World Civilizations Since 1500 Final Exam Review - All
Possible Quiz Questions 2023/2024
By the end of the nineteenth century, nationalistic movements resulted in
independent sovereignty for all of the following EXCEPT
Ireland.
The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand was the catalyst that started
World War I because
his death brought to a head the tensions underlying the alliances in eastern and western
Europe.
The rivalry between Germany and Britain up to 1914 included
All these answers are correct.
Dreadnoughts were designed primarily to
protect merchant shipping and conduct high-seas battles.
The purpose of alliances such as the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente was to
provide mutual defense and support in case of attack.
The German Schlieffen plan called for
a swift knockout of France, combined with defensive action against Russia.
Which of the following was NOT a military technology used in World War I?
nuclear submarines or rocket powered missiles
Compared to the western front, fighting on the eastern front was
more fluid, as the Germans made inroads into Russia.
In World War I, "no man's land" was the
deadly territory between opposing trenches.
What effect did World War I have on the status of women?
Women in many countries received the vote in the years after the war.
The purpose of the Twenty-One Demands was to
reduce China to the status of a Japanese protectorate.
The battle of Gallipoli was significant in that
this British-directed debacle cost the lives of many Canadian, Australian, and New
Zealander troops.
"Ten days that shook the world" is a reference to the
Russian revolution in November 1917.
In addition to fighting off Allied forces, the Ottoman empire faced insurrection
from the
Arabs.
Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate when
troops garrisoned in the capital mutinied.
The provisional government lost the support of many Russians because it
promised to continue the war to victory.
Although he called himself a Marxist, Lenin, unlike Marx, believed that the
revolution
would be led by a small, highly-disciplined party acting on behalf of the workers.
The key factor in the decision of the U.S. to enter World War I was
Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare against the United States.
, At the Paris Peace Conference,
Britain and France were determined to strip Germany of military power.
Which of the following statements about the League of Nations is NOT true?
It was dominated by the countries of Europe.
The author of All Quiet on the Western Front was
Erich Maria Remarque.
In the years after World War I, the idea of progress
appeared naïve and was roundly criticized.
The notion that space and time are relative to the person measuring them was
first articulated in
Einstein's theory of general relativity.
Werner Heisenberg
first discussed the uncertainty principle.
The father of psychoanalysis was
Sigmund Freud.
According to Freud, the root of neurotic behavior was
a conflict between conscious and unconscious mental processes.
The spread of photography
led many painters to believe that the purpose of painting was not to mirror reality but to
create it.
Which of the following was NOT one of the new artistic movements of the
twentieth century?
impressionism
One of the most significant results of the artistic experimentation of the 1920s
and 1930s was that
generally accepted standards that distinguished between "good" and "bad" art
disappeared.
The work of Walter Gropius
embodied the architectural principle that form should follow function.
The term Bauhaus is associated with
architecture.
A troubling economic problem in the 1920s was the depressed state of
agriculture caused by
overproduction and falling prices.
During the Great Depression, most nations
practiced economic nationalism.
In response to the Great Depression, economist John Maynard Keynes
urged the government to expand the money supply and undertake public works to
provide jobs.
Which of the following was NOT one of the chief actions of Roosevelt's New
Deal?
tighten the money supply
The Russian civil war that broke out after the revolution was between
Reds and Whites.
Lenin's New Economic Policy of 1921
implemented free market reforms.
Possible Quiz Questions 2023/2024
By the end of the nineteenth century, nationalistic movements resulted in
independent sovereignty for all of the following EXCEPT
Ireland.
The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand was the catalyst that started
World War I because
his death brought to a head the tensions underlying the alliances in eastern and western
Europe.
The rivalry between Germany and Britain up to 1914 included
All these answers are correct.
Dreadnoughts were designed primarily to
protect merchant shipping and conduct high-seas battles.
The purpose of alliances such as the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente was to
provide mutual defense and support in case of attack.
The German Schlieffen plan called for
a swift knockout of France, combined with defensive action against Russia.
Which of the following was NOT a military technology used in World War I?
nuclear submarines or rocket powered missiles
Compared to the western front, fighting on the eastern front was
more fluid, as the Germans made inroads into Russia.
In World War I, "no man's land" was the
deadly territory between opposing trenches.
What effect did World War I have on the status of women?
Women in many countries received the vote in the years after the war.
The purpose of the Twenty-One Demands was to
reduce China to the status of a Japanese protectorate.
The battle of Gallipoli was significant in that
this British-directed debacle cost the lives of many Canadian, Australian, and New
Zealander troops.
"Ten days that shook the world" is a reference to the
Russian revolution in November 1917.
In addition to fighting off Allied forces, the Ottoman empire faced insurrection
from the
Arabs.
Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate when
troops garrisoned in the capital mutinied.
The provisional government lost the support of many Russians because it
promised to continue the war to victory.
Although he called himself a Marxist, Lenin, unlike Marx, believed that the
revolution
would be led by a small, highly-disciplined party acting on behalf of the workers.
The key factor in the decision of the U.S. to enter World War I was
Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare against the United States.
, At the Paris Peace Conference,
Britain and France were determined to strip Germany of military power.
Which of the following statements about the League of Nations is NOT true?
It was dominated by the countries of Europe.
The author of All Quiet on the Western Front was
Erich Maria Remarque.
In the years after World War I, the idea of progress
appeared naïve and was roundly criticized.
The notion that space and time are relative to the person measuring them was
first articulated in
Einstein's theory of general relativity.
Werner Heisenberg
first discussed the uncertainty principle.
The father of psychoanalysis was
Sigmund Freud.
According to Freud, the root of neurotic behavior was
a conflict between conscious and unconscious mental processes.
The spread of photography
led many painters to believe that the purpose of painting was not to mirror reality but to
create it.
Which of the following was NOT one of the new artistic movements of the
twentieth century?
impressionism
One of the most significant results of the artistic experimentation of the 1920s
and 1930s was that
generally accepted standards that distinguished between "good" and "bad" art
disappeared.
The work of Walter Gropius
embodied the architectural principle that form should follow function.
The term Bauhaus is associated with
architecture.
A troubling economic problem in the 1920s was the depressed state of
agriculture caused by
overproduction and falling prices.
During the Great Depression, most nations
practiced economic nationalism.
In response to the Great Depression, economist John Maynard Keynes
urged the government to expand the money supply and undertake public works to
provide jobs.
Which of the following was NOT one of the chief actions of Roosevelt's New
Deal?
tighten the money supply
The Russian civil war that broke out after the revolution was between
Reds and Whites.
Lenin's New Economic Policy of 1921
implemented free market reforms.
