Deck 10: The Beginnings of European Expansion

Question 1

In the 1930s the most hotly contested battle between fascism and communism in Europe occurred in:

A) Spain
B) Germany
C) Italy
D) France

Answer 1

Spain

Question 2

In 1929 Mussolini made an important alliance with:

A) Germany
B) the Roman Catholic Church
C) the Socialist Party
D) Spain

Answer 2

the Roman Catholic Church

Question 3

Under Mussolini's regime, between 1926 and 1929 unemployment in Italy:

A) decreased
B) remained about the same
C) increased significantly
D) increased slightly

Answer 3

increased significantly

Question 4

In 1929 the Wall Street crash set off a depression in:

A) the United States
B) France
C) the United Kingdom
D) all of the above

Question 5

When ________________ found overseas ports closed to its cotton textiles and silk during the Depression, many small businesses that largely depended upon foreign trade were devastated:

A) Japan
B) China
C) Mexico
D) India

Question 6

Stalin's main rival in the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1928 was:

A) Lenin
B) Zinoviev
C) Kamenev
D) Trotsky

Question 7

The harshest penalty for stealing a sheaf of wheat from a state-owned collective farm in the Soviet Union in the 1930s was:

A) a heavy fine
B) a lengthy prison term
C) death
D) forced labor

Question 8

Before joining the German army during World War I, Hitler was:

A) a musician
B) an artist
C) a carpenter
D) a tailor

Question 9

In what year did Hitler assume power in Germany?

A) 1931
B) 1933
C) 1935
D) 1937

Question 10

In 1936 what was the first target of German territorial expansion under Hitler?

A) Czechoslovakia
B) the Sudetenland
C) Austria
D) the Rhineland

Question 11

What was the name of the Chinese revolutionary who inspired and led the overthrow of the Qing dynasty in 1912?

A) Yuan Shikai
B) Mao Zedong
C) Sun Yixian
D) Jiang Jieshi

Question 12

In 1921 Mao Zedong was particularly inspired by recent events in:

A) Russia
B) Japan
C) Germany
D) Mexico

Question 13

Place the following events from Chinese history in chronological order:

A) the Guomindang purge of the Communists
B) the Japanese invasion of Manchuria
C) the Rape of Nanjing
D) the Long March

Question 14

The civil war in China ended with the establishment of the People's Republic of China in:

A) 1951
B) 1949
C) 1945
D) 1941

Question 15

At the Munich Conference of 1938, the British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, agreed to recognize German control of:

A) Austria
B) Czechoslovakia
C) the Rhineland
D) the Sudetenland

Question 16

Mussolini embraced the nickname of _________________, which means "leader" in Italian.

Question 17

Before 1933 what country was most severely affected by the Great Depression?

Question 18

What two former allies of Trotsky threw their support to Stalin, only to regret it later?

Question 19

What is the name of Adolf Hitler's autobiography and what is the English translation of the title?

Question 20

What two countries experienced devastating civil wars fueled by contrasting political ideologies in the 1930s?

Question 21

What was the name of the Chinese nationalist party headed by Jiang Jieshi in the 1920s and 1930s?

Question 22

Compare and contrast the rule of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union with that of Adolf Hitler in Germany. Do you think the similarities outweigh the differences or vice versa? Was Stalin simply an extremely effective tsar and Hitler an extremely ruthless emperor, or had politics changed in a fundamentally different way in the twentieth century?

Question 23

What forces of Chinese history led to the eventual triumph of communism in that country? What were some of the major problems that the Chinese people and their leaders were trying to solve in the twentieth century? Why did the Chinese people turn to communism as an answer to their problems?