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The UN was founded in

1945

What did the authoritarian political systems of Germany, Japan, and Italy have in common?

All were defeated in World War I.

How did the Arab-Israeli War of 1947-1948 help shatter the legitimacy of Arab ruling elites?

Arab states were poorly prepared to take on the Israeli Defense Force and eventually lost territory granted to them by the United Nations' partition.

Which of the following led to the internal migration of 12 million South Asians in 1947?

Both Hindus and Muslims left their homes to relocate to the new countries, India or Pakistan, after more than a million people were killed in religious conflicts.

Which of the following is a similarity between the decolonization experiences of Algeria and South Africa?

Both countries had large numbers of European settlers, which prevented a smooth transfer of power.

Why did Egypt emerge as a potent symbol of pan-Arab nationalism in 1956?

Egypt's military under Nasser was able to reclaim the Suez Canal from the British, French, and Israelis.

Which of the following initiated Japan's turn toward authoritarian rule?

Emperor Hirohito's coming to power

India and China both achieved political independence peacefully.

False

Which of the following led Zionist militants to use force in their attempt to gain statehood?

Following World War II, hundreds of thousands of concentration camp survivors sought entry into Palestine.

The tension in Europe that led to World War I was partly caused by a growing nationalist rivalry between which two states?

Great Britain and Germany

Which of the following is the reason that Tsar Nicholas II abdicated in February 1917?

His generals believed that protests against the tsar in the capital threatened the war effort along the Eastern Front.

Diego Rivera's 1923 mural of the Detroit Motor Company does which of the following?

It celebrates the ethnic diversity of the assembly line.

Which of the following describes the first response of the U.S. government to the Great Depression?

It insisted on individual thrift and self-reliance, not government handouts.

How did World War I change the role of states?

It led to an increase in the size and scope of their role in society.

Which of the following demonstrated authoritarian governments' inability to exercise total control over mass culture?

Jazz recordings were available in Germany and the Soviet Union.

Italian Fascists considered themselves to be the defenders of which of the following?

Peasants, nonsocialist workers, veterans, students, and white-collar professionals

Which of the following was a response to Nikita Khrushchev's speech in 1956 attempting to separate Stalinism from true communism?

Polish and Hungarian intellectuals tried to break away from strict communist controls.

Which of the following was a major consequence of World War I?

Social hierarchies in European societies were shaken up or overthrown

On what did Soviet governance under Stalin rely to ensure citizen compliance with its policies?

Terror

Which of the following first tested President Harry Truman's containment policy?

The Berlin blockade

Which of the following accurately characterizes the October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution?

The Bolshevik Revolution was proclaimed by socialists in order to overtake the earlier "bourgeois" revolution.

Which Cold War event brought the world closest to nuclear war?

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Which of the following is a reason why the Algerian War of Independence shocked French citizens and the colons?

The French government had declared that Algeria was not a colony, but an integral part of France.

Why did Joseph Stalin believe that the Soviet Union deserved to dominate eastern Europe?

The Soviet Union had sacrificed so many people in the war against fascism.

What did the Berlin Wall signify?

The Soviet Union's attempt to insulate its sphere of influence from the West

How did fascist parties in Italy and Germany enhance their legitimacy?

The fascist parties claimed that they represented a glorious historical legacy.

For Léopold Senghor—leading figure in the Negritude movement—how did Negritude and European civilization relate to each other?

The two would eventually fuse into a hybrid Afro-European culture.

Multinational corporations had which of the following impacts on Third World countries?

They expanded countries' agricultural and manufacturing sectors, but impeded the growth of local firms.

During the Cold War, what did the United States and the Soviet Union expect from Third World countries?

They expected them to join one of the two opposing Cold War camps.

Which of the following was a consequence of the mass mobilizations required by World War I?

Traditional gender boundaries were undermined.

Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, advanced a plan for India's future based on the application of scientific knowledge to promote the nation as a whole.

True

Which of the following groups of Africans led anticolonial movements immediately following World War II?

Urban unemployed, former servicemen, and Western-educated indigenous elites

By the end of the 1930s, how did most people perceive the liberal democratic model of governance?

Weak and vulnerable

Which of the following accurately depicts the Vietnamese intelligentsia under French rule?

Western-educated Vietnamese worked as clerks, teachers, and petty officials, but had few opportunities for advancement.