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SOL Review Activity:
World Wars and Global Conflict
With Positive Reinforcement for Students with the Correct
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Section One: The Great War
SOL Review Powerpoint
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_____1. Feelings of great pride in one’s nation, which can
cause conflicts between overly sensitive nations, is called –
A.
 B.
 C.
 D.
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Colonialism
Nationalism
Militarism
Alliance System
Question #1
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The Triple Entente
Question #2
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_____2. The text
box above is an
example of –
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A.
B.
C.
D.
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Great Britain
 France
 Russia
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Each nation pledged
to defend the
others in the event
of enemy attack.
Nationalism
Militarism
Alliance System
Free Trade
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_____3. Which of the following
nations was WAS NEVER a member of
the Central Powers?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire
France
Bulgaria
Question #3
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_____4. One of the causes of World
War I was the assassination of this
man on June 28, 1914 by a Serbian
nationalist –
A.
B.
C.
D.
Woodrow Wilson
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Franz Ferdinand
Czar Nicholas II
Question #4
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_____5. During World War I, the
fighting between enemies was usually –
A. sea battles between ironclads.
B. bombings from airplanes over
capital cities like Paris, Berlin, or
Washington, D.C.
C. trench warfare and machine gun fire
along lines dug in by large armies.
D. horseback cavalry charges
Question #5
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_____6. He was
the President of
the United States
of America during
World War I:
A.William J. Bryan
 B. Woodrow Wilson
 C. Theodore
Roosevelt
 D.Warren G. Harding
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Question #6
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_____7. From the start of World War I
in 1914 to the spring of 1917, the
President advised Americans –
A. To support the Central Powers by
sending weapons and supplies to Germany.
 B. To buy war bonds to help support the
war.
 C. To remain neutral in mind as well as
in action.
 D. To trade with both sides and make as
much money as possible off of the war.
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Question #7
_____8. This
English passenger
liner was sunk off
the coast of
Ireland on May 7,
1915 by a German
u-boat. Over 1000
men and women
died, including
128 Americans –
 A. The USS Sussex
 B.The Lusitania
 C.The USS Sultana
 D.The HMS Titanic
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Question #8
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REASONS FOR UNITED
STATES ENTRY INTO
WORLD WAR I:
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The Zimmermann
Telegram
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Freedom of the Seas
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Question #9
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_____9. Which of
the following
reasons would best
complete the chart?
A. United States’
alliance with France
and England.
B. To Make the World
Safe for Democracy
C. Militarism
D. Imperialists
hopes to gain
territory in Asia
and Africa
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_____10 In order to raise money to
pay soldiers and to buy supplies
and weapons, the US government sold
–
 A.
 B.
 C.
 D.
army surplus
radios
war bonds
victory scrap metal
Question #10
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_____11. Germany surrendered to the
Allied forces on –
A. December 12, 1917 at Versailles,
France.
B. November 11, 1918 at 11:00 AM
C. September 11, 1919
D. June 6, 1918 at Normandy, France
Question #11
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_____12.
Immediately after World
War I, which organization was
formed to settle international
disputes peacefully?
A. The League of Nations
B. The United Nations
C. The UN Security Council
D. The Hall of Justice
Question #12
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Which of the following was a
requirement of the Treaty of Versailles?
 A. Austria-Hungary must pay reparations
to Russia, France, and the United States.
 B. Russia must join the League of Nations
and follow its rules.
 C. Germany must accept the blame for
starting the war and pay reparations.
 D. The United States got to keep AustriaHungary as its own colony.
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Question #13
QUESTION:
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_____14.
Who was
the author of the
Fourteen Point Plan
for peace in Europe
after World War I?
A. Georges
Clemenceau
B.David Lloyd George
C.Woodrow Wilson
D.Victorio Orlando
Question #14
ANSWER:
Section II: World War II
SOL Review Powerpoint
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_____15. Which of the dictators
below is INCORRECTLY MATCHED with
the nation he ruled over?
