His 202, Final MC Questions
Which of the following is NOT true regarding Africa during the decades after the Great War?
Europeans promoted rapid, intensive industrialization among their colonial possessions.
Lenin's New Economic Policy of 1921
implemented free market reforms
At the Bay of Pigs in 1961,
invading anti-Castro Cuban forces were overwhelmed by Cuban troops.
Marcus Garvey
is a Jamaican who championed the "Back to Africa" movement.
A key factor in the Allied victory in the Pacific was the
island-hopping strategy that positioned U.S. troops within striking range of Japan. massive aerial bombing of key Japanese cities. development of the atomic bomb. declaration of war by the Soviet government against Japan.
The spread of photography
led many painters to believe that the purpose of painting was not to mirror reality but to create it.
Augusto César Sandino
led the opposition to the occupation of Nicaragua by U.S. Marines.
All of the following have contributed to the dramatic growth of the Chinese economy since the late 1970s EXCEPT
more efficient long-term economic forecasting by the Communist Party leadership.
Compared to the western front, fighting on the eastern front was
more fluid, as the Germans made inroads into Russia.
All of the following were essential to the Soviet defense against the Nazis EXCEPT
outrage at the German treatment of Jewish minorities in eastern Europe.
Dreadnoughts were designed primarily to
protect merchant shipping and conduct high-seas battles.
The purpose of alliances such as the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente was to
provide mutual defense and support in case of attack.
One objective that the EU and ASEAN share in common is a commitment to
removing barriers to trade between member states.
Carmen Miranda
served as the model for an ad created by the United Fruit Company.
In the decades following the Great War, the economies of most African colonies were dominated by
the export of unprocessed raw materials or minimally processed cash crops.
Global warming refers to
the rise in global temperatures caused by atmospheric pollution such as the emissions of cars and factories.
Which of the following was NOT one of the chief actions of Roosevelt's New Deal?
tighten the money supply
Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate when
troops garrisoned in the capital mutinied
In response to the Great Depression, economist John Maynard Keynes
urged the government to expand the money supply and undertake public works to provide jobs.
Although he called himself a Marxist, Lenin, unlike Marx, believed that the revolution
would be led by a small, highly-disciplined party acting on behalf of the workers.
Which of the following was NOT a factor in the Japanese postwar "economic miracle"?
Abundant reserves of oil and gas fueled postwar industrialization.
The author of Mein Kampf was
Adolf Hitler
At the Munich Conference, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
agreed that Hitler could keep lands already taken in exchange for a pledge to end German expansion.
Immediate provocation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was
an American-led oil embargo against Japan.
In the 1970s, OPEC demonstrated that
an alliance in control of a valuable resource could exert control over the global economy.
A troubling economic problem in the 1920s was the depressed state of agriculture caused by
overproduction and falling prices.
In addition to fighting off Allied forces, the Ottoman empire faced insurrection from the
Arabs
In 1938, Germany sent troops into what country and forced its leaders to accept the Anschluss?
Austria
The United States tentatively supported a failed invasion of Cuba at
Bay of Pigs
In spite of cultural prejudices against women in Asia, women have emerged as political leaders in all of the following countries EXCEPT
China
The notion that space and time are relative to the person measuring them was first articulated in
Einstein's theory of general relativity.
The purpose of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was to
Eliminate barriers to free trade
Satyagraha was
Gandhi's philosophy of passive resistance.
Operation Barbarossa in 1941 was code for the
German invasion of the Soviet Union
The key factor in the decision of the U.S. to enter World War I was
Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare against the United States.
The Tripartite Pact brought together
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Which of the following statements is NOT true of modern global consumption?
Global consumption is entirely one way: the tastes of the United States are imposed on the rest of the world.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Headed the Muslim League
Which of the following was NOT one of the new artistic movements of the twentieth century?
Impressionism
By the end of the nineteenth century, nationalistic movements resulted in independent sovereignty for all of the following EXCEPT
Ireland.
Which of the following statements about the League of Nations is NOT true?
It was dominated by the countries of Europe.
The height of Japanese atrocity in China was reached at the Rape of
Nanjing
Muhammad Ali Jinnah called for the creation of
Pakistan
Which of the following is NOT a good example of the Americanization of global culture?
Rolex watches
"Ten days that shook the world" is a reference to the
Russian revolution in November 1917.
The father of psychoanalysis was
Sigmund Freud.
Gandhi embraced a moral philosophy of tolerance and nonviolence (ahimsa) during the twenty-five years he spent in
South Africa
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of modern global corporations?
They have helped provide more money for social services and welfare programs.
What effect did World War I have on the status of women?
Women in many countries received the vote in the years after the war.
The goals of feminism in industrialized nations after WWII include all the following EXCEPT
Womens sufferage
The Kristallnacht was
a Nazi-arranged attack on thousands of Jewish stores.
The Marshall Plan was
a U.S. financial plan to rebuild Europe and stop Soviet expansion.
