Modern World History
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Modern World History explores the significant social, political, economic, and cultural transformations that have shaped the world from the late 18th century to the present day. The course covers key global events such as revolutions, the rise and fall of empires, world wars, decolonization, and the emergence of new nations. Students will analyze the impact of technological advancements, global conflicts, ideologies, and social movements on societies across continents while recognizing diverse perspectives and connections between regions. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking, source analysis, and understanding how historical developments continue to influence contemporary global issues.
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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 Old Stone Age,
A)only Egypt had an advanced agricultural economy.
B)both men and women hunted wild animals.
C)hunting and gathering was the way most people supported themselves.
D)humans lived only in the southernmost parts of Africa.
E)communication was maintained through the use of cuneiform.
Answer: C
Q2) Mesopotamian civilization
A)developed during the Paleolithic Era.
B)was made of cities and located in a river valley.
C)was located between the Nile and the Niger rivers.
D)was the only early civilization with no cities.
E)was the birthplace of democracy.
Answer: B
Q3) The first settled regions of the world were found in river valleys like Mesopotamia.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Ancient India
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Q1) Four Noble Truths
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q2) "The Rule of the Fishes" refers to the
A)statement of Buddha about the need to abstain from killing reptiles.
B)view that warfare is glorious and was the primary activity of kings and aristocrats.
C)development of a major marine fishery program under Ashoka.
D)desire of Hindus to eat fish rather than cattle.
E)the invasion of the Ganges basis by the Sea Peoples from South Asia.
Answer: B
Q3) The language of the Vedas was
A)Prakrit.
B)Sanskrit.
C)Hindi.
D)Gujarati.
E)Farsi.
Answer: B
Q4) Aryans
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 3: China in Antiquity
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Q1) A core belief in the need to force people to behave properly through the use of restrictive regulations was the foundation of the philosophy of A)Confucianism.
B)Legalism.
C)Daoism.
D)Tangism.
E)Huangism.
Answer: B
Q2) The conversations between Confucius and his disciples are found in the A)Book of Changes.
B)Book of Histories.
C)Analects.
D)Book of Songs.
E)Way of the Dao.
Answer: C
Q3) "loess"
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q4) Anyang
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 4: The Civilization of the Greeks
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Q1) Hellenistic
Q2) Sparta was located in
A)the Attica Peninsula.
B)the Peloponnesus.
C)Boeotia.
D)Macedonia.
E)the Strait of Corinth.
Q3) Plato's ideal forms
Q4) Foreign influences on early Greek culture included all of the following except
A)the adoption of new gods and goddesses.
B)the importance of Middle Eastern monotheism.
C)the importance of new myths.
D)artistic examples from Egypt in sculpture.
E)foreign motifs were employed in Greek pottery.
Q5) The myth of Persian invincibility was broken at A)Marathon.
B)Mycenae.
C)Messenia.
D)Macedonia.
E)Persepolis.
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Q1) Sassanid Persians and Germanic tribes
Q2) patricians
Q3) The founder of the Han dynasty was
A)Huang Chiau.
B)Liu Bang.
C)Wang Mang.
D)Lie Ch'in.
E)Ho Chi.
Q4) The chief executive officers of the Roman Republic who were responsible for leading the Roman army into battle and administering the government were the A)consuls.
B)praetors.
C)senators.
D)centuriates.
E)tribunes.
Q5) "the good emperors"
Q6) Julio-Claudians
Q7) Plebeians never gained political equality with the Patricians.
A)True
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Chapter 6: The Americas
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Q1) Olmec
Q2) Tikal, Palenque, Uxmal and Chichen Itza
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic shared by the civilizations of the Western Hemisphere with those of the Old World?
A)Long-distance trade
B)Human sacrifice
C)Iron smelting
D)Irrigated agriculture
E)The practice of warfare
Q4) Apache and Navajo
Q5) Who was the supreme deity among the Aztec pantheon?
A)Siva
B)Tlaloc
C)Quetzalcoatl
D)Huitzilopochtli
E)Ometeotl
Q6) Give examples of some of the New World societies that had not reached the state-building stage by the 1500s. How likely were they to have done so if outside peoples had not taken over their territories? Why or why not?
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Chapter 7: Ferment in the Middle East: the Rise of Islam
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Q1) The theoretical purpose of the jihad was to
A)maintain peak military readiness.
