Foundations of World Civilization Exam Review
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Foundations of World Civilization explores the early development of human societies from prehistoric times to the emergence of major civilizations across Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. The course examines the political, economic, social, and cultural structures that shaped ancient communities, considering how geography, belief systems, technological innovations, and intercultural contact influenced the growth of empires and the development of traditions. Through primary sources, comparative analysis, and historical interpretation, students gain a comprehensive understanding of the forces that laid the groundwork for the modern world.
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Chapter 1: Early Humans and the First Civilizations
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Q1) The first settled regions of the world were found in river valleys like Mesopotamia.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) cuneiform
Answer: Cuneiform is a system of writing that was used in ancient Mesopotamia, particularly by the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians. It is one of the earliest known forms of writing, dating back to around 3200 BCE. Cuneiform was created by pressing a reed stylus into clay tablets to create wedge-shaped characters. It was used for recording administrative, economic, and religious information, as well as literature and poetry. Cuneiform was primarily used in the region of Mesopotamia, which is modern-day Iraq and parts of Iran, Syria, and Turkey. It was in use for over three thousand years, until it was eventually replaced by the alphabet. Cuneiform is important because it represents one of the earliest forms of written communication and played a crucial role in the development of human civilization. It allowed for the recording and preservation of knowledge, history, and culture, and contributed to the advancement of society in ancient Mesopotamia.
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Chapter 2: Ancient India
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Q1) Gautama said that the way to avoid suffering was to end desire by
A)permanently isolating oneself from the rest of humanity.
B)practicing excessive asceticism.
C)following the "Middle Path."
D)practicing karma exercises.
E)avoiding agricultural projects.
Answer: C
Q2) karma
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q3) A set of commentaries on the Vedas that emphasized spiritual meditation were the A)Upanishads.
B)Kamasutra.
C)Rigveda.
D)Mahabharata.
E)Epistularias.
Answer: A
Q4) Mauryan Empire
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q5) dharma
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 3: China in Antiquity
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Q1) Probably the most significant explanation for the fall of the Qin dynasty is that the A)army turned against the attempt of the emperor's wife to seize power.
B)factionalism and resentment created by Qin Shi Huangdi's policies created internal weaknesses that undermined the dynasty's survival after his death.
C)eunuch system created a new base that resulted in an internal seizure of power.
D)humanitarian nature of Qin Shi Huangdi's policies produced a vulnerable and weakened empire.
E)Yellow River flooded all of South China.
Answer: B
Q2) One of the most important reasons for the decline of the Zhou Dynasty was
A)inability to fight off incursions of nomadic attackers.
B)loss of the Mandate of Heaven following extensive flooding, causing famine and death.
C)loss of centralization
D)rebellion against goverment control of key commodities like salt.
E)rise of rival religious clans.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: The Civilization of the Greeks
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Q1) Which of the following was the leading cultural center of the Hellenistic world?
A)Athens.
B)Alexandria.
C)Thebes.
D)Isfahan.
E)Persepolis.
Q2) Socrates
A)was a popular hero of the Peloponnesian War.
B)was a merchant prince by trade.
C)employed a question-and-answer method by which students' reasoning helped them to learn.
D)wrote The History of the Peloponnesian War.
E)was a student of Plato.
Q3) Greek geography
Q4) One of the weaknesses of Hellenistic civilization is that there was no international language or dialect that could unite the various cultures and societies.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Aristophanes
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Q1) Discuss the impact of geography upon the development of Roman civilization.
Q2) Although at the time of the first Han dynasty census, in 2 C.E., the population of China was estimated at sixty million, within two centuries the oppressive Han policies had reduced the population to:
A)less than twenty million.
B)less than thirty million.
C)around thirty-five million.
D)less than forty million.
E)around fifty million.
Q3) Rome was
A)located in the valley of Attica.
B)located on the plain of Latium.
C)in legend, defended by the extreme bravery of Horatius.
D)an ally of Athens in the Peloponnesian War.
E)founded by the Etruscans.
Q4) 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
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Chapter 6: The Americas
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Q1) The supreme Mayan god Itzamna is credited with bringing to the Mayans all of the following EXCEPT
A)cacoa
B)writing
C)maize
D)medicine
E)pyramids
Q2) The chinampas
A)were agricultural plots built on swampy islands.
B)were built to maintain industrial production.
C)provided farmers with a means of growing waterfowl for export to South America.
D)were to be found only in the semi-arid areas of northern Mesoamerica.
E)were part of Inka religious culture.
Q3) Chichen Itza was controlled by which civilization?
