GPS 320 Quiz #5

Which of the following is a similarity between the decolonization experiences of Algeria and South Africa?

Both countries had large numbers of European settlers, which prevented a smooth transfer of power

Under what circumstances did the Cold War become a "hot" war?

It became a hot war when the United States and the Soviet Union armed their Third World allies and encouraged proxy wars.

Which of the following people provided the model for protest that Marin Luther King, Jr. adopted in his pursuit of civil rights?

Mohandas Gandhi

Which of the following was one of the principal causes of World War II

Resentment lingered over the punitive treaties imposed after World War I

Which of the following is a reason why some First World powers supported South Africa during the 1950s and 1960s?

South Africa was anticommunist

Which Cold War event brought the world closest to nuclear war?

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Which of the following was the main reason that the United States became involved int he conflict between North and South Vietnam?

The United States supported South Vietnam because it feared the spread of communism throughout Southeast Asia

During the Cold War, what did the United States and the Soviet Union expect from Third World countries?

They expected them to join one or the other of the two opposing Cold War camps.

Which of the following groups of Africans led anti-colonial movements immediately following World War II

Urban unemployed, former servicemen, Western-educated indigenous elites

During the 1950s, Americans expressed anxiety about communism in which of the following ways?

Anticommunist rhetoric led to attacks on civil liberties of individuals suspected of being communists or communist sympathizers

How did the Arab-Israeli War of 1947-1948 help shatter the legitimacy of Arab ruling elites?

Arab states were poorly prepared to take on the Israeli Defense Force and eventually lost territory granted to them by the United Nations' partition.

Which of the following encouraged the European powers to surrender their African colonies?

European powers were too deep in debt to invest more in pacifying the discontented Africans

True/False: India and China both achieved political independence peacefully.

False

True/False: NATO and the Warsaw Pact were both designed to help contain the spread of communism

False

True/False: The Cold War superpowers stayed out of civil wars in Third World countries, believing that such conflicts ought to be resolved internally.

False

What was the Marshall Plan's goal?

Its goal was to limit the appeal of communism in Europe by providing grants for reconstruction to democratic governments

Which of the following factors encouraged the British to transfer power quickly to the Indian National Congress following World War II?

The threat of radicalized peasant uprisings prompted the British to expedite the transfer of power to the middle-class leaders of the Indian National Congress

Which of the following led European Jews to migrate to Palestine during the first half of the twentieth century?

They believed that returning to their place of origin would lead to self-determination.

Which of the following issues led to the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union?

They had diametrically opposed political and economic ideologies