This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Art Humanities > History > Class 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years – Quiz 21 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years Quiz 21 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which headline is most closely associated with the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? A) "Japan Hosts Discussion on Greenhouse Gases". B) "Nuclear Bombs Dropped on Japan". C) "Japan Signs Treaty of Kanagawa". D) "Japan Invades Korea". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Nuclear Bombs Dropped on Japan". 2. What is a treaty? A) An agreement between nations at the end of a war. B) A militant, extreme, and ultranationalist political movement that emphasized loyalty to the state and obedience to its leaders. C) A ruler with total power over the country. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An agreement between nations at the end of a war. 3. What were the shantytowns that were built in the parks called during the Great Depression? A) Hoovervilles. B) Roosevelt Towns. C) Depression Camps. D) New Deal Villages. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hoovervilles. 4. Zora Neale Hurston collected and wrote about African American A) Spirits. B) Jazz. C) Folk Tales. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Folk Tales. 5. Benito Mussolini was the dictator of this country: A) Italy. B) Soviet Union. C) Japan. D) Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Italy. 6. After WWI, the United States' foreign policy was one of: A) Communism. B) Anarchy. C) Imperialism. D) Isolationism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Isolationism. 7. The Sacco and Vanzetti Trail and the actions of the KKK demonstrated that: A) Less discrimination against African Americans existed North. B) A strong fear of immigrants existed in America. C) City people were more agreeable to change than farmers. D) Americans still blamed the Germans for WWI. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A strong fear of immigrants existed in America. 8. What years did the Great Depression happen? A) 1929-1941. B) 1820-1840. C) 2015-2017. D) 1941-1945. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1929-1941. 9. Which group of Russian Marxists was the most extreme? A) Fascists. B) Nazis. C) Mensheviks. D) Bolsheviks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bolsheviks. 10. A time in America following the roaring 20's where America experience rising unemployment that did not end until the onset of World War II. A) Great Depression. B) Roaring 20's. C) Cold War. D) New Deal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Great Depression. 11. How did the German government deal with its economic problems? A) By invading France again. B) By laying off government employees. C) By deficit spending. D) By printing money. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) By printing money. 12. Teaching individuals ideas or behaviors without critical thinking A) Propaganda. B) Indoctrination. C) Totalitarianism. D) Fascism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indoctrination. 13. Allowed Adolf Hitler to take power in Germany legally after declaring a national emergency. Which of the following does not apply? A) Enabling Act. B) The Knight of the Long Knives. C) Article 48. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Knight of the Long Knives. 14. Which of the following quotes would BEST describe the ideas of Joseph Stalin? A) "Without the consent of the people, it is impossible to truly rule.". B) "I should protect the people's rights.". C) "I will eliminate anyone that opposes me.". D) "Fascism is the strongest form of government.". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "I will eliminate anyone that opposes me.". 15. Which country was not a member of the Central Powers? A) Russia. B) Austria-Hungary. C) Ottoman Empire. D) Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Russia. 16. What was the reaction of the United States towards the League of Nations? A) Indifference. B) Full support. C) Refusal to support it. D) Leading its creation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Refusal to support it. 17. What did the Nuremberg laws do? A) Excluded Jews from citizenship and forbade mixed marriages. B) Banned books, magazines, and newspapers not approved by Nazi government. C) Outlawed ALL religion in Germany. D) Created a strict physical fitness program for all Germans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Excluded Jews from citizenship and forbade mixed marriages. 18. How many men was the German army reduced to? A) 10, 000. B) 100, 000. C) 150, 000. D) 1, 000, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 100, 000. 19. What is Mrs. Mechling's maiden name? A) Rizzolo. B) Constantine. C) Mussolini. D) Smith. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Constantine. 20. The Charleston, jazz music, flappers and flagpole sitting were all: A) Causes of the Great Depression. B) Outlawed during the 1920s. C) Popular fads during the 1920s. D) Brought to America by soldiers returning from WWI. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Popular fads during the 1920s. 21. A form of government that theoretically permits no individual freedom and that seeks to subordinate all aspects of individual life to the authority of the state A) Democracy. B) Totalitarianism. C) Oligarchy. D) Dictatorship. