Chuang WH Spring End of Term - Quiz
  • 1. All of the following were goods from China that the British wanted except
A) Tea
B) Porcelain
C) Opium
D) Silk
  • 2. Where was the opium grown that the British shipped into China?
A) Korea
B) India
C) Columbia
D) Japan
  • 3. What island became British property because of the Opium War?
A) Japan
B) Formosa
C) Hong Kong
D) Catalina
  • 4. What was the name of the secret organization whose popular name was "Boxer?"
A) the group of Harmonious Hands
B) the Society of United Fighters
C) the Group of United Fighter
D) the Society of Harmonious Fists
  • 5. The Boxers
A) engaged in a program that strengthened the Imperial government.
B) favored Chinese Christian converts.
C) wanted foreigners to leave China.
D) were invincible to bullets.
  • 6. The Open Door Policy was proposed by John Hay of
A) the United States
B) China
C) Russia
D) Great Britain
  • 7. Who commanded the American fleet that sailed into Edo Bay in the Summer of 1853?
A) Matthew Perry
B) Chandler Bing
C) Millard Fillmore
D) Theodore Roosevelt
  • 8. Japan began the war with Russia in 1904 by a sneak attack on
A) Pearl Harbor
B) Port Arthur
C) Moscow
D) Tokyo
  • 9. What award did President Theodore Roosevelt win for his role in ending the Russo-Japanese War?
A) Congressional Medal of Freedom
B) Croix de Guerre
C) Nobel Peace Prize
D) Academy Award
  • 10. Threatening to go to war in order to achieve one's goals is known as
A) Brinksmanship
B) Mobilization
C) Utilization
D) Conscription
  • 11. Mandatory military service, where everyone has to join the army is called
A) brinksmanship
B) conscription
C) mobilization
D) utilization
  • 12. The assembling and making troops and supplies ready for war is called
A) brinksmanship
B) conscription
C) mobilization
D) utilization
  • 13. Germany, Austrio-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire were known as the
A) Allied Powers
B) The Big Three
C) Central Powers
D) League of Nations
  • 14. Great Britain, France, and Russia were called
A) Central Powers
B) The Big Three
C) League of Nations
D) Allied Powers
  • 15. The assassination of what archduke precipitated the war?
A) Schlieffen
B) William II
C) Franz Ferdinand
D) Bismarck
  • 16. The United States entered World War I for all of the following reasons except
A) the sinking of American ships by German U-Boats
B) Germany's submarine blockade of Britain
C) Germany's use of poison gas
D) Germany's efforts to make Mexico an ally against the US.
  • 17. Allies are bound to
A) buy and sell goods amongst each other.
B) go to war to support each other
C) negotiate peace settlements
D) pay for the cheeseburgers
  • 18. All of the following were major part of the fighting World War I except
A) poison gas
B) trenches
C) machine gun
D) cavalry charge
  • 19. Britain declared war on Germany when
A) Turkey and Bulgaria joined the Central Powers.
B) the Germans invaded neutral Belgium
C) the Germany Army invaded France
D) Germany declared war on Russia
  • 20. The area between enemy lines is called
A) DMZ
B) Ghetto
C) trenches
D) No Man's Land
  • 21. Which of the following was NOT one of the Big Three powers during the writing of the Treaty of Versailles?
A) United States
B) Great Britain
C) Germany
D) France
  • 22. The nation the Treaty of Versailles blamed for starting the war was
A) Mexico
B) Austria
C) Serbia
D) Germany
  • 23. The main purpose of the League of Nations was
A) to enforce the Treaty of Versaillles
B) to aid postwar reconstruction
C) to support peace by solving conflict through negotiations
D) to plan for world disarmament
  • 24. The League failed to keep the peace because
A) Germany was not a member
B) Russia was a member
C) Japan was not a member
D) The US was not a member
  • 25. The leader of the Russian Provisional Government was
A) Lenin
B) Josef Stalin
C) Boris Badenov
D) Alexander Kerensky
  • 26. The name of the Russian Communists was
A) Stolichnaya
B) White Russians
C) Bolsheviks
D) Menshaviks
  • 27. Which Russian leader promised "Peace, Land and Bread"?
A) Karl Marx
B) Alexander Kerensky
C) Alexander II
D) V. Lenin
  • 28. The political philosopher who created modern communism was
A) John Maynerd Keynes
B) Karl Marx
C) Che Guevera
D) V. Lenin
  • 29. The "haves" are the
A) Proletariet
B) Bourgeois
C) Labor
D) Pupil
  • 30. Under the communist system, who controlled industry in Russia?
A) workers
B) president of Russia
C) government
D) Duma
  • 31. What country controlled Colonial India?
