This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Art Humanities > History > Class 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years Quiz 20 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When did President Coolidge restrict immigration? A) 1920. B) 1921. C) 1919. D) 1923. E) 1924. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) 1924. 2. How did Stalin take power in the Soviet Union? A) Threatening political opponents. B) Industrializing the nation. C) Controlling (censoring) the media. D) Outlawing other political parties. E) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All of the above. 3. What was a common element between fascism and communism? A) Support for a classless society. B) Emphasis on individual freedoms. C) Centralized control and authoritarian rule. D) Promotion of democratic elections. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Centralized control and authoritarian rule. 4. The political philosophy incorporating the characteristics above is A) Socialism. B) Fascism. C) Democracy. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fascism. 5. The Crimean War was important for all of the following reasons, EXCEPT- A) Exposed Russia's obsolete economy and poor industrialization. B) Led to the emancipation of the serfs. C) Encouraged modernization of the Russian army. D) Stimulated greater tolerance for ethnic minorities in Russia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stimulated greater tolerance for ethnic minorities in Russia. 6. What did the Nazi party do that was against the Treaty of Versailles? A) Controlled Industry. B) Invade different countries. C) Train the military. D) A Program of Rearmament. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A Program of Rearmament. 7. This word means seeking other colonies; it was a cause of World War I. A) Militarism. B) Imperialism. C) Alliances. D) Nationalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imperialism. 8. What were the Nuremberg Laws? A) Laws on how the Germans would invade other countries. B) Stripped Jews of their German citizenship. C) Laws that were enforced in concentration camps. D) Gave Hitler the power to enact laws. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stripped Jews of their German citizenship. 9. What is another name for the Bolshevik Party? A) Communists. B) Nazis. C) Capitalists. D) Red Shirts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Communists. 10. True or False? The Five Year Plans had mixed results:Led to shortages of goods, but impressive economic gains. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. As Japan's economics crisis continued, how did the Japanese military respond? A) Invading Poland. B) Invading France. C) Invading China. D) Invading the United States. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Invading China. 12. Many Americans were against joining the league of Nations because they wanted to remain uninvolved in European affairs. This feeling is known as ..... A) Isolationism. B) Republicanism. C) Capitalism. D) Fascism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Isolationism. 13. Which battle of WWI saw the Germans defeat the Russians on the Eastern front in modern day Poland? A) Gallipoli. B) Somme. C) Argonne Forrest. D) Tannenberg. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tannenberg. 14. In order to pay the striking German workers of the Ruhr Valley, the German government chose to ..... A) Print more money. B) Pay them 'in kind'. C) Pay them with foreign currency. D) Not to pay them at all. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Print more money. 15. This Amendment gave women the right to vote in the United States. A) 16th. B) 17th. C) 18th. D) 19th. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 19th. 16. How did hyperinflation effect German society? A) Everyone was able to find a job. B) Money was worthless. C) Germanys invested their money in their countries economy. D) Additional taxes were paid by all Germans. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Money was worthless. 17. What was Hitler rejected from? A) The government. B) The Academy of Art school. C) The nation. D) The military. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Academy of Art school. 18. Which event marked the beginning of Chinese nationalism in the 1900s? A) Taiping Rebellion. B) May 4th Movement. C) Great Leap Forward. D) Opium Wars. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) May 4th Movement. 19. The Treaty of Versailles of 1919 created what organization? A) The Commonwealth. B) League of Nations. C) World Peace Anarchy League. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) League of Nations. 20. In what ways was Russia was unprepared for WWI? A) The tsar never thought Germany would attack. B) Germany was more militarized. C) Russia was not properly industrialized. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 21. How did King Victor Emmanuel respond to the March on Rome? A) Gave Mussolini the job of Prime Minister. B) Ran away from Italy. C) Sent the army to attack the Blackshirts. D) Called for a civil war to be fought. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gave Mussolini the job of Prime Minister. 22. This was a major innovation found in most homes by the end of the 20s. A) Telephone. B) Microwave. C) Radio. D) Television. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Radio. 23. What did the Kellogg-Briand Pact attempt to do? A) Wage war and destroy homes. B) To trigger and Alliance system in case of war. C) To make war illegal. D) To divide territories after WWI. