This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Art Humanities > History > Class 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years Quiz 7 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What was the primary goal of the National Assembly formed in Weimar? A) To draft a new constitution. B) To elect a new chancellor. C) To declare war. D) To disband the Freikorps. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To draft a new constitution. 2. How did the Treaty of Versailles help pave the way for the Nazi party to gain control of Germany? A) By limiting the territory of Germany. B) By making the German people pay for the war. C) By assigning Germany total responsibility for the war. D) By creating resentment and anger among the German people. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) By creating resentment and anger among the German people. 3. In the early 1900s, Al Capone was a A) Entertainer. B) Policeman. C) Bootlegger. D) Firefighter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bootlegger. 4. The Munich Agreement was an agreement signed by Britain, France, Italy and Germany agreeing to Hitler's terms regarding the annexation of the Sudetenland to Germany. The Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia were not present in the pact meeting. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. When Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for president in 1932, the country was A) Mired in the Great Depression. B) Enjoying economic prosperity. C) Supportive of Herbert Hoover. D) Preoccupied with WW II. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mired in the Great Depression. 6. Which characteristic of German society in the 1930s best demonstrates it was a totalitarian state? A) Rationing limited the products civilians could buy. B) The government imposed heavy tariffs on imports. C) The military rapidly declined in influence. D) A charismatic dictator controlled much of the mass media. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A charismatic dictator controlled much of the mass media. 7. Intense love and pride in one's country A) Militarism. B) Alliances. C) Nationalism. D) Imperialism. E) Assassination. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nationalism. 8. Returning land formerly owned by Mexico back to Mexico if they joined an alliance with Germany was part of the A) German Armistice. B) Mexico-Germany Compromise. C) Zimmerman Note. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Zimmerman Note. 9. What was the goal of the League of Nations? A) Punish Germany for the war. B) Spread the communist international. C) Negotiate international conflict peacefully. D) Increase global trade. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Negotiate international conflict peacefully. 10. What is WWI also known as? A) Revolutionary War. B) Great War. C) Civil War. D) Big War. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Great War. 11. Who was the leader of the Communists in China that led his followers on a Long March? A) Josef Stalin. B) Gandhi. C) Mao Zedong. D) Sun Yat-Sen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mao Zedong. 12. How did Stalin transform the role of agriculture in the Soviet Union? A) Gave the peasants land. B) He collectively combined it under the state. C) Put numerous Kulaks in charge. D) Set 8 year plans for farmers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He collectively combined it under the state. 13. Totalitarian countries are characterized by A) Free and open discussions of ideas. B) A multiparty system with several candidates for each office. C) Government control of newspapers, radio and television. D) Government protection of people's civil liberties. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Government control of newspapers, radio and television. 14. What decision by the provisional government proved to be costly? A) They kept Russia in the war. B) They provided too much food for the peasant. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They kept Russia in the war. 15. Where does the term "fascism" come from? A) A political movement. B) The name of a leader. C) A bundle of rods. D) A historical document. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A bundle of rods. 16. Which BEST explains the population shift from Oklahoma to California during the 1930s? A) The growing industrial economy created factory jobs in West. B) Drought forced families to leave their farms search of jobs. C) Government forced Native Americans to leave reservations. D) The new interstate highway system made travel West easier. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Drought forced families to leave their farms search of jobs. 17. The Nuremberg Trials marked the first prosecutions for crimes against ..... A) Countries. B) The Republic. C) War. D) Humanity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Humanity. 18. The group most credited with pushing prohibition was A) The KKK. B) Business Owners. C) Women. D) African Americans. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Women. 19. What created tensions between Arabs & Jews in Palestine after WWI? A) Competition for natural resources. B) Both groups saw the area as their potential national state. C) Decline of the Ottoman Empire. D) The French Favored the Arabs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Both groups saw the area as their potential national state. 