A)Mayan
B)Olmec
C)Toltec
D)Aztec
E)Zoque
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Chapter 7: Ferment in the Middle East: the Rise of Islam
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Q1) Mongols
Q2) What was a significant factor underlying the decline of the Abbasid caliphate?
A)War with the Byzantine Empire
B)Rival factions within the Hashemite dynasty.
C)Conflict between the secular lifestyle and the stern moral code of Islam
D)Slave revolts.
E)War with Kievan Rus'
Q3) Discuss Islam as a preserver and a conduit of the culture and intellectual heritage of Graeco-Roman civilization.
Q4) mihrab and the muezzin
Q5) Saladin
Q6) Shari'a
Q7) Compare and contrast Abbasid civilization under Harun al-Rashid with Frankish civilization at the time of Charlemagne. What were the differences, and what were the similarities, if any?
Q8) The Arabian Nights
Q9) Reconquista
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Q10) Explore the Christian-Islamic interactions from the period of the 11-14th centuries. What were the benefits and disadvantages of these interactions?
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Chapter 8: Early Civilizations in Africa
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Q1) The lowest and most basic level of African social groupings was the A)tribe.
B)lineage group.
C)nuclear family.
D)clan.
E)caste.
Q2) the Garamantes
Q3) The first conversion of rulers to Islam in Africa was the royal family of Gao.
A)True
B)False
Q4) All of the following statements about the arrival of Islam in Africa are true except A)it began with the Arab defeat of the Byzantines in Egypt.
B)Muslim conversion was probably stimulated by tax incentives.
C)the Arab capture of Carthage unified their hegemony over what they called al-Maghrib.
D)Berber resistance blocked Arab expansion to the westward continental limits until after 1200.
E)Arab merchants played a notable role in trade in much of northern, central, and eastern Africa.
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Chapter 9: The Expansion of Civilization in South and Southeast Asia
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Q1) Sun Temple at Konarak
Q2) How did the geographic features of Southeast Asia influence the developmental possibilities, and the subsequent evolution, of its two basic regions?
Q3) Using specific examples, discuss the impact of Islam on the art and architecture of India.
Q4) What was the principle distinction between trade and agriculture in Southeast Asia?
A)The presence of foreign merchants.
B)Religious prohibition in certain areas.
C)Lack of access to fertile river deltas in Cambodia and Burma.
D)environmental conditioning
E)agriculture based on millet rather than wet rice.
Q5) The Kushan peoples
A)were, originally, inhabitants of Mesopotamia.
B)had been herder-nomads until they moved into the Irrawaddy Valley.
C)were of Indo-European background, driven out of Central Asia by the Xiongnu.
D)settled in Sri Lanka.
E)defeated the Aryan invaders of India.
Q6) Ajanta caves
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Chapter 10: The Flowering of Traditional China
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Q1) Li Bo and Du Fu
Q2) The Great Wall
Q3) The main purpose for the development of Neo-Confucianism was to
A)deal with the issues of the universe that had been introduced into China by Buddhism and Daoism and which were able to fit into the original Confucian value system. B)counteract the appeal of Islamic ideas.
C)turn the Chinese people away from Buddhism, Daoism and Christianity. D)fortify the believer's responsibility to withdraw rather than participate.
E)act as a buffer against Muslim missionaries.
Q4) Discuss the significance and impact of the civil service examination on Chinese society. Who benefited and who did not from the system? Was it actually based upon merit? Why or why not?
Q5) All of the following contributed positively to the growth of commercialism in medieval China EXCEPT:
A)the abbacus.
B)the Grand Canal.
C)banking
D)paper money.
E)credit.
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Chapter 11: The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
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Q1) kami
Q2) After overthrowing the Tang domination of China, Dai Viet came into conflict with A)Korea
B)Japan
C)Angkor
D)Champa
E)Manchuria
Q3) What were the possible reasons why Japan failed to adopt the Confucian-based civil service examination system?
Q4) daimyo
Q5) Annam and Champa
Q6) One specific characteristic of Japanese culture is
A)its practice of remaining exclusively native.
B)the constant Shinto domination of all aspects of religion and culture.
C)that only males made notable literary contributions.
D)the flow of technological and industrial inventions from its earliest history.
E)its ability to blend native influences with concepts acquired from other cultures.
Q7) Shinto
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Chapter 12: The Making of Europe
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Q1) Which of the following was accomplished by medieval Christian monasteries?
A)They launched an early "feminist" movement.
B)They served as centers of learning.
C)They played a major military role for their religion.
D)They enforced the tenets of the Scriptures, often by force.
E)They were under the rule of the princeps.
Q2) In 800, Charlemagne was crowned
A)King of the Franks.
