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Multiple Choice Practice (20 questions)

  1. Which of the following is NOT one of the MAIN causes of WWI?
  • (A) Militarism
  • (B) Alliances
  • (C) Imperialism
  • (D) Communism
  1. The immediate trigger of WWI was:
  • (A) Germany's invasion of Poland
  • (B) The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
  • (C) The bombing of Pearl Harbor
  • (D) The Russian Revolution
  1. Trench warfare on the Western Front of WWI was characterized by:
  • (A) Rapid mobile warfare
  • (B) Massive casualties for little territorial gain
  • (C) Use of cavalry as the decisive arm
  • (D) Frequent and decisive battles
  1. Vladimir Lenin's slogan "Peace, Land, and Bread" appealed primarily to:
  • (A) The Russian aristocracy
  • (B) Soldiers, peasants, and workers
  • (C) Wealthy industrialists
  • (D) The Russian Orthodox Church
  1. Which of the following best describes the Treaty of Versailles?
  • (A) A negotiated settlement that satisfied all parties
  • (B) A peace that imposed harsh terms on Germany and helped sow the seeds of WWII
  • (C) An alliance between Germany and the Allies
  • (D) A treaty that ended WWII
  1. Why did the League of Nations fail?

  • (A) It had too many members

  • (B) Major powers did not join or left, and it lacked enforcement power

  • (C) It was based in the United States

  • (D) It successfully prevented WWII

  1. Which factor most directly contributed to Hitler's rise to power in the early 1930s?

  • (A) German victory in WWI

  • (B) The strength of the Weimar economy

  • (C) The Great Depression and Weimar political instability

  • (D) Soviet support for the Nazi Party

  1. "In the years following Stalin's seizure of power, peasants were forced to surrender their land and livestock to collective farms. Those who resisted were branded kulaks and millions were sent to labor camps or executed. The result was a famine that killed millions in Ukraine and elsewhere."

This passage describes:

  • (A) The New Economic Policy

  • (B) Collectivization in the Soviet Union

  • (C) Lenin's War Communism

  • (D) Russian feudalism

  1. The Munich Agreement of 1938 is most associated with the policy of:

  • (A) Containment

  • (B) Appeasement

  • (C) Detente

  • (D) Brinkmanship

  1. Which of the following best describes the Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 1939?

  • (A) A military alliance against Britain

  • (B) A non-aggression agreement with secret protocols dividing Eastern Europe

  • (C) A treaty ending WWII

  • (D) A trade agreement

  1. Operation Barbarossa refers to:

  • (A) The Allied invasion of Normandy

  • (B) The German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941

  • (C) The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

  • (D) The Holocaust

  1. Pearl Harbor is significant because it:

  • (A) Was the first battle of WWII in Europe

  • (B) Brought the United States into WWII

  • (C) Ended the war in the Pacific
  • (D) Was a German victory
  1. Which battle is generally considered the turning point of WWII on the Eastern Front?
  • (A) Battle of Britain
  • (B) Battle of the Bulge
  • (C) Battle of Stalingrad
  • (D) Battle of Midway
  1. D-Day refers to:
  • (A) The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
  • (B) The Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944
  • (C) The German invasion of Poland in 1939
  • (D) The surrender of Japan in 1945
  1. The Holocaust resulted in the murder of approximately how many Jews?
  • (A) Six hundred thousand
  • (B) One million
  • (C) Six million
  • (D) Twelve million
  1. Kristallnacht in November 1938 is significant as:
  • (A) The beginning of WWII
  • (B) A state-organized pogrom that escalated Nazi persecution of Jews
  • (C) A British military victory
  • (D) A Jewish resistance uprising
  1. The Wannsee Conference of January 1942 was significant because it:
  • (A) Ended the war on the Eastern Front
  • (B) Coordinated the Final Solution, the systematic extermination of European Jews
  • (C) Created the United Nations
  • (D) Launched Operation Barbarossa
  1. The Nuremberg Trials after WWII are significant for:

  • (A) Restoring the Nazi government

  • (B) Establishing that obedience to orders is not a defense and creating the concept of crimes against humanity

  • (C) Ending the Cold War

  • (D) Founding the League of Nations

  1. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) was most directly a response to:

  • (A) The American Revolution

  • (B) The atrocities of WWII, especially the Holocaust

  • (C) The Industrial Revolution

  • (D) The Cold War

  1. Which of the following best describes the strongest argument made by defenders of the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

  • (A) The bombs were necessary to test the technology

  • (B) The bombs ended the war quickly, avoiding even larger casualties from an invasion of Japan

  • (C) The bombs were primarily aimed at the Soviet Union

  • (D) The bombs were minor weapons of limited destructive power

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