World History Public Schools of Robeson County
Unit 5 Assessment
1. One of the alliances formed because of rivalries over colonies and trade was the Triple Alliance, which consisted of ______
A)Germany and Austria-Hungary.
B)France, Great Britain, and Russia.
C)Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
D)Austria, Hungary, and Serbia.
2. Which was the first step in the immediate events leading up to World War I?
A)The czar ordered full mobilization of the Russian army.
B)Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.
C)Germany declared war on Russia.
D)Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo.
3. Military leaders were not prepared for the trench warfare of World War I, in which ______
A)troops moved quickly through trenches to capture territory.
B)artillery destroyed enemy forces before solders captured new
territory.
C)opposing forces fought each other from elaborate systems of trenches
without much loss or gain of land.
D)forces moved quickly with tanks and artillery.
4. ______convinced the United States to enter the war.
A)The stalemate in France
B)The Japanese entry into the war
C)The blockade of Great Britain
D)The German use of unrestricted submarine warfare
5. Which of the following occurred after the collapse of the czarist regime in Russia?
A)Alexandra Romanov took over major government decision making.
B)Alexander Kerensky headed a provisional government.
C)The Bolsheviks took control of the government.
D)Ten thousand women marched in Petrograd demanding “Peace and
Bread.”
6.
Which of the following statements is NOT correct about the political and territorial changes brought by the settlements that ended World War I?
A)Austria-Hungary split into two countries, Austria and Hungary.
B)France took control of Lebanon and Syria.
C)New nation-states emerged from former lands of Germany, Austria-
Hungary, and Russia.
D)Almost every eastern European state was left with ethnic minorities.
7. Which of the following is NOT a reason why peace was short-lived after World War I?
A)The League of Nations was weak because the United States did not
join.
B)Germany became unable to pay war reparations.
C)Germany and France signed the Treaty of Locarno.
D)Countries were unwilling to cut back their military forces.
8. Which is NOT a characteristic of the totalitarian states that emerged after World War I?
A)The states were led by a single leader and a single party.
B)Individual freedom was subordinate to the collective will of the
masses.
C)The states used mass propaganda techniques and modern technology
to fulfill their goals.
D)The leaders required only passive obedience from their subjects, not
active involvement.
9. In Mein Kampf, Hitler expressed his favorable views on ______
A)democracy.
B)communism.
C)Jews.
D)nationalism.
10. While many Germans accepted the Nazi dictatorship, ______suffered increasingly harsh persecution under the Nuremberg laws.
A)women
B)Communists
C)Jews
D)democrats
11. President Kemal Atatürk of Turkey introduced reforms which did NOT include ______
A)popular education.
B)the modernization of Turkey’s economy.
C)an elected opposition.
D)the transformation of Turkey into a secular state.
12. The Balfour Declaration ______
A)established British mandates in Iraq and Jordan.
B)provided encouragement to Arab nationalists.
C)condemned Iranian ties to Nazi Germany.
D)declared Palestine a national Jewish homeland.
13. Mao Zedong believed China’s rural peasants would lead the struggle for ______
A)land reform.
B)a constitutional democracy.
C)a communist revolution.
D)all of the above.
14. When the United States became the foremost investors in Latin America beginning in the 1920s, U.S. investors ______
A)controlled Latin American industries directly.
B)bought stocks that spurred investment in Latin America.
C)took complete control over the governments of Latin America.
D)preferred indirect control of companies.
15. What was Germany's first step in expansion and the first step toward war?
A)the invasion of Czechoslovakia
B)the Anschluss with Austria
C)the occupation of the Sudetenland
D)the remilitarization of the Rhineland
16. Which was Japan's MAIN reason for expansion?
A)to find sources of raw materials for its industries
B)to find new markets for its manufactured goods
C)to establish a new system of control in Asia under Japanese guidance
D)to become a member of the League of Nations
17. The battle at ______proved to be the turning point for Hitler's plan to expand to the east.
A)Crimea
B)the Caucasus
C)Stalingrad
D)Moscow
18. Which was NOT one of the ways in which Hitler and the SS administered the Final Solution?
A)Jews were relocated to undesirable lands to make room for German
settlers.
B)Jews were moved into ghettos in Polish cities.
C)Einsatzgruppen of the SS executed Jews in villages in the Soviet Union.
D)Jews were sent to concentration and death camps.
19. The war impacted life in the United States by ______
A)creating severe food shortages.
B)vast areas of the country being destroyed by war.
C)creating boomtowns and widespread movement of people.
D)integrating African Americans in the military for the first time.
20. The issue over ______caused a serious split between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Yalta Conference.
A)an American-British invasion in France
B)free elections in Eastern Europe
C)Soviet military help against Japan
D)the creation of the United Nations