World Civilizations: Past and Present Exam Practice Tests
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World Civilizations: Past and Present explores the social, political, economic, and cultural development of societies across the globe from ancient times to the modern era. The course examines the growth of major civilizations, their interactions through trade, conquest, and migration, and their contributions to world history. Through comparative analysis, students will gain an understanding of the factors that have shaped human societies and their enduring influence on contemporary global issues, fostering a deeper appreciation for cultural diversity and interconnectedness.
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Chapter 1: Early Humans and the First Civilizations
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Q1) hominids
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q2) Unlike Mesopotamia's rivers, the flooding of Egypt's Nile was gradual and usually predictable, and the river seen as life-enhancing rather than life-threatening.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) hieroglyphs
Answer: Hieroglyphs are a form of writing used by the ancient Egyptians. They are a combination of logographic and alphabetic elements, with each symbol representing a word, sound, or concept. Hieroglyphs were used for religious texts, official inscriptions, and monumental art, and were often carved into stone or written on papyrus. The writing system was deciphered in the early 19th century, unlocking a wealth of knowledge about ancient Egyptian culture, history, and language. Today, hieroglyphs continue to fascinate and inspire people around the world, and they are an important part of our understanding of ancient civilizations.
Q4) Homo sapiens
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 2: Ancient India
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Q1) The earliest of the Vedas was the A)Brahmanas.
B)Upanishads.
C)Rig Veda.
D)Ramayana.
E)Bodhiyara.
Answer: C
Q2) Ashoka
A)was the founder of Jainism.
B)was the only Indian emperor who tried to foster trade.
C)changed his personal values and governmental policies after becoming a Buddhist.
D)sent Buddhist missionaries to China and Japan to instruct the people.
E)was a vaisya.
Answer: C
Q3) dharma
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q4) sati
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 3: China in Antiquity
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Q1) Confucius' interest in philosophy was essential theological and transcendent.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The major nomadic threat to the Qin came from the A)Xiongnu.
B)Mongols.
C)Manchus.
D)Han.
E)Jin.
Answer: A
Q3) Inscriptions on ox and chicken bones or turtle shells were used for divination and to communicate with the gods.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) "loess"
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q5) Legalism
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 4: The Civilization of the Greeks
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Q1) The earliest Aegean civilization was located
A)in the Peloponnesus.
B)on the island of Delos.
C)in Attica.
D)on Crete.
E)in Macedonia.
Q2) How did the Greek perceptions of the world change under the Hellenistic system of Alexander, compared to earlier under the Hellenic? What significant changes were made that altered Greece's participation in the world order?
Q3) oligarchy and democracy
Q4) The moral of Sophocles' play Oedipus was
A)that although one cannot avoid the fate of the gods, one's own actions bear personal responsibility.
B)adhering to a "higher law" to bury her brother meant that Antigone had to break Athenian law.
C)evil acts breed evil deeds, and Orestes was not wrong to avenge his father.
D)women should be granted more legal rights and status, or Medea would not have harmed her children.
E)that Lysistrata could organize women and show the foolishness of war.
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Q1) In reaction to the overwhelming influence of Greek philosophy, the Romans turned to Etruscan and Egyptian models for inspiration in artistic matters.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Tiber River
Q3) Senate
Q4) tribunes
Q5) Octavian/Augustus
Q6) Which of the following was NOT a Greek influence on the Romans?
A)democracy
B)alphabet
C)agricultural crops of grapes and olives
D)artistic models of sculpture and architecture
E)literature
Q7) Byzantium/Constantinople
Q8) The Edict of Milan (313 C.E.) was an attempt to outlaw Christianity and bring back the worship of the old Roman gods.
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Chapter 6: The Americas
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Q1) The Inka had no writing system, but kept records using a system of knotted strings called quipu.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What probably caused the decline of Teotihaucan?
A) Invasion of competing tribes.
B)Collapse of the Olmec civilization.
