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Chuang WH Spring End of Term
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  • 1. All of the following were goods from China that the British wanted except
A) Opium
B) Silk
C) Porcelain
D) Tea
  • 2. Where was the opium grown that the British shipped into China?
A) India
B) Korea
C) Columbia
D) Japan
  • 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 Society of United Fighters
B) the Society of Harmonious Fists
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) 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) China
B) Great Britain
C) the United States
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) 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) Croix de Guerre
B) Nobel Peace Prize
C) Congressional Medal of Freedom
D) Academy Award
  • 10. Threatening to go to war in order to achieve one's goals is known as
A) Mobilization
B) Conscription
C) Brinksmanship
D) Utilization
  • 11. Mandatory military service, where everyone has to join the army is called
A) utilization
B) conscription
C) mobilization
D) brinksmanship
  • 12. The assembling and making troops and supplies ready for war is called
A) conscription
B) utilization
C) brinksmanship
D) mobilization
  • 13. Germany, Austrio-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire were known as the
A) Allied Powers
B) League of Nations
C) Central Powers
D) The Big Three
  • 14. Great Britain, France, and Russia were called
A) Allied Powers
B) The Big Three
C) Central Powers
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) Germany's use of poison gas
B) Germany's submarine blockade of Britain
C) Germany's efforts to make Mexico an ally against the US.
D) the sinking of American ships by German U-Boats
  • 17. Allies are bound to
A) negotiate peace settlements
B) buy and sell goods amongst each other.
C) go to war to support each other
D) pay for the cheeseburgers
  • 18. All of the following were major part of the fighting World War I except
A) trenches
B) cavalry charge
C) poison gas
D) machine gun
  • 19. Britain declared war on Germany when
A) Germany declared war on Russia
B) the Germany Army invaded France
C) the Germans invaded neutral Belgium
D) Turkey and Bulgaria joined the Central Powers.
  • 20. The area between enemy lines is called
A) DMZ
B) trenches
C) No Man's Land
D) Ghetto
  • 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) 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 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) Japan was not a member
B) Russia was a member
C) Germany was not a member
D) The US was not a member
  • 25. The leader of the Russian Provisional Government was
A) Alexander Kerensky
B) Lenin
C) Josef Stalin
D) Boris Badenov
  • 26. The name of the Russian Communists was
A) Bolsheviks
B) Stolichnaya
C) White Russians
D) Menshaviks
  • 27. Which Russian leader promised "Peace, Land and Bread"?
A) Karl Marx
B) V. Lenin
C) Alexander Kerensky
D) Alexander II
  • 28. The political philosopher who created modern communism was
A) John Maynerd Keynes
B) Karl Marx
C) V. Lenin
D) Che Guevera
  • 29. The "haves" are the
A) Pupil
B) Proletariet
C) Labor
D) Bourgeois
  • 30. Under the communist system, who controlled industry in Russia?
A) workers
B) government
C) president of Russia
D) Duma
  • 31. What country controlled Colonial India?
A) Great Britain
B) Holland
C) United States
D) France
  • 32. The main leader of Indian independence movement was
A) Apu Nahimapasphet
B) Muhammed Jinnah
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Mohandas Gandhi
  • 33. Which of the following was NOT one of Gandhi's principles?
A) Live simply, never seeking material rewards
B) Spend life in the service of others.
C) Battle injustice in all forms, using force if necessary.
D) Be tolerant of all religious beliefs.
  • 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) Ivan the Terrible
B) Peter the First
C) Alexander II
D) Nicholas II
  • 36. Leader in the Chinese Communist Revolution?
A) V. Lenin
B) Old Major
C) Tojo
D) Mao Zedong
  • 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) Benito Mussolini
B) Victor Emmanuel
C) Al Capone
D) Alberto Tomba
  • 39. What book did Hitler write?
A) Mein Hausen
B) Mein Kampf
C) Naziraum
D) Fast Food Nation
  • 40. France and Britain _________ against the aggressive moves of Hitler and Mussolini in Munich.
A) took no effective action
B) complained to the League of Nations.
C) took strong action
D) fought
  • 41. Hitler violated the Versailles Treaty when he sent troops into
A) Austria
B) Denmark
C) the Rhineland
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) Japan and Mexico
B) Britain and Germany
C) Germany and the Soviet Union
D) Germany and Japan
  • 44. In June 1940, who surrendered to Germany?
A) Italy
B) the Soviet Union
C) France
D) Britain
  • 45. The Battle of Britain was fought primarily
A) on the ground
B) on the sea
C) in the air
D) underwater
  • 46. What helped the Soviet Army fight the Germany?
A) harsh winter weather
B) a system of trenches
C) the US Air Force
  • 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) 1944
C) 2013
D) 1945
E) 1942
  • 49. The Holocaust is the name given to
A) Hitler's Blitzkrieg
B) Nazi destruction of Jews
C) the fire bombing of Europe's cities
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) Pearl Harbor
D) the Coral Sea
  • 51. What did the Nazis use to kill for "the Final Solution"?
