Modern World History
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Modern World History examines the major events, ideas, and movements that have shaped the world from the late 18th century to the present. The course explores themes such as revolutions, industrialization, imperialism, world wars, decolonization, globalization, and social change. Through the analysis of primary and secondary sources, students develop an understanding of how diverse societies have interacted, adapted, and transformed within an increasingly interconnected global landscape. The course encourages critical thinking about the causes and consequences of historical developments, emphasizing the relationship between local events and global trends.
Recommended Textbook 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) Sumerians
Answer: The Sumerians were an ancient civilization that lived in the southern region of Mesopotamia, which is now modern-day Iraq. They are considered one of the earliest known civilizations, dating back to around 4500 BCE. The Sumerians are known for their advancements in writing, mathematics, and architecture, as well as their development of the first known form of writing called cuneiform. They built the first cities, created complex irrigation systems, and established a system of government and social structure. The Sumerians were important because they laid the foundation for many aspects of modern society, including language, law, and religion. Their contributions have had a lasting impact on human history and continue to influence the world today.
Q2) King Solomon is associated with all of the following except
A)he ruled a united kingdom.
B)he built a temple.
C)his capital was Jerusalem.
D)Israel was at the height of its powers.
E)controlled all of the Middle East.
Answer: E
Q3) "Sea Peoples"
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 first money system in India probably came into existence from A)coins of gold and copper from the Middle East
B)cowrie shells
C)was introduced by Alexander the Great D)the Aryan migration
E)the Mauryan government's centralized control of silver mines
Answer: A
Q3) The language of the Vedas was Prakrit.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: China in Antiquity
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Q1) Ancient Chinese villages were organized on the basis of
A)nuclear family units.
B)race.
C)clans.
D)phratries.
E)religion.
Answer: C
Q2) Significant military technology assisting the decline of the late Zhou period included all of the following EXCEPT
A)foot soldiers
B)seige warfare
C)cavalry
D)crossbows
E)trebuchets
Answer: E
Q3) The eastern frontier of China remained the great fault line of Asian conflict for over two thousand years.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: The Civilization of the Greeks
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Q1) Who was Homer? Why has his historicity been questioned? To what degree did ideas contained in Homer's writings influence later Greek civilization? Why do you think as you do?
Q2) Athens, with a population of 250,000 in the fifth century B.C.E., was far larger than most Greek poleis.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which statement of women's lives in Athens is correct?
A)Women could own property, including slaves.
B)Women could participate in most religious cults and festivals.
C)Women could retain custody of children in the event of divorce.
D)Women could participate in symposia and public debates.
E)Women could not work unless they were citizens.
Q4) phalanx
Q5) Alexander the Great
Q6) "The Greek contribution to Western Civilization was so great that everything since the Greeks is merely a footnote to their accomplishments." Discuss, pro and con.
Q7) Athens
Q8) Arthur Evens
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Q1) In addition to the inventing of the rudder and fore-and-aft rigging, another significant Chinese invention of the Han era was
A)paper.
B)rubber.
C)steel.
D)silk.
E)rayon.
Q2) In the 130s and 120s B.C.E., Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus advocated the seizure of the large estates owned by the aristocracy and then distribute the lands to landless Romans.
A)True
B)False
Q3) the Colosseum and gladiators
Q4) Iron casting and paper
Q5) The group that sacked Rome in 410 CE was
A)Vandals
B)Visigoths
C)Franks
D)Huns
E)Celts
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Chapter 6: The Americas
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Q1) Bering Strait
Q2) Carthaginians, lost tribes of Israel, and Atlantis
Q3) Lake Texcoco
Q4) Who were the first Americans, and when and how did they arrive in the Western Hemisphere?
Q5) What was the purpose of the human sacrifices practiced by the Aztecs?
A)To obtain the atman of the victim.
B)To appease Huitzilopochtli, and thus delay the ultimate destruction of their world.
C)To insure an abundant harvest.
D)To insure long life for the emperor.
E)To provide victims for the ball court games.
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?
Q7) What are the possible reasons for the collapse of Mayan civilization? Which reason do you feel is most important, and why? Why not the others?
Q8) Chavin de Huantar
Q9) Amerindians
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Chapter 7: Ferment in the Middle East: the Rise of Islam
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Q1) Harun al-Rashid
Q2) Ibn Rushd/Averroës and Ibn Sina/Avicenna
Q3) How did the social structure and religious ideas of the Islamic world compare and contrast with those of India after the Aryan invasion?
