History test 3!
The United States military began to bomb North Vietnam in 1964 in retaliation for what alleged event?
. Attacks on U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Estimates of those slaughtered in the brutal "Rape of _______" of 1937-1938 range between 200,000 and 300,000 people
. Nanjing.
Hitler implemented his planned "Endlösung" ("Final Solution") of European Jews beginning in January ________.
1942.
The peak of the global youth movement came in August ______, when the Woodstock Festival in New York State drew an estimated 300,000-500,000 attendees.
1969.
Only two centuries after its beginnings, the pattern of capitalist modernity characterized by market exchange and consumerism encompassed roughly _______% of the world's population.
50.
What was the immediate political effect on the United States of the Tet Offensive?
America withdrew all troops from Vietnam by 1969.
The planned massacre of _______ was the one large-scale atrocity of World War I.
Armenians.
The German army in Poland had pioneered a new kind of warfare referred to as lightning war
Blitzkrieg
When U.S. President John F. Kennedy said "Ich bin ein Berliner," he was protesting what Soviet action?
Building the Berlin Wall.
Into the early 2000s, the Chinese government touted itself as a "harmonious society", _____.
But it does not tolerate "disruptive elements" advocating independence for ethnic and religious minorities.
In 1994, President Clinton completed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Mexico and ____.
Canada.
By the 1990s, the United States' economy had become an even deeper "sinkhole", this time for textiles, toys, and simple electrical and electronic devices made in _____.
China.
What did McCarthy mean by the phrase "fellow travelers" when he accused President Truman of tolerating them?
Communist sympathizers
Russian president Vladimir Putin took advantage of protests against Ukraine's Viktor Yanukovych to annex ________ in March 2014.
Crimea.
What is described as the Arab catastrophe of 1947-49?
Displacement of Palestinians from Israel.
What criteria does the United Nations use to distinguish between first, second, and third tier nations?
Economic power
Although as many as 169 nations participated in the 2005 Kyoto Protocol, which region is the only one likely to reduce its emissions by the promised 5.2 percent?
European Union
What "first" did Yuri Gagarin accomplish for the Soviet Union in 1961?
First person to go into outer space.
The Brezhnev Doctrine of using military force to keep Soviet satellites in the Warsaw Pact was created in response to an uprising in
Hungary.
By importing so many goods from China, the United States helped that nation to do what in the 1990s?
Industrialize
Despite the stated aims of the invasion of ________ in March 2003, no weapons of mass destruction were discovered in that country.
Iraq.
In 1991, U.S. President George H. W. Bush sent troops to invade Iraq, after that country had invaded
Kuwait
As a result of the Versailles Peace Treaty which brought World War I to an end, a new supra-national _________was entrusted with the maintenance of peace.
League of Nations
Islamists achieved breakthroughs in which two Middle Eastern countries/territories in the first decade of the 21[st] century?
Lebanon and the Gaza Strip
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed by the U.S. government under the leadership of
Lyndon B. Johnson
Ending in February 1943, the Battle of Stalingrad:
Marked the turning point in the European war, with a Soviet victory.
In 1920, the _________gave American women the right to vote.
Nineteenth Amendment
_____are treaties aimed at limiting the spread of nuclear weapons.
Non-proliferation treaties
Since the early 2000s, the so-called BRIC countries, Brazil, Russia, Indonesia, and China, as well as Turkey and _______, have been added to the first tier of global economic powers.
Paraguay.
Mao was convinced that what was China's best and most reliable natural resource?
Peasant labor
he 1954 Supreme Board ruling on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, overturned the previous _____, which had upheld the notion that separate but equal facilities were constitutional.
Plessy v. Ferguson ruling from 1896
In 1939, the German army pioneered a new kind of warfare, a "Blitzkrieg" or "lightning war", in _______.
Poland.
In March 1930, Mohandas Gandhi protested a British tax on Indian ______ by embarking on a famous 24-day march.
Salt.
What position did George C. Marshall hold in the U.S. government that allowed him to draft the Marshall Plan of economic recovery for Europe?
