Chapter 11 Multiple Choice Self-Quiz

. Huda Sha'rawi resigned her position in Egypt's Wafd (Delegation) Party when:

the British launched a crackdown on Egyptian independence movements.

the new Egyptian constitution did not grant women suffrage.

the Germans occupied Egypt during the Second World War.

Coptic Christians were denied citizen rights in the new Egypt.

. In an effort to gain benefits promised them, Ghanaian veterans of the Second World War approached the colonial Governor's offices in the city of ________.

Dakar

Monrovia

Lagos

Accra

.

The League of Nations determined that __________ would facilitate a national home for the Jewish people "in Palestine while simultaneously protecting the rights of the territory's Arab population."

Great Britain

The United States

Israel

Turkey

. In establishing the Republic of Turkey, Kemal Ataturk introduced all of the following measures EXCEPT:

establishing a secularized educational system, ending classroom instruction in Arabic.

installing himself as the Caliph for the territory covered by the new state.

requiring government officials to wear Western suits rather than Islamic religious robes.

creating a new alphabet, based on Latin letters, for the Turkish language.

. During the Amritsar Massacre, soldiers opened fire on a crowd that was protesting:

the rise of fascism in Italy.

the Soviet invasion of Poland.

the German annexation of Austria.

British colonialism in India.

. In his opposition to British rule in India, Mohandas K. Gandhi insisted on:

non-violence

separation of Muslims and Hindus

the importance of industrialization

Marxist orthodoxy

. After a massacre of most of the members of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai in the spring of 1927, the surviving members coalesced around _____________, who articulated a revision of communist revolutionary doctrine.

Mao Zedong

Chiang Kai-shek

Chou En-lai

Deng Xiaoping

. Stalin's policies contributed to the deaths by starvation of five to eight million people in Russia and __________ in 1932-1933.

Finland

Poland

Ukraine

Czechoslovakia

. By the end of the First World War, the United States was:

the world's largest national economy.

the world's largest debtor nation.

the first member state of the League of Nations.

the only western hemisphere state that had not approved women's suffrage.

. One hidden weakness of the global economy in the 1920s was a shortage of credit.

TRUE

FALSE

. Unemployment in Germany rose to about _________ of the labor force in the early 1930s.

10 percent

30 percent

50 percent

70 percent

. Between 1929 and 1933, many countries:

returned to the gold standard for their currencies.

abandoned the gold standard for their currencies.

established universal currency convertability.

banned the use of copper coins.

. Many of the measures implemented at part of the New Deal in the United States were based on the idea that:

financial markets are self-correcting.

fascism was the wave of the future.

modern states can positively influence economic relationships.

only wage controls are effective against inflation.

. In a number of Latin American states, the collapse of the global economy was followed by:

military coups.

appeals for a return to Spanish colonialism.

communist revolutions.

the abolution of slavery.

. Adolf Hitler published a manifesto entitled Mein Kampf (My Struggle) shortly after his release from prison for:

praising Kaier Wilhelm.

defying Weimar restrictions on free speech.

murdering the military commander Ernst Röhm.

leading a failed coup attempt in Munich.

. Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie appealed to the League of Nations in 1935 when his country was invaded by __________.

Germany

Italy

Turkey

Egypt

. In the Spanish Civil War, the raid against Guernica is notable for:

the use of aerial bombing on a civilian population.

its influcence on the outcome of the Russian Revolution.

the first successful deployment of battlefield transmission by radio.

the successful field surgery techniques of the Red Cross.

. Which of the following countries maintained an alliance during World War II?

Germany, China, U.S.

England, Japan, Germany

USSR, US, England

At one point during the war, all of these alliances existed.

. The Final Solution refers to:

the clandestine US atomic bomb project.

Mussolini's blueprint for fascist rule in Italy.

the League of Nations decolonization plan.

the Nazi regime's systematic attempt at genocide of Europe's Jewish population.

. During World War II, the Burmese leader Aung San:

lived in exile in Moscow.

fought against both the British and the Japanese at different times.

joined the US Navy.

joined Gandhi is promoting non-violence.

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