This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 12 > Class 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years Quiz 16 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. Where does the term "fascism" come from? A) A political movement. B) A historical document. C) The name of a leader. D) A bundle of rods. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A bundle of rods. 4. Which BEST explains the population shift from Oklahoma to California during the 1930s? A) The growing industrial economy created factory jobs in West. B) The new interstate highway system made travel West easier. C) Government forced Native Americans to leave reservations. D) Drought forced families to leave their farms search of jobs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Drought forced families to leave their farms search of jobs. 5. The Nuremberg Trials marked the first prosecutions for crimes against ..... A) War. B) Humanity. C) Countries. D) The Republic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humanity. 6. The group most credited with pushing prohibition was A) The KKK. B) African Americans. C) Women. D) Business Owners. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Women. 7. 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. 8. 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. 9. 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. 10. Supporters of Prohibition, such as preacher Billy Sunday, expected that Prohibition would A) Encourage people to become religious. B) Increase the violent crime rate. C) Fix the problems society. D) Put liquor distillers our of business. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fix the problems society. 11. 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. 12. During the time frame following World War I, the European economy: A) Experienced a growth in economic prosperity. B) Slid into a depression with a period of inflation. C) Experienced renewed industrial growth. D) Rebounded during the 1920's. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Slid into a depression with a period of inflation. 13. 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. 14. 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) Reparation s. B) OVRA. C) Reichstag. D) Dawes Plan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reparation s. 15. 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. 16. 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. 17. 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. 18. 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. 19. 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. 20. 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. 21. What year was the treaty of Versailles signed? A) 1918. B) 1919. C) 1920. D) 1921. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1919. 22. 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) Trench Warfare. C) Mass Production of Weapons. D) Use of Machine Guns. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Use of the Atomic Bomb. 23. 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) World War I. C) The New Deal. D) The Abdication. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Great Depression. 24. What was the purpose of Stalin's five-year plans? A) To reduce industrial output. B) To increase agricultural production. C) To rapidly industrialize the Soviet Union. D) To promote free-market policies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To rapidly industrialize the Soviet Union. 25. Who was the Emperor of Ethiopia who fought against Mussolini's invasion? A) Chiang Kai Shek. B) Mansa Musa. C) Sundiata Keita. D) Haile Selassie. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haile Selassie. ← PreviousNext →Related 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 8Class 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years Quiz 9Class 12 History Chapter 7 The Interwar Years Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books