AP WORLD- Questions Chapter 28
1. What were the themes of the twentieth-century?
2. What aspects of American popular culture established distribution branches around the world in the
second decade of the twentieth century?
3. Describe the attitude of Western observers before 1914.
4. What institutions were created during the period of internationalization during the later nineteenth
century?
5. What were the weaknesses of the international movement prior to WWI?
6. What was the name of the permanent court of arbitration created at the Hague in 1899?
7. What region of Europe created the most diplomatic crises prior to WWI?
8. What two European powers were directly involved in the Balkan diplomacy?
9. What were the events leading to WWI?
10. What made up the sea warfare during WWI?
11. Describe the conflict on the western front by 1916.
12. Other than Italy, who were the primary combatants on the Italian front?
13. Describe warfare on the eastern front between 1914 to 1917.
14. Describe the aspects of the war on the home front between 1914 and 1919.
15. What statements can you make concerning global aspects of WWI?
16. What nation profited the most by warfare in Asia between 1914 and 1919?
17. Describe the Ottoman Empire during WWI.
18. Name the agreement made by the British that promised support for a Jewish settlement in the Middle
East.
19. Describe the war on the eastern front by 1917.
20. Describe the treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
21. What year did German forces on the western front sue for peace?
22. What did the German generals running the government do before surrendering?
23. Where were the treaties that ended WWI negotiated at?
24. Describe the final set of treaties that ended WWI.
25. Approximately how many people died as a result of WWI?
26. What happened to the Ottoman Empire as a result of participating in WWI?
27. Named the new states carved from the Ottoman Empire.
28. What did the League of Nations do after WWI?
29. What year did the Great Depression begin?
30. What were the causes of the Great Depression?
31. What were the social results of the Great Depression?
32. Which economy was least affected by the Great Depression?
33. How sis the Great Depression affect Japan?
34. What was Joseph Stalin’s attitude towards the Great Depression?
35. Who dominated the Japanese government after 1937?
36. What Asian country did Japan invade and take over in 1931?
37. What party was Adolf Hitler affiliated with?
38. Describe how Hitler came to power in Germany.
39. Who was the fascist leader in Italy?
40. What nation sent effective support to the republican forces during the Spanish civil war 1936 to 1939).
41. What were the policies followed by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at the Munich
conference of 1939?
42. What year did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?
43. Describe the warfare in the European theater in WWII.
44. What country did Germany invade to shift the balance of power in Europe in 1941?
45. What caused Japan to surrender in the Pacific?
46. What were the conferences held by the allied powers to determine the fate of Europe?
47. What were the results of the peace treaties signed following WWII?
48. What nations created after WWI lost their independence following WWII?
49. What phrase did Winston Churchill coin to describe the division between free and repressed societies
after WWII?
50. What was the focal point of the Cold War in Europe immediately after WWII?