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

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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

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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