Comparative World History
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Comparative World History explores the development of societies across different regions and eras, highlighting similarities, differences, and interactions among civilizations. The course examines key themes such as political structures, economic systems, cultural practices, religious beliefs, and technological advancements from ancient times to the modern age. By engaging with primary and secondary sources, students gain insights into how global events, exchanges, and processes have shaped the contemporary world. The comparative approach encourages critical thinking about the connections and diversities that have defined human history, fostering a deeper understanding of cross-cultural influences and global patterns of change.
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World History 8th Edition by William J. Duiker
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Chapter 1: Early Humans and the First Civilizations
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Q1) During the reign of Akhenaten,
A)monotheism permanently replaced polytheism in ancient Egypt.
B)foreign affairs were ignored and Syria and Palestine were lost.
C)Thebes was replaced by Cairo as the capital.
D)the Hyksos invaded the Nile Valley.
E)the Sea Peoples were driven from Egypt.
Answer: B
Q2) The annual flooding of the Nile River
A)enabled Egyptian civilization to thrive by leaving deposits of fertile silt.
B)was an unwanted event that occurred suddenly and generally without warning.
C)did not require an organized irrigation system.
D)produced many large urban centers that served as havens from the raging waters.
E)inhibited the evolution of civilization in ancient Egypt.
Answer: A
Q3) hominids
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q4) "Sea Peoples"
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 2: Ancient India
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Q1) The basic social organization of the jati was formed around one's
A)caste
B)occupation
C)kin group
D)location
E)none of these
Answer: C
Q2) The caste system was in part a reflection of the light-skinned Aryans' conquest of the dark-skinned Dravidians.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) dharma
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q4) Siddartha denied the reality of the material or physical world, claiming that it was all an illusion that had to be transcended.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: China in Antiquity
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Q1) The benevolent monarchy described in the Rites of Zhou
A)endured in practice throughout the dynasty's long reign.
B)continued to grow in significance as the dynasty developed.
C)degenerated, in practice, into a fractious arrangement of despotic and exploitive local rulers.
D)reflected the enhancement of the intelligence and morality of the Zhou rulers.
E)in time, developed into a highly centralized structure.
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following statements is correct about the nature of the Zhou merchant and slave classes?
A)Merchants were independent operators and slaves were a majority of the population.
B)The merchants traded only in domestic goods and the slaves worked only in irrigation.
C)The merchants were the property of the local lord and the slaves were probably individuals who had been seized in warfare.
D)The merchants became the de facto rulers who humanely freed their slaves.
E)Under the Zhou the merchant classes were enslaved by the emperors.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: The Civilization of the Greeks
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Q1) The term polis describes
A)a province of the Persian Empire.
B)the original name of the city of Troy.
C)the title of a member of the Council of 500.
D)the term for a thirty-man infantry unit.
E)a community of citizens in which political, economic, social, cultural and religious activities were performed.
Q2) the Greek Dark Ages
Q3) Sparta
Q4) Knossus
Q5) Herodotus
Q6) Which of the following was the leading cultural center of the Hellenistic world?
A)Athens.
B)Alexandria.
C)Thebes.
D)Isfahan.
E)Persepolis.
Q7) Sophocles' Oedipus the King
Q8) Arthur Evens
Q9) Homer Page 6
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Q1) Jesus of Nazareth
Q2) Which is NOT considered a factor of decline under Emperors Diocletian Constantine?
A)Reunification of the Eastern and Western halves of the empire.
B)making certain professions hereditary
C)Increasing the military and civil service
D)Enlargement of private estates at the loss of small farmers.
E)Constantine's adoption of religious toleration.
Q3) "bread and circuses"
Q4) Etruscans
Q5) Italy had fewer rugged mountains and possessed more productive agricultural lands than Greece.
A)True
B)False
Q6) In the early Roman Empire, upper-class Roman women were excluded from public life and lost privileges and responsibilities they had obtained during the earlier Republic.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Edict of Milan
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Chapter 6: The Americas
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Q1) Which of the following statements is the most accurate depiction of the Aztec Empire?
A)It was a highly centralized, tightly administered monarchy developed through military conquest.
