Unit 7: Global Conflict
World History · Unit 7 · Paper 2

Global Conflict 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.

Each paper is built from this unit’s 36 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 7, 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 30 min 27 points0/17 attempted
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Commodity dependence in the Depression

2

Trigger versus cause

3

Fear of communism as an enabler

4

Suffrage after the First World War

5

Circular flow of reparations and war debts

6

Expectation of a short war

7

Raphael Lemkin

8

Failures of the League in sequence

9

Effects of the world wars on empire

10

Total war and state capacity

11

Mandate system

12

Armenian genocide (from 1915)

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Holocaust

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Motives for appeasement

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Conditions enabling mass atrocity

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Security Council veto

3 pts

Free response

3 pts

SHORT-ANSWER QUESTION. Read the description of the source. Source — provisions of the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations Covenant, 1919. Article 231 of the treaty requires Germany to accept responsibility for causing all the loss and damage suffered by the Allied powers as a consequence of a war imposed by German aggression, establishing the legal basis for reparations. The treaty strips Germany of its overseas colonies and limits its army to one hundred thousand men. Article 22 of the League Covenant establishes the mandate system, under which territories formerly governed by Germany and the Ottoman Empire are assigned to Allied powers to administer as a sacred trust of civilization, on the stated ground that their peoples are not yet able to stand by themselves under modern conditions.

A. Briefly describe one way the settlement reflected the interests of the victorious powers.

B. Briefly explain one way the settlement contributed to conflict between 1919 and 1939.

C. Briefly explain one way the settlement affected people in colonized regions.