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Totalitarianism. 22. Which of the following is NOT a true statement about the Dust Bowl? A) It was completely a natural phenomenon. B) It caused many people to lose their farms and travel further out West. C) It was caused by a combination of poor farming practices and a naturally occurring drought. D) People died from during huge dust storms called "Black Blizzards.". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It was completely a natural phenomenon. 23. When Stalin made all of the small farms join to create large state ran farms this was a policy known as A) Collectivaization. B) Totalitarianism. C) Fascism. D) Five-Year Plan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Collectivaization. 24. Japan invaded this area rich in natural resources as a way to solve the nation's economic problems caused in part by the Great Depression. A) Italy. B) Manchuria. C) Russia. D) China. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Manchuria. 25. Complete the quote by Ernest Hemingway: "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your ..... " A) Enemies. B) Friends. C) Former self. D) Neighbors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Former self. 26. In order to influence public opinion and to control the hearts and minds of their citizens, dictators often used ..... A) Propaganda. B) Conscription. C) Inflation. D) Anti-Semitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Propaganda. 27. Which of the following is NOT a core aspect of capitalism A) Limited government involvement in economics (laissez faire). B) Free market competition. C) Importance of entrepreneurship. D) Communities own the means of production (land, resources, factories). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Communities own the means of production (land, resources, factories). 28. Which leader wrote the book Mein Kampf? A) Benito Mussolini. B) Adolf Hitler. C) Hideki Tojo. D) Joseph Stalin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adolf Hitler. 29. What is credit in the finance world? A) Borrowing money from a bank. B) An economic system where the business are typically owned by the oligarch. C) To purchase something with the promise that you will pay in the future. D) Economic system where most businesses are privately owned. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To purchase something with the promise that you will pay in the future. 30. Whose voice was ignored in writing the Versailles Treaty? A) Britain. B) Russia. C) United States. D) Germany. E) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Germany. 31. Who was the Leader of Britain during WWI? A) Georges Clemenceau. B) David Lloyd George. C) Czar Nicholas II. D) Woodrow Wilson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) David Lloyd George. 32. These were the laws the stripped Jews of citizenship, forced wearing of the Star of David and mandatory papers. A) Kristallnacht Laws. B) Reichstag Laws. C) Final Solution Laws. D) Nuremberg Laws. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nuremberg Laws. 33. Germany had lots of prisoners. What type of people are they? A) Mexicans. B) Jewish. C) Americans. D) French. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jewish. 34. World War 1 ENDED in the year ..... A) 1941. B) 1917. C) 1919. D) 1918. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1918. 35. Which of the following was not a Secret Police Force used by the WWII Dictators? A) Kempeitai. B) Gestapo. C) OVRA. D) NKVD. E) CIA. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) CIA. 36. Which of the following actions was Mussolini's Italy responsible for? A) The annexation of Austria. B) The annexation of Sudetenland. C) The invasion of Poland. D) The invasion of Ethiopia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The invasion of Ethiopia. 37. Who won World War I? A) Allied Powers. B) Axis Powers. C) Central Powers. D) Bolsheviks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allied Powers. 38. Which of these was a cause of inflation in Germany? A) Germany's economy was damaged because of WWI. B) Reparations payments made Germany economically weak. C) Loss of industrial land meant there were fewer resources. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 39. What was the primary focus of United States foreign policy prior to the outbreak of World War II? A) Defend the price of freedom of the seas. B) Contain the spread of communism. C) Retreat from international affairs and become isolationists. D) Fulfill collective security agreements with Western European nations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Retreat from international affairs and become isolationists. 40. Program designed to fix the Depression in U.S. A) New Deal. B) Square Deal. C) Old Deal. D) Round Deal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New Deal. 41. Which of these is NOT a term of the Treaty of Versailles? A) WWI was blamed on Germany. B) Germany had to pay reparations. C) Germany gains territory in China. D) Germany was demilitarized. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Germany gains territory in China. 42. What event is the spark of WWI? A) Competition over Colonies. B) Zimmerman Telegram. C) Sinking of Lusitania. D) Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. 