Quiz 2
The early Twentieth Century Chinese plan for reform was the a) Mandate of Heaven b) imperial restoration c) "self-strengthening movement" d) Great Leap Forward
"self-strengthening movement"
The Lusitania was a) an American ocean liner sunk by the Germans in 1915 b) the sister ship to the Titanic c) a British ocean liner sunk by the Germans in 1915 d) torpedoed by the Germans but managed to limp into Liverpool
A British ocean liner sunk by the Germans in 1915
Mandhukai Khatun was a) a Mongolian queen who resisted the Ming incursion into Mongolian lands b) the daughter of Kublai Khan c) a Chinese concubine who revolted against the Qing emperor d) a Mongolian queen who was captured by the Ming emperor and force to become his concubine
A mongolian queen who resisted the Ming incursion into Mongolian lands
Tsar Nicholas II abdicated his throne as a result of strikes that broke out a) after working class women staged a massive bread march in Petrograd. b) after the police murdered a Socialist Revolutionary leader in the Winter Palace. c) after the Memorial Day Massacre of steel workers. d) in Moscow in late 1918
After working class women staged a massive bread march in Petrograd
The Provisional Government that took power after the tsar abdicated was headed by a) V.I. Lenin b) Joseph Stalin c) Leon Trotsky d) Alexander Kerensky
Alexander Kerensky
The Dawes Plan of 1924 to re-examine German reparations set up the risky but initially workable financial arrangement that a) reduced German reparations b) allowed Germany to receive loans from the United States to pay their reparations c) made it possible for France and Britain to repay the United States their own war debts d) all of the above
All of the above
The Great Flu Pandemic of 1918 a) killed more than all of World War I b) attacked young healthy men and women c) was found all over the globe including the Arctic d) all of the above
All of the above
The October Manifesto was a) Karl Marx's statement of the class struggle that inspired Lenin b) an agreement by the Tsar to, among other things, establish an elected Duma c) The Communist Party's statement of doctrine d) Lenin's demand that the Tsar abdicate
An agreement by the Tsar to , among other things, establish an elected Duma
The Ming emperor Chengzu (Yongle) moved the capital from Nanjing to where? a) Shanghai b) Yangzi c) Xi'an d) Beijing
Beijing
The Berlin Conference established the principle that European claims to African territory had to rest on which of the following in order to be recognized by other states? a) Direct Annexation b) Effective Occupation c) Military Subjugation d) Extra territoriality
Effective Occupation
The British fought the Dutch settlers of South Africa for control of that region. These settlers are better known as Correct Response a) Boers b) Orangemen c) Transvallites d) Netherland emigrants
Boers
Named by the first emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, what does Ming mean? a) "Beautiful" b) "Heavenly" c) "Bright" d) "Flawless"
Bright
The following political and economic forces contributed to World War except a) colonial competition b) Britain and Germany uniting in their colonial ambitions c) rising nationalism d) militarism
Britain and Germany uniting in their colonial ambitions
The Treaty of Nanjing of 1842 resulted in all of the following except a) Britain assumed the total cost of the war b) Britain got Hong Kong c) China opened up more ports to British trade d) the doctrine of extra territoriality was invoked
Britain assumed the total cost of the war
What was the British Raj? a) British style of clothing b) an elite British school c) British tiger breeding centers d) British control of India
British control of India
The samurai's warrior code is called a) Seppuku b) Kabuki c) Daimyo d) Bushido
Bushido
What military advantage did the Qing have over the Mongols? a) Bows b) Catapults c) Cannon d) Body armor
Cannon
The British merchants were originally restricted to a single Chinese port. This port was a) Shanghai b) Hong Kong c) Canton d) Macao
Canton
How did Japan's trade relations evolve between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries? a) Trade relations increasingly favored the interests of Portugal. b) The Japanese excluded the British from trade opportunities. c) Japan's trade relations with Europeans became more limited and restrictive. d) European business accounted for half of the government's annual revenue.
