World Civilizations Since 1500 Final Exam Review - Previous Quiz Questions

In addition to fighting off Allied forces, the Ottoman empire faced insurrection from the

Arabs.

In 1938, Germany sent troops into what country and forced its leaders to accept the Anschluss?

Austria

At the Paris Peace Conference,

Britain and France were determined to strip Germany of military power.

The Berlin blockade clearly demonstrated that

Britain and the United States would not be intimidated into abandoning Berlin.

Which of the following would NOT be a good example of an NGO?

The United Nations Good Examples: Amnesty International, Greenpeace, Human Rights Watch, and The Red Cross

According to Freud, the root of neurotic behavior was

a conflict between conscious and unconscious mental processes.

As a result of China's one-child policy,

a significant number of girl babies are missing.

immediate provocation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was

an American-led oil embargo against Japan.

In the 1970s, OPEC demonstrated that

an alliance in control of a valuable resource could exert control over the global economy.

In the years after World War I, the idea of progress

appeared naïve and was roundly criticized.

The Balfour Declaration of 1917 promised that Palestine would

become a homeland for immigrant Jews.

The Long March

greatly strengthened Mao Zedong's leadership position.

Ironically, Lenin's New Economic Policy of 1921

implemented free market reforms.

Which of the following was NOT one of the new artistic movements of the twentieth century?

impressionism Were artistic movements: expressionism, cubism, dadaism, and surrealism

The nonalignment movement remained weak because

many nonaligned states needed and accepted aid from either the United States or Soviet Union.

A troubling economic problem in the 1920s was the depressed state of agriculture caused by

overproduction and falling prices.

Dreadnoughts were designed primarily to

protect merchant shipping and conduct high-seas battles.

The purpose of alliances such as the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente was to

provide mutual defense and support in case of attack.

The purpose of the Twenty-One Demands was to

reduce China to the status of a Japanese protectorate.

Which of the following was NOT a military technology used in World War I?

rocket-powered missiles Were used: machine guns, armored tanks, airplanes, and poisonous gas

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 with draw their missiles in exchange for Kennedy's pledge not to invade Cuba and his agreement to withdraw U.S. missiles from Turkey.

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.

Britain withdrew from Palestine in 1947 because

they could not resolve the conflict between Palestinians and Jews.

The battle of Gallipoli was significant in that

this British-directed debacle cost the lives of many Canadian, Australian, and New Zealander troops.

In response to the Great Depression, economist John Maynard Keynes

urged the government to expand the money supply and undertake public works to provide jobs.

In The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon

urged the use of violence against colonial oppressors.

Women in the United States and Britain performed all the following wartime activities EXCEPT

Direct combat. They did: Industrial work, Frontline support, Training and transport piloting, and Ambulance and hospital work

Between 2005 and 2050, population is expected to continue growing in all of the following world regions EXCEPT

Europe. Growth in: Africa, Asia, North America, and Latin America

Who among the following was noted for hi "Good Neighbor Policy"?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Operation Barbarossa in 1941 was code for the

German invasion of the Soviet Union.

The key factor in the decision of the U.S. to enter World War I was

Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare against the United States.

By the end of the nineteenth century, nationalistic movements resulted in independent sovereignty for all of the following EXCEPT

Ireland Independent Sovereignty: Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, and Italy

Who among the following emerged as the leader and principal theoretician of the Chinese communist movement?

Mao Zedong

The height of the Japanese aggressions/atrocities in China was reached at the Rape of

Nanjing.

Gandhi predicted the "rivers of blood" would flow in the wake of the creation of

Pakistan.

Which of the following is NOT a good example of the trend towards the Americanization of global culture?

Rolex Watches Good Examples: Pizza Hut, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, and Pepsi

The notion that space and time are relative to the person measuring them was first articulated in

Einstein's theory of general relativity.

The First Five-Year Plan was initiated by

Stalin.

The German Schlieffen plan called for

a swift knockout of France, combined with defensive action against Russia.

Deng Xiaoping

brought free market reforms to China.

In World War I, "no man's land" was the

deadly territory between opposing trenches.

Werner Heisenberg

first discussed the uncertainty principle.

One of the most significant results of the artistic experimentation of the 1920s and 1930s was that

generally accepted standards that distinguished between "good" and "bad: art disappeared.

Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser gained great international prestige when he

succeed in retaking the Suez Canal from the British.

In the decades following the Great War, the economies of most African colonies were dominated by

the export of unprocessed raw materials or minimally processed cash crops.

The main reason France fought to retain its colony of Algeria is because

there were two million French settler in Algeria.

Conflicts between native Kikuyu and British settlers intensified in Kenya after World War II because

white settlers had seized the best farmland for years, and the Kikuyu had been crowded onto tribal reserves and reduced to the status of wage laborers.

The goals of feminism in industrialized nations after WWII include all the following EXCEPT

woman's suffrage. Included: Equal pay for equal work, Access to birth control and abortion, and Legal equality

Although he called himself Marxist, Lenin, unlike Marx, believed that the revolution

would be led by a small, highly-disciplined party acting on behalf of the workers.

The Kristallnacht was

a Nazi-arranged attack on thousand of Jewish stores.

The Marshall Plan was

a U.S. financial plan to rebuild Europe and stop Soviet expansion.

The German Blitzkrieg referred to

a lightning war.

The purpose of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was to

eliminate barriers to free trade.

Each of the following statements about Sun Yatsen is true, EXCEPT that

he led the Chinese in resisting Japanese military aggression. True: he was leading opponent of the Qing dynasty; he proclaimed a Chinese republic in 1912; he authored Three Principles of the People; he established the Nationalist People's Party, or Guomindang

The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand was the catalyst that started World War I because

his death brought to a head the tension underlying the alliances in eastern and western Europe.

Marcus Garvey

is a Jamaican who championed the "Back to Africa" movement.

Compared to the western front, fighting on the eastern front was

more fluid, as the Germans made inroads into Russia.

Gandhi embraced a moral philosophy of tolerance and nonviolence (ahimsa) during the twenty-five years he spent in

South Africa.

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.

As evidence of the renewed power and glory of Italy, Mussolini

All of the Above Annexed Albania, Annexed Libya, Invaded Ethiopia, Supported fascist militants in the Spanish civil war

One significant result of the electronic information age is that

All of the Above English has become the primary language of global communications; Social and political isolation has been vastly reduced; politically repressive regimes such as that of China are trying to control the Internet; and The gulf between the technological and have-nots has widened

The rivalry between Germany and Britain up to 1914 included

All of the Above an expensive naval race, competition for foreign markets, tariff wars, and competition for colonies in east and southwest Africa.

Which of the following is NOT true regarding Africa during the decades after the Great War?

Europeans promoted rapid, intensive industrialization among their colonial possessions. True: colonial taxation policies were designed to drive Africans into the labor market; using African labor and tax monies, European built economic infrastructure; the Great Depression exposed the vulnerability of dependent colonial economies; in areas with extensive white settlement, settler agriculture was most prominent

Satyagraha was

Gandhi's philosophy of passive resistance.

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. True: Consumption becomes a means of self-expression as well as a source of personal identity; Modern consumption is shaped by wants and desires rather than by needs or necessitates; Where products scarcely vary from one another, consumers are encouraged to make purchases based on brand names; Global consumerism threatens local and indigenous cultures

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. Characteristics: They seek out the cheapest labor and raw materials; They prefer locations with few, if any, environmental laws; They favor unrestricted free trade; They scatter operations all over the world

What effect did World War I have on the status of women?

Women in many countries received the vote in the years after the war.