1)
Lenin’s “New Economic Policy” (1921) in Russia was designed to
A) set quotas for major industries.
B) industrialize the country rapidly.
C) establish strict communist control over industrial productivity.
D) allow the country’s economy to recover from the hardships of war.
2)
Unlike the ideals advocated by Karl Marx, Lenin believed that
A) the Orthodox Church needed to ally with the Russian Army.
B) the proletariat must be included in any revolution for it to be successful.
C) the revolution would be led by a small group of well-trained revolutionaries.
D) the masses would rise up and overthrow the system created by the bourgeoisie.
3)

What BEST completes this diagram?
A) The Korean War
B) Hitler Takes Power
C) The Russian Revolution
D) Communists Control China
4)
What changes took place to the Ottoman empire as a result of World War I?
A) The empire was split up and Israel was created by the League of Nations.
B) The empire was split up and Turkey was occupied by the U. S. and became a democracy.
C) The empire was split up and Turkey became a communist country under the Soviet Union's empire.
D) The empire was split up and many of the new countries became "mandates" to France and Great Britain.
5)
What effect did the fall of the Russian Empire have on the allied war effort during World War I?
A) The Russian Revolution caused Allied powers to fight a two front war, in Russia and in Europe.
B) The Russian Revolution caused the war to end sooner because so many soldiers died in the Revolution.
C) The new Russian government pulled all troops from the war, creating a troop deficit on the allied front.
D) The new Russian government refused to surrender to the central powers, preventing the war from ending sooner.
6)
What did Stalin’s order to “collectivize” farms mean?
A) It encouraged peasants to form corporations in order to create larger farms.
B) It forced peasants to work farms together for the state rather than themselves.
C) It created specific government-defined regions to be used only for agriculture.
D) It made peasants work at a faster rate to grow and collect crops for the state.
7)
Order No. 1 of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies to the Petrograd District Garrison
To be immediately and fully executed by all men in the Guards, army, artillery and navy and to be made known to the Petrograd workers.
The Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies has resolved:
1. In all companies, battalions, regiments, batteries, squadrons and separate services of various military departments and on board naval ships committees shall be immediately elected from among representatives of the rankers of the foregoing units….
4. All orders issued by the Military Commission of the State Duma shall be carried out, except those which run counter to the orders and decrees issued by the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies.
5. All kinds of weapons, namely rifles, machine-guns, armoured cars and so forth, shall be placed at the disposal and under the control of the company and battalion committees and shall by no means be issued to the officers, not even at their insistence.
6. In formation and on duty, soldiers shall strictly observe military discipline; however, off duty and formation, in their political, civic and private life, soldiers shall fully enjoy the rights granted to all citizens.
In particular, standing to attention and obligatory saluting off duty shall be cancelled.
7. Likewise, officers shall be addressed as Mr. General, Mr. Colonel, etc., instead of Your Excellency, Your Honour, etc.
Rudeness towards soldiers of all ranks and, in particular, addressing them as `thou' shall be forbidden. Any violation of this rule and all cases of misunderstanding between officers and soldiers shall be reported by the latter to the company committees.

Source: An Illustrated History of the Great October Socialist Revolution: 1917, Moscow, USSR, 1988.
The source demonstrates which factors that led to the collapse of the Russian Empire?
A) military dissent and defeat
B) political and social discontent
C) technological and economic stagnation
D) environmental and demographic decline
8)
The PRIMARY purpose of Stalin's 1928 Five Year Plan was to
A) push Lenin from political power.
B) rapidly industrialize the Soviet Union.
C) prepare to establish communism in Russia.
D) invade Germany in revenge for World War I.
9)

The end of the ___ Dynasty had a profound and long-lasting impact on the people living in the yellow are on this map.
A) Habsburgs
B) Hohenzollern‎
C) Romanovs
D) Tudors