Introduction to World Civilizations Exam Review
Course Introduction
Introduction to World Civilizations explores the diverse histories, cultures, and social structures of major civilizations from ancient times to the early modern era. The course examines influential societies across Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, emphasizing the development of political systems, religious beliefs, trade networks, technological innovations, and cross-cultural interactions. Students will analyze key historical events, movements, and figures to understand how human societies have shaped and been shaped by their environments and each other, fostering a deeper appreciation for global interconnectedness and cultural diversity.
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World History 7th Edition by William J. Duiker
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Chapter 1: Early Humans and the First Civilizations
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Q1) The Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylonia as the center of his empire was
A) Cyrus.
B) Rameses II.
C) Nebuchadnezzar II.
D) Ashurbanipal I.
E) Marquil VI.
Answer: C
Q2) By 100,000 B.C.E.,two groups of Homo sapiens had developed.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The Phoenicians
A) were great builders of several long-lasting empires.
B) established numerous Black Sea colonies.
C) invented an alphabet.
D) were skilled mercenary warriors.
E) conquered the Sea Peoples of Egypt.
Answer: C
Q4) hominids
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 2: Ancient India
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Q1) The authority of Mauryan kings was
A) limited by the practical aspects of administering a numerous independent city states.
B) curtailed by an institutionalized bureaucracy of powerful governors and ministers.
C) unlimited by law or custom.
D) established by Alexander the Great.
E) diminished by the onset of the Black Death.
Answer: B
Q2) The Harappan economy
A) was based upon war and conquest.
B) is unknown, due to the lack of physical or written evidence.
C) was devoted to the maintenance of the god Seth.
D) was based primarily on agriculture.
E) was exclusively involved in manufacturing and trade.
Answer: D
Q3) jati
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q4) 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) The Chinese written language maintained its unique quality because of A) the ambiguity of its characters.
B) its unifying role within the society.
C) the isolationist nature of ancient China.
D) its adoption by the peoples of northern India.
E) its rejection by the Koreans and Japanese.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: The Civilization of the Greeks
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Q1) Mycenaeans
Q2) Darius and Xerxes
Q3) Homer
Q4) Sophocles' Oedipus the King
Q5) Alexandria
Q6) Socrates and his "Socratic method"
Q7) Which of the following best summarizes Aristotle's fears the deterioration of forms of government?
A) monarchy to anarchy, aristocracy to tyranny, and constitutional government to oligarchy.
B) monarchy to oligarchy, aristocracy to anarchy, and constitutional government to tyranny.
C) monarchy to tyranny, aristocracy to oligarchy, and constitutional government to anarchy.
D) aristocracy to democracy, oligarchy to anarchy, and constitutional government to tyranny.
E) tyranny to oligarchy to monarchy.
Q8) Greek geography
Q9) Aristophanes
Q10) Greek colonization Page 6
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Q1) Italy had fewer rugged mountains and possessed more productive agricultural lands than Greece.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Paul of Tarsus
Q3) Julius Caesar
A) was a member of the plebeian class.
B) defeated Octavian's army and obtained the titles of dictator, then dictator for life.
C) saw the need for change and strengthened the Senate's power.
D) was assassinated by leading senators convinced his death would restore the republic.
E) all of the above
Q4) Jupiter,Juno,Minerva,and Mars
Q5) Jesus of Nazareth
Q6) Critically examine the various theories advanced to explain the fall of the Roman Empire.Which do you believe to be most convincing,and why?
Q7) Pax Romana
Q8) paterfamilias
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Chapter 6: The Americas
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Q1) "Geography determines history." Discuss,giving examples from the societies of the Western Hemisphere.
Q2) Because the soil lacked sufficient nutrients,agriculture never developed in the Amazon region.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The civilizations that developed in the New World
A) had developed the wheel by 500 B.C.E.
B) started their development earlier than in the Middle East.
C) did so in close coordination with civilizations in other parts of the world.
D) developed in ways that were quite similar to those of many other places in the world.
E) had nothing in common with civilizations in Eurasia.
