Unit 8: 20th-Century Global Conflicts
Euro History · Unit 8 · Paper 2

20th-Century Global Conflicts unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 35 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 8, Paper 2” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 33 min 30 points0/17 attempted
1

Russian Revolution, February/March 1917

2

Great Depression

3

Nuremberg trials (1945–46)

4

Stalin's Five-Year Plans

5

The Holocaust

6

Munich Agreement (1938)

7

Totalitarianism

8

Russian Revolution, October/November 1917

9

Collectivization and the famine

10

War guilt clause

11

Treaty of Versailles

12

July Crisis (1914)

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Second World War in Europe

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Nazism and Hitler

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Spanish Civil War (1936–39)

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Great Purge

3 pts

Free response

6 pts

LONG ESSAY QUESTION. Evaluate the extent to which the First World War caused the political instability of Europe in the period from 1918 to 1939.

In your response you should do the following: Respond to the prompt with a historically defensible thesis or claim that establishes a line of reasoning. Describe a broader historical context relevant to the prompt. Support an argument in response to the prompt using specific and relevant examples of evidence. Use historical reasoning to frame or structure an argument that addresses the prompt. Demonstrate a complex understanding of the historical development that is the focus of the prompt.