C)Earthquakes.
D)Volcanic eruption.
E)Agricultural crises.
Q3) Who was the supreme deity among the Aztec pantheon?
A)Siva
B)Tlaloc
C)Quetzalcoatl
D)Huitzilopochtli
E)Ometeotl
Q4) Lake Texcoco
Q5) Pyramid of the Sun
Q6) Moche
Q7) Mexica
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Chapter 7: Ferment in the Middle East: the Rise of Islam
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Q1) The Persian empire which experienced defeats at the hands of the Arab armies was the
A)Sassanid.
B)Umayyad.
C)Abbasid.
D)Fatimid.
E)Mongol.
Q2) Consider the relative contributions of Arab, Turk, and Persian cultures to Islamic literature, art, and architecture.
Q3) Mu'awiya and Umayyad Caliphate and Damascus
Q4) The capital of the Abbasid empire was A)Damascus.
B)Persepolis.
C)Tehran.
D)Baghdad.
E)Mecca.
Q5) Discuss Islam as a preserver and a conduit of the culture and intellectual heritage of Graeco-Roman civilization.
Q6) mihrab and the muezzin
Q7) umma
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Chapter 8: Early Civilizations in Africa
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Q1) matrilinear
Q2) The great river that dominates the western region of Africa, the so-called "hump of Africa," is the
A)Nile.
B)Niger.
C)Congo.
D)Zaire.
E)Zambeze.
Q3) Great Zimbabwe
Q4) Before Islam developed in Africa,
A)most of the continent, aside from Egypt and Axum, did not have organized religions.
B)most African societies already had well-developed systems of religious belief.
C)the Ashanti worshiped a supreme god, Siva.
D)all Africans were agnostics.
E)Christianity had a strong presence in the far south of the continent.
Q5) Mansa Musa
Q6) What were some of the possible factors that inhibited the growth of civilized "states" in southern Africa?
Q7) Luba and Kongo
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Chapter 9: The Expansion of Civilization in South and Southeast Asia
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Q1) The Southeast Asian mainland kingdom formed in the ninth century was A)Nubia.
B)Angkor.
C)Champa.
D)Malaya.
E)Sukhothai.
Q2) purdah
Q3) Dandin's The Ten Princes
Q4) Delhi sultanate
Q5) Mahmud of Ghazni
Q6) Nanak
A)was the last Mongol invader to successfully control the entire Indian subcontinent.
B)was the favorite bodhisattva of the Mahayana Buddhists.
C)renounced the Zoroastrian tradition of asceticism.
D)founded a new religious movement, although he had originally tried to integrate Hindu and Muslim ideas and practices.
E)conquered Delhi.
Q7) Fa Xian and Xuan Zang
Q8) Chola and Pallava
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Chapter 10: The Flowering of Traditional China
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Q1) The name given to the Asian region northwest of traditional China that was pacified by the Tang was
A)Xinjiang.
B)Korea.
C)Japan.
D)Silla.
E)Bactria.
Q2) Which of the following statements is not a valid observation about the Sui Dynasty?
A)It employed Buddhism as a unifying force in the country.
B)It was responsible for the building of the Grand Canal, connecting the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers.
C)It permanently incorporated Korea into the Chinese domain.
D)It came to an abrupt end with the assassination of its emperor.
E)Its policies helped the lower Yangtze region become a major part of China's economy.
Q3) Li Bo and Du Fu
Q4) Kaifeng
Q5) Song Taizu
Q6) Temuchin/Genghis Khan
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Chapter 11: The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
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Q1) haiku
Q2) Murasaki Shikibu"s The Tale of Genji
Q3) No
A)had plots that usually focused on stories from Japanese history and legend.
B)was the product of various Asian art forms.
C)employed the use of disguise, music, and dance.
D)resembled Greek drama in that the performers wore masks.
E)all of the above
Q4) Trace the development of government in Korea from the era of the three kingdoms through the establishment of the post-Yuan Yi Dynasty. How did local and Chinese ideas and institutions influence this development?