The rivalry between Germany and Britain up to 1914 included
an expensive naval race. competition for foreign markets. tariff wars. competition for colonies in east and southwest Africa.
As evidence of the renewed power and glory of Italy, Mussolini
annexed Albania. annexed Libya. invaded Ethiopia. supported militarists in the Spanish civil war.
The term Bauhaus is associated with
architecture
In World War I, "no man's land" was the
deadly territory between opposing trenches.
At the Wannsee Conference in 1942, Nazi leaders decided to
deport all European Jews to concentration camps in Poland for extermination.
Women in the United States and Britain performed all the following wartime activities EXCEPT
direct combat
The work of Walter Gropius
embodied the architectural principle that form should follow function.
José Carlos Mariátegui
established the Socialist Party of Peru.
Werner Heisenberg
first discussed the uncertainty principle.
In what year did the two Germanies reunite to form a united nation?
1990
At the Paris Peace Conference,
Britain and France were determined to strip Germany of military power.
The Berlin blockade clearly demonstrated that
Britain and the United States would not be intimidated into abandoning Berlin.
Popular unrest forced Todor Zhivkov, eastern Europe's longest surviving communist dictator, to resign in 1989 as leader of what country?
Bulgaria
Who among the following was an artist who blended artistic vision and radical political ideas in large murals that he created for the appreciation of working people?
Diego Rivera
One significant result of the electronic information age is that
English has become the primary language of global communications. social and political isolation has been vastly reduced. politically repressive regimes such as that of China are trying to control the Internet. the gulf between the technological haves and have-nots has widened.
The author of All Quiet on the Western Front was
Erich Maria Remarque.
Between 2005 and 2050, population is expected to continue growing in all of the following world regions EXCEPT
Europe
Who among the following was noted for his "Good Neighbor Policy"?
FDR
Which of the following was NOT one of the foundations of Gandhi's philosophy?
Heavy Industrialization
Mao Zedong's main rival after 1925 was
Jiang Jieshi
Who among the following emerged as the leader and principal theoretician of the Chinese communist movement?
Mao Zedong
Which of the following statements is NOT true of modern terrorism?
Modern terrorists have been largely successful in achieving their political objectives.
Which of the following was NOT a military technology used in World War I?
Nuclear Submarines
The Russian civil war that broke out after the revolution was between
Reds and whites
The First Five-Year Plan was initiated by
Stalin
Three Principles of the People summarized the political views of
Sun Yatsen
The Japanese finally surrendered in 1945
after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
At the height of their expansion, the Japanese had established either direct or indirect control over all of the following EXCEPT
Thailand
Which of the following would NOT be a good example of an NGO?
The United Nations
The perceived grievances of al-Qaeda against the United States and its allies include all of the following EXCEPT
U.S. failure to support the mujahideen in their war against the Soviet Union.
Which of the following is NOT one of Asia's "little tigers"?
Vietnam
According to Freud, the root of neurotic behavior was
a conflict between conscious and unconscious mental processes.
As a result of China's one-child policy,
a significant number of girl babies are missing.
The German Schlieffen plan called for
a swift knockout of France, combined with defensive action against Russia.
Ghandi
fought hard to improve the status of the casteless Untouchables. launched the Non-Cooperation Movement. began the Civil Disobedience Movement. worked to secure approval of the Government of India Act.
The Russian-German Treaty of Nonaggression of 1939
freed Hitler to pursue a more aggressive policy in western Europe.
The May Fourth Movement
galvanized the Chinese against foreign influence.
One of the most significant results of the artistic experimentation of the 1920s and 1930s was that
generally accepted standards that distinguished between "good" and "bad" art disappeared.
The Long March
greatly strengthened Mao Zedong's leadership position.
Each of the following statements about Sun Yatsen is true, EXCEPT that
he led the Chinese in resisting Japanese military aggression.
The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand was the catalyst that started World War I because
his death brought to a head the tensions underlying the alliances in eastern and western Europe.
During the Great Depression, most nations
practiced economic nationalism
The provisional government lost the support of many Russians because it
promised to continue the war to victory.
The purpose of the Twenty-One Demands was to
reduce China to the status of a Japanese protectorate.
The Cuban missile crisis ended when
the Soviets agreed to withdraw their missiles in exchange for Kennedy's pledge not to invade Cuba and his agreement to withdraw U.S. missiles from Turkey.
The Truman Doctrine pledged that
the United States would support free people resisting subjugation by insurrection or outside interference.
The German Blitzkrieg referred to
the lightning war
The battle of Gallipoli was significant in that
this British-directed debacle cost the lives of many Canadian, Australian, and New Zealander troops.
The key to Allied victory in Europe was the
vast personnel and industrial capacity of the United States and Soviet Union.
In the years after World War I, the idea of progress
was roundly attacked.
Chinese resistance to the Japanese was
weakened by rivalry between Chinese nationalists and communists.