World History 2 (Exam 3)

During his short tenure as the Republic of Mexico's second president, in 1829, Vicente Guerrero

Agreed to yield power to a military uprising and then went into voluntary exile

The Eisenhower administration in the US ended the Korean War in 1953 with:

An armistice only, and no official peace treaty

___ is defined as the maintenance of a self-supporting state economic system.

Autarky

Adherents to Benito Mussolini's "Fascist" movement, dressed in ___ shirts and organized in paramilitary units, roamed the streets and violently broke up meetings of Communists

Black

Becoming a successful city-state in time, _______ excluded both the Creoles living in the countryside and the rural AmerIndians

Buenos Aires

The most prominent of the ____ which emerged in the 1860s, was Shenbao

Chinese-language newspapers

With the ascension of the infant Guangxu as emperor in 1874 came the regency of Empress Dowager ______

Cixi

Among other measures, the system proposed by Sergei Witte:

Converted to the gold standard in order to stablilize the currency

The move toward independence in mexico was foremost controlled by the landowning _____

Creoles

After the United States and Spain made peace at the end of 1898, the US ignored the independent Philippine gov't led by:

Emilio Aguinaldo

_____ was the Englightenment justification for slavery. It was the belief that environment shaped character and as "slavery corrupted slaves, destroyed their natural state of virtue, and eradicated their love of liberty," by extension, the enslaved were not ready for freedom

Environmental Determinism

The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council are China, The United Kingdom, Russia, and the United States, and ___

France

The first Anglo-Afghan war in 1838, ushered in the rivalry for supremacy over Central Asia between European powers, a period otherwise known as the ____

Great Game

The Communist Party of China turned to its most colossal mass mobilization project yet, the ___ in 1958.

Great Leap Forward

Saint-Dominique was renamed _____, after the ______

Haiti; Taino name of the island

"Lawrence of Arabia" helped the members of a prominent family, the ___ from Mecca, to assume leadership of the Arabs for a promised national kingdom in Syria and Palestine

Hashemites

In northern Mexico, the Mexican gov't sought to create a zone of separation between themselves and the US by encouraging ______

Immigration

Among the Englightenment-inspired reforms of Alexander I was:

Initiating the liberation of serfs in Russia's Baltic provinces

In 1929, the newly created ___ brought the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1917 to an end.

Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)

The Great Mutiny was touched off by the rumor that the British intended to:

Introduce a rifle which required its operator to bite the end from a gunpowder cartridge greased with cow and pig fat

Mao Zedong, a librarian by training, was an inspiring rural organizer, and he set about developing his ideas of revolution with the heretical idea of:

Inviting peasants into the vanguard of his movement.

Charles X of France claimed that his blockade of Algiers was justified because:

It was in response to an insult by an Algerian dey to his agent

Had it not been for _____, the French gov't, on the verge of Revolution in 1789, would have been well-financed

Its debt, used to finance the Seven Years' and American Revolutionary Wars

The ideas and practices of the ___ leader Pol Pot were so radical and brutal that in 1977 ___ invaded his state and initiated his overthrow.

Khmer Rouge; Vietnam

Living on the edge of poverty in many areas, with old trade routes and handicrafts disrupted by the treaty ports, many ______ saw in the Taipings, the Nian, and other local rebellions a desperate way to change their situations

Peasants

Prime Minister of ____, Count Camillo di Cavour, was the one man who had done the most to re-unify

Piedmont-Sardinia; Italy

The 1954 Supreme Board ruling on segregation overturned the previous ___. which had upheld the notion that "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional.

Plessy v. Ferguson ruling from 1896

The sweeping set of reforms introduced in Czechoslovakia in 1968, aimed at decentralization and loosening of censorship restrictions, came to be known as the ____

Prague Spring

By the fall of 1894, a full-scale war was over the fate of Korea and northeast Asia, called the ______ War, was under way.

Sino-Japanese

In the 1870s, conservative intellectuals broadened the conceptualization of Russian nationality into an ideology of Pan -

Slavism

The sharp rise in oil prices and the economic downturn it brought about would ultimately lead in the late 1970s to a phenomenon referred to as ____, a period of high inflation but with low economic growth rate.

Stagflation

By the end of his long administration, the last supporters of Porfirio Diaz were

Technocrat administrators, the cientificos, who were aging themselves

The "Hundred Flowers" campaign was:

Terminated when the criticism offered by intellectuals became too frequent.

One of the signs of the prominence of Cao Xueqin's novel The Dream of the Red Chamber is:

That an entire field of scholarship on the book is called "red studies" or "redology"

In 1964, Yasir Arafat and other Palestinian nationalists founded ___, whose militant wing, Fatah, began a guerrilla war against Israel and its backers.

The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)

As a result of the launch of Sputnik in 1957,

The US accelerated its own missile and space program.

Among the innovative measures proposed by Nikolai Chernyshevsky in his novel What is to Be Done? was:

The liberation of women

European colonialism on the coast of West Africa after 1885 was an outgrowth of the traditional ___

Trade fort system

American forces led by Lieutenant Stephen Decatur went on a daring raid. Decatur and his men successfully entered ____ at night and razed the Philadelphia, lest the pasha employ the ship against the remaining US frigates. After a period of stalemate, in 1805 a joint American land and sea attack on _____ forced the Barbary State to lower the price for peace

Tripoli

Austria's Prime Minister Klemens von Metternich, an opponent of constitutional nationalism, in an effort to re-institute the right of kings and emperors to rule by divine grace, persuaded the Congress of Vienna to formulate two new principles:

legitimacy and balance of power