Spring Review - 1914-1960s

Which event most directly triggered the outbreak of World War I in Europe?

• Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

• Sinking of the Lusitania

• The Zimmerman Note

• The Treaty of Versailles

The Zimmerman Note proposed a secret alliance between Germany and which Latin American country?

• Cuba

• Mexico

• Argentina

• Haiti

 The Treaty of Versailles overlooked the importance of:

• identifying the guilty party in a war

•  treating all nations fairly, including the losers of a war

•  including powerful nations like the United States in international peacekeeping organizations

• crippling any nations that might prove dangerous in the future

Triggered by the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the Great Depression refers to a(n):

• geopolitical conflict

• military conflict

• political scandal

• economic crisis

What BEST describes the Dust Bowl in the 1930’s?

• A period of severe wildfires that spread all over California.

• An era of high unemployment & poverty in the southwest USA

•  A drought in the Great Plains region.

• Asian discrimination during & after the Vietnam War.

The New Deal is the name given to the legislative agenda for which influential American president?

• 26th President Theodore Roosevelt

• 32nd President Franklin D. Roosevelt

• 35th President John F. Kennedy

• 36th President Lyndon B. Johnson

Which most accurately describes the purpose of New Deal reforms?

• Punish those responsible for the Great Depression

• Solve issues of the Great Depression and prevent it from happening again

• Ensure global cooperation to address issues of the Great Depression

• Encourage rugged individualism to recover from the Great Depression 

Originally named the German Workers’ Party, which political party was headed by Hitler?

•  The Red Shirts

• The Nazi Party

• The Black Shirts

• The SS

Abandoning principles to pacify an aggressor, as European leaders did to Hitler, is called:

•  Aggression

• Appeasement

• Provocation

• Isolationism

Hitler’s attempt to solve the Jewish problem by ridding Europe of Jews was called:

• The Only Solution

• The First Solution

• The Last Solution

• The Final Solution