Q5) Ainu
Q6) Yamato plain and Yamato clan
Q7) The move of the Imperial power to Heian was an attempt to escape the oppressive influence of
A)Shoguns
B)imperial ministries
C)the Fujiwara clan
D)Buddhist monasteries
E)Samurai
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Chapter 12: The Making of Europe
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Q1) Which of the following was not characteristic of Romanesque architecture?
A)barrel vaults
B)flying buttresses
C)massive pillars and walls
D)dark on the inside
E)gave the impression of a fortress
Q2) The principality of Kiev was founded by
A)Central Asian Mongols.
B)Scandinavian Vikings.
C)Byzantines from Constantinople.
D)the Germanic Holy Roman Emperors.
E)Hungarian Magyars.
Q3) St. Thomas Aquinas and scholasticism
Q4) The English king most responsible for establishing the "common law" was
A)William of Normandy.
B)Philip Augustus.
C)Frederick II.
D)Henry II.
E)John.
Q5) the traditional liberal arts
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Chapter 13: The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery in
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Q1) Greek fire
Q2) What were the causes, effects, and most significant events of the Hundred Years' War? Did the Hundred Years' War differ in any manner from earlier medieval warfare? If so, how and why?
Q3) All of the following were true of the political recovery of the fifteenth century in Europe except
A)centralized monarchies gained strength in western Europe.
B)centralized monarchies gained strength in Germanic central Europe.
C)decentralized government became typical in eastern and central Europe.
D)the "new monarchies" greatly aided in stabilizing France, Spain, and England.
E)Henry VII's cautious policies had made England solvent and stable by 1500.
Q4) Mehmet 2 the Conqueror
Q5) Latin Empire of Constantinople
Q6) The Byzantine theme
A)combined military and civil authority in one person.
B)was a military strategy relying upon Greek fire.
C)was the time, or the theme, during which the Eastern Roman Empire became known as the Byzantine Empire.
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D)was a self-sufficient organization of peasants in Anatolia.
E)was the master plan for the rebuilding Constantinople under Justinian.
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Chapter 14: New Encounters: the Creation of a World Market
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Q1) Marco Polo's Travels
Q2) The Spanish prohibited intermarriage of Europeans and indigenous Americans. A)True
B)False
Q3) The end of the fifteenth century marked the rediscovery of the Western hemisphere by Asia.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Treaty of Tordesillas
Q5) Europeans embarked on expansionist voyages for all of the following except A)there was a potential for economic gain through increased world trade.
B)some desired to spread Christianity to other parts of the world.
C)a spirit of adventure.
D)fear that Islam would occupy the rest of the world if Christendom did not.
E)intellectual curiosity.
Q6) Afrikaans
Q7) Because of the harsh environment, Islam had little impact in West Africa.
A)True
B)False
Q8) Malacca
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Chapter 15: Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building
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Q1) divine-right theory and absolutism
Q2) The Thirty Years' War
A)was, fortunately, limited to a small area in southeastern Bohemia.
B)was the first major war of the Renaissance Era.
C)ultimately insured that the Holy Roman Emperor would determine the Empire's religious policies and that there would be just one, all-German church.
D)was ended by the signing of the Peace of Westphalia.
E)was fought between France and the Ottoman Empire.
Q3) Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Q4) Which of the following was not a result of the development of printing in Europe?
A)Research and learning increased.
B)Standard textbooks were developed.
C)More people began to read.
D)Chinese influence over European affairs rose sharply because of their invention of paper.
E)It played a major role in the Protestant Reformation.
Q5) joint-stock company
Q6) Francis Xavier and Matteo Ricci
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Chapter 16: The Muslim Empires
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Q1) "gunpowder empires"
Q2) The impact of Turkish rule on the peoples of North Africa was relatively light.
