Here's the study guide!! Remember: exam Wed. at 10.30AM--in 305 Whitehead.

 

ESSAY QUESTIONS:

1.) Some historians have described the period between 1914 and 1945 as the "second Thirty Years War," implying that despite the period of peace between World War I and World war II, nothing really changed in European affairs. Do you agree? Or do you see key differences between the events and international affairs of World War I and World War II?

2.) What was the long-term impact of Wilsonianism, the internationalist ideas that followed World War I and were associated with the League of Nations? Compare and contrast these ideas with the ideologies of the 1950s and 1960s, whether the civil rights movement or the anti-communist perspective that produced the Vietnam War.

 

Quiz on Internationalism . . .

Name:_____________________________________

 

  1. Henry Cabot Lodge was a senator from:

    1.) New York 2.) Massachusetts 3.) California 4.) North Dakota

  2. Serbia became a part of what new post-World War I country?

    1.) Yugoslavia 2.) Czechoslovakia 3.) Estonia 4.) Stayed independent

  3. Which article of the League covenant stated, "Any war or threat of war, whether immediately affecting any of the Members of the League or not, is hereby declared a matter of concern to the whole League?"

    1.) Article 10 2.) Article 11 3.) Article 15 4.) Article 16

  4. Which article of the League of Nations covenant envisioned "the severance of all trade or financial relations" with an aggressor state?

    1.) Article 10 2.) Article 11 3.) Article 15 4.) Article 16

  5. Wilson spent most of his time defending against criticisms of:

    1.) Article 10 2.) Article 11 3.) Article 15 4.) Article 16

  6. Which of the following countries, established originally by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, did not stay independent after World War I?

    1.) Finland 2.) Estonia 3.) Lithuania 4.) Ukraine

  7. Czechoslovakia, another new country on the Europe 1924 map, was formerly part of:

    1.) Germany 2.) Austria-Hungary 3.) Russia 4.) Ottoman Empire

  8. Which of the following terms BEST describes Henry Cabot Lodge’s philosophy, as expressed in his speech?

1.) internationalism 2.) nationalism 3.) pacifism 4.) socialism

 

The promised . . . devilishly difficult quiz!!

Nsme:__________________________________

 

  1. The Anschluss between Germany and Austria occurred in:

    1.) 1936 2.) 1937 3.) 1938 4.) 1939

  2. The Munich Conference occurred in:

    1.) 1936 2.) 1937 3.) 1938 4.) 1939

  3. The Nazi-Soviet Pact occurred in:

    1.) 1936 2.) 1937 3.) 1938 4.) 1939

  4. The Munich Conference dealt with the fate of which country:

    1.) Poland 2.) France 3.) USSR 4.) Czechoslovakia

  5. Hitler came to power in:

    1.) 1933 2.) 1934 3.) 1935 4.) 1936

  6. The Hoare-Laval Pact addressed the Italian invasion of which country:

    1.) Albania 2.) Ethiopia 3.) Libya 4.) France

  7. According to the map, which of the following countries did NOT expand its boundaries after the Munich Conference?

    1.) Germany 2.) Rumania 3.) Hungary 4.) Poland

  8. The alliance between Germany and Italy was called:

    1.) fascism 2.) Central Powers 3.) Axis 4.) Entente

  9. This European country featured a Civil War between 1936 and 1939:

    1.) France 2.) Spain 3.) USSR 4.) Poland

  10. Which official played the key role in assuring US participation in the 1936 Olympics?

1.) Ernest Lee Jahncke 2.) Jeremiah Mahoney 3.) FDR 4.) Avery Brundage

 

The always exciting . . . Core4 quiz!!

Name:____________________________________

 

  1. Who was US ambassador to the UN during the Cuban Missile crisis?

    1.) Robert Kennedy 2.) Dean Rusk 3.) Adlai Stevenson 4.) Robert McNamara

  2. The US decided to go forward with developing the H-bomb in what year?

    1.) 1946 2.) 1949 3.) 1950 4.) 1952

  3. The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred in:

    1.) 1960 2.) 1961 3.) 1962 4.) 1963

  4. The special committee set up by President Kennedy to deal with the Missile Crisis was called:

    1.) ExComm 2.) State Department 3.) NSC 4.) War Room

  5. By 1960, which of the following countries did NOT possess a nuclear weapon?

    1.) USSR 2.) China 3.) Britain 4.) US

  6. Which of the following figures was arrested as a Soviet nuclear spy?

    1.) Robert Oppenheimer 2.) Klaus Fuchs 3.) David Liliental 4.) Neils Bohr

  7. Eisenhower’s plan for lessening nuclear tensions was called:

    1.) New Look 2.) Open Skies 3.) massive retaliation 4.) U-2

  8. The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb in:

    1.) 1945 2.) 1949 3.) 1951 4.) 1954

  9. This spy plane played a key role in detecting the secret missile sites in Cuba:

1.) B-1 2.) V-2 3.) U-2 4.) Pershing