This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Art Humanities > History > Class 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years Quiz 9 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Why did banks fail? A) Wanted to steal peoples money and flee the country. B) Didn't feel like working anymore. C) Loaning out too much money to people who couldn't pay the money back. D) They had too much money then they knew what to do with. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Loaning out too much money to people who couldn't pay the money back. 2. How was Gandhi's Salt March and example of civil disobedience? A) Indians were not allowed to gather in numbers, so he called a meeting near the sea. B) Indians marched to the capital to protest the taxes on salt. C) Sit-ins were organized to highlight the injustices of the salt taxes created by the British. D) They marched to the sea to gather their own salt to highlight the injustice of laws against Indians producing their own salt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They marched to the sea to gather their own salt to highlight the injustice of laws against Indians producing their own salt. 3. Militarism means ..... A) Building up armed forces and getting ready for war. B) Having pride in your nation. C) Trying to build an empire. D) Agreements to help others. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Building up armed forces and getting ready for war. 4. How did economic depression lead to the rise of dictators? A) Germany's attempt at democracy after WWI replaced by Hitler. B) A long and severe recession in an economy or market. C) Economic instability and desperation leads citizens to seek out alternatives and more authoritarian leaders. D) When the economy is strong people trust the government. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Economic instability and desperation leads citizens to seek out alternatives and more authoritarian leaders. 5. Great Britain and the US dealt with the Great Depression by implementing Keynesian economic principles. This includes ..... A) Collective Bargaining. B) Deficit spending. C) Free Markets. D) Third-Party elections. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deficit spending. 6. Who was NOT considered a totalitarian? A) Hitler. B) Mussolini. C) Roosevelt. D) Stalin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Roosevelt. 7. Which of these convinced the Indian people that they could no longer live with British rule? A) The Nuremberg Laws. B) The Amritsar Massacre. C) The Smoot Hawley Tariff. D) The Balfour Declaration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Amritsar Massacre. 8. In addition to blaming Jews and other minorities in Germany for economic problems, Hitler was also interested in removing them from Germany to "make room" for Germans. This is related to what later move(s) by Hitler? A) Creation of an alliance between Italy and Germany. B) Germany's establishment of an army. C) The establishment of propaganda. D) Invasion of European countries for lebensraum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Invasion of European countries for lebensraum. 9. Who was elected president because he had a plan to pull America out of the Great Depression? A) William McKinley. B) Franklin D. Roosevelt. C) Woodrow Wilson. D) Theodore Roosevelt. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Franklin D. Roosevelt. 10. The ability for members of a Union to negotiate for better wages and conditions as a group is known as ..... A) Open Negotiations. B) Leveraged Condition Instruction. C) Collective Bargaining. D) Striking. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Collective Bargaining. 11. What event finally ended the Great Depression? A) World War II. B) FDIC. C) FDR's 4th term. D) New Deal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) World War II. 12. These would provide the legal framework for the systematic persecution of Jews in Germany A) Appeasement. B) Jim Crow Laws. C) Declaration of the Rights of Man. D) Nuremberg Laws. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nuremberg Laws. 13. Which event best replaces the question mark in this sequence? Russia 1917-1918 * Czar Nicholas II abdicated Russian Imperial throne *? * Bolsheviks seized power and became the Communist Party * Russia signed a peace treaty with the Central Powers A) The Russian government adopted the New Economic Policy. B) Leon Trotsky escaped Russia for exile in Mexico. C) The Red Army won the Russian Civil War. D) Vladimir Lenin returned to lead the Russian Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vladimir Lenin returned to lead the Russian Revolution. 14. What was President Wilson's proposed points called that he brought to Versailles? A) Ten Points. B) Two Points. C) Seven points. D) Fourteen Points. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fourteen Points. 15. Who was being bathed in kerosene at immigration centers? A) Europeans. B) Mexicans. C) African Americans. D) Asians. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mexicans. 16. The German democratic government that was established between the World Wars was called ..... S/N #1 A) The National Socialists. B) The Weimar Republic. C) The People's Republic of Germany. D) The Third Reich. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Weimar Republic. 17. Meeting where the British and French believed Hitlers was done expanding A) Mensheviks. B) Munich Conference. C) Appesment. D) Sudetenland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Munich Conference. 18. Which of the following is a major reason that Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany? A) Germany's military support of Poland and France. B) Refusal by the League of Nations to admit Germany as a member. C) Provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. 19. Interwar Years means: A) Between the wars. B) During the wars. C) After the wars. D) Before the wars. