Complete the following quiz to review your knowledge from this learning pathway. This quiz will help students undertaking this course for credit to prepare for their test.

• The Charter of the United Nations specifically states the purposes of the organization are:
  • to prevent a third global conflict
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the UN Charter in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • to maintain international peace and security and to promote equal rights
    • Correct. Well done!
  • to prevent another Holocaust
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the UN Charter in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • all of the above answers are correct
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the UN Charter in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
• The United Nations:
  • first met in 1946
    • Incorrect. This is part of the answer, but there is a better option. Review the activities on the UN in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • was designed to be a more powerful successor to the League of Nations
    • Incorrect. This is part of the answer, but there is a better option. Review the activities on the UN in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • deals with economic, social, cultural and humanitarian issues
    • Incorrect. This is part of the answer, but there is a better option. Review the activities on the UN in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • all of the above answers are correct
    • Correct. Well done!
• All of the below statements about the Nuremberg trials are true, except:
  • Both German and Japanese war criminals were prosecuted at Nuremberg
    • Correct. Well done!
  • Two hundred war criminals were tried at Nuremberg, although another 1600 were tried in subsidiary tribunals
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the effects of the Second World War in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • The majority of those convicted at Nuremberg were sentenced to death by hanging
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the effects of the Second World War in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • Two of the most powerful Nazi leaders, Heinrich Himmler and Joseph Goebbels, were not tried at Nuremberg
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the effects of the Second World War in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
• The first major conflict of the Cold War was:
  • The Korean War
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the origins of the Cold War in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • The Vietnam War
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the origins of the Cold War in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • The Berlin Airlift
    • Correct. Well done!
  • The Cuban Missile Crisis
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the origins of the Cold War in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.

Indicate whether the following statements are true or false:

• The US and the USSR never declared war on each other.
  • True
    • Correct. Well done!
  • False
    • Incorrect. The conflict between the two superpowers was called the ‘Cold War’ for this reason.
• At the end of World War Two, the US and the Soviet Union were in roughly equal economic positions.
  • True
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the origins of the Cold War in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • False
    • Correct. Well done!
• After World War Two, some Jewish survivors of the Holocaust trying to return to their homes were attacked and killed in pogroms.
  • True
    • Correct. Sadly this is true.
  • False
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the reconstruction of Europe in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
• In 1947, the newly formed United Nations proposed a plan for the creation of Israel.
  • True
    • Correct. Well done!
  • False
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the reconstruction of Europe in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
• The end of World War Two brought properity to the United States and Europe.
  • True
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the reconstruction of Europe in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • False
    • Correct. Well done!
• One reason communism was popular in Europe after World War Two was because of the strong communist resistance to the Nazis.
  • True
    • Correct. Well done!
  • False
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the reconstruction of Europe in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.