1. His Model T has been credited with revolutionizing transportation and everyday life:
a. Karl Benz
b. Henry Ford
c. Preston Tucker
d. Walter Chrysler
2. This was the most critical economic issue facing many nations in the immediate aftermath of the First World War:
a. Depression
b. Labor shortages
c. Inflation
d. High living standards
3. This plan was the first effort to reduce German reparations payments:
a. Young Plan
b. Five-Year Plan
c. Marshall Plan
d. Dawes Plan
4. The Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference was an early example of the movement for:
a. Colonial independence
b. Pacific Rim economic cooperation
c. Gender equality
d. Civil Rights
5. This nation was the subject of Franklin Roosevelt’s “Good Neighbor” policy:
a. Mexico
b. Canada
c. Cuba
d. Japan
6. This agreement, symbolic of the antiwar attitude of the 1920s, outlawed "aggressive war":
a. Locarno Treaties
b. Kellogg-Briand Pact
c. Sun-Joffe Agreement
d. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
7. He was one of the most influential opponents of organized religion in the United States:
a. Friedrich Nietzsche
b. Oswald Spengler
c. Karl Marx
d. H. L. Mencken
8. Warren Harding called for this during the "Roaring Twenties":
a. Pessimism
b. A return to "normalcy"
c. Surrealism
d. A return to Eden
9. His novels reflected the pessimism and disillusionment of the 1920s:
a. Ernest Hemingway
b. James Joyce
c. Stefan Zweig
d. Leopold Senghor
10. He was a Western-oriented secularist leader in interwar India:
a. B. G. Tilak
b. Mohammed Ali Jinnah
c. Mohandas K. Gandhi
d. Jewaharlal Nehru
11. The Treaty of San Remo gave the British "mandates" over which of these Middle Eastern nations:
a. Syria and Lebanon
b. Egypt
c. Iraq and Palestine
d. Iran
12. The events of the Bolshevik Revolution and the subsequent civil war led Lenin to concede this in 1921:
a. War Communism
b. The New Economic Policy
c. Collectivization
d. First Five-Year Plan
13. The Fasci di Combattimento were one of the key elements in the rise to power of:
a. Adolf Hitler
b. Juan Peron
c. Getulio Vargas
d. Benito Mussolini
14. Herbert Hoover believed that the best way to pull out of the depression in the United States was:
a. Government spending
b. To let the economy run its course
c. Deficit financing
d. To provide direct relief to the people
15. The Tennessee Valley Authority was an example of a:
a. Public works project
b. Privately owned utility company
c. New Deal failure
d. Government boondoggle
16. This event in India crystallized anti-British attitudes:
a. The Morley-Minto Reforms
b. The India Act of 1935
c. The Amritsar Massacre
d. The All-India Women’s Conference
17. This Middle Eastern leader argued strongly in favour of westernization:
a. Abd al-Aziz ibn-Saud
b. Mustafa Kemal
c. Sharif Husayn
d. Ruhollah Khomeini
18. “Africa for the Africans” was the rallying cry of this black nationalist leader:
a. Marcus Garvey
b. W.E.B. DuBois
c. Jomo Kenyatta
d. Blaise Diagne
19. This was the centerpiece of Nazi anti-Jewish discrimination:
a. The Enabling Act
b. The Nuremberg Laws
c. The Night of the Long Knives
d. The Anschluß
20. Early German successes during the Second World War were largely attributable to:
a. Sitzkrieg
b. Trench warfare
c. Total mobilization
d. Blitzkrieg
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