Recent Stuff: Around 1914 to the Present

Prior to World War I, which three nations formed the Triple Alliance, negotiated by Otto von Bismarck in the 1880s?

What was the immediate trigger for the outbreak of World War I in 1914?

Which of the following was a key provision of the Treaty of Versailles signed in 1919?

What was the main outcome of Vladimir Lenin's April Theses during the Russian Revolution?

What was a major social reform introduced by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in modern Turkey?

Joseph Stalin's Five Year Plans involved a process of taking over private farms and combining them into state-owned enterprises, which was known as what?

What was the main difference between Mussolini's fascism and Hitler's Nazism as described in the text?

The policy of appeasement, which allowed Hitler to cease expansionist activities in return for the Sudetenland, was decided at which 1938 conference?

In what year did Japan invade Manchuria, establishing a colony and signaling its rising imperial ambitions?

How many Jews were killed during the Holocaust, according to the text?

What was the name of the U.S. plan, instituted in 1947, that provided billions of dollars for the reconstruction of Western Europe after World War II?

Which two military alliances, representing the Western and Eastern blocs respectively, were formed during the Cold War?

What was the name of Mao Zedong's 1966 domestic policy aimed at erasing Western influence and discouraging a privileged ruling class in China?

The Korean War (1950-1953) resulted in a stalemate that left the country divided at what geographic line?

The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the closest the world has come to full-scale nuclear war, was resolved when:

What was the name of Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of 'openness' that contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union?

The 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent created which two nations along primarily religious lines?

What was the system of racial segregation and discrimination enforced in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s called?

The Balfour Declaration of 1917, issued by the British government, supported the creation of a homeland in Palestine for which group?

The 1979 Iranian Revolution resulted in the ousting of the Shah and the establishment of what kind of government?

What international organization, formed in 1960 and dominated by Middle Eastern nations, controls a significant portion of the world's petroleum reserves?

The 1994 genocide in Rwanda involved conflict between which two primary ethnic groups?

What major power did Nelson Mandela become president of in 1994 after the abolishment of apartheid?

How many soldiers were killed in World War I, according to the text?

What was the name of the secret message from Germany to Mexico that, when intercepted by the United States, helped fuel American entry into World War I?

The economic crisis of the late 1920s and 1930s, which began with the U.S. stock market crash and had severe global consequences, is known as:

The Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, a major turning point in the European theater of World War II, is commonly known as:

What was the primary difference between how independence movements targeted authority in India versus in China?

Which of these events did NOT occur in the aftermath of World War II?

Which of these was NOT one of Sun Yat-sen's 'Three Principles of the People' for a new China?

The international community's failure to resolve the division of the Korean peninsula in the early 1950s has created a modern-day crisis primarily centered on what issue?

In 1948, the Soviet Union attempted to gain control of all of Berlin by cutting off land access from the west. How did the Western bloc respond to this Berlin Blockade?

What was the primary goal of Gandhi's philosophy of passive resistance, or civil disobedience, in the struggle for Indian independence?

The Persian Gulf War of 1991 was fought by a UN coalition to achieve what primary objective?

The term 'McDonaldization' is used in the text as a metaphor for what phenomenon?

By 1928, women had gained the right to vote in which of the following pairs of countries?

According to the text, the 'green revolution' of the 1950s and 1960s led to increased agricultural productivity primarily through what means?

Which of these international bodies was established first?

In the decades leading up to 1914, which country was known as the 'sick man of Europe' due to its declining power and loss of territory?

The world population saw massive growth after WWII. What was the population of Rwanda at the time of the 1994 genocide?

What was the immediate consequence of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989?

After the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro aligned with the Soviet Union, which led to a direct confrontation with the United States in 1961 known as:

The first successful Latin American revolt, led by former slave Toussaint L’Ouverture, resulted in the creation of which independent republic in 1804?

The text states that in a span of just a few hundred years, Europe went from a backward outpost to the dominant civilization in the world. Which of the following was NOT a cultural movement contributing to this shift?

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia was reformed under a new constitution in what year?

What was the primary reason for the 'Sino-Soviet split' described in the text?

The partition of British India in 1947 led to the death of nearly how many people during mass migrations?

The terrorist organization Al Qaeda, led by Osama bin Laden, despises the United States for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

Which of these trading blocs was formed first?

According to the text, which of the following is NOT a consequence of women gaining the right to vote and entering the workforce in the 20th century?