Q4) Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock
Q5) How did the founding of Islam compare and contrast with that of the other major monotheistic religions?
Q6) 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'
Q7) Saladin was the Muslim leader who recaptured Jerusalem from the Christians in 1187.
A)True
B)False
Q8) majlis
Q9) Gabriel
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Chapter 8: Early Civilizations in Africa
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Q1) African art
A)consists only of poetry and sculpture.
B)is very limited, due to the fact that wood was the universal medium of artistic statement.
C)contains no other major examples of architectural achievement except the pyramids.
D)includes the impressively crafted, mortar-less structures at Great Zimbabwe.
E)appeared only with the coming of Islam.
Q2) What was the chief reason for migration of peoples in North Africa to go east and south to resettle?
A)Invasion by Egyptians.
B)Warfare among tribes in the the Sahalian kingdoms.
C)Egyptians dammed the Nile river and made settled agriculture impossible.
D)Drying up of the Saharan grasslands.
E)Trade connections with the Indian ocean network.
Q3) Nyame
Q4) Benin bronzes
Q5) Zagwe dynasty
Q6) Swahili
Q7) Mombasa, Zanzibar, and Mogadishu
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Chapter 9: The Expansion of Civilization in South and Southeast Asia
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Q1) What were the major religious differences between Indian religions and the arrival of Islam? How did this affect culture and economy?
Q2) In what way was Islam established in India? To what extent was this new religion able to gain converts from the indigenous Hindu and Buddhist populations? How did the introduction of Islam impact India's caste system?
Q3) The capital of the Gupta Dynasty under Chandragupta I was at A)Pataliputra.
B)Bactria.
C)Chang'an.
D)Bombay.
E)Delhi.
Q4) 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.
Q5) the Irrawaddy, the Salween, the Chao Phraya, and the Mekong
Q6) Theravada
Q7) Ajanta caves
Q8) Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon
Q9) Ellora rock temple Page 11
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Chapter 10: The Flowering of Traditional China
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Q1) Empress Wu
A)made a significant contribution to the civil service examination system.
B)achieved nothing positive during her rule.
C)deposed her courtiers at the age of 80 and went on to rule another eight years.
D)found a rationalization for her rule in a Daoist sutra.
E)was assassinated on her fortieth birthday.
Q2) compass and the sternpost rudder
Q3) scholar-gentry
Q4) Over the course of the three centuries after the fall of the Han and before the rise of the Sui Dynasty,
A)China experienced a period of tranquility and order.
B)Confucianism grew in popularity.
C)Buddhism developed a much wider following among the Chinese people.
D)Daoism disappeared in China.
E)Islam made its first appearance in China.
Q5) Song Taizu
Q6) The defeat of the Tang Dynasty was at the hands of the Uighur leader, Wu.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
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Q1) genin and eta
Q2) haiku
Q3) The Japanese creation myth
A)was identical to that of the ancient Sumerians.
B)stated that Kusaka and his daughter Krishnu had created the earth in two days and established Japan two months later.
C)involved the marriage of the god Izanagi and the goddess Izanami.
D)was discarded during the Heian period.
E)involved a great flood, similar to the stories of Gilgamesh and Noah.
Q4) 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.
Q5) Why did the Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese civilizations all adopt, to various ends, the Chinese System? Did this correlate to the presence of Buddhism? Why/not?
Q6) Onin War
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Chapter 12: The Making of Europe
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Q1) Participants in the Third Crusade included all of the following except A)Richard the Lionhearted.
B)Belisarius.
C)Saladin.
D)Frederick Barbarosa.
E)Philip II Augustus.
Q2) What were the causes and what were the consequences of the emergence of universities in the High Middle Ages?
Q3) the Mongols
Q4) Philip 2 Augustus of France accomplished all of the following except
A)he waged war successfully against the kings of England.
B)he became the Holy Roman Emperor.
C)he regained the provinces of Anjou, Normandy, and Aquitaine from the Plantagenets.
D)he established a royal bureaucracy.
E)he enlarged the power of the French monarchy.
Q5) Abbot Suger and the abbey of Saint-Denis
Q6) lords and vassals
Q7) Clovis and the Merovigians
Q8) Philip IV the fair and the Estates-General
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Chapter 13: The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery in the
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Q1) the Habsburgs
Q2) Pope Boniface V2I
Q3) The Mongols
A)facilitated the spread of the plague with the creation of its Silk Road empire.
B)stopped the spread of the plague to China, but allowed it to decimate the West.
C)stopped the spread of the plague to the West, but allowed it to decimate China.
D)were immune from the Yersinia pestis.
