Hist 224 Final Exam
The German Blitzkrieg referred to
A lightning war.
At the Munich Conference, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlaintook 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.
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.
As evidence of the renewed power and glory of Italy, Mussolini
Annexed Albania. Annexed Libya. Invaded Ethiopia. Supported fascist militants in the Spanish civil war.
In the years after World War I, the idea of progress
Appeared naïve and was roundly criticized.
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.
The Marshall Plan was
A U.S. financial plan to rebuild Europe and stop Soviet expansion.
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.
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.
The Kristallnacht was
a Nazi-arranged attack on thousands of Jewish stores.
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.
The German Schlieffen plan called for
a swift knockout of France, combined with defensive action against Russia.
In the 1970s, OPEC demonstrated that
an alliance in control of a valuable resource could exert control over the global economy.
The rivalry between Germany and Britain up to 1914 included
an expensive naval race. competition for foreign markets. tariff wars. competition for colonies in east and southwest Africa.
The Balfour Declaration of 1917 promised that Palestine would
become a homeland for immigrant Jews.
Deng Xiaoping
brought free market reforms to China.
In World War I, "no man's land" was the
deadly territory between opposing trenches.
The purpose of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was to
eliminate barriers to free trade.
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.
The Long March
greatly strengthened Mao Zedong's leadership position.
Each of the following statements about Sun Yatsen is true, EXCEPT that
he led the Chinese in resisting Japanese military aggression.
The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand was the catalyst that started World War I because
his death brought to a head the tensions underlying the alliances in eastern and western Europe.
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
Marcus Garvey
is a Jamaican who championed the "Back to Africa" movement.
The nonalignment movement remained weak because
many nonaligned states needed and accepted aid from either the United States or Soviet Union.
Compared to the western front, fighting on the eastern front was
more fluid, as the Germans made inroads into Russia.
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
Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser gained great international prestige when he
succeeded in retaking the Suez Canal from the British.
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.
Which of the following would NOT be a good example of an NGO?
the United Nations
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.
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 settlers in Algeria
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.
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.
The goals of feminism in industrialized nations after WWII include all the following EXCEPT
women's suffrage.
Although he called himself a Marxist, Lenin, unlike Marx, believed that the revolution
would be led by a small, highly-disciplined party acting on behalf of the workers.
Women in the United States and Britain performed all the following wartime activities EXCEPT
Direct combat.
The notion that space and time are relative to the person measuring them was first articulated in
Einstein's theory of general relativity.
Between 2005 and 2050, population is expected to continue growing in all of the following world regions EXCEPT
Europe.
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.
Who among the following was noted for his "Good Neighbor Policy"?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Satyagraha was
Gandhi's philosophy of passive resistance.
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.
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.
By the end of the nineteenth century, nationalistic movements resulted in independent sovereignty for all of the following EXCEPT
Ireland.
Who among the following emerged as the leader and principal theoretician of the Chinese communist movement?
Mao Zedong
The height of Japanese aggressions/atrocities in China was reached at the Rape of
Nanjing.
Gandhi predicted that "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
Gandhi embraced a moral philosophy of tolerance and nonviolence (ahimsa) during the twenty-five years he spent in
South Africa.
The First Five-Year Plan was initiated by
Stalin.
