final Exam

Question 1

What did the war become once the participating countries began devoting all of their resources to the war effort?

Answer 1

Total war

Question 2

What were the Fourteen Points?

Answer 2

A Plan for the postwar world

Question 3

Who was forced to assume sole responsibility for the war under the treaty of Versailles?

Answer 3

Germany

Question 4

Who led germany during the last decade of the 1800s and most of World war 1?

Answer 4

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Question 5

From which country did Czechoslovkia, Poland, and Yugoslavia Gain independence?

Answer 5

Austria-Hungary

Question 6

What is the policy of glorifying power and keeping an army prepared for war?

Answer 6

Militarism

Question 7

What action on Novermber 11, 1918 brought World war l to an end?

Answer 7

An Armistice was signed

Question 8

After World War 1 most European Nations had what type of government, if only temporarily?

Answer 8

Democratic

Question 9

What were soviets under Russia’s Provisional government?

Answer 9

Local Councils

Question 10

What term was used to identify the alliance of Germany, Italy and Japan?

Answer 10

Axis Powe’s

Question 11

Who led the Famous Protest known as the Salt March?

Answer 11

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Question 12

Who were the Bolsheviks?

Answer 12

Radical Russian Marxist revolutionaries

Question 13

Which German political Party Sought to overturn the treaty of Versailles and combat communism?

Answer 13

Nazi

Question 14

II Duce was title of which of the following leaders?

Answer 14

Benito Mussolini

Question 15

What event marked the beginning of the great Depression?

Answer 15

The Stock market crash of 1929

Question 16

What was the purpose of the Soviet state’s Five-Year Plan?

Answer 16

Economic Development

Question 17

Whose Theory of Relativity Replaced Newton’s Comforting Belief in a World run by Absolute laws of motion and gravity?

Answer 17

Albert Einstein

Question 18

Which Country did Germany Conquer in September 1939?

Answer 18

Poland

Question 19

What event occurred on the day described “a date which will live in infamy”?

Answer 19

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Question 20

Which of the following Battles marked the Final German Offensive?

Answer 20

Battle of the Bulge

Question 21

The German Blitzkrieg was a miliatry strategy that depended on what Advantage?

Answer 21

Suprise and overwhelming force

Question 22

Where were the atomic Bombs dropped?

Answer 22

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 23

What was the name of the alliance by European Communist nations in response to NATO?

Answer 23

Warsaw Pact

Question 24

In 1978 the Camp David Accords were signed by:

Answer 24

Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin

Question 25

What caused the two famines to occur?

Answer 25

The fall of communism in East Germany

Question 26

What was the original purpose of the internet?

Answer 26

Shared information about research

Question 27

What is this cartoon about?

Answer 27

The collapse of communism

Question 28

Which document states that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights… Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and the security of person”?

Answer 28

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Question 29

Who became the Russian Republic’s first elected president?

Answer 29

Boris Yeltsin

Question 30

What idea was the major justification for US foreign policy during the Cold War era?

Answer 30

Domino Theory

Question 30

What belief about China is the cartoon expressing?

Answer 30

That communism is dead in China

Question 31

What was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine?

Answer 31

To support countries that rejected communism

Question 32

Under which program did Gorbachev attempt to modify the economic structure of the Soviet economy by allowing some private enterprise?

Answer 32

Perestroika

Question 33

This cartoon was published during 1989. Which of the cartoonist’s prediction about communism was accurate?

Answer 33

Communism did end in Poland

Question 34

During the Cultural Revolution, who were the “New Heroes” of China?

Answer 34

Peasants

Question 35

The dividing of India into two nations was referred to as:

Answer 35

The partition

Question 36

What was it called when Bosnian Serbs used violence to rid Bosnia of its Muslims?

Answer 36

Ethnic cleansing

Question 37

In the 1940s and 1950s, what did the region labeled as being “behind the iron curtain” include?

Answer 37

Soviet Union and its satellite nations

Question 38

Name four Warsaw Pact nations that bordered NATO members:

Answer 38

East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Albania

Question 39

What was apartheid?

Answer 39

A South African separating the races

Question 40

According to the cartoon, in which was communism likely to survive?

Answer 40

Soviet Union

Question 41

What was the Strategic Defense Initiative?

Answer 41

A system to protect the United States against enemy missiles

Question 42

Who is the man on the far right dressed as a doll?

Answer 42

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 43

After gaining their independence, India and Pakistan fought a war over:

Answer 43

Kashmir

Question 44

What did the five modernizations call for?

Answer 44

Progress in agriculture, industry, defense, and science and technology

Question 45

What name is used for the concept of preserving the environment and conserving resources while still meeting current economic needs?

Answer 45

Sustainable Development