history ch 23
______________ virtually ended the importation of slaves to Brazil.
. British warships.
China's "one-child" policy has likely contributed to its current demographic situation, with ______ male children born for every 100 females.
117..
Spanish colonialism in Latin America finally ended in which of the following decades?
1820s
When did slavery end in Brazil?
1888
The massive "Tet" Offensive by Vietcong forces in February ________ may have contributed to President Johnson's decision not to seek another term.
1968
By the end of 1980, 80% of Poland's workers had joined a labor union called "Solidarity", founded by the electrician _________.
Lech Walesa..
After Khrushchev was ousted from power by the Soviet Politburo, _______ rose in his place.
Leonid Brezhnev..
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in ________ in August 1963.
Washington, D.C..
"Apartheid", meaning "apartness" in the ________ language, was instituted in South Africa in 1948.
Afrikaans
The ____________ was the site of the showdown between Mexican forces and Texans intent on independence.
Alamo
_____________ was coined to refer to politically unstable and economically poor Latin American countries.
Banana republics
After arduous negotiations, Mikhail Gorbachev agreed with President ________ and the other state presidents to a new federal union treaty for the Soviet Union in spring 1991.
Boris Yeltsin..
By 1800, the viceroyalty of La Plata, with the rising port of _________, had grown through contraband trade with Great Britain.
Buenos Aires
The first treaty between an Arab country (Egypt) and Israel was signed at _________ in 1979.
Camp David, Maryland..
Salvador Allende, the president of _____, was deposed and murdered in a CIA-directed coup in 1973.
Chile
_____ detonated its first nuclear device in October 1964.
China..
Some 235,000 _________ "coolies" were brought to Peru, Cuba, and Costa Rica, working in silver mines, sugar and cotton plantations, and later on railroads—and only about 10% of them returned home.
Chinese
Which of the following ethnic/social groups benefitted the most from independence?
Creoles
From 1966 until 1969, the _________ Revolution in China took as its talisman the "little red book" of Chairman Mao.
Cultural..
In Hungary, János Kádár presided over a form of "_____ communism", characterized by a relatively relaxed attitude toward criticism of the regime and by limited market reforms.
Goulash
Independence and the end of Spanish rule initially benefited which Latin American trading partner the most?
Great Britain
Massive demonstrations took place in _________ in the summer of 1968, just in advance of the Olympic Games that were being held there.
Mexico City..
Who launched the movement for independence in New Spain (modern Mexico)?
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
More than 1 million Biafrans were killed in a civil war within ______ during the late 1960s.
Nigeria..
The Berlin Wall was breached by jubilant Germans, of both the East and the West, on the night of ______, 1989.
November 9..
___________ is the right to name bishops.
Patronato
The proclamation of a Brazilian republic resulted in which two political constituencies?
Provincial federalism vs. supporters of a strong central presidency.
By the late 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union had entered into a period of relations known as "détente", a French term meaning ________.
Release of Tension..
The only Eastern European country whose leader (and his wife) was executed when the regime fell in 1989 was _______.
Romania..
_________ was a leading voice for women's liberation and equality, and author of The Second Sex (1949).
Simone de Beauvoir..
Over Soviet protests, the United States began to develop its Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), nicknamed "______" after the popular movie of the same name.
Star Wars..
Simón Bolívar's "Gran Colombia" encompassed the modern states of _______________.
b. Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Panama.
The Monroe Doctrine stated that...
the United States government would not tolerate European attempts to re-colonize the new republics of the western hemisphere..
The ambitious plans of Chile's president José Manuel Balmaceda Fernández fell apart as soon as 1891, due to:
c. A coup against him, led by conservative landowners, and his subsequent suicide..
______________ ended slavery in Brazil in 1888.
central government
In the five years after the abolition of slavery, the Brazilian economy _____________.
expanded
Generally speaking, the 19th century Latin American economy revolved around _______.
exports
The worldwide gay and lesbian liberation movement began in ___ 1969, with resistance to a police raid on the Stonewall Inn bar in New York City.
june
_______________ was a European-backed emperor of Mexico from 1864-1867.
maxamillan
Under the leadership of _______________, the Mexican Revolution was ended late in 1920.
Álvaro Obregón.
