Chapter 28 Quiz

World Wars and Competing Visions of Modernity, 1900–1945
. On June 28, 1914, members of a Bosnian Serb nationalist group assassinated the Austrian heir to the throne, _________, and his wife while they toured the Bosnian city of Sarajevo, thus unleashing the chain of events that would ultimately lead to World War I.

. From the very first, World War I was what is known as a _________, a conflict in which the belligerent parties engage in the complete mobilization of available resources in order to secure a military victory.

. Germany, with its allies Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire made up what was known as the _________, at war with Great Britain, France, and Russia, or the Allied powers.

. The so-called February Revolution in Russia forced Tsar _________to abdicate and created a provisional government.

. The _________of Vladimir Lenin, campaigned against Russian involvement in what had become a highly unpopular war and launched a takeover in the capital of Petrograd, as St. Petersburg had been renamed at the start of the conflict.

. In March 1918, in return for Russia's withdrawal from the war, the Treaty of _________obligated Russia to hand over roughly one third of the Russian Empire´s population, territory and resources to Germany.

. The United States' war aims were embodied in President Wilson's _________.

. As a result of the Versailles Peace Treaty which brought World War I to an end, a new supra-national _________was entrusted with the maintenance of peace.

. Which of the following does not characterize the United States after the First World War?

. In 1920, the _________gave American women the right to vote.

. Why did the American Federation of Labor have difficulties in improving labor conditions for workers?

. The anti-foreigner and anti-Communist backlash after 1919 was part of a larger unease with the culture of Modernism which had been ushered in at the end of the First World War and was characterized by all but one of the following:

. Which of the following was not a characteristic of the economic climate by 1929?

. Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's prodding, Congress enacted what he called the _________.

. One showpiece of President Franklin Roosevelt's anti-Depression legislation was the _________.

. _________is defined as the condition of economic independence and self-sufficiency as state policy.

. After World War I, the most strategically important focus of British and French colonialism was _________.

. The _________declared Britain's support for the idea of establishing Palestine as a national homeland for the Jewish people.

. General _________was the man behind the creation of a modern, secular Turkey that was now able to stand up against the European powers.
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. In 1919, the Indian National Congress called for full _________, or self-rule from Britain, and advocated nonviolent noncooperation.

. _________was the most prominent advocate of non-violence in India in the 1920s and 1930s.

. In 1929, the newly created _________brought the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1917 to an end.

. In Russia, Lenin's successor, _________, built the Communist Party into an all-powerful apparatus that brutally shifted resources from agriculture into industry and lifted the Soviet Union into the ranks of the industrial powers.

. In November 1929, the party congress officially decreed the _________as the necessary step toward the Soviet Union's accelerated industrialization.

. Between 1929 and 1931, three to five percent of the "wealthiest" farmers on grain-producing lands, called _________, were "liquidated," meaning that they were either executed, sent to labor camps, or resettled on inferior soil.

. After growing disillusioned with Marxism, Benito Mussolini founded the "Italian Combat Squad," whose job was to_________.

. In 1924, "Il Duce," as Mussolini styled himself, began implementing his idea of a _________, in which all sectors of society contribute in a systematic, orderly and hierarchical fashion to the health of the state.

. After the abdication of Emperor William II, a republican constitution was adopted by a new German parliament in the city of ____________.

. Germany's NSDAP, or _________ Party became the largest party in the parliament by July of 1932.

. Taking his cue from Mussolini's policies, Hitler and the Nazis _________of the Weimar Republic, purged the civil service of Jews, closed down all political parties except for the NSDAP, enacted censorship laws, and sent communists to concentration camps.

. The _________, a new secret police force established by Hitler, set in place a surveillance system in what was now called Germany's "Third Empire".

. The German army in Poland had pioneered a new kind of warfare referred to as "lightning war," or _________.

. The Holocaust led to the murder of roughly _________, nearly six million, of Europe's Jews.

. May 8, 1945, is known as _________or "VE Day."

. The _________as it came to be known, is often cited as the modern beginning of Chinese nationalism and led shortly thereafter to the founding of a Chinese Communist Party in 1921.

. While Japan had used its control of Manchuria, Korea, and Taiwan in its support of autarky in the 1930s, its bid for empire in the Pacific was portrayed as the construction of _________.

. Under the premiership of General Tojo Hideki, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Dutch and British territories on _________.

. President Harry S Truman made the fateful decision to have two experimental bombs dropped on _________on August 6 and 9, 1945.

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A map of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa in 1914 and 1923. In 1914, the European countries were Britain, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, the Russian Empire, Dodecanese to Italy, and Cyprus to Britain, the countries in the Middle East were the Ottoman Empire and Persia, and the countries in North Africa were Morocco to France, Algeria to France, Tunisia to France, Libya invaded by Italy in 1911, and Egypt. In 1923, the European countries were Republic of Ireland, after 1932, Britain, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Portugal, Spain, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Saar, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and the Soviet Union, the countries in the Middle East were Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Trans Jordan, a British mandate, Syria, a French mandate, Palestine, a British mandate, Iraq, a British mandate, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, after 1932, and the countries in North Africa were Spanish Morocco, Morocco, to France, Algeria, to France, Tunisia, to France, Libya to Italy, and Egypt.


Which of the following is not a country established after World War One?

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Photo shows Gandhi standing with a group of men behind him.


Mohandas Gandhi, pictured above, sought Indian independence through:

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Poster shows a man and a woman. The woman is shown holding her hands to her open mouth.


The poster above was part of a plan to do what with agriculture in the Soviet Union?

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