Japan's trade relations with Europeans became more limited and restrictive
The Treaty of Versailles (1919) that ended World War I included all of the following except a) colonial holdings were unchanged b) The US wanted the Fourteen Points c) Germany was to accept total blame for the war d) Germany was to pay reparations to France and Britain
Colonial holdings were unchanged
All of the following statements are correct about the Great Depression except a) economic depressions were a new phenomena in the European experience b) the classical liberal remedies for depressions were balanced budgets, cutting costs, and raising tariffs, all of which only worsened the crisis. c) fascism and communism appealed to many because of the perceived failure of capitalism. d) the stock market crash in the United States led to the withdrawal of American investments in Europe thus weakening the European banking system.
Economic depressions were a new phenomena in the European experience
What did President Woodrow Wilson believe would help to avert future wars? a) Fortifying the French-German border b) Continuing wartime alliances c) Disarming and punishing Germany d) Creating a League of Nations
Creating a League of Nations
In the Great Purges Stalin instituted in the 1930s, he targeted a) women b) Old Bolsheviks and Communist Party members c) Jews d) members of the proletariat
Old Bolsheviks and Communist Party members
The Weimar Republic a) was highly successful in fighting the effects of the Great Depression. b) enjoyed universal support throughout Germany. c) had very capable, charismatic leadership in the years before Hitler ruled Germany. d) faced great economic challenges such as runaway inflation and later the Great Depression
Faced great economic challenges such as runaway inflation and later the Great Depression
In early November 1917, Lenin's Bolsheviks a) staged the Sverdlovsk Massacre in Kiev. b) killed the tsar. c) created the Council of Soviets. d) successfully took power from the Provisional Government in a coup
Successfully took power from the Provisional Government in a coup
In a failed effort to open a Balkan front, in 1915 the British launched an attack on a) Belgium b) Adrianople c) Gallipoli d) Constantinople
Gallipoli
Using the Schlieffen Plan, a) France declared war on Austria. b) Italy invaded the Austrian Tyrol. c) Germany invaded France by way of Belgium. d) Germany launched a massive invasion of the Warsaw region of Poland.
Germany invaded France by way of Belgium
The new economic views of John Maynard Keynes held that a) government public works spending would cut unemployment and revive an economy. b) governments should pursue a policy of economic laissez-faire. c) unemployment resulted from an inflationary increase in demand. d) budget deficits must be avoided at any cost
Government public works spending would cut unemployment and revive an economy
The only successful slave revolt in history was lead by Toussaint L'Ouverture and took place in a) Haiti b) French Polynesia c) French Guyana d) Jamaica
Haiti
What happened to the German Kaiser in November 1918? a) He was arrested and tried for war crimes. b) He was assassinated by a German communist. c) He abdicated and fled to Holland. d) He was captured by American soldiers
He abdicated and fled to Holland
In a policy reminiscent of France's Louis XIV, how did Tokugawa Ieyasu control the feudal lords? a) He required them to perform military service. b) He forced them to periodically reside at his capital in a policy called the alternate residence system. c) He employed men from the merchant class as government officials. d) He confiscated their estates.
He forced them to periodically reside at his capital in a policy called the alternate residence system
Who was Shaka, and why was he significant? a) He was a Zulu leader who revolutionized African warfare and created the largest and most powerful African society in southern Africa in the nineteenth century. b) He was the British-appointed ruler of the Cape Colony who worked to impose and enforce British policies in Africa. c) He was the leader of a protest against working conditions at the DeBeers' diamond mines who spread knowledge of the atrocities there throughout Europe. d) He was the leader of Ethiopia's resistance to Italian imperialism and was successful in achieving independence for Ethiopia.
He was a Zulu leader who revolutionized African warfare and created the largest and most powerful African society in southern Africa in the nineteenth century.
