World History: Early To Mid 20th Century Quiz
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- 1.What happened to Czar Nicholas II and his family in the Ural Mountains?
- A.
They were honored by the Church.
- B.
They went hiking.
- C.
They were killed.
- D.
They moved to France.
- 2.Bombers under the command of ____________ bombed Tokyo for revenge and demonstrated Japan’s vulnerability to air attack.
- A.
The Luftwaffe
- B.
Winston Churchill
- C.
Colonel James H. Doolittle
- D.
Erwin Rommel
- 3.What did the US do after the attack on Pearl Harbor?
- A.
Declared war
- B.
Tried to make friends with Japan
- C.
Gave that land to Japan
- D.
Cried about it to the United Nations
- 4.Which country did NOT belong to the Triple Alliance?
- A.
Germany
- B.
Austria-Hungary
- C.
Italy
- D.
Russia
- 5.What was NOT a cause of the Great War?
- A.
Nationalism
- B.
Imperialism
- C.
Zionism
- D.
Militarism
- 6.What is laissez-faire economics?
- A.
A committee sets working standards without interference from industry owners
- B.
Owners set working conditions without government interference; free markets; “let them do as they choose”
- C.
Working conditions based on government standards
- D.
Government workers set working conditions based on votes on relevant to their industry
- 7.This term was used in Latin America to describe people of mixed European and Indian ancestry.
- A.
Mestizos
- B.
Mulattos
- C.
Peninsulares
- D.
Creoles
- 8.Who was the mastermind of the "island-hopping" strategy?
- A.
Admiral Yamamoto
- B.
Douglas MacArthur
- C.
Adolph Hitler
- D.
Winston Churchill
- 9.What was the purpose of the Monroe Doctrine?
- A.
To annex Texas to the United States
- B.
To establish the right of the United States to control the spice trade
- C.
To open trade in China to all nations
- D.
To discourage European nations from establishing colonies in Latin America
- 10.Which European countries could receive aid through the Marshall Plan?
- A.
Latin American countries
- B.
Any European country that needed it
- C.
African countries
- D.
Cities in the USA with high crime rates
- 11.What is genocide?
- A.
A new form of poison gas
- B.
The systematic killing of an entire people
- C.
Gene splicing to create a master race
- D.
Old people controlling geographic movement
- 12.Soviets were made up of the ______________.
- A.
Lower class
- B.
Upper class
- C.
Middle class
- D.
Foreigners
- 13.What idea was the major U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War era?
- A.
Nonaligned nations
- B.
Khmer Rouge
- C.
Vietnamization
- D.
Stopping the spread of communism
- 14.What was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine?
- A.
To judge political parties that favored communism
- B.
To create a Communist party in the United States
- C.
To raise funds for Communist activities in Europe
- D.
To give money to support countries that rejected communism
- 15.What caused Italians to start taking Mussolini and his message seriously?
- A.
The example of Hitlers's success in Italy
- B.
Instability and Communist political movements
- C.
His skill at making speeches
- D.
The threat of invasion by the Soviet Union
- 16.What was the long economic downturn in the 1930s called that was marked by bank failures, loss of businesses, and high unemployment?
- A.
The Great Depression
- B.
Inflation
- C.
The Great Recession
- D.
Coalition Government
- 17.These people were descendants of the original Dutch settlers of South Africa.
- A.
Boers (a.k.a. Afrikaners)
- B.
Zulu
- C.
Belgium
- D.
British
- 18.What was significant about the Battle of Midway?
- A.
It destroyed the whole of the Japanese navy.
- B.
It marked the end of the war for the Japanese.
- C.
It turned the war in the Pacific against the Japanese.
- D.
All of the above
- 19.What was the biggest advantage that the British had in the Battle of Britain?
- A.
Radar
- B.
British tanks
- C.
Superior numbers of aircraft.
- D.
Midway
- 20.Communism is
- A.
Good.
- B.
Bad
- 21.This was the name of a group of countries who were friends with the U.S.S.R.
- A.
NATO
- B.
Capitalists
- C.
Warsaw Pact
- 22.Which country did NOT belong to the Triple Entente?
- A.
France
- B.
Germany
- C.
Great Britain
- D.
Russia
- 23.This is the name of the policy that aimed to prevent the spread of communism by blocking Soviet influence.
- A.
Enlightenment
- B.
Nationalism
- C.
Containment
- D.
Liberalism
- 24.This names a dispute between the Soviet Union and the United States that resulted from the shooting down of a spy plane.
- A.
U-2 incident
- B.
Apollo XI
- C.
Containment
- D.
Sputnik I
- 25.Who described the superiority of the free-market system of capitalism in the book, The Wealth of Nations?
- A.
Adam Smith
- B.
John Stuart Mill
- C.
Jeremy Bentham
- D.
William Wilberforce
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