Response to the following True / False:
1. Conservatives believed that all governments should include representative assemblies.
2. Socialists wanted to eliminate class divisions and social inequality.
3. The concept of the white man's burden was based on the idea that white civilization is superior to that of other peoples.
4. One of the rationales for imperialism was the desire to convert people to Christianity.
5. Great Britain entered World War I after Germany violated Belgian neutrality.
6. The Schlieffen plan was intended to prevent Germany from fighting on two fronts at the same time.
7. After the February Revolution, a constitutional monarchy was established in Russia.
8. Russia won a great victory in the Russo-Japanese War.
9. According to the war guilt clause of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany and Russia were totally responsible for all the losses of the allies.
10. In Totalitarian regimes, the state exists to serve the individual needs and rights of its citizens.
11. The tools used by Totalitarian governments included propaganda, censorship and police terror.
12. Hitler believed that Germany should strictly follow the Versailles Treaty.
13. Hitler became the leader of Germany by using the military to overthrow the existing government.
14. In Mein Kampf, Hitler argued that the Aryan race included all people throughout Europe who could trace their ancestry to Western or Northern Europe.
15. According to the Enabling Act, Hitler had the right to make any law he wanted to without asking the German parliament.
16. During the lead up to World War II, Nazi Germany annexed the nation of Austria.
17. In the Soviet Union, the collectivization of agriculture was the division of land into small plots that would be farmed by individual families.
18. In the Soviet Union under Stalin, the collectivization of agriculture was strongly resisted by the peasants.
19. Under the Truman Doctrine the United States government decided to not get involved in European affairs.
20. Stalin's Five Year Plan focused on the production of consumer goods.
Response to the following multiple choice questions:
1. New developments during the Agricultural Revolution did NOT include:
a. The removal of most fences so that animals could graze freely.
b. The introduction of new crops like peas and beans.
c. The invention of new technology like the seed drill
d. The creation of better breeding methods.
2. Under the factory system:
a. It was difficult to supervise the workers.
b. The labor expected of each worker became increasingly complex.
c. Multiple machines ran using the same power source.
d. Workers ran the factory by voting for representatives.
3. Nineteenth Century Liberals supported:
a. Free markets.
b. Slavery.
c. Communal property ownership.
d. Dictatorship.
4. Social Darwinists believed:
a. The weak should be protected.
b. All people are equal.
c. Imperialism is evil.
d. Only the fittest should survive.
5. The nations in the Triple Alliance were:
a. Germany, Austro-Hungary and Italy.
b. Great Britain, France and Russia.
c. Great Britain, France and Italy.
d. Germany, Austro-Hungary and Russia.
6. After the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, __________ issued an ultimatum to _________:
a. Serbia; Austria
b. Austria, Serbia.
c. Germany, Serbia
d. Austria, Russia
7. During World War I, the American public was angered by the sinking of the:
a. Maine.
b. Lusitania.
c. Queen Victoria.
d. Kathy Lee Gifford.
8. The Zimmerman telegraph, requested that _____________ attack the United States:
a. Canada
b. Brazil
c. Mexico
d. Japan
9. Totalitarian regimes:
a. Only permit one political party to exist.
b. Generally rise during periods of economic prosperity.
c. Do not permit censorship.
d. Protect people's freedom of speech.
10. In Mein Kampf, Hitler argued that Germany should conquer the Slavic people of the East because:
a. The Slavs were planning to invade Germany.
b. The Slavs had humiliated Germany in World War One.
c. The German people needed more living space.
d. The Soviet Union was planning to attack Germany through Eastern Europe.
11. Events that aided Hitler in becoming the leader of Germany included:
a. The burning of the German Reichstag (Parliament).
b. His support of local Communist officials.
c. The Nazi takeover of the local government in Munich.
d. The creation of an alliance with Great Britain.
12. The Nuremberg Laws:
a. Forbade marriage between Jewish and non-Jewish people.
b. Made it illegal for Jewish children to attend state schools.
c. Created the Nazi concentration camps.
d. Regulated the sterilization of the mentally ill and handicapped.
13. The Enabling Law passed by the German Parliament in 1933:
a. Permitted Jewish people to leave Germany.
b. Forbade Jewish people to become lawyers.
c. Prevented Aryans from taking over Jewish businesses.
d. Allowed Hitler to pass any law he wanted to without approval from the parliament.
14. Hitler's foreign policy goals included:
a. Preventing the spread of Nazi ideals.
b. Making more German speakers into citizens of Germany.
c. Increasing the Gypsy population.
d. Creating a Communist Empire throughout Africa and Asia.
15. The reasons for the pursuit of the policy of appeasement do NOT include:
a. The desire to prevent another horrific war.
b. Guilt over the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
c. Fear of Soviet aggression in Eastern Europe.
d. The belief that Hitler would end his aggression if his grievances were addressed.
16. At the Munich Conference, the British and French agreed to permit Hitler's invasion of:
a. The Rhineland.
b. The Sudetenland.
c. Finland.
d. Greenland.
17. In 1939, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany after Hitler invaded:
a. Serbia.
b. Belgium.
c. Czechoslovakia.
d. Poland.
18. After World War Two, the two superpowers were:
a. Great Britain and the United States.
b. Germany and the Soviet Union.
c. The United States and the Soviet Union.
d. Germany and France
19. After World War II, the goals of the Soviet Union did NOT include:
a. Spreading Communism.
b. Promoting Free Trade.
c. Controlling Eastern Europe.
d. Keeping Germany divided and weak.
20. The nations behind the Iron Curtain did NOT include:
a. Hungary.
b. Belgium.
c. Poland.
d. Czechoslovakia.