B)It was a confederation of localities linked by a feudal allegiance system in which a central ruler controlled an empire developed through military conquest.
C)It was a highly centralized maritime society that had evolved from a foundation of intense religious piety.
D)It was followed by the Mayan civilization.
E)Human sacrifice was abolished by Montezuma.
Q2) Pachakuti created a highly centralized Aztec state.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Pyramid of the Sun was built by the people of Teotihuacán in the fifth century C.E.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Teotihuacán
Q5) Chavin de Huantar
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Chapter 7: Ferment in the Middle East: the Rise of Islam
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Q1) Hadith
Q2) Shi'ites and Sunnis
Q3) Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat
Q4) Mu'awiya and Umayyad Caliphate and Damascus
Q5) Ibn Rushd/Averroës and Ibn Sina/Avicenna
Q6) Charles Martel
Q7) Five Pillars of Islam
Q8) Shari'a
Q9) The ruling member of a Bedouin tribe was called the A)majlis.
B)jihad.
C)sheikh.
D)Ka'aba.
E)imam.
Q10) Reconquista
Q11) Discuss Islam as a preserver and a conduit of the culture and intellectual heritage of Graeco-Roman civilization.
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Q14) umma
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Chapter 8: Early Civilizations in Africa
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Q1) "noncentralized societies"
Q2) Which of the following was not true about the spread of Islam in Africa?
A)It achieved only limited success in the mountains of Ethiopia.
B)It interfered with the efforts of African rulers to strengthen their power.
C)Its concepts of egalitarianism and polygamy had great appeal among the common people.
D)A different and distinctly African form of the religion developed, as local religious practices replaced basic Islamic ones.
E)It had considerable success in both West Africa and in East Africa
Q3) Kilwa
Q4) All of the following are correct about the land of Zanj except
A)it had a large minority of residents from the Persian Gulf and Arabian peninsula.
B)it was ruled by the Zagwe and Azim dynasties for 400 years.
C)it exported rhinoceros horn, gold, and ivory.
D)it included the cities of Pemba, Kilwa, and Mombasa.
E)most of the coastal states were self-governing.
Q5) Madagascar
Q6) Congo River
Q7) Zambezi River
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Chapter 9: The Expansion of Civilization in South and Southeast Asia
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Q1) The lowland peoples of southeast Asia were isolated from the upland peoples by all of the following EXCEPT
A)river valleys tended to flow south-southeast.
B)mountanous regions separated the east and west.
C)heavily forested regions had mosquitoes carrying malaria.
D)northern Vietnam was conquered by Han China.
E)Turkic-speaking Mongols conquered the Malayo-Polynesian region.
Q2) Which of the following statements was true about the religious underpinnings of the Indianized Southeast Asian states?
A)They had become mainly Daoist by 1000 C.E.
B)They all exclusively adhered to Hindu values.
C)Buddhism determined the path they followed.
D)Although based on Hindu political thought, they afforded great privilege to Buddhists, who won over the masses.
E)Their religious orientations were entirely free of any external influences.
Q3) Why did Buddhism decline in India while Hinduism remained so prevalent?
Q4) Dandin's The Ten Princes
Q5) Maori
Q6) Nirvana
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Chapter 10: The Flowering of Traditional China
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Q1) Which of the following would you say is a more accurate depiction of the comparison between medieval Chinese and Western thought?
A)The Chinese became more individualistic, while the Europeans became more scientific.
B)Empiricism dominated Chinese thought, while introspection dominated the thinking of Europe.
C)Continuity and tradition dominated in China, while empiricism dominated in Europe.
D)China experienced constant chaos while Europe was always at peace.
E)China was eventually dominated by Islam while Europe remained mostly Christian.
Q2) The philosophical school in opposition to Zhu Xi's Supreme Ultimate was
A)the Hundred Schools.
B)the School of the Mind
C)Manichaecism
D)Neo-Confucianism.
E)Daoism
Q3) How did Song rule differ from Sui, Tang, or Yuan? What methods were utilized, and what transformations were taking place, that made this period of rule unique?
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Chapter 11: The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
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Q1) How was the Japanese aristocracy able to suppress the centralization of the Japanese government? How does this contrast with the governmental system of China? What were the advantages and disadvantages of Japan having a governmental system in which the emperor reigns and the shogun rules?