A) United States
B) Great Britain
C) Holland
D) France
  • 32. The main leader of Indian independence movement was
A) Mohandas Gandhi
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Muhammed Jinnah
D) Apu Nahimapasphet
  • 33. Which of the following was NOT one of Gandhi's principles?
A) Battle injustice in all forms, using force if necessary.
B) Live simply, never seeking material rewards
C) Be tolerant of all religious beliefs.
D) Spend life in the service of others.
  • 34. How would Gandhi complete this sentence? "For that cause (Indian civil rights) I am willing to die, however there is no cause for which I am willing to _____"
A) tuck my shirt in
B) starve
C) fight
D) kill
  • 35. Who was the Russian Czar during the Russian Revolution?
A) Nicholas II
B) Peter the First
C) Alexander II
D) Ivan the Terrible
  • 36. Leader in the Chinese Communist Revolution?
A) Tojo
B) Mao Zedong
C) V. Lenin
D) Old Major
  • 37. Which leader founded the Republic of China?
A) Sun Yat-Sen
B) Benito Mussolini
C) Mao Zedong
D) Chiang Kai-Shek
  • 38. Who was the leader of the Italian Fascist Party?
A) Benito Mussolini
B) Al Capone
C) Victor Emmanuel
D) Alberto Tomba
  • 39. What book did Hitler write?
A) Naziraum
B) Mein Kampf
C) Mein Hausen
D) Fast Food Nation
  • 40. France and Britain _________ against the aggressive moves of Hitler and Mussolini in Munich.
A) took strong action
B) fought
C) took no effective action
D) complained to the League of Nations.
  • 41. Hitler violated the Versailles Treaty when he sent troops into
A) Czechoslovakia
B) Austria
C) the Rhineland
D) Denmark
  • 42. Britain and France declared war on Germany after Hitler took over
A) Czechoslovakia
B) Poland
C) El Monte
D) Austria
  • 43. What two countries pledged not to attack each other in 1939, a pledge that shocked the world?
A) Germany and the Soviet Union
B) Japan and Mexico
C) Germany and Japan
D) Britain and Germany
  • 44. In June 1940, who surrendered to Germany?
A) Britain
B) the Soviet Union
C) France
D) Italy
  • 45. The Battle of Britain was fought primarily
A) underwater
B) in the air
C) on the sea
D) on the ground
  • 46. What helped the Soviet Army fight the Germany?
A) the US Air Force
B) a system of trenches
C) harsh winter weather
  • 47. The immediate cause for the US to enter World War II was
A) Germany's attack on Poland
B) Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor
C) Russia's attack on China
D) Japan's invasion of the Philippines
  • 48. World War II began in 1939 and ended in
A) 1945
B) 1944
C) 1948
D) 2013
E) 1942
  • 49. The Holocaust is the name given to
A) the death of prisoners of war in Japanese Death Marches
B) Hitler's Blitzkrieg
C) the fire bombing of Europe's cities
D) Nazi destruction of Jews
  • 50. On December 7, 1941 Japan attacked the American fleet at
A) San Diego
B) the Coral Sea
C) the Philippines
D) Pearl Harbor
  • 51. What did the Nazis use to kill for "the Final Solution"?
A) cyanide
B) machine guns
C) Raid
D) Zyclon B Gas
  • 52. Where did the US drop the first atomic bomb in 1945?
A) Hiroshima
B) Rome
C) Nagasaki
D) Berlin
  • 53. Which of the following does NOT describe Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy and Stalin's Russia?
A) All three nations wanted to expand their borders.
B) They were all totalitarian governments
C) They had communist governments
D) Political opponents were killed in each state.
  • 54. The largest of the German Concentration Camps was
A) Aushwitz
B) Ghetto
C) Dachau
D) Bataan
  • 55. The two superpowers in the world after 1945 were
A) The Soviet Union and China
B) The United States and the Soviet Union
C) France and the United States
D) The United States and Great Britain
  • 56. Which of these was a subject on which the leaders of the Allied nations disagreed?
A) to hold a meeting at Yalta in 1945
B) the kinds of government in Eastern Europe
C) the creation of a United Nations
  • 57. The General Assembly of the United Nations:
A) is made up of mostly European members
B) has only 15 members
C) controls the world
D) is made up of every country in the UN
  • 58. The Marshall Plan did not:
A) provide money to build up the economies of Western Europe
B) supply military aid to Greece and Turkey.
C) try to prevent the spread of communism
  • 59. A plan for massive economic aid after World War II was called
A) Social Security
B) The Marshall Plan
C) the doomsday machine
D) the Truman Show
  • 60. Who set up a Soviet sponsored Communist country in Cuba?
A) Imre Nagy
B) Juan Peron
C) Fulgencio Bautista
D) Fidel Castro
  • 61. What organization was formed to militarily defend Western Europe from Communism?
A) Missile Command
B) League of Nations
C) NATO
D) G.I. Joe
  • 62. The discovery of ________ in Cuba brought the world close to Nuclear War.
