Question 1
Short Answer: Describe the environment of the peace negotiations at Versailles, according to the video Between the Wars, Episode 1: “Versailles: the Lost Peace”. In the end, was the Versailles Treaty drafted in an environment of secret talks or open negotiations?
Question 2
Which ethnic group was targeted for persecution in the Ottoman Empire during World War I?
Select one:
a. Jews
b. Armenians
c. Muslims
d. Slavs
e. Kurds
Question 3
The Balfour Declaration promised Palestine to what group?
Select one:
a. Arabs
b. Anatolian Greeks
c. Turks
d. Jews
Question 4
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Select one:
a. officially destroyed the Ottoman Empire.
b. officially ended World War I.
c. gave Russian territories to Germany.
d. gave Bosnia and Herzegovina to Serbia.
e. divided the Central Powers.
Question 5
“Peace, land, and bread” was the slogan adopted by
Select one:
a. Nicholas II.
b. Rasputin.
c. Alexandra.
d. Lenin.
e. Stalin.
Question 6
For Germany’s Schlieffen Plan to work, what country had to be defeated first?
Select one:
a. Russia
b. Britain
c. Austria-Hungary
d. France
Question 7
Stalin’s first Five-Year Plan, implemented in 1928, forcibly collectivized
Select one:
a. industry.
b. education.
c. agriculture.
d. the military.
Question 8
Under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal, post-World War I Turkey differed from many Middle Eastern nations because of its devotion to
Select one:
a. Shi’ite Islam.
b. Sunni Islam.
c. Wahhabism.
d. secularism.
e. Christianity.
Question 9
The Lusitania was an American passenger ship in the North Atlantic sunk by a German submarine in 1915, which was the cause for the United States to declare war on Germany.
Select one:
True
False
Question 10
Short Answer: What was the “Final Solution”? Who were its targets? What steps were taken toward achieving it and when? (Be sure to answer all three parts of the question.)
Question 11
At the Munich Conference in 1938,
Select one:
a. the British and the French representatives handed Adolf Hitler the Sudetenland.
b. the British prime minister refused to agree to the demands of Adolf Hitler.
c. Winston Churchill gave his support to the policy of appeasement.
d. the policy of appeasement successfully put a stop to German expansion in Europe.
Question 12
Which of the following groups was NOT targeted by Nazi extermination policies?
Select one:
a. Catholic clergy
b. homosexuals
c. gypsies
d. Jews
e. college-educated Poles
f. All of these were targeted.
Question 13
Short Answer: Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
Question 14
Blitzkrieg was
Select one:
a. a steady, methodical armed attack that was aimed at achieving an eventual weakening of an enemy and, finally, surrender.
b. a coordinated sudden attack by land and air forces.
c. a series of naval attacks that were aimed at blockading enemy ports.
d. never able to achieve it’s specific military objectives.
Question 15
Which two Japanese cities were destroyed by nuclear weapons?
Select one:
a. Tokyo and Hiroshima
b. Tokyo and Nagasaki
c. Hiroshima and Edo
d. Nagasaki and Edo
e. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Question 16
At the Munich Conference in 1938,
Select one:
a. the British and the French representatives handed Adolf Hitler the Sudetenland.
b. Winston Churchill gave his support to the policy of appeasement.
c. the British prime minister refused to agree to the demands of Adolf Hitler.
d. the policy of appeasement successfully put a stop to German expansion in Europe.
Question 17
The Rape of Nanjing caused global condemnation against
Select one:
a. China.
b. Japan.
c. Germany.
d. MacArthur.
e. Nimitz.
Question 18
On the eve of WWII, which European country was plagued by civil war?
Select one:
a. France
b. Austria
c. Italy
d. Denmark
e. Spain
Question 19
Short Answer: Describe the Nazi euthanasia program. (Who were its targets? What methods were used? How did the German public respond to the program? What did the German government do with the program in response to public reaction?)
Question 20
Short Answer: How did the Manchurian Incident of 1931 impact Japanese government and foreign policy?
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