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Grading Period 5 Common Assessment 4
“A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of
the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must
have equal weight with the claims of the government whose title is to be determined.”
-President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points, 1918
1. The political importance of this statement in the Fourteen Points was that it appealed to nationalists in areas
under colonial control by its support for – (10C)
a. National self-determination
b. A system of alliances
c. Economic development
d. Population growth
2. One reason the Bolsheviks gained peasant support during the Russian Revolution was because the Bolsheviks
promised to – (10D)
a. Redistribute land to peasants
b. Abolish peasant communes
c. Bring modern technology to Russian farms
d. Remain in the war against Germany and Austria-Hungary
“A weary, exhausted, nerve-racked group of men at noon, on November 1, assembled north of Sommerance (France)
to rest and dig in for the night. The artillery was still firing furiously, but the enemy’s [bombardment] had ceased
suddenly about 10:00 AM and now only occasional shells from long-range rifles would explode in the vicinity. The
weather was gloomy and the moist air chilled one to the bone. Yet it was with that [methodical] care that is
characteristic of worn-out men that we prepared our foxholes, carrying boards and iron sheeting from abandoned
machine-gunners’ dugouts in order to make our ‘houses’ as comfortable as possible, even though only for one night.”
-William L. Langer, Gas and Flame in World War I
3. What type of warfare during World War I is described in this passage? (10B)
a. Guerilla attacks
b. Nuclear weaponry
c. Biological weapons
d. Trench warfare
4. Which economic practice became significantly more widespread during the 1920s? (11A)
a. Governmental regulation of business
b. Stock market speculation
c. Dependence on government welfare programs
d. Reduction of tariff rates
5. After World War I, why did American farmers fail to share in the general economic growth of the United States?
(11A)
a. Many immigrants were settling in the west and competing with the farmers.
b. The Federal Government reduced the number of acres on which farmers could grow subsidized crops.
c. Farmers could not produce enough to keep up with demand.
d. Overproduction and competition caused falling prices.
6. Which was a major cause of the Great Depression of the 1930s? (11A)
a. Speculation on the stock market in the 1920s
b. Investment in roads, bridges, and other infrastructure
c. New global competition in manufacturing
d. The spread of new consumer goods such as radios and automobile
7. The Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and
Italy (later to lose Italy, but gain Bulgaria and the Ottoman
Empire) were at a disadvantage because – (16A)
a. They lacked access to the trade routes of the
Mediterranean Sea
b. They had to fight on two fronts (both to the east and
west)
c. They were not as industrialized as Russia to the east
d. Britain used U-Boats (submarines) to restrict their
movement in the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean.
8. During World War I, ordinary citizens in the warring nations participated in “total war” in which they did all of
the following EXCEPT – (21B)
a. Rationing of food, clothing, and fuel
b. Registering for the draft
c. Taking part in the war time economy of their nation’s government
d. Spending as much money as they can to show other countries that they are still strong
9. The use of poison gas, tanks, machine guns, submarines, airplanes, and other military technologies in World War
I led to – (28C)
a. Higher casualty rates due to a lack of defensive strategies
b. Lower casualty rates due to trench protection
c. The same number of casualties as in earlier conflicts
d. Those technologies had all been used in earlier conflicts so they knew how to defend against them and
the casualties were low
10. The image to the right represents which characteristic of World War I? (10B)
a. Trench warfare
b. Food rationing
c. Propaganda
d. The mobilization of large numbers of soldiers, taking them from
production jobs.