HIST 1112 Albany State University Ancient Cities Development Questions

Multiple Choice (2 points each):

1. Which nineteenth-century city was most associated with industrialization and the rise of the factory system? A) New Orleans B) Manchester C) Cape Town D) Havana

2. Which was NOT a major ethnic-political group in nineteenth-century India? A) Marathas B) Sikh C) Cantonese D) Sind

3. A civil war in China waged between 1850 and 1864, this was the bloodiest conflict of the nineteenth century. A) Taiping Rebellion B) Shogun Revolt C) Mamluke War D) Samurai Wars

4. Period of rapid industrialization and modernization in Japan. A) Manifest Destiny B) Meiji Restoration C) Raj D) Russo-Japanese War

5. Discrimination against Jews, and a type of late nineteenth century racial theory that was highly popular in Europe and America. A) Anti-Semitism B) Zionism C) Social Darwinism D) White Man’s Burden

6. The social movement and political response to the costs of industrialization and urbanization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century United States. A) Socialism B) Bolshevism C) Suffrage D) Progressivism

7. The type of territorial acquisition and economic hegemony over other nations practiced by European powers between roughly 1870 and 1914. A) Apartheid B) New Imperialism C) Monopoly D) Colonization

8. Period of rapid industrialization and modernization in Japan. A) Manifest Destiny B) Meiji Restoration C) Raj D) Russo-Japanese War

9. An engineering marvel, this was Great Britain’s “lifeline” to its empire in India and the East Asia. A) Belgian Congo B) South Africa C) Gibraltar D) Suez Canal

10. Anti-imperialist uprising in China in 1900. A) Boxer Rebellion B) Taiping Rebellion C) Anglo-Boer War D) pan movements

11. Strategy to avoid a two-front war that dominated German military thinking prior to WWI. A) Schlieffen Plan B) Entente Cordial C) Plan-Slavism D) U-boat

12. Who was NOT a member of the Allied “Big Four” during World War I? A) Georges Clemenceau B) Woodrow Wilson C) Winston Churchill D) Vittorio Orlando

13. Which was NOT a belief associated with fascism? A) Anti-Semitism B) Marxism C) Anti-democracy D) Militarism

14. Adolf Hitler’s vision of “living space” for the German people. A) Volk B) Anschluss C) Lebensraum D) Kristallnacht

15. Adolf Hitler’s vision of a political union between Germany and Austria. A) Volk B) Anschluss C) Lebensraum D) Kristallnacht

16. Which was NOT a policy feature of the New Deal? A) Appeasement B) Civilian Conservation Corps C) Social Security D) Agricultural Adjustment Act

17. The largest battle of WWII and the turning point of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. A) Dunkirk B) D-Day C) Battle of Britain D) Stalingrad

18. Which was NOT an example of total war? A) Firebombing B) the Holocaust C) Collaboration D) the Atom Bomb

19. Who was NOT a member of the “Big Three” Allied leaders during WWII? A) FDR B) Winston Churchill C) Francisco Franco D) Joseph Stalin

20. Who was NOT one of Cuban revolutionaries of the 1956-59? A) Fulgencio Batista B) Fidel Castro C) Che Guevara D) Raul Castro

21. Communist leader of Vietnam during the 1950s and 60s. A) Mao Zedong B) Chiang Kai-Shek C) Deng Xiaoping D) Ho Chi Minh

22. Which was NOT one of the federal republics that comprised Yugoslavia? A) Macedonia B) Slovenia C) Croatia D) Serbia

23.Reforms to the Soviet political and judicial system made in the 1980s that ensured greater freedoms for the public and the press and increased government transparency. A) glasnost B) perestroika C) sovereignty D) goulash communism

24. Anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. A) Robert Mugabe B) Anwar Sadat C) Joseph-Désiré Mobutu D) Nelson Mandela

25. Which is NOT a BRICS country? A) South Africa B) France C) Russia D) Brazil

Matching (1 point each):

26. Adolf Hitler’s autobiographical manifesto, written while he was in prison _________________

27. Bolshevik leader during the Russian Revolution ______________________

28. Critic of industrial capitalism and author of the Communist Manifesto whose writings inspired a host of 20th-century revolutions _________________________

29. German for “lightening war,” this tactic typified the Nazi war machine from 1939 through 1941 ___________________________

30. Anti-colonial leader of Indian independence ___________________

31. This problematic agreement ended World War I ______________________________

32. Fascist leader of Italy during the 1920s and 30s _____________________

33. Heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne whose assassination sparked WWI _____________________

34. Leader of the Communists during the Chinese Civil War __________________

35. Leader of Spain’s fascists during the Spanish Civil War ______________________

36. U.S. president and author of the Fourteen Points ___________________________

37. Codename for the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 ___________________

38. German-Russian treaty between in 1917 that ended Russia’s participation in WWI ________________________

39. Political, economic, and military contest between the United States and the Soviet Union that defined the second half of the 20-th century ______________________

40. Belgian monarch who committed atrocities as colonial ruler of the Congo _________________

41. Josef Stalin’s political and ideological rival for Soviet leadership in 1924 ____________________

42. Major battle between France and Germany during World War I ___________________

43. Guerilla conflict between the British and Afrikaners in South Africa ________________

44. Leader of the Chinese Nationalists during the Chinese Civil War __________________

45. Wartime meeting between the in the Crimea during which FDR proposed the creation of a postwar “United Nations.”

ID Term Bank: Mohandas Gandhi, Yalta, Blitzkrieg, Mao Zedong, Verdun, Treat of Versailles, Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, King Leopold II, Chiang Kai-shek, Brest-Litovsk, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Woodrow Wilson, V. I. Lenin, Mein Kampf, Francisco Franco, Barbarossa, Boer War, Benito Mussolini, Cold War

Essay (30 points):

How was World War I fought? What was the relationship between the battlefield and the weaponry? How was World War I the first modern war (list specific concepts and technologies)