One of the most successful and longest reigning emperors in Chinese history was Qianlong. His reign is marked by all of the following except a) his example of filial piety b) his role as sage emperor performing affairs of state in the morning and cultural pursuits in the afternoon c) his sensitivity to multi-ethnic issues and his ability to hold the empire together d) his removal of Tibetan Buddhists from China in order to establish Confucian purity
His removal of Tibetan Buddhists from China in order to establish Confucian purity
The Qing Dynasty ended when a) Empress Cixi died b) Sun Yat Sen deposed Emperor Pu Yi c) Emperor Pu Yi was executed by Nationalist forces d) Mao Tse Tung defeated Sun Yat Sen
Sun Yat Sen deposed Emperor Pu Yi
Under Lenin's New Economic Policy, a) state requisitions of peasant grain continued. b) the state relinquished control over all heavy industrial operations c) individuals were permitted to own small retail stores and peasants to sell their produce. d) Lenin retired from active political life
Individuals were permitted to own small retail stores and peasants to sell their produce
Which of the following was a major feature of Japanese Nô theater? a) It emphasized realism that focused on the lives and problems of ordinary people. b) It featured elaborate costumes and lavish staging. c) It required that only poetry be spoken instead of dialogue. d) It had simple staging and stylized gestures and stances.
It had simple staging and stylized gestures and stances
The Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895) is important because a) it marked a shift in the balance of power from Japan to China b) it marked a shift in the balance of power from China to Japan c) it recognized that China and Japan were essentially equal in the Asian sphere of influence d) it gave Russia control Korea
It marked a shift in the balance of power from China to Japan
A highly stylized form of Japanese theatre that is still very popular today is a) Kabuki b) Bushido c) Haiku d) Kamikaze
Kabuki
What made Belgian colonialism so different than that of the rest of Europe? a) King Leopold annexed the Congo as his personal colony, not for the Belgian state b) Leopold was more interested in scientific exploration than in economic colonialism c) Leopold established a constitutional federation in the congo River Valley d) King Leopold wanted to open trade with Africa for cocoa to build a monopoly on chocolate, not industrial materials
King leopold annexed the Congo as his personal colony, not for the Belgian state
In its imperial expansion, the Qing Dynasty acquired all of the following except a) Mongolia b) Taiwan c) Korea d) Turkestan or Xinjiang
Korea
During the Meiji period Japan became an imperial power, making ________ and ________ colonies a) Korea and Taiwan b) Korea and Manchuria c) Taiwan and Viet Nam d) Manchuria and Taiwan
Korea and Taiwan
During the Ashikaga Shogunate, the government's capital was in what city? a) Kamakura b) Kyoto c) Kochi d) Tokyo
Kyoto
What as the result of the rebellion led by Tupac Amaru II in 1780? a) Limited reform b) More racial and social harmony in Cuzco c) An intense period of persecution and mass extermination of natives d) A joint native/European government created by the Spanish Crown
Limited reform
In 1557, where did the Chinese allow the Portuguese to set up a trading base? a) Hong Kong b) Shanghai c) Canton d) Macao
Macao
Under the Tokugawa, how were the roles of many daimyo transformed? a) To atone for their violence, many became Shinto priests. b) Many daimyo became wealthy merchants. c) War and poverty turned many into rural peasants. d) Many daimyo became idle urban consumers.
