Semester 2 Finals

Question 1

Triple Entente

Answer 1

Three European countries (France, Russia, Britain) signed an alliance before WWI

Question 2

Nicholas II

Answer 2

The leader of Russia at the start of WWI

Question 3

John Pershing

Answer 3

General who commanded the US military in WWI

Question 4

Russian Revolution

Answer 4

Caused Russia to make peace with Germany and leave the Allied Powers

Question 5

Lusitania

Answer 5

US battleship sunk by the Germans who declared the seas around Britain a war zone and would sink any Allied ship in the region

Question 6

Imperialism

Answer 6

When a country expands its influence and power into a large empire

Question 7

United States

Answer 7

• Woodrow Wilson was the president of the US at the beginning of WWI
• Entered WWI three years after it started (1917)
• During the WW1, Japan attacked the US at Pearl Harbour causing the US to enter the war (1941)

Question 8

Fourteen points

Answer 8

The name of President Wilson’s plans for peace and goals of the US in the war

Question 9

Archduke Fredinand

Answer 9

• Was heir to the trhone of Austria-Hungary
• His assassination triggered the start of WW1

Question 10

Black Hand

Answer 10

• The name of the group that conspired to kill Archduke
• Their leader was Gavrilo Princip

Question 11

Austria-Hungary

Answer 11

Declared war on Serbia to start off WW1

Question 12

Zimmerman Telegram

Answer 12

• Sent by Germany to Mexico encouraging them to enter the war agains the US and promising to get Texas, New Mexio, and Arizona back
• It was the final straw that forced the US to enter WW1

Question 13

Great Depression

Answer 13

• Stock market crash of 1929 is considered to be the start of the Great Dipression which lasts thru the 1930s
• Herbert Hoover was the president at the beginning

Question 14

Winston Churchill

Answer 14

Leader of Great Britain thru much of WW1

Question 15

Erwin Rommel

Answer 15

Brilliant general commanded the German army during the invasion of Normandy

Question 16

Benito Mussolini

Answer 16

Dictator of Italy that installed fasict regime

Question 17

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 17

The name of the teaty signed between Germany and the Allied Powers to end WW1

Question 18

Japan

Answer 18

Invaded China in 1937 in an effort to expand their empire

Question 19

Soviet Union

Answer 19

• Made a deal w Germany to divide up Poland prior to WW1
• Eventually will fight the Germans on the Eastern Front

Question 20

Invasion of Normandy

Answer 20

Name of battle where the Allies attacked the western front on the coast of France June 6, 1944

Question 21

Iwo Jima

Answer 21

Marines raising a flag that was used for the Marine Corps Memorial was taken on Iwo Jima

Question 22

Korea

Answer 22

Asian country divided into North and South after WW1 and is still divided today

Question 23

Nato

Answer 23

Alliance of western countries against communism

Question 24

Albert Einstein

Answer 24

Scientist who wrote a letter to President Roosevelt telling him of the potential of an atomic bomb

Question 25

Manhattan Project

Answer 25

Name of the secret project in the US to develop an atomic bomb

Question 26

Harry Truman

Answer 26

President made the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan in WW1

Question 27

Hiroshima

Answer 27

Japanese city where the first atomic bomb was dropped

Question 28

Vietnam

Answer 28

Was a colony of France prior to WW1

Question 29

Ho Chi Minh

Answer 29

Leader of the comminist government in Norht Vietnam

Question 30

Cold War

Answer 30

Came to an end as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union of 1989