A)True
B)False
Q3) All of the following are correct about India's zamindars EXCEPT
A)they were local officials.
B)they were paid by international trade revenues collected by the Mughal emperor.
C)their salaries were from land taxes paid by peasants.
D)some were Hindus but most were Moslems.
E)they had both civilian and military retainers, thus had considerable local power.
Q4) Empress Nur Jahan became the power behind the throne for her weak husband
A)Humayan
B)Aurangzeb
C)Jahan
D)Jangahir
E)Babur
Q5) purdah
Q6) Suleyman I the Magnificent
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Chapter 17: The East Asian World
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Q1) Zhu Yuanzhang
Q2) The samurai reached the apex of the military prowess and influence during the Tokugawa shogunate.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In comparing Mongol and Manchu rule in China, it can be accurately stated that the
A)Mongols were more successful than the Manchus.
B)Manchus were more successful than the Mongols.
C)Mongols were better at adapting to the ways of the Chinese than the Manchus.
D)Manchus produced a system of government in China in which there was absolutely no distinction made for Manchurian identification.
E)both succumbed to new invaders from the Asian steppes.
Q4) woodblock prints
Q5) After the expulsion of Christian missionaries and other Westerners, the Japanese allowed only the Dutch access to Japan.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Why was the economic development of Japan more prolific than China?
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Chapter 18: The West on the Eve of a New World Order
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Q1) Robert Clive
Q2) Descartes became famous for his statement in Discourse on Method, "I think, therefore I am."
A)True
B)False
Q3) How did European ideas about the natures of, and the relationships between, science and religion change during the seventeenth century? Were these changes restricted to just the intellectual classes? Why or why not? What changes occurred in the European economy in the eighteenth century, and to what degree were these changes reflected in social patterns?
Q4) Which astronomer argued for an elliptical motion of the planets around the sun?
A)Nicholas Copernicus
B)Ttycho Brahe
C)Isaac Newton
D)Johannes Kepler
E)Galileo Galilei
Q5) Declaration of Independence
Q6) geocentric and heliocentric
Q7) Isaac Newton's Principia
Q8) the Third Estate
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Chapter 19: The Beginnings of Modernization:
Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century
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Q1) Industrial development in the United States before 1870
A)made no real impression on either the society or the economy.
B)included an efficient transportation network.
C)had Asian immigrants making up over half of the factory labor until the 1850s.
D)depended upon slave labor in the factories.
E)was mainly a development of the southern states.
Q2) In Self Help, Samuel Smiles espoused the belief that
A)the poor were able to be divided into "deserving" and "undeserving" poor based on their choices.
B)the government had an obligation to provide the basic standards of living to all citizens.
C)people succeeded through their own efforts and moral behavior.
D)laissez-faire applied to social constructs as well as economic, and the government shouldn't intervene.
E)none of these.
Q3) Klemens von Metternich and the "principle of legitimacy"
Q4) Louis-Philippe
Q5) utopian socialists and Robert Owen
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Q6) Emperor William 2 of Germany and Germany's "place in the sun"
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Chapter 20: The Americas and Society and Culture in the West
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Q1) 1789 U.S. Constitution
Q2) "mass society"
Q3) Charles Darwin presented a theory of evolution that
A)claimed humans were aggregations of atomic attraction and radiomagnetic induction.
B)stated that all living things are involved in a struggle to survive.
C)excluded human beings from the process of natural selection.
D)strengthened the concept of the universe possessing purpose and design.
E)made human beings unique entities in the natural world.
Q4) Which of the following was an Impressionist artist?
A)Berthe Morisot
B)Vincent van Gogh
C)Gustav Dore
D)Pablo Picasso
E)Caspar David Friedrich
Q5) In what way did the independence movements of Latin America mirror those of the European and American movements? How did the class structures of Latin America compare to those of the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, and how that that affect political movements?
