This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Art Humanities > History > Class 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When did WW1 end? A) 11th November 1918. B) 11th September 1918. C) 18th November 1918. D) 21st October 1918. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 11th November 1918. 2. Germany mainly suffered what problems during the Great Depression? A) Inflation and unemployment. B) Attacks from France and British embargoes. C) Austrian immigration and communist revolutions. D) Overproduction of industry and coal strikes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inflation and unemployment. 3. A poet whose works inspired other Harlem Renaissance poets was A) Countee Cullen. B) Nella Larsen. C) James Weldon Johnson. D) Claude McKay. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Claude McKay. 4. Gandhi's political act of civil disobedience relied on this concept: A) Non violent protest. B) Act out where ever you are. C) Disobey all authority. D) Change requires violence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Non violent protest. 5. Which of the following was NOT an effect of the First World War on Germany? A) Had to pay billions in reparations. B) Lost overseas colonies. C) People had to ration food. D) The country was divided in two. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The country was divided in two. 6. Prohibition was implemented by passage of the A) 19th Amendment. B) 18th Amendment. C) 17th Amendment. D) 21st Amendment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 18th Amendment. 7. The assassination of this person sparked WWI. A) George V. B) Nicholas II. C) Franz Ferdinand. D) Albert Edward. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Franz Ferdinand. 8. How much did the Allies finally demand as reparations for the damage of WW1? A) 6, 600 million pounds. B) 6600 pounds. C) 6, 600 million marks. D) 6, 600 Euros. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 6, 600 million pounds. 9. This was a destructive rampage where Nazis burned synagogues and destroyed Jewish businesses A) Kristallnacht. B) Nuremberg Order. C) Enabling Act. D) Schutzstaffeln. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kristallnacht. 10. What did Hitler and the Nazi Party do in Germany to make the Nazi party more powerful after he became Chancellor? A) Combined the role of President and Chancellor into the role of "Der Fuhrer". B) Join a fraternity with Mussolini and Stalin. C) Use his political power to improve the lives of German people. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Combined the role of President and Chancellor into the role of "Der Fuhrer". 11. Which of these was NOT a cause of the Great Depression? A) Financial Panic. B) Inflation. C) Overproduction. D) Increased trade with Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Increased trade with Europe. 12. What happened to stock prices during the 1920s? A) They remained stable. B) They decreased significantly. C) They soared above stock values. D) They were unaffected by market changes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They soared above stock values. 13. What is A political system in which the government has total control over the lives of individual citizens.? A) Roaring 20s. B) Isolationism. C) Flapper. D) Totalitarianism. E) W.E.B. DuBois. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Totalitarianism. 14. What was the international agreement in 1928, sponsored by American and French leaders, that outlawed the use of aggressive war? It would later be cited by the victorious allies in the post-WWII war crimes trials as justification for charging and executing suspected war criminals. A) Pact of Steel. B) Anti-commintern Pact. C) Molotov-Ribbentrop Nonaggression Pact. D) Kellogg-Briand Pact. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kellogg-Briand Pact. 15. What term did Hitler use to describe his "master race" ? A) Aryans. B) Elitists. C) Antisemitism. D) Pure-blooded Germans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aryans. 16. This country was part of the Central Powers during WWI, it included Turkey. A) Austria-Hungary. B) French Indochina. C) Ottoman Empire. D) Weimar Republic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ottoman Empire. 17. Totalitarianism and fascism both involve a ..... government. A) Weak local. B) Strong local. C) Strong central. D) Weak central. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Strong central. 18. What were the goals (the "3 Rs") of Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to bring the U.S. out of the Great Depression? A) Replace, Reduce, Refine. B) Relief, Recovery, Reform. C) Reading, Writing, Arithmetic. D) Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Relief, Recovery, Reform. 19. Which leader formed a political philosophy called "Fascism" ? A) Joseph Stalin. B) Benito Mussolini. C) Adolf Hitler. D) Winston Churchill. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Benito Mussolini. 20. What happened on October 29, 1929? A) Stock market crashed. B) WWI ended. C) Franklin Roosevelt was elected. D) Stock market reached an all-time high. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stock market crashed. 21. Which political party was Joseph Stalin a member of? A) The Lenin Party. B) Blackshirts. C) Bolshevik (communist) party. D) Soviet Union Fascist Party. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bolshevik (communist) party. 