B)wage holy war against all other Muslims on the Arabian peninsula.
C)broaden Muslim hegemony throughout Africa and Europe.
D)strive in the way of the Lord.
E)massacre all Jews and Christians.
Q2) Which part of the Abbasid caliphate became independent in the tenth century?
A)Morocco.
B)Egypt.
C)Spain.
D)Syria.
E)Anatolia.
Q3) 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.
Q4) Mongols
Q5) 114 suras
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Chapter 8: Early Civilizations in Africa
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Q1) Bronze head sculptures and relief plaques depicting West African court life were created in
A)Benin.
B)Ife.
C)Nok.
D)San.
E)Kongo.
Q2) Compare and contrast the elements of civilization in sub-Saharan Africa with the civilizations of Mesoamerica. What are the similarities and differences and why?
Q3) Axum
Q4) Some archeologists claim that agriculture may have appeared first in Nubia rather than in the lower Nile valley.
A)True
B)False
Q5) the Garamantes
Q6) Meroë
Q7) Saba
Q8) Ethiopia
Q9) Mombasa, Zanzibar, and Mogadishu
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Chapter 9: The Expansion of Civilization in South and Southeast Asia
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Q1) Compare the isolating factors of geographic conditioning in India to those of Southeast Asia, and discuss the significant differences this made religiously, economically, and politically.
Q2) purdah
Q3) Southeast Asian agriculture
A)was highly unproductive, in large part to an absence of rich soil and high population density.
B)saw peasants pay heavy rents or taxes to landlords and local rulers.
C)contained no areas in which farmers controlled their land directly.
D)was highly inefficient, as peasants preferred to reduce taxes by lowering their incomes.
E)was exclusively based upon local self-sufficiency.
Q4) Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat
Q5) In the years following the death of Siddhartha Gautama, how was Buddhism transformed? What were the catalysts that spurred these transformations? How did the beliefs of followers of the Theravada and Mahayana branches of Buddhism differ? How did their positions reflect differing ideas about the likelihood of their followers achieving nirvana? Do you think the term Hinayana was originally used as an expression of contempt?
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Q6) Srivijaya and Majapahit
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Chapter 10: The Flowering of Traditional China
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Q1) Assess the Mongol management of China. Is "pax mongolica" a legitimate term? What did it accomplish?
Q2) The novel began to appear under the Yuan dynasty as part of a new literary movement.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In terms of its relations with neighboring powers, the Song
A)met their ultimate demise at the hands of the Mongols.
B)was able to maintain a permanent dominance over the Jin Dynasty of the Jurchens.
C)reconquered the northern region controlled by the Uighurs.
D)learned from the mistakes of the Tang and avoided a similar fate.
E)conquered Japan, the first time that this had happened.
Q4) Xuanzong and Yan Guifei
Q5) blast furnace and steel, gunpowder, paper currency, and the abacus
Q6) White Lotus sect
Q7) After the third century C.E. collapse of the Han dynasty, China fell into a long period of division and civil war.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
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Q1) How did religious structure in Japan transform and affect women's lives? Why did Buddhism provide restrictions to women in society, compared to Shinto?
Q2) Ashikaga era
Q3) Which of the following is true of the Japanese islands?
A)Honshu receives over 200 inches of snow each year.
B)It contains so many mountains that the percentage of land that it can use for farming is under three percent.
C)Since its mountains are volcanic, much of its soil is very poor.
D)The nearness to the Asian and Pacific tectonic plates causes them to be subject to violent earthquakes.
E)The largest of the four main islands is Kyushu.
Q4) Pure Land sect/Jodo
Q5) In Vietnam,
A)women had less authority than their counterparts in China.
B)women could never initiate divorce proceedings against their husbands.
C)women possessed more rights, in practice and in law, than in China.
D)Confucianism was never an influence.
E)Chinese rule was paramount for almost 1200 years.
Q6) Fujiwara clan
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Chapter 12: The Making of Europe
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Q1) The Church's primary instrument of conversion was the monastic movement.
A)True
B)False
Q2) All of the following were motives for the Crusades except
A)the desire for military adventure.
B)religious fervor.
C)the aim to increase religious toleration between Muslims and Christians.
D)the desire to gain riches and land.
E)to allow the pope to assume the leadership in liberating the Holy Land.
Q3) Magna Carta
Q4) 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.
Q5) communes
Q6) Cistercians and St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Q7) What were the causes and what were the consequences of the emergence of universities in the High Middle Ages?
