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Chapter 10
1.
What impact did the Civil War have on the postwar American
economy?
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The war speeded up the pace of industralization
2. Who invented the radio?
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Guglielmo Macroni
3. Who was the American inventor and industrialist who made factory
production more efficient by introducing the assembly line?
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Henry Ford
4. What effect did the major inventions of the 19th-century have on
people's lives in industrialized nations?
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Car, telephone, and electricity helped easy ways of living.
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5. What was Thomas Edison’s most noteworthy invention?
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Light Bulb
6. What tactics were used my some woman in the fight for suffrage?
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Some women participated in hunger strikes.
7. Who was the British woman who formed the Women's Social and
Political Union in the early 1900’s?
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Emmeline Pankhurst
8. Which was the first country to give full voting rights to women?
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New Zealand
9. What fueled the pogroms that took place in Russia?
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Anti-Semitism
10. What was Captain Alfred Dreyfus accused of in the Dreyfus affair?
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Selling military secrets
11. Why did Great Britain establish a penal colony in Australia?
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To relieve overcrowding in English
12. What caused widespread starvation in Ireland?
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Potato crops
13. In what country did most Protestants oppose home rule?
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Ireland
14.
During the reign of Queen Victoria, what was she forced to do?
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Share power with Parliament
15. What event provoked the secession of the Southern states from the
United States?
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Election of Abraham Lincoln
16. What promise by Abraham Lincoln frightened Southern states into
seceding?
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To stop the spread of slavery
17. What was the main cause of the U.S. Civil War?
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The issue of the right of states to maintain slavery
18. What was the Emancipation Proclamation intended to do?
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Declare all slaves in the confederate states as free
19. What is the term "manifest destiny" used to justify?
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Westward Expansion
20. What does the phrase “manifest destiny” mean?
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The American people had the right and the dity to rule North
America from coast to coast.
21. How was most of the territory west of Texas obtained by the United
States?
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Mexican-American war
22. What is the importance of the Gadsden Purchase?
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The Gadsden Purchase brought the U.S. to its present day
boundaries.
23. Which amendment of the United States Constitution abolished
slavery?
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13th
24. Where were the Cherokee forced to migrate on the Trail of Tears?
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Oklahoma
25. Which nation did Texas fight to win its independence in 1836?
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Mexico
26. What concept is the theory of evolution based on?
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Natural Selection
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27. What is the policy and practice of creating an empire to control raw
materials and world markets by the conquest of other countries
or the establishment of colonies?
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Imperialism
28. What was the main purpose of the Berlin Conference of 18841885?
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To prevent fighting of European nations over the division of Africa
29. What was the result of the Sepoy Mutiny?
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The British government tightened its control over India.
30. Queen Liliuokalani was the last monarch of which area?
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Hawaii
31. What group in 1893 revolted against the rule of Queen Liliuokalani
of Hawaii and had her removed from power.
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White plantation owners from the United States
32. Why did American sugar planters overthrow Queen Liliuokalani?
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She wanted to restore the political power of the Native Hawaiians.
33. Which U.S. business interest group pushed for the annexation of
Hawaii?
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Sugar- Cane planters
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34. What is the most probable link between militarism and imperialism?
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As a country gains colonies, its military grows to protect them.
35. What event in Sarajevo ignited the Great War?
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The assaaaination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife
Sophie
36. How was World War I a "total war”?
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The nations involved devoted all their resources to it
37. What was Germany attempting to accomplish by returning to its
policy of unrestricted submarine warfare?
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Keep cargo ships from reaching Great Britian
38. What was the system of rationing designed to limit?
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Purchases of consumer goods
39. What was a goal of the Allies' Gallipoli campaign?
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To establish a supply line to Russia
40. What region was referred to as the "powder keg" of Europe?
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The Balkan Peninsula
41. What was Germany’s promise to Mexico in the Zimmerman note?
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Help Mexico regain U.S. territory
42. What did the armistice signed near Paris in November 1918 bring
an end to?
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World War I
43. Who led Germany during the last decade of the 1800s and most of
World War I?