Many daimyo became idle urban consumers
Japanese society underwent serious reform efforts in the 1860s under a) the Meiji Emperor b) Sat-Cho rebels c) Tokugawa Ieyasu d) American influence
Meiji Emperor
While printing was invented during the Tang Dynasty and had great effect on the elite in the Song years, it had its biggest influence on the middle classes of China during which dynasty? a) Ming b) Qing c) Zhou d) Yuan
Ming
Why did the Portuguese royal family move to Brazil? a) The climate was more pleasant in the colonies b) Napoleon's army had invaded Portugal c) They were driven out of Portugal by a popular uprising d) They owed debts to too many people in Europe
Napoleon's army had invaded Portugal
Who dominated the upper levels of Latin America's colonial bureaucracies at the start of the nineteenth century? a) Peninsulares b) Mestizos c) Clergy d) Creoles
Peninsulares
What were two dominant Chinese exports during the Ming period? a) Rice and tea b) Cotton and tobacco c) Opium and sugar d) Porcelain and silk
Porcelain and silk
Which dynasty replaced the Ming Dynasty of China? a) Yuan dynasty b) Qing dynasty c) Han dynasty d) Qin dynasty
Qing dynasty
The Siberian peasant who had great influence on the Russian tsarina was a) Pugachev b) Nicholas Romanoff c) Alexander Pushkin d) Rasputin
Rasputin
Stalin's first two five-year plans a) resulted in large increases in the nation's heavy industry and oil production. b) transformed Russia into an agricultural country. c) emphasized the production of consumer goods. d) moved sixty million people from European to Asian Russia
Resulted in large increases in the nation's heavy industry and oil production
On June 28, 1914, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, was assassinated in the Bosnian city of a) Trieste b) Sarajevo c) Belgrade d) Prague
Sarajevo
The final German offensive was stopped on July 18, 1918 at the a) Second Battle of the Marne b) Battle of the Argonne Forest c) Battle of Verdun d) Battle of the Somme
Second Battle of the Marne
The Balkans figured prominently in the reasons the world went to war in 1914. The rising nationalism on the part of _______ was a key element in the upheaval a) Serbia b) Austro-Hungary c) Ottoman Empire d) Romania
Serbia
The Ming Dynasty's decline can be attributed to all of the following except a) a "little ice age" that brought on serious food shortages b) near bankruptcy caused by defending Korea against a Japanese invasion c) significant battlefield losses against the Manchus d) drop in silver imports and the resulting deflation of the Chinese economy
Significant battlefield losses against the manchus
Who was the greatest advocate of a continental union on South America? a) Porfirio Dian b) Simon Bolivar c) Toussaint L'Ouverture d) Tupac Amaru II
Simon Bolivar
The Egyptian autocrat Ismail is credited with all of the following except a) promoting cotton production leading to soaring exports to Europe b) providing financial support to complete the Suez Canal c) leading an unsuccessful resistance to British commercial and military control d) successfully resisting British control over Egypt
Successfully resisting British control over Egypt
In Spanish South America the "Royal Fifth" was a) a rule that 20% of the production of a company be reserved for philanthropy b) the 20% tax on everything that was owed to the Crown c) a special drink reserved for the Peninsulares d) a 20% tax on alcohol
The 20% tax on everything that was owed to the Crown
Britain's control of India is attributed to the efforts of a) local rulers who insisted that the British come to their aid against local rivals b) the request of the Mughal emperor to salvage his failing dynasty c) Rudyard Kipling and his romantic novels about India d) the British East India Company's control over much of India
The British East India Company's control over much of India
All of the following were outcomes of the Sepoy Rebellion except: a) the East India Company was abolished in favor of direct rule of India by the British Crown b) the British government abolished the Mughal Empire c) Queen Victoria became Empress of India d) The British established co-rule with the Mughal emperor
The British established co-rule with the Mughal emperor
In the fifteenth century, the eunuch establishment had become so large that it rivaled what other group? a) The army b) Confucian scholars c) The Yuan dynasty d) The civil service
The civil service
The root causes of the Weimar Republic's runaway inflation included all of the following except a) the Germans retaliated by attacking the French army b) the French army occupied part of Germany which paralyzed the German economy c) German workers went on strike d) the Germans printed so much money that it lost all its value
The Germans retaliated by attacking the French army
The Treaty of Portsmouth ended which war? a) The Russo-Japanese War b) The Korean War c) The Boxer Rebellion d) The Sino-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War
Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points included all of the following except a) the right of national self determination b) freedom of the seas c) the United Nations d) an end to secret treaties
The United Nations
The British were handed one of their greatest defeats in Africa at the battle of Isandhlwana when they were overwhelming defeated by a) the Afrikaners b) the Boers c) the Bushmen Correct Response d) the Zulu
The Zulu
The Sepoy Rebellion started because a) the new rifle cartridges used animal fat which upset the Muslim and Hindu soldiers b) the British opposed local self rule by the Indians c) the people of the village of Amritsar were upset at British actions d) the Indian troops were forced to wear British uniforms
The new rifle cartridges used animal fat which upset the Muslims and Hindu soldiers
Which of the following was not a penalty imposed on Germany in the Versailles Treaty? a) the demilitarization of all lands along the Rhine b) the return of Alsace and Lorraine to France and the cession of parts of Prussia to Poland c) the transfer of Bavaria to France as a reparations payment d) extensive reparations
The transfer of Bavaria to France as a reparations payment
How did the daimyo deal with the violence of the civil war? a) They made an alliance against the shogun. b) They moved to Kyoto. c) They invited the Portuguese to build forts. d) They built castles surrounded by moats and stone walls.
