Concepts & Identifications: WWI & Interwar Quiz
1. This treaty took Russia out of WWI
a. Versailles
b. Paris
c. Ghent
d. Brest-Litovsk
2. Why did Russia exit WWI?
a. Because they dealt with two revolutions in their country in 1917
b. Because they were losing territory to the Ottomans in the south
c. Because they didn’t have the manpower to compete with the Germans
d. Because they were financially broke
3. France, Russia, and Britain comprised the
a. Central Powers
b. Triple Entente
4. This communist party in Russia brought about the exit of WWI and was led by Vladimir Lenin, finally securing
government power in 1922.
a. Decembrist
b. Intelligentsia
c. Bolshevik
d. Nationalist
5. This agreement between Jewish nationalists and the British, which was dissolved after WWI, promised Jews a
homeland in Palestine in the former Ottoman Empire.
a. Brest-Litovsk Treaty
b. Balfour Declaration
c. Treaty of Versailles
d. Fourteen Points
6. Which one of these was NOT a long-term cause of WWI?
a. Nationalism in emerging world powers
b. Entangling alliances
c. Imperialism and competition for resources and land
d. Militarism amongst world powers
e. Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
7. Which agreement ended World War I and through its harsh punishments on Germany set the world on course
for World War II?
a. Balfour Declaration
b. Brest-Litovsk Treaty
c. Fourteen Points
d. Treaty of Versailles
8. How did Britain and France decide to divide up conquered Ottoman and German territories after the war
ended?
a. Through the mandate system
b. Through the governance of the League of Nations
c. They did not have a plan and let these territories determine their own rule
d. German territories went to France, Ottoman territories went to Britain
9. To fully mobilize and place every able-bodied man into your country’s armed forces
a. Mandate
b. Self-determination
c. Reparations
d. Conscription
10. US President Woodrow Wilson
a. Had very little influence at Versailles
b. Had all fourteen of the Fourteen Points adopted at Versailles
c. Could only implement the League of Nations after Versailles, despite other ideas
d. Was bent on punishing Germany through reparations
11. Which of these terms DOES NOT have to do with punishing Germany after WWI?
a. Reparations
b. War guilt
c. Self-determination
d. Mandates
12. What event sparked the Russian Revolution of 1905?
a. The Sino-Japanese War
b. The Russo-Japanese War
c. WWI
d. The rise of the Kingdom of Poland
13. A state takeover of private industries is known as
a. Nationalization
b. Self-determination
c. Mandates
d. Reparations
14. In which type of government would you find the nationalization of private industries?
a. Communist
b. Egalitarian
c. Democratic
d. Republican
15. The Revolution of 1911
a. Brought in Russian influence into China
b. Ended with the deposing of the last emperor of China
c. Saw China lose to the Japanese army
d. Brought in Japanese influence into China
16. Sun Yat-sen’s Guomindang (National People’s Party) was inspired by
a. American democracy
b. Lenin’s revolutionary communist tactics
c. French social democracy
d. Italian Fascism
Interwar Period
17. Which of these Chinese leaders in the interwar period was against communism, and later attempted to resist
the Japanese invasion of China?
a. Mao Zedong
b. Chiang Kai-Shek
c. Sun Yat-Sen
d. Ho Chi Minh
18. Which man is considered the father or modern Turkey (the founder of the Turkish Republic in 1923)?
a. Muhammad Ali
b. Brest-Litovsk
c. Chiang Kai-Shek
d. Ataturk
19. What does the term ‘collective security’ mean in foreign policy (especially with the League of Nations)?
a. It means that each country is responsible for its own security and international relations
b. It means that several countries can gang up on other countries if necessary
c. It means that if any member country is attacked then other members can defend it
d. It means that communism must be the type of government in each member country
20. This Russian leader was a traditional Russian leader, authoritarian, and took over after Lenin’s death in 1927.
a. Leon Trotsky
b. Alexander Kerensky
c. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
d. Joseph Stalin
21. This Chinese leader, and later Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, led his followers on the Long March
from 1934-46 whilst being pursued by anti-communist forces.
a. Mao Zedong
b. Chiang Kai-Shek
c. Sun Yat-Sen
d. Ho Chi Minh
22. The Weimar Republic
a. Was Germany’s government through WWI
b. Led Germany to financial collapse and an economic depression in the 1920’s
c. Was the official party of Adolf Hitler and national socialism
d. Paid off Germany’s WWI debts within 5 years
23. The Dawes Plan
a. Was US aid to France and Germany to help cure German and French interwar financial woes
b. Cured Germany’s hyperinflation and stopped its economic crash between the wars
c. Helped promote democracy in Russia through improving US and Russian relations
d. Paid off Britain and France, easing their tension with the Germans between the wars
24. High tariff barriers guarded each country’s industries, promoted by Western govt’s during the interwar period
a. Protectionism
b. Primary producing economies
c. National socialism
d. Fascism
25. Primary producing economies suffered during the Great Depression
a. Because prices of their goods, such as textiles and oil, skyrocketed
b. Because demand for their goods, such as coffee, minerals, and rubber, declined
c. Because they stopped trading coffee, minerals, and rubber with the United States
d. Because European economies overtook them in output
26. Government should do the spending and investing that normally would be done by private citizens in order to
increase national income. This economic policy was promoted by the economist
a. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
b. Woodrow Wilson
c. John Maynard Keynes
d. Neville Chamberlain
27. Farming subsidies, banking regulations, and social work programs in 1930’s US were all part of
a. Primary producing economies b. The New Deal
c. Socialism in one country d. Fascism
28. These people were sent to forced labor camps in Stalinist Russia after having their farmlands seized by the
communist government
a. Kulaks
b. Fascists
c.
Gulags
d. NKVD
29. Which new political system was neither capitalist nor communist, and demanded individual citizens to
subordinate their will to that of the state (popularized by Benito Mussolini in Italy)?
a. National Socialist b. Laissez Faire
c. Fascist
d. Aryan
30. Hitler and his Nazi officials sought to reverse the humiliation that was…
a. The Weimar Republic
b. The Great Depression
c. The Treaty of Versailles
d. The New Deal