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