HISTORY chapter 36, 37, 38
Which of the following is NOT a reason Arab nationalism failed to materialize?
They shared a common language and culture
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
Chinese resistance to the Japanese was
Weakened by rivalry between Chinese nationalists and communists
In the 1970s, OPEC demonstrated that
an alliance in control of a valuable resource could exert control over the global economy
The Balfour Declaration of 1917 promised that Palestine would
become a homeland for immigrant Jews
The purpose of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was to
eliminate barriers to free trade
At the Bay of Pigs in 1961
invading anti-Castro Cuban forces were overwhelmed by Cuban troops
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated because she
permitted an attack on Sikh extremists at the sacred Golden Temple
One objective that the EU and ASEAN share in common is a commitment to
removing barriers to trade between member states
Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser gained great international prestige when he
succeeded in retaking the Suez Canal from the British
Which of the following would NOT be a good example of an NGO?
the United Nations
In both Guatemala and Nicaragua in the 1950s and 1960s
the United States supported military dictatorships that were anticommunist
The Truman Doctrine pledged that
the United States would support free people resisting subjugation by insurrection or outside interference
As a result of the Cultural Revolution in China
the educated elite were persecuted, and China was deprived of their talent
Global warming refers to
the rise in global temperatures caused by atmospheric pollution such as the emissions of cars and factories
Britain withdrew from Palestine in 1947 because
they could not resolve the conflict between Palestinians and Jews
In The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon
urged the use of violence against colonial oppressors
Argentina in the late 1970s and early 1980s
was ruled by military dictators who caused the "disappearance" of thousands
Which of the following was NOT a factor in the Japanese postwar "economic miracle"?
Abundant reserves of oil and gas fueled postwar industrialization
The Japanese finally surrendered in 1945
After the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The regime of the Iranian Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was overthrown because
All these answers are correct
In 1938, Germany sent troops into what country and forced its leaders to accept the Anschluss?
Austria
Popular unrest forced Todor Zhivkov, eastern Europe's longest surviving communist dictator, to resign in 1989 as leader of what country?
Bulgaria
Between 2005 and 2050, population is expected to continue growing in all of the following world regions EXCEPT
Europe
The Russian-German Treaty of Nonaggression of 1939
Freed Hitler to pursue a more aggressive policy in western Europe
Operation Barbarossa in 1941 was code for the
German invasion of the Soviet Union
Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated by a
Hindu extremist
Who seized power after a bloodless coup ended the monarchy of Egypt's King Farouk?
Kwame Nkrumah
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
Which of the following is NOT a good example of the Americanization of global culture?
Rolex watches
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 crowded onto tribal reserves and reduced to the status of wage laborers
In what year did the two Germanies reunite to form a united nation?
1990
A key factor in the Allied victory in the Pacific was the
All these answers are correct
Apartheid ended in South Africa because
All these answers are correct
As evidence of the renewed power and glory of Italy, Mussolini
All these answers are correct
Women in the United States and Britain performed all the following wartime activities EXCEPT
Direct combat
Deng Xiaoping
brought free market reforms to China
The goals of feminism in industrialized nations after WWII include all the following EXCEPT
women's suffrage
The Berlin blockade clearly demonstrated that
Britain and the United States would not be intimidated into abandoning Berlin
n spite of cultural prejudices against women in Asia, women have emerged as political leaders in all of the following countries EXCEPT
China
At the Wannsee Conference in 1942, Nazi leaders decided to
Deport all European Jews to concentration camps in Poland for extermination
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
Which of the following statements is NOT true of modern terrorism?
Modern terrorists have been largely successful in achieving their political objectives
The height of Japanese aggressions/atrocities in China was reached at the Rape of
Nanjing
Which of the following is NOT a general characteristic of modern global corporations?
They have helped provide more money for social services and welfare programs
The key to Allied victory in Europe was the
Vast personnel and industrial capacity of the United States and Soviet Union
As a result of China's one-child policy
a significant number of girl babies are missing
The nonalignment movement remained weak because
many nonaligned states needed and accepted aid from either the United States or Soviet Union
All of the following have contributed to the dramatic growth of the Chinese economy since the late1970s EXCEPT
more efficient long-term economic forecasting by the Communist Party leadership
The United States tentatively supported a failed invasion of Cuba at
the Bay of Pigs
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 main reason France fought to retain its colony of Algeria because
there were two million French settlers in Algeria
Gandhi and Nehru opposed the partition of India because
they believed that India could be a successful multicultural state
The German Blitzkrieg referred to
A lightning war
At the Munich Conference, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain took a hard line with Hitler, threatening military retaliation for any further aggression
Agreed that Hitler could keep lands already taken in exchange for a pledge to end German expansion
At the height of their expansion, the Japanese had established either direct or indirect control over which of the following
All of these were under Japanese control at its height of empire (except Thailand)
A Geneva peace conference regarding Vietnam in 1954
All these answers are correct
One significant result of the electronic information age is that
All these answers are correct
Immediate provocation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was
An American-led oil embargo against Japan
Gandhi predicted that "rivers of blood" would flow in the wake of the creation of
Pakistan
The Marshall Plan was
A U.S. financial plan to rebuild Europe and stop Soviet expansion
