Module 10

The National Liberation Front pushed for independence from France in

Algeria.

Hong Kong was a colony of which Western nation until it was given back to China in 1997?

Britain

The Berlin blockade clearly demonstrated that

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

All the following countries were influenced by the United States after World War II EXCEPT

China

Which of the following countries was NOT influenced by the Good Neighbor policy?

China

Why did the Iranians want a revolution?

The Iranians wanted to bring back the Persian Empire.

Representative democracy tends to fail in modern Africa because

colonial powers had rare given colonies any experience with it.

Despite thawing in the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin, and an openness to the West:

freedom uprisings in Hungary and Czechoslovakia were crushed by the U.S.S.R.

The nonalignment movement remained weak because

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

All the following were effects of India's independence EXCEPT

peace between the Hindus and Muslims

At Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1988:

pro-democracy protests were thwarted by Chinese troops.

The role of Nelson Mandela in South Africa included all the following EXCEPT:

revolutionary fighter

Which event led to the immediate rise of the Indian independence?

the Amritsar massacre

Which other nation implemented a similar movement to China's Cultural Revolution?

the Soviet Union

Israel gained all the following territories EXCEPT

the Suez Canal

What other country developed an idea like apartheid?

the United States

To free South Africa from apartheid, what idea did Nelson Mandela try first?

the idea of nonviolent protests

Why did the Vietnamese resent the United States?

the long Vietnam War caused resentment

The French fought to retain Algeria because

there were two million French settlers in Algeria

Gandhi and Nehru opposed the partition of India because

they believed that India could be a successful multicultural state.

Kwame Nkrumah:

was the leader of Ghana's independence from Britain.

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.

Why was Eva Perón seen as a saint to many?

Eva acted as a great spokeswoman for her husband and helped the poor.

Why was Egyptian president Anwar Sadat assassinated?

He signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1980.

Which nation did NOT have a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council?

Italy

The Marshall Plan was

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

All the following were the effects of the Balfour Declaration EXCEPT

the United States taking control of Egypt

Britain withdrew from Palestine in 1947 because

they could not resolve the conflict between Palestinians and Jews.

In The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon

urged the use of violence against colonial oppressors.

Why did the South Sahara region of Africa have so many issues gaining their independence?

Due to colonization, people and resources were gone.

The United Nations was created by meetings with all the following nations EXCEPT

Germany

In the aftermath of World War II, Germany experienced all the following EXCEPT

Germany turned to communism.

Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated by a

Hindu extremist

Why did France choose to not give Algeria independence with other colonies?

There was a large population of French citizens in residence there.

A Geneva peace conference regarding Vietnam in 1954

determined that democratic elections would be held as soon as possible.

According to the domino theory:

if one country fell to communism, other nations around it would, too.

What was the United States' opinion of the assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm?

officially supportive, but unofficially unsure

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.

What event in the 1970s caused the death of hundreds of Chinese?

the Cultural Revolution

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 U.S. missiles from Turkey.

What was so devastating about the decrease in population in Rwanda?

the country lost its ability to rebuild

As a result of the Cultural Revolution in China,

the educated elite were persecuted, and China was deprived of their talent.

The Truman Doctrine brought about all these changes EXCEPT:

the rise of a communist France

What was the effect of having a single party in Mexico's government?

the rise of extreme nationalism

What other continent develop a union of political and economic loyalty?

Europe

Which island nation considered itself to be the true Republic of China?

Taiwan

The Allied powers in World War II began planning the United Nations in 1943 at

Tehran.