World Societies Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
World Societies explores the diverse cultures, social structures, and historical developments that have shaped civilizations across the globe. The course examines key themes such as social organization, belief systems, economic exchange, political institutions, and cultural interactions from ancient times to the present. Through comparative analysis and critical inquiry, students gain an understanding of how societies have evolved in response to internal dynamics and contact with others, fostering a deeper appreciation for global interconnectedness and the complexities of human experience.
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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) Çatal Hüyük
Answer: Çatal Hüyük is an ancient Neolithic site located in present-day Turkey. It is one of the oldest and largest known settlements in the world, dating back to around 7500 BCE. The site is known for its well-preserved houses, which were built close together and accessed by ladders through the roofs. The people of Çatal Hüyük were early farmers and herders, and they practiced a religion that involved the worship of goddess figures and the use of elaborate wall paintings and sculptures. The site also provides evidence of early trade and craftsmanship, with artifacts such as obsidian tools and pottery being found. Çatal Hüyük is considered an important archaeological site for understanding the development of early human societies and the transition to settled agricultural lifestyles.
Q2) Which of the following is a true statement?
A)The Akkadian Empire achieved no expansion, but endured for a thousand years.
B)Ur produced total Mesopotamian disintegration.
C)The Amorites, under the leadership of Hammurabi, replaced the Sumerians and Akkadians as rulers of Mesopotamia.
D)Hammurabi eliminated all aspects of Sumerian culture in Mesopotamian life.
E)Sumer was established by the Hyksos.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Ancient India
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Q1) The basic social organization of the jati was formed around one's
A)caste
B)occupation
C)kin group
D)location
E)none of these
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following was the most significant factor of Chandragupta Maurya's reign?
A)His alliance with Alexander the Great
B)His adoption of Buddhism
C)His centralization of the first unified empire in India
D)His production of sacred texts including the Upanishads
E)His engagement in long-distance trade with the Roman Empire.
Answer: C
Q3) After the fall of the Mauryan dynasty, the Indian subcontinent was immediately reunified under the Gupta dynasty.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: China in Antiquity
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Q1) Confucius
A)was a cousin of Siddhartha Gautama.
B)was deified by the Chinese government within five years after his death.
C)assumed that all humans had their own Dao.
D)was a Qin emperor.
E)followed a Legalist philosophy.
Answer: C
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
Q3) Legalism
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q4) Confucius' interest in philosophy was essential theological and transcendent.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: The Civilization of the Greeks
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Q1) the Greek Dark Ages
Q2) arete
Q3) Early Mycenaean civilization was based on which political rule?
A)centralized monarchy
B)regional monarchy
C)warrior oligarchy
D)theocracy
E)democracy
Q4) The individual generally credited with transforming Sparta into a military state was Lycurgus.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Homer's The Iliad and the Odyssey describe the social conditions of the Dark Ages.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Are the ideas and influences of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle still the ultimate basis of Western society? Why or why not?
Q7) Arthur Evens
Q8) Socrates and his "Socratic method"
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Q1) Although at the time of the first Han dynasty census, in 2 C.E., the population of China was estimated at sixty million, within two centuries the oppressive Han policies had reduced the population to:
A)less than twenty million.
B)less than thirty million.
C)around thirty-five million.
D)less than forty million.
E)around fifty million.
Q2) 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
Q3) Jupiter, Juno, Minerva, and Mars
Q4) Carthage
Q5) Han Dynasty
Q6) Twelve Tables
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Chapter 6: The Americas
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Q1) Zapotec
Q2) Monte Albán
Q3) Chavin de Huantar
Q4) What is unusual about the Nazca lines?
A)They are only visible from considerable elevation.
B)They are aligned with the summer and winter solstice.
C)They show evidence of significant environmental manipulation.
D)They correspond to unusually high levels of magnetic polarity.
E)They designate way-stations along the Incan road system.
Q5) Pachakuti created a highly centralized Aztec state.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Aztec writing
A)was phonetic.
B)may have been the result of contact with traders from the Aleutians.
C)resembled ancient Greek in its organization.
D)was copied from Egyptian hieroglyphics.
E)was based upon hieroglyphs that represented an object or concept.
Q7) calpulli
Q8) Inka
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Chapter 7: Ferment in the Middle East: the Rise of Islam
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Q1) Under the Abbasids, the following were regarded as ideal citizens EXCEPT
A)merchants
B)judges
C)government officials
D)warriors
E)All of these.
