AP World: Chapter 35,

US policies toward Latin America included

"dollar diplomacy" and the Good Neighbor Policy

The allies had invaded German colonies in Africa by

1914

In what year did India gain its independence?

1947

In what year did Ghana become independent from Britain?

1957

What year saw the granting of independence to most former French African colonies?

1960

IN South Africa, how much of the population did whites make up?

20%

By the end of world war one, how many people from Africa had served in the French army?

480,000

In South Africa, how much land was reserved for the whites?

88%

Which of these regions gained independence first?

A

Maoism was

A political ideology that held that peasants were the foundation for a successful communist revolution

Which of the following was NOT a factor in Japanese postwar economic growth?

Abundant natural reserves of oil and gas fueled postwar industrialization.

The regime of the iranian Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was overthrown because

All of them

Which of the following Middle Eastern countries gained independence from Its European colonial power soon after World War I?

All of them.

Which of the following states has Israel fought and defeated?

All of them.

Which body of water is bordered by Turkmenistan?

Caspian Sea

Which of these nations gained independence last?

E

Which eastern European communist state ceased to exist shortly after the collapse of communism?

East Germany

In Africa, as in southeast Asia...............resisted decolonization, fighting bloody wars.

France

What president is most closely associated with the Good Neighbor Policy?

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The May Fourth Movement

Galvanized the Chinese against foreign interference

The Indian Act of 1937

Gave the institutions of a self governing state to India, although the british government still exercised overall control

The first sub-Saharan country to achieve independence from colonial rule was

Ghana

The conflict between Jews and Muslims over control of Palestine was a result of

Great Britain's conflicting promises to Palestinian Arabs and European Jews.

The long March

Greatly strengthened Mao Zedong's leadership position

Which body of water separates the Sinai peninsula from Saudi Arabia?

Gulf of Aqaba

What was NOT one of the foundations of Gandhi's prefered methods for changing or improving the Indian State?

Heavy industrialization

Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated by

Hindu extremist

Which of the following is true of the HIV epidemic?

In most cases, the anti-retroviral therapy HAART can prolong life indefinitely

In the decades following World War 1, nationalism was most powerful in Asia in the regions of...

India and China

What happened in December 2001 that brought China closer to gaining global economic superpower status?

It joined the WTO.

Name the Asian countries that were part of the "big five" in the league of nations?

Japan

Manchuko was the

Japanese puppet state in the former Manchuria

Which city was occupied by Israel after the 1948-49 war?

Jerusalem

Who launched the Northern Expedition?

Jiang Jieshi

The Kikuyu are an ethnic population within the African country of

Kenya

Mexican president ____________ nationalized his country's oil industry, thus posing a challenge to the United States policy of nonintervention In Latin America affairs

Lazaro Cardenas

Which new nation appeared out of the southern territory of Yugoslavia?

Macedonia

The former teacher and Librarian that became he leader of the Chinese communist movement was

Mao Zedong

One of the greatest proponents of pan-Africanism was

Marcus Garvey

Which African colony was the first granted independence by the French?

Morocco Tunisia

The Great Depression aggravated the tense situation between Muslims and Hindus in India in part because

Muslims perceived that they were economically controlled by the Hindu Majority of India.

Which country granted independence to Brunei in 1984?

Netherlands

Which nation fought to maintain control of Indonesia?

Netherlands

In which of the following groups did ideas regarding African nationalism generate?

New Elite

"land of the pure" refers to

Pakistan

Muhammad Ali Jinnah called for the creation of

Pakistan

Satyagraha was

Passive resistance developed by Gandhi

The "Mukden incident"

Provided Japan with the fabricated excuse to send troops into Manchuria

In 1928 the Japanese government signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which

Renounced wars as a tool of National policy

Which successor state is the largest of the former Soviet republics?

Russian Federation

Which body of water is located on the western edge of the Golan Heights?

Sea of Galilee

Which of the following is NOT a reason that Arab nationalism failed to materialize?

Some Arab states aligned with the United States.

After world war 1, colonial powers

Sought to make the colonies dependent on the European economy

Which European power freed the colony of Equatorial Guinea in 1968?

Spain

All of the following African colonies were compelled by European colonial powers to participate in the Great War EXCEPT the

Spanish Colonies

Which nation besides Israel claims the Golan Heights as its territory?

Syria

Which of these pairs of nations had territory occupied by Israel after the October War of 1973?

