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SOC STUD 8

Name: ________________________________

Encircle the correct answer.

1. What was the flashpoint that started the first World War?
A) Murder of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand
B) Murder of President J. F. Kennedy
C) Homer Simpson pressed the meltdown button at the nucular plant
D) Death of Gavrilo Princip

2. What countries make up the triple entente?

A) Russia, France, Canada
B) Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungary
C) Italy, France, England
D) England, France, YVdeinussia

3. What countries make up the triple alliance?

A) England, France, Russia
B) Russia, France, Canada
C) Italy, France, England,
D) Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungary

4. What country are the members of the Black Hand Society from?
A) Czechoslovakia
B) Serbia
C) Germany
D) Sweeden

5. What WWI battle did Canada make its name in due to its strategic planning?
A) Ypres
B) Sommes
C) Vimy Ridge
D) Passchendale

6. In what battle did the German Army first use Mustard gas as a weapon of war?
A) Vimy Ridge
B) Sommes
C) Ypres
D) Passchendale

7. What year did American Troops enter the conflict and why?
A) 1917. Sinking of the SS Edmond Fitzgerald
B) 1918. Sinking of the SS Minnow
C) 1915. Sinking of the Titanic
D) 1917. Sinking of the SS Lusitannia

8. What is a German U boat?

A) Navy Destroyer
B) Submarine
C) Ocean troop carrier
D) U shaped rubber dingy

9. What neutral country did Germany invade to trigger Canada's involvement?

A) Austria-Hungary
B) Switzerland
C) Belgium
D) Serbia

10. Who was credited with shooting down the infamous RED BARRON?
A) Col. Polo Saunders
B) Billy Bishop
C) Capt. Roy Brown
D) General Hocksteder

11. What country was the treaty that ended the first world war signed in?
A) Slobovia
B) Germany
C) Belgium
D) France

12. Who wrote "In Flanders Fields"?

A) John McKHVW[`ade
B) John Lennon
C) John McCrae
D) John Baptiste

1. Name the three important allies of the First World War.

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2. Name the countries which fought with the allies in the First World War.

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3. Why did America enter the First World War?

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4. Briefly state the results of First World War.

5. Sate the main causes of the First World War.

6. Name the cities of Japan where atom bombs were dropped during the Second World War?

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7. Name the two dictators who were responsible for the outbreak of the Second World War.

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8. Name the Allied Nations in the Second World War.

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9. Briefly explain the results of the Second World War.

________________10. It is a model or outline of policies constituting the political and economic program
of a group or country.

a. Conservatism b. Ideology c. Capitalism

_______________ 11. The main goal of this ideology is to maintain the status quo in society as well as
the culture and order in the country.

a. Conservatism b. Capitalism c. Socialism

_______________ 12.Emphasized collectivism rather than individualism- the good of the majority rather
than of the few.

a.Socialism b. Communism c. Fascism

________________13. The government must not interfere with the course of the economy if it wants to
attain progress.

a. Communism b. Capitalism c. Fascism

_________________14. Society wherein everyone is equal and all means of production will be owned by
all.

a. Communism b. Fascism c. Socialism

_________________15. Highly values the interest of the state before the people.

a. Fascism b. Communism c.Capitalism