They built castles surrounded by moats and stone walls
In the face of European imperialism, what was the most common initial response of African and Asian rulers? a) They immediately began diplomatic negotiations. b) They displayed measured indifference. c) They generally deemed it unwise to resist. d) They raised violent opposition.
They raised violent opposition
What motivated the Afrikaners to make their Great Trek northward in 1836? a) They were looking for better farmland. b) They wanted to protest the atrocities being committed against blacks in South Africa. c) They heard that diamonds had been found. d) They resented the movements toward black equality taking place in the Cape Colony.
They resented the movements toward black equality taking place in the cape colony
How did the Manchus gain power? a) the first Manchu emperor was the illegitimate son of the last Ming emperor b) a violent civil war c) they were invited in d) through a bloody invasion that defeated the Ming forces
They were invited in
How were almost all of the Ming government officials chosen? a) They were recruited through civil service examinations. b) They were drawn from the landed aristocracy. c) They were relatives of the imperial family. d) They were eunuchs and personally loyal to the emperor.
They were recruited through civil service examinations
What was the main economic goal of European imperialists in Africa? a) To connect Africa to world markets in a way that would be profitable for the Europeans b) To develop markets for industrial goods in the European colonies c) To encourage sustainable indigenous industrial development d) To develop new settlements to be populated by working-class Europeans
To connect Africa to world markets in a way that would be profitable for the Europeans
Why was the Great Wall built by the Ming? a) To protect against the Mongol threat b) To prevent an invasion from Tibet c) So they could build a road on top of it d) To mark the empire's northern boundary
To protect against Mongol threat
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk a) formed an alliance between Russia and Germany in World War I b) took Russia out of World War I c) gave Japan the Liaodong Peninsula d) was a secret alliance between Russia and Great Britain
Took Russia out of WWI
An outcome of the Great Depression was the rise throughout the world of a) democratic governments b) an unprecedented cooperation among nations to try to stem the effects of the Depression c) ultra nationalism and a call for less dependency on global markets d) a renewed sense of belonging on the part of the colonies to their Mother Country
Ultra nationalism and a call for less dependency on global markets
What was the encomienda system? a) uncompensated labor of the natives to the conquering Spaniards b) large estates owned by the Catholic Church c) the Spanish settlement structure that built churches and forts in the same place d) a mechanism for the Spanish to distribute free food (or comida) to the native population
Uncompensated labor of the natives to the conquering Spaniards
Historians use the term New Imperialism to refer to the West's a) use of industrial technology to impose its will on the non industrial world b) policies of preservation of the natural environment c) isolationism and parochialism in the late nineteenth century d) attempt to use propaganda as a tool of empire
Use of industrial technology to impose its will on the non industrial world
Simon Boliver liberated _____ and San Martin liberated ________ a) Venezuela; Paraguay b) Argentina; Venezuela c) Venezuela; Argentina and Chile d) Chile;Argentina
Venezuela; Argentina and Chile
The queue was a) a hairstyle favored by the opponents to the Qing b) a hairstyle favored by the Ming to show loyalty c) a hairstyle worn exclusively by women d) a hairstyle favored by the Qing to show loyalty
a hairstyle favored by the Qing to show loyalty
The economic motive of imperialism was that a) European merchants needed to secure new markets for their goods b) European businesses wanted to look for new opportunities in Asia and Africa c) industrialization created a high demand for raw materials d) all of the above
all of the above
The British wanted to expand to southern Africa because of a) the marauding Zulu armies b) the need for rich northern farmlands c) attacks by Afrikaners d) discoveries of gold and diamonds
discoveries of gold and diamonds
