History Exam 3

The Communist Party of China turned to its most colossal mass mobilization project yet, the Great Leap Forward, which began in ________.

1958

The Internet came out of work done in the United States during the _______.

Cold War

Which Lebanese group has played an important role in militarily supporting the al-Assad regime in Syrian civil war?

Hezbollah

Ending in February 1943, the Battle of Stalingrad:

Marked the turning point in the European war, with a Soviet victory.

Since the early 2000s, the so-called BRIC countries, Brazil, Russia, India, and China, as well as Turkey and _______, have been added to the first tier of global economic powers.

Mexico

The United States supported a coup against _______ in November 1963 that put a military government in place in Vietnam.

Ngo Dinh Diem

Only two centuries after its beginnings, the pattern of capitalist modernity characterized by market exchange and consumerism encompassed roughly _______% of the world's population.

90

Republicans in the US Congress brought the country to a standstill in 2011 and 2013 over the ________ Care Act and the debt ceiling.

Affordable

The sudden rise of ISIS in the summer of 2014 resulted in all of the following except:

American public support for a renewed American occupation of the region, with "boots on the ground".

In Syria, hopes for an Arab Spring were dashed almost immediately by the horrific violence inflicted by its leader, ________ al-Assad.

Bashar

As Iraq was divided by majority Shiites and minority Sunnis, the ___________ inaugurated a policy of divide and rule in their Middle Eastern mandates, while dangling the prospect of eventual independence in front of them.

British

Salvador Allende, the president of _____, was deposed and murdered in a CIA-directed coup in 1973.

Chile

According to the chart on the map above, which country is the largest emitter of CO2?

China

By the 1990s, the United States' economy had become an even deeper "sinkhole", this time for cheap industrial goods made in _____.

China

From 1966 until 1969, the _________ Revolution in China took as its talisman the "little red book" of Chairman Mao.

Cultural

Between 1953 and 1961, nearly one-fifth of the ___________ population defected to West Germany.

East German

A crucial step in the fall of Juan Perón's regime was:

Excess spending which led to chronic deficits and foreign debt.

Nikita Khrushchev was forced out of his position by the Soviet Politburo for all of the following reasons except:

Failing to secure the 1964 Olympic Games for Moscow.

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

France

As a result of the __________ in the United States, millions of veterans benefited from housing and educational opportunities.

GI Bill

The nuclear accident at Chernobyl was an important test of Gorbachev's policy of

Glasnost

Khrushchev alarmed Western leaders by announcing that:

He would support anticolonial nationalist independence movements around the globe, even if they were not communists.

Despite the success of the middle class in _________, an overwhelming majority of people in villages lived in extreme poverty during the 1990s.

India

In the elections of 1946 in Argentina, __________ gained a mandate as president at the head of a fractious coalition of nationalists, socialists, and communists.

Juan Perón

By the end of 1980, 80% of Poland's workers had joined a labor union called "Solidarity", founded by the electrician _________.

Lech Walesa

The first treaty between an Arab country (Egypt) and Israel was signed in 1979 and had the backing of:

President Carter

Because he __________ in June 1989, Major General Xu Qinxian was court-martialed and imprisoned for four years.

Refused to follow orders to shoot civilians in Tiananmen Square

In March 1930, Mohandas Gandhi protested a British tax on Indian ______ by embarking on a famous 24-day march.

Salt

The US Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) that:

Segregation in education was inherently unequal.

The "Stinger" was a(n) _______, which the United States was clandestinely supplying to Afghan fighters in the attempt to expel Soviet occupying forces.

Shoulder-fired missile

The _____ was fought between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, and Syria in June 1967.

Six-Day War

By 1992, al-Qaeda (Arabic for "__________") had emerged as the principal terrorist organization operating on a global scale.

The Base

The Schlieffen Plan, implemented by the Germans at beginning of World War I, came close to succeeding, but it ultimately failed, for all of the following reasons except:

The Netherlands intervened on behalf of its neighbor, Belgium, threatening to invade Germany.

