PASS Review Semester 2

PASS Review Semester 2

1.  Identify the name of the Berlin conference called by Otto Von Bismarck, which required leaders of European nations to discuss the division of Africa?

2.  What were the names of the only two African nations that were not imperialized by other nations?

3.  Identify the three groups of people that fought for land and resources in South Africa?

4.  Who was the leader of the Zulu Tribes, which fought off the Boers?

5.  Which country eventually took over South Africa?

6.  Which country was Great Britain’s richest colony known as the “Crown of the Jewel”

7.  In a display of isolationism, what product did China declare illegal that the British were selling and ultimately led to a series of wars between China and Great Britain?

8.  During the Opium Wars, what was the name of the revolt by the British East Indian Company hired Indian soldiers, which lasted a year and led to India becoming an official British colony?

9.  Which Chinese group rebelled by attacking foreigners and Christians in attempt to return China to isolated foreign policy?

10.  The USA declared that all countries could trade with China. What was the name of this policy?

Answer Choices 1-10

·  Ethiopia and Liberia

·  Shaka Zulu

·  Opium

·  Berlin Conference of 1884

·  Dutch (Boers), British, Zulus

·  India

·  Open Door Policy

·  Boxer Rebellion

·  Great Britain

·  Sepoy Mutiny

11.  US Commodore Matthew Perry was given orders by the President of the United States to make a particular Asian country trade with the US? Which Asian country did the President want to trade with?

12.  Identify the Japanese era in which the military took control in order to make Japan an industrialized world power?

13.  What war with Spain over Cuba made the USA a world power by obtaining the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico as colonies?

14.  What doctrine did the USA claim Spain broke when Spain sent troops to stop Jose Marti’s Cuban Revolt?

15.  Newspapers played a major role in getting America involved in the Spanish-American War by creating sensationalized headlines. What was this style of journalism called?

16.  What was the name given to Teddy Roosevelt’s US Navy Fleet which he had sail around the world to showcase America as a world power?

17.  What was the official name of Teddy Roosevelt’s Big Stick Policy that said America could police Latin America?

18.  America’s encouraged the Panamanian people to revolt against Colombia in order to build the ______.

19.  What were the 4 MAIN causes for WWI?

20.  Who was Austro-Hungarian nobleman that was assassinated by a Serbian Nationalist, which caused the European world powers to declare war on each other due to the complex military alliances resulting in WWI.

Answers for 21-30

·  Great White Fleet

·  Roosevelt Corollary

·  Spanish-American War

·  Panama Canal

·  Archduke Franz Ferdinand

·  Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism

·  Japan

·  Meiji Era

·  Yellow Journalism

·  Monroe Doctrine

21.  Who fought for the Central Powers alliance?

22.  Who fought for the Allied Powers alliance?

23.  On the Western front, what type of fighting caused a stalemate with millions dying from modern weapons such as the machine gun, poison gas, and artillery shells?

24.  At beginning of WWI, America was ______and did not want to fight.

25.  What was the name of the passenger ship that was sunk and killed hundreds of Americans, which angered US President Wilson?

26.  What was the name telegram/note that the British intercepted that stated Germany would give Mexico several US Western States if they entered the war on the Allies?

27.  What caused America to enter the World War I on the side of the Allies?

28.  What was the name of the US military force that was sent to Europe and turned the tide of the war in favor of the Allies and forced the Germans to sign an armistice on November 1919

29.  What treaty did Russian sign with Germany to get out of WWI in 1917?

30.  Who led the Communist Bolshevik Revolution in 1917?

Answer Choices for 21-30

·  Treaty of Brest-Litovisk

·  Zimmerman Note

·  Neutral

·  Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire

·  Trench Warfare

·  Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, and later USA

·  Lusitania

·  Vladimir Lenin

·  American Expeditionary Force

·  Germany’s use of unrestricted submarine warfare

31.  The economic policy in which wealth/profit is spread out equally and controlled by the government is called ______.

32.  Identify the peace treaty that officially ended WWI?

33.  Which country did the Treaty of Versailles punish severely by limiting the country’s army, taking away its colonies, forcing the country to pay billions of reparations to France and Great Britain, as well as forcing the country to accept full blame for the war known as the War Guilt Clause?

34.  What organization was developed by Wilson, but was the only point out of Wilson’s Fourteen Points accepted at the Treaty of Versailles?

