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1.
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What did Brezhnev Doctrine prevent?

Soviet satellites from declaring independence from the USSR

unsupervised elections in Soviet satellites

Soviet satellites from becoming dependent on the USSR

annexation of Soviet satellites to the USSR
2.
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This person made a military alliance with Adolf Hitler.

Roosevelt

Mussolini

Castro

Stalin
3.
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What led to the formation of the European Union?

economic, political and legal relations

perestroika

sociological issues

geographical changes
4.
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Which tactic allowed the United States to close in on Japan in the Pacific?

"Luftwaffe"

"Holocaust"

"island hopping"

"blitzkrieg"
5.
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________ was the South African policy to separate White and non-Whites.

Apartheid

Holocaust

Perestroika

Glasnost
6.
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The __________ was/were a military unit of Mussolini's political party.

S.S.

Blackshirts

Duma

Black Army
7.
Match the following alliances with the letters on the map below as they were on July 28, 1914.

Political map of Europe showing the Central and Allied Powers in World War I

Allied Powers
Central Powers
8.
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On _______ the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, invading Nazi-occupied France.

V-E Day

D-Day

V-D Day

V-J Day
9.
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During the evacuation of ________, small English ships ferried Allied troops to safety.

Berlin

Paris

Stalingrad

Dunkirk
10.
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This was a necessary line of defense against possible future aggressions from the west.

American intent

iron curtain

Great Wall

containment line
11.
Match the locations with the letters on the map below.

Map of Germany and Berlin Wall

French Sector

Soviet Sector

American Sector

British Sector

12.
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Lenin was the first leader of __________.

Italy

Great Britain

Russia

the USSR
13.
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Why did Adolf Hitler refer to Nazi Germany as the Third Reich?

He wanted to honor Jewish people.

He wanted to rid Germany of Jews.

He believed it to be the second empire of the Aryan race.

He believed it to be the third empire of the Aryan race.
14.
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What conservative form of politics has been credited with the United Kingdom's economic growth and re-establishment as an international power?

Nationalism

Reaganism

Thatcherism

Solidarity
15.
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Guerrilla warfare was used by this country to bring about social changes.

Chile

Argentina

Peru

Nicaragua
16.
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The Communist Party secretary who openly condemned Stalin's actions as leader of ______ was Nikita Khrushchev.

East Germany

Italy

the Soviet Union

West Germany
17.
Select TWO that apply.

Soviet weapons were used by which two countries during their conflicts with the United States?

South Vietnam

South Korea

North Korea

North Vietnam
18.
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The ________ were the secret police force used by the Nazis.

S.S.

Duma

Blackshirts

KGB
19.
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This law allowed Hitler's government cabinet to take full control of Germany.

New Deal

Good Neighbor Policy

Treaty of Versailles

Enabling Act
20.
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Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait to ______.

threaten Iran

help Israel

takeover the country's oil fields

take control of the PLO
21.
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The development of ______ helped the British to win the battle of Britain.

radio

television

radar
22.
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The _______ and the _______ emerged from WWII as the World's superpowers.

Germans

United States

British

USSR

Japanese
23.
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_______ was dissolved after WWI and partitioned into mandates by the League of Nations.

Great Britain

the Ottoman Empire

Germany

France
24.
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After ________, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur helped bring about changes to Japanese society as the Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in occupied Japan.

OPEC stopped sending oil to the U.S.

WWII

the Great Leap Forward

the Chinese Civil War
25.
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Before WWII, Hitler annexed Austria because he considered it a(n) ______.

Germanic land

buffer zone between Germany and Italy

economic gold mine

Jewish land
26.
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This person led the Solidarity party in Poland.

Vladimir Putin

Boris Yeltsin

Lech Wałęsa

Mikhail Gorbachev
27.
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Which two countries made an agreement that kept them from using their nuclear arsenal?

Soviet Union and Poland

United States and Soviet Union

Italy and Germany

United States and Japan
28.
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During the later part of the twentieth century, ________ economies stabilized under civilian-run democracies.

Eastern European

Middle Eastern

Southeast Asian

Latin American
29.
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What was the goal of the Civil Rights movement?

integration of the races

change people's views on social issues

separation of the races

increased racism
30.
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_______, in the Eastern Bloc, did not follow the dictates of the Soviet Union but still practiced communism.

