HIST 1020 EXAM 4
Mao's land reforms in 1950 and 1955 took as many as 2,000,000 lives and resulted in:
A rise in agricultural productivity
Italy's imperialist dreams in Africa were stymied by its crushing defeat at the battle of _________, in which one-third of its army was killed by Ethiopian forces.
Adowa
In March 1918, in return for Russia's peaceful withdrawal from the war, the Treaty of ______ obligated Russia to hand over roughly one third of the Russian Empire's population, territory, and resources to Germany.
Brest-Litovsk
The Khmer Rouge was a ______ which launched a national campaign of genocide against religious and political opponents in the 1970s.
Cambodian revolutionary group
The world's first female prime minister took power in ______ in 1960.
Ceylon
In Botswana, the British opted to allow a family conglomerate to control the mines. This family would artificially control what resource's price well into our current time period.
DeBeers; diamonds
By the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the Mughal emperor's lands had been reduced to the region immediately surrounding ______ and Agra.
Delhi
Mao Zedong was alarmed by the pronouncements of General _______, the commander of 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 South Asia.
Eastern Europe
The principle spokesperson for _______ nationalists in the second half of the nineteenth century was Jose Rizal, whose novel responded to the Spanish justification of colonialism.
Filipino
Hitler implemented his planned Endlosung, or _________, of European Jews began in January 1942 and entailed the relocation of Jews to mass extermination camps
Final Solution
After the end of World War II, most of Latin America's industry was related to what sectors?
Food processing and textile manufacturing
Taking power shortly after the death of Chairman Mao in 1976, Deng Xiaoping implemented the ________, the fundamental policies that remain in force in China to the present.
Four Modernizations
President Wilson's war aims, embodied in his ________, sought to use the war to advance his desire "to make the world...safe for democracy."
Fourteen Points
Following protracted negotiations over Vietnamese independence in early 1946 between Ho Chi Minh and the ________, a stalemate ensued.
French
________ forces dispatched a squadron that occupied the sparsely inhabited Mekong River Delta in 1858-1862, annexing it as a protectorate.
French
In East Africa, ______ used forced labor for the growing of cotton, provoking the fierce but in the end brutally suppressed Maji Maji Rebellion of 1905-1907.
Germany
Kwame Nkrumah appeared to be a sound choice for leading a constitutional, independent regime in _______ in 1957
Ghana
Khrushchev alarmed Western leaders by announcing that:
He would support anticolonial nationalist independence movements around the globe, even if they were not communists
In 1929, the newly created ________ brought the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1917 to an end.
Institutional Revolutionary Party (IRP)
By the end of 1980, 80% of Poland's workers had joined a labor union called "Solidarity", founded by the electrician ________
Lech Walesa
After Khrushchev was ousted from power by the Soviet Politburo, ______ rose in his place.
Leonid Brezhnev
_______ 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
Some British agents of the East India Company took Indian wives, dressed as Indian princes, and wielded power as local magnates, or _______
Nabobs
French imperial and colonial involvement in Indochina became entrenched in 1858 under ______
Napoleon III
The driving force behind Vietnam's early anti-foreign patriotism at the dawn of the twentieth century was _______.
Phan Boi Chau
In 1939, the German army pioneered a new kind of warfare, a "Blitzkrieg" or "lightning war", in _______
Poland
The opening gambit of Great Britain's "Great Game" against _______ was the first Anglo-Afghan war in 1838.
Russia
In the 1980s, US President Ronald Reagan began a covert operation to destabilize Daniel Ortega's ________ in Nicaragua through the funding and arming of opposition groups
Sandinistas
In general, __________ focused on sexuality, family and the workplace, and other de facto and de jure inequalities between genders.
Second Wave Feminism
The US Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) that:
Segregation in education was inherently unequal
Among the international conditions which also played a role in fueling the struggle to end desegregation in the United States were the postwar anitcolonialist movement in Africa and _________ .
Soviet Cold War propaganda
One of the most significant reasons for the continued stagnation of the British economy after World War I was:
That nearly half of its budget in the interwar period went to paying off debt from the war
According to the video in class, _______ "stands for sound finance and government running the affairs of the nation in a sound financial way... It stands for being strong in defense, a reliable ally, and a trusted friend...They are fundamental common sense...always there in the British people.
Thatcherism
The Schlieffen Plan, implemented by the Germans at the beginning of World War I, came close to succeeding, but it ultimately failed, for all of the following EXCEPT:
The Netherlands intervened on behalf of its neighbor, Belgium, threatening to invade Germany.
In 1964, Yasir Arafat and other Palestinian nationalists founded _______, whose militant wing, Fatah, began a guerrilla war against Israel and its backers.
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
"Free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures," is a quote that describes which of the following?
The Truman Doctrine
During the rapid process of Hitler's consolidation of power in Germany, which of the following events took place first?
The fire in the Reichstag
Which of the following does not characterize the United States after the First World War?
The war industrial economy went into sudden collapse
To overcome its humiliation in East Africa, Italy tried its hand at imperialism again in 1911 against:
Tripolitania
In response to the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Soviet Union formed the ______ Pact in 1955.
Warsaw
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"
By the early 2000s, the chaotic agriculture sector combined with the repression of opposition to one-party rule had plunged ________ into a serious economic crisis.
Zimbabwe
Adherents to Mussolini's "Fascist" movement, dressed in _____ shirts and organized in paramilitary units, roamed the streets and violently broke up meetings of communists.
black
Australia was very similar to independent Latin America in that it was a labor-poor but ________ region, seeking its wealth through export lead growth.
commodity-rich
Mussolini's Fascists claimed that they were inaugurating a "____________ state", which theoretically saw all sectors of society contributing in a systematic, orderly, and hierarchical fashion to the health of the whole.
corporate
Restructuring the economy via autonomy granted to companies slowly, and restricting access to booze through state stores, was but one part of this famous Soviet policy.
perestroika
In his struggle for Indian independence, Mohandas Gandhi pursued a strategy of "satyagraha" or "___________"
soul-force
The Suez War of 1956 resulted in:
the effective end of land remnants of British and French imperialism in the Middle East
Once Saad Zaghlul and his Warfd party assumed control of Egypt in 1924 they:
were uninterested in industrial development, leaving Egypt entirely dependent on agricultural production and exports