Q2) Heian, which was the capital of Japan beginning in 794, was built on the site of present-day Kyoto.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Trade in Japan
A)was the dominant economic activity in the society by 500 C.E.
B)had reached a stage where quarterly markets were held in larger towns during the Kamakura period.
C)involved no foreign trade after the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
D)was restricted only to Chinese merchants.
E)was exclusively in agricultural products.
Q4) The "warring states era" in Japan occurred during the Tokugawa shogunate.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku
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Chapter 12: The Making of Europe
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Q1) The traditional liberal arts included all of the following except A)rhetoric.
B)biology.
C)music.
D)astronomy.
E)geometry.
Q2) The missionary brothers who converted the Slavic peoples of Moravia to the Orthodox Christianity of the Byzantine Empire were
A)Francis and Wilbur.
B)Vladimir and Alexander.
C)Ivan and Peter.
D)Bernard and Boris.
E)Cyril and Methodius.
Q3) Erik the Red
Q4) Which of the following is true of Arian Christianity?
A)It distinguished Eastern Orthodoxy from Western Catholicism.
B)It blended the ideas of Manachaeism and Judaism.
C)They believed that Jesus was human and not truly God.
D)They believed that Jesus was made of "the same substance" as God.
E)They prohibited the use of icons or images for worship.
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Chapter 13: The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery
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Q1) "little ice age"
Q2) The major threat to the Byzantine Empire in the eleventh century came from the A)Arabs.
B)Seljuk Turks.
C)Ottoman Turks.
D)Austrians.
E)Persians.
Q3) In the seventh century, the greatest danger to the Byzantine Empire came from the A)Slavs.
B)Muslims.
C)Persians.
D)Bulgars.
E)Ostrogoths.
Q4) Philip IV
Q5) The spread of goods and people along the Silk Road helped facilitate the spread of the plague.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Procopius
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Chapter 14: New Encounters: the Creation of a World Market
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Q1) Mwene Mutapa
Q2) The demand for increased slave labor in the sixteenth century was due to the dramatic expansion of
A)the Portuguese spice trade.
B)colonization of the Americas spurring growth of the sugar industry.
C)with the Ottoman empire's blocade of the Silk Road, dependence on cotton was shifted to the Americas.
D)the elimination of the Portuguese from east Africa.
E)the declaration of the Treaty of Tordesillas giving the Portuguese dominion over Africa.
Q3) Kilwa, Sofala, and Mombasa
Q4) All of the following technology advances assisted European expansion EXCEPT
A)the lateen sail.
B)right-sided rudders.
C)portolani
D)construction of carvels
E)widespread use of the compass
Q5) Treaty of Tordesillas
Q6) Afrikaans
Q7) British East India Company
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Chapter 15: Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building
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Q1) One of the leading objections against Pope Julius 2 was
A)his plethora of illegitimate children.
B)his demand for tithes from the nobility in exchange for leniancy.
C)his personally leading his own army against his enemies.
D)his refusal to obey the Benedictine rules.
E)his use of church funds to decorate the Vatican palace.
Q2) John Calvin and Geneva
Q3) Ignatius Loyola and the Jesuits/Society of Jesus
Q4) Peace of Augsburg
Q5) Between the account of Louis XIV's day, and the art and architecture of Versailles Palace, what role do you think "image" played in enforcing the absolutism of the French monarchy? How did Louis implement systems to decrease the power of his detractors?
Q6) Henry V2I and the Act of Supremacy
Q7) The first true book produced from movable type was Marco Polo's Travels.
A)True
B)False
Q8) Palace of Versailles
Q9) Spain's Philip 2
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Q10) Christian/northern Renaissance humanism
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Chapter 16: The Muslim Empires
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Q1) All of the following were true about the reign of Shah Jahan except that
A)he was able to expand the Mughal domain.
B)he put economic strains on his people with programs of conquest and construction enterprises.
C)famine and drought did not plague India during his rule.
D)he built the Red Fort in Delhi.
E)the expense of building the Taj Mahal required him to increase agricultural taxes.