A. Adolf Hilter – Germany
B. Joseph Stalin – Soviet Union
C. Hideki Tojo – China
D. Benito Mussolini – Italy
Question #15
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_____16. He was the
Anti-Semitic leader
who was responsible
for the “Final
Solution” and the
aggressor who
started World War II
by attacking Poland
–
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Joseph Stalin
C. Adolf Hitler
D. Charles de Gaulle
Question #16
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_____17. Known as
“Il Duce”, he was
the leader of the
Fascist Party in
Italy, and convinced
his nation to invade
both Albania and
Ethiopia during the
1930s –
A. Benito Mussolini
B. King Emmanuel II
C. Pope John XXIII
D. Hirohito
Question #17
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_____18. He was
the military
leader of Japan
who masterminded
the attack on
Pearl Harbor in
1941 –
A. Hirohito
B.Hideki Tojo
C.Suzuki Kamikaze
D.Hideki Matsui
Question #18
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_____19. The
communist leader of
the Soviet Union who
signed a nonaggression pact with
Hitler prior to
invading Poland (and
the Baltic Republics
of Estonia, Latvia,
and Lithuania) was –
A.Vladimir Lenin
B.Joseph Stalin
C.Joseph
Dzhughashvili
D.Nikita Khruschev
Question #19
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_____20. Which of the following
nations WAS NOT a member of the
Axis Powers at the end of WWII?
 A. Germany
 B. Soviet Union
 C. Italy
 D. Japan
Question #20
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_____21. What
nation did both
Germany and the
Soviet Union
invade on
September 1, 1939,
starting World War
II?
A. Bulgaria
B. Czechoslovakia
C. Poland
D. Denmark
Question #21
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_____22. When this
act was passed,
Americans were
allowed to sent
food, ammunition,
and military aid to
our democratic
Allies in Europe –
A. The Neutrality
Act of 1937
B. The Wagner Act
C. The Lend-Lease
Act
D.The Warsaw Pact
Question #22
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_____23. Japanese
forces attacked the
American naval base
here, provoking the
United States into a
declaration of war
against the Axis
powers –
A. Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba
B. Pago-Pago, American
Samoa
C. Manila, The
Philippines
D.Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Question #23
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_____24. FDR called this date, “a
date that will live in infamy” –
 A.
 B.
 C.
 D.
August 6, 1945
December 7, 1941
September 11, 1941
June 6, 1944
Question #24
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_____25. The turning
point on the Eastern
Front of the European
Theatre in World War
II was this battle
between Soviet and
German troops, during
which over 300,000
Nazis were captured by
the Red Army (The
Soviet Union’s Army) –
A. Berlin
B. Budapest
C. Moscow
D. Stalingrad
Question #25
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_____26. The Allied
assault (code named
Operation Overlord)
on German-occupied
France which took
place on the beaches
of Normandy was
called –
A. The Battle of the
Bulge
B. The Bataan Death
March
C. Leningrad
D. D-Day
Question #26
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_____27. Japanese
soldiers murdered
over 10,000
Americans who
stepped out of line
during this massacre
on the Philippine
Islands in April of
1942 –
A. Bataan Death
March
B. Holocaust
C. Battle of Midway
D. The Doolittle
Raids
Question #27
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_____28. After
being forced to
evacuate the
Philippine Islands in
early 1942, this notso-camera-shy
American leader
proclaimed, “I shall
return.” Later, he
did return!
A. Dwight David
Eisenhower
B. George Patton
C. Douglas MacArthur
D. Colin Montgomery
Question #28
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_____29. The
American strategy in
the Pacific to
capture an island,
develop a small base
and an airstrip
there, and then
launch another
attack on the next
island was called –
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A.
B.
C.
D.
hop scotching
leap-frogging
island hopping
internment
Question #29
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_____30. The name
of the scientificmilitary program led
by Robert
Oppenheimer which
developed the atomic
bomb was –
A. Tennessee Valley
Authority
B. The Las Alamos
Nuclear Program
C. The Manhattan
Project
D. The Internment
Vehicle
Question #30
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_____31.. This 1942
battle is considered the
turning point for the
war in the Pacific
against the Japanese.
It resulted in heavy
losses for the Japanese
navy-
A. The Battle
B. The Battle
Guadalcanal
 C. The Battle
Gulf
 D. The Battle
Nagasaki
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of Midway
of
of Leyte
of
Question #31
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_____32. The president
of the United States who
made the decision to
drop a nuclear bomb over
civilians in Japan and
claimed not to have lost
any sleep over the issue
was –
A. Franklin Delano
Roosevelt
 B. Dwight David
Eisenhower
 C. Harry S Truman
 D. John Fitzgerald
Kennedy
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Question #32
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_____33. This
city was the
target of the
first atomic bomb
ever used on a
civilian
population, August
6, 1945 –
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A.
B.
C.
D.