E)captured Constantinople.
Q4) By the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French gained victory because of A)cannon and gunpowder.
B)the crossbow.
C)the longbow.
D)heavily armored cavalry.
E)German mercenaries.
Q5) Justinian
Q6) "little ice age"
Q7) Ivan 2I
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Chapter 14: New Encounters: the Creation of a World Market
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Q1) Compare and contrast slavery in Africa before the sixteenth century to African slavery after the arrival of the Europeans. What are the continuities, if any, and what are the differences?
Q2) What factors are attributed to the expansion of European exploration in the fifteenth century, and how did their influence come to dominate the regions of the Americas, Africa, and Southeast Asia?
Q3) Francisco Pizarro
Q4) sternpost rudder, compass, and astrolabe
Q5) 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?
Q6) The African slave trade
A)was fundamentally altered by the French in the late 1400s.
B)involved the forcible movement of millions of African slaves overseas.
C)involved the deaths of less than one percent of those leaving West African ports before they arrived at a new home in the Americas.
D)began practices never before seen in Africa.
E)solved the labor shortage challenge in European agriculture.
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Chapter 15: Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building
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Q1) A significant characteristic of the commercialism in the seventeenth century was
A)English imports came almost exclusively from the East Indies.
B)the shift to a global economy.
C)the prosperity of a nation depended on the amount of colonies it held.
D)the development of a laissez-faire philosophy.
E)imported products were beginning to filter down to merchants and artisans.
Q2) "predestination"
Q3) Henry V2I and the Act of Supremacy
Q4) the Puritans, Oliver Cromwell, and the New Model Army
Q5) What were the main tenets of Lutheranism, Calvinism, and Anabaptism? How did they differ from one another and from Catholicism? Discuss the most significant individuals and events involved in the rise of Protestantism in Germany, Switzerland, and England.
Q6) divine-right theory and absolutism
Q7) Which two denominations of Protestantism were found in Switzerland ?
A)Lutheranism and Calvinism.
B)Presbyterianism and Zwinglism.
C)Anglicanism and Lutheranism.
D)Zwinglianism and Calvinism.
E)Anabaptism and Calvinism.
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Chapter 16: The Muslim Empires
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Q2) The first Mughal emperor, Babur, was descended from both Tamerlane and Genghis Khan.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Ottoman religious policy
A)applied Islamic law to everyone in the empire.
B)required all Shi'ite Muslims to convert to Sunni Islam.
C)was more tolerant of Hindu beliefs than the Mughal Dynasty.
D)had converted all of its European subjects except Serbs and Greeks to Islam by 1700.
E)placed the members of each religious group under a patriarch, priest, or grand rabbi, who served in an intermediary capacity in governmental matters affecting his group.
Q4) Akbar was known for his attempt to reconcile Hinduism and Buddhism within Afghanistan.
A)True
B)False
Q5) "red heads"
Q6) millet
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Chapter 17: The East Asian World
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Q1) fudai and tozama daimyo
Q2) Probably the best-known artistic achievements of the Ming era were the famous A)court paintings of the artists of Yangzhou.
B)silk masterpieces of the chinoiserie.
C)blue-and-white porcelain objects.
D)intricately carved lacquerware in bold shapes and colored cloisonné.
E)jade jewelry works.
Q3) The most powerful and lengthiest of all Japanese shogunates was begun by A)Iza Shotoku.
B)Oda Nobunaga.
C)Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
D)Tokugawa Ieyasu.
E)Heidekei Hokkaido.
Q4) Which of the following is NOT a counterpoint to the argument that China was poised to be move into the industrial age?
A)There was a healthy respect for the merchant class in Chinese society.
B)Manufacturing and trade remained under control of the State.
C)Success was seen as accomplishing a career in the government bureaucracy.
D)Heavier taxes were levied on manufacture than agriculture.
E)The commercial middle class had little influence at court.
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Chapter 18: The West on the Eve of a New World Order
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Q1) In line with mercantilist theory,
A)governments had nothing to do regarding trade and manufacturing policies.
B)Latin American countries traded exclusively with their "mother" countries.
C)Latin American colonies were encouraged to manufacture.
D)American colonies were viewed as sources of raw materials and markets by Europeans.
E)the production of heavy industrial products was instituted in Mexico in 1734.
Q2) Napoleon's Civil Code
Q3) 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
Q4) John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Q5) Catherine the Great
Q6) rentiers
Q7) enlightened despotism
Q8) Napoleon Bonaparte
Q9) "Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen" Page 21
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Chapter 19: The Beginnings of Modernization:
Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century
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Q1) Government financial aid to industries
A)was a basic element of industrialization on the continent.
