This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Art Humanities > History > Class 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years Quiz 8 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The 1920's are also known as A) The Raging 20's. B) The Robust 20's. C) The Roaring 20's. D) The Raining 20's. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Roaring 20's. 2. Besides jazz, the Harlem Renaissance was also known for African American A) Literature. B) Job growth. C) Education. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literature. 3. What policy did the Brirish Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain favour for dealing with dictators who wanted more land? A) All-out war. B) Wait and see approach. C) Appeasement. D) Ignorance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Appeasement. 4. What was the name of the 1924 agreement with America which helped German economic stability? A) Young Plan. B) Locarno Plan. C) Treaty of Versailles. D) Dawes Plan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dawes Plan. 5. What occurred on October 29th, 1929 in the United States? A) March on Washington. B) Saturday Revolution. C) Bloody Sunday. D) Stock Market Crash. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stock Market Crash. 6. Which best represents facism A) Extreme internationalism. B) Extreme nationalism. C) Extreme democracy. D) Extreme support of workers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Extreme nationalism. 7. Joseph Stalin assumed power in ..... A) 1925, when Lenin died. B) 1936, when Trotsky died. C) 1940, when Russia entered World War 2. D) 1917, after the Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1925, when Lenin died. 8. What event did not cause, but kicked off the Great Depression in 1929? A) Treaty of Versailles. B) Overproduction. C) Stock Market Crash. D) Rise of Dictators. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stock Market Crash. 9. What was the correct title for a Russian ruler before the Communist Revolution? A) Kaiser. B) Emperor. C) Czar. D) King. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Czar. 10. What was the main goal of Stalin's Purges? A) Eliminate emerging capitalism. B) Suppress communism in Russia. C) Elimination of political rivals and opponents. D) End mass immigration in the Soviet Union. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elimination of political rivals and opponents. 11. The ..... will be created as a result of the Russian Revolution. A) Soviet Union. B) Allied Powers. C) Triple Entente. D) Second World War. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Soviet Union. 12. Which country was controlled by Britain under the Mandate System? A) Transjordan. B) Saudi Arabia. C) Lebanon. D) Syria. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transjordan. 13. Which country experienced the heaviest losses during World War 2?S/N #4 A) Soviet Union. B) United States. C) Germany. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Soviet Union. 14. Which option below was NOT a member of the Axis Powers?S/N #2 A) Japan. B) Italy. C) Germany. D) Russia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Russia. 15. "Mein Kampf" means: A) My Struggle. B) My Kind. C) My Anger. D) My Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) My Struggle. 16. Which of the following was NOT a reason for the growth of Indian Nationalism in the 1920's? A) Division of India. B) Broken promises from WWI. C) Rowlatt Acts. D) Amritsar Massacre. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Division of India. 17. Which of the following was NOT a major cause of the worldwide Great Depression? A) Economic interdependence among industrial nations. B) The financial and economic crisis associated with inflation. C) The increase in food prices exported from Latin America. D) The establishment of the Weimar Republic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The establishment of the Weimar Republic. 18. A new, militant political movement that emphasized loyalty to the state and obedience to its leader defines which term? A) Fascism. B) Dictatorship. C) Totalitarianism. D) Communism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fascism. 19. What was not a new weapon of WWI? A) Poison Gas. B) Tanks. C) Airplanes. D) Flamethrowers. E) All of these were new weapons. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All of these were new weapons. 20. When did Japan leave the League of Nations? A) 1920. B) 1933. C) 1937. D) 1938. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1933. 21. What social program was introduced as part of the New Deal? A) Social Security. B) Unemployment Insurance. C) Food Stamps. D) Medicare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Social Security. 22. Who were Germany's allies? A) France and the Soviet Union. B) Austria and France. C) Italy and Japan. D) Britain and Italy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Italy and Japan. 23. A work camp located in the Soviet Union A) Dachau. B) Concentration Camp. C) Gulag. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gulag. 24. What was the name of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941? A) Operation Overlord. B) Operation Barbarossa. C) Operation Torch. D) Operation Market Garden. