World Civilizations Ch. 29

During the period of transition from Stalin to Khrushchev in 1953, what happened in East Germany?

A general uprising of workers

"Apartheid", meaning "apartness" in the ________ language, was instituted in South Africa in 1948.

Afrikaans.

In 1944, British Prime Minister Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin worked out a secret deal in which Greece was to be assigned to whose protection after World War II?

Britain

Of the various groups trying to control India post-independence, what political system did Gandhi favor?

British-style constitutionalism

The Marshall Plan allocated funds to all of the following countries except:

Czechoslovakia.

Under the premiership of General Tojo Hideki, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Dutch and British territories on _________.

December 7-8, 1941

The revolution against Egypt's Hosni Mubarak was launched by the April 6 Youth Movement, a ________ group composed of social and political activists.

Facebook.

The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council are China, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, and ______.

France.

President Harry S Truman made the fateful decision to have two experimental bombs dropped on _________on August 6 and 9, 1945.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Mao Zedong, a librarian by training, was an inspiring rural organizer, and he set about developing his ideas of revolution with the heretical idea of:

Inviting peasants into the vanguard of his movement.

The League of Nations imposed sanctions on ________ for its horrifically violent attack, aided by chemical weapons, on Ethiopia in 1935-1936.

Italy.

In the United States, businessmen such as ____________ financed research on how to prevent the reproduction of genetically "inferior" races.

JP Morgan

Massive demonstrations took place in _________ in the summer of 1968, just in advance of the Olympic Games that were being held there.

Mexico City.

_______________ is any of the various movements in philosophy and the arts characterized by a deliberate break with classical or traditional forms of thought or expression.

Modernism

_____are treaties aimed at limiting the spread of nuclear weapons.

Non-proliferation treaties

Mao was convinced that what was China's best and most reliable natural resource?

Peasant labor

______ has refused to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol benchmarks for the reduction of greenhouse gases.

The United States

During the rapid process of Hitler's consolidation of power in Germany, which of the following events took place first?

The fire in the Reichstag.

In response to the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Soviet Union formed the ______ Pact in 1955.

Warsaw.

In the First Five-Year Plan of 1928, a Communist party congress officially decreed the _________as the necessary step toward the Soviet Union's accelerated industrialization.

collectivization of agriculture

After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in the Cold War, which could be best described as

engagement through proxy states and ideological struggle.

India's second Five-Year Plan incorporated socialism into the government through nationalization of

heavy industry.

In 2010, India's middle class included anyone with:

none of these