B)was most extensive, by far, in the United States.
C)did not develop in Europe before the 1870s.
D)was not a factor in the industrialization on the European continent.
E)was opposed by the major powers, meeting at the Congress of Vienna.
Q2) Concert of Europe
Q3) The first steam-powered locomotive was pioneered by
A)Richard Trevithick.
B)Elihu Babbage.
C)James Watt.
D)George Stephenson.
E)Edmund Cartwright.
Q4) Congress of Vienna
Q5) The steam engine was developed by
A)Edmund Cartwright.
B)James Hargreaves.
C)Henry Cort.
D)James Watt.
E)Hans Krieger.
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Chapter 20: The Americas and Society and Culture in the West
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Q1) Was the United States Civil War both the force that ended slavery and, by aiding nationalism, the factor that led to the rise of its imperialism a generation later? Why and how, or why not and how not?
Q2) Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovery
Q3) A central characteristic of all Romantic painting was a A)desire to have art avoid the artist's inner emotions.
B)desire to create art that showed the artist's inner feelings.
C)desire to reflect classical timelessness.
D)hatred of emotional influence.
E)an objective portrayal of the "real" world.
Q4) The artistic group at the turn of the century that argued than an objective knowledge of the world was impossible was the
A)symbolists
B)expressionists
C)fauvists
D)impressionists
E)cubists
Q5) the Pankhursts and the WSPU
Q6) Spanish-American War
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Chapter 21: The High Tide of Imperialism
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Q1) The Philippine guerrilla leader who failed to thwart the United States conquest was
A)Antonio Celino.
B)Antonio Barbosa.
C)Emilio Aguinaldo.
D)Ferdinand Marcos.
E)Mongkut Chulalongkorn.
Q2) One of the primary factors that changed the relationship of Europeans in the Imperial age was the Industrial Revolution.
A)True
B)False
Q3) French colonial policy in Indochina began as one of assimilation, but switched to association.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland
Q5) Enfield rifles
Q6) clitoridectomy
Q7) Ram Mohan Roy's Brahmo Samaj
Q8) Cecil Rhodes
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Chapter 22: Shadows Over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge
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Q1) The United States Secretary of State who proposed the Open Door Policy was
A)Robert LaFollette.
B)John Marshall.
C)Richard Olney.
D)John Hay.
E)Theodore Roosevelt.
Q2) Japanese culture during the Meiji Restoration
A)was unaffected by foreign influences, unlike the economic and governmental areas of Japanese life.
B)was characterized by a period of fascination with Western art, followed by a period of reaction, during which artists searched for authentic Japanese modes of statement.
C)included poetry influenced by Abstract Expressionism and Classic Romanticism.
D)was ignored by European and North American artists and writers.
E)was entirely inspired by recent Chinese models.
Q3) In spite of the democratic form of Japan's Constitution of 1890, the nation remained under the control of a ruling oligarchy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Boxer Rebellion
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Chapter 23: The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis:
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Q1) What were the long-range and immediate causes of World War I? How and why did the events of the late spring and summer of 1914 ultimately move beyond the ability of governmental leaders to control?
Q2) The treaty negotiated by the US, Britain, and France to conclude World War I with Germany was the Treaty of
A)Nerchinsk
B)Versailles
C)Portsmouth
D)Locarno
E)Brest-Litovsk
Q3) In early November 1917, Lenin's Bolsheviks
A)staged the Sverdlovsk Massacre in Kiev.
B)killed the tsar.
C)successfully took power from the Provisional Government in a coup.
D)established the White army.
E)created the Council of Soviets.
Q4) "World War I was a revolutionary war." Discuss.
Q5) New Economic Policy (NEP)
Q6) Hollywood studio system
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Q1) the Guomindang, Sun Yat-sen, and Chiang Kai-shek
Q2) 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.
Q3) Palestine and Saudi Arabia
Q4) Mao Zedong and the CCP
Q5) "Chinese society was simply too large, both in area and population, and too disorganized by decades of mismanagement under the Manchus, to permit the Guomindang, or any other entity, to effectively govern it during the interwar period." Discuss, pro and con.
Q6) Government of India Act
Q7) 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?
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Q8) warlords
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Chapter 25: The Crisis Deepens: World War 2
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Q2) Hitler Jugend
Q3) History's greatest naval invasion occurred on June 6, 1944, when the Allies landed in Normandy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which political leader told military leaders in 1933 that he wanted to remove the "cancer of democracy" from their society?