Q4) Quetzalcoatl and Huitzilopochtli
Q5) Caral
Q6) Tikal,Palenque,Uxmal and Chichen Itza
Q7) Tehuacán valley
Q8) Mayan Long Count
Q9) Amazon River
Q10) Quechua
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Chapter 7: Ferment in the Middle East: The Rise of Islam
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Q1) Compare and contrast the origins and achievements of the Umayyad,Abbasid,and Fatimid regimes.
Q2) The Hadith and Shari'a
A) were adopted, respectively, from Jewish and Christian writings.
B) were the "Pillars of Islam."
C) were, respectively, a collection of Muhammad's sayings and a law code.
D) were, respectively, a law code and a marriage manual for Muslims.
E) was a military manual to be used in war against the Western Crusaders.
Q3) The Mongols
A) initially came from the Congo Basin in central Africa.
B) introduced the meaning of ornate rugs to Persia and Egypt, from where it spread across the Islamic world.
C) adapted quickly to life in the Middle East, as they were already Muslims and greatly interested in trade and urban development.
D) were unable to capture Egypt, due to the effective resistance of the Mamelukes.
E) captured Constantinople two times, but left shortly afterward in order not to destroy the city's profitable trading system.
Q4) Ali and Abu Bakr
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Chapter 8: Early Civilizations in Africa
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Q1) rock paintings
Q2) Ibn Battuta
Q3) "hermit kingdom"
Q4) The ancient civilization that was located in the highlands of what is known today as Ethiopia was
A) Yoruba.
B) Kush.
C) Sahara.
D) Axum.
E) Saba.
Q5) Describe African societies in terms of urban life,family relationships,and the parts played by women and the institution of slavery in their social fabrics.
Q6) The Kingdom of Mali
A) profited greatly from the pearl trade.
B) was sufficiently dry to enable its farmers to grow corn, as well as sorghum and millet.
C) maintained a very active pro-Islamic policy under Mansa Musa.
D) rejected Islam in favor of Ethiopian-style Christianity.
E) disappeared in the fifth century C.E.
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Chapter 9: The Expansion of Civilization in South and Southeast Asia
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Q1) Khajuraho
Q2) Bodhisattvas were those individuals who failed to reach enlightenment and thus Nirvana,and once again had to return to the cycle of reincarnation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon
Q4) Which of the following was not true about religious practice in Southeast Asia?
A) Buddhism and Hinduism were never in competition in the region.
B) Rulers used either Hinduism or Buddhism to gain a political advantage.
C) Hinduism served to fortify the positions of the upper class.
D) Theravada Buddhism became a dominant religious force in much of the region.
E) Daoism did not become a major movement in Java or Sumatra.
Q5) Ellora rock temple
Q6) Thai and Burmese
Q7) Chola and Pallava
Q8) Fa Xian and Xuan Zang
Q9) Nanak and Sikhism
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Q11) Mahayana
Q12) Mount Kailasa
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Chapter 10: The Flowering of Traditional China
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Q1) The custom of foot-binding was condemned by the Tang emperors and had disappeared from China by the beginning of the Song era.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following was not an economic factor in medieval China?
A) The central government monopolized certain commodity manufacturing.
B) Technological advances increased the scope and wealth of the economy.
C) The introduction of the use of paper currency, credit, banking, and the abacus furthered commercial development.
D) The Sui dynasty closed the Silk Road.
E) Blast furnaces were developed.
Q3) Compare and contrast the status of women in Tang and Song China with the status of women in two other societies of your choice.What are the similarities and what are the differences,and why?
Q4) the Mongols and the Yuan dynasty
Q5) "equal field" system
Q6) 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?
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Chapter 11: The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
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Q1) Zen/Chan
Q2) Unlike the situation in China,the struggle between central authority and local aristocracies endured into early modern times in Japan because
A) after 450 C.E. the Japanese were opposed to the adoption of any idea or system from China.
B) China established a merit-based civil service examination system, while the Japanese maintained it as an elitist process, thus enhancing the power of the aristocracy.
C) the difficulty of overcoming the closely held power of the local rulers was so overwhelming that shoguns refused to create a strong central government.
