Essay Quiz

1. Why did the peace settlements that were created at Versailles contrast so sharply with Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points?

2. Why did the Bolsheviks emerge victorious in the Russian Revolution even though they were the smallest of Russia's revolutionary groups?

3. How much of a deviation from Leninism was Stalinism?

4. Were Hitler and Nazism inevitable products of the Treaty of Versailles?

5. For most of its early existence the Chinese Communist Party was persecuted and attacked. What were the most important factors that allowed the movement to survive and even to thrive?

6. Why did the collapse of the American stock market in 1929 have such extensive global repercussions?

7. Was Japan a "great power" by 1930?

8. Assess the progress of the movements for Indian independence prior to the Second World War.

9. Was appeasement the policy of "weak men and sick nations"?

10. Select one African nation and assess the overall impact of colonialism in that nation.

11. Evaluate the net effect of American involvement in Latin America during the period 1890 to 1935.

12. Why did National Socialism, Italian Fascism, and Stalinism rely so heavily on the use of terror to achieve their aims?

13. Why did the Allies emerge victorious from the Second World War?

14. Why was the Second World War characterized by so many outbreaks of genocide?

15. To what extent were the Nuremberg and Tokyo War Crimes Trials a legitimate response to the events of 1937 to 1945?