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Mixed review · The history behind it

Ten questions of mixed difficulty, covering Origins, Ultranationalism in practice. Print it, or work through it on screen — the answer key starts on its own page.

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Social Studies 20-1 · maddyhelps.com

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  1. The Treaty of Versailles applied the principle of self-determination unevenly because

    1. a) it was never signed
    2. b) it applied only to Germany
    3. c) it was used to redraw Europe but largely withheld from colonies outside it
    4. d) no new states were created

  2. Ultranationalist regimes of the 1930s typically justified expansion by claiming

    1. a) that borders should be decided by the League of Nations
    2. b) the nation needed more territory and had a right to rule inferior peoples
    3. c) that empires were outdated
    4. d) that all nations were equal

  3. Decolonization refers to

    1. a) colonies gaining independence and becoming sovereign states
    2. b) the founding of the United Nations
    3. c) European states acquiring new colonies
    4. d) the end of the Cold War

  4. The war guilt clause of the Treaty of Versailles mattered because

    1. a) it created the United Nations
    2. b) it divided Germany into two states
    3. c) it forbade Germany from having a government
    4. d) it assigned Germany responsibility for the war and justified reparations

  5. The Holocaust was

    1. a) the bombing of German cities
    2. b) the systematic murder of about six million Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators
    3. c) the famine in Soviet Ukraine
    4. d) the internment of Japanese Canadians

  6. Napoleon spread nationalism across Europe partly by accident, because

    1. a) he asked each conquered nation to write a constitution
    2. b) French occupation provoked national feeling among the peoples he conquered
    3. c) he abolished the French army
    4. d) he granted independence to every territory he took

  7. The Nuremberg trials were significant because they

    1. a) punished Germany with reparations
    2. b) established that individuals can be held criminally responsible for state actions
    3. c) created the United Nations
    4. d) ended the Second World War

  8. The slogan of the French Revolution was

    1. a) liberty, equality, fraternity
    2. b) blood and iron
    3. c) peace, order and good government
    4. d) workers of the world, unite

  9. The Great Depression contributed to the rise of extremist movements because

    1. a) it made every country wealthier
    2. b) it began in 1945
    3. c) mass unemployment discredited existing governments and made radical promises attractive
    4. d) it had no effect on politics

  10. Printing, mass schooling and newspapers are said to have helped create nations because they

    1. a) made travel between regions faster
    2. b) replaced religion with science
    3. c) gave scattered populations a common language and a shared sense of simultaneous experience
    4. d) were controlled by the United Nations

Answer key · Mixed review · The history behind it

Social Studies 20-1 · maddyhelps.com

  1. c) it was used to redraw Europe but largely withheld from colonies outside it — New states appeared in central and eastern Europe while African and Asian colonies were reassigned as mandates. That inconsistency became a central argument of later independence movements.
  2. b) the nation needed more territory and had a right to rule inferior peoples — Lebensraum in Germany and the new Roman Empire in Italy both dressed conquest as national necessity. The step from believing your nation superior to acting on it is the one Related Issue 2 keeps returning to.
  3. a) colonies gaining independence and becoming sovereign states — Most of it happened between 1945 and 1975, and it roughly tripled UN membership. Self-determination — the idea that a people should govern itself — is the principle it appealed to.
  4. d) it assigned Germany responsibility for the war and justified reparations — Article 231 underpinned the reparations bill and was experienced in Germany as a national humiliation. Ultranationalist movements had a ready grievance to build on.
  5. b) the systematic murder of about six million Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators — Roma, disabled people, Polish civilians, political prisoners and others were also murdered in enormous numbers. It is the case against which the Genocide Convention was written.
  6. b) French occupation provoked national feeling among the peoples he conquered — He carried revolutionary ideas of citizenship and legal equality with him, and being ruled by foreigners gave Germans, Spaniards and others a sharp reason to define themselves as nations.
  7. b) established that individuals can be held criminally responsible for state actions — Following orders was rejected as a defence, and crimes against humanity were prosecuted for the first time. The principle runs directly to the International Criminal Court, created in 2002.
  8. a) liberty, equality, fraternity — Those three words tie the revolution to the idea of a nation of equal citizens rather than subjects. Peace, order and good government is Canadian; blood and iron is Bismarck's.
  9. c) mass unemployment discredited existing governments and made radical promises attractive — Economic collapse plus national humiliation is the combination the course asks you to look for. Germany's crisis was deepened by reparations and its dependence on American loans.
  10. c) gave scattered populations a common language and a shared sense of simultaneous experience — People who never meet can come to feel part of one community if they read the same language and learn the same history. It is why standardising a national language has so often been a deliberate state project.