Chapter 02 Check My Learning Quiz

The Peaof Westphalia wsigned in

1561.

1648.

1789.

1815.

This country wNOT invaded and occupied Napoleon:

Austri

Spain.

Prussia.

United Kingdom.

Whiof the following countries wNOT a grepower during the Concert of Europe?

Spain

Prussia

Austria

Russia

A major conferenabout control of colonipossessions wheld in 1884 in this country:

Germany.

United Kingdom.

United States.

France.

This wNOT one of the Allied Powers in the GreWar:

GreBritain.

France.

Russia.

Spain.

Fascism first took hold in this country:

Germany.

Spain.

Hungary.

Italy.

Germmilitarism wfirst evident in late 1938 when Germany occupied

Poland and Denmark.

Czechoslovakia and Austria.

Belgium and France.

Romania and Bulgaria.

The Second World Wbegwith the Germinvasion of this country:

Denmark.

Belgium.

China.

Poland.

This country wNOT one of the Allied powers during the Second World War:

United States.

Canada.

GreBritain.

Hungary.

In the 1930s, Japinvaded and occupied parts of this country/colony:

India.

Burma.

China.

United States.

The United Nations wfounded in:

1884.

1919.

1945.

1989.

Who wthe Americpresident during the early stages of the Cold War?

Franklin Roosevelt.

Harry Truman.

Dwight Eisenhower.

John F. Kennedy.

Whiof the following countries wa NATO member in 1950?

United States.

Poland.

Spain.

Romania.

These two countries supported North Korea during the KoreWar:

United States and Japan.

United States and Britain.

Soviet Union and Cuba.

Soviet Union and China.

This country colonized Vietnam:

Netherlands.

Britain.

France.

United States.

Chinese modernization, accompanied opening up to traand better relations with the West, begin

1949.

1966.

1976.

1989.

Whiyeis MOST closely associated with end of the Cold War?

1962.

1979.

1985.

1989.

In 1990 Irinvaded

Iran.

Jordan.

Kuwait.

Yemen.

The globwon terrorism" begin"

1949.

1962.

1989.

2001.

Of the following groups, whioverall lost power and influenbecause of the Treaty of Westphali

Diplomats.

Protestants.

Europe's kings and princes.

The RomCatholic Church.

Whwthe cause of the CrimeWar?

The United Kingdom's desire to pla dominant role in Europeaffairs.

Russia's attempt to dominate the OttomEmpire.

Prussia's desire to unify all the Germstates into a single Germany.

France's push to gain colonies in Africa.

The 1848 revolutions

Led to the end of monarchicrule in Europe.

Winspired liberprinciples.

Brought a republicgovernment to power in the United Kingdom.

Ended peacefully throughout Europe.

Whiof the following countries wthe biggest loser in the Treaty of Versailles?

Germany.

Belgium.

Italy.

France.

Whiof the following countries wMOST concerned about a Germresurgenafter the GreWar?

Italy.

Spain.

France.

United States.

In 1939, Germany shocked Britain and other western states when it signed a treaty with this country:

Japan.

Soviet Union.

Turkey.

Poland.

Hitler maa big mistake when he invaded this country:

Soviet Union.

Denmark.

Yugoslavia.

France.

Hitler hthe MOST hatred for:

Jews.

The French.

The British.

Greeks and other Southern Europeans.

The leaders of these three countries coordinated their efforts during the Second World War:

United States, Soviet Union, GreBritain.

GreBritain, France, Italy.

United States, CanadJapan.

Soviet Union, Italy, Japan.

How did Stalin reato Americpower and assertiveness after the Second World War?

calling for the creation of a military allianof Western Europeand Eastern Europestates.

integrating the Soviet economy into the globeconomy.

creating communist buffer states in Eastern Europe.

developing better personrelationships with Western leaders.

The TrumDoctrine wformulated to protethis area from Communism:

Greeand Turkey.

Norway, Sweden, and Finland.

Southeast Asia.

China and Korea.

This country developed nucleweapons in the 1950s:

Soviet Union.

North Korea.

Iran.

South Africa.

Why did the United States NOT give its full support to decolonization efforts?

It feared the new countries would dominate the UN Security Council.

It did not want to have to give foreign aid to new countries.

It halways been a strong supporter of the concept of colonization.

It feared Soviet influenin any newly independent colonies.

The beginning of the end of the Cold Wbegwith major changes in the politicleadership of this country:

United States.

Soviet Union.

China.

Germany.

The United States hthe LEAST amount of allied support for

The KoreWar.

The 1990-1991 Gulf War.

The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.

The 2003 invasion of Iraq.