20. What was the chief appeal of fascism to Italians after World War I? A) It promised a strong and stable government. B) It offered workers hope for socialist reform. C) It put individual or class interests above national goals. D) It emphasized the concepts of equality and fraternity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It promised a strong and stable government. 21. Germany had to pay $ 33 billion dollars in ..... A) Land. B) Military. C) Reparations. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reparations. 22. Supporters of Prohibition, such as preacher Billy Sunday, expected that Prohibition would A) Fix the problems society. B) Put liquor distillers our of business. C) Increase the violent crime rate. D) Encourage people to become religious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fix the problems society. 23. What role did Bessie Coleman play in aviation history? A) She became the first American woman to legally become a pilot. B) She invented the radio. C) She flew across the Atlantic Ocean non stop. D) She introduced commercial air flights. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She became the first American woman to legally become a pilot. 24. During the time frame following World War I, the European economy: A) Experienced renewed industrial growth. B) Rebounded during the 1920's. C) Slid into a depression with a period of inflation. D) Experienced a growth in economic prosperity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slid into a depression with a period of inflation. 25. Czechoslovakia was a poor state with a weak army, but had a strategic location for Hitler. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 26. The financial payments made by the Germans to the British and French after WWI. The Germans had to pay 33 billion dollars to the Allied nations. A) Dawes Plan. B) Reichstag. C) Reparation s. D) OVRA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reparation s. 27. What was Lenin's "New Economic Policy" ? A) Small scale capitalism. B) Socialism. C) Communism. D) Autocracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Small scale capitalism. 28. The election of FDR in 1932 reflected the desire of Americans to A) Return to laissez-faire. B) Abandon capitalism in favor of communism. C) Continue the policies of the Hoover administration. D) Have government take an active role in solving economic problems. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Have government take an active role in solving economic problems. 29. T/F-Fascism is extreme conservatism and nationalism. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 30. Which two Japanese cities were bombed with atomic weapons in 1945? A) Tokyo and Osaka. B) Nagasaki and Hiroshima. C) Kyoto and Sapporo. D) Yokohama and Kobe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nagasaki and Hiroshima. 31. A militant political movement. This movement is characterized by loyalty to the leader and to the nation. This movement is extremely nationalistic. This movement always has a scapegoat to make the cause of the leader popular. This movement also believes in a strong connection between business and the government. A) Communist. B) Fascist. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fascist. 32. During the 1920s in Australia A) Electric lighting was installed in many homes for the rst time. B) Electrical appliances such as vacuum cleaners, fridges and irons became available. C) Ford and General Motors established themselves. D) All three answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All three answers are correct. 33. World War I was the most deadly war up to this point in history. But, which of the following was NOT a reason so many died in World War I? A) Use of the Atomic Bomb. B) Use of Machine Guns. C) Mass Production of Weapons. D) Trench Warfare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Use of the Atomic Bomb. 34. The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in the United States in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s; a worldwide economic downturn resulted. A) The Great Depression. B) The Abdication. C) The New Deal. D) World War I. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Great Depression. 35. What was the purpose of Stalin's five-year plans? A) To increase agricultural production. B) To rapidly industrialize the Soviet Union. C) To promote free-market policies. D) To reduce industrial output. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To rapidly industrialize the Soviet Union. 36. Who was the Emperor of Ethiopia who fought against Mussolini's invasion? A) Chiang Kai Shek. B) Sundiata Keita. C) Mansa Musa. D) Haile Selassie. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haile Selassie. 37. Which belief was central to eugenicists? A) All people have equal genetic potential. B) Society should prevent "unfit" people from reproducing. C) Genetic diversity is beneficial for society. D) Education can overcome genetic differences. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Society should prevent "unfit" people from reproducing. 38. Peak unemployment during Depression: A) 10%. B) 15%. C) 25%. D) 5%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 25%. 39. What foreign policy practiced by the United States attempted to keep them out of European affairs after WWI? A) Isolationism. B) Liberalism. C) The Big Stick Policy. D) Neutralism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Isolationism. 