Study Guide HIST 1060 Exam #3

Format of the Exam

30 multiple choice questions based on any of the notes from class. (60 points)
10 Fill in the blank (see below for questions) (20 points)
2 Essay Questions (see below) (20 points)

Fill in the blank:

As the military plan for Germany in World War I, what plan stated that the German armies were
to strike quickly and decisively against the French before wheeling to the East and taking on the
Russians? (Schlieffen Plan)

As heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and a reformer who sought to give Slavs equal rights
through a Triple Monarchy, whose assassination on June 28, 1914 led to the outbreak of World
War I? (ArchDuke Franz Ferdinand)

As the head of the USSR from 1928 to 1953, what famous communist was known to be a man of
action during his rise to power in the Communist Party before Lenin’s death, and once he
became leader of the Soviet Union, he does away with more radical policies like NEP and
instituted policies like collectivization and state organized terror? (Stalin)

What political movement created by Benito Mussolini was an extreme rightist movement which
was anti-pacifistic, anti-communist, totalitarian and imperialistic? (Fascism)

Fighting in WWI and decorated for bravery, what leader of Germany was nicknamed the
“Führer”, wrote a book entitled Mein Kampf which was about a genetically determined hierarchy
of ethnicities, and instituted the massive genocide of Jews in Eastern Europe during the
Holocaust? (Adolf Hitler)

What was the name of the regime created after the Nazi occupation in Northern France during
WWII which willingly worked with the Nazis and was led by Pétain? (Vichy Regime)

Enacted in 1935, what collection of laws in Germany defined what it meant to be Jewish and
Aryan, provided for the protection of German blood and honor, and determined Reich
citizenship? (Nuremberg Laws)

As a member of the Social Democratic Party in Germany, what socialist was elected in West
Germany and introduced Ostpolitik which was a policy that began reaching out to East Germany
by creating a dialogue between the two countries? (Willy Brandt)

Who was the first woman prime minister of Britain nicknamed the “iron lady” who was known
for her conservative policies which dismantled the welfare state in the UK and her imperialist
endeavors in the Falklands War in 1982? (Margaret Thatcher)

When Cuba turned to communism, what event occurred when the Soviet Union sought to put
missiles on the island nation against American protest in 1962 which was the closest the world
ever got to nuclear exchange? (Cuban Missile Crisis)
One of Gorbachev’s policies, what reform was an invitation to both party members and the
media at large to discuss domestic problems honesty and was a political system of openness?
(Glasnost)

Initially, after WWII, the United States set up an occupying government in Japan which focused
on political, educational, and economic reforms, but starting in 1947 the occupation policies
changed due to the beginning of the Cold War. What is the name used to describe this policy
change which included using pre-1945 Japanese leaders to rebuild Japan after they had been
blacklisted? (The Reverse Course)

When British India won its independence in 1947, due to religious conflicts in the former colony,
the new country was partitioned into what is modern India (Hindu majority) and what other
modern-day country which has a Muslim majority? (Pakistan)

What term describes the event in the People’s Republic of China in the late 1960s early 1970s
when Mao and his wife used the Red Guard, which consisted of High School and College age
students, to purge the party of potential threats by encouraging young people to carry on the
vision of revolution? (Cultural Revolution)

In order to promote communism in Cambodia, what leader of the Khmer Rouge ordered urban
people to move to the countryside in order to grow food for the country in 1975 leading to the
death of almost half of the population of the entire country? (Pol Pot)

Essay: (Answer the following questions in complete sentences).

1. Name and describe at least five of the causes of World War I discussed in class.

2. Names and describe (in order) at least five of the stages of World War II discussed in
class.

3. Name and describe in detail the four main policies of Stalin in the USSR which were
discussed in class.

4. Name and describe in detail at least five of the characteristics of the first thirty years of
the People’s Republic of China which were discussed in class.