35.  Which organization failed to bring world peace due to lacking the ability to have an army, as well as being weakened due to world powers such as the USA refusing to join this organization?

36.  Which European world power was economically hit the hardest after WWI due to reparations, which resulted in high unemployment, hyperinflation, and an unstable government and thus resulted in Adolf Hitler and his Fascist NAZI Party coming to power?

37.  Who was the Fascist totalitarian dictator that came to power in Italy after WWI?

38.  After Vladimir Lenin’s death, who became the ruthless Communist totalitarian dictator of the Soviet Union?

39.  In Japan, who came to power following WWI?

40.  What did Germany, Italy, Soviet Union, and Japan have in common?

Answers for 31-40

* Germany

* League of Nations

* Benito Mussolini

* Josef Stalin

* Military Dictatorship

* They all had totalitarian governments

* Communism

* Treaty of Versailles

* League of Nations

* Germany

41.  What did the dictators of Germany, Italy, and Japan do to lead their nations out of their economic depression?

42.  People buying stocks on credit, the loss of a European market due to WWI ending, people panicking and running to the banks to get life savings out of banks and thus resulting in banks closing were all contributing factors which led to unemployment and homeless and the ______in America.

43.  What event officially started the Great Depression in America and forever came to be known as Black Tuesday?

44.  What was the scope of the Great Depression?

45.  Who was elected President of the United States as a result of the Great Depression?

46.  What did FDR get Congress to pass that allowed government relief to Americans such as government jobs building roads, dams, and national monuments?

47.  Which event started WWII?

48.  What foreign policy failed for France and Great Britain in attempt to prevent a 2nd World War when Hitler’s Nazi Germany invaded Poland?

49.  What was America’s foreign policy on war prior to WWII?

50.  Who fought for the Allies during WWII?

Answers for 41-50

·  Great Depression

·  Worldwide

·  Franklin D. Roosevelt

·  New Deal

·  Stock Market Crash of 1929

·  Appeasement

·  Remain neutral by passing Neutrality Acts

·  Germany invaded Poland

·  Imperialized (took over) other countries

·  Great Britain, France, and later the Soviet Union and USA

51.  Who fought for the Axis Alliance during WWII?

52.  Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain that inspired the British to win the Battle of Britain against Germany and prevent a German invasion with his “We shall never surrender speech?”

53.  What event caused America to enter WWII on the side of the Allies?

54.  Which naval battle was a major turning point against Japanese because Japan lost several aircraft carriers and hundreds of planes?

55.  What strategy did American use to defeat Japan by attacking several small islands controlled by Japan such Okinawa and Iwo Jima?

56.  Identify the major tuning point in the European Theater when Hitler’s German Army was defeated by the Soviet Union in the bloodiest battle of WWII?

57.  The largest scaled invasion in world history was when the Allied Forces under the leadership of US General Dwight Eisenhower, invaded Normandy, France? What is this event called?

58.  Prior to his defeat, Hitler’s final offensive attack against Allied forces occurred in December of 1944 in which his tanks initially pushed the American forces back until Americans recovered and stopped the German attack. This Allied victory was known as the ______.

59.  World War II ended with the USA dropping two atomic bombs on Japan. Where were these two atomic bombs dropped?

60.  The mass execution of 6 million Jews by Hitler and Nazi regime was known as ______.

Answers Choices for 51-60

·  Winston Churchill

·  Battle of Stalingrad

·  Island-hopping

·  Japan bombed Pearl Harbor

·  Battle of the Bulge

·  D-Day

·  Germany, Japan, Italy

·  Holocaust

·  Hiroshima and Nagasaki

·  Battle of Midway

61.  “The Night of the Broken Glass,” also known as ______, occurred when Nazis began burning and vandalizing Jewish businesses and violent attacking and murdering over 100 Jews.

62.  Identify the laws passed by Hitler and his Nazi Regime, which discriminated against Jews.

63.  The ______led to conviction and execution of several high ranking Nazi officers for crimes against humanity.

64.  What post WWII organization replaced the League of Nations as a stronger nation with its military capabilities to enforce its policies and prevent war and crimes against humanity?

65.  Due to the Holocaust, the Jews were granted their own of Israel by the United Nations by taking land from which group of people?

66.  Due to tension and several wars between Palestine and Israel, what continues today in the Middle East?

Answer Choices for 61-66

·  Palestine

·  United Nations

·  Kristallnact

·  Nuremburg Laws

·  Violence and Conflict

·  Nuremburg Trials