As industrialization advanced, the two problems that began to plague entrepreneurs most were skyrocketing start up costs and

The overall European population was growing at the end of the nineteenth century, but

Upon the outbreak of World War I, the world quickly devolved into two armed and allied camps: the “Central Powers” consisting of

Giving into the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace is known

The day of the invasion of Western Europe by Allied forces in an attempt to liberate it from the Nazis was known as

Where in Germany did the Allies have Axis leaders tried for "crimes against humanity"?

IN 1955, the Soviet Union created its own military alliance called the

The state of tension and hostility between nations aligned with the United States on one side and the USSR on the other was known as the

In 1949, the United States, Canada and nine other countries formed a new military alliance called the

At the Yalta Conference, Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt disagreed with Joseph Stalin about

Which of the following was NOT a major factor in the defeat of the Nazis?

May 8, 1945, the day after Germany surrendered, officially became known as

American forces embarked on a campaign known as __________, with the goal of recapturing some Japanese-held islands which were used as steppingstones to the next objective.

Kamikaze pilots

In May of 1942, the Japanese had gained control of the Philippines, killing several hundred American soldiers and approximately 10,000 Filipino soldiers during the

Which Japanese city was the target of the second atomic bomb, dropped by the United States on August 9, 1945?

The Manhattan Project was

Which Japanese city was the target of the first atomic bomb, dropped by the United States on August 6, 1945?

One of the earliest signs of the threat posed by the Japanese was their 1931 invasion of (562)

The opposition of all war is known as

Which of the following countries made up the Axis powers?

Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin established a peaceful relationship between their nations in which historic agreement?

Which country did Germany and the Soviet Union agree to divide up between them in the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939?

At the Munich Conference of 1938

Approximately how many Jews did the Nazis kill during the Holocaust?

Detention centers (in Germany) for civilians considered enemies of the state were known as

While the USSR had a Communist government, both Italy and Germany had a _____ government.

The event which pushed France and England into declaring war during WWI was the

The enormous power of the German military was revealed in their "lightning war", or __________ against Poland in 1939.

What prevented the Germans from conquering the Soviet capital of Moscow in 1941?

How did the League of Nations respond when Japan invaded Manchuria in

In 1935, the Nazis passed the Nuremberg Laws, which

With what countries did Japan ally itself

What was the appeal of Mussolini’s fascist government to Italians?

What measure did the Nazis take that was a rejection of the Versailles Treaty?

Which of the following describes fascism?

One of Hitler’s goals was the

Which of the following was a result of the Bolshevik Revolution?

Although the combatants in the Great War had individual objectives, all aimed to

World War I was called a “total war” because

The single most significant aspect of German military policy in terms of its provocative effect on the United States and subsequent U.S. involvement in the war was

A major source of discontent in the cities across Europe in the spring of 1917 was

Among all the combatants the world over, the country that suffered the greatest number of casualties, with some 7.5 million dead during World War I, was

In April 1917, the Germans moved to destabilize Russia by

In October of 1918, what did the German high command do to deflect the blame for Germany's total defeat away from the military?

Following the official end of hostilities on November 11, 1918, the world experienced another devastating blow with the death of some 100 million more people as a result of

The Peace of Paris, negotiated over six months in 1919 and 1920, led to a series of treaties that expressly forbade

The League of Nations was weakened at the outset when

Of all the penalties imposed by the Treaty of Versailles, the one that generated the most outrage in Germany was the

Violent attacks against Jews in Russia that were condoned by officials were known as

In France, anti-Semitism became a hotly contested political issue with the arrest in 1894 of a Jewish army officer for espionage, particularly after

The Russian Revolution of 1905 was caused by

The Indian National Congress, founded in 1885, was

The new mass journalism of this period was characterized by

Historians use the concept of a "Second" Industrial Revolution to refer to

One of the main purposes of the Dual Alliance by Germany and Austria in 1879 was to

Which one of the following pairs of countries came to rival Britain as industrial powers?

In the early 1880s a scramble among European countries for colonies in Africa was touched off by

In the late 19th century, industrialization tended to be capital intensive, which means that

Of the following, the country that was slowest to industrialize was

In the Crimean War of 1853–1856, Britain and France fought to

Italian unification in 1861 was led by the kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia because

Following Austria's defeat in the Austro-Prussian War, Francis Joseph reluctantly agreed to the establishment of a “dual monarchy,” which granted Magyars

Joseph Lister applied Louis Pasteur's germ theory to

Laws requiring education for children were difficult to enforce because

East Indian troops of the British army launched the Indian Rebellion in 1857 because they were angered by tightening British control and by

The Suez Canal, opened in 1869, connected the

The “putting-out” system of the nineteenth century refers to

Beginning in the 1840s, this factory-produced good became increasingly important to industrial economies.

The Factory Act of 1833 in Great Britain

British religious reformers attempted to combat religious indifference among the working classes by

The disease that had the most devastating impact on cities in the first half of the nineteenth century was

Middle-class reformers became concerned about what they perceived to be the urban working classes' increasing

In 1842, the Treaty of Nanking forced China to permit a continuation of the

The crop failures of the mid-1840s not only drove up the price of food but also