Europe in the 20th Century

Europe in the 20^th Century

 

1. The purpose of the Nuremberg laws was to
2. Crush free speech
3. Keep Germany from rearming
4. Deprive all German Jews of citizenship rights
5. Punish all those involved in the genocide
6. Organize Jewish holidays

 

2. In to appeal to the middle classes, Hitler focused on
3. Authoritarianism
4. Nationalism
5. Anti-communism
6. Expanded territory
7. Military build-up

 

3. By both encouraging Austria and planning an attack of France in World War I, Germany
4. Scared Italy into attacking it from the South
5. Risked losing its colonial empire in Africa
6. Lost the alliance it had with Great Britain
7. Ended its dominance over continental Europe
8. Turned a small war into a continent wide war

 

4. The dominant philosophy which spurred WWI was
5. Futurism
6. Conservatism
7. Nationalism
8. Liberalism
9. Socialism

 

5. Austria-Hungary responded to the assassination of their heir to the throne by
6. Assassinating the Serbian head of state.
7. Demanding effective control over Serbia
8. Beginning an alliance with Germany
9. Surrendering to Serbia
10. Destroying the Schlieffen Plan

 

6. The Central Powers in WWI included all of the following except:
7. Austria-Hungary
8. Bulgaria
9. Turkey
10. Russia
11. Germany

 

7. What happened to Austria-Hungary after WWI?
8. It became a constitutional monarchy under a Hapsburg
9. It was divided into several different republican states.
10. It was cut up into socialist countries
11. It was immediately overtaken by dictators
12. It was swallowed up by Russia.

 

8. Which nation was not a winner in WWI?
9. The United States
10. Great Britain
11. Russia
12. France
13. Italy

 

9. Of the following people, this man was the least significant to Russia in 1917:
10. Stalin
11. Lenin
12. Kerensky
13. Trotsky
14. Tsar Nicholas II

 

10. Whose challenge did Stalin overcome to be the leader of the Soviet Union in 1928?
11. Dugashvili
12. Lenin
13. Trotsky
14. Kirov
15. Tsar Nicholas II

 

11. Which area of production improved the most during Stalin’s Five-Year Plans?
12. Steel
13. Wages
14. Auto production
15. Agriculture
16. Consumer goods

 

12. Which group of farmers was completely destroyed by Stalin?
13. Cossacks
14. Aryans
15. Soldiers
16. Kulakhs
17. Tsarevichs

 

13. Which of the following was not a part of the 1920s?
14. The Dawes Plan
15. France invaded the Ruhr valley
16. The Beer Hall Putsch
17. German economic collapse
18. Hitler is elected Chancellor of Germany

 

14. This was the first place Hitler occupied in 1936:
15. Poland
16. The Rhineland
17. Austria
18. The Sudetenland
19. Albania

 

15. In Munich in 1938, Britain and France
16. Invaded Germany
17. Repudiated the Treaty of Versailles
18. Appeased Hitler
19. Approached Roosevelt for help
20. Divided Germany into four zones

 

16. Hitler broke the Munich Agreement by
17. Invading Poland
18. Invading Austria
19. Invading Czechoslovakia
20. Invading the USSR
21. Invading Great Britain

 

17. The nation that stood directly in Hitler’s way until 1935 was:
18. The USSR
19. Italy
20. The United States
21. Norway
22. Denmark

 

18. In 1939, to guarantee success, Hitler made a Non-Aggression Pact with
19. Roosevelt of the USA
20. Tojo of Japan
21. Mao of China
22. Stalin of the USSR
23. Chamberlain of Great Britain

 

19. Wannsee is synonymous with what WWII event?
20. The dropping of the bombs in Japan
21. The Holocaust
22. The bombing of Dresden
23. The Battle of Stalingrad
24. Pearl Harbor

 

20. Which battle was both a turning point of WWII and one of the bloodiest battles in history?
21. Stalingrad
22. Pearl Harbor
23. Ardennes forest
24. Leningrad
25. Britain

 

21. Which nation lost the most people in WWII?
22. Poland
23. The USSR
24. The USA
25. Germany
26. Great Britain

 

22. Which nation lost the most people to the Holocaust?
23. Poland
24. The USSR
25. The USA
26. Germany
27. Great Britain

 

23. Which name does not belong in a conversation about the Holocaust?
24. Mengele
25. Macarthur
26. Heydrich
27. Aushwitz
28. Hitler

 

24. The Allied invasion of Normandy began with a battle called:
25. D-Day
26. X-Ray
27. The Bulge
28. Stalingrad
29. Iwo Jima

 

25. The post war conference where Stalin and Churchill divided Europe was held in
26. Malta
27. Teheran
28. Potsdam
29. Yalta
30. Washington

 

26. The post war conference where the Allies divided Germany was held in
27. Malta
28. Teheran
29. Potsdam
30. Yalta
31. Washington

 

27. The phrase used to describe the physical division between East and West in the Cold War
28. Steel Curtain
29. Iron Curtain
30. Communist Fog
31. United Nations
32. Mutually Assured Destruction

 

28. All of the following are associated with policies in the early Cold War except:
29. Truman Doctrine
30. Marshall Plan
31. Glasnost
32. Containment
33. Warsaw Pact

 