Q6) Realism
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Chapter 21: The High Tide of Imperialism
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Q2) the VOC
Q3) Based on British reforms in India, why is colonialism seen in both a positive and a negative light? Use Macauley's justification for teaching English (p. 610) as a point of engagement when structuring your argument.
Q4) "white man's burden"
Q5) Boers/Afrikaners
Q6) Though idealistic, the stated goal of British indirect rule in Africa was
A)to introduce British educational institutions.
B)to preserve African political institutions.
C)to replace tribal government with constitutional democracy.
D)to "divide and conquer".
E)to mitigate French, Belgian, and German influence on the continent.
Q7) Was Western imperialism an inevitable result of the Industrial Revolution? Why or why not?
Q8) "shanghaied"
Q9) Zanzibar and the slave trade
Q10) association v. assimilation
Q11) the Mahdi and Charles "Chinese" Gordon Page 29
Q12) Indochinese Union
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Chapter 22: Shadows Over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge
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Q1) All of the following were true about the "Sat-Cho" alliance except that it
A)was militarily "punished" for firing on foreign shipping.
B)was, at first, against the Japanese opening to the West.
C)produced a rebellion that ended the shogunate and brought about the Meiji Restoration.
D)never accepted the fact that Japan had to begin to modernize in order to survive.
E)had a strong military tradition.
Q2) China's "last emperor" was
A)Mao Zedong.
B)Guangxu.
C)Kuang Hsu.
D)Puyi.
E)Yuan Shikai.
Q3) Puyi
Q4) Wang Tao v. Zhang Zhidong
Q5) Japanese industrial development in the late nineteenth century was accomplished without significant government involvement.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 23: The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis:
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Q1) the Schlieffen Plan
Q2) The crisis stemming from German non-payment of its 1922 reparations installment
A)caused Britain to send troops into the Ruhr to collect the payments in kind.
B)led to severe hyperinflation, as Germany's "passive resistance" made the mark worthless.
C)led the Soviet Union to annex Upper Siberia in lieu of "reparations due."
D)resulted in a successful Bolshevik revolution in Germany.
E)led to the invasion of Poland by the German army.
Q3) Address the validity of the debate among historians that World War I was really a "global" event.
Q4) Among the major factors leading to the outbreak of war in mid-1914 was
A)Nationalism and internal dissent.
B)German leaders' determination to end Danish opposition to construction of a huge naval base at Kiel.
C)Japan's determination to seize either United States or German colonies in the Pacific, leading to the Japanese declaration of war against Germany in mid-August 1914.
D)Russia's unexpected attack on Serbia and Bulgaria in late June 1914.
E)the assassination of the heir to the Russian Empire.
Q5) Defense of the Realm Act (DORA)
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Chapter 24: Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship:
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Q1) Burma's Thakin and the Dutch East Indies' Sarekat Islam
Q2) T.E. Lawrence
Q3) The Young Turks
A)were the victims of bad timing, as minority unrest in the Balkans caused the army to step in as well as the desire for ethnic Turks for a Turkish state.
B)were motivated primarily by Islamic zeal.
C)borrowed at least some their ideas from the earlier "Young Greek" movement.
D)established modern Turkey.
E)were exiled to Algeria.
Q4) Republic of Turkey
Q5) 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.
Q6) satyagraha
Q7) Hasan al-Bana and the Muslim Brotherhood
Q8) Palestine and Saudi Arabia
Q9) the Nanjing Republic
Q10) Shidehara Diplomacy
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Q12) warlords
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Chapter 25: The Crisis Deepens: World War 2
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Q1) Beer Hall Putsch
Q2) "Monroe Doctrine for Asia"
Q3) Marco Polo Bridge
Q4) the "Final Solution," the Holocaust, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Zyklon B
Q5) 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
Q6) Einsatzgruppen
Q7) What socio-economic factors carried during the period after World War I to create conditions ripe for the rise of fascism? What appeal did totalitarianism have to the people of western Europe? Why did no one raise concerns about the insidious underpinnings?