A) machine guns
B) cyanide
C) Zyclon B Gas
D) Raid
  • 52. Where did the US drop the first atomic bomb in 1945?
A) Nagasaki
B) Hiroshima
C) Rome
D) Berlin
  • 53. Which of the following does NOT describe Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy and Stalin's Russia?
A) All three nations wanted to expand their borders.
B) They had communist governments
C) Political opponents were killed in each state.
D) They were all totalitarian governments
  • 54. The largest of the German Concentration Camps was
A) Ghetto
B) Dachau
C) Bataan
D) Aushwitz
  • 55. The two superpowers in the world after 1945 were
A) The Soviet Union and China
B) The United States and the Soviet Union
C) The United States and Great Britain
D) France and the United States
  • 56. Which of these was a subject on which the leaders of the Allied nations disagreed?
A) the creation of a United Nations
B) the kinds of government in Eastern Europe
C) to hold a meeting at Yalta in 1945
  • 57. The General Assembly of the United Nations:
A) has only 15 members
B) controls the world
C) is made up of every country in the UN
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) the doomsday machine
B) The Marshall Plan
C) Social Security
D) the Truman Show
  • 60. Who set up a Soviet sponsored Communist country in Cuba?
A) Juan Peron
B) Fidel Castro
C) Imre Nagy
D) Fulgencio Bautista
  • 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) tanks
B) missiles
C) russian spies
D) oil
  • 63. The American policy of trying to prevent the spread of communism by military and economic aid was called
A) containment
B) brinksmanship
C) militarism
D) isolationism
  • 64. The _______ symbolized the division between the Comnmunist East and the Democratic West.
A) Rio Grande
B) Border Fence
C) Brandenburg Gate
D) Berlin Wall
  • 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) Cold War
D) Blank Struggle
  • 66. Fighting between the US and the Soviet Union was limited to using smaller countries called
A) proxies
B) shadow cabinets
C) tin men
D) straw men
  • 67. The idea that neither side will attack because both have weapons is called
A) chicken
B) deterrance
C) brinksmanship
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) No one is strong enough to attack
B) If attacked, everyone dies
C) Destroy all weapons
D) You attack me, you die
  • 69. After years of spending money on arms and weapons
A) The Soviet Union was winning
B) The United States couldn't build any more.
C) The US was winning
D) The Soviet Union was near bankruptcy
  • 70. Who was the American president who challenged Russia to "tear down this wall!"
A) Ronald Reagan
B) Bill Clinton
C) Franklin D. Roosevelt
D) John F. Kennedy
  • 71. The Russian leader who promoted glasnost and perestroika was
A) Mikhail Gorbachev
B) Boris Yeltsin
C) Ronald Reagan
D) Joe Stalin
  • 72. The mayor of Moscow who confronted hard-liners in 1991 and ended communism was
A) Yuri Andropov
B) Boris Yeltsin
C) V. Lenin
D) Josef Stalin
  • 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) Ismael
B) Isaac
C) Moishe
D) Abraham Jr.
  • 75. Under the partition plan of Palestine, which country belonged to the Arabs?
A) Jordan
B) Israel
C) Belize
D) Jerusalem
  • 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) Black Hand
B) UN
C) Al Qaida
D) PLO
  • 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) Morocco
B) Egypt
C) Jordan
D) Syria
  • 80. Which US President brought Arab and Israeli leaders together in 1976?
A) Barack Obama
B) Jimmy Carter
C) Theodore Roosevelt
D) Ronald Reagan
  • 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) Fatah
B) Tea Party
C) Zionists
D) Hamas
  • 83. In 2007, which party took control of the West Bank?
A) Fatah
B) Republicans
C) Hamas
D) Baath
  • 84. Who wrote the book "Civil Disobedience" which inspired Gandhi?
A) Henry David Thoreau
B) Cesar Chavez
C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
D) Martin Luther King Jr.
  • 85. Gandhi believed in a "moral force" he called
A) Satyahgraha
B) Civil Disobedience
C) Passive Resistance
D) Karma
  • 86. In India, civil disobedience involved all of the following except
A) boycotts
B) terrorism
C) Sit-ins
D) Strikes
  • 87. In India and Pakistan, feelings of nationalism arer intertwined with religious conflict between
A) Buddhists and Hindus
B) Taoist and Buddhists
C) Christians and Muslims
D) Muslims and Hindus
  • 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) Iraq in its conflict with Iran
D) Israel in the Yom Kippur War
  • 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) taking over direct rule of these countries.
D) permitting greater democratic reforms in governments
  • 90. What resource makes the Middle East important to the rest of the world?
A) Diamonds
B) Saffron
C) Dates
D) Petroleum
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