Q2) Ramadan
Q3) Hasan al-Sabahh and "assassins"
Q4) Muhammad
Q5) Muslim
Q6) sheikh
Q7) Which of the following is NOT one of the Five Pillars of Islam?
A)Prayer five times a day facing Mecca.
B)Recognition of Abu-Bakr as the legitimate caliph
C)Giving charity to the poor.
D)Making a pilgrimage to Mecca.
E)Fasting during the holy month of Ramadan.
Q8) Koran/Qur'an
Q9) Seljuk Turks
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Chapter 8: Early Civilizations in Africa
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Q1) Ibn Battuta
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) From 8000 to 4000 B.C.E., the Sahara featured lakes and ponds and vast grasslands.
A)True
B)False
Q4) There are San rock paintings discovered in Africa that depict illustrations of ritual ceremonies directed by the village shamans to A)induce rain.
B)propitiate the merchants.
C)bring nirvana.
D)prevent floods.
E)prevent war.
Q5) Zagwe dynasty
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Chapter 9: The Expansion of Civilization in South and Southeast Asia
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Q1) Cosmic Dance of Shiva
Q2) Sun Temple at Konarak
Q3) Thai and Burmese
Q4) India's "classical age" is traditionally associated with the A)Maurya dynasty.
B)Gupta dynasty.
C)Tughluq dynasty.
D)Angkor dynasty.
E)Mughal dynasty.
Q5) To what degree was religion a major influence in Indian art and literature? Cite representative examples from Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam to illustrate and support your viewpoint.
Q6) In the Gupta period, Brahmanism and Buddhism coexisted harmoniously.
A)True
B)False
Q7) sitar
Q9) Malay Peninsula Page 12
Q8) Why did Buddhism decline in India while Hinduism remained so prevalent?
Q10) Bamiyan Buddhas
Q11) nada
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Chapter 10: The Flowering of Traditional China
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Q1) "equal field" system
Q2) fire-lance
Q3) Jurchen
Q4) woodblock printing
Q5) the Silk Road(s) and Bactrian camels
Q6) Although the earlier Tang dynasty based the civil service examinations exclusively upon Confucian texts, the later Song also included both Daoist and Buddhist texts.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Dunhuang caves
Q8) Uighurs, Kirghiz, and Khitan
Q9) How significant was international trade to Chinese society? What was traded? From where and to where? Who benefited-China? Its neighbors? Within China?
Q10) civil service examination
Q11) What brought on the several centuries of political division following the collapse of the Han dynasty? What was the appeal of Buddhism and Daoism during the era after the collapse of the Han dynasty?
Q12) Song dynasty
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Chapter 11: The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
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Q1) Which of the following is an accurate characterization of the relationship between the Chinese and Japanese written languages?
A)The two languages are actually closely related.
B)The Chinese written language was based upon the written language of Japan.
C)Written Chinese was discarded in favor of the Cyrillic alphabet.
D)Using Chinese characters as phonetic symbols, Japan created a workable "hybrid" system.
E)The Chinese borrowed the Japanese script as the basis of its written language.
Q2) Onin War
Q3) The "warring states era" in Japan occurred during the Tokugawa shogunate.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The four Japanese islands are
A)Honshu, Luzon, Hainan, and Guam.
B)Kyushu, Taiwan, Ryuku, and Kamchatka.
C)Shikoku, Kyushu, Hokkaido, and Honshu.
D)Okinawa, Tinian, Ryuku, and Diego Garcia.
E)Olane, Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and Shikoku.
Q5) Nara
Q6) Nihon Shoki
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Chapter 12: The Making of Europe
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Q1) wergeld
Q2) William of Normandy and the Battle of Hastings
Q3) Barrel vaulting and massive pillars were characteristic of the Gothic style.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The leader of the "peasants' crusade" was
A)Gregory the Great.
B)Richard the Homeless.
C)Peter the Hermit.
D)Charles the Hammer.
E)Saladin the Wise.
Q5) Which of the following is NOT a true statement about Charlemagne?
A)He attended a university in Rome.
B)He conquored much of Western and Central Europe in the Carolingian Empire.
C)He established the missi dominici
D)He utilized local nobility as agents of the king in his administration.
E)He was coronated as Emperor of the Romans.
Q6) the ordeal
Q7) Constantinople and Hangzhou
Q8) Flanders and the wool cloth trade
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Chapter 13: The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery in the
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Q1) During the Nika Revolts, Justinian and Theodora fled the city to avoid being overthrown.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The council that ended the Great Schism was the council of A)Clermont.