29. The idea of both sides in the cold war pursuing massive stockpiles of nuclear weapons was called:
30. Mutually Assured Destruction
31. Strategic Defense Initiative
32. Relatively Sane Ideology
33. Laugh Out Loud
34. Stalin is Crazy

 

30. The event most commonly believed to be the closest the world has come to nuclear destruction was:
31. The Berlin Blockade
32. The Bay of Pigs
33. The Election of George W. Bush
34. The Cuban Missile Crisis
35. The Berlin Wall construction

 

31. The man who became the leader of the USSR immediately after Khrushchev was called
32. Konstantin
33. Stalin
34. Gorbachev
35. Brezhnev
36. Andropov

 

32. Khrushchev, who had tried to de-Stalinize, was forced to invade this country in 1956
33. Czechoslovakia
34. Hungary
35. Afghanistan
36. France
37. Yugoslavia

 

33. The leader of Yuglosavia who was able to remain an independent communist leader was
34. Milosevic
35. Chernenko
36. Solzhenystsyn
37. Tito
38. Nagy

 

34. This country was not part of the Warsaw Pact:
35. Poland
36. Turkey
37. Bulgaria
38. Hungary
39. East Germany

 

35. All of these are part of the early stages of the European Union except:
36. The Monnet plan
37. The Schuman Plan
38. The treaty of Rome
39. The European Coal and Steel Community
40. The Schlieffen Plan

 

36. The Brezhnev Doctrine was announced in 1968 with the Soviet invasion of
37. Czechoslovakia
38. Hungary
39. Poland
40. Rumania
41. Afghanistan

 

37. The invasion of this nation in 1979 prompted the United States to boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics
38. Albania
39. Afghanistan
40. Hungary
41. Czechoslovakia
42. Rumania

 

38. A period of good relations between the superpowers during the cold war was called
39. Denouement
40. Détente
41. Flava flav
42. Camp David accords
43. Nixon magic

 

39. A large student led general strike shut down which nation in the summer of 1968?
40. Czechoslovakia
41. USSR
42. France
43. USA
44. Denmark

 

40. Which nation underwent significant turmoil in 1968?
41. France
42. USA
43. Vietnam
44. All of the above
45. None of the above

 

41. The economic problems of the 1970s saw which of the following?
42. High oil prices
43. High unemployment
44. High inflation
45. All of the above
46. None of the above

 

42. The correct of Soviet leaders is:
43. Gorbachev. Andropov, Brezhnev
44. Brezhnev. Gorbachev, Andropov
45. Andropov, Chernenko, Khrushchev
46. Chernenko. Gorbachev, Brezhnev
47. Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko

 

43. Which term does not belong in a discussion about nuclear weapons?
44. MAD
45. ICBM
46. MORV
47. MIRV
48. ABM

 

44. Gorbachev’s plan for economic restructuring was called:
45. Glasnost
46. Perestroika
47. Détente
48. Stalinization
49. NEP

 

45. Gorbachev’s plan to open Soviet society to new ideas was called:
46. Glasnost
47. Perestroika
48. Détente
49. Stalinization
50. NEP

 

46. The Berlin Wall came down in 1989 after standing for
47. 25 years
48. 27 years
49. 28 years
50. 50 years
51. 52 years

 

47. This nation was the last to lose its communist government in Europe:
48. Yugoslavia
49. The USSR
50. France
51. Albania
52. East Germany

 

 

48. Berlin itself was located in which nation during the Cold War
49. West Germany
50. East Germany
51. Poland
52. Spain
53. France

 

49. The treaty which formalized the European Union in 1993 was signed in
50. Nuremburg
51. Berlin
52. Maastricht
53. Warsaw
54. Moscow

 

50. The common currency of the EU is called the
51. Dinar
52. Ruble
53. Piata
54. Euro
55. Europa

 

51. This nation is not part of the Euro monetary union
52. United Kingdom
53. Ireland
54. France
55. Italy
56. Germany

 

52. This nation is not part of the EU
53. France
54. Italy
55. Ireland
56. Russia
57. Poland

 

53. This is the name of the first President of the EU:
54. Van Helsing
55. Blair
56. Thatcher
57. Van Rompuy
58. Gorbachev

 

54. This leader grew to become the most powerful leader of Yugoslavia after Josep Tito
55. Milosevic
56. Harpov
57. Vanek
58. Havel
59. Arkaan

 

55. The post WWII plan to rebuild Europe was named after this American:
56. George Patton
57. Marshall Eisenhower
58. George Marshall
59. Charles DeGaulle
60. Zach Gillefinakas

 

56. The current leader of Russia is
57. Vlad the Impaler
58. George Medvedev
59. Vladimir Putin
60. Donald Trump
61. Mikhail Gorbachev

 

57. In 2014 Russia reacquired territory in South Eastern Ukraine called
58. The Baltic
59. The Crimean Peninsula
60. Estonia
61. Lithuania
62. Poland

 

58. The current leader of the United Kingdom is
59. Angela Merkel
60. Margaret Thatcher
61. Boris Johnson
62. Queen Elizabeth I
63. Winston Churchill

 

59. A current leader of Germany is
60. Bismarck
61. Merkel
62. Hitler
63. Putin
64. Hollande

 

60. What country has been the focus of the recent European economic crisis?
61. France
62. The Netherlands
63. Ukraine
64. Poland
65. Greece