D) the emperor always sided with the local aristocracies against the shogun.
E) both depended upon the power of the peasants.
Q3) Shinto
A) is the Japanese version of Theravada Buddhism.
B) involves the performance of ritual acts, usually performed at a shrine.
C) stresses military violence and gore.
D) includes aspects involving belief in the humanity of the emperor.
E) was heavily influence by Southeast Asian Hinduism.
Q4) Yamato plain and Yamato clan
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Chapter 12: The Making of Europe
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Q1) Holy Roman Empire
Q2) Which of the following revolutionized warfare in the early Middle Ages?
A) gunpowder
B) the stirrup
C) the emergence of a money economy
D) the longbow
E) the Black Death
Q3) lords and vassals
Q4) Who were the Asian people,defeated at the Battle of Lechfeld,who became Christians and went on to establish the kingdom of Hungary?
A) the Mongols
B) the Magyars
C) the Vikings
D) the Slavs
E) the Golden Horde
Q5) Barrel vaulting and massive pillars were characteristic of the Gothic style.
A)True
B)False
Q6) St.Benedict and.St.Hilda of Whitby
Q7) What was "high" about the High Middle Ages? Give examples.
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Chapter 13: The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery in the
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Q1) The most serious threat to Justinian's rule came from the
A) Greens and the Blues.
B) crusaders.
C) Muslims.
D) Bulgars.
E) Ostrogoths.
Q2) Leonardo da Vinci
Q3) Hundred Years' War
Q4) The English king most responsible for creating a strong monarchical government was
A) Henry VI.
B) Edward V.
C) Richard III.
D) Henry VII.
E) Henry VIII.
Q5) peasant revolts
Q6) Renaissance
Q7) the Habsburgs
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Q9) Aragon and Castile
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Chapter 14: New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market
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Q1) Which of the following accurately describes European colonial development in the New World?
A) The Dutch took New York from the English and changed its name to New Netherland, and later the English lost some of their Canadian holdings to the French.
B) The English took New Netherland from the French and changed its name to New York, and later the Dutch lost some of their Canadian holdings to the French.
C) The English took New Netherland from the Dutch and changed its name to New York, and later the French lost most of their Canadian holdings to the English.
D) The French took New York from the Dutch and changed its name to New France, and later the Dutch lost some of their Canadian holdings to the English.
E) The Bishop of Rome took Brazil from Portugal and returned it to Spain.
Q2) Before the coming of the Europeans,most slaves in Africa were prisoners or war captives or had inherited their status.
A)True
B)False
Q3) mulattoes and mestizos
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Chapter 15: Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building
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Q1) All of the following were policies of Peter the Great except
A) the majority of governmental expenditures were for military purposes.
B) state domination of the Russian Orthodox church.
C) isolating Russia from the ways and customs of western Europe.
D) an effort to modernize Russia.
E) strengthening of the power of the tsar.
Q2) Frederick William the Great Elector
Q3) Machiavelli's The Prince
Q4) In the fifteenth century,the Italians-especially the Venetians-in their commercial empires were only rivaled by A) England.
B) the Hanseatic League
C) the Holy Roman Empire
D) the Byzantine Empire.
E) Spain.
Q5) Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Q6) Where Lutheranism was established,the state played no role in supervising or overseeing the church.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: The Muslim Empires
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Q1) The first Mughal emperor,Babur,was descended from both Tamerlane and Genghis Khan.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The "Akbar style" included all of the following except
A) it combined Persian with Indian motifs.
B) it imitated European art forms.
C) it followed the Ottoman trend toward realism and historical narrative.
D) human figures were often represented in spite of Islamic prohibitions.
E) it was strongly influenced by the artistic style of Ming China.
Q3) Which of the following statements is not an accurate observation of the Mughal rule of Akbar in India?
A) He appointed many Hindus to lower administrative posts.
B) His "Divine Faith" was just one example of the great religious toleration of his regime.
C) He permitted zamindars to yield significant independent authority in their local regions.
D) He and his people did not care for sea travel; therefore the Arabs took care of Mughal international trade.
E) He became a militant Buddhist during the latter half of his reign.