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To make war illegal. 24. Benito Mussolini's fascist ideas would be best defined as A) "the people can overthrow the government if it is ineffective". B) "The State is more important that the individuals". C) "The state is only strong with the power of the individuals". D) "An empire will lead to social class division and complete chaos". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "The State is more important that the individuals". 25. How did the U.S. government respond to the global depression in the 1930s? A) Congress acted to reduce government regulations of financial institutions. B) President Roosevelt implemented a massive government spending program. C) The U.S. Armed Forces expanded rapidly to provide jobs to the unemployed. D) The U.S. Treasury Department required all currency to be backed by equal amounts of silver in American banks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) President Roosevelt implemented a massive government spending program. 26. During the paranoia period of the Red Scare, which right did the American government violate? A) Right to Bear Arms. B) Freedom of Religion. C) Due Process. D) Freedom of Speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Due Process. 27. Which of these dictators was NOT a Fascist? A) Stalin. B) Hitler. C) Mussolini. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stalin. 28. What was the purpose of the Matignon Agreements? A) To start a revolution. B) To improve life for ordinary people and prevent revolution. C) To increase taxes. D) To expand the military. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To improve life for ordinary people and prevent revolution. 29. What is collectivization? A) A policy of forced consolidation of individual peasant households into collective farms called "kulaks" as carried out by the Soviet government in the late 1920's-early 1930's. B) Collecting all the taxes to pay for the government. C) A policy of allowing only the rich wealthy landowners vote. D) When Stalin collected 20 million people and sent them to labor camps, where nearly half of them died. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A policy of forced consolidation of individual peasant households into collective farms called "kulaks" as carried out by the Soviet government in the late 1920's-early 1930's. 30. Where did British troops open fire on a crowd causing many Indians to decide they could no longer live with British rule? A) Amritsar. B) New Delhi. C) Punjab. D) Mumbai. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amritsar. 31. Which reason best explains why King George V did not save his cousin, Tsar Nicholas II? A) He was bound by the constitution and jealous of his cousin's autocratic powers. B) He disliked his cousin and his Slavic heritage. C) He did not want to appear pro-authoritarianism post WWI. D) He was closer with Kaiser Wilhem II. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He did not want to appear pro-authoritarianism post WWI. 32. How did the government respond to the First Red Scare? A) Implemented policies to promote socialism. B) Enacted the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918. C) Offered amnesty to all suspected communists. D) Ignored the threat and took no action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enacted the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918. 33. What was the role of indoctrination in a totalitarian government? A) To promote free speech. B) To encourage independent thought. C) To control and manipulate public opinion. D) To support democratic principles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To control and manipulate public opinion. 34. Who was the leader of the Indian Nationalist Movement A) Dwayne "The Rock '' Johnson. B) Mahatma Gandhi. C) General Nehru. D) Lord Wiillingdon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mahatma Gandhi. 35. What was the name of the new German government after WWI? A) Third Reich. B) Weimar Republic. C) Schnitzle Republic. D) German Federation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Weimar Republic. 36. This person emerged as the leader of the communist party in China after the Long March A) Deng Xiaoping. B) Chiang Kai Shek. C) Shi Huangdi. D) Mao Zedong. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mao Zedong. 37. The practice of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies or dependencies (protectorates and spheres of influence) A) Communism. B) Fascism. C) Mercantilism. D) Imperialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imperialism. 38. Regulations that prevented Jewish people from being citizens of the Reich and from being in relationships with pure blood Germany. A) Jim Crow Laws. B) Nazi Party Rules. C) Nuremberg Laws. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nuremberg Laws. 39. What was the outcome of the Russian Revolution? A) Establishment of a communist government. B) Restoration of the monarchy. C) Expansion of the Russian Empire. D) Creation of a democratic republic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Establishment of a communist government. 40. What were two basic causes of the Dust Bowl during the early 1930s? A) Strip mining and toxic waste dumping. B) Over farming and severe drought. C) Clear-cutting of forests and construction of railroads. D) Overpopulation and urban sprawl. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Over farming and severe drought. 