unit 7 history

Question 1

What were the four main causes of World War One

Answer 1

Militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism

Question 2

What was the Powder Keg of Europe

Answer 2

The balkans

Question 3

Why were the Serbs upset with Austria-Hungary

Answer 3

Because they annexed bosnia and herzegovina and they thought they were next

Question 4

What nationalist/terrorist group plotted the assassination of the Archduke of Austria-Hungary

Answer 4

Black hand

Question 5

Who was the Archduke of Austria-Hungary who was assassinated and who was the assassin

Answer 5

Franz ferdinand, gavrilo princip

Question 6

Explain how this assassination led to World War One

Answer 6

when austria hears about the assassination austria declares war on serbia, serbia asks their ally russia for help so russia declares war on austria, austria asks their ally germany for help so germany declares war on russia, then russia asks their ally france for help so france declares war on germany.

Question 7

Who were the Central Powers during World War One

Answer 7

Germany, austria, ottoman empire, bulgaria

Question 8

Who were the Allies during World War One at the beginning? Who joined later

Answer 8

Great britain, france, russia, serbia and later US, italy, japan

Question 9

What type of fighting was done on the Western Front

Answer 9

Trench warfare

Question 10

.List 4 new or improved weapons used during World War One

Answer 10

planes, flame throwers, tanks, machine guns

Question 11

Which Allied country withdrew from World War One in 1917

Answer 11

russia

Question 12

Which Allied country joined the war in 1917

Answer 12

US

Question 13

What did the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk do

Answer 13

Treaty saying russia is out of the war

Question 14

What were two reasons the U.S. joined the war

Answer 14

German submarine sinked a passenger liner called lusitania, zimmerman note

Question 15

What was the Zimmerman Telegram

Answer 15

Germany was trying to entice Mexico into attacking the U.S.

Question 16

When was the armistice that ended the fighting in World War One signed

Answer 16

1918

Question 17

What is a total war

Answer 17

New technologies, and you put all the resources you got into the war

Question 18

Who were the three Allied countries that negotiated the Treaty of Versailles and who represented each of those countries

Answer 18

US-Woodrow Wilson, france-Georges Clemenceau , great britain-David George

Question 19

What was President Wilson’s plan for peace called

Answer 19

The fourteen points

Question 20

What did his first four points do

Answer 20

end of secret treaties, freedom of the seas, free trade, reduced national armies and navies

Question 21

What did his fourteenth point do

Answer 21

proposed a general association of nations that would protect great and small states alike

Question 22

.In what four ways did the Treaty of Versailles punish Germany

Answer 22

War guilt, pay 31.4 billion, reduce 90% of military, land taken

Question 23

What three new countries were created from German and Austro-Hungarian territories

Answer 23

Poland, czechoslovakia, yugoslavia

Question 24

In what way was the effect of industrialization different in Russia when compared to the U.S. and Western Europe

Answer 24

Unions were outlawed, Revolutionary movements compete for power

Question 25

What was Bloody Sunday

Answer 25

200,000 workers and their families protested at the Czar’s winter palace in St. Petersburg

Question 26

What was the result of Bloody Sunday

Answer 26

Soldiers fired into the crowd killing and wounding several hundred, More protests spread across Russia

Question 27

What group overthrew the provision government in Russia in Oct/Nov 1917

Answer 27

bolsheviks

Question 28

What author’s ideas was this group from #27 inspired by

Answer 28

Marxist revolutionaries

Question 29

Who was the leader of this group from #27

Answer 29

Vladimir lenin

Question 30

Who became the dictator of the Soviet Union in 1929

Answer 30

Joseph stalin

Question 31

.What and when was the Great Terror

Answer 31

Campaign of terror directed at eliminating anyone who threatened Stalin’s power, 1937

Question 32

What is a command economy

Answer 32

a system in which the government makes all economic decisions

Question 33

What were the Five Year Plans

Answer 33

Set impossibly high quotas for the steel, coal, oil, electrical industries, Government limited the production of consumer goods, People faced severe shortages of housing, food, clothing and other basic necessities