43. Which national leaders headed Allied governments during World War II? A) Roosevelt, Stalin and Mussolini. B) Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. C) Churchill, Mussolini and Tojo. D) Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. 44. Agreements between two or more nations to assist one another, especially in the event of an attack or war. A) Militarism. B) Alliances. C) Nationalism. D) Imperialism. E) Assassination. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliances. 45. Imperialism is often preceded by what other ISM? A) Xenophobia. B) Economic competition. C) Nationalism. D) Cultural superiority. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nationalism. 46. What policy would have been supported by Hoover and NOT by Roosevelt? A) Business should hire more workers to support social programs. B) Economic stability can only met with laissez-faire practices. C) Economic stability can be achieved through foreign tariffs. D) Worker unions should have more collective bargaining rights. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Economic stability can only met with laissez-faire practices. 47. Which of these things did Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler NOT have in common? A) Use of secret police for terror tactics. B) Use of propaganda glorify themselves and country. C) All were communists. D) Purged or eliminated anyone against them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All were communists. 48. Soldiers fighting in deep ditches with terrible conditions were known as A) Trench Tactics. B) Gorilla Warfare. C) Gorilla Tactics. D) Trench Warfare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trench Warfare. 49. How did Hitler gain political power in Germany? A) He overthrew the Reichstag in a coup d'etat. B) Hitler and his supporters held a peaceful revolution by achieved power in a day. C) The Nazi party gained a majority in the Reichstag through elections. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Nazi party gained a majority in the Reichstag through elections. 50. Having EXTREME PRIDE in your country. A) WWI Nationalism. B) WWII Nationalism. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) WWII Nationalism. 51. Which of the following events would Mein Kampf be associated with? A) Mussolini's Fascism in Italy. B) Stalin's dictatorship in the Soviet Union. C) Churchill's wartime commission in Britain. D) Hitler's Nazism in Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hitler's Nazism in Germany. 52. Under Hitler, the Nazi party controlled the press, schools, and religion. Hitler also built up Germany's ..... A) Military. B) Art galleries. C) Roadways. D) Universities. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Military. 53. During the 1930s, Japan's policy of imperialism was primarily driven by A) Revenge for the bombing of its cities. B) The need for natural resources. C) A desire to retain its traditional values. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The need for natural resources. 54. Which would be the most credible primary source about Nazi camps during the Holocaust? A) A film about the camps by person whose parents were in a camp. B) 1942 movie produced by the German government. C) A novel set in a concentration camp. D) An account of camp life by a survivor of a concentration camp. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An account of camp life by a survivor of a concentration camp. 55. A major result of the Nuremberg trials after World War II was that A) Germany was divided into four zones of occupation. B) The United Nations was formed to prevent future acts of genocide. C) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was established to stop the spread of communism. D) Nazi political and military leaders were held accountable for their actions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The United Nations was formed to prevent future acts of genocide. 56. What did the American 'Lend-Lease Act' do?S/N #2 A) Gave homeless Europeans affordable places to live. B) Authorized the President to transfer arms and other defense materials to Great Britain. C) Allowed Americans to borrow weapons from Great Britain. D) Allowed Americans to resume lending money to the Germans. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Authorized the President to transfer arms and other defense materials to Great Britain. 57. What did the 21 conditions document call for? A) Economic liberalization. B) Support for monarchies. C) Peaceful protests. D) Expulsion of reformists. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Expulsion of reformists. 58. The two alliances of WWII were called the ..... Powers and the ..... Powers. A) Allied & English. B) Allied & Axis. C) Axis & American. D) American & Japanese. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allied & Axis. 59. When Russia became communist after the Bolshevik Revolution how did the economy change? A) All private lands were taken away and owned jointly. B) Things remained the same. C) All resources were sold only to the Russian people. D) Everything was sent to the front to fight the war. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All private lands were taken away and owned jointly. 60. Which British Prime Minister believed in appeasement? A) Lord Halifax. B) Neville Chamberlain. C) Winston Churchill. D) None of the above. 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