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AP World History Unit 7 Practice Test: Global Conflict
Unit 7 covers the first half of the twentieth century: the collapse of old empires, World War I, the Great Depression, the rise of fascism and communism, World War II and mass atrocities. You need to explain the causes of the wars and how total war was fought.
- Exam weighting:
- 8–10%
- Questions:
- 16 multiple choice
- Time:
- about 16 minutes
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- Free, no sign-up
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What AP World History Unit 7 covers
Unit 7, Global Conflict, makes up 8–10% of the multiple-choice section and usually takes ~9–12 class periods. These are the topics in the current course framework, and every question in the test above is tagged with one of them.
- 7.1Shifting Power After 1900
- 7.2Causes of World War I
- 7.3Conducting World War I
- 7.4The Economy in the Interwar Period
- 7.5Unresolved Tensions After World War I
- 7.6Causes of World War II
- 7.7Conducting World War II
- 7.8Mass Atrocities After 1900
- 7.9Causation in Global Conflict
Unit 7 key ideas
Old empires fell
The Qing, Ottoman, Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires collapsed between 1911 and 1922, replaced by new states such as the Republic of China, Turkey and the Soviet Union.
World War I was a total war
Imperialism, nationalism, militarism and alliances led to war in 1914. Governments mobilised whole economies, used propaganda and recruited soldiers from their colonies, and new weapons made the war extremely deadly.
The interwar years brought crisis
The Great Depression led some governments to intervene in the economy, such as the New Deal in the United States. Fascist regimes rose in Italy and Germany, and Stalin's Five-Year Plans forced industrialisation in the Soviet Union.
World War II and mass atrocities
German, Italian and Japanese expansion caused World War II. Total war included the bombing of cities and the atomic bombs. Mass atrocities included the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide and the Holodomor.
Common Unit 7 mistakes
- Listing only the assassination of Franz Ferdinand as the cause of World War I; explain the long-term causes too.
- Forgetting colonial soldiers and workers in both world wars.
- Mixing up the Holodomor (famine in Soviet Ukraine) with the Holocaust.
How to study this unit
- For each war, write two long-term causes and one immediate cause.
- Compare how governments responded to the Great Depression in at least two countries.
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