3.The League of Nations Why was the Treaty of Versailles rejected by the United States Senate?
Because it required collective military action in case of aggression.
Because it was too harsh on the German Empire.
Because it didn’t require Germany pay war reparations to the United States.
Because it established a League of Nations.
4.The ________ Amendment to the US Federal Constitution, passed in 1920, gave American women the right to vote.
Twenty-first
Sixteenth
Nineteenth
Tenth
5._____ was a cultural movement that, associated with French-language writers like Léopold Senghor, fostered pride in African history, culture, and “blackness”.
France-Afrique
Africa for the Africans
Noir, C'est Beau
Négritude
6.In the United States, businessmen such as ____________ financed research on how to prevent the reproduction of genetically “inferior” races.
Thomas Edison
Henry Ford
Hiram Maxim
J.P. Morgan
7.The Communist Party of __________ initiated the formation of a Popular Front coalition with the Socialist Party and others in 1936.
The Soviet Union
The United States
Great Britain
France
9.Early pioneers of Zionism, like ________, advocated the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
Arthur James Balfour
Moshe Dayan
Theodor Herzl
Moses Mendelssohn
10.In March 1930, Mohandas Gandhi protested a British tax on Indian ______ by embarking on a famous 24-day march.
Cotton
Salt
Temples
Rubber
11.Among the exiles who returned with Lenin in 1917 were Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin, the hardnosed son of an impoverished ___________ cobbler.
Ukrainian
Russian
Kazakh
Georgian
14.The League of Nations rebuked ________ for its attack on Ethiopia in 1935-1936.
Germany
Great Britain
Italy
The Soviet Union
15.In an attempt to avoid a European war, Neville Chamberlain signed the _______ Agreement in the summer of 1938.
Paris
London
Rome
Munich
16.In 1939, the German army pioneered a new kind of warfare, a “Blitzkrieg” or “lightning war”, in _______.
Poland
The Soviet Union
Great Britain
Italy
17.Hitler implemented his planned ”Final Solution” of European Jews beginning in January ________.
1945
1933
1938
1942
18.The Mukden Incident of 1931 was engineered by the Japanese military to provide a pretext for the annexation of _________.
Korea
Manchuria
Sakhalin Island
Okinawa
19.Estimates of those slaughtered in the brutal “Rape of _______” of 1937-1938 range between 200,000 and 300,000 people
Chongqing
Beijing
Hanoi
Nanjing
20.Under the premiership of General Tojo Hideki, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), _______, and Dutch and British territories on December 7-8, 1941.
The Philippines
New Zealand
Easter Island
Christmas Island
2.In World War I, both sides were forced into _______________warfare in northeastern France and Belgium.
Trench
Tank
Cavalry
Lightning
3. Which of the following was not one of Woodrow Wilson’s war aims?
Self-determination for all peoples
Freedom of the seas
Rights of neutral powers
The guilt of the Central Powers
4.Members of the “Harlem Renaissance” among African American artists and intellectuals felt that to be of African descent:
Necessitated a return to Africa, en masse or at least individually.
Made one more likely to be a Communist, since the proletariat was created by racist policies.
Made one part of a larger and richer collective history extending beyond the history of slavery.
Meant that one should reject European art forms and celebrate native African forms of expression only.
9.Under Kemal Atatürk, the Turkish parliament introduced all of the following measures to Turkey except:
Women's suffrage.
The Latin alphabet.
The removal of Anatolian farmers into urban factories and schools.
European family law
1.The world's first female prime minister took power in ________ in 1960.
India
Pakistan
United Kingdom
Ceylon
2.The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council are China, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, and ______.
Germany
France
Japan
Brazil
3.Josip Tito, with Soviet help, came to power in ________ after World War II?
Yugoslavia
Greece
Albania
Romania
4.The Marshall Plan allocated funds to all of the following countries except:
The Netherlands
France
Italy
Czechoslovakia
5.In response to the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Soviet Union formed the ______ Pact in 1955.
Moscow
Warsaw
East Berlin
Helsinki
7.Why was Khrushchev able to crush the Hungarian revolution without much opposition from the West?
He was able to prevent news of the revolution from leaking out.
He threatened the US, Britain, and France with the occupation of all of Berlin.
The West was distracted by a severe economic crisis.
The US, Britain and France were preoccupied with the Suez Crisis.
8.Between 1953 and 1961, nearly one-fifth of the ___________ population defected to West Germany.
Russian
East German
American
Cuban
9.As a result of the __________ in the United States, millions of veterans benefited from housing and educational opportunities.
Beveridge Bill
Great Society Bill
Bonus Bill
GI Bill
10.Showing the continued strength of commodity exports, only about ____ of the workforce was in the industrial sector by the 1960s.
One-third
One-fifth
One-eighth
One-quarter
11.In the elections of 1946 in Argentina, ______ gained a mandate as president at the head of a fractious coalition of nationalists, socialists, and communists.
Juan Perón
Eva Duarte
José Napoleón Duarte
Jacobo Árbenz
12.An estimated ________ Palestinians were driven out of their villages and homes after the first Arab-Israeli War ended in 1949.
3 million
750,000
50,000
200,000
13.The original founders of the Non-Aligned Movement of Nations included all of the following except:
Turkey
Indonesia
India
Pakistan
14.Kwame Nkrumah appeared to be a sound choice for leading a constitutional, independent regime in _________ in 1957.
Rhodesia
Kenya
Sudan
Ghana
15.Shortly into her tenure as Ceylon's prime minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike faced resistance to:
Her joining the Non-Aligned Movement, from the British who still controlled the colony.
Her nationalization of the banking sector, from Soviet agents who thought this was hasty.
Her Sinhalese-only language policy, from the Tamil minority.
Her public renunciation of Islam, from the country's Muslim majority.
17.The creation of NATO was most directly triggered by:
The Soviets' detonation of a nuclear device in1949, four years earlier than anticipated.
The shooting-down of a US spy plane over Soviet territory.
The failure of the “Berlin Airlift” to supply West Berlin adequately.
Threats from Charles De Gaulle of France to launch a pre-emptive invasion of the Soviet Union.
18.All of the following were characteristic of the Soviet economy in the Stalinist and post-Stalinist periods except:
Shortages and even rationing of consumer goods were common.
Increased efforts were made to industrialize, though at the expense of other sectors.
Women entered the workplace in equal numbers to men, as all were considered “comrades”.
Employment opportunities were not on a par with those created by the Western recovery.
19.Realizing how close the world had come to war, President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev signed the Nuclear ____________ Treaty in 1963.
Disarmament
Test Ban
Arms Reduction
Détente