B)Canossa.
C)Orleans.
D)Constance.
E)Trent.
Q3) theme
Q4) humanism
Q5) "Byzantine"
Q6) Compare the perspectives and points of view on the causes of the Black death per the accounts on page 375. Why do you think there were so many theories?
Q7) Petrarch
Q9) the Great Schism Page 19
Q8) Explore the accomplishment and opportunities for women to participate in the Renaissance movement.
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Chapter 14: New Encounters: the Creation of a World Market
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Q1) In Spain's New World Empire,
A)Spanish colonials, following the lead of Bartolomé de Las Casas, were much less harsh toward the American natives than the Spanish government urged them to be.
B)the encomienda policies insured only a 2 percent profit per year to each Spanish investor.
C)the number of natives on the island of Hispaniola was increased from 300 to 100,000 between 1493 and 1570.
D)the king was determined to convert the indigenous peoples to Christianity.
E)the native Americans eagerly and consistently embraced Spanish colonial policies.
Q2) Timbuktu
Q3) batik
Q4) How much would you argue that expansion of Christianity was a factor of European imperialism in the Age of Exploration versus exploitation of resources (including slaves)? How did conversion attempts succeed or fail in the Americas and Southeast Asia? Why?
Q5) Christopher Columbus
Q6) Massachusetts Bay Company
Q7) Gorée
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Chapter 15: Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building
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Q1) Elizabeth Tudor
Q2) Frederick William the Great Elector
Q3) the Glorious Revolution, William and Mary, and the Bill of Rights
Q4) Queen Elizabeth I
A)was the first female ruler of France.
B)became hated because of her attempt to restore Roman Catholicism in England.
C)slapped Paul III in the face after a lengthy, and heated, theological debate.
D)successfully survived the Spanish armada.
E)engineered the brilliant English-Swedish naval success at the Battle of Lepanto.
Q5) Francis Xavier and Matteo Ricci
Q6) Which of the following was not a position taken by Martin Luther?
A)Salvation would be achieved through faith.
B)The purchase of indulgences would not lead to salvation.
C)The German princes should establish a reformed German church.
D)Acts of good work are the sole source of salvation.
E)Reading the Bible is important.
Q7) Ignatius Loyola and the Jesuits/Society of Jesus
Q8) the Catholic Reformation
Q9) Palace of Versailles
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Chapter 16: The Muslim Empires
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Q1) Which of the following is a true statement about Safavid culture?
A)Riza-i-Abbasi was its most celebrated artist.
B)Its literature was its greatest artistic achievement.
C)The ascent of Persian poetry gave rise to the greatness of Safavid poetry.
D)The great array of Safavid poets who went to India to write for the Mughal rulers attests to the greatness of the poets of this era.
E)It declined sharply during the reign of Shah Abbas I.
Q2) Shari'a
Q3) The British presence in India significantly began in 1616 when they
A)successfully attacked Puna.
B)established their first factory at Delhi.
C)were granted the right to have their own representative at the court in Agra.
D)forced the Mughals to provide them with light-weight textiles.
E)seized the Portuguese outpost of Goa.
Q4) Suleyman I the Magnificent
Q5) Sublime Porte
Q6) Discuss the historical argument of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Empires as "Gunpowder Empires." How significant was the relative lack of naval powers in these empires, especially with the arrival of European maritime traders?
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Chapter 17: The East Asian World
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Q1) How did the Tokugawa "Great Peace" work? How did the society and economy of Japan change during the Tokugawa era, and how did Japanese culture reflect those changes?
Q2) China's population had soared by the end of the 1700s because for all of the following reasons except
A)relative peace and stability had prevailed during the early years of Qing rule.
B)new crops had been introduced from the New World.
C)introduction of the development of faster growing Southeast Asian rice into China.
D)the political stability of China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
E)the central government's termination of legal abortions.
Q3) The activities of Western Christian missionaries reached their height of influence during Kangxi's reign.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Kabuki and No
Q5) Qing dynasty
Q6) Why was the economic development of Japan more prolific than China?
Q7) Manchus/Jurchen
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Chapter 18: The West on the Eve of a New World Order
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Q1) Louis XVI
Q2) Which of the following statements is an accurate depiction of the nature of the British Parliament in the latter half of the eighteenth century?
