chapter 29 quiz
The Communist Party of China turned to its most colossal mass mobilization project yet, the Great Leap Forward, in ________.
1958
A war of independence was declared by the _______ Front of National Liberation in 1954—and independence was finally achieved in 1962.
Algerian
The United States response to Russian ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) was the _________.
Atlas
The world's first female prime minister took power in ________ in 1960.
Ceylon
The Marshall Plan allocated funds to all of the following countries except:
Czechoslovakia
Mao Zedong was alarmed by the pronouncements of General _____________, the commander of the UN forces in Korea, about raiding Chinese supply bases on the North Korean border.
Douglas MacArthur
Some in the Non-Aligned Movement equated the Soviet position in ________ with colonialism and worried about China's emergent predominance in East Asia.
Eastern Europe
The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council are China, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, and ______.
France
Following protracted negotiations over Vietnamese independence in early 1946 between Ho Chi Minh and the _________, a stalemate ensued.
French
As a result of the __________ in the United States, millions of veterans benefited from new training and educational opportunities.
GI Bill
Soviet troops crushed a grassroots revolt in which of the following countries after Khrushchev took power?
Hungary
In the elections of 1946 in Argentina, __________ gained a mandate as president at the head of a fractious coalition of nationalists, socialists, and communists.
Juan Perón
In the face of British opposition, the African nationalists in ______ formed the Mau Mau movement, and independence was finally granted in 1963.
Kenya
As a result of a secret deal between British prime minister Churchill and Soviet leader Stalin in May 1944, Greece became part of the British sphere, in return for:
Romania and Bulgaria being apportioned to the Soviet sphere at war's end
By 1949, Chiang K'ai-shek and most of his forces had fled to _______, and Mao's forces took Beijing.
Taiwan
"Free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures," is a quote that describes which of the following?
Truman Doctrine
The original founders of the Non-Aligned Movement of Nations included all of the following except:
Turkey
Which statement best describes the turn of events after China's involvement in the Korean War?
UN forces were pushed back deep into South Korea
In response to the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Soviet Union formed the ______ Pact in 1955.
Warsaw
The conflict in the Koreas helped to produce what kind of reaction in America?
a fervent anti-communism led by Senator McCarthy
Mao's land reforms between 1950 and 1955 took as many as 2 million lives and resulted in:
a rise in agricultural productivity.
The Eisenhower administration in the US ended the Korean War in 1953 with:
an armistice only, and no official peace treaty
After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in the Cold War, which could be best described as:
engagement through proxy states and ideological struggle
Khrushchev alarmed Western leaders by announcing that:
he would support anticolonial nationalist independence movements around the globe, even if they were not communists
Shortly into her tenure as Ceylon's prime minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike faced resistance to:
her Sinhalese-only language policy, from the Tamil minority
_______________ is any of the various movements in philosophy and the arts characterized by a deliberate break with classical or traditional forms of thought or expression.
modernism
Post-World War II artistic movements included all of the following except:
neo-federalism
Jawarhalal Nehru's admiration for ________ successes persuaded him to adopt the five-year-plan system of development for India.
soviet
The victors in the Chinese Civil War were the ___________________.
supporters of Mao Zedong
Realizing how close the world had come to World War III, President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev signed the Nuclear ____________ Treaty in 1963.
test ban
The Cold War turned "hot" in which region of the globe?
the Korean Peninsula
The creation of NATO was most directly triggered by:
the Soviets' detonation of a nuclear device in1949, four years earlier than anticipated
As a result of the launch of Sputnik in 1957,
the United States accelerated its own missile and space program
The Suez War of 1956 resulted in:
the effective end of the last remnants of British and French imperialism in the Middle East
At the end of World War II, the French ...
were determined to reconstitute their empire
All of the following were characteristic of the Soviet economy in the Stalinist and post-Stalinist periods except:
women entered the workplace in equal numbers to men, as all were considered "comrades"