A) missiles
B) russian spies
C) oil
D) tanks
  • 63. The American policy of trying to prevent the spread of communism by military and economic aid was called
A) isolationism
B) militarism
C) brinksmanship
D) containment
  • 64. The _______ symbolized the division between the Comnmunist East and the Democratic West.
A) Berlin Wall
B) Brandenburg Gate
C) Border Fence
D) Rio Grande
  • 65. The struggle between the US and the Soviet Union was called the __________ because there was no formal war.
A) Cold War
B) Blank Struggle
C) World War III
D) Phony War
  • 66. Fighting between the US and the Soviet Union was limited to using smaller countries called
A) proxies
B) straw men
C) shadow cabinets
D) tin men
  • 67. The idea that neither side will attack because both have weapons is called
A) deterrance
B) brinksmanship
C) utilization
D) chicken
  • 68. The arms race between the US and the Soviet Union was justified on the basis of Mutual Assured Destruction which means
A) If attacked, everyone dies
B) Destroy all weapons
C) You attack me, you die
D) No one is strong enough to attack
  • 69. After years of spending money on arms and weapons
A) The Soviet Union was near bankruptcy
B) The Soviet Union was winning
C) The United States couldn't build any more.
D) The US was winning
  • 70. Who was the American president who challenged Russia to "tear down this wall!"
A) Ronald Reagan
B) Franklin D. Roosevelt
C) John F. Kennedy
D) Bill Clinton
  • 71. The Russian leader who promoted glasnost and perestroika was
A) Mikhail Gorbachev
B) Boris Yeltsin
C) Ronald Reagan
D) Joe Stalin
  • 72. The mayor of Moscow who confronted hard-liners in 1991 and ended communism was
A) Josef Stalin
B) Yuri Andropov
C) V. Lenin
D) Boris Yeltsin
  • 73. Palestine was the ancestral home of the
A) Jews
B) Chinese
C) Serbians
D) Arabs
  • 74. The ancestor of the Jews was which of Abraham's sons?
A) Isaac
B) Moishe
C) Ismael
D) Abraham Jr.
  • 75. Under the partition plan of Palestine, which country belonged to the Arabs?
A) Israel
B) Belize
C) Jerusalem
D) Jordan
  • 76. What city in Palestine is holy to both sides?
A) Tel Aviv
B) Istanbul
C) Huntington Park
D) Jerusalem
  • 77. What Arab organization turned to terrorism to fight for Arab rights?
A) Black Hand
B) UN
C) PLO
D) Al Qaida
  • 78. The world experienced terrorism first hand when the PLO attacked Israelis at the
A) World Chess Championship
B) Summer Olympic games
C) World Cup
D) Super Bowl
  • 79. Which Arab country was the first to make peace with Israel?
A) Jordan
B) Morocco
C) Egypt
D) Syria
  • 80. Which US President brought Arab and Israeli leaders together in 1976?
A) Theodore Roosevelt
B) Barack Obama
C) Ronald Reagan
D) Jimmy Carter
  • 81. Who was the first President of the Palestinian state?
A) Barack Obama
B) Yasser Arafat
C) Mahmoud Abbas
D) Mr. Zaidi
  • 82. In 2007, the Palestinians divided into tow parts. Which party took control of Gaza?
A) Zionists
B) Fatah
C) Hamas
D) Tea Party
  • 83. In 2007, which party took control of the West Bank?
A) Baath
B) Fatah
C) Republicans
D) Hamas
  • 84. Who wrote the book "Civil Disobedience" which inspired Gandhi?
A) Henry David Thoreau
B) Cesar Chavez
C) Martin Luther King Jr.
D) Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • 85. Gandhi believed in a "moral force" he called
A) Passive Resistance
B) Satyahgraha
C) Karma
D) Civil Disobedience
  • 86. In India, civil disobedience involved all of the following except
A) Sit-ins
B) terrorism
C) boycotts
D) Strikes
  • 87. In India and Pakistan, feelings of nationalism arer intertwined with religious conflict between
A) Buddhists and Hindus
B) Taoist and Buddhists
C) Christians and Muslims
D) Muslims and Hindus
  • 88. The Arab Oil Embargo against the United States in 1973 was initiated because of US support for
A) Greece in its conflict with Turkey
B) Iraq in its conflict with Iran
C) Israel in the Yom Kippur War
D) Egypt in the Suez Crisis
  • 89. The Soviet Union dealt with uprisings in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia during the 1950s and 1960s by
A) privatizing industrial enterprises.
B) permitting greater democratic reforms in governments
C) crushing the uprisings with military force.
D) taking over direct rule of these countries.
  • 90. What resource makes the Middle East important to the rest of the world?
A) Diamonds
B) Saffron
C) Petroleum
D) Dates
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