modern world history 115 exam 2 - multiple choice
The Prague Spring in 1968
Attempted to decrease communist authoritarianism in eastern Europe, but was crushed by the Soviet military.
Which of the following accurately compares the Germans and Japanese during the 1930s and 1940s?
Both developed theories of racial superiority.
Which populations were the primary parties involved in the Anglo-Boer War?
British colonists in South Africa, and Afrikaners, decedents of the Dutch.
During the Boxer Rebellion:
Chinese peasants responded to hardship and poor economic conditions and vented their anger against foreigners.
Which of the following was often cited by western imperialists as evidence for the improvement of women's lives under colonial rule?
Colonial laws prohibited sati and female genital mutilation.
Which of the following European claims did the systematic implementation of the Nazi genocide challenge?
Europeans had claimed that social Darwinism supported their racial superiority.
Japan began its military expansion into mainland Asia after World War II began.
False
NATO and the Warsaw Pact were both designed to help contain the spread of communism.
False
Which of the following is a reason why historians have described World War II as a total global conflict?
Fighting in World War II took place on three continents and included soldiers from all continents except Antarctica.
Why did Henry Ford pay his automobile factory workers more than double the usual industrial wage?
Ford understood that consumers drove production and wanted his workers to be able to consume.
Following World War I, Indian nationalists embraced which of the following methods of combating colonial control?
Indians boycotted British goods, refused to pay taxes, and refused to send their children to British schools.
Which of the following describes the overall impact of the New Deal?
It created the modern welfare state, limited extremist ideologies and preserved capitalism.
What role did the US government play in response to the 1894 Pullman Strike?
It deployed federal troops to suppress the strike.
How did World War I affect the status of women in Europe and the United States?
It opened factory jobs to women, which women kept after the war. World War I helped bring about equality in workplace
Which of the following people provided the model for protest that Martin Luther King Jr. adopted in his early pursuit of civil rights?
Mohandas Gandhi
Which individual was most responsible for mobilizing a mass anticolonial movement in British-controlled India?
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Before World War II, Japan's economy was
Pre-industrial.
What did Social Darwinists mean when it spoke of "degeneration"?
Race-mixing was leading to the degeneration of the superior white race and nations.
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 encouraged the European powers to surrender their African colonies?
The European powers were too deep in debt to invest more in pacifying the discontented Africans.
Which of the following is a reason why the Algerian War of Independence shocked French citizens and the colons?
The French government had declared that Algeria was not a colony, but an integral part of France.
During World War I:
The US and many European, even democracies, suspended many democratic rights and intervened in both production and consumption.
Which of the following was the main reason why the United States became involved in the conflict between North and South Vietnam?
The United States supported South Vietnam because it feared the spread of communism throughout Southeast Asia.
Why did Indian nationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries pose a different challenge to British rule than had the 1857 Indian Rebellion?
The nationalist leaders imagined an Indian national community that encompassed the whole of British India rather than defending local identities.
Which of the following was a cause of the Great Depression?
The overproduction of manufactured items and agricultural goods and over extension of US credit.
Which of the following was a reason why Hitler and the Nazis were popular with the German electorate?
They claimed success in restoring order, weeding out undesirable populations and improving the economy.
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 issues led to the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union?
They had diametrically opposed political and economic ideologies.
Which of the following was a consequence of the mass mobilizations required by World War I?
Traditional gender boundaries were undermined as women ran households and moved into factories.
What impact did the self-determination principle of Wilsonianism have beyond Europe?
Various groups used the principle to voice anticolonial and national sentiment, but, Europeans only thought about self-determination as a principle that applied to Europe.
In what way did colonialism influence the lives of women in the colonies?
Women often took on an increasing burden of labor.
Which of the following resulted from late nineteenth-century industrial capitalism?
acceleration of economic boom-and-bust cycles. Cycles of overproduction, created booms and busts in the global economy.
