Final Exam Review #2 ANSWERS
World History
Name _______________________________________
Hour _____
Date: May 19, 2016
____/50 pts
DIRECTIONS: Use Unit III (Ch 29 & 30) and Unit IV (Ch 31 & 32) notes, terms, & tests from your
notebook to complete this review IN CLASS. Points are awarded only for what you complete IN CLASS.
No textbooks may be used!
UNIT III (World War I & Russian Revolution) Chapters 29 & 30
1. What were the 4 main underlying causes of WWI and HOW did they cause it?
(a) _nationalism__ - _minority ethnic groups in lg multinational empire wanted to break away
(b) _imperialism___ - _countries wanted to get colonies away from others_
(c) _militarism__ - _each built up their military & wanted to use new weapons__
(d) _alliances__ - _made a war between A-H & Serbia a WORLD war because their allies joined it__
2. Germany’s Von Schlieffen Plan was to attack France first, quickly defeat them, then to attack
Russians.
3. What was the general reason why the US entered WWI? _unrestricted sub warfare/freedom of seas_
4. What was the SPECIFIC event that caused the US to enter WWI? _Zimmerman Note/Telegram_
5. Type of warfare that caused a stalemate in WWI: _trench warfare__
6. 5 new weapons in WWI: (a) _tanks__ (b) _machine guns_ (c) _bi-planes_
(d) _submarines (U-boats)_ (e) mustard gas & chlorine gas (poison gasses)_
7. What was the name of the peace treaty that ended WWI? _Treaty of Versailles_
8. What country was punished by this treaty? _Germany_
9. How? (a) _had to take full blame for war_ (b) had to pay reparations to Br & Fr_
(c) had to reduce military (d) lost territory _ Why? Austria-Hungary would not have provoked war
with Serbia if didn’t know that Germany would support them
10. How was the GOAL of this final treaty DIFFERENT from Wilson’s Fourteen Points?
Goal of 14 Points: _resolve the problems that led to war in the first place; fair peace_
Treaty’s goal:
punish Germany
11. What was the only country that didn’t sign it? _United States__
12. What were 5 new countries created by this treaty? (a) _Poland_ (b) _Estonia_ (c) _Lithuania_
(d) Latvia_ (e) _Czechoslovakia__ (f) Yugoslavia (g) Finland (h) Austria
(i) Hungary
13. What new organization was created by this treaty AND why was it never very successful?
_League of Nations_ - _US never joined; had no military force to enforce its decisions_
14. What was the Dawes Plan & what problem did it temporarily solve & where? US banks loaned $ to
Germany to pay its reparations to Britain & France and then Britain & France paid war debts to US
15. __Collectivization__ was the process of the government taking over small peasant farms & replacing
them with larger, government-owned farms.
OVER
16. What were 2 main causes of the first Russian Revolution (what people were angry about)?
(a) _food shortages__ (b) high casualty rate (deaths) in World War I
17. What was the SLOGAN of the Bolsheviks that helped them win the Russian Revolution?
__bread__ ____peace__
& ___land______
18. What were 2 ways that the Soviet Union was the SAME under the czars & under communism?
(a) __denied individual freedoms__ (b) used secret police (c) sent dissidents to Siberia
19. What are 5 actions that Stalin took to strengthen the communist state of the Soviet Union and to
increase his own power?
(a) _killed off or imprisoned enemies (b) _built up the military (c) used propaganda in press & art
(d) sent dissidents to Siberia_
(e) closed all the churches (e) indoctrinated youth (f) censorship
(g) secret police got people to inform on each other
People/Groups:
1. __Kaiser Wilhelm___ leader of Germany in WWI
2. __Nicholas II__
3. __Bolsheviks_
last czar of Russia who was overthrown in the Russian Revolution
group that overthrew the Russian provisional gov’t & set up communism
4. __Lenin__
first leader of the USSR (Soviet Union)
5. __Stalin__
leader of USSR (Soviet Union) during WWII; dictator
6. __Mao Zedong__
7. _Gandhi__
first leader of Communist China after he won the Civil War
used civil disobedience to get the British to leave India
UNIT IV (Depression, Fascism, & WWII) Chapters 31 & 32
1. A _totalitarian_ government is one where a dictator or small group controls EVERY ASPECT of the
people’s lives (both private & public).
2. Who were the 2 fascist leaders during WWII and what country did each control?
(a) _Hitler_ - __Germany_
(b) _Mussolini_ - _Italy_
3. Which leader during WWII was a communist dictator but NOT a fascist? _Stalin__
4. How are fascism & communism ALIKE? _only 1 political party, deny individual rights_
5. _isolationism_ foreign policy used by the US between WWI & WWII; means avoiding political ties to
other countries but still trading with them
6. What event began the worldwide depression of the 1930s? _Stock Market Crash_
7. _appeasement_ is the policy of giving in to an aggressor to keep the peace.
8. What 2 countries signed a non-aggression pact in 1939 that surprised the world?
(a) __Germany__
(b) _USSR/Soviet Union__
OVER
9. What event ended US isolationism & brought us into WWII? _Pearl Harbor_
10. D-Day (Normandy invasion)_ (battle) opened a second front in Europe against the Germans
11. What mistake did Hitler make in Russia? _invading in the winter_
12. What previous leader had made the same mistake (first semester)? __Napoleon_
13. _Holocaust_ is the destruction of 6 million Jews during WWII
14. _kamikazes_ were Japanese pilots who flew into Allied ships during WWII
15. Why did President Truman decide not to invade Japan? _too many people on each side would die_
16. What did he do instead? _dropped atomic bomb_
17. What were examples of the results? (a) thousands died immediately & buildings destroyed_
(b) _birth defects & radiation poisoning_
(c) _Japan surrendered after SECOND bomb dropped_
18. What 2 countries were occupied by the US after WWII? _Germany__ & _Japan__
Putting in order:
_2__ put Jews in ghettos
_2__ Pearl Harbor attacked
_4__ gassing of Jews, then ovens
_4_ Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
_1__ Nuremberg Laws passed
_1_ US cuts off oil supplies to Japan
_3__ concentration camps
_3_ Bataan Death March
Name the country for each AND say if
they were an Allied or Axis power:
A. _USSR_ - Allied_
B. _Germany_ - _Axis_
C. _Italy_ - _Axis_
D. _France_ - _Allied_
E. Britain/UK/England - Allied