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Chapter 17: The East Asian World
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Q2) hangul
Q3) Was Japan,after the expulsion of foreigners,actually more of a "Hermit Kingdom" than Korea? Why or why not?
Q4) In Qing China,
A) love was seen as a problem because it diverted a couple from their duties to the larger family.
B) a family unit might include members of only two living in one house.
C) realistic social novels were published in China only in the early twentieth century.
D) women held a uniquely honored position in the family because they bore the children.
E) romantic love was the norm.
Q5) The purpose of the Qing system known as dyarchy was
A) to maintain the Chinese exclusion from Manchu rule in China.
B) to assure the isolation of the Chinese from the Manchus in China.
C) a mechanism for the sharing of administrative positions by Manchus and Chinese.
D) to assure the Manchu administrative dictatorship of China.
E) to keep northern and southern China balanced politically.
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Chapter 18: The West on the Eve of a New World Order
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Q1) The new United States Constitution of 1787
A) employed Montesquieu's conception of the separation of powers.
B) was rejected by most Americans until it was finally passed on a third referendum. C) was created by delegates who, like the nation's population, were mainly small farmers.
D) was soon abolished and replaced by the Articles of Confederation. E) abolished slavery.
Q2) All of the following were relevant to Newton's discoveries except A) they created a new cosmology.
B) they presented a basically mechanical explanation of things.
C) universal motion could be mathematically explained.
D) his theories had no spiritual ramifications.
E) Einsteinian relativity eventually came to superseded Newtonian mechanism.
Q3) the Enlightenment
Q4) philosophes
Q5) Toussaint L'Ouverture
Q6) Descartes and Cartesian Dualism
Q7) Olympe de Gouges's "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen"
Q8) Emelyan Pugachev
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Chapter 19: The Beginnings of Modernization:
Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century
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Q1) The ability to make yarn at a much faster pace
A) was achieved by the development of George Stephenson's Rocket.
B) was retarded by adoption of the Lysenko Doctrine in 1808.
C) became necessary after the development of the flying shuttle.
D) depended upon the inventions of Charles Seurat.
E) was the result of new resources of cotton from South America.
Q2) Prussia's victory over Austria in 1866 allowed the Italians to take over ____ and the withdrawal of French troops during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 allowed the Italians to take over ____.
A) Naples and Florence.
B) Venetia and Rome.
C) Rome and Milan.
D) Venice and Syracuse.
E) Pisa and Verona.
Q3) Nineteenth-century liberals advocated
A) equal voting rights for all citizens.
B) equal voting rights for all male citizens.
C) voting rights only for male citizens who met certain property requirements.
D) an egalitarian democracy of universal suffrage.
E) rapid change through revolutionary action.
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Chapter 20: The Americas and Society and Culture in the West
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Q1) What role did liberalism and nationalism play in Latin America between 1800 and 1870? What were the major economic,social,and political trends in Latin America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Did change or tradition have more influence on economics and politics in Latin America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How and why?
Q2) The first Mexican emperor was
A) Benito Juarez.
B) Simón Bolívar.
C) Father Miguel Hidalgo.
D) José de San Martín.
E) Augustín de Iturbide.
Q3) Social Darwinism was given
A) a psychological dimension by Sigmund Freud.
B) a racial interpretation by Houston Stewart Chamberlain.
C) a scientific interpretation by Max Planck.
D) an economic interpretation by Adam Smith.
E) an artistic interpretation by Vincent von Gogh.
Q4) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Q5) Miguel Hidalgo
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Chapter 21: The High Tide of Imperialism
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Q1) "informal empire"
Q2) slave trade vs."legitimate trade"
Q3) In the nineteenth century,"legitimate trade" unfortunately still included the African slave trade.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What caused the renewal of European imperialism in the late-nineteenth century? What were the dominant influences at work? Did they change over time and/or in relation to the actions of other imperialistic societies?
Q5) Fashoda
Q6) Among the first British colonies in West Africa was A) Libya.
B) Gold Coast.
C) Senegal.
D) Liberia.
E) Zanzibar.
