Free Pearson Edexcel International IGCSE History
Practice Paper

The photograph shows a long line of unemployed men waiting for free bread and soup during the Depression. Which term was used to describe these lines?

1. Breadlines
2. Picket lines
3. Assembly lines
4. Production lines

The prosperous 1920s in the USA were the:

1. Roaring Twenties
2. Great Depression
3. New Deal
4. Gilded Age

The 1929 stock market crash was the:

1. South Sea Bubble
2. credit crunch
3. dot-com crash
4. Wall Street Crash

The 1917 revolution that brought the Bolsheviks to power was the:

1. February Revolution only
2. 1905 Revolution
3. Kronstadt Revolt
4. October Revolution

The 19th-century disease spread by dirty water was:

1. cholera
2. the Black Death
3. malaria
4. measles

A historian studying the 1920s wrote: 'The Ku Klux Klan experienced a major revival, reaching a membership of around 5 million by 1925.' Which group was NOT a target of the Klan during this period?

1. Catholics
2. Recent immigrants from Northern Europe
3. Jewish people
4. African Americans

Stalin's removal of opponents in the 1930s was the:

1. Long March
2. Great Purge
3. Cultural Revolution
4. Kristallnacht

The post-war rivalry between the USA and USSR was the:

1. World War I
2. Vietnam War
3. Korean War only
4. Cold War