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Chapter 13: The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery in the
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Q1) What were the causes, nature, and results of the Italian Renaissance? Was it synonymous with humanism? Why or why not? How humane was the humanism of the time? Why?
Q2) The Photian schism
A)abolished the use of icons.
B)resulted in the excommunication of the Pope by the Patriarch.
C)led to the reunion of the Roman and Orthodox churches.
D)established the interdict in the Roman church.
E)divided Arabs from Persians, a split that continues to the present.
Q3) Council of Constance, 1417
Q4) The appropriate author-title combo of the treatise on the acquisition, maintenance, and expansion of political power was
A)Erasmus, In Praise of Folly
B)Erasmus, Education of a Christian Prince
C)Luther, 95 Theses
D)Machiavelli, The Prince
E)Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality
Q5) Greek fire
Q6) Bulgars
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Chapter 14: New Encounters: the Creation of a World Market
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Q1) What were the different approaches used for expansion of trade in the Americas and Southeast Asia, if you compare the Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish? Why did the English have less success than the others?
Q2) The joint-stock English East India Company was founded in 1600 with the aim of developing trade in the Americas.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Dutch colonial efforts were
A)incredibly unsuccessful, as their huge expenditures did not produce a single profitable colony.
B)ended by superior Portuguese power in North America before 1700.
C)weakened by their principled refusal to take part in the slave trade.
D)highly successful in Southeast Asia, and particularly on the island of Java.
E)most economically profitable in New Amsterdam.
Q4) Alfonso I
Q5) Massachusetts Bay Company
Q6) Songhai
Q7) portolani
Q8) Leo Africanus
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Chapter 15: Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building
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Q1) the Glorious Revolution, William and Mary, and the Bill of Rights
Q2) William Shakespeare
Q3) In England, during the period of the 1640s to 1660, all of the following occurred except
A)Charles I was executed.
B)Charles I antagonized the Puritans in Parliament.
C)Oliver Cromwell led his New Model Army to victory over the forces of the king.
D)Charles II replaced his executed father on the English throne.
E)after the death of Charles I, Cromwell became the new king of England.
Q4) "new monarchies"
Q5) Ignatius Loyola and the Jesuits/Society of Jesus
Q6) Among the reasons for success of commercial expansion was the development of A)industrialized production.
B)joint-stock companies.
C)double-entry bookkeeping.
D)royal monopolies.
E)conversion to the Euro.
Q7) What could you argue were the political reasons underlying the Wars of Religion between the sixteenth and late seventeenth centuries?
Q8) Ulrich Zwingli
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Chapter 16: The Muslim Empires
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Q1) Black Hole of Calcutta
Q2) Akbar was known for his attempt to reconcile Hinduism and Buddhism within Afghanistan.
A)True
B)False
Q3) the Tai Mahal
Q4) 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.
Q5) Sinan
Q6) Suleyman I the Magnificent
Q7) The Ottoman Turks preceded the Seljuk Turks.
A)True
B)False
Q8) How did English trade overcome other European competition? Is it important that the British focused on India, rather than other areas?
Q9) Haidar Ali
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Chapter 17: The East Asian World
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Q1) Utamaro, Hokusai, and Hiroshige
Q2) 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.
Q3) Yongle
Q4) blue and white porcelain and chinoiserie
Q5) The name of the Chinese dynasty established by the Manchus was the A)Yuan.
B)Tang.
C)Ming.
D)Qing.
E)Han.
Q6) Edo
Q7) Qianlong
Q8) Li Zicheng
Q9) the queue
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Chapter 18: The West on the Eve of a New World Order
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Q1) Who were the philosophes ?
A)French aristocracy.
B)Neo-Platonic humanists.
C)Intellectuals inspired to change the world.
D)Supporters of Absolutism.
E)Capitalists endorsing laissez-faire economics.
Q2) Which author is NOT correctly paired with his famous work?
A)Descartes, Essay Concerning Human Understanding
B)Newton, Principia
C)Copernicus, On the Revolution of Heavenly Bodies
D)Galileo, Starry Nights
E)Montesquieu, Spirit of the Laws
Q3) partitions of Poland
Q4) What were the causes, the main events, and the results of the French Revolution? Could its outbreak have been avoided, or possibly postponed? Was the revolution inevitable? Why or why not?