Secretary of State
The "Stinger" was a(n) _______, which the United States was clandestinely supplying to Afghan fighters in the attempt to expel Soviet occupying forces.
Shoulder-fired missile.
_________ was a leading voice for women's liberation and equality, and author of The Second Sex (1949).
Simone de Beauvoir.
In his struggle for Indian independence, Mohandas Gandhi pursued a strategy of "satyagraha" or "________
Soul-force.
During the "Great Leap Forward," what were peasants encouraged to produce in their backyards?
Steel
In the United States anger grew out of financial panic in the economic crisis of 2008. Resentment of corporate greed and federal economic stimulus packages created the new political party, ___________ made up mostly of white, middle-class, older, and evangelical Christian voters.
Tea Party
As in many other places in the past decade, young people in ________ demonstrated a faith in democracy in 2009.
Tehran.
One of the most significant reasons for the continued stagnation of the British economy after World War I was:
That nearly half of its budget in the interwar period went to paying off debt from the war.
After World War I, the most strategically important focus of British and French colonialism was _________.
The Middle East
The Schlieffen Plan, implemented by the Germans at beginning of World War I, came close to succeeding, but it ultimately failed, for all of the following reasons except:
The Netherlands intervened on behalf of its neighbor, Belgium, threatening to invade Germany.
By 1992, al-Qaeda (Arabic for "__________") had emerged as the principal terrorist organization operating on a global scale.
The People.
The League of Nations, created in the aftermath of the "Great War", included all of the following countries as member states except:
The United States.
Among the critics of globalization, labor unions were concerned about what trend in the U.S. economy in the 1990s?
The decline of American manufacturing jobs
Israel began building a border fence in 2002 along ________, supplemented in places by a wall of concrete slabs, and it was completed in 2013.
The entire length of the occupied West Bank.
What did Mao say was the purpose of the "Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom" campaign in 1957?
To allow intellectuals to offer criticism of the government.
In the United States, during the 1950s, what did veterans use their G.I. Bills for?
To pay for college
Former KGB officer_____________________ was president of Russia 2000-2008 and became president again after 2012.
Vladimir Putin
One of the recipients of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was Tawakkol Karman, leader of the Women Journalists Without Chains protest movement in ______.
Yemen.
Perestroika (restructuring) and_____(openness) were the two economic and political policies enacted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s in order to revitalize Communism.
glasnost
Russia was able to recover from its GDP depreciation in 1999-2001 because of its large reserves of
oil and gas.
The anti-Vietnam War movement in the U.S. began
on college campuses.
Under the rule of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, what kind of government system remained in place, in spite of middle-class protests?
socialism
The sharp rise in oil prices and the economic downturn it brought about would ultimately lead in the late 1970s to a phenomenon referred to as_____, a period of high inflation rate but with low economic growth rate.
stagflation
The Tea Party movement in the United States was largely concerned with what it saw as the excessive power of
the Federal government.
The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance was designed by _______ to integrate its economies with its allies.
the Soviet Union
From the very first, World War I was what is known as a _________, a conflict in which the belligerent parties engage in the complete mobilization of available resources in order to secure a military victory.
total war
What was stagflation, in reference to the 1970s?
A mixture of an economic downturn and price inflation.
Match the region or state with the Cold War superpower with whom it allied. _______ North Korea A. Soviet Union _______ Cuba B. United States _______ Greece _______ Britain _______ Taiwan _______ Poland
A,A,B, B,B,A
Republicans in the US Congress shut down the government for 16 days in 2013 in a failed effort to defund the ________ Health Care Act, passed into law in 2010.
Affordable.
Osama Bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, had earned his military skill and reputation by fighting the Soviets in
Afghanistan.
In 2002, the U.S. military budget was larger than the military budget of the next eight countries combined.
True
The Korean War was settled with a peace treaty in 1953 that permanently divided the region at the 38 th Parallel, granting sovereignty to both nationalists in the south and communists in the north.
True
By the early 2000s, the chaotic agricultural sector combined with the repression of opposition to one-party rule had plunged Robert Mugabe's __________ into a serious economic crisis.
Zimbabwe.