Nagasaki
Tokyo
Kyoto
Hiroshima
Question #33
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_____34. Around
13 Million people
are thought to
have been murdered
by the Nazis
during World War
II, including –
A. Jewish people
B. Gypsies
C. The Mentally
Handicapped
D. All of the
Above
Question #34
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_____35. Hatred of
people of the
Jewish faith,
Adolf Hitler and
the Nazi Party’s
racist and bigoted
outlook on the
world, is called –
A. racism
B. Sexism
C. anti-Semitism
D. polygamy
Question #35
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_____36. In the
United States,
members of this
national group were
rounded up and
imprisoned for the
duration of World
War II –
A. German-Americans
B. Italian-Americans
C. JapaneseAmericans
D.Mexican-Americans
Question #36
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_____37.
Riveter”
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A. Boys to collect
scrap metal.
B. Men, women, and
children to buy War
Bonds.
C. Wives and disabled
men not to talk about
letters home – “Loose
Lips Sink Ships!”
D. Women to work in
factories to produce
war supplies
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“Rosie the
encouraged –
Question #37
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_____38. This world
government was created
by a charter signed in
San Francisco, CA in
1945. The goal of the
international
government was to
promote world peace –
A. The League of
Nations
B. The World Court
C. The Warsaw Pact
D. The United Nations
Question #38
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_____39. The war of
beliefs and
ideologies between
communist nations on
the one hand and
capitalist
democracies on the
other is known as –
A. World War II
B. The Cold War
C. The Hundred Years
War
 D. The Vietnam War
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Question #39
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The United States
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Canada
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Great Britain
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Greece
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Turkey
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_____40. All of the
nations in the text
box above were members
of this defensive
alliance which tried
to protect Europe from
the threat of Soviet
aggression –
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A. The Warsaw Pact
B. The League of
Nations
C. Organization of
American States
D. North Atlantic
Treaty Organization
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Question #40
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The Soviet Union
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Hungary
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East Germany
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Poland
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Czechoslovakia
Romania
Question #41
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_____41. All of the
nations in the text
box above were members
of this defensive
alliance, created to
protect the Soviet
Union against threats
from Western Europe –
A. The North Atlantic
Treaty Organization
B. The Eastern Europe
Coalition
C. The Soviet
Federation of States
D. The Warsaw Pact
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_____42. The policy which vowed to
stop the spread of communism using
political, economic, or military
force if necessary was called –
A.
B.
C.
D.
Domino Theory
Brinksmanship
Containment
Isolationism
Question #42
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_____43. This plan sent between
$400 Million and $600 Million to
Greece and Turkey in order to stop
the spread of communism to those
nations –
A. The Marshall Plan
B. The Homestead Act
C. The UN Charter
D. The Truman Doctrine
Question #43
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_____44. Which
nation attempted to
blockade and take
over West Berlin by
cutting off all of
the roads, rails,
and canals into the
city in 1948?
A.
 B.
 C.
 D.
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France
Great Britain
The Soviet Union
The United States
Question #44
_____45. In response to
the Soviets attempt to
take over Berlin, in
1949, the United States
and Great Britain –
 A. declared war on the
USSR.
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B. took over Leningrad,
in the Soviet Union.
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C. attempted to
overthrow communist
Fidel Castro in Cuba.
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D. Airlifted food and
supplies to the people
of West Berlin.
Question #45
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_____46. The government in the
Soviet Union, China, and the
“satellite republics” of Eastern
Europe were –
◦ A. democracies
◦ B. constitutional monarchies
◦ C. aristocracies
◦ D. totalitarian
dictatorships
Question #46
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_____47. In 1949,
Americans were
surprised to learn
that China had
been taken over in
a communist
revolution led by
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A. Kim Il Sung
B. Ho Chi Minh
C. Joseph Stalin
D. Mao Zedong
Question #47
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_____48. The end
result of the Korean
War of 1950 – 1953
was –
A. Communists
controlled all of
the Korean
Peninsula.
B. Democracy and
Capitalism ruled
over all of Korea.
C. Victory for North
Korea
D. A Stalemate
Question #48
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_____49. This
Wisconsin senator
claimed that he had
a list of communist
agents in the State
Department, who were
attempting to plot
against the US
government –
A. Margaret Chase
Smith
B. Joseph McCarthy
C. John F. Kennedy
D. Robert La
Follette
Question #49
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_____50. The idea that if one
nation fell to communist rule, that
other nations geographically nearby
would also fall to communism was –
A. containment
B. infectious disease theory
C. détente
D. the domino theory
Question #50