Yugoslavia

Poland

Rumania

Albania
31.
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The _______ were the secret police force used by the Nazis.

Cheka

S.S.

Blackshirts

Duma
32.
Drag and drop the location with the correct letter.
A map of Israel and surrounding areas showing the current political boundaries

A

B

C

D

E


Choices
Jerusalem
West Bank
Gaza Strip
Tel Aviv
Golan Heights
33.
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Name the economic plan offered by the United States to help struggling European countries following WWII.

Marshall Plan

Warsaw Pact

NATO

Truman Doctrine
34.
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Which Axis country invaded North Africa during WWII?

USSR

Japan

Germany

Italy
35.
Select FIVE that apply.

Which of the following countries were part of the Eastern Bloc?

Poland

Czechoslovakia

West Germany

Bulgaria

Hungary

Yugoslavia
36.
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Following decolonization, one of the greatest problems for African nations was _______.

politics

tribal rivalry

centralized economies

apartheid
37.
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What type of war did U.S. troops fight in Vietnam?

limited War

demilitarized war

blitzkrieg

freedom war
38.
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The Nazis believed that Germans were part of a superior race of humans called ______.

the perfect race

Jews

Dumas

Aryans
39.
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What posed one of the greatest problems to new African nations following decolonization?

dictatorships

intertribal marriages

apartheid

tribal rivalry
40.
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Prior to the outbreak of WWI, a member of a Slavic resistance group assassinated the heir to the throne of _________ in Sarajevo.

Bosnia

Russia

USSR

Austria-Hungary
41.
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What Middle Eastern resource is very important to Western industry?

wheat

rice

corn

oil
42.
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Many extreme nationalists in Germany believed that they had been stabbed with a "dagger in the back" by _________ people living in Germany during WWI.

American

Jewish

French

British
43.
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What war provoked the Arabs to attack Israel again because of Israeli gains?

Six Day War

Purim War

Yom Kippur War

Arab-Israeli War
44.
Select THREE that apply.

The Triple Alliance was formed between _______.

Italy

France

Great Britain

Germany

Austria-Hungary

Russia
45.
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The labor, or trade, union that led to the opposition to Soviet control of Poland was _______.

the Strategic Defense Initiative

Solidarity

the AFL-CIO

the Supreme Soviets
46.
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The Anti-Comintern Pact was signed by
and Germany in anticipation of an attack by
.
47.
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How much money did the Dawes Plan grant for foreign loans?

$800 Billion

$80 Million

$800 Million

$80 Billion
48.
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The Anti-Comintern Pact was signed by Japan and Germany in anticipation of an attack by the ________.

United States

Soviet Union

Italy
49.
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The ________ was formed to foster economic growth, political stability, the promotion of human rights and unity among African nations.

apartheid

African National Congress (ANC)

African Democratic Congress

Africa Union (AU)
50.
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______ asserts that there is no such thing as absolute truth.

Judaism

Modernism

Christianity

Existentialism

Answer 1

1. Soviet satellites from declaring independence from the USSR
2. Mussolini
3. economic, political and legal relations
4. "island hopping"
5. Apartheid
6. Blackshirts
7. Allied Powers: British, French, Russian Empire, Serbia, Belgium, Japan; Central Powers: Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire
8. D-Day
9. Dunkirk
10. iron curtain
11. French Sector - C, Soviet Sector - B, American Sector - A, British Sector - D
12. Russia
13. He believed it to be the third empire of the Aryan race.
14. Thatcherism
15. Chile
16. the Soviet Union
17. North Korea, North Vietnam
18. S.S.
19. Enabling Act
20. takeover the country's oil fields
21. radar
22. United States, USSR
23. the Ottoman Empire
24. WWII
25. Germanic land
26. Lech Wałęsa
27. United States and Soviet Union
28. Latin American
29. integration of the races
30. Yugoslavia
31. S.S.
32. Jerusalem - E, West Bank - C, Gaza Strip - D, Tel Aviv - B, Golan Heights - A
33. Marshall Plan
34. Italy
35. Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Yugoslavia
36. tribal rivalry
37. limited War
38. Aryans
39. tribal rivalry
40. Austria-Hungary
41. oil
42. Jewish
43. Yom Kippur War
44. Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
45. Solidarity
46. Germany, Japan
47. $80 Million
48. Soviet Union
49. Africa Union (AU)
50. Modernism