World Wars Quiz Questions

Question 1

What international meeting in 1814–1815 redrew the map of Europe and ushered in a period of relative peace?

Answer 1

The Congress of Vienna.

Question 2

When was the Congress of Vienna?

Answer 2

1814-1815.

Question 3

What was the Congress of Vienna?

Answer 3

• Concluded the Treaty of Paris.
• Austria, Russia, Britain and France agreed the resettlement and remapping of Europe after the Napoleonic Wars.
• The restoration and strengthening of hereditary rulers.
• Limited France’s borders and reestablished their monarchy.
• Created the Concert of Europe to prevent the emergence of a superpower state.
• Ushered in a period of relative peace.

Question 4

What set of ideas in the years before World War One promoted a belief in the superiority of some nations over others that justified European and Japanese imperialism?

Answer 4

Fascism.

Question 5

What was Social Darwinism?

Answer 5

• Based on a misconstrued interpretation of Darwin’s theory of natural selection.
• Formed a basis for racist views about racial superiority.
• Used to justify war and imperialism as means of state survival.

Question 6

What was the Munich Syndrome?

Answer 6

• British appeasements of German demands on Czechoslovakia.

- They agreed that CS should concede the Sudetenland because of apparent ethnic abuse of native Germans.

Question 7

What happened on the day that will live in infamy?

Answer 7

• The attack on Pearl Harbour (1941).
• Increasingly worried about Japanese imperialism and aggression, USA began to aid China and embargoed the export of scrap metal and steel to Japan.
• After negotiations between them failed, Japan waged war on USA.

Question 8

Who coined the term “Iron Curtain”?

Answer 8

Winston Churchill.

Question 9

What is the Iron Curtain referring to?

Answer 9

The division between Eastern and Western Europe after the defeat of Germany in WW2.