Q5) Descartes and Cartesian Dualism
Q6) Adam Smith is seen as one of the founders of the modern discipline of economics.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: The Beginnings of Modernization:
Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century
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Q1) Population in Europe during the nineteenth century
A)remained steady until the 1830s, and then began to decrease steadily.
B)was notable for rapid overall growth and a far more rapid increase in city populations.
C)was dramatically reduced when the Great Famine killed thirty-five percent of the Russian, Irish, and Prussian populations.
D)decreased as peasants, reassured by falling death rates, reduced the rural birth rate by over sixty percent due to their adoption of birth control.
E)was numerically dominated by the landed aristocracy.
Q2) Schleswig-Holstein
Q3) The majority of soldiers in the Crimean War died of
A)starvation
B)heavy artillary shelling
C)chemical weapons
D)disease (mainly cholera)
E)bayonet wounds
Q4) What were the chief ideas associated with the ideologies of conservatism, liberalism, and nationalism, and how were these ideas put into practice in the first half of the nineteenth century?
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Chapter 20: The Americas and Society and Culture in the West
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Q1) Sir Walter Scott
Q2) The first serious questioning of the mechanical conception of the universe is found in the works of
A)Albert Einstein
B)Nels Bohr
C)Marie Curie
D)Nicola Tesla
E)Thomas Edison
Q3) Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton
Q4) The late nineteenth century advocate of a separate Jewish state was
A)Albert Einstein.
B)Theodor Herzl.
C)Adolph Hitler.
D)Houston Stewart Chamberlain.
E)Max Planck.
Q5) How did the impact of the new mass society affect the lives of women, in terms of work opportunities, family life, and the rise of feminism?
Q6) Gothic literature
Q7) Realism
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Chapter 21: The High Tide of Imperialism
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Q1) French colonial management applied direct rule to which of the following areas?
A)Southern Mekong Delta
B)Hue
C)Cambodia
D)Laos
E)None of these.
Q2) the "raj"
Q3) Can you argue that the effect of colonialism for women in India was better, worse, or the same for women in Africa under British domion?
Q4) zamindar system
Q5) Indochinese Union
Q6) In Africa, security concerns and national prestige were always secondary to economic interests.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Afrikaners were black African opponents of the Dutch Boers in South Africa.
A)True
B)False
Q8) Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Suez Canal
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Q9) Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland
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Chapter 22: Shadows Over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge
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Q1) Which of the following does NOT represent a sign of changing times in China for women?
A)Increase of educational opportunities for women and girls.
B)Official discouragement of footbinding.
C)Women working in factories in Shanghai.
D)They participated in political rebellions.
E)Empress Cixi modified the succession system to allow a Qing female ruler.
Q2) Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the nature of the Opium War?
A)It was begun, and won, by China.
B)The Chinese began hostilities as the only means available to them to stop the opium trade of the British.
C)Philippine smugglers used the war to monopolize the Chinese opium trade.
D)The British used Chinese objection to opium importation as a pretext to unilaterally invade China and forcibly open it to Western trade.
E)The war was a competitive confrontation between the Western colonialist nations to determine which would be the most successful at flooding China with opium.
Q3) Wang Tao v. Zhang Zhidong
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Chapter 23: The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis:
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Q1) All of the following statements are correct about the Great Depression except
A)the stock market crash in the United States led to the withdrawal of American investments in Europe, thus weakening the European banking system.
B)economic depressions were a new phenomena in the European experience.
C)during the Depression, women were often able to secure low-paying jobs and servants and housekeepers while many men remained unemployed.
D)the classical liberal remedies for depressions were balanced budgets, cutting costs, and raising tariffs, all of which only worsened the crisis.
E)fascism and communism appealed to many because of the perceived failure of capitalism.
Q2) 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.
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24: Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship:
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Q1) Could Gandhi's non-violence and civil disobedience have succeeded against Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Soviet Union? If so, how? If not, why not?
Q2) Jawaharlal Nehru
Q3) By the 1930s, militant right-wing nationalists had begun to dominate the Japanese government.
A)True
B)False
Q4) 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.
Q5) Aramco
Q6) What difficulties or challenges did the United States pose to the political, social, and economic development of Latin America in the interwar years? Be specific.
Q7) Tanizaki's Some Prefer Nettles
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Chapter 25: The Crisis Deepens: World War 2
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Q1) 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.
Q2) Hitler intended to gain more land for Germany in
A)France.