B)Bishop of Rome.
C)Ruler of the Germans.
D)Roman Emperor.
E)Emperor of the East.
Q3) Frederick I and Frederick 2 and Italy
Q4) St. Benedict and. St. Hilda of Whitby
Q5) "the peasants' crusade"
Q6) Explain how the different states of Europe emerged from the Carolingian Empire. How were the forms of government similar or different?
Q7) the Capetians
Q8) Magna Carta
Q9) Innocent 2I and the interdict
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Chapter 13: The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery in the
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Q1) peasant revolts
Q2) At the beginning of the Hundred Years' War, the English had the advantage because of
A)cannon and gunpowder.
B)the crossbow.
C)the longbow.
D)heavily armored cavalry.
E)German mercenaries.
Q3) Political disintegration in the fourteenth century resulted from all of the following except
A)financial problems.
B)use of mercenary soldiers.
C)the breakdown of feudalism.
D)dynasties had too many male heirs.
E)dynasties were unable to produce male heirs.
Q4) Hippodrome
Q5) War of the Roses
Q6) longbows
Q7) Aragon and Castile
Q8) Mehmet 2 the Conqueror
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Chapter 14: New Encounters: the Creation of a World Market
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Q1) The primary motives of European expansion were "God, glory, and gold."
A)True
B)False
Q2) John Cabot
Q3) Why were the Portuguese not able to maintain a spice monopoly or significant imperial holdings in Southeast Asia, given their initial success? Explain how they were displaced and succeeded by competing forces from Europe.
Q4) Afrikaans
Q5) Hispaniola
Q6) Sufism
Q7) Why was it Western Europe rather than China, the Muslim world, or some other non-Western society that effected the globalization era of the sixteenth century? What prevented China and the well-organized Islamic states from achieving an ascendancy?
Q8) Gorée
Q9) Cape of Good Hope
Q10) Timbuktu
Q11) Boers
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Q13) Afonso de Albuquerque
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Chapter 15: Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building
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Q1) After the Council of Trent, the Catholic Church had a clear body of doctrine under the supremacy of the pope.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Compare and contrast the absolute monarchies that emerged in France, Prussia, Austria, and Russia. How did England avoid the path of absolutism?
Q3) "new monarchies"
Q4) Of the major individuals discussed in this chapter, who was the most "modern" and who was the least modern? In answering this question, a definition of "modern" is required.
Q5) Saint Petersburg
Q6) Among the complaints of religious Europeans around 1500 was
A)the belief that Catholic Christianity was being infiltrated by Eastern Orthodox and even Islamic doctrines.
B)the belief that the clergy were too interested in financial matters and uninterested in religion.
C)dissatisfaction with the orthodox beliefs and practices of the church.
D)the charge that Pope Erasmus wanted to divide the church.
E)fear that Manichaeism was corrupting the clergy.
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Chapter 16: The Muslim Empires
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Q1) Shari'a
Q2) The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires were all of nomadic origin.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Women in Ottoman society
A)had considerable political influence if they were queen mothers.
B)were given much more freedom in the economic sphere than those of Vietnam.
C)had no political influence, as was shown by the fate Suleyman the Magnificent's mother.
D)who lived in the harem were abused sexually by the sultan and his male friends and, at times, even by enlisted army personnel.
E)served as royal bodyguards and, if slaves, were used to produce royal heirs.
Q4) Unlike the Ottoman Empire, the Safavid Empire embraced Sunni Islam.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss, with examples, the role of gunpowder in both the successes and failures of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires.
Q6) What were the major cultural contributions of Mughal India? Of Safavid Persia?
Q7) devshirme
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Chapter 17: The East Asian World
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Q1) 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.
Q2) All of the following were part of Japan's "Dutch learning" except A)medicine.
B)theology.
C)astronomy.
D)languages.
E)oil painting.
Q3) How were the rights and roles of women in Ming and Qing China similar or comparative to Tokugawa Japan?
Q4) Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the "sword hunt"
Q5) Yi dynasty
Q6) Zhu Yuanzhang
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Q1) Which work is the most important work of Baroque architecture?
A)Versailles Palace
B)Vierzehnheiligen
C)Neuschwanstein Castle
D)Tuilleries Palace
E)Der Residenz
Q2) What is the meant by the idea of tabula rasa?
A)That people could exert free will to further their destinies.
B)People must rely on a "higher power" to provide structure in society.
C)Every person is born with a blank mind.
D)Each person is tainted by original sin.
E)Government exists for the will of the people.