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Worl War II
44. What is the policy of glorifying power and keeping an army
prepared for war?
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Militarism
45. What was trench warfare intended to accomplish?
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To protect soldiers from enemy gun fire on the front lines
46. What was significant in the Allied victory at the First Battle of the
Marne?
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It left the Schlieffen Plan in ruins.
47. Which German political party sought to overturn the Treaty of
Versailles and to fight communism?
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Nazi
48. What reduced the power of the League of Nations, which was
established to prevent another world war?
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The United States refused to join the League of Nations
49. What gamble did Germany make before the United States entered
World War I?
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That their blockade would defeat Britain before U.S. troops
arrived
50. What impact did the war have on the economy of Europe?
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It drained the treasuries of Europe.
51. What is the purpose of propaganda during World War I?
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Influence public opinion
52. What was the American public's opinion about joining the League
of Nations?
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It believed that the United States should stay out of European
affairs.
53. Who was forced to assume sole responsibility for World War I
under the Treaty of Versailles?
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Germany
54. What were the Fourteen Points?
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A plan for the postwar world
55. What action on November 11, 1918, brought World War I to an
end?
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An armistice was signed
56. What impact did the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk have on Germany?
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Germany gained lands that were formely part of Russia.
57. What is a totalitarian state?
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A state in which the government controls every aspect of public
and private life.
58. What was the goal of U.S. isolationists after World War I?
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Political ties to other countries should be avoided
59. What did the pogroms that occurred in the late 19th-century Russia
do?
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Violently perecute Jews
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60. What effect did the Great Depression have on the world?
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A financial panic occurred in many nations
61. What did not increase in the United States during the Great
Depression?
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Prices of goods
62. Which U.S. President was elected during the Great Depression?
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Franklin Roosevelt
63. What was one part of Roosevelt’s New Deal program to fight the
Depression?
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Large public works projects to provide jobs
64. How did the New Deal attempt to stimulate the American
economy?
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Increasing government spending
65. What event marked the beginning of the Great Depression?
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The stock market crash of 1929
66. What effect did the Dawes Plan have on the economy of Germany
after World War I?
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It stabilized the economy
67. What was the major cause of the collapse of the stock market?
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Stocks sold for more than they were worth.
68. What was the country the leader “Il Duce” from?
Italy
69. How did the Treaty of Versailles affect postwar Germany?
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It left a legacy of bitterness and hatres in the hearts of the
German people.
70. What does fascism stress?
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Nationalism
71. What was Hitler’s main method for achieving lebensraum during
the 1930s?
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Conquer other countries
72. What is the title of Hitler’s book Mein Kampf translated to in
English?
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My Struggle
73. Which country signed a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union
in 1939?
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Germany
74. The Munich Conference held to address the problems of a German
threat to what nation?
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Czechoslovakia
75. Which of Great Britain’s policies towards Germany was based on
the belief that the satisfaction of reasonable demands would
maintain peace in Europe?
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Appeasement
76. What did Germany, Italy, and Japan carry out during the early
1930s?
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All three successfully invaded other nations
77. What did Neville Chamberlain boast about at the Munich
Conference?
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“Peace for our time”
78. Which country invaded the Rhineland to gain lebensraum in 1936?
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Germany
79. Hitler demanded, and was given, what area in northwestern
Czechoslovakia?
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Sudetenland
80. What term was used to identify the alliance of Germany, Italy, and
Japan?
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Axis Powers
81. Who was the leader of the Third Reich?
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Adolf Hitler
82. What caused Germans to start taking Adolf Hitler and his message
seriously?
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The economic crisis bought on by the Depresion
83. What was the policy of appeasement?
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The British and French decision to give into aggression to keep
peace.
84. What effect did the nonaggression pact between the Nazis and the
Soviets have on the balance of power in Europe?
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It allowed the Axis powers to continue unchecked.
85. What fear added to the appeal of fascism in Italy and Germany?
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A communist revolution
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86. What advantage did the German blitzkrieg depend on as a military
strategy?
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Surprise and overwhelming force
87. What country’s invasion brought France and Great Britain into
World War II?
