebuild Germany as a great trading partner.
2. Wanted his 14 Points to be the basis of the treaty agreement
3. Wanted harsh reparations from Germany to prevent another attack.
4. wanted to expand their country’s influence and shape it into a major power that could hold its own alongside the other great nations.

Answer 22

1. England
2. United States
3. France
4. Italy

Question 23

The Paris Peace Conference created the peace terms between the Allied and Central Powers of WWI in a treaty called ______.

Answer 23

The Treaty of Versailles

Question 24

In a speech to Congress in January 1918, Wilson laid out his idealistic vision for the world after World War I, which is called his _____.

Answer 24

14 Points