From what climate change agreement did President Trump withdraw the United States from in 2017?

The Paris Agreement

Under the premiership of General Tojo Hideki, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), _______, and Dutch and British territories on December 7-8, 1941.

The Philippines

The creation of NATO was most directly triggered by:

The Soviets' detonation of a nuclear device in 1949, four years earlier than anticipated.

Which country decided to leave the European Union?

The United Kingdom

Israel began building a border fence in 2002 along ________, which was completed in 2013.

The entire length of the occupied West Bank

Under Kemal Atatürk, the Turkish parliament introduced all of the following measures to Turkey except:

The removal of Anatolian farmers into urban factories and schools.

The original founders of the Non-Aligned Movement of Nations included all of the following except:

Turkey

In 1977, the United Nations General Assembly declared the first annual International ______ Day.

Women's

Recep Erdoğan's party, AKP, garnered slightly more than half of the vote, on which basis they

enacted constitutional reforms which rescinded the military's power in politics

The recession of 2008-2011 began with

the collapse of the housing market

Mao's land reforms between 1950 and 1955 took as many as 2 million lives and resulted in:

A rise in agricultural productivity.

The systematic massacre of _______ was the largest-scale atrocity of World War I.

Armenians

Which country was incorporated into Nazi Germany in 1938?

Austria

Two years after its independence, South Sudan:

Degenerated into an ethnic civil war.

Mao Zedong was alarmed by the pronouncements of General _____________, the commander of the UN forces in Korea, about raiding Chinese supply bases on the North Korean border.

Douglas MacArthur

In Hungary, increased dissent took the form of "_____ communism", characterized by a relatively relaxed attitude toward criticism of the regime and by limited market reforms.

Goulash

The election of the pragmatic Hasan Rouhani as president of Iran in 2013 led to:

Limitations Iran's nuclear program.

More than 1 million Biafrans were killed in a civil war within ______ during the late 1960s.

Nigeria

The Berlin Wall was breached by jubilant Germans, of both the East and the West, on the night of ______, 1989.

November 9

In the past two decades, Vladimir Putin has done all of the following except:

Petitioned to dissolve the Russian Federation and reestablish the Soviet Union.

In 1939, the German army pioneered a new kind of warfare, a "Blitzkrieg" or "lightning war", in _______.

Poland

The 1973 US Supreme Court decision _________ protected a woman's right to have an abortion.

Roe v. Wade

The only Eastern European country whose leader (and his wife) was executed when the regime fell in 1989 was _______.

Romania

During the civil war in _______ in 1994, the ethnic majority Hutus massacred the Tutsi ethnic minority.

Rwanda

Jawarhalal Nehru's admiration for ________ successes persuaded him to adopt the five-year-plan system of development for India.

Soviet

After coming to power in the fall of 1953, Nikita Khrushchev, removed many ______ from the Communist Bloc.

Stalinists

Over Soviet protests, the United States began to develop its Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), nicknamed "______" after the popular movie of the same name.

Star Wars

The Soviet Politburo reacted to the uprising in East Germany in 1953 by:

Suppressing the revolt quickly and comprehensively.

By 1949, Chiang K'ai-shek and most of his forces had fled to _______, and Mao's forces took Beijing. Vietnam

Taiwan

The ideas and practices of the Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot were so radical and brutal that in 1977 ________ invaded Cambodia and initiated his overthrow.

Vietnam

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and The 1965 __________ were legal remedies put in place to end discrimination.

Voting Rights Act

Once Saad Zaghlul and his Wafd party assumed control of Egypt in 1924, they:

Were uninterested in industrial development, leaving Egypt entirely dependent on agricultural production and exports.

The Nigerian government has, in recent years, proved incompetent against the rapidly expanding Islamist movement Boko Haram, which means "________".

Western education is sin

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 agricultural sector combined with the repression of opposition to one-party rule had plunged Robert Mugabe's __________ into a serious economic crisis.

Zimbabwe