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Poland
88. Who was Charles de Gaulle?
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Leader of the French government –in-exile and the Free French.
89. How was Japan politically different from its allies Germany and
Italy?
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It was ruled by militarists who kept the emperor in power.
90. What was the United States’ policy at the beginning of World War
II?
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Isolationism
91. What was the result of Germany's invasion of Poland?
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Britian and France declared war on Germany
92. Which country was Germany’s tactic of blitzkrieg first successfully
used on?
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Poland
93. What was the Atlantic Charter a declaration of the right to?
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Trade
94. How did Congress allow the United States to help Great Britain
before the United States declared war with Germany?
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Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act of 1941.
95. Why were thousands of U.S. citizens put in internment camps
during the war?
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They were of Japanese descent and falsely labeled as enemies.
96. Why were thousands of Japanese Americans interned in relocation
camps?
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Their ancestry
97. What was significant about the Battle of Midway?
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It turned the war in the pacific against the Japanese.
98. What did the Japanese do on December 7, 1941?
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Launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl
Harbor.
99. What crucial lesson was learned in the Battle of Britain?
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That Hitler’s advances could be locked.
100. What event occurred on the day described as "a date which will
live in infamy"?
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Attack on pearl harbor
101. Who was the mastermind of the "island-hopping" strategy?
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Douglas MacArthur
102. Who went on the Bataan Death March, and why?
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Allied prisoners of war, because the Japanese forced them to.
103. What was the U.S. response to Japanese aggression in Southeast
Asia in mid-1941?
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Cut oil supplies to Japan
104. How did the Japanese try to build a Pacific empire?
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By taking over U.S., British, and French territories to gain
resources.
105. Which British general led the victorious troops in the Battle of El
Alamein?
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Bernard Montgomery
106. What did Stalin repeatedly urge Churchill and Roosevelt to do in
order to relieve German pressure on Soviet armies?
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Invade France
107. What occurred on D-Day?
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The allied invasion of France
108. Who was the supreme commander of the Western Allied forces in
Europe?
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower
109. What group was tried at the Nuremberg Trials?
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Nazis
110. What caused the Japanese emperor to have reduced power after
the war?
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The Allies’ insistence
111. What was Hitler's prime reason for wanting to take Poland?
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He wanted the polish Corridor and the port city of Danzig.
112. Why was the Battle of Stalingrad a crushing defeat for Germany?
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The entire German Sixth Army, considered the best of the German
troops, were lost.
113. What does the use of kamikaze pilots show about Japanese
culture?
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They valued national honor more than individual life.
114. What was the main target of the kamikazes?
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Ships
115. What is the definition of anti-Semitism?
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Hatred of Jews
116. What did Hitler call the people that he considered to be the
master race?
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Aryans
117. How were the Holocaust and Hitler's "Final Solution" related?
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Holocaust is the term for the genocide that resulted from the
plan called the “Final Solution”
118. What was the goal of Hitler's "Final Solution"?
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It was genocide of people the Nazis considered inferior.
119. What was the location of a Nazi extermination camp?
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Auschwitz
120. What battle marked the final German offensive?
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Battle of the Bulge
121. How did Kristallnacht demonstrate Nazi persecution of Jews?
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Nazi troops attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues.
122. Why did President Harry S. Truman decide to use the atomic
bomb which led to Japan’s surrender and the end of World War
II?
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Hundreds of thousands of United States soldiers would probably
have died in the invasion of the Japanese mainland.
123. Where were atomic bombs dropped?
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
124. Who led efforts to draw up the Japanese constitution?
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Douglas MacArthur
125. What did the Allies agree to at the Yalta Conference?
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The establishment of a United Nations organization after the war.
126. Who organized and oversaw the demilitarization of Japan?
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U.S. Army
127. What action by the U.S. resulted in the high number of displaced
persons after the war?
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The United States deported thousands of Japanese- Americans to
Japan.
128. What was the Allies' plan for victory over the Nazis?
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The Allies would fight Germany on two fronts of weaken it.