Chapter 20 Practice Quiz

Front 1

How did the emergence of Germany as a new nation-state affect the European political scene after 1870 ?

Back 1

Germany's arrival disrupted the established order

Front 2

What impact did World War 1 have on Europe' colonial empires

Back 2

The war drew in laborers and soliders from the colonies

Front 3

What was a factor in causing the Great Depression

Back 3

Speculation on the stock market

Front 4

What strained Japan's relations with Western powers in the early 1940's

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Japanese military operations in Indochina, Malaya, and Burma

Front 5

What describes popular attitudes in Europe toward the propect of war in the summer of 1914

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Widespread enthusiasm

Front 6

What country switched sides afrer World War I began

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Italy

Front 7

What country was least affected by the Great Depression

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The Soviet Union

Front 8

What was a distinctive and central feature of the German expression of fascism

Back 8

A single party dictatorship

Front 9

What was reason for the popularity of the Nazi Party once it seized power in the 1930s

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Its success in bringing Germany out of the Great Depression

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What did Japan, Italy, and Germany share in the 1930s

Back 10

Aggressive ambition for conquest and empire building

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What drew Japan, Germany, and Italy into a political alliance by 1936-37

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Hostility towards the Soviet Union

Front 12

What effect did World war II have on Communism

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It enabled communist parties in Eastern Europe and China to assume power

Front 13

In contrast to what transpired during World War I, Germany during World War II was able to

Back 13

Conquer France quickly

Front 14

What effect did the U.S. Marshall plan have on European economies

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It promoted economic growth and widespread prosperity in Western Europe

Front 15

What was a more prominent feature of World War II than World War I

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The Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente

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What was a term of the Treaty of Versailles

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Germany was to accept sole responsibility for causing World War I

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The new states that had been carved out of which empire was governed as mandates of the League of Nations after World War I

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The Ottoman Empire

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What happened to German sphere of influence in China after World War I ended

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Japan claimed it

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What describes the position of the United States after World War I

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It became Europe's main creditor

Front 20

What characterized European and American culture in the 1920s

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A new consumerism

Front 21

What represents a response among many Latin American countries to the global repercussions of the Great Depression

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Import substitution industrialization

Front 22

The sets of reforms packaged as the New Deal was based on the belief that

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Government actions and spending programs could correct the market

Front 23

What appealed to facists

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Nationalism

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Japanese politics and society during the 1920s suggested that Japan favored

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Democratic politics and Western culture

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What resulted from Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

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The wars in Asia and Europe merged into a single global war

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What happened to Europe's empires in Asia and Africa after the end of World War II

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European empires collapsed as colonies achieved independence

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What committed the United States to the defense of Europe against the Soviet Union after World War II

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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How did the American occupation of Japan after World War II affect the Japanese economy

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It promoted rapid economic growth and generated economic prosperity

Front 29

What contributed to Western European recovery after the devastation of World War II

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The ability of Western European countries to integrate their economies

Front 30

What reflects a Hilter's view of the Aryan as expressed in Mein Kampf

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"He is Prometheus of mankind..."

Front 31

What feature of war is depicted in John Nash's painting

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Trench Warfare

Front 32

What does Otto Dix's painting called Prague Street suggest about how Germany treated its veterans

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Veterans were left to fend for themselves

Front 33

What best describes the lithograph above German artist George Grosz

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A post-First World War print expressing antiwar sentiment

Front 34

What countries experienced the most rapid economic growth during the Second World war

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The United States

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What arose out of dissatisfaction with the treaties ending the first World war

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The Indian National Congress

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What statements best represents a nationalistic interpretation of the collapse of the Ottoman and Russian empires during amd immediately after the first World war

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The growing demands of various ethnic groups within these multiethnic empires were the primary reasons for the collapse

Front 37

The photograph above German East African troops best illustartes what historical processes during First World War

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The increasing inclusion of non-Europeans in European conflicts

Front 38

A historian would find the 1932 Soviet poster most useful in studying what

Back 38

The official propaganda of gender equality in the Soviet Union

Front 39

What factirs contributed most to women gaining the right to vote in industrialized countries between 1914 and 1950

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In the first and second World wars, women made highly visible contributions tobwar effort

Front 40

A historian researching the motives of the perpetrators of the Holocaust would find what sources most useful

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Letters and publications written by Nazi leaders before Second World War