Drill 23 · Multiple Choice · Unit 7: Global Conflict
AP World History Unit 7 Drill 23 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 7: Global Conflict. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
This drill focuses on how total war and nationalist ideology contributed to mass atrocities during the World War I era, with attention to the Armenian Genocide as a case study. Read the passage carefully, then answer all five questions.
Adapted from a modern historian's analysis of state-directed violence during World War I.
"The Armenian Genocide of 1915–1916 did not emerge from ancient ethnic hatreds but from the specific pressures of total war and nationalist ideology. The Ottoman government, facing military defeats on multiple fronts and fearing that Armenian Christian communities in eastern Anatolia might sympathize with Russia — an Allied power fighting the Ottomans — ordered the mass deportation of Armenians. What followed was a systematic campaign of murder, forced marches through the Syrian desert, and destruction of communities that had existed for millennia. Approximately 600,000 to 1.5 million Armenians died. Scholars of genocide have noted that the conditions enabling mass atrocity — a state at war, a minority framed as an internal enemy, emergency powers removing normal legal constraints — recurred with devastating regularity in the twentieth century. The Armenian Genocide was not an anomaly. It was a harbinger."