History Exam Practice

• The policy in which a state takes political and economic control of areas beyond its borders is called

  imperialism
• Which statement helps explain why industrialization encouraged imperialism?

   Growing industries needed larger markets for their manufactured goods.
• What was the outcome of the Russo-Japanese War?

   Japan gained control over Korea and hegemony (control) over Manchuria.
• The U.S. victory in the Spanish-American War in 1898 led the United States to

  become an imperial power with territory in the Pacific and Caribbean Sea.
• What did the Europeans powers do to partition Africa into colonies?

  They established fixed borders regardless of changing tribal regions.
• Why did colonizers build infrastructure in colonized nations?

  to support expansion of a colonial exports.
• Which statement is true of imperialism?

   Western powers imposed their legal systems, taxes, and political administration.
• What nation destabilized the balance of power in Europe in the years before World War I with its increasing military and industrial might?

  Germany
• What was the name of the alliance that Germany formed with Italy and Austria-Hungary in 1882 to protect itself from its neighbor France? 

  the Triple Alliance
• As Ottoman power declined, the Balkan Peninsula became unstable due to 


  ethnic nationalism among Balkan peoples.
• After Italy had departed its' alliance with Austria and Hungary, what was the name given to the German, Austria-Hungarian and Ottoman alliance?

   The Central Powers
• During the war, nations began to print a lot of paper money because 

  they had difficulty paying the costs of war.
• What German tactic eventually drew the United States into World War I? 

  the use of submarines against merchant ships
• The Treaty of Versailles signed by Germany and the Allied Powers


   required Germany to accept responsibility for starting the war.
• Why did Russia lose territory at the Paris Peace Conference, despite the fact that it had been on the winning side of World War I?

   Russia was too weak to hold on to its empire following the 1917 Revolution.
• Which of the following is a reason why the U.S. Senate rejected membership in the League of Nations? 

  Senators feared the League's collective security requirements would draw the nation into foreign wars.
• Which of these events DID NOT lead to the Russian Revolution in 1905?

  Nicholas II dissolving the elected national legislature.
• Which of these BEST describes attitudes most Russians had toward World War I? 

  They supported the war at first but adamantly protested it after economic hardships.
• The February Revolution resulted in 

  Nicholas II giving up his throne.
• What event led to the Russian Civil War? 

  Lenin disbanded the new national assembly because less than 25 percent of the delegates wereBolsheviks.
•  One result of the sepoy uprising in 1857, was that rule of India was transferred to

  the British monarchy
• The founders of the Indian National Congress were mostly

  Western-educated Indians.
• Mohandas Gandhi’s Satyagraha movement urged Indians to resist British rule using


  civil disobedience
•  All of the following were results of the partition of British India in 1947 EXCEPT

   war with Britain.
• The uprising in 1900 that attempted to drive all foreigners from China is known as the 

   Boxer Rebellion.
• Which of the following statements reflects the beliefs of Chinese leader Sun Yat-sen?

  China's imperial system should be replaced with a republican government.
• Mao Zedong helped to found the

   Chinese Communist Party. (CCP)
• How did World War II affect relations between Nationalists and Communists in China?

  Nationalists and Communists ceased fighting to resist the Japanese together.
• After capturing Beijing in 1949, Mao Zedong announced


  the creation of the People's Republic of China
• A worldwide economic depression in the 1930s led Japan to turn to a policy of 

  expansion and militarism
• What event in 1919 shocked all of India, and galvanized resistance to the British?

  the Amritsar Massacre.
• How did Italian leaders view the peace settlement that ended World War I?  

  They were disappointed in the amount of territory they were awarded.
• Who organized a new political movement known as fascism in 1919?  

  Benito Mussolini
• Mussolini helped Italy modernize its industrial sector by managing the economy according to the principles of


   corporatism.
• Which of the following factors helped to radicalize German society in the years after World War I? 

  out of control inflation and unemployment
• Hitler’s goal of establishing a Third Reich meant that he wanted to

  create a new German Empire.
• How did the Nazis take power in Germany?

  by parliamentary election
• Kristallnacht was


  anti-Jewish violence that took place throughout Germany on November 9, 1938 was known as
• During the Great Purge in the USSR, top Communist leaders


  were forced to confess to fictitious crimes they did not commit.
• What did Stalin's USSR, Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy and Franco's Spain all have in common?


  They were all dictatorships.