A)It was primarily composed of civil libertarians who advocated individual rights.
B)Its role was primarily that of a rubber stamp for the king.
C)It shared power with the king, gradually gaining the upper hand.
D)Uniquely, women could become Members of Parliament.
E)It failed to meet between 1753 and 1792.
Q3) The eighteenth-century ruler who called himself/herself "the first servant of the state" was
A)Joseph II of Austria.
B)George III of Great Britain.
C)Catherine the Great of Russia.
D)Frederick II of Prussia.
E)Louis XVI of France.
Q4) the Directory
Q5) In the geocentric universe model, the earth revolves around the sun.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: The Beginnings of Modernization:
Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth
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Q1) Karl Marx believed that all of human history was the story of
A)the survival of the fittest.
B)the class struggle.
C)the ends justifying the means.
D)peasant rebellions.
E)nationalism.
Q2) reconstruction of Paris
Q3) the Dual Monarchy
Q4) Which of the following was NOT a true statement about politics in Great Britain by the early twentieth century?
A)The Labour Party was created to further workers' interests.
B)Queen Victoria reluctantly agreed to enter into war with Germany.
C)Women had the right to vote.
D)The Liberal Party sponsored the National Insurance Act of 1911
E)Pensions were initiated for workers over age 70.
Q5) The Second Industrial Revolution opened the door to new jobs for women, particularly in service or white-collar jobs.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 20: The Americas and Society and Culture in the West
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Q1) Gustave Courbet
Q2) One of the issues of economic imbalance in Latin America was
A)the monopoly of land by the wealthy elite.
B)government protection of the landed elite in seizing common lands.
C)increase of debt peonage
D)landowners grew crops for export while the masses lacked land to grow food staples.
E)all of these.
Q3) By 1900, the world's richest nation and greatest industrial power was
A)Great Britain.
B)Germany.
C)Russia.
D)the United States.
E)France.
Q4) suffragists
Q5) The War of Reform in Mexico saw the Church protecting the indigenous population against the military and Liberal government.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Porfirio Díaz
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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) Was Western imperialism an inevitable result of the Industrial Revolution? Why or why not?
Q3) Direct rule was found in all of the following "resistant" nations EXCEPT
A)Burma
B)Vietnam
C)the Malay Peninsula
D)Nigeria
E)Morocco
Q4) King Leopold 2 of Belgium
Q5) Commodore George Dewey
Q6) In order to protect their investment in the Suez Canal, the British established an informal protectorate in Egypt that lasted until World War I.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 22: Shadows Over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge
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Q1) Liberal and Progressive parties
Q2) The Treaty of Tianjin
A)allowed Japan to take over Korea.
B)made the Chinese opium trade legal.
C)closed all Chinese ports to foreign trade.
D)gave the British the Liaodong Peninsula in 1875.
E)deprived the Russians of any control in northern China.
Q3) The capital under the Meiji Restoration was moved from
A)Kyoto to Sapporo.
B)Osaka to Shimonoseki.
C)Tokyo to Nagasaki.
D)Kyoto to Tokyo.
E)Saigon to Wuhan.
Q4) Commodore Matthew C. Perry
Q5) To what degree was the Meiji Restoration a "revolution," and to what extent did it succeed in transforming Japan? What were some of the key reasons why the Meiji reformers were so successful in launching Japan on the road to industrialization? How would you appraise the nature of the Meiji Restoration? Was it, on balance, more innovative or more conservative? Why? Was it truly "from above"?
Q6) Treaty of Nanjing
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Chapter 23: The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis:
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Q1) In the Great Depression, most democratic governments followed the classical liberal remedy by lowering wages and raising tariffs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In what way was Japan involved in World War I?
A)Neutral observer.
B)Occupation of the Phillipines.
C)On the side of the Triple Entente to take control of German territories in Asia.
D)On the side of the Triple Alliance to take control of French territories in Southeast Asia.
E)Renewed war with Russia in violation of the Treaty of Portsmouth.
Q3) Among the other civilian casualties in World War I were one million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, the victims of genocide.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Armenian genocide
Q5) David Lloyd George
Q6) Article 231/"war guilt clause"
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Chapter 24: Nationalism, Revolution, and
the Middle East, and Latin America From 1919 to 1939
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Q1) Argentina's Juan Perón and Brazil's GetúlioVargas
Q2) Under the leadership of Ibn Saud, Saudi Arabia found its greatest resources in collaboration with
A)the Islamic population of many nations visiting Mecca during the Hadj.
