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Match each item with the correct statement below. a. | Joseph Stalin | d. | totalitarian state | b. | Adolf Hitler | e. | collectivization | c. | Benito
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combining small farms into large government-run factory farms
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a government whose leaders try to control the way citizens think and
live
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Soviet leader who replaced Vladimir Lenin
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leader of Italy’s Fascist Party
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leader of Germany’s Nazi Party
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Match each item with the correct statement below. a. | Munich | d. | Pearl Harbor | b. | Neville Chamberlain | e. | Nanjing | c. | Winston
Churchill |
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British prime minister who went to war against Germany
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site of the conference where Hitler promised not to expand Germany’s
territory
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Chinese capital seized by the Japanese in 1937
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site of a surprise attack on the American fleet by the Japanese
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British prime minister who chose to negotiate with Germany
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Match each item with the correct statement below. a. | genocide | d. | Auschwitz | b. | Douglas MacArthur | e. | D-Day | c. | Harry S
Truman |
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He, along with Admiral Chester Nimitz, carried out the island-hopping
plan.
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the U.S. president who authorized the dropping of the atomic bomb on
Japan
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a German-run death camp in Poland
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invasion by Allied soldiers against German positions in Normandy
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the killing of an entire group of people
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Match each item with the correct statement below. a. | John Kennedy | d. | Martin Luther King, Jr. | b. | Mao
Zedong | e. | Chiang
Kai-shek | c. | Nikita Khrushchev |
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U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader
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leader of the communist movement in China
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was president when Berlin Wall was built
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Chinese leader who tried to unite China and wipe out communism
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Soviet leader who demanded that the Western powers leave Berlin
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Match each item with the correct statement below. a. | Nelson Mandela | d. | Mohandas K. Gandhi | b. | Bangladesh | e. | Jawaharlal Nehru | c. | civil
disobedience |
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leader of the African National Congress who was jailed for 30 years
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British-educated lawyer who helped lead India’s freedom movement
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became a new country as a result of civil war in Pakistan
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the refusal by citizens to obey unjust laws
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a popular civil rights leader in India
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Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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____ was one major cause of the Great Depression.
a. | World War II | b. | Global affluence | c. | The U.S. stock
market crash | d. | Labor strikes in Great Britain |
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A strong ruler who controls a country by force is a
a. | dictator. | c. | prime minister. | b. | president. | d. | senator. |
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____ was known for his anti-Semitism, or hatred of Jews.
a. | Adolf Hitler | c. | Benito Mussolini | b. | Joseph Stalin | d. | Vladimir Lenin |
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Stalin introduced a series of ____ programs that gave government power over
industry and food production in the U.S.S.R.
a. | Communist | c. | collectivization | b. | Food and Industry Plans | d. | Five-Year Plans |
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The Great Depression in Japan caused the people to want to return to ____ type
of government.
a. | the old warrior traditions | c. | a democratic | b. | the enlightened
ruler | d. | a
communism |
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British leaders used a(n) ____ policy to avoid war with Germany.
a. | mediation | c. | negotiation | b. | treaty | d. | appeasement |
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____ causing Britain and France to declare war on Germany.
a. | Germany invaded Poland | c. | Italy invaded Ethiopia | b. | Germany joined with
Italy | d. | Hitler and Stalin
signed a treaty |
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What new technology did the Royal Air Force use to stop German airplanes?
a. | super fighter planes | c. | smart bombs | b. | radar | d. | American
weapons |
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In the 1930s the U.S. Congress ____ to keep the United States out of the war in
Europe.
a. | passed the Lend-Lease Act | b. | stopped producing arms | c. | refused to help
countries at war | d. | ceased overseas contact |
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The ____ caused the United States to enter World War II.
a. | bombing of Pearl Harbor | b. | sinking of U.S. ships | c. | Battle of
Britain | d. | German invasion of the U.S.S.R. |
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The Allied powers included
a. | the United States, Great Britain, China, and the Soviet Union. | b. | Italy, Japan, Great
Britain, and the Soviet Union. | c. | Italy, Great Britain, and the Soviet
Union. | d. | China, Brazil, and Great Britain. |
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The Axis powers included Germany, Japan, and
a. | Romania. | c. | France. | b. | Spain. | d. | Italy. |
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The Nazis made Jews wear ____ on their clothing.
a. | a red cross | c. | a yellow, six-pointed star | b. | a
swastika | d. | a green,
three-pointed leaf |
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General ____ led the Allied invasion of occupied France.
a. | Douglas MacArthur | c. | Chester Nimitz | b. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | d. | Harry S Truman |
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U.S. atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and
a. | Tokyo. | c. | Hokkaido. | b. | Nuremburg. | d. | Nagasaki. |
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The United States hoped the containment policy would
a. | make every country stay within its own borders. | b. | hold back the spread
of communism. | c. | stop the Cold War. | d. | keep food prices
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A once important symbol of the Cold War was
a. | the Great Wall of China. | c. | the Berlin
Wall. | b. | Red Square. | d. | communism. |
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A revolution in ____ led to the spread of the Cold War into Asia.
a. | the Philippines | c. | Japan | b. | Thailand | d. | China |
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What helped Europe recover from ruins of World War II?
a. | the Marshall Plan | c. | the Truman Doctrine | b. | the Iron Curtain | d. | NATO |
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The civil rights movement began in the United States in the
a. | 1940s. | c. | 1960s. | b. | 1950s. | d. | 1970s. |
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The first Indians to call for independence from British rule were
a. | wealthy Hindus. | b. | minority Muslims. | c. | upper class,
British-educated. | d. | lower class,
uneducated. |
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Prime Minister Nehru’s plan for increasing farmlands was called
a. | Five-Year Plans. | c. | Food Revolution. | b. | Green Revolution. | d. | Farmland
Restoration. |
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The three colonial powers forced to leave Southeast Asia by nationalist
movements were the British, the French, and the
a. | Dutch. | c. | Chinese. | b. | Koreans. | d. | Belgians. |
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The first of the African freedom movements began in
a. | South Africa. | c. | the Sahara. | b. | the Belgian Congo. | d. | North Africa. |
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Which of the following statements is an example of apartheid as it was
practiced in South Africa?
a. | Black and white South Africans voted. | b. | Black South Africans lived in
homelands. | c. | Black South Africans were privileged to rule. | d. | White South African
laws extended to Black South Africans. |
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