Q8) Rome-Berlin Axis and the Anti-Comintern Pact
Q9) "Asia for the Asians"
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Q10) Nuremberg rallies and Nuremberg laws
Q11) Kristallnacht
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Chapter 26: East and West in the Grip of the Cold War
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Q1) The first threat of a U. S.-Soviet confrontation took place in
A)Estonia
B)Cuba
C)Yugoslavia
D)Czechoslovakia
E)Iran
Q2) 1968 Prague Spring
Q3) United States foreign policy during the Korean War period
A)was unable to get formal United Nations support for South Korea when invaded in June 1950.
B)reluctantly supported the modified and limited return of 30,000 Japanese troops to the Korean peninsula to help rebuff North Korean forces.
C)became more determined to block Western contact with the Chinese government.
D)provided support for the invasion of the Chinese mainland by Nationalist forces from Taiwan.
E)saw the creation of an alliance with Soviet Russia to restrain Mao Zedong's ambitions.
Q4) Truman Doctrine
Q5) 38th parallel
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Chapter 27: Brave New World: Communism on Trial
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Q1) Which of the following was not characteristic of Soviet society during the Brezhnev years?
A)A more restrictive attitude toward dissidents.
B)An educational system focusing on rote memorization and political indoctrination.
C)Preventing the Soviet people from exposure to harmful foreign ideas, including rock music.
D)A restriction of free expression.
E)A disregard for law and order.
Q2) Among the greatest failures of the process of collectivization in China was
A)trying to convert desert and undesireable land into arable plots.
B)reinforcing the traditional family unit as a newly-conceived economic unit instead.
C)the starvation of up to 35 million people.
D)brutal suppression of the private market as sabotage of the revolution.
E)the ability to transition to a free market economy.
Q3) Nikita Khrushchev
Q4) Tiananmen Square, 1989
Q5) "people's communes"
Q6) de-Stalinization
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Chapter 28: Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945
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Q1) Organization of American States (OAS)
Q2) What problems has Latin America faced since 1945, and what role has Marxist ideology played in their efforts to solve these problems? Have the major social and economic changes in Latin American societies made them more or less alike? Is it still accurate to treat them individually, or is it now more appropriate to analyze them regionally? Why or why not, in the light of developments since 1945?
Q3) 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.
Q4) personal computer and the Internet
Q5) Charles de Gaulle returned to power in France as a result of the crisis in Vietnam.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Pierre Trudeau
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Chapter 29: Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East
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Q1) The Egyptian novelist who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988 was
A)Muhammad Fawzi.
B)Muammar Qadhafi.
C)Naguib Mahfouz.
D)Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
E)Khalil Gibran.
Q2) "African form of socialism"
Q3) Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini
Q4) Kenya and capitalism
Q5) In 1993, President de Klerk agreed with Nelson Mandela to implement
A)immediate and total National Party control until the ANC had greater experience in governing such a diverse society.
B)a transitional period in which representatives of the National Party and the ANC would be cabinet members.
C)democratic national elections.
D)a temporary dictatorship which combined representatives of both parties.
E)a voting system which was restricted to those who could both read and write.
Q6) Saddam Hussein and Kuwait
Q7) apartheid
Q8) Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy Page 40
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Chapter 30: Toward the Pacific Century
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Q1) Who was the first prime minister of India?
A)Mahatma Gandhi
B)Jawaharlal Nehru
C)Muhammed Ali Jinnah
D)Indira Gandhi
E)Moraji Desai
Q2) The country that suffered a domestic holocaust at the hands of the Khmer Rouge is
A)Thailand.
B)Cambodia.
C)Laos.
D)Burma.
E)Indonesia.
Q3) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and A. B. Vajpayee
Q4) communalism
Q5) the Pacific Century?
Q6) Republic of China (Taiwan)
Q7) Benazir Bhutto
Q8) chaebol (Samsung, Daewoo, Hyundai)
Q9) ANZUS
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