Deck 19: Methods of Mass Production and Destruction

Question 1

After World War I,Syria and Iraq were ________.

A) independent
B) provinces of the Ottoman Empire
C) mandates
D) joined to form a new state

Answer 1

mandates

Question 2

World War I was triggered by the assassination of the next in line to the ________ throne.

A) Serbian
B) Austro-Hungarian
C) German
D) Russian

Answer 2

Austro-Hungarian

Question 3

The Central Powers were composed of ________.

A) Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire
B) France, Germany, and Italy
C) Great Britain, France, and Russia
D) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary

Answer 3

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire

Question 4

Fritz Haber was a leader in what field?

A) astrophysics
B) architecture
C) jazz
D) the chemical industry

Question 5

Around 1900,________ made up of half of Brazil's exports.

A) coffee
B) sugar
C) copper
D) timber

Question 6

The Chinese revolution of the 1910s was led by the ________.

A) communists
B) the Boxers
C) Hong Xiuquan
D) Guomindang

Question 7

Bal Gangadhar Tilak was a prominent ________ nationalist.

A) Indonesian
B) Indian
C) Burmese
D) Japanese

Question 8

The Balfour Declaration promised a homeland to what group?

A) Turks
B) Arabs
C) Poles
D) Jews

Question 9

Henry Ford began mass production of cars in what decade?

A) 1910s
B) 1950s
C) 1890s
D) 1930s

Question 10

Sun Yat-sen was elected leader of ________ in 1913.

A) Hong Kong
B) Taiwan
C) China
D) the Yuan dynasty

Question 11

Which of these was a trigger for the American entry into World War I?

A) the German declaration of war
B) the Zimmerman telegram
C) the formation of the Allied Powers
D) the Russian revolution

Question 12

The ruler of India in the early 1900s was ________.

A) Mohandas Gandhi
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) George V
D) Akbar

Question 13

The St.Petersburg mutiny took place in ________.

A) 1905
B) 1871
C) 1932
D) 1917

Question 14

The ruler of Russia at the outbreak of World War I was ________.

A) Nicholas II
B) Alexander II
C) Catherine II
D) Peter the Great

Question 15

Russia's "Bloody Sunday" uprising took place in ________.

A) 1917
B) 1905
C) 1871
D) 1914

Question 16

The U.S.president at the outbreak of World War I was ________.

A) Franklin Roosevelt
B) Warren Harding
C) Woodrow Wilson
D) Dwight Eisenhower

Question 17

Porfirio Díaz was dictator of ________ from 1876 to 1910.

A) Argentina
B) Brazil
C) Mexico
D) Chile

Question 18

Margaret Sanger is best known for her work in support of ________.

A) women's suffrage
B) family planning
C) limiting child labor
D) temperance

Question 19

Mustafa Kemal became the leader of what country?

A) Egypt
B) Saud Arabia
C) Sudan
D) Turkey

Question 20

Which of these was dubbed "the sick man of Europe"?

A) the Austro-Hungarian Empire
B) Germany
C) the Ottoman Empire
D) Russia

Question 21

Around 1900,Brazil was ________ dependent on industrialized nations.

A) becoming more
B) becoming less
C) no longer
D) just becoming

Question 22

The ideas of Albert Einstein ________ the work of the scientific revolution.

A) challenged
B) built on
C) was more based on empiricism than
D) proved

Question 23

World War I ________ the Russian Revolution.

A) slowed the progress of
B) temporarily halted
C) helped to ignite
D) resulted from

Question 24

Which of these forced much of World War I fighting in Europe into trenches?

A) poison gas
B) artillery and machine guns
C) tanks
D) airplanes

Question 25

Which of these came to power in the course of the Russian Revolution of 1917?

A) socialists
B) Bolsheviks
C) Joseph Stalin
D) Sergei Witte

Question 26

Which of these took place on October 29,1929?

A) the end of World War I
B) the New York Stock Exchange crash
C) the beginning of the New Deal
D) the Russian Revolution

Question 27

Which of these led the Soviet Union after 1924?

A) Alexander Kerensky
B) Sergei Witte
C) Leon Trotsky
D) Joseph Stalin

Question 28

The German announcement that it would resume unrestricted submarine warfare was ________ for the U.S.entry into World War I.