Q3) Maria Winkelmann was the author of the Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Why were women so easily excluded from the Enlightenment, given its underlying philosophies of egalitarianism? What happened when Mary Wollstonecraft and Olympe de Gouges attempted to address this exclusion?
Q5) Declaration of Independence
Q6) Continental System
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Chapter 19: The Beginnings of Modernization:
Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth
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Q1) 1848 Revolutions
Q2) The territory annexed by Austria in 1908, which enraged Serbia, was
A)Romania.
B)Montenegro and Wallachia.
C)Moldavia.
D)Bosnia and Herzegovina.
E)Hungary.
Q3) What actions did Cavour and Bismarck take to bring about unification in Italy and Germany, respectively, and what role did war play in their efforts? Compare and contrast the processes and results of national unification in Italy and Germany. Did liberalism and nationalism relate in the same way in each society?
Q4) Alexander 2 and serf emancipation
Q5) This brilliant inventor sent the first radio waves across the Atlantic in 1901.
A)Thomas Edison
B)Edwin H.Armstrong
C)Guglielmo Marconi
D)Nikolay Basov
E)Heinrich Hertz
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Q6) 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 United States seized control of the Hawa2an Islands from Spain in 1898.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The radical suffragette in England who demanded votes for women was
A)Bertha von Suttner.
B)Emmeline Pankhurst.
C)Elizabeth Pool Sanford.
D)Nora Helmer.
E)Victoria Rex.
Q3) Compulsory elementary education included all of the following except it
A)was supported by employers' growing needs for skilled workers.
B)was predominantly administered by female teachers after the 1880s.
C)dramatically increased adult literacy in western Europe.
D)produced a new mass culture that, in turn, created new forms of mass leisure.
E)sparked revolution in Germany against Otto von Bismarck.
Q4) V.A.Huber and Octavia Hill
Q5) What is meant by the term "mass society," and what characteristics does it use to appeal to the different classes? How did this reflect the changes of the modern world?
Q6) 1789 U.S. Constitution
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Chapter 21: The High Tide of Imperialism
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Q1) Compare and contrast eighteenth-century colonialism with late nineteenth-century imperialism. What are the differences, if any, and why?
Q2) Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland
Q3) the "raj"
Q4) Fashoda
Q5) In the nineteenth century, "legitimate trade" unfortunately still included the African slave trade.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Commodore George Dewey
Q7) Indochinese Union
Q8) In order to protect their investment in the Suez Canal, the British established an informal protectorate in Egypt that lasted until World War I.
A)True
B)False
Q9) Was Western imperialism an inevitable result of the Industrial Revolution? Why or why not?
Q10) Shaka and the Zulus
Q11) E. M. Forster Page 27
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Chapter 22: Shadows Over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge
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Q1) How did the establishment of the Meiji government by the Constitution of 1890 embody the idea of kotukai, differentiating it from Western style reformations?
Q2) The Progressive constitution adopted by the Japanese in 1890, with authority placed in the executive branch of the government, was modeled on the government of A)China.
B)Germany.
C)Great Britain.
D)Russia.
E)the United States.
Q3) opium trade and Opium War
Q4) In 1906, the Chinese government abolished the civil service examinations.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Japanese industrial development in the late nineteenth century was accomplished without significant government involvement.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Tokyo School of Fine Arts
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Chapter 23: The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis:
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Q2) "total war"
Q3) The MAIN reason for the United States' entry into World War I was:
A)American objection to interuption of trade through naval blockades.
B)German refusal to refrain from unrestricted submarine warfare.
C)the desire to see the Kaiser removed from the throne in favor of a more pro-American candidate.
D)to split German forces on the West and draw them away from the US ally, Russia.
E)to prevent the spread of Communism.
Q4) In a failed effort to open a Balkan front, in 1915 the British launched an attack on A)Belgium.
B)Constantinople.
C)Adrianople.
D)Gallipoli.
E)Sarajevo.
Q5) What is meant by the term "total war," and how did it affect social and cultural developments in the Great War and after?
Q6) Theodor van de Velde's Ideal Marriage
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East,
and Latin America From 1919 to 1939
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Q1) The Japanese term for the industrial and financial conglomerates that controlled much of the nation's industry was
A)autarkas.
B)kokutai.
C)genro.
D)zaibatsu.
E)modan boyu.
Q2) All of the following are correct about Iraq except
A)the region had been under Ottoman rule since the seventeenth century.
B)after World War I, the British governed Iraq under a League of Nations "mandate."
C)the British ruled through the minority urban Shi-ite population.
D)a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad became king in 1921.
E)oil was discovered near Kirkuk in 1927.
