World History Exam

Question 1

A tax placed on foreign goods; didn’t work

Answer 1

Smoot Hawley Tariff

Question 2

He believed the government should have a limited role in the economy

Answer 2

Hoover

Question 3

A plan to help the U.S. get out of the depression

Answer 3

New Deal

Question 4

He believed that the government should take an active role in the economy

Answer 4

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 5

He was the leader of the Bolshevik party

Answer 5

Vladimir Lenin

Question 6

Decided to lead Russia in WWI with no military experience

Answer 6

Czar Nicholas II

Question 7

He was an advisor to the royal family who had mystical powers

Answer 7

Rasputi

Question 8

A trading company that ruled India

Answer 8

The British East India Company

Question 9

Why was the Sepoy Mutiny significant?

Answer 9

It led to direct British rule in India

Question 10

How did the British rule affect the Indian textile industry?

Answer 10

The British closed Indian textile factories, which devastated the industry

Question 11

The day the stock market crashed

Answer 11

Black Tuesday- Oct. 29, 1929

Question 12

Requiring the use of all society’s resources in war

Answer 12

Total war

Question 13

Info designed to influence people’s opinions in order to encourage support of the war effort

Answer 13

Propaganda

Question 14

A formal agreement to stop fighting

Answer 14

Armistice

Question 15

A treaty named after the French palace of Versailles, punished the Germans

Answer 15

Treaty of Versailles

Question 16

Took over after the fall of the czar

Answer 16

Aleksandr Kerensky

Question 17

A top Bolshevik official

Answer 17

Leon Trotsky

Question 18

A secret message from German diplomat Arthur Zimmerman to officials in Mexico in which Germany proposed that Mexico attack the United States

Answer 18

Zimmerman Note

Question 19

Fighting from trenches

Answer 19

Trench warfare

Question 20

Woodrow Wilson’s plan for peace

Answer 20

Fourteen Points

Question 21

The organization Wilson envisioned in his fourteen points

Answer 21

League of Nations

Question 22

Any ship traveling in waters around Great Britain was subject to attack by German submarines, under this policy

Answer 22

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

Question 23

The archduke of Austria-Hungary

Answer 23

Franz Ferdinand

Question 24

Germany, Italy, and Japan were what powers?

Answer 24

The axis powers

Question 25

Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and later the United States were what powers?

Answer 25

The allied powers

Question 26

(Blank) is invaded by Germany and starts WWII

Answer 26

Poland

Question 27

Germany sends thousands of aircrafts over Britain in bombing raids known as...

Answer 27

The Battle of Britain

Question 28

Czechoslovakia was split up and the Sudetenland was given to Germany

Answer 28

The Munich Conference

Question 29

Giving in to aggressive demands in order to maintain peace

Answer 29

Appeasement

Question 30

A war tactic that emphasized speed and close coordination between planes in the air and fast-moving forces on the ground

Answer 30

Blitzkrieg

Question 31

The desire to avoid involvement in the affairs of other nations

Answer 31

Isolationism

Question 32

An authoritarian form of government that places the food of the nation above all else

Answer 32

Fascism

Question 33

Japanese pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and deliberately crashed into Allied ships, sacrificing their own lives in the process

Answer 33

Kamikazes

Question 34

An agreement in which each side promises not to attack the other

Answer 34

Nonaggression pact

Question 35

Skipping over Japanese strongholds and capturing weaker targets

Answer 35

Island Hopping

Question 36

True or False: the militarization of Rhineland violated the Treaty of Versailles

Answer 36

True

Question 37

True or False: The United States provided military aid to Great Britain before entering the war

Answer 37

True

Question 38

True or False: Many German Jews could not flee Nazi Germany because the United States and many European nations would not allow them to enter

Answer 38

True

Question 39

True or False: The Atlantic Charter was Roosevelt and Churchill's joint declaration proclaiming what they viewed as the purpose of going to war

Answer 39

True

Question 40

True or False: Hitler's Final Solution included less restrictive laws benefiting Germany's Jewish population

Answer 40

False