Syria and Egypt

The most influential organization dedicated to the end of British rule in India was the

The Indian National Congress

The Founding of the Chinese Communist was directly influenced by

The Soviet Union

The nationalist government of china was challenged by all of the following except

The economic hardship caused by the Great Depression

Sun Yatsen's plan for China included all of the following EXCEPT

The establishment of a communist, totalitarian government

Which of the following is true of the Taliban?

They called for a ban on television, movie theaters, photographs, and most styles of music.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of modern global corporations?

They operate under the legal constraints of the nations where they are located.

Africans were participants in world war one because

They were bound by colonial ties to European powers.

The Great Depression led Japan to

Turn toward a militaristic government whose goal was the domination of East Asia.

Which new state shares borders with Botarus, Poland, Romania, and Moldova?

Ukraine

What was the central problem for Latin America during this period of postwar decolonization?

United States military intervention

Which of the following is NOT one of Asia's "little tigers"?

Vietnam

Indian nationals were influenced by

Woodrow Wilson

Which former Belgian colony gained its independence in 1960?

Zaire

The Jewish state now called Israel was created in 1948 as a result of

a United Nations plan to divide Palestine

The Great Leap Forward represented

a communist Chinese program to equal the industrial production of developed nations.

The decolonization effort in Africa was accompanied by

a movement to promote Negritude ("Blackness") to revive Africa's culture and traditions,

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

a significant number of female babies go missing.

What type of structure did Kwame Nkrumah envision as a means of strengthening Africa?

a strong political union

Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser gained great international prestige when he

aligned Egypt with the United States.

In the 1970s, OPEC demonstrated that

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

How does Nkrumah characterize the contemporary state of African politics?

as both heartening and disturbing

The Balfour Declaration of 1917 promised that Palestine would

become a homeland for immigrant Jews.

Deng Xiaoping

brought free market reforms to China

How did Deng Xiaoping push economic development in China?

by opening China to foreign influences and capitalist values

What is the context of the document?

civil war China

Which of the following was the purpose of the Maastricht Treaty?

creation of the EU

The Bandung Conference in 1955 focused on

developing "nonaligned" alternatives to choosing sides between the U.S. and Soviet Union. coordinating a comprehensive strategy to end colonialism in Asia.

The international agreement made in Kyoto to cut greenhouse gas emissions

did not require developing countries to reduce their emissions.

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

eliminate barriers to free trade.

What kind of source is the document?

government document

All of the following have contributed to the dramatic growth of the Chinese economy since the late 1970s EXCEPT

maintaining Chinese ownership of domestic resources by discouraging foreign capital inflows.

The nonalignment movement remained weak because

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

Argentina in the late 1970s and early 1980s

moved steadily toward a multiparty system.

What kind of bias, if any, is reflected in this document?

no discernible bias

The largest migrations in the second half of the twentieth Century consisted of

refugees fleeing war.

One obiective that the EU and ASEAN share in common is a commitment to

removing barriers to trade between member states.

Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated because

she permitted an attack on Sikh extremists at the sacred Golden Temple.

Child-labor servitude is most pronounced in

south and southeast Asia.

The Taliban emerged, at least in part, out of which of the following?

the Afghan-Soviet War

Who is the author of the document?

the Chinese Communist Party

Who is the intended audience of the document?

the Chinese people

The power of Islam as a means of staving off secular influences was demonstrated by..........in 1979

the Iranian revolution

Besides the United States, which of the following nations strongly objected to attempts to wrest the Suez Canal from Egyptian control in 1956?

the Soviet Union

As a result of the Cultural Revolution in China,

the educated elite were persecuted, and China was deprived of their talent.

What phenomena most sparked universal recognition and acceptance of the concept of human rights?

the horrors of WWII and the Nazi regime

Pan-Africanism is an idea that advocated

the unification of all people of African descent around the globe into one African state

The French fought to retain 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.

Britain withdrew from Palestine in 1947 because

they could not resolve the conflict between Palestinians and Jews.

What is the purpose of the document?

to legalize gender equality in marriage

Which of the following is the principle purpose of the UN?

to maintain international peace and security

In THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH, Frantz Fanon

urged the use of violence against colonial oppressors.

In 1947, India and Pakistan

were partitioned into two separate states

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 reduced to the status of wage laborers and crowded onto tribal reserves.

Which of the following was not among the social changes pursued by the feminist movement in industrialized nations after WWII?

women's suffrage