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Operation Barbarossa. 25. What was the Great Purge? A) The removal of over 8 million Soviets opposed to Joseph Stalin as the leader of the U.S.S.R. B) A conspiracy to eliminate the King of Italy under the direction of Benito Mussolini when he was Prime Minister. C) Adolf Hitler's issue to eliminate all German Communists present in Germany. D) Franco's plan to make Catholicism the state religion of Spain, and to restore traditional forms of government. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The removal of over 8 million Soviets opposed to Joseph Stalin as the leader of the U.S.S.R. 26. Why did Europeans find fascism appealing during the interwar years? A) It opposed racism and anti-Semitism. B) It offered simple solutions to complex problems. C) It rejected nationalism and militarism. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It offered simple solutions to complex problems. 27. Who became the new fascist leader of Italy? A) Adolf Hitler. B) Leon Trotsky. C) Joseph Stalin. D) Benito Mussolini. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Benito Mussolini. 28. What were the German submarines used during the war known as? A) Central Subs. B) U-Boats. C) Dogfighters. D) X0Boats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) U-Boats. 29. One Nazi Goal was to A) Increase war reparations. B) Purify German culture. C) Promote communist revolutions. D) Stamp out racism in Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Purify German culture. 30. Which country loaned Germany money after the war so they could make their reparations payments? A) Spain. B) China. C) The United States. D) Great Britain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The United States. 31. An immediate effect of the Scopes trial on American society was that A) The trial was the first in a series of major media events. B) The trial ended the debate over teaching evolution and creationism. C) People learned the scientific evidence for the theory of evolution. D) People voted to get rid of laws regarding school curriculum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People learned the scientific evidence for the theory of evolution. 32. What caused the Amritsar Massacre? A) The British Indian Army opening fire on unarmed Indian civilians. B) A foreign invasion by neighboring countries. C) A natural disaster causing panic among the civilians. D) A peaceful protest turning violent due to a misunderstanding. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The British Indian Army opening fire on unarmed Indian civilians. 33. Believe in the state ownership of all land, natural resources and industry A) Communism. B) Socialism. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Communism. 34. What powers did Japan joins A) Axis. B) Allies. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Axis. 35. Which was NOT an action taken by Hitler after rising to power? A) Banned strikes and labor unions. B) Ordered Germans into collective farms. C) Forced students to join groups supporting him. D) Passed laws depriving Jews of their rights. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ordered Germans into collective farms. 36. Which event was used by Mohandas Gandhi to bring world attention to the injustices of British colonialism? A) Formation of the Indian Parliament. B) Partition of India. C) Salt March. D) Sepoy Mutiny. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Salt March. 37. Which country was the least affected by the war? A) Great Britain. B) USA. C) Spain. D) Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) USA. 38. Cooperating teams that promise to defend each other are called ..... A) Alliances. B) Enemies. C) Agencies. D) Orderlies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliances. 39. What principle states that you can't know a particle's exact position and speed at the same time? A) Uncertainty Principle. B) Conservation of Energy. C) Principle of Relativity. D) Law of Inertia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Uncertainty Principle. 40. Which of the following was the weakness of the new German Republic A) Inflation. B) Treaty of Versailles. C) Lack of expierence. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 41. What year was Hitler appointed Chancellor? A) 1933. B) 1945. C) 2010. D) 1985. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1933. 42. After Hitler starts to build up his mililtary, where does he first invade? A) Poland. B) Rhineland. C) Austria. D) Czechoslovakia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhineland. 43. Why was the Beer Hall Putsch significant to Hitler's Rise to Power? A) The Nazi party successfully overthrew the government. B) He took control of the Nazi Party. C) Hitler was arrested for driving while impaired. D) Hitler went to jail, but became an even more popular ruler. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hitler went to jail, but became an even more popular ruler. 44. During the Great Depression, there was a severe drought in the Great Plains. Strong prairie winds picked up the topsoil and spread dust everywhere. Many farm families packed everything up and moved west. What was this event called? A) Salad Bowl. B) Dust Bowl. C) Great Plains Panic. D) Depressing Dust. