Chuang WH Spring End of Term
  • 1. All of the following were goods from China that the British wanted except
A) Opium
B) Tea
C) Silk
D) Porcelain
  • 2. Where was the opium grown that the British shipped into China?
A) Columbia
B) Korea
C) Japan
D) India
  • 3. What island became British property because of the Opium War?
A) Formosa
B) Japan
C) Hong Kong
D) Catalina
  • 4. What was the name of the secret organization whose popular name was "Boxer?"
A) the Society of United Fighters
B) the Society of Harmonious Fists
C) the Group of United Fighter
D) the group of Harmonious Hands
  • 5. The Boxers
A) wanted foreigners to leave China.
B) were invincible to bullets.
C) favored Chinese Christian converts.
D) engaged in a program that strengthened the Imperial government.
  • 6. The Open Door Policy was proposed by John Hay of
A) Great Britain
B) Russia
C) China
D) the United States
  • 7. Who commanded the American fleet that sailed into Edo Bay in the Summer of 1853?
A) Matthew Perry
B) Chandler Bing
C) Millard Fillmore
D) Theodore Roosevelt
  • 8. Japan began the war with Russia in 1904 by a sneak attack on
A) Pearl Harbor
B) Port Arthur
C) Tokyo
D) Moscow
  • 9. What award did President Theodore Roosevelt win for his role in ending the Russo-Japanese War?
A) Croix de Guerre
B) Academy Award
C) Nobel Peace Prize
D) Congressional Medal of Freedom
  • 10. Threatening to go to war in order to achieve one's goals is known as
A) Mobilization
B) Conscription
C) Utilization
D) Brinksmanship
  • 11. Mandatory military service, where everyone has to join the army is called
A) brinksmanship
B) mobilization
C) utilization
D) conscription
  • 12. The assembling and making troops and supplies ready for war is called
A) mobilization
B) brinksmanship
C) utilization
D) conscription
  • 13. Germany, Austrio-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire were known as the
A) Allied Powers
B) The Big Three
C) Central Powers
D) League of Nations
  • 14. Great Britain, France, and Russia were called
A) League of Nations
B) Central Powers
C) Allied Powers
D) The Big Three
  • 15. The assassination of what archduke precipitated the war?
A) Schlieffen
B) Bismarck
C) Franz Ferdinand
D) William II
  • 16. The United States entered World War I for all of the following reasons except
A) the sinking of American ships by German U-Boats
B) Germany's submarine blockade of Britain
C) Germany's efforts to make Mexico an ally against the US.
D) Germany's use of poison gas
  • 17. Allies are bound to
A) go to war to support each other
B) pay for the cheeseburgers
C) negotiate peace settlements
D) buy and sell goods amongst each other.
  • 18. All of the following were major part of the fighting World War I except
A) poison gas
B) machine gun
C) cavalry charge
D) trenches
  • 19. Britain declared war on Germany when
A) the Germans invaded neutral Belgium
B) Germany declared war on Russia
C) the Germany Army invaded France
D) Turkey and Bulgaria joined the Central Powers.
  • 20. The area between enemy lines is called
A) Ghetto
B) No Man's Land
C) DMZ
D) trenches
  • 21. Which of the following was NOT one of the Big Three powers during the writing of the Treaty of Versailles?
A) United States
B) Germany
C) France
D) Great Britain
  • 22. The nation the Treaty of Versailles blamed for starting the war was
A) Mexico
B) Serbia
C) Germany
D) Austria
  • 23. The main purpose of the League of Nations was
A) to aid postwar reconstruction
B) to support peace by solving conflict through negotiations
C) to enforce the Treaty of Versaillles
D) to plan for world disarmament
  • 24. The League failed to keep the peace because
A) Russia was a member
B) The US was not a member
C) Germany was not a member
D) Japan was not a member
  • 25. The leader of the Russian Provisional Government was
A) Lenin
B) Josef Stalin
C) Boris Badenov
D) Alexander Kerensky
  • 26. The name of the Russian Communists was
A) White Russians
B) Stolichnaya
C) Bolsheviks
D) Menshaviks
  • 27. Which Russian leader promised "Peace, Land and Bread"?
A) Alexander Kerensky
B) Alexander II
C) V. Lenin
D) Karl Marx
  • 28. The political philosopher who created modern communism was
A) Che Guevera
B) V. Lenin
C) Karl Marx
D) John Maynerd Keynes
  • 29. The "haves" are the
A) Bourgeois
B) Labor
C) Pupil
D) Proletariet
  • 30. Under the communist system, who controlled industry in Russia?
A) president of Russia
B) Duma
C) government
D) workers
  • 31. What country controlled Colonial India?
A) Great Britain
B) France
C) Holland
D) United States
  • 32. The main leader of Indian independence movement was
A) Muhammed Jinnah
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Apu Nahimapasphet
D) Mohandas Gandhi
  • 33. Which of the following was NOT one of Gandhi's principles?