22. Which option below was NOT part of D-Day?S/N #3 A) 150, 000 Allied forces. B) Amphibious invasion along the shores of Normandy, France. C) The goal was to liberate Paris from the Nazis. D) The event was led by Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The event was led by Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill. 23. Which party did Hitler join that later became known as the Nazi Party? A) Freikorps Party. B) Communist Party. C) Social Democratic Party. D) German Workers' Party (DAP). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) German Workers' Party (DAP). 24. What was one reason that the Great Depression spread quickly from the United States to other nations? A) The United States had been forced to give up its investments in Latin America. B) The United States tried to collect on war debts owed by France and England. C) The Soviet Union had cut off all trade with the West. D) The United States had loaned a lot of money to the West. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The United States had loaned a lot of money to the West. 25. In the 1920s, Japan tried to work towards Democracy while still having an Emperor. This form of Democracy was called ..... S/N #1 A) Direct Democracy. B) Totalitarianism. C) Representative Democracy. D) Taisho Democracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Taisho Democracy. 26. Which is not a name associated with the Interwar Years? A) Charles Lindbergh. B) Henry Ford. C) Franklin Roosevelt. D) Maximilian Robespierre. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Maximilian Robespierre. 27. Which of the following is a reason that the Treaty of Versailles was a cause of WWII? A) Forcing Germany to give up it's factories. B) Forcing Germany to give up valuable territory. C) Forcing Germany to build monuments to the Allied countries. D) Forcing Germany to trade with America. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Forcing Germany to give up valuable territory. 28. Who had to take full blame for WWI in the Treaty of Versailles? A) Ottoman Empire. B) Germany. C) Russia. D) Britain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Germany. 29. The main purpose of the many purges and public trials that took place in the Soviet Union in the 1930s was to A) Force the Jewish people to leave the Soviet Union. B) Eliminate opposition to Joseph Stalin and his government. C) Establish a free and independent court system in the Soviet Union. D) Reform the outdated and inadequate agricultural system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eliminate opposition to Joseph Stalin and his government. 30. What is a totalitarian state? A) Where the people have a direct say in their government. B) Where the people elect all representatives to the legislature. C) Where the government controls all aspects of public/private life. D) Where the working class is honored and has great say in government. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Where the government controls all aspects of public/private life. 31. What role did the government play in regulating, monitoring, and controlling the economy in a totalitarian state? A) It allowed free market competition. B) It had minimal involvement in economic affairs. C) It heavily regulated and controlled economic activities. D) It promoted private entrepreneurship. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It heavily regulated and controlled economic activities. 32. The programmed starvation of Ukrainians during the 1930's led by the Communist Party; millions of Ukrainian peasants die due to starvation A) Cheka. B) Gulag. C) Great Purge. D) Red Terror. E) Holodomor. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Holodomor. 33. Technologies that contributed to lost of deaths in WWI? A) Mortar and assault rifle. B) Fighter plane and rocket artillery. C) Submarine and machine gun. D) Shrapnel and night vision. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Submarine and machine gun. 34. Which paramilitary group was used to suppress the Spartacist uprising? A) SA. B) Red Army. C) Freikorps. D) SS. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Freikorps. 35. What effect did the Stock market crash in America have on Germany? A) Not much, because Germany's economy had recovered. B) Crushed the German economy, leaving workers unemployed and businesses closed. C) Provided an opportunity for Germany to become an economic super power. D) Gave birth to the rise of communism as the solution to the instability of capitalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crushed the German economy, leaving workers unemployed and businesses closed. 36. The name of the German secret police was ..... S/N #2 A) Soviet. B) Comrade. C) Nazi. D) Gestapo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gestapo. 37. The last Czar of Russia was whom? A) Alexander III. B) Alexander II. C) Nicholas II. D) Ivan the Terrible. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nicholas II. 38. Which country was Germany proposing an alliance with in the Zimmerman Telegram? A) Canada. B) Mexico. C) America. D) Britain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mexico. 39. On what grounds did the British government justify appeasement? What did Chamberlain, Halifax and others say that they were doing? A) Maintajning the balance of power in Europe. B) Securing Britain against social upheaval at home. C) Making up for legitimate German complaints after TOV. D) Strengthening Germany in order to protect Western Europe from communism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Making up for legitimate German complaints after TOV. 40. As a result of the Mexican Revolution, where did Mexicans immigrate to? A) Guatemala. B) Canada. C) Caribbean. D) United States. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) United States. 