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dust Bowl. 45. The Allied Powers' policy of ..... toward Germany was based on the belief that the satisfaction of Adolf Hitler's reasonable demands would maintain peace on the European continent. A) Blitzkrieg. B) Resistance. C) Appeasement. D) Containment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Appeasement. 46. When did the Mexican Revolution start? A) 1912. B) 1914. C) 1910. D) 1916. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1910. 47. Who led the Spanish military in a revolt against the democratic government in Spain? A) Salvador Dali. B) Francisco Franco. C) Benito Mussolini. D) Leon Trotsky. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Francisco Franco. 48. Who did Hitler blame for the Reichstag fire? A) Nazi's. B) America. C) Communists. D) Jews. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Communists. 49. What was the name of FDR's plan to reconstruct America following the Great Depression? A) No Deal. B) Reconstruction. C) New Deal. D) FDR's Plan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) New Deal. 50. Why was Prohibition unsuccessful in the United States? A) It was successful. B) Beer breweries gave away free alcohol. C) The law was too hard to enforce. D) People stopped drinking alcohol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The law was too hard to enforce. 51. Which did not happen during the Interwar Years? A) More advertisements. B) Inventions of new products. C) Growth of consumerism problems. D) A huge war. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A huge war. 52. What was the major consequence of the March Revolution of 1917? A) It forced Kerensky to surrender to the Bolsheviks. B) It secured Stalin as leader of Russia. C) It allowed Trotsky to negotiate peace with Germany. D) It forced Czar Nicholas II to abdicate the throne. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It forced Czar Nicholas II to abdicate the throne. 53. How did Russia's decision to pullout of World War I provide Germany with a strategic advantage? A) Germany was able to focus fighting on one front instead of two. B) Germany could now use Russian ports to avoid Britain's naval blockade. C) Germany was able to capture Russian factories that made weapons. D) Germany could now use Russian spies to gain information about the Allies war plans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Germany was able to focus fighting on one front instead of two. 54. What factor most contributed to the stock market crash of 1929? A) Increased worker wages. B) New forms of mass entertainment. C) Technological advancements. D) Unsustainable speculation in the stock market. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Unsustainable speculation in the stock market. 55. Which of the following is an example of appeasement? A) Hitler invading Poland and Britain and France declaring War. B) Signing of the Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact. C) Invasion of Sudetenland by Hitler and Britain/France asking him not to do it again. D) Britain and France immediately stopping Germany after Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Invasion of Sudetenland by Hitler and Britain/France asking him not to do it again. 56. Who created the theory of relativity? A) Albert Einstien. B) Rasputin. C) Sigmund Frued. D) Bill Gates. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Albert Einstien. 57. A result of jazz's development during the 1920s and 1930s was that many people A) Embraced jazz music. B) Rejected the ragtime sound. C) Began performing spirituals. D) Claimed credit for jazz. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Embraced jazz music. 58. Why did The League of Nations fail to establish worldwide peace and prevent wars? A) Not enough countries were part of it. B) The United States didn't join. C) There was no way to enforce the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. D) Revolutions occured in other nations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) There was no way to enforce the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. 59. Under Hitler's power, thousands of Jewish people were sent to prison camps, where many were killed or died of starvation or disease. These camps were called what? A) Ghettos. B) Concentration camps. C) Education camps. D) Internment camps. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Concentration camps. 60. The Bonus Army incident in 1932 best illustrates the idea that A) F.D.R.'s relief programs were unsuccessful. B) Americans were just so done with Hoover because he was not handling the Depression well. C) WWI veterans were respected and their protests during the Depression were effective. D) The U.S. Army had increased in size and power during the Depression. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Americans were just so done with Hoover because he was not handling the Depression well. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesArt Humanities QuizzesClass 12 QuizzesClass 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years Quiz 1Class 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 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books