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