What characteristic of the present-day world economy emerged during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
an unequal relationship between the industrialized world and the non-industrialized world
Which of the following was a result of the influence of the city planning movement on urban life at the turn of the twentieth century?
better sanitation and cultural amenities like museums and opera houses
What military tactics, which became famous the twentieth century, were implemented during the Anglo-Boer War?
concentration camps
Progressive reformers' goals included which of the following?
creating a more efficient society and correcting the undesirable outcomes of urbanization and industrialization
After a minor revolt of the Herero German Southwest Africa, the Germans resorted to:
extermination orders against the Herero
Of the many factors that contributed to the unsettled nature of the turn-of-the-twentieth-century world, which of the following led most directly to the Maji-Maji Revolt?
increasing anticolonial sentiments
Which group was most likely to resist the system created by Frederick Winslow Taylor?
laborers
In comparison with life in First World countries, which of the following best describes life for ordinary people in Second World countries?
lower standards of living but higher levels of economic security
How did World War I affect the relative strength of Japan?
positively, as European and American competition declined in the manufacturing sector
Which of the following contributed to the Qing dynasty's downfall?
resentment felt by peasants and laborers about the presence of European influence in the country.
Which of the following was an exception to the general rule of unrestricted migration during the late nineteenth century?
the Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States
Which Cold War event brought the world closest to nuclear war?
the Cuban Missile Crisis
Which of the following was a common response to class conflict in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century western Europe?
the growth of unions and labor parties to participate in electoral politics
European politicians refused to conscript colonial subjects during the war.
true
Introducing new types of weapons broke the stalemate on the Western Front in World War I allowing the Axis powers to quickly defeat Russia.
true
Most governments imposed few restrictions on immigration before 1914.
true
What role did African people play in governing Europe's African colonies in the post-World War I period?
Africans had little voice in colonial governance and made their opinions known through protest.
What did the authoritarian political systems of Germany, Japan, and Italy have in common?
All disliked the communist government that emerged in the Soviet Union.
Which of the following is an element common to all the totalitarian government systems.
All of them attacked or subsumed civic institutions and showed a willingness to use violence and terror against their own citizens
For which of the following reasons did President Harry Truman authorize use of the atomic bomb in 1945?
An Allied invasion of Japan would cost hundreds of thousands of American lives, since the Japanese had vowed to defend the main islands to the last man, woman, and child.
Why was the Mexican Revolution considered to be the most successful turn-of-the-twentieth-century revolution?
It transformed the country and forced later politicians to respect workers' rights and implement land reform.
How did Japan justify its conquest of neighboring territory during World War II?
Japan claimed that it was driving out European imperialists and establishing "Asia for the Asians."
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.
In order to establish a modern national identity, both Indian and Latin American intellectuals turned to which of the following?
They rewrote the histories of ancient empires and kingdoms to create a cultural basis for national identity.
Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters believed that women's suffrage in Britain would be achieved by
direct action that threatened men's property, including blowing up train stations and breaking storefront windows.
Between 1840 and 1914, which of the following led to large-scale migration within individual industrialized states' national boundaries?
factory jobs in urban centers
Economic conditions in late nineteenth-century Europe and America resembled Adam Smith's vision of laissez-faire capitalism.
false
Red Lantern women lived and fought alongside their male counterparts in the Boxer Rebellion in order to prevent the Boxers being swayed by Christian women.
false
The US and the Soviet Union emerged from World War I as the leading global economic powerhouses.
false
Unlike Asian countries, the United States has always had strict restrictions on immigration.
false
George-Eugene Haussmann was important in the early 20th century because
his remodel of Paris became the inspiration for cities around the world.
How do Germans remember the Genocide in Namibia?
in contrast to the Holocaust, which has many public memorials, the Genocide in Namibia is largely erased from history.
Urban renewal projects in the early 20th century reflected relationships between elites and workers because
in tearing down buildings to made space for parks and wide boulevards, they removed working class housing from the center of cities, forcing people to congregate in increasingly unsafe and unsanitary slums, showing the way that inequality was growing.
Which of the following was a direct response to anxiety over national identify in the United States during the early twentieth centuries?
increased support for more restrictive immigration policies
In the decades surrounding WWI, which of the following was a manifestation of European anxiety about the ethnic national identity?
the growth of anti-Semitic thought
One effect of the Anglo-Boer War was that the horrors the British perpetrated led them to question their belief in themselves as enlightened colonial rulers.
true
The Boxer Rebellion targeted foreigners and foreign symbols.
true
Which of the following groups of Africans led anticolonial movements immediately following World War II?
urban unemployed, former servicemen, western-educated indigenous elites
