World History : Restructuring after the World Wars
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Example Question #11 : Restructuring After The World Wars
Which European city was literally split in half during the Cold War?
Warsaw
Prague
Kiev
London
Berlin
Berlin
After World War II, Berlin was split into four zones- American, English, French and Soviet. As Cold War tensions grew more rampant, it became harder and harder to move to and from Soviet-controlled Berlin. This state of affairs finally culminated in the building of the infamous Berlin Wall, which would stand until 1991.
Example Question #12 : Restructuring After The World Wars
Which of the following wars were waged by the USSR following Bolshevik consolidation of power in the interwar period?
The Prussian-Soviet War
The Invasion of Bessarabia
The Annexation of Mongolia
The Polish-Soviet War
The Invasion of Afghanistan
The Polish-Soviet War
The Polish-Soviet War took place between 1919 and 1921, ending in a bloody Soviet loss. Inspired to "spread the Revolution", Soviet Russian forces attacked across Eastern Europe, with the ultimate goal of annexing Poland. Important to note is that it was Soviet Russians, not Soviets who attacked. At the time, only Russia, not all of what would become the Soviet Union, was under Soviet control. These non-Russian areas (the Central Asian Republics for example) would only be under Soviet control later on.
Example Question #13 : Restructuring After The World Wars
Which of the following nations refused Marshall Plan aid from the United States?
The USSR
France
Northern Ireland
The United Kingdom
Germany
The USSR
The USSR and a handful of her satellite states refused Marshal Plan aid, seeing it as a ploy on the part of the United States to expand its influence at the expense of the USSR as well as an aggressive move on the part of capitalist powers to undermine the legitimacy of communist power in Europe.
Example Question #14 : Restructuring After The World Wars
What was the name of the diplomatic agreement made by France and Britain that carved up the conquered Ottoman Empire, forming most national borders of the contemporary Middle East?
The Great Game
The Treaty of Malta
The Sykes-Picot Agreement
The Jerusalem Accord
The Good Neighbor Policy
The Sykes-Picot Agreement
The Sykes-Picot Agreement, signed in 1916 and enacted after the end of WWI, carved up former Ottoman lands into "mandates", artificially defined areas to be watched over by British and French forces. Though there have been subsequent border changes of varying degrees, the borders drawn in the agreement are, by and large, the borders accepted by most contemporary Middle Eastern states.
Example Question #15 : Restructuring After The World Wars
Which of the following organizations was created as a direct response to World War II?
The Red Cross
The United Nations
The World Health Organization
The League of Nations
The International Monetary Fund
The United Nations
The United Nations was founded officially on October 24, 1945 in New York. Created to find peaceful resolutions to international conflicts and avoid conflagrations like that which had just consumed the world for more than a half decade, the UN has been a presence on the international stage ever since.
Example Question #16 : Restructuring After The World Wars
Which region of Germany was occupied by the French following Germany's failure to pay reparations as laid out in the Treaty of Versailles?
The Rheineland region
The Niederlausitz Region
Berlin and the surrounding state (Brandenburg)
The Cologne Region
The Ruhr region
The Ruhr region
In 1923, France occupied the Ruhr area in southwestern Germany following Germany being unable to pay its reparations on schedule. The area was chosen due to having a sizable percentage of German coal, iron, steel, and manganese works, materials which not only were due to France per reparations agreements, but were also vital to any sort of respectable modern army. The occupation then was not only a financial move on the part of the French, but also reminded the Germans "who was in charge" in a manner of speaking
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