Deck 11: The Ongoing Crisis of Global Order: 1919-1948

Question 1

Following World War I, the League of Nations placed the future of most of the Middle East under the control of:

A) Russia, Turkey, and Egypt
B) The United States and Russia
C) Communist movements within their own national borders
D) France and Great Britain.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The Wafd (Delegation) Party supported:

A) a Jewish homeland in Palestine
B) self-determination for Egypt and an end to British occupation
C) equal rights for women
D) the Sykes-Picot Agreement.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

In the 1920s, the Communist International supported the foreign policy of:

A) France
B) Italy.
C) Germany.
D) the USSR.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The May Fourth Movement grew out of:

A) a communist uprising in Japan
B) a sense that China had been betrayed by the Western powers.
C) Ho Chi Minh's resistance against the French
D) respect for Lenin's achievements in Russia.

Question 5

Japan's relationship to France during World War II was:

A) one of neutrality as they shared a mutual interest in Indochina.
B) one of support as they were both opposed to China's rising communist party.
C) one of belligerence as Japan invaded French possessions in Vietnam and Laos.
D) one of close financial ties between French investors and Japanese shipbuilders.

Question 6

Which of the following were responses by leaders and governments to the economic turmoil of the early 1930s?

A) Communists proposed a centrally planned economy.
B) Fascists proposed a European common market.
C) Liberal democratic states reduced state interventions in economic activities.
D) Latin American militaries turned government control over to civilians.

Question 7

In response to the "Great Depression" of the 1930s, most countries in the world decided to _________ the gold standard.

A) adopt
B) abandon
C) strengthen
D) enforce

Question 8

In the early days of the Great Depression, many countries ______ tariffs in an effort to protect their domestic industries and employment, but the effort failed.

A) abandoned
B) reduced
C) suspended
D) raised

Question 9

Adolf Hitler and the Nazis blamed Germany's economic woes on:

A) a fictional international conspiracy against Germany.
B) a post-war retreat from international cooperation.
C) Weimar reluctance to adopt communist economic planning.
D) all of the above

Question 10

Spain in the mid-1930s:

A) allied with the United States after final reconciliation of the Spanish-American War.
B) allied with Ethiopia to resist an Italian invasion.
C) engaged in a Civil War that would be won by fascists.
D) became a founding member of the Communist International.

Question 11

One response by Japan to the upheavals of the 1930s was

A) withdrawing troops from China
B) forming the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
C) signing the Trans-Pacific Partnership
D) creating a non-aggression pact with the USSR.

Question 12

During the 1930s, Chiang Kai-Shek's New Life Movement:

A) embraced the Communist Party
B) insisted on liberal solutions to China's political problems.
C) drove Japan from the Asian mainland.
D) took on many aspects of fascism.

Question 13

Which of the following events pivotal in shaping the outcome of World War II took place in 1941?

A) The German invasion of Poland and Stalin's invasion of Ukraine.
B) The Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor and Chongqing.
C) The German invasion of the USSR and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
D) Italy's surrender and the triumph of Franco in Spain.

Question 14

Residents of Britain's colony in ________ died by the millions due to a famine during World War II.

A) Hong Kong
B) India
C) Kenya
D) Vietnam

Question 15

The leaders of the Indian National Congress:

A) provided troops to support Franco in the Spanish Civil War.
B) insisted that independence was the price England should pay for Indian support during World War II.
C) supported the Hitler-Stalin Non-Aggression Pact.
D) deferred aspirations for independence until after the formation of the United Nations.

Question 16

Which of the following characterized Burma during the World War II era?

A) Great Britain granted Burma independence after Japan invaded China.
B) Many Burmese joined an armed movement formed by the Japanese to fight British imperialism.
C) Burmese political leaders unanimously rejected the "Asia for Asiatics" movement.
D) General Aung San returned to Burma from exile in London after the bombing of Hiroshima.

Question 17

Between World War I and World War II, fascist movements:

A) were limited to Italy and Germany.
B) rejected both communism and liberalism.
C) had no influence outside of Europe.
D) lost momentum as a result of the global economic collapse.

Question 18

The New Deal under Franklin Roosevelt:

A) refinanced German debts to make them more reasonable and balance the global economy
B) gave the Japanese important materials to try to avoid their aggressive military moves
C) took over the stock market to save it from a dangerous collapse
D) initiated social welfare programs to support vulnerable members of American society.

Question 19

In the late 1930s, Mexico __________ its oil industries.

A) privatized
B) allowed foreign investors to buy
C) nationalized
D) suspended operations of

Question 20

Adolf Hitler, like Benito Mussolini,:

A) first came to power through constitutional processes.
B) was educated in a French university.
C) opposed Spain's Francisco Franco.
D) supported the League of Nations.

Question 21

What questions regarding the global economy needed to be addressed following World War I? What steps were taken to address the problems?

Question 22

Compare and contrast responses to the economic crisis of 1920s-1930s in Europe, Asia, and the Western hemisphere?

Question 23

Compare and contrast fascism and communism as modern political ideologies. In what ways are they similar and what ways are they different, with particular reference to their respective relationships to liberalism.