B)the British Petroleum Company
C)France, in protecting the interests of Christians in the area.
D)the Standard Oil Company in America.
E)an alliance with other nations in the Comintern.
Q3) United Fruit Company and the "banana republics"
Q4) One of Gandhi's greatest concerns in India was the
A)lack of tolerance of Indian culture by British administrators.
B)insistence on cultural supremacy of British traditions over Indian.
C)plight of the untouchables, or harijans
D)lack of rights for women in public.
E)inferior education available to the Indian public.
Q5) Gandhi's salt march
Q6) Would Marx, or Lenin, or Stalin have approved of Mao's "road to socialism"? Why and/or why not?
Q7) "Down with Confucius and sons"
Q8) Reza Khan Page 33
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Chapter 25: The Crisis Deepens: World War 2
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Q1) "Asia for the Asians"
Q2) The 250,000 collectivized farms were known as
A)kulak
B)kitchen plots
C)khoziaka
D)kolkhozes
E)kartoshka
Q3) Blitzkrieg
Q4) Discuss Japan's successes and failures in its conflict with China from 1931 until 1945.
Q5) Hitler Jugend
Q6) Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway
Q7) Marco Polo Bridge
Q8) Fascist propaganda for women in Italy that argued for:
A)equality within the workplace to build a stronger state.
B)a woman's duty was to be homemakers and raise children.
C)women to become indoctrinated in fascism instead of the folly of religion.
D)civil service requirements for everyone according to skills, including women and children.
E)None of these.
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Chapter 26: East and West in the Grip of the Cold War
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Q1) 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.
Q2) 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.
Q3) Berlin Wall
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Chapter 27: Brave New World: Communism on Trial
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Q1) Boris Yeltsin
Q2) Hungary's "communism with a capitalist face-lift"
Q3) The number of Soviet citizens who lost their lives in World War 2 is estimated at A)two million.
B)five million.
C)ten million.
D)twenty million.
E)fifty million.
Q4) "A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another," Mao wrote. Why did the embedding of Communism in China, as well as Russia, rely on violence as a means to obtain and maintain the State? How did this justify the use of repressive measures against the respective populations, when the intended goal was to benefit the people and provide an equality-based utopia?
Q5) Georgy Malenkov
Q6) Stalin's economic policy after World War 2 was more successful in providing consumer goods than in promoting the growth of heavy industry.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 28: Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945
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A)Hollywood movies.
B)popular musical forms such as jazz and rock and roll.
C)television.
D)advertising.
E)the bleak world-view of absurdist drama and literature.
Q2) Who were the Sandinistas?
A)anti-imperialist rebels in Columbia.
B)successors to the independence group Tupac Amaru in Mexico.
C)Marxist guerilla forces against the Somosa regime in Nicaragua.
D)radical Jesuit forces in Argentina fighting against the Dirty War.
E)striking copper miners in Venezuela who initiated a government shutdown after the spread of popular demonstrations.
Q3) Margaret Thatcher, the "Iron Lady," and Thatcherism
Q4) "On balance, the 1960s were the most significant decade in recent American history." Discuss, pro and con.
Q5) MTV
Q6) existentialism, Postmodernism, and Poststructuralism or deconstruction
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Chapter 29: Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East
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A)Mohammad Khatami.
B)Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
C)Sadeq Hedayat.
D)Bashar al-Assad.
E)Mahmoud Abbas.
Q2) For a brief period between 1958 and 1961, Egypt merged with what nation to form the United Arab Republic?
A)Jordan.
B)Iraq.
C)Syria.
D)Saudi Arabia.
E)Lebanon.
Q3) Yasir Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and al-Fatah
Q4) Sudan's Muslim pastoralists and Christian farmers
Q5) African National Congress (ANC)
Q6) Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Q7) Iran-Iraq War
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A)Burma.
B)Singapore.
C)Hong Kong.
D)Taiwan.
E)South Korea.
Q2) North Korea's Kim Il Sung
Q3) Urdu and Bengali
Q4) Indonesia's Sukarno and "guided democracy"
Q5) Which Korean term is equivalent to the Japanese term zaibatsu?
A)Cobola.
B)Chaebol.
C)Migheo.
D)Pusana.
E)Taegu.
Q6) Benazir Bhutto
Q7) 2004 tsunami
Q8) 2011 tsunami
Q9) Republic of China (Taiwan)
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