Spiers Final - Multiple Choice

Sardinia

Which Italian island led the effort to unify Italy?

Guerrilla warfare

What is a method of warfare using hit-and-run tactics?

Otto von Bismarck

Which German led the effort to unify Germany?

False

True or False?: Bismarck's Kulturkampf against the Catholic Church in Germany succeeded.

Russia

Which nation was very diverse in having over 60 nationalities and over 100 different languages spoken in its territory?

Russification

What was the imposing of Russian language and culture on non-Russians called?

Mensheviks favored gradual change toward a socialist state, Bolsheviks favored immediate change

What was the difference between the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks?

Vladimir Lenin

Who was the leader of the Bolshevik movement in Russia?

Balkans

Which region of Europe was known as the "the powder keg of Europe?"

Nationalism and European powers involvement in the region

Why was the region from the previous question so volatile?

Liberia and Ethiopia

Which two countries in Africa avoided European colonization?

Thailand and Japan

Which two countries in Asia avoided European colonization?

25%

At one point how much of the Earth was under British control?

Benito Juarez

Which elected leader in Mexico reduced the power of the military, separated church and state, improved the conditions of poor farmers, and defeated the French?

Porfirio Diaz

Which leader in Mexico limited individual freedoms, strengthened the army, and made economic advances that did not benefit most Mexicans? His rule led to the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920.

Germany

Which one of the following countries was NOT a member of the Triple Entente?: France, Great Britian, Germany, or Russia

Ottoman Empire

Which one of the following countries was NOT a member of the Triple Alliance? Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, or Ottoman Empire

Italy

Which one of the following countries fought with the Allies during World War I? Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, or Ottoman Empire

Bulgaria

Which one of the following countries fought with the Central Powers during World War I? Russia, Bulgaria, France, or Great Britian

Von Schlieffen Plan

What was the German military strategy to go through Belgium and the Netherlands to defeat France in six weeks before the Russians could mobilize?

Propaganda

Calling dachshunds liberty dogs during World War I is an example of ...?

Meuse-Argonne Offensive

Which military offensive helped end World War I in 1918?

Arabs

Which group helped the Allies defeat the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East, thinking they would become independent nations after the war?

1918 Flu Pandemic

Which disease killed at least 20-50 million people toward the end of and after World War I?

True

True of False?: Some of the new and deadly weapons used in World War I included mustard gas, airplanes, and tanks.

Cubism

What is the use of plane geometry shapes to portray art?

Surrealism

What is the creation of dreamlike images of day to day objects to create reality by exploring the unconscious mind?

Sigmund Freud

Who concluded the unconscious mind plays a major role in shaping behavior?

Albert Einstein

Who is known for their theory of relativity, speed of light being constant, and all matter having energy?

Jazz

What musical genre is a mix of American folk songs, West African rhythms, European classical music, and work songs from the days of slavery?

Washington Naval Conference

Which conference limited the tonnage and size of battle fleets?

It had no enforcement

Why did the Kellogg-Briand Pact fail in preventing conflict?

Ireland

Which country became more independent from Great Britain in the interwar period?

Maginot Line

Which series of fortifications were built in France to prevent a future German invasion?

False

True or False?: The UK and France had a stronger economy than the US during the 1920s.

Self-determination

What is the right of national groups to set up independent nations called?

Kemal Ataturk

Which leader modernized Turkey?

True

True or False?: The Amritsar Massacre galvanized Indian resistance to the British.

Mohandas Gandhi

Who led the non-violent resistance against the British?

Marched from Ahmdabad to the sea to make salt

How did Gandhi protest the British salt tax in India?

Guomindang and Communists

Which were the two main groups fighting for power in China in the first half of the 20th Century?

Manchuria

Japan took advantage of the conflict in China to seize which territory in 1931?

Nationalization

What is placing a privately owned business under government control called?

Lazaro Cardenas

Which Mexican President nationalized the oil industry in Mexico in 1938?

Montevideo Convention

What convention did the US sign, in which all states in the Americas are from any outside influence or control?

Nationalists

Who won the Spanish Civil War?

All of the above (Austria, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia)

Which of the following areas did Hitler make a part of Germany before invading Poland?

Dunkirk

Where were 300,000 Allied soldiers successfully evacuated from before the fall of France?

Germany failed to capture Great Britian

What was the result of the Battle of Britain?

Cold weather

What major factor bogged down the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941?

Plan to rid Asia of European rule and replace it with Japanese rule

What was the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere?

Stalingrad

Which battle was the turning point in World War II on the Eastern Front?

1943

When did Italy surrender to the Allies?

May 1945

When did Germany surrender to the Allies?

August 1945

When did Japan surrender to the Allies?

US and Soviet Union

Who were the two superpowers after WWII?

The Cold War

What was the worldwide struggle for political influence between the US and Soviet Union between the end of WWII and 1991?

US and the West

Who won the Cold War?

West Germany and West Berlin

Which country and city was formed from the US, French, and British Sectors?

United Nations

The League of Nations was replaced by which international organization after WWII?

UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Which document after World War II provided a code of conduct for the treatment of people under the protection of their government?

US

Which nation occupied Japan after WWII and guarantees its security?

Representative democracy

What type of government does Japan have today?

Communists

Which group came to power in mainland China in 1949 and still controls mainland China today?

Uyghurs

Which group faces extreme persecution by the Chinese government in Northwestern China today?

Mixed

What type of economy does China have today?

Communist dictatorship

What type of government does North Korea have today?

Representative democracy

What type of government does South Korea have today?

South Vietnam was corrupt and undemocratic

Which state best characterizes South Vietnam during the Vietnam War?

Vietnam was reunited as a communist country

What was the outcome of the Vietnam War?

Pol Pot

Who was the dictator of Cambodia in the 1970s responsible for the murder of up to a 1/3 of the nation's population?

Bosniaks

Bosnian Serbs committed genocide against which ethnic group in Srebrencia in 1995?

Albanians

Serbs committed ethnic cleansing against which ethnic group in Kosovo in the late 1990s?

NATO

Which organization has had peacekeeping forces in Bosnia and still currently has them them in Kosovo?

Tutsis

The Hutus committed genocide against which ethnic group in Rwanda in 1994?

Theocracy

What type of government does Iran and Afganistan have today?

India

Which nation has the world's largest representative democracy?

Kashmir

India and Pakistan currently have a dispute over which territory?

Jerusalem

Both Israel and Palestine claim which city as their capital?

None of the above

Which one of the following nations is a member of the nuclear club?: Brazil, Italy, or Germany