The samurai of Satsuma and Choshu domains rebelled in 1863 hoping to a) drive out Western barbarians b) restore Japanese control over Korea c) protect the samurai class d) empower the Tokugawa shogan
drive out Western barbarians
To what historical development is this cartoon from an 1898 newspaper referring? a) foreign powers involvement in the Taiping Rebellion b) foreign intervention in the Satsuma Rebellion c) the intervention of European powers in the Opium War d) efforts by imperialist powers to divide China into "spheres of influence"
efforts by imperialist powers to divide China into "spheres of influence"
The British Macartney mission was an attempt to a) find a lost missionary, Eli Macartney b) assassinate the emperor's main rival c) persuade China to revise the trade system d) establish diplomatic ties with Japan
persuade China to revise the trade system
Nobunaga and Hideyoshi were a) famous Kabuki actors b) powerful daimyos c) writers of haiku poetry d) developers of the tea ceremony
powerful daimyos
Stalin's program of forcibly collectivizing Russian agriculture a) resulted in government-made famine in 1932 and 1933. b) boosted efficiency on Russian farms by sixty percent in the early 1930s c) was very well received by the Russian peasantry. d) greatly increased livestock numbers, doubling them in three years
resulted in government-made famine in 1932 and 1933
The Japanese called their warriors a) daimyo b) samurai c) yujo d) renmin
samurai
The stresses that led to the Taiping Rebellion in the Guangxi region were initially a result of a) severe loss of rural population b) large numbers of Qing troops in the region c) social unhappiness and foreign intrusion d) the presence of many Europeans in the region
social unhappiness and foreign intrusion
When Britain was unable to obtain enough tea to meet its demand and China did not import enough British goods, the British responded by a) supporting the Bannerman to overthrow the Qing b) starting the illicit trade of opium c) trying to destroy China's production of silk d) instigating the White Lotus Rebellion
starting the illicit trade of opium
Recent scholarship indicates that the foundations of modern Japanese capitalism was developed during a) the Ashikaga Shogunate b) the Takagawa Shogunate c) the Edo period d) the Meiji period
the Takagawa Shogunate
The beginning of modern economic development in sub-Saharan Africa was marked by a) decline of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa b) the imperial expansion of the old empires of Mali and Ghana c) the arrival of the Portuguese slave traders d) the decline of the Atlantic slave trade and the shift to commodities like palm oil
the decline of the Atlantic slave trade and the shift to commodities like palm oil
The term Third World refers to a) the indigenous peoples of the major European empires b) the Russian steppes Correct Response c) the non-industrialized nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America d) European nations that had not yet industrialized
the non-industrialized nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke are famous because a) they defeated the Afrikaners at the Battle of Cape Town b) they were the first white men to navigate the length of the Zambezi River c) they discovered Victoria Falls d) they discovered Lake Victoria and the source of the Nile
they discovered Lake Victoria and the source of the Nile
The Boxer Rebellion sought a) to re-establish the self-strengthening ideals b) to drive Empress Cixi from power c) to drive foreigners and missionaries from China d) to reinstate the power of the emperor
to drive foreigners and missionaries from China
The Opium War was fought over a) Chinese right to sell opium to Britain b) whether the British East India Company or the Dutch East India Company would control trade with China c) illegal smuggling of opium into India d) trade issues between Britain and China
trade issues between Britain and China
The Taiping Rebellion a) was the world's bloodiest civil war b) was known as the "bloodless" civil war c) succeeded in its goal to Christianize China d) was a gambit designed to lure French and British forces to their destruction
was the world's bloodiest civil war
Flaming monkeys a) a group of insurrectionaries attempting to overthrow the Qing b) were actual monkeys strapped to fire crackers and flung into British ships c) was the most popular drink of the British in China d) the derogatory name given the Portuguese by the Chinese
were actual monkeys strapped to fire crackers and flung into British ships
