Name: 
 

Road to WWI - Pre-Test



Matching
 
 
Match each item with the correct statement below.
a.
Singapore
d.
Panama
b.
William McKinley
e.
Leopold II
c.
imperialism
 

 1. 

a canal built to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
 

 2. 

a government controls the economy of another
 

 3. 

president who declared war on Spain to help the rebelling Cubans
 

 4. 

king who conquered Central Africa and forced the people to collect rubber
 

 5. 

an important Chinese shipping port
 
 
Match each item with the correct statement below.
a.
Matthew Perry
d.
Sun Yat-sen
b.
Hong Kong
e.
Mutsuhito
c.
daimyo
 

 6. 

American commodore sent by President Fillmore to open relations with Japan
 

 7. 

the “Enlightened” Japanese emperor
 

 8. 

heads of noble families
 

 9. 

British-ruled island
 

 10. 

founded a revolutionary movement that became known as the Nationalist Party
 
 
Match each item with the correct statement below.
a.
Balkans
d.
propaganda
b.
militarism
e.
entente
c.
Serbia
 

 11. 

government-controlled information used to shape people’s opinions
 

 12. 

southern European peninsula that was a hotbed of nationalist rivalries
 

 13. 

fascination with war and the military
 

 14. 

a state that believed its mission was to unite the South Slavs
 

 15. 

an understanding among nations
 
 
Match each item with the correct statement below.
a.
duma
d.
reparations
b.
Vladimir Lenin
e.
David Lloyd George
c.
soviets
 

 16. 

leader of the Russian Revolution
 

 17. 

a Russian national assembly that has limited powers
 

 18. 

war damages paid by Germany to the Allies
 

 19. 

British prime minister who was an important leader at the Versailles conference
 

 20. 

committees formed by Russian peasants to represent their own interests
 



 
Check Your Work     Start Over