14) Which statement BEST describes what happened after the Ottoman Empire was defeated in World War I?
A)The Ottoman Empire remained intact, but was renamed Turkey.
B)The British received Iraq, Transjordan, and Palestine as mandates.
C)The Ottoman Empire was divided evenly between Russia, Britain, and France.
D)The League of Nations was given total control over the culturally diverse region.
15) Mohandas Gandhi sought to promote nationalism in India based on
A)Hindu principles.
B)Islamic principles.
C)nonalignment during the Cold War.
D)political independence from Britain.
16) The socialist group called the Bolsheviks lead the final stage of the Russian Revolution and followed the teachings of
A)Johann Goethe.
B)Thomas Paine.
C)John Locke.
D)Karl Marx.
17) During his rise to power, Hitler gained popularity and helped stir extreme anti-Semitic sentiment by
A)convincing Germans that the United States was responsible for their many hardships.
B)making the people of Germany believe that the Soviet Union was going to attack them.
C)blaming the collapse of world trade and other economic failures on Jewish financiers.
D)destroying the rule of law in Germany so that Germans would seek retribution on each other.
18) Who was the powerful and ruthless leader of the Soviet Union from 1929-1953 who also ordered the Great Purge in which he had his real and imagined enemies arrested?
A)Adolf Hitler
B)Joseph Stalin
C)Vladimir Lenin
D)Benito Mussolini