41. Which of the following describes a major social effect of the Industrial Revolution in Europe? A) The growth of the middle class. B) An increase in nomadic herding. C) A decline in urban population. D) A decrease in international trade. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The growth of the middle class. 42. Why was the German invasion of the Soviet Union a military disaster? A) The Soviet Union had prepared a swift counter-attack. B) German planes could not fight the technically superior Soviet aircraft. C) The harsh winter halted the invasion and devastated German forces. D) Soviet tanks could cross the vast distance faster and better than German tanks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The harsh winter halted the invasion and devastated German forces. 43. Which was NOT a crisis Russia faced between 1904 and 1917? A) Bloody Sunday. B) Great Terror. C) World War I. D) Russo-Japanese War. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Great Terror. 44. Who seized power in 1922 after marching on the capital city with his supporters? A) Tojo. B) Stalin. C) Mussolini. D) Hitler. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mussolini. 45. "I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people" was a famous quote of: A) Harding. B) Roosevelt. C) Hoover. D) Wilson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wilson. 46. What were the "interwar years" ? A) The years between the Revolution and the Civil War. B) The time from the end of World War 1 until the start of World War 2. C) The years during World War 1. D) The years between the Russian Revolution and World War 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The time from the end of World War 1 until the start of World War 2. 47. Which areas of a country does a totalitarian NOT control? A) Economic. B) Social. C) Political. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None. 48. During the 1920's, pay rates for women A) Were double the rates given to men. B) Were the same as men. C) Were half the rates given to men. D) Were a quarter of the rates given to men. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Were half the rates given to men. 49. The area of Czechoslovakia inhabited by ethnic Germans coincided with the country's western border, that formed a mountainous U shape. What was the name given to this region? A) Bohemia. B) Silesia. C) The Sudetenland. D) Moravia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Sudetenland. 50. Jazz originated in A) Australia. B) New York, USA. C) New Orleans, USA. D) Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) New Orleans, USA. 51. What country did Germany invade that began WWII? A) Britain. B) France. C) Poland. D) Austria-Hungary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poland. 52. By creating the NEP what two key things improved? A) Harvests & industrial production gradually improved. B) Harvests & social production gradually improved. C) Agriculture and architecture improvement. D) Agriculture improvement and the emancipation of citizens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Harvests & industrial production gradually improved. 53. Which of these countries did NOT see a dictator come to power in the 1930s? A) Italy. B) Germany. C) Russia. D) Great Britain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Great Britain. 54. Which of the following best describes "annexation" ? A) The destruction of cities. B) The peaceful negotiation of treaties. C) The creation of a new government. D) The forced addition of territory to a country. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The forced addition of territory to a country. 55. How did the Enabling Act change the German government? A) It limited Hitler's power. B) It allowed Hitler to make laws without parliamentary approval. C) It ended the Nazi Party. D) It started World War II. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It allowed Hitler to make laws without parliamentary approval. 56. Who was the leader of the Nazi Party? A) Woodrow Wilson. B) Kaiser Wilhelm II. C) Benito Mussolini. D) Adolf Hitler. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Adolf Hitler. 57. How did the methods used by Mao Zedong successfully bring about a communist revolution in China? A) He promised land reform to the peasants. B) He promoted education for the intellectual elite. C) He supported the freedom of religious leaders. D) He encouraged the influence of foreign countries. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He promised land reform to the peasants. 58. Simon Bolivar, Jose de San Martin, and Toussaint l'Ouverture were important individuals in Latin American history because they were ..... A) Influential Enlightenment thinkers. B) Conquerors of pre-Colombian Empires. C) Leaders in the struggle for independence. D) Active in converting Native Americans to Christianity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Leaders in the struggle for independence. 59. Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs gave the government a more active role in A) Creating a laissez-faire economy. B) Creating jobs. C) Deregulating businesses. D) Giving Daveion a raise. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Creating jobs. 60. Polluted the German bloodline A) Mental illness. B) Germans who practiced Christianity. C) Germans with criminal backgrounds. D) . German unskilled laborers. E) Germans who were pacifists. 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