Question 1

The Chinese revolution of the 1910s was led by the ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  communists 
B)  the Boxers 
C)  Hong Xiuquan 
D)  Guomindang

Question 2

Around 1900,________ made up of half of Brazil's exports.

Accepted Answer

A)  coffee 
B)  sugar 
C)  copper 
D)  timber

Question 3

Considering the map "The end of the Ottoman Empire," which of these gained the most from the Ottoman collapse by 1922?

Accepted Answer

A)  France 
B)  Italy 
C)  Turkey 
D)  Britain

Question 4

Which of these took place on October 29,1929?

Accepted Answer

A)  the end of World War I 
B)  the New York Stock Exchange crash 
C)  the beginning of the New Deal 
D)  the Russian Revolution

Question 5

Which of these forced much of World War I fighting in Europe into trenches?

Accepted Answer

A)  poison gas 
B)  artillery and machine guns 
C)  tanks 
D)  airplanes

Question 6

The primary goal of the European alliance systems formed in the late 1800s and early 1900s was ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  partitioning Africa 
B)  dividing up the Ottoman Empire 
C)  challenging Britain's power 
D)  peace

Question 7

The ideas of Albert Einstein ________ the work of the scientific revolution.

Accepted Answer

A)  challenged 
B)  built on 
C)  was more based on empiricism than 
D)  proved

Question 8

What were the principal factors in the onset of the Great Depression and in its spread?

Accepted Answer

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Question 9

Technology in the period from 1900 to 1920 ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  differed dramatically from technology of the late 1800s 
B)  continued trends of the second stage of the Industrial Revolution 
C)  introduced new sources of power 
D)  reversed trends of the 1800s

Question 10

The U.S.president at the outbreak of World War I was ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  Franklin Roosevelt 
B)  Warren Harding 
C)  Woodrow Wilson 
D)  Dwight Eisenhower

Question 11

Russia's "Bloody Sunday" uprising took place in ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  1917 
B)  1905 
C)  1871 
D)  1914

Question 12

The Balfour Declaration promised a homeland to what group?

Accepted Answer

A)  Turks 
B)  Arabs 
C)  Poles 
D)  Jews

Question 13

The Central Powers were composed of ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire 
B)  France, Germany, and Italy 
C)  Great Britain, France, and Russia 
D)  Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary

Question 14

Porfirio Díaz was dictator of ________ from 1876 to 1910.

Accepted Answer

A)  Argentina 
B)  Brazil 
C)  Mexico 
D)  Chile

Question 15

Which of these regions was most transformed by the peace settlement following World War I?

Accepted Answer

A)  eastern and central Europe 
B)  Germany 
C)  western Europe 
D)  north Africa

Question 16

Which of these was the underlying cause of the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

A)  World War I 
B)  neocolonialism 
C)  Black Tuesday 
D)  overproduction

Question 17

Bal Gangadhar Tilak was a prominent ________ nationalist.

Accepted Answer

A)  Indonesian 
B)  Indian 
C)  Burmese 
D)  Japanese

Question 18

In the cartoon depicting the Young Turks,which of these is symbolized by the shrouded figure?

Accepted Answer

A)  the end of Turkey 
B)  the death of the Ottoman Empire 
C)  the death of Abdul Hamid II 
D)  the secular turn of the Turkish world

Question 19

The war aims of Woodrow Wilson ________ the war aims of the Allied and Central powers.

Accepted Answer

A)  supported 
B)  had nothing to do with 
C)  were expressed to support 
D)  undermined

Question 20

Which of these was the focus of "International Role Reversals"?

Accepted Answer

A)  economic power 
B)  military power 
C)  technology 
D)  decolonization

Exam 19: Methods of Mass Production and Destruction