A)Benito Mussolini
B)Mao Zedong
C)Francisco Franco
D)Adolf Hitler
E)General Franco
Q5) the "Final Solution," the Holocaust, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Zyklon B
Q6) Which of the following was not part of Japanese expectations and war strategy?
A)formal alliance with Germany
B)total destruction of the United States Pacific Fleet
C)American acquiescence to Japanese Pacific hegemony
D)the American public's support for Franklin Roosevelt's policy of war on Japan
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E)the self-indulgent American propensity to avoid going to war
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Chapter 26: East and West in the Grip of the Cold War
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Q2) "Peaceful coexistence"
A)was a term first coined by Joseph Stalin in the 1940s.
B)was first used by Sun Yat-sen in 1921.
C)was treated with suspicion by United States leaders, especially after the Soviet crushing of the unrest in Hungary in 1956.
D)delayed the development of cultural exchanges of theatrical and other groups.
E)was eagerly embraced by President Truman as an alternative to nuclear war.
Q3) "Star Wars" was John F. Kennedy's plan to send men to the moon by the end of the 1960s.
A)True
B)False
Q4) 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?
Q5) "Vietnam syndrome"
Q6) "soft on communism"
Q7) Yalta Conference
Q8) the Strategic Defense Initiative/"Star Wars"
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Chapter 27: Brave New World: Communism on Trial
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Q1) Joseph Stalin
A)inaugurated a benevolent stage of governmental policy with his Stalingrad speech in 1946.
B)continued his reliance on the terror apparatus, including the holding of about 9,000,000 Soviet citizens in Siberian concentration camps.
C)named his protégé, Andrei Zhdanov, as his successor.
D)denounced Lenin at the Thirtieth Party Congress.
E)pursued a policy of peaceful coexistence with the West in 1948.
Q2) "Science and Democracy"
Q3) Red Guards
Q4) from "Serve the people" to "Create wealth for the people"
Q5) perestroika and glasnost
Q6) de-Stalinization
Q7) Mikhail Gorbachev
Q8) Which of the following occurred when Nikita Khrushchev was in power?
A)the Berlin Airlift
B)the Afghanistan occupation
C)the enunciation of the Carter-Khrushchev Accord
D)the Twentieth National Congress speech
E)the Korean War
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Chapter 28: Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945
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Q1) How has Western society changed due to the growth of permissiveness, changes in the status of women, and the emergence of modern terrorism in the last thirty years? Which has had the deepest impact, and why?
Q2) Because of the feminist movement, by the 1960s, working-class women were making salaries equal to those of men performing equivalent work.
A)True
B)False
Q3) "the consumer society"
Q4) Willi Brandt and Ostpolitik
Q5) 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.
Q6) 1968 student massacre in Tlaltelolco Squire
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Q7) 1972 Munich Olympic Games, the Irish Republican Army, Pan Am flight 103, Lockerbie, Scotland
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Chapter 29: Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East
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A)the population has been reduced, which has slowed economic growth.
B)the shortage of agricultural land forced Kenyans to migrate to Saudi Arabia to find better farmland.
C)the government of President Moi publicly praised the novelist Ngugi Wo Thiong'o and published his work in the Kikuyu language.
D)capitalism is the dominant economic system.
E)the ANC called for the ouster of President Moi.
Q2) Iran's Mohammad Khatami and Muhmmad Ahmadinejad
Q3) Palestinian refugees
Q4) AIDS
Q5) Nigeria's Christians and Muslims
Q6) The term in which Western domination was maintained primarily by economic rather than political or military means was:
A)pan-Africanism
B)decolonization
C)neo-colonialism
D)capitalism
E)non-settlement
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Chapter 30: Toward the Pacific Century
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Q2) General Pervaiz Musharraf, the Taliban, and al-Qaeda
Q3) The first female president in South Korea was
A)Park Guen-hye
B)Park Chung-he
C)Cho Song-ye
D)Choi Jun-ho
E)Lee Jung-hye
Q4) Unlike the other economies of East Asia, Hong Kong's economic development has taken place in a system employing
A)unrestrained, free-market capitalism.
B)direct state control of the economic sector.
C)Communist Chinese support.
D)massive British foreign aid programs.
E)a socialist economic philosophy.
Q5) Petronas Towers
Q6) India's enforced sterilization
Q7) West Pakistan and East Pakistan/Bangladesh
Q8) Douglas MacArthur
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Q9) chaebol (Samsung, Daewoo, Hyundai)
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