A) Live simply, never seeking material rewards
B) Battle injustice in all forms, using force if necessary.
C) Be tolerant of all religious beliefs.
D) Spend life in the service of others.
  • 34. How would Gandhi complete this sentence? "For that cause (Indian civil rights) I am willing to die, however there is no cause for which I am willing to _____"
A) starve
B) kill
C) fight
D) tuck my shirt in
  • 35. Who was the Russian Czar during the Russian Revolution?
A) Ivan the Terrible
B) Alexander II
C) Nicholas II
D) Peter the First
  • 36. Leader in the Chinese Communist Revolution?
A) Tojo
B) V. Lenin
C) Mao Zedong
D) Old Major
  • 37. Which leader founded the Republic of China?
A) Benito Mussolini
B) Sun Yat-Sen
C) Mao Zedong
D) Chiang Kai-Shek
  • 38. Who was the leader of the Italian Fascist Party?
A) Alberto Tomba
B) Victor Emmanuel
C) Benito Mussolini
D) Al Capone
  • 39. What book did Hitler write?
A) Mein Kampf
B) Mein Hausen
C) Naziraum
D) Fast Food Nation
  • 40. France and Britain _________ against the aggressive moves of Hitler and Mussolini in Munich.
A) complained to the League of Nations.
B) fought
C) took strong action
D) took no effective action
  • 41. Hitler violated the Versailles Treaty when he sent troops into
A) Czechoslovakia
B) Austria
C) the Rhineland
D) Denmark
  • 42. Britain and France declared war on Germany after Hitler took over
A) Poland
B) Czechoslovakia
C) El Monte
D) Austria
  • 43. What two countries pledged not to attack each other in 1939, a pledge that shocked the world?
A) Japan and Mexico
B) Britain and Germany
C) Germany and Japan
D) Germany and the Soviet Union
  • 44. In June 1940, who surrendered to Germany?
A) France
B) Italy
C) Britain
D) the Soviet Union
  • 45. The Battle of Britain was fought primarily
A) in the air
B) on the ground
C) on the sea
D) underwater
  • 46. What helped the Soviet Army fight the Germany?
A) the US Air Force
B) harsh winter weather
C) a system of trenches
  • 47. The immediate cause for the US to enter World War II was
A) Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor
B) Japan's invasion of the Philippines
C) Russia's attack on China
D) Germany's attack on Poland
  • 48. World War II began in 1939 and ended in
A) 1942
B) 1948
C) 1944
D) 2013
E) 1945
  • 49. The Holocaust is the name given to
A) the death of prisoners of war in Japanese Death Marches
B) Hitler's Blitzkrieg
C) the fire bombing of Europe's cities
D) Nazi destruction of Jews
  • 50. On December 7, 1941 Japan attacked the American fleet at
A) the Philippines
B) San Diego
C) Pearl Harbor
D) the Coral Sea
  • 51. What did the Nazis use to kill for "the Final Solution"?
A) machine guns
B) Zyclon B Gas
C) Raid
D) cyanide
  • 52. Where did the US drop the first atomic bomb in 1945?
A) Nagasaki
B) Rome
C) Berlin
D) Hiroshima
  • 53. Which of the following does NOT describe Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy and Stalin's Russia?
A) Political opponents were killed in each state.
B) They had communist governments
C) All three nations wanted to expand their borders.
D) They were all totalitarian governments
  • 54. The largest of the German Concentration Camps was
A) Ghetto
B) Bataan
C) Aushwitz
D) Dachau
  • 55. The two superpowers in the world after 1945 were
A) The Soviet Union and China
B) France and the United States
C) The United States and Great Britain
D) The United States and the Soviet Union
  • 56. Which of these was a subject on which the leaders of the Allied nations disagreed?
A) to hold a meeting at Yalta in 1945
B) the creation of a United Nations
C) the kinds of government in Eastern Europe
  • 57. The General Assembly of the United Nations:
A) has only 15 members
B) is made up of mostly European members
C) is made up of every country in the UN
D) controls the world
  • 58. The Marshall Plan did not:
A) try to prevent the spread of communism
B) provide money to build up the economies of Western Europe
C) supply military aid to Greece and Turkey.
  • 59. A plan for massive economic aid after World War II was called
A) Social Security
B) The Marshall Plan
C) the doomsday machine
D) the Truman Show
  • 60. Who set up a Soviet sponsored Communist country in Cuba?
A) Juan Peron
B) Fulgencio Bautista
C) Imre Nagy
D) Fidel Castro
  • 61. What organization was formed to militarily defend Western Europe from Communism?
A) League of Nations
B) G.I. Joe
C) NATO
D) Missile Command
  • 62. The discovery of ________ in Cuba brought the world close to Nuclear War.