40. What way did the Treaty of Versailles establish conditions led to the outbreak of World War II? A) It called for dissolving the League of Nations. B) It weakened Allied countries making reduce the size of armies. C) Germany had much power by Germany to keep Alsace-Lorraine. D) It imposed harsh reparations on Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It imposed harsh reparations on Germany. 41. What day did the Japanese conduct sneak attack on the American military port of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii? A) December 7th, 1941. B) December 7th, 1942. C) December 9th, 1942. D) December 9th, 1941. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) December 7th, 1941. 42. What prompted the creation of NATO? A) The Holocaust. B) The possibility of further communist expansion. C) The creation of the Warsaw Pact. D) The Great Depression. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The possibility of further communist expansion. 43. Some countries chose to print more money in order to improve their economy during the Great Depression. This caused the value of money to decrease and the prices of goods to increase. This situation is called ..... A) Inflation. B) Depression. C) Investing. D) Collectivizing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inflation. 44. What of the following is NOT true about the Lend Lease Act? A) Eliminate "cash and carry" policy. B) Provided supplies to other nations. C) Agreement from other countries for the U.S. to receive supplies. D) Aided allies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Agreement from other countries for the U.S. to receive supplies. 45. Who was known as the "Mad Monk" and was responsible for Czarina Alexandra's failures as a leader? A) Tsar Nicholas II. B) Lenin. C) Alexei Romanov. D) Rasputin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rasputin. 46. Why did Russia stop fighting in the Great War in 1917? A) They were taken over by Germany. B) They did not stop fighting in 1917. C) Revolution by the communists took over the country. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Revolution by the communists took over the country. 47. Which dictator forced farmers to combine farms into giant collectives, run by the state? A) Hirohito. B) Hitler. C) Stalin. D) Missolini. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stalin. 48. World War I and the Suppression of Dissent. What was the menace? A) Great Migration. B) Red Scare. C) Prohibition Era. D) Bonus Army. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Red Scare. 49. Which alliance was Turkey/The Ottoman Empire with? A) Central Powers. B) Allied Powers. C) Neutral. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Central Powers. 50. Shanty towns were A) Made for the upper class. B) Built from discarded materials on waste ground. C) Two story houses provided by the government. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Built from discarded materials on waste ground. 51. Charles Lindbergh's great event was what? A) Creating the airplane. B) Flying solo across the Atlantic. C) Getting lost in the Pacific. D) Winning an across country road race. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flying solo across the Atlantic. 52. Military Dictator of Japan- A) Hirohito. B) Stalin. C) Hitler. D) Tojo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tojo. 53. What is a depression? A) Long economic downturn that causes the loss of jobs and money for the population. B) Information used to shape people's opinion. C) A ruler with total power over the country. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Long economic downturn that causes the loss of jobs and money for the population. 54. Which country felt sidelined by Western powers, contributing to a fascist surge? A) China. B) Italy. C) Japan. D) Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Japan. 55. What was the result of China having a Nationalist government recognized by the world but a Communist party growing in the countryside? A) A social realist art campaign was created to uplift nationalist ideas. B) Nationalist groups and armed gangs wiped out the Communists. C) Civil war broke out between the two groups. D) Communist leaders were forced to work in labor camps. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Civil war broke out between the two groups. 56. Which country did NOT see a political revolution during the first two decades of the 20th century? A) Russia. B) Mexico. C) Germany. D) China. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Germany. 57. How did the Romanov (Russia) and the Hapsburg (Austria) Dynasties impact Europe? A) Eastern Europe became less stable than before. B) Eastern Europe became more stable than before. C) Europe became Communist. D) Europe became Capitalist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eastern Europe became less stable than before. 58. A period of low economic activity and rising unemployment is called A) A stock market crash. B) An economic depression. C) An inflationary period. D) An economic cycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An economic depression. 59. A major goal of the allied statesmen at the Congress of Vienna was to- A) Establish democratic governments throughout Europe. B) Maintain a balance of power in Europe. C) Return Napoleon Bonaparte to power. D) Support nationalist movements in Poland, Italy and Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Maintain a balance of power in Europe. 60. Which did Irving Berlin write? A) The Sun Also Rises. B) The Age of Innocence. C) White Christmas. D) It's Girl. 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