World History Test 3

Which of the following best describes a corporatist political system?

A system in which the state establishes political parties and encourages interest groups such as chambers of commerce and trade unions to associate with those parties

Which of the following resulted from late-nineteenth-century industrial capitalism?

Acceleration of economic boom-and-bust cycles

What role did African people play in governing Europe's African colonies in the post-World War I period?

Africans had little voice in colonial governance and made their opinions known through protest.

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

All disliked the left-wing government that emerged in the Soviet Union.

Which of the following was called for in the People's Charter?

Annual parliamentary elections, universal male suffrage, and the secret ballot

What did Bismarck of Germany and Cavour of Italy have in common?

Both were conservative prime ministers who exploited liberal national sentiment to promote unification.

In which African colonies was resistance to colonial rule the strongest?

Colonies in which Europeans had conquered African peoples, regardless of the manner in which Europeans ruled

Which of the following attitudes created tension between the concept of nation-state and colonial empire?

Colonies were seen as subordinate to their mother countries, often with no representation in their governments

What military tactics, which became more common during the twentieth century, were implemented during the Anglo-Boer War?

Concentration camps and guerrilla campaigns

Progressive reformers' goals included which of the following?

Creating a more efficient society and correcting the undesirable outcomes of urbanization and industrialization

Between 1840 and 1914, which of the following led to large-scale migration within individual industrialized states' national boundaries?

Factory jobs in urban centers

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Islamic reform movements were encouraged by proximity to major trade routes and the growth of capitalism.

False

Introducing new types of weapons broke the stalemate on the Western Front in World War I.

False

Modern artists, such as Picasso and Schönberg, turned increasingly to traditional realism in order to appeal to the masses.

False

The idea of "the primitive" was used by early-twentieth-century European artists to symbolize which of the following?

Forces that reason could not control

Why did Henry Ford pay his automobile factory workers more than double the usual industrial wage?

Ford understood that consumers drove production and wanted his workers to be able to consume.

In which of the following situations were factors like a shared language, insufficient to create a national bond?

Great Britain's relationship with Ireland

What allowed King Menelik II of Ethiopia to defeat Italian forces?

He was able to equip his loyal, united armies with European weapons.

Which British colony served as a model for later European endeavors by developing the colony's infrastructure to maximize profits from trade?

India

After the Civil War, how did the United States encourage the incorporation of its western territories?

It encouraged settlers to move to the hinterlands with promises of cheap land for homesteading.

What was one of the reasons for the collapse of the Taiping Rebellion?

It failed to attract strong support from the landed gentry and other elite groups.

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

Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points most directly influenced which provision of the Treaty of Versailles?

Organization of League of Nations

The goals of European reactionaries during the Restoration period included which of the following?

Rejection of change

What was the primary reason that Russia expanded south into the Caucasus and east into Manchuria?

Russia was responding to perceived threats from rivals in those areas.

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

Terror

How did the outcome of the War of 1812 hasten the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans east of the Mississippi?

The British withdrew their support from south of the Great Lakes, leaving the Shawnee at the mercy of land hungry American settlers

Which of the following was an exception to the general rule of unrestricted migration during the late nineteenth century?

The Chinese Exclusion Act in the US

Which of the following developments contributed heavily to the growth of nationalism in nineteenth-century Europe?

The expansion of literacy and the periodical press

Both Usman dan Fodio and Muhammad Ibn abd al-Wahhab drew on which of the following inspirations for Islamic reform?

The life of Muhammad and early Islamic practices

In what way did nineteenth-century nationalist goals prove destructive in the twentieth century?

The nationalist goals of different groups proved incompatible with one another.

Which of the following was a common factor in the Shawnee, Maya, and Indian rebellions against colonial control?

The use of prophecy and charismatic leadership

Viewed collectively, the actions of rebels and dissidents in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries reflected which of the following?

Their dislike for capitalism and colonist

In early nineteenth-century Europe, what hampered the implementation of the nationalistic idea that the location of "the people" should form the basis for setting national boundaries?

There was no agreement as to who "the people" should be.

Indian intellectuals used Western culture to promote Indian nationalism in which of the following ways?

They facilitated the spread of nationalist ideas throughout British India by creating modern cultural forms such as newspapers, pamphlets, and journals.

How did Latin American governments respond to the decline of their export economies and access to foreign capital during the 1920s and 1930s?

They worked to make domestic industry their main engine of economic growth.

What did Pan-Islamism ask of Muslims?

To put aside differences between Shiite and Sunni and work against European aggression

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

Traditional gender boundaries were undermined.

Both Chinese and Native American rebellions were inspired by popular religious movements.

True

Imperial expansion often met resistance from communities being incorporated into new empires.

True

In the Caste War, the Maya were finally defeated because the Mexican war with the United States ended in 1848.

True

One effect of the Anglo-Boer War was that the horrors the British perpetrated led them to question their belief in themselves as enlightened colonial rulers.

True

The German government's unwillingness to tax its citizens at a rate similar to that of other European countries following World War I helped lead to hyperinflation.

True

The Ottoman massacre and deportation of over a million Armenians during World War I is generally considered to have been the world's first genocide.

True

Which of the following was the ultimate result of China's unwillingness to change its political and economic systems?

Vulnerability to external aggression and internal instability

Why were women especially drawn to Fourier's proposed reforms?

Women longed for a way to address the social problems of poverty, prostitution, and the exploitation of workers.

Which of the following contributed to the Qing dynasty's downfall?

peasants and laborers resented the high cost of reform