Exam 3

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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.


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