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Between the wars. 20. The nature of a source requires you to discuss A) The type of source. B) Whether it is primary or secondary. C) Both of the answers. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both of the answers. 21. China's nationalist party, was led by this man, who became the first president of the Republic of China A) Mao Zedong. B) Zhou Enlai. C) Deng Xiaoping. D) Sun Yat-sen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sun Yat-sen. 22. What significant event marked the end of World War I? A) The signing of the Treaty of Versailles. B) The Battle of the Bulge. C) The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. D) The fall of the Berlin Wall. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The signing of the Treaty of Versailles. 23. Which was NOT a cause of the Russian Revolution? A) Injustice caused by the Russian government. B) Anger over working conditions. C) Frustration with leaving World War I. D) Russian losses in the World War. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frustration with leaving World War I. 24. A major difference between the attitudes of Hoover and Roosevelt was that: A) Roosevelt placed the needs business first and Hoover ignored. B) Hoover's approach was more aggressive than Roosevelt's. C) Roosevelt wanted help people first and Hoover business first. D) Hoover aimed to help the needy while Roosevelt ignored them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Roosevelt wanted help people first and Hoover business first. 25. The teaching of evolution in schools was literally put on trial when a teacher was are arrested for teaching it. What was the trial called? A) Sacco-Vanzetti Case. B) The Scopes Trial. C) The Dread Scott Case. D) Sherbert V Verner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Scopes Trial. 26. How did Stalin punish Ukrainians who resisted collectivization? A) He closed their schools. B) Gassed the area. C) Withheld all good & oil from the region killing millions. D) Sent the Soviet Army to capture people. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Withheld all good & oil from the region killing millions. 27. What happened on November IIth 1918? A) WWI was ended. B) WWII ended. C) Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. D) Russia withdrew from WWI. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) WWI was ended. 28. What historical event contributed to the rise of fascism in both Italy and Germany? A) The Spanish Civil War. B) The Russian Revolution. C) The Nuremberg Party rally. D) The Great Depression. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Great Depression. 29. Many French people supported Napoleon because they believed that he would ..... A) Introduce the ideas of the Protestant Reformation. B) Restore Louis XVI to power. C) Provide stability and defeat France's enemies. D) End British control of France. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Provide stability and defeat France's enemies. 30. The Treaty of Versailles contributed to the economic collapse of Germany after WWI by A) Placing a quota (limit) on goods exported from Germany. B) Requiring that Germany spend money on its military. C) Requiring that Germany pay high war reparations. D) Forcing Germany to more strictly control its overseas colonies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Requiring that Germany pay high war reparations. 31. Feudalism creates which three classes? A) Nobility, clergy, and peasantry. B) Kings, lords, military. C) Nobility, clergy, and merchants. D) Military, merchants, and peasantry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nobility, clergy, and peasantry. 32. Which of the following events best demonstrates the policy of appeasement? A) Ethiopia's resistance to Italy's 1935 invasion. B) France's and Britain's 1938 agreement with Germany at the Munich Conference. C) The Soviet takeover of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in 1939 and 1940. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) France's and Britain's 1938 agreement with Germany at the Munich Conference. 33. When was the Porvenir Massacre? A) 1920. B) 1918. C) 1919. D) 1917. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1918. 34. What was one part of Roosevelt's New Deal program to fight the Depression A) The stock market and banking system created their own reform council. B) Government agencies took over business and farms. C) Large public works projects helped to provide jobs. D) All of the above are true. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Large public works projects helped to provide jobs. 35. Which statement describes the ideology of V.I. Lenin during the Bolshevik Revolution? A) He preserved the monarchy as a national symbol. B) He called for authoritarian rule to implement communism. C) He promoted the use of nonviolent protest for social change. D) He held parliamentary elections to legitimize the new government. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He called for authoritarian rule to implement communism. 36. Mussolini's violent supporters A) Black Shirts. B) Red Shirts. C) Brown Shirts. D) White Shirts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Black Shirts. 37. Nazi ideology that they were genetically criminal A) The Roma. B) Homosexuals. C) Jews. D) Blacks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Roma. 38. The Nazi Party promised to protect Germans from A) Democracy. B) Blitzkrieg. C) Communism. D) Propaganda. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Communism. 39. On 24 October 1929, how many shares were offered for sale with almost zero demand? A) 20 million. B) 8 million. C) 13 million. D) 5 million. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 13 million. 40. In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin governed by means of secret police, censorship, and purges. This type of government is called A) Theocracy. B) Totalitarian. C) Democracy. D) Limited monarchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Totalitarian. 