Question 34

.What was the result of the Five Year Plans on the lives of the people

Answer 34

If the goals were not met managers were killed, and famine

Question 35

What did Stalin do to the agricultural industry in the Soviet Union

Answer 35

Government seized over 25 million privately owned farms and combined them into collective farms

Question 36

Why was China unhappy with the Treaty of Versailles

Answer 36

Because they hoped to get their independence in the treaty from germany but it was just control again but by japan

Question 37

What was May the Fourth Movement in China

Answer 37

Anti-imperialist movement that wanted to restore China’s sovereignty

Question 38

Why was India upset with Great Britain after World War One

Answer 38

They did not get their independence

Question 39

Who led the nonviolent civil disobedience movement in India after World War One

Answer 39

Gandhi

Question 40

What two southwest Asian countries took control of their own countries after World War One

Answer 40

Turkey, persia

Question 41

The discovery of what natural resource in other southwest Asian countries led to a great deal of western interest in those areas

Answer 41

oil

Question 42

What were three reasons that the Weimar Republic wasn’t successful

Answer 42

No strong democratic tradition in Germany, Too many political parties and no unity, massive unemployment

Question 43

What was the financial crisis of the 1920s and 1930s called? What brought the U.S. into that crisis? What will finally end the financial crisis

Answer 43

Great depression, stock market crashed, world war two

Question 44

What is fascism

Answer 44

Militant political movement that emphasized loyalty to the state and obedience to its leader above everything else

Question 45

Who was the leader of the Fascist Party in Italy? How did he gain power? What did he call himself

Answer 45

Mussolini, march on rome, ll duce

Question 46

What was the fascist party in Germany called? Who became its leader?

Answer 46

Nazi party, adolf hitler

Question 47

What was the Beer Hall Putsch

Answer 47

Attempts to overthrow the local government in Munich, fails, is convicted of treason and jailed

Question 48

What goals and beliefs did Hitler write about in “Mein Kampf”

Answer 48

Asserted that Germans are the “master race” and that Jews are “parasites” that must be eliminated, Versailles Treaty an outrage and a betrayal of Germany, Vows to regain German lands, Gain Lebensraum by conquering Eastern Europe, Wants revenge against France

Question 49

What office was Hitler legally given in 1933

Answer 49

chancellor

Question 50

How did Hitler use the Reichstag fire to his advantage

Answer 50

Hitler blamed the fire on the Communists, Hitler declares emergency powers which suspended the German constitution, he is now the dictator

Question 51

What is anti-Semitism

Answer 51

You don't like the jews and you want to get rid of them

Question 52

.Give four examples of how the Nazis controlled all aspects of life in Germany

Answer 52

Press, radio, literature, painting and film become propaganda tools, Book burnings, Churches were forbidden from criticizing the Nazis, Hitler Youth and League of German Girls

Question 53

Who will gain control over the Japanese government during the 1920s

Answer 53

military

Question 54

How did the group from #53 believe their economic problems could be solved

Answer 54

foreign expansion

Question 55

What country did Japan invade in 1931? In 1937

Answer 55

Manchuria, china

Question 56

What African country was invaded in 1935 and by whom

Answer 56

Ethiopia, mussolini

Question 57

What was the first thing Hitler did that went against the Treaty of Versailles

Answer 57

Sent troops into the rhineland

Question 58

.List in order the 4 areas that Hitler took over starting in March 1936

Answer 58

Rhineland, austria, sudetenland, czechoslovakia

Question 59

What was the policy of appeasement and who used it

Answer 59

A policy to keep everybody happy and at peace, france great britain

Question 60

What was the alliance between Hitler and Mussolini called

Answer 60

What country was added later on? Rome-Berlin Axis, japan

Question 61

.Who were the two sides in the Spanish Civil War? Who won

Answer 61

Spanish fascists and the spanish government

Question 62

Who became the fascist dictator of Spain

Answer 62

Fransisco Franco

Question 63

What happened at the Munich Conference in 1938

Answer 63

Neville Chamberlain of Britain and Eduard Daladier of France agree to let Hitler have the Sudetenland as long as he promised to respect the new borders

Question 64

.What two countries signed a nonaggression pact in 1939? What was the agreement

Answer 64

Germany and russia, Agree not to fight each other and Agree to divide Poland, the Baltic countries and the Scandinavian countries between them