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