A) the trigger
B) a background cause
C) one of the triggers
D) a pretext

Question 29

Which of these was an architectural movement of the interwar period?

A) Bauhaus
B) Weimar
C) Expressionism
D) Surrealism

Question 30

The political ideology of Sun Yat-sen is best characterized as ________.

A) communist
B) idiosyncratic
C) socialist
D) democratic

Question 31

The British imperial policy in India was ________ by Indian regional divisions.

A) hampered
B) facilitated
C) ended
D) reversed

Question 32

The primary goal of the European alliance systems formed in the late 1800s and early 1900s was ________.

A) partitioning Africa
B) dividing up the Ottoman Empire
C) challenging Britain's power
D) peace

Question 33

Which of these is reflected by the areas marked "areas controlled by Central Powers" in the map "World War I."

A) The western front was mobile.
B) Russia had pushed back the Central Powers by 1916.
C) The eastern front moved hundreds of miles.
D) The Central Powers were not able to advance to the east.

Question 34

European industry helped to push India to ________ by around 1910.

A) industrialization
B) commercial agriculture
C) a green revolution
D) neocolonialism

Question 35

Technology in the period from 1900 to 1920 ________.

A) differed dramatically from technology of the late 1800s
B) continued trends of the second stage of the Industrial Revolution
C) introduced new sources of power
D) reversed trends of the 1800s

Question 36

Considering the map "The end of the Ottoman Empire," which of these gained the most from the Ottoman collapse by 1922?

A) France
B) Italy
C) Turkey
D) Britain

Question 37

In Mexico during the early 1900s,which of these patterns was in place,established in the Latin American independence movements?

A) military control
B) neocolonialism
C) Creole dominance
D) decolonization

Question 38

Nationalism proved destructive for ________.

A) the Ottoman Empire
B) Turkey
C) Arabs
D) Egypt

Question 39

The "Red Scare" was sparked by the ________.

A) Great Depression
B) outbreak of World War I
C) Russian Revolution
D) publication of The Communist Manifesto

Question 40

In the cartoon depicting the Young Turks,which of these is symbolized by the shrouded figure?

A) the end of Turkey
B) the death of the Ottoman Empire
C) the death of Abdul Hamid II
D) the secular turn of the Turkish world

Question 41

What were the principal factors in the onset of the Great Depression and in its spread?

Question 42

Examine the theme of "International Role Reversals" by comparing two countries whose global roles changed in the early 1900s.

Question 43

Which of these explains the massive impact of the New York Stock Exchange crash?

A) the destruction of World War I
B) the end of European empires
C) the world system
D) a third phase of industrialization

Question 44

The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand launched World War I because ________.

A) decolonization was weakening European nations
B) of preexisting defensive alliances
C) of the forces of nationalism
D) the European world order was falling apart

Question 45

Which of these gained most from the mandates created following World War I?

A) the Ottoman Empire
B) Turkey
C) Arab nationalists
D) Britain

Question 46

Which of these regions was most transformed by the peace settlement following World War I?

A) eastern and central Europe
B) Germany
C) western Europe
D) north Africa

Question 47

Consider the Russian Revolution in the light of the ideas of Marx and Engels.Did the revolution conform to these ideas?

Question 48

What was the relationship between industrialization in the early 1900s with the first and second stages of the Industrial Revolution?

Question 49

How did World War I differ from earlier conflicts?

Question 50

Which of these was a Russian popular proletariat uprising?

A) the 1917 revolution
B) the Bolshevik revolution
C) the 1905 revolution
D) the White Terror

Question 51

The war aims of Woodrow Wilson ________ the war aims of the Allied and Central powers.

A) supported
B) had nothing to do with
C) were expressed to support
D) undermined

Question 52

Which of these would have probably made the League of Nations considerably stronger?

A) the desire to avoid war
B) U.S. support
C) a more equitable peace settlement
D) rapid decolonization

Question 53

Which of these was the underlying cause of the Great Depression?

A) World War I
B) neocolonialism
C) Black Tuesday
D) overproduction

Question 54

As leader of the Soviet Union,Stalin represented ________,relative to Lenin.

A) a reversal
B) continuity
C) a new direction
D) a radical shift

Question 55

Which of these was the focus of "International Role Reversals"?

A) economic power
B) military power
C) technology
D) decolonization