Q2) Din-i-Ilahi
Q3) Which of the following is a true statement about Safavid culture?
A)Riza-i-Abbasi was its most celebrated artist.
B)Its literature was its greatest artistic achievement.
C)The ascent of Persian poetry gave rise to the greatness of Safavid poetry.
D)The great array of Safavid poets who went to India to write for the Mughal rulers attests to the greatness of the poets of this era.
E)It declined sharply during the reign of Shah Abbas I.
Q4) What prevented the Ottomans from extending further west into Europe?
Q5) Safi al-Din and Shah Ismail
Q6) Golden Horn
Q7) jizya
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Chapter 17: The East Asian World
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Q1) Zhu Yuanzhang
Q2) Yi dynasty
Q3) Family life in Japan was very similar to China with the exception of
A)arranged marriages.
B)female infanticide.
C)joint family structure.
D)education in the Confucian classics.
E)women had less opportunity for education in the lower classes.
Q4) Why was capitalism seemingly more successful in Japan than in China in the early modern era?
Q5) joint family
Q6) China's population had soared by the end of the 1700s because for all of the following reasons except
A)relative peace and stability had prevailed during the early years of Qing rule.
B)new crops had been introduced from the New World.
C)introduction of the development of faster growing Southeast Asian rice into China.
D)the political stability of China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
E)the central government's termination of legal abortions.
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Chapter 18: The West on the Eve of a New World Order
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Q1) Who were the leading figures of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, and what were their main contributions? What was the impact of the intellectual revolution of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries on European society? Was the Scientific Revolution "the most revolutionary of all revolutions"? Discuss critically, using specific examples.
Q2) The Ptolemaic view of the universe believed all of the following to be true except A)the planets were believed to be imperfect and material.
B)the imperfect, motionless earth was in a state of constant change at the center of the universe.
C)heavenly bodies, composed of a crystalline substance, resided in concentric spheres that moved in circular orbits around the earth.
D)God and all the saved souls resided in the Empyrean Heaven that lay beyond the outermost, or tenth, sphere.
E)God and the saved souls were at one end of the universe and humans at the center.
Q3) Balthasar Neumann's church of the Vierzehnheiligen
Q4) Robert Clive
Q5) enlightened despotism
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Chapter 19: The Beginnings of Modernization:
Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century
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Q1) German Social Democratic Party and Marxist revisionists
Q2) The key figure of Russian industrialization was
A)Alexander III.
B)Nicholas II.
C)Ivan Denisovich.
D)Sergei Eisenstein.
E)Sergei Witte.
Q3) Otto von Bismarck
Q4) Realpolitik
Q5) The emancipation of the Russian serfs
A)left peasants under the authority of the village commune to ensure payment to the State for land.
B)angered peasants because it only gave them six acres each, too little to support themselves.
C)led to Russian participation in the Crimean War in order to divert peasant complaints.
D)led to the 1867 Revolution.
E)was reversed by Czar Nicholas II.
Q6) Victor Emmanuel 2
Q7) Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's The Communist Manifesto
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Chapter 20: The Americas and Society and Culture in the West
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Q1) The basis of Latin American wealth, social prestige, and power throughout the nineteenth century was:
A)gold.
B)sugar cane.
C)cattle
D)land
E)heritage
Q2) Miguel Hidalgo
Q3) Francisco Madero
Q4) Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton
Q5) "mass education"
Q6) The physicist who maintained that a heated body radiates energy in irregular packets that he called "quanta" was
A)Enrico Fermi
B)Albert Einstein.
C)Max Planck.
D)Charles Darwin.
E)Pierre Curie.
Q7) Pablo Picasso and Cubism
Q8) Emilio Zapata
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Chapter 21: The High Tide of Imperialism
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Q1) the Mahdi and Charles "Chinese" Gordon
Q2) Afrikaners were black African opponents of the Dutch Boers in South Africa. A)True
B)False
Q3) the VOC
Q4) Commodore George Dewey
Q5) Discuss some of the non-economic motives for Western imperialism. In your opinion, were the economic or non-economic motives of primary importance, and why?