Q7) What does the text mean when it says,"Modern nationalism,then,was a product of colonialism and,in a sense,a reaction to it"?
Q8) "might makes right"
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Chapter 22: Shadows over the Pacific: East Asia under Challenge
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Q1) In the last decades of the nineteenth century in China,
A) Taiwan was taken over by Japan.
B) Qing control over Chinese localities was strengthened.
C) the Manchu rulers made no attempts at reform.
D) Chinese control over outlying regions was strengthened.
E) the Qing dynasty became increasingly popular throughout all levels of Chinese society.
Q2) Meiji Constitution of 1890
Q3) Meiji Restoration
Q4) In 1800,the Qing or Manchu dynasty was at the height of its power.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The Opium War
A) finally forced China to cease selling opium in India and Singapore.
B) was ended by the Treaty of Taiwan.
C) gave Britain control of Hong Kong.
D) ended with a British defeat.
E) gave China the right to sell opium in India.
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Chapter 23: The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis:
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Q1) V.I.Lenin
Q2) Changes in middle-class attitudes during the 1920s included
A) a surprising degree of support for the Bolshevik cause, first articulated by President Wilson in 1919.
B) the popularity of Theodor van de Velde's book Divorce in Five Easy Lessons.
C) the popularity of short skirts, short hair, and the use of previously risqué cosmetics.
D) the acquisition of television sets.
E) the popularity of the twist.
Q3) Which of the following is an accurate description of Middle Eastern mandates instituted after World War I?
A) Belgium took Anatolia and the Hejaz.
B) France took control of Iraq and Palestine.
C) Britain took control of Iraq and Palestine.
D) Italy took control of Egypt and Kuwait.
E) Greece took control of Turkey.
Q4) March Revolution
Q5) runaway inflation and the Ruhr
Q6) Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Q7) T.E.Lawrence
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Chapter 24: Nationalism Revolution and Dictatorship: Asia
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Q2) Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
Q3) To avoid eradication by Chiang's army,Mao led his PLA from South China to the North China town of Yan'an.This journey has come to be called the
A) Great Leap Forward.
B) Long March.
C) Northern March.
D) Northern Expedition.
E) Long Expedition.
Q4) Which of the following is not correct regarding Chiang's programs in China?
A) His dependence on gentry support neutralized his ability to achieve major land reform.
B) Confucianism was no longer generally accepted in the country.
C) His repressive policies alienated many intellectuals and political moderates.
D) He was able to solve China's economic and social problems.
E) The pressures of the Japanese presence in northern China, and the effects of the Great Depression, undermined his efforts.
Q5) Ho Chi Minh
Q6) Shidehara Diplomacy
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Chapter 25: The Crisis Deepens: World War II
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Q2) Which of the following was not true about Mussolini's Fascist rule in Italy?
A) It gave him total control over all aspects of Italian life.
B) It never achieved the totality of power, in repression and media control that the dictatorships in Germany and the Soviet Union did.
C) It tried to involve all Italian youth in a program of indoctrination, but achieved only limited success in that area.
D) It maintained a program of traditional values in regard to women, and mutual acceptance and coexistence with the Catholic Church.
E) It was strongly supported by business and large landlord groups.
Q3) What were the costs of World War II? How did World War II affect the European nations' colonial empires? How did the Allies' visions of the postwar world differ,and how did these differences contribute to the emergence of the Cold War? How did the attempt to arrive at a peace settlement after World War II lead to the beginnings of a new conflict known as the Cold War? What were the most significant ideas and outcomes of the conferences at Tehran,Yalta,and Potsdam?
Q4) Tehran,Yalta,and Potsdam conferences
Q5) the Rhineland and Ethiopia
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Chapter 26: East and West in the Grip of the Cold War
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Q2) Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War
Q3) The eastern European nation that defied Stalin's attempt to occupy it after the war was
A) Vichy under Petain.
B) Finland under Ulbricht.
C) Poland under Yaruzelski.
D) Yugoslavia under Tito.
E) Germany under Petain.
Q4) Warfare resumed in Vietnam in 1959 because
A) of the Afghan invasion of Kazakhstan.
