History Final Exam chapters 36, 37, 38

The Marshall Plan was

A U.S. financial plan to rebuild Europe and stop Soviet expansion.

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

Immediate provocation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor w

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. All these answers are correct.

In 1938, Germany sent troops into what country and forced its leaders to accept the Anschluss?

Austria

The Berlin blockade clearly demonstrated that

Britain and the United States would not be intimidated into abandoning Berlin.

Women in the United States and Britain performed all the following wartime activities EXCEPT

Direct combat.

One significant result of the electronic information age is that

English has become the primary language of global communications. social and political isolation has been vastly reduced. politically repressive regimes such as that of China are trying to control the Internet. the gulf between the technological haves and have-nots has widened. All these answers are correct.

Between 2005 and 2050, population is expected to continue growing in all of the following world regions EXCEPT

Europe.

Operation Barbarossa in 1941 was code for the

German invasion of the Soviet Union.

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

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

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 US missiles from Turkey.

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.

In The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon6

Urged the use of violence against colonial oppressors

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

a significant number of girl babies are missing.

In the 1970s, OPEC demonstrated that

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

The Balfour Declaration of 1917 promised that Palestine would

become a homeland for immigrant Jews.

Deng Xiaoping

brought free market reforms to China.

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

eliminate barriers to free trade.

The nonalignment movement remained weak because

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

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.

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.

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.

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