Exam 3
In Africa, as in southeast Asia, ________ resisted decolonization, fighting bloody wars.
France
The first sub-Saharan country to achieve independence from colonial rule was
Ghana
The conflict between Jews and Muslims over control of Palestine was a result of
Great Britain's conflicting promises to Palestinian Arabs and European Jews.
What was the central problem for Latin America during this period of postwar decolonization?
All are correct
A Geneva peace conference regarding Vietnam in 1954
All these answers are correct.
The Great Leap Forward represented
a communist Chinese program to equal the industrial production of developed nations.
The Balfour Declaration of 1917 promised that Palestine would
become a homeland for immigrant Jews.
Deng Xiaoping
brought free-market reforms to China.
Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser gained great international prestige when he
succeeded in retaking the Suez Canal from the British.
The power of Islam as a means of staving off secular influences was demonstrated by ________ in 1979.
the Iranian revolution
As a result of the Cultural Revolution in China,
the educated elite were persecuted, and China was deprived of their talent.
Gandhi and Nehru opposed the partition of India because
they believed that India could be a successful multicultural state.
Argentina in the late 1970s and early 1980s
was ruled by military dictators who caused the "disappearance" of thousands.
Conflicts between native Kikuyu and British settlers intensified in Kenya after World War II because
white settlers had seized the best farmlands for years, and the Kikuyu had been reduced to the status of wage laborers and crowded onto tribal reserves.