41. The belief by a group of people that their country is better than any other country A) One Party Rule. B) Indoctrination. C) Propaganda. D) Extreme Nationalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extreme Nationalism. 42. Which country did NOT join the League of Nations, ultimately causing it to fail? A) Italy. B) Great Britain. C) France. D) United States. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) United States. 43. What two political parties were in a civil war in China? A) Fascists & Democrats. B) Nationalists & Communists. C) Republicans & Nationalists. D) Communists & Fascists. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nationalists & Communists. 44. What name do we call the German Parliament building? A) The House of Commons. B) The Reichstag. C) The Constitution. D) The House of Parliament. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Reichstag. 45. What answer is NOT a reason why America joined WWI? A) Zimmerman Telegram. B) Unrestricted Subwarfare. C) Lusitania sinking. D) Trade relationships. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trade relationships. 46. What does DIKTAT mean? A) Dictatorship. B) Dictator. C) Dictated Peace. D) Dictatorial Regime. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dictated Peace. 47. -Led by a dictator with complete power.-Forcibly suppresses opposition and criticism.-Emphasizes aggressive nationalism and often racism.What type of government do these characteristics describe? A) Fascism. B) Communism. C) Monarchy. D) Theocracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fascism. 48. In the 1930s, the rise of ..... threatened the peace of the world. A) Intolerance. B) Illness. C) Dictators. D) Drought. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dictators. 49. A ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained power by force (a) A) A. Dictator. B) Totalitarian State. C) Authoritarian. D) Gulag. E) Fascism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. Dictator. 50. What was the first area of land which Germany regained through a plebiscite in 1935? A) Rhineland. B) Austria. C) Sudentenland. D) Saar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Saar. 51. Which program sets up a tax to help benefit retired people? A) WPA. B) TVA. C) Social Security. D) FDIC. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social Security. 52. To gain popularity, Mussolini appealed to A) Reparations. B) Socialism. C) Surrealism. D) Nationalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nationalism. 53. How did the democratic nation of the U.S. respond to the economic uncertainties of the interwar years? A) Gave president FDR near absolute power. B) Increased industrial output in five year periods. C) Deficit spending programs through the New Deal. D) Outlawed political opposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deficit spending programs through the New Deal. 54. Stalin signed the ..... with Hitler in 1939. A) Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. B) Declaration of Independence. C) Treaty of Versailles. D) Non Aggression Pact. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Non Aggression Pact. 55. Lack of increased government activity in the economy during the Great Depression led to A) A more power and confidence to the workers. B) An immediate economic turnaround. C) A decline in the popularity of Marxist ideas. D) People to following political leaders who offered simple solutions in return for dictatorial power. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People to following political leaders who offered simple solutions in return for dictatorial power. 56. During the 1930s, Stalin ordered the government takeover of what? A) Museums. B) Farms. C) Churches. D) Schools. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Farms. 57. What describes Adolf Hitler upbringing? A) Was born in Australia on April 20, 1889, and moved to Germany. B) Was born in America on April 20, 1889 and was a celebrated "Lost Generation" artist. C) Was born in Great Britain, on April 20, 1889, and was the fourth of six children born to Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl. D) Was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889, and was the fourth of six children born to Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889, and was the fourth of six children born to Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl. 58. Anti-Semitism is a hostility and prejudice towards what group? A) Germans. B) Christians. C) Muslims. D) Jews. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jews. 59. What did the Russian Revolution happen during? A) The Civil War. B) The Enlightenment. C) World War One. D) Industrial Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) World War One. 60. What caused Germans to start taking Adolf Hitler and his message seriously? A) The economic crisis brought on by the Depression. B) His skill at making speeches. C) The example of Mussolini's success in Italy. D) The threat of invasion by the Soviet Union. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The economic crisis brought on by the Depression. Next →Related QuizzesArt Humanities QuizzesClass 12 QuizzesClass 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years Quiz 2Class 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years Quiz 3Class 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years Quiz 4Class 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years Quiz 5Class 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years Quiz 6Class 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years Quiz 7Class 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years Quiz 8Class 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books