Class 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years Quiz 13 (60 MCQs)

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1. The event that caused Britain and France to finally declare war on Germany and start World War II was .....
2. Henry Ford is credited with mastering
3. What led to the rise of totalitarianism governments in Germany, Italy and Spain in the 1920s and 1930s.
4. When Wilson become President?
5. What was the Marxist-Leninist state that existed between 1922-1991, consisting of various "communist" republics ruled by the Russian Communist Party centered in Moscow? A one-party state that saw itself as the leader of international communism.
6. A system of brutal labor camps in the USSR
7. Last of the Russian Czars
8. How did U-boat warfare lead to the U.S. entering WWI?
9. A government that takes total, centralized, state control over every aspect of public and private life defines which term?
10. In the USA, during the Great Depression farmers lost farms and there was a shortage of food due to .....
11. Which Country chose to use a Policy of Appeasement
12. Which country revolted and led to the Red Scare in the United States?
13. Stalin killed many of his opponents within his Soviet Communist Party in what event?
14. Which group did Mao Zedong believe would drive the Chinese revolution?
15. Which of the following actions did Benito Mussolini take after he became the leader of Italy?
16. Why did Japan invade Manchuria in 1931?
17. What was the immediate cause of World War I in Europe?
18. What was one of the ways Nazi educators manipulated history?
19. In the 1920s, the arts and sciences both exhibited a sense of
20. Where Hitler invaded first in violation to the Treaty of Versailles
21. This battle of WWI featured the French bravely defending Paris from the advancing German troops by arriving to the battle via taxis and digging trenches in a "race to the sea" in September 1914.
22. What race did the Nazi's proclaim as the "master race" ?
23. Who was the leader of India's non violent revolution and practiced civil disobedience?
24. Belief in a policy of abstaining from alliance and other international political and economic relations
25. Which of the following became its own independent country (not a colony of Britain or France) after the Ottoman Empire collapsed?
26. Which BEST describes an agricultural practice that led decline of the farming industry
27. What was time of booming business, lots of new entertainment like Jazz Age music, and new technologies.?
28. The I in MAIN stands for
29. Which option below best describes the Atlantic Charter?S/N #3
30. A government that aims to control the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens is classified as
31. How was the island of Ireland divided after the partition?
32. What is the reactionary political ideology that views the individual as belonging to the state and the state being led by a single party or leader? Characterized as being ultra-nationalistic, anti-communist, anti-democratic, and imperialist. Traditional class or race hierarchies remain in place or are promoted.
33. Who was the Fascist dictator of Italy whose paramilitary organization (The Black shirts) seized control of the Italian state in 1921 and was proclaimed Prime Minister by King Victor Emmanuel III? He ceded the Vatican to the Catholic Church, promoted militarism, anti-communism, and promised a revival of the Ancient Roman Empire.
34. Ernest Hemingway, part of the "lost generation, " often wrote works related to
35. What was Germany's democratic government formed after World War 1 that the Nazi Party eventually replaced?
36. In the Porvenir Massacre, who did the Texas Ranger killed?
37. What precedents set by the New Deal have been put into play during periods of recession?
38. Which of the following most likely contributed to the outbreak of World War II?
39. One major project that began in the 20's was the
40. When did the U.S. enter World War I?
41. What symbol did the Freikorps soldiers paint on their helmets during the Kapp Putsch?
42. The Nazis believed that women should be
43. How did Prohibition affect corruption in the early 1900s?
44. The ..... was the British and French disastrous attempt to open up a supply route with Russia.
45. Totalitarian dictatorship, aggressive nationalism (including imperialism and xenophobia), glorification of politics, and single-party rule
46. Why was the Reichstag Fire significant in Hitler's rise to power?
47. Which battle, fought on the eastern front, was a sound German victory and weakened Russia for the remainder of the war?
48. What happened at the Beer Hall Putsch led by Hitler?
49. Which region was occupied by the French to collect payments from the Germans?
50. Why did Italy feel "betrayed" and "cheated" by the Treaty of Versailles?
51. What president made the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan in World War II?
52. When the Great Depression began in 1929, the most common economic belief supported by the Republican Party was that
53. Factory workers led the revolution in Russia. Who was the revolution for in China?
54. Which country below was NOT part of the Allied Control Commission which ran Germany after World War 2?
55. The Nazi German state secret police-Geheime Staats Polizei
56. Which part of Ireland remained under British control after the partition?
57. What were the 3 causes of the Great Depression?
58. War of Attrition
59. Which of the following WAS NOT a FASCIST Dictator?
60. Which term can be used to describe the governments under Mussolini, Hitler, AND Stalin?