B) Ho Chi Minh rejected the Geneva Accords.
C) the United States, fearful of a Communist victory in the elections agreed to at Geneva, had ignored the Geneva Accords and aided the South Vietnamese government.
D) Ngo Dinh Diem began a Communist takeover of South Vietnam.
E) of the Chinese Communist invasion of nearby Cambodia.
Q5) the Third World
Q6) Nicarauga,the Sandinistas,and the Contras
Q7) Afghanistan,the "Soviet Vietnam"
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Chapter 27: Brave New World: Communism on Trial
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Q1) "commonwealth of independent states"
Q2) For the Chinese Communist Party,culture was
A) seen as a unique resource which should be preserved and not changed.
B) valuable and valid for its own sake.
C) seen as an important instrument for indoctrination.
D) not to be used in the same way the Soviets had used it.
E) supposed to reject the technique of socialist realism.
Q3) Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko
Q4) agricultural "collectivization"
Q5) Leonid Brezhnev
A) valued stability above all, blocking significant attempts to deal with economic/social problems.
B) greatly increased the funding for new agricultural areas in Kazakhstan and Mongolia. C) sharply reduced the powers of the KGB and Interior Ministry.
D) was the first to finally break with Stalinism and to conciliate the Czech regime.
E) was a sincere admirer of the policies of Nikita Khrushchev.
Q6) Czechoslovakia's Charter 77 and Václav Havel
Q7) Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
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Chapter 28: Europe and the Western Hemisphere since 1945
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Q1) Terrorism is often motivated by all of the following except
A) the desire for revolutionary upheaval.
B) nationalistic desires aimed at creating new states.
C) desires for political retribution.
D) a desire to invoke political, social, and religious pluralism.
E) religious commitments and beliefs.
Q2) The movement for civil rights in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s
A) was strongly opposed by Malcolm X, a white political leader from Illinois.
B) created a "white backlash" which aided a national trend toward greater political conservatism.
C) received no governmental support until 1974.
D) energized Indian and black minorities, who together composed 34 percent of the population.
E) finally achieved the right to vote for all black American adults as a result of the Proclamation of 1953.
Q3) Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique
Q4) the war on terrorism and the Department of Homeland Security
Q5) Pope John Paul II
Q6) Margaret Thatcher,the "Iron Lady," and Thatcherism
Q7) Treaty of Rome/European Economic Community (EEC) Page 34
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Chapter 29: Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East
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Q2) In regard to the relationship between Islam and women's rights,which of the following is the most valid statement?
A) There is no longer a significant difference in ideas about female roles among the peoples of the West and the Arab world.
B) Traditional attitudes have been re-established only in Iran.
C) Saudi Arabia has been the most conservative country in the Middle East in this matter.
D) Early modernists viewed the wearing of the veil and the practice of polygamy as purely Islamic.
E) Islamic rule produced a curtailing of women's rights in early twentieth-century Turkey.
Q3) The United Arab Republic was the result of the unification of Iraq and Iran.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Sudan's Muslim pastoralists and Christian farmers
Q5) Is the Republic of South Africa,Egypt,or Nigeria likely to be the most important state in Africa in thirty years? What evidence causes you to think as you do?
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Chapter 30: Toward the Pacific Century
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Q1) Yukio Mishima and "Coca-Colonization"
Q2) Muslims and Christians in Indonesia
Q3) All of the following are correct about Pakistan since September 11,2001,except
A) much of the local population supported the Taliban, which had been driven from Afghanistan.
B) President Musharaff gave support to the anti-terrorist campaign.
C) Benazir Bhutto was elected president in 2008.
D) there were renewed tensions with India over Kashmir.
E) by 2008, many observers expressed concern that Pakistan might disintegrate as a country into squabbling ethnic blocs.
Q4) A major problem in Japan today is the rapidly increasing birthrate and the fear that in the near future there will be insufficient schools and employment possibilities. A)True
B)False
Q5) How have the "everyday" options for women in Japan changed since World War II? With what results? Have these changes been advantageous for women and/or Japan as a whole? Why or why not?
Q6) Hong Kong and Guangdong province
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