Q6) Orange Free State and South African Republic/Transvaal
Q7) Kenya's central highlands
Q8) "might makes right"
Q9) social Darwinism
Q10) British colonial presence in southeast Asia began with an agreement with the Dutch for control over the coffee trade in Sumatra.
A)True
B)False
Q11) Boers/Afrikaners
Q12) slave trade vs. "legitimate trade"
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Q13) Tipu Sultan
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Chapter 22: Shadows Over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge
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Q1) In the Imperial scramble after 1897, Russia obtained which area from China?
A)Port Arthur on the Korean (Liaodong) Peninsula
B)Tibet
C)Vladivostok Port on the Kamchatka Peninsula
D)Sakhalin Island
E)territories in the Shangdong Peninsula
Q2) The Treaty of Tianjin
A)allowed Japan to take over Korea.
B)made the Chinese opium trade legal.
C)closed all Chinese ports to foreign trade.
D)gave the British the Liaodong Peninsula in 1875.
E)deprived the Russians of any control in northern China.
Q3) Meiji Constitution of 1890
Q4) Compare and contrast China's Cixi and Britain's Victoria as symbols reflecting the fundamental nature of their two societies in the latter nineteenth century.
Q5) Russo-Japanese War
Q6) Why was it that Japan, rather than other South Asian, Southeast Asian, or East Asian states, made the successful transition to a modern nation?
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Q7) John Hay and the Open Door
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Chapter 23: The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis:
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Q1) In 1918, Lenin signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, in which Russia gave up all of the following except
A)the Baltic states.
B)eastern Poland.
C)Finland.
D)the Ukraine.
E)Muscovy.
Q2) The largest European army using conscription just prior to the outbreak of war was:
A)Russia
B)England.
C)France.
D)Germany.
E)Austria-Hungary.
Q3) "war communism"
Q4) How did the results of the Peace Conference create problems in postwar Europe? For whom, in particular? Could these problems have been dealt with more effectively? If so, how?
Q5) the "sealed train"
Q6) the October 1929 stock market crash
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Chapter 24: Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America From 1919 to 1939
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Q2) The Chinese Communist Party
A)was organized by students and professors at the prestigious Wuhan University in 1925.
B)organized and controlled the New Culture Movement to insure that Chinese students read only the works of Marxist authors.
C)required all new members to be of proletarian social origin.
D)managed to survive a series of defeats, including even the crushing losses suffered during Mao Zedong's Long March in 1934.
E)was successful in the Chinese presidential elections of 1928.
Q3) How did the Bolshevik victory in Russia alter Asian ideas about Marxism?
A)Nationalists from Asia rejected it because of Russia's imperialistic past.
B)Arab nationalists were much more receptive as "Islamic Marxism" became known.
C)Nationalist leaders became receptive because they saw their "pre-modern" societies as like that of "backward Russia," thus making Russian developments relevant.
D)It had no impact in China during the 1920s and 1930s.
E)China adopted a Marxist constitution.
Q4) Balfour Declaration
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Chapter 25: The Crisis Deepens: World War 2
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Q1) Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Q2) To whip up popular support for his totalitarian regime, Hitler organized gigantic mass rallies in the 1930's in the city of A)Berlin.
B)Nuremberg.
C)Cologne.
D)Vienna.
E)Munich.
Q3) The purpose of the SS was to A)augment the duties of the SA.
B)use terror to enforce the policies of the Nazi party.
C)debilitate the development of Aryan supremacy.
D)motivate industrial workers to become more productive.
E)harass the French border guards in the Rhineland.
Q4) the Aryan racial state
Q5) War in China spread after Chinese and Japanese forces clashed at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing in 1937.
A)True
B)False
Q6) National Socialist German Workers' Party/Nazis
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Chapter 26: East and West in the Grip of the Cold War
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Q1) To what degree was the escalating U.S.-Soviet tension in Europe the result of excessively defensive fears in the minds of Truman and Stalin? Why? What other factors were also involved in the moves of the "superpowers" and their allies and clients?
Q2) The term "Evil Empire" referred to the
A)the Soviet Union.
B)Chinese government.
C)United States in the rhetoric of Iran's revolutionary Islamic regime.
D)Sandinista regime in Nicaragua.
E)French government, as unofficially characterized by President Jimmy Carter.