Q3) the Guomindang, Sun Yat-sen, and Chiang Kai-shek
Q4) Jawaharlal Nehru
Q5) How did the lack of national identity in the Arab world differ from the diversity of India, in terms of implementing nationalism and overthrow of colonialism?
Q6) Reza Khan
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Chapter 25: The Crisis Deepens: World War 2
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Q1) In the attempt to avoid a two-front war, in 1939, Hitler signed a non-aggression pact with Stalin limited to
A)the Baltics
B)Scandanavia
C)Poland
D)Romania
E)Bulgaria
Q2) The greatest tank battle during WW 2 was the Battle of A)Stalingrad
B)El-Alamein
C)Kursk
D)Rome
E)the Bulge
Q3) Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Q4) How did Hitler attempt to implement his New Order in Europe? To what degree was it effective and in line with his ideological goals? Why?
Q5) the Enabling Act
Q6) Cologne and the Dresden raids
Q7) collectivization of agriculture/the kolkhoz
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Chapter 26: East and West in the Grip of the Cold War
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Q1) Diplomacy between the US and China fell apart over which issues?
A)Chinese "volunteers" in the Korean war.
B)Mao's alliance with Khrushchev following Stalin's death.
C)Chinese involvement in anti-democracy movements in South Vietnam.
D)Mao's demand that the US withdraw from Taiwan.
E)US interference in Cambodia.
Q2) The Marshall Plan was a military alliance directed against Soviet aggression.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The program of perestroika was intended to allow more transparency into how the Soviet government worked.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Soviet response to the western alliance in NATO was to form
A)the Warsaw Pact
B)the Marshall Zhukov Plan
C)The Budpest Protocol
D)The Helsinki Accords
E)Sino-Soviet Pact
Q5) "equivalence"
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Chapter 27: Brave New World: Communism on Trial
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Q1) In what ways did the cultural environment in Soviet Russia begin to reflect the changes of both the thaw under Khruschev and the restrictions of the Brezhnev era? How did the ideas of glasnost affect the expression of cultural ideas?
Q2) "taking the capitalist road"
Q3) As recognition that Marxism-Leninism is losing its appeal in Communist China, Confucianism has regained official approval in recent years.
A)True
B)False
Q4) This contemporary Chinese artist challenged the authority of the government and was taken into custody on charges of tax evasion.
A)Ai Wei-wei
B)Mo Yan
C)Yu Hua
D)Ding Ling
E)Zhang Xinxin
Q5) Chernobyl was the Russian word for "openness."
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 28: Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945
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Q1) What do you believe are the contributing factors to the political swings between liberalism and conservativism in both the United States and Europe in the post-war period? Compare the policies of Reagan, Thatcher, and Kohl with those of Johnson, Attlee, and Adenauer in evaluating your position.
Q2) Vicente Fox
Q3) Which of the following was NOT an action accomplished under the Lyndon Johnson administration?
A)War on Poverty.
B)Civil Rights Act of 1964
C)Voting Rights Act of 1965
D)Committment of American troops to the Vietnam War
E)Detente talks with China
Q4) In 2000, fighting in which breakaway Russian state reduced the republic's capital of Grozny to ruins?
A)Georgia.
B)Kasavyurt.
C)Chechnya.
D)Dagestan.
E)Makhachkala.
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Chapter 29: Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East
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Q1) As a result of Nasser's nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956,
A)Egypt was attacked by the British, the French, and the Israelis.
B)the Israelis supported Egypt in revenge for the holocaust.
C)the Eisenhower administration secured control of the canal for the Europeans by sending in a United States occupation force.
D)the Israelis retained perpetual control of the Sinai Peninsula.
E)the Soviet Union attacked Afghanistan.
Q2) During the first decades of the twentieth century, women in the Middle East
A)were aided by the "modernist" movement's efforts to change female statuses and roles by interpreting Islamic views in a manner closer to those prevailing in the West.
B)experienced great changes in their lives before 1970, in countries such as Saudi Arabia and Oman, which had regimes actively working to modernize their societies.
C)have made perhaps the greatest advances in Saudi Arabia, where women now have unlimited access to university education and may adopt Western dress.
D)have never had any political rights in Iran.
E)have had few if any political rights in Israel.
Q3) Rwanda and Burundi and Hutus and Tutsis
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Chapter 30: Toward the Pacific Century
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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.
Q2) Douglas MacArthur
Q3) "Little Tigers"
Q4) The "little tiger" that was once a British crown colony, but is now an independent state, is
A)Burma.
B)Singapore.
C)Hong Kong.
D)Taiwan.
E)South Korea.
Q5) Green Revolution
Q6) Congress Party
Q7) Republic of China (Taiwan)
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