A) russian spies
B) tanks
C) missiles
D) oil
  • 63. The American policy of trying to prevent the spread of communism by military and economic aid was called
A) containment
B) militarism
C) brinksmanship
D) isolationism
  • 64. The _______ symbolized the division between the Comnmunist East and the Democratic West.
A) Rio Grande
B) Berlin Wall
C) Border Fence
D) Brandenburg Gate
  • 65. The struggle between the US and the Soviet Union was called the __________ because there was no formal war.
A) World War III
B) Phony War
C) Blank Struggle
D) Cold War
  • 66. Fighting between the US and the Soviet Union was limited to using smaller countries called
A) straw men
B) tin men
C) shadow cabinets
D) proxies
  • 67. The idea that neither side will attack because both have weapons is called
A) utilization
B) chicken
C) brinksmanship
D) deterrance
  • 68. The arms race between the US and the Soviet Union was justified on the basis of Mutual Assured Destruction which means
A) You attack me, you die
B) If attacked, everyone dies
C) Destroy all weapons
D) No one is strong enough to attack
  • 69. After years of spending money on arms and weapons
A) The Soviet Union was near bankruptcy
B) The US was winning
C) The United States couldn't build any more.
D) The Soviet Union was winning
  • 70. Who was the American president who challenged Russia to "tear down this wall!"
A) Franklin D. Roosevelt
B) Ronald Reagan
C) John F. Kennedy
D) Bill Clinton
  • 71. The Russian leader who promoted glasnost and perestroika was
A) Joe Stalin
B) Ronald Reagan
C) Mikhail Gorbachev
D) Boris Yeltsin
  • 72. The mayor of Moscow who confronted hard-liners in 1991 and ended communism was
A) Boris Yeltsin
B) Josef Stalin
C) V. Lenin
D) Yuri Andropov
  • 73. Palestine was the ancestral home of the
A) Jews
B) Serbians
C) Arabs
D) Chinese
  • 74. The ancestor of the Jews was which of Abraham's sons?
A) Moishe
B) Abraham Jr.
C) Isaac
D) Ismael
  • 75. Under the partition plan of Palestine, which country belonged to the Arabs?
A) Belize
B) Jerusalem
C) Jordan
D) Israel
  • 76. What city in Palestine is holy to both sides?
A) Jerusalem
B) Huntington Park
C) Tel Aviv
D) Istanbul
  • 77. What Arab organization turned to terrorism to fight for Arab rights?
A) Al Qaida
B) PLO
C) Black Hand
D) UN
  • 78. The world experienced terrorism first hand when the PLO attacked Israelis at the
A) World Chess Championship
B) Summer Olympic games
C) Super Bowl
D) World Cup
  • 79. Which Arab country was the first to make peace with Israel?
A) Jordan
B) Egypt
C) Morocco
D) Syria
  • 80. Which US President brought Arab and Israeli leaders together in 1976?
A) Ronald Reagan
B) Theodore Roosevelt
C) Jimmy Carter
D) Barack Obama
  • 81. Who was the first President of the Palestinian state?
A) Mahmoud Abbas
B) Yasser Arafat
C) Barack Obama
D) Mr. Zaidi
  • 82. In 2007, the Palestinians divided into tow parts. Which party took control of Gaza?
A) Hamas
B) Fatah
C) Tea Party
D) Zionists
  • 83. In 2007, which party took control of the West Bank?
A) Republicans
B) Hamas
C) Baath
D) Fatah
  • 84. Who wrote the book "Civil Disobedience" which inspired Gandhi?
A) Ralph Waldo Emerson
B) Martin Luther King Jr.
C) Henry David Thoreau
D) Cesar Chavez
  • 85. Gandhi believed in a "moral force" he called
A) Civil Disobedience
B) Passive Resistance
C) Satyahgraha
D) Karma
  • 86. In India, civil disobedience involved all of the following except
A) boycotts
B) Sit-ins
C) Strikes
D) terrorism
  • 87. In India and Pakistan, feelings of nationalism arer intertwined with religious conflict between
A) Taoist and Buddhists
B) Christians and Muslims
C) Buddhists and Hindus
D) Muslims and Hindus
  • 88. The Arab Oil Embargo against the United States in 1973 was initiated because of US support for
A) Israel in the Yom Kippur War
B) Egypt in the Suez Crisis
C) Iraq in its conflict with Iran
D) Greece in its conflict with Turkey
  • 89. The Soviet Union dealt with uprisings in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia during the 1950s and 1960s by
A) taking over direct rule of these countries.
B) permitting greater democratic reforms in governments
C) crushing the uprisings with military force.
D) privatizing industrial enterprises.
  • 90. What resource makes the Middle East important to the rest of the world?
A) Diamonds
B) Petroleum
C) Dates
D) Saffron
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