Q3) What role did the Helsinki Accords play in furthering a kind of diplomatic entente to discuss arms limitation and better coexistence between First and Second world nations? Who were the major participants, and why?
Q4) What effect did the Truman Doctrine and Domino Theory have in escalating Cold War tensions both with the Soviet Union and in Asia?
Q5) Yalta Conference
Q6) Non-aligned Movement
Q7) Chiang Kai-shek
Q8) Indochina conflict(s)
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Chapter 27: Brave New World: Communism on Trial
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Q1) What strategies were used by leaders of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China as they sought to build Communist societies in their countries? In what ways were the strategies different, and in what ways were they similar? To what degree were they successful? How has the Chinese Communist Party, to date, been able to retain power while that of the Soviet Union lost control of the state apparatus? Show why.
Q2) Which of the following is not true about the events that occurred in the Soviet Union in December 1991?
A)Boris Yeltsin was president of the Russian Republic.
B)The Soviet Union was replaced by the Commonwealth of Independent States.
C)Gorbachev resigned and turned over his power as commander-in-chief to Yeltsin.
D)The Congress of People's Deputies denied Yeltsin the temporary power to rule by decree.
E)One of the largest empires in history came to an end.
Q3) de-Stalinization
Q4) Czechoslovakia's Charter 77 and Václav Havel
Q5) Andrei Sakharov
Q6) "Four Modernizations"
Q7) Berlin Wall
Q8) "the Mao suit" v. "big noses"
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Chapter 28: Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945
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Q1) Organization of American States (OAS)
Q2) All of the following are correct regarding the presidency of George W. Bush except
A)he raised taxes on the wealthy to balance the government budget.
B)he experienced very low approval ratings from the public.
C)he weakened environmental laws.
D)discontent with the war in Iraq reduced his popularity with the voters.
E)the Department of Homeland Security was established.
Q3) Between 1945 and the late 1970s,
A)of the nations of Europe, only France had fully recovered from the physical devastation of World War II.
B)the British governments abandoned the "welfare state" after losing Britain's empire.
C)Charles de Gaulle had crafted an ingeniously oblique fascist state until he was toppled from power due to his inability to restrain terrorism in Algeria and Vietnam.
D)the gross national product of France grew at an average annual rate of 5.5 percent during the decade following 1958.
E)British economic growth averaged over ten percent per year during the 1950s.
Q4) Richard Nixon and the "southern strategy"
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Chapter 29: Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East
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Q1) The author who despaired of the corruption of the new national leaders such as Nkrumah was
A)Ayi Kwei Armah, The Beautiful Ones are not Yet Born
B)Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
C)Sefi Atta, Everything Good Will Come
D)Yasmina Khadra, The Swallows of Kabul
E)Elechi Amadi, Sunset in Biafra
Q2) How does the role of nationalism, tradition, and religion play a factor in the relative inability of Africa to achieve unity? What factors made African decolonization so much more difficult than in India, Latin America, or Southeast Asia?
Q3) Nigeria's Christians and Muslims
Q4) Oil resources are distributed relatively equally among the Arab states of the Middle East.
A)True
B)False
Q5) uhuru
Q6) Why has the Arab-Israeli dispute proven so difficult to resolve? Does a solution seem any more likely now than during the 1970s or 1980s? Why or why not?
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Chapter 30: Toward the Pacific Century
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Q1) North Korea's Kim Il Sung
Q2) Who was the first prime minister of India?
A)Mahatma Gandhi
B)Jawaharlal Nehru
C)Muhammed Ali Jinnah
D)Indira Gandhi
E)Moraji Desai
Q3) Immediately after World War 2, General MacArthur's responsibilities included the demilitarization of Japanese society and
A)the elimination of the Japanese emperor.
B)the trial of American officials charged with war crimes.
C)the laying of the foundations of postwar Philippines society.
D)trying Japanese for war crimes and laying the foundations of postwar Japanese society.
E)the rearmament of Japan but under American leadership.
Q4) General Pervaiz Musharraf, the Taliban, and al-Qaeda
Q5) communalism
Q6) Hong Kong and Guangdong province
Q7) Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi and General Ne Win
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Q8) Douglas MacArthur
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