B)Russia.
C)Africa.
D)the British Empire.
E)the Middle East.
Q3) Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
Q4) Mussolini and Hitler joined forces in support of
A)Hitler's occupation of Ethiopia
B)Japan's invasion of Nanking
C)Franco's fascist army in the Spanish Civil War
D)annexing Poland
E)occupying Belgium.
Q5) the Enabling Act
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Chapter 26: East and West in the Grip of the Cold War
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Q1) People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
Q2) China's long isolation from the West began to end with the opening to America that was accomplished by
A)Hubert Humphrey and Lyndon Johnson.
B)John F.Kennedy and John Foster Dulles.
C)Dwight Eisenhower and Dean Rusk.
D)Harry Truman and Dean Acheson.
E)Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger.
Q3) Douglas MacArthur and the Yalu River and Chinese "volunteers"
Q4) Indochina conflict(s)
Q5) The US hoped to avoid deeper involvement in China by
A)allowing Stalin to act in an advisory capacity to Chiang kai-Shek.
B)negotiating an arrangement between Chiang and Mao.
C)maintaining a significant military presence in neutralized Japan to intimidate both sides of the Chinese Civil War.
D)relying on NATO and the United Nations to arbitrate the situation.
E)reluctantly endorsing Mao but not providing any support in hopes of appeasing Communist Russia.
Q6) the Third World
Q7) cultural exchange program
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Chapter 27: Brave New World: Communism on Trial
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Q2) Mao Zedong's New Democracy
A)was designed to expel the Turkic population from western China.
B)moved slowly at first, in order not to alienate the peasants.
C)gave private land to five percent of peasant families, to increase collectivization.
D)was patterned on Stalin's "Open Society" plan.
E)was modeled upon that found in France during the "Terror."
Q3) Tiananmen Square, 1989
Q4) Which of the following has occurred in Chinese life since the Revolution?
A)Female foot binding has regained popular support.
B)Under Mao, the government made an effort to strengthen the role of the family.
C)Individual economic achievement was encouraged during the Cultural Revolution.
D)In the post-Mao era, there has been an emphasis on idealistic utopianism.
E)Today, many Chinese people, especially the young, are trying to Westernize their dress and appearance.
Q5) "Four Modernizations"
Q6) the missing "fifth modernization"
Q7) Bai Hua's Bitter Love and MoYan's The Garlic Ballads and Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
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Chapter 28: Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945
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Q1) In 2010, the thirteen-year rule of Britain's Labour Party came to an end as which conservative became Prime Minister?
A)Margaret Thatcher.
B)Gordon Brown.
C)Tony Blair.
D)David Cameron.
E)John Major.
Q2) 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
Q3) Falkland Islands
Q4) Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Q5) Fidel Castro, Bay of Pigs, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Q6) Tony Blair
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Q7) Richard Nixon and the "southern strategy"
Q8) Lyndon B. Johnson and the War on Poverty
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Chapter 29: Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East
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B)False
Q2) The East African term for the people who have achieved a high level of financial success is A)hokees. B)dash.
C)wabenzi. D)chai. E)bonsella.
Q3) Egypt's Gamal Abdul Nasser and the Suez Canal
Q4) 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?
Q5) Is it realistic to argue that the Muslim societies of North Africa are so different from those of sub- Saharan Africa that they actually have nothing in common except geographic proximity and the fact that both are ex-colonial areas? Why or why not?
Q6) Israel and Palestine
Q7) apartheid
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Chapter 30: Toward the Pacific Century
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Q1) Indira Gandhi
A)retained a policy of neutrality in foreign affairs.
B)abandoned her father's activist policies to aid the poor.
C)used troops to attack and secure the Hindu Golden Temple in Agra.
D)was assassinated by her Buddhist bodyguards.
E)was the daughter of Mahatma Gandhi.
Q2) 1997 financial crisis
Q3) How has social modernization treated women's roles in Japan, India, and Korea in the post-war period? Why does it seemingly show progress in some areas, but is impeded in others, despite economic and political modernization?
Q4) Since Chiang Kai-shek's death,
A)the Republic of China began to move toward a more representative form of government.
B)Taiwan has moved much closer to the mainland government.
C)the United States has "suggested" Taiwan consider uniting with the Philippine Islands.
D)Taiwan has adopted a socialist economy.
E)there are no diplomatic or economic relations between Taiwan and the United States.
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