41. A major factor helping to provide greater consumer goods to Americans in the 1920's was: A) The institution of the assembly line. B) An increase in cars imported from Germany. C) Computers to speed up production. D) The development of the internet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The institution of the assembly line. 42. The removal of anything critical of the government from newspapers, radio, etc. A) One Party Rule. B) Propaganda. C) Censorship. D) One Party Rule. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Censorship. 43. Hitler's SS is to Mussolini's ..... A) Red Shirts. B) Pink Shirts. C) Grey Shirts. D) Black Shirts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Black Shirts. 44. How did WWI lead to the Revolution of 1917 in Russia? A) People were upset that Russia disbanded. B) Russia being neutral upset the Russian people. C) Massive loss of life and high cost of war showed how weak the Czar was. D) Russia industrialized and allowed the people to overthrow the Czar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Massive loss of life and high cost of war showed how weak the Czar was. 45. Which issue best characterizes the years leading to the Second World War? A) Expansion of the race for space flight. B) Rise of dictators and totalitarian states. C) Introduction of new information technology. D) Concern for climate change and conservation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rise of dictators and totalitarian states. 46. In a Marxist Communist society who owns the means of production A) The communist leaders. B) The tsar. C) The government. D) The workers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The workers. 47. What impact did mass media have on popular culture during the interwar years? A) It influenced the formation of mass society. B) It led to the invention of the phonograph. C) It spread cultural appropriation and racism. D) It introduced the concept of the "modern girl" fashion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It influenced the formation of mass society. 48. Why did the League of Nations ultimately fail? A) The member countries never met to decide on world issues. B) It failed to stop invasions by large and aggressive nations like Italy, Japan, and Germany. C) It did not include enough of the world's countries for there to be active problem solving. D) Britain and France did not have the power needed to fix the issues arising around the world. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It failed to stop invasions by large and aggressive nations like Italy, Japan, and Germany. 49. In 1920, women won the right to: A) Join labor unions. B) Work in factories. C) Vote. D) Equal pay. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vote. 50. In the 1920's, the immigration Act of 1924 and the Sacco-Vanzetti trial were typical of the A) Rejection of traditional customs and beliefs. B) Acceptance of cultural differences. C) Increase in nativism and intolerance. D) Laissez-faire approach by the government. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Increase in nativism and intolerance. 51. During the late 19th century, which geographic factor attracted European imperialism to South Africa? A) Temperate climates. B) Natural resources. C) Smooth coastlines. D) Navigable rivers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Natural resources. 52. What was the Schlieffen Plan and how did it influence the start of World War I? A) A military strategy to attack France through Belgium. B) A diplomatic effort to prevent the United States from entering the war. C) An economic plan to undermine Russian industrial capabilities. D) A naval blockade against the United Kingdom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A military strategy to attack France through Belgium. 53. Dictator of the Soviet Union prior to WWII. A) Hideki Tojo. B) Benito Mussolini. C) Uncle Joe Stalin. D) Adolf Hitler. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Uncle Joe Stalin. 54. Deprived Jews of their rights of citizenship, prohibiting Jews from marrying Germans or non-Jews A) Nuremberg Laws. B) Star of David. C) Allies. D) Third Reich. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nuremberg Laws. 55. During the war, which countries made up the Allied Powers and the Central Powers? A) Allied Powers:France, Russia, Britain; Central Powers:Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire. B) Allied Powers:Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire; Central Powers:France, Russia, Britain. C) Allied Powers:Canada, Mexico, Japan; Central Powers:Spain, Italy, Romania. D) Allied Powers:Spain, Italy, Romania; Central Powers:Canada, Mexico, Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allied Powers:France, Russia, Britain; Central Powers:Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire. 56. What were the characteristics of Soviet society under Stalin? A) Democratic governance. B) Free-market economy. C) Totalitarian control and collectivization. D) Cultural liberalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Totalitarian control and collectivization. 57. Which country did Japan invade in order to get resources for it's factories? A) Korea. B) Australia. C) USA. D) China. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) China. 58. When did German troops invade Poland? A) October 1923. B) August 1934. C) November 11, 1918. D) September 1, 1939. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) September 1, 1939. 59. What form of government did Germany have from 1919-1933? A) Constitutional monarchy. B) Oligarchy. C) Absolute monarchy. D) Republic/Democracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Republic/Democracy. 60. The 14 Points were ..... A) Woodrow Wilson's plan for winning WWI. B) Georges Clemenceau's Plan for punishing Germany after the war. C) Woodrow WIlson's plan for Peace after WWI. D) The allied powers plan for stoppint the Russian Revo. 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