Test #3 Questions
"I do not seek to justify...... made others forget" is a quote from a commander in________.
Algeria
The world's first female prime minister took power in _________ in 1960.
Ceylon
In 1929, the newly created _________brought the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1917 to an end.
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
The catalyst for the implementation of Gorbachev's policy of "glasnost" was the frank coverage of:
the nuclear accident at Chernobyl
By 1957, Mao began to also re-evaluate the intelligentsia, adopting a slogan of "let a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend" and inviting criticism from intellectuals, assuring them it was patriotic duty. What was the result of this campaign?
those who came forward were quickly arrested, re-educated, or killed
With the founding of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966, ______, a new term came to define the feminist movement in the late 1960s.
"Womens' Liberation"
Taking power shortly after the death of Chairman Mao in 1976, Deng Xiaoping implemented the ___________, the fundamental policies that remain in force in China to the present.
Four Modernizations
"Lawrence of Arabia" helped the members of the prominent family, the ____________ from Mecca, to assume leadership of the Arabs for a promised national kingdom in Syria and Palestine.
Hashemites
In the face of British opposition, the African nationalists in _______ formed the Mau Mau movement, and independence was finally granted in 1963.
Kenya
After Khrushchev was ousted from power by the Soviet Politburo, _______ rose in his place.
Leonid Brezhnev
In 1939, the German army pioneered a new kind of warfare, a "Blitzkrieg" or "lightning war", in _______.
Poland
Rather than attribute cultural differences to geography, thinkers of the time began to think if it as an issue of "blood" divided into "white," "yellow," and "black" demographics, creating a corrupted interpretation of science known as:
Social Darwinism
Among the innovative measures enacted by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the "New Deal" were:
The creation of Securities and Exchange Commission, charged with enforcing regulations and preventing a repetition of the Stock Market Collapse of 1929
The Great Mutiny was touched off by the rumor that the British intended to:
introduce a rifle which required its operator to bite the end from the gunpowder cartridge greased with cow and pig fat
One of the most significant reasons for the continued stagnation of the British economy after WWI was:
that nearly half of its budget in the interwar period went to paying off debt from the war
The Suez War of 1956 resulted in:
the effective end of the last remnants of British and French imperialism in the Middle East
_______________ was the crucial first step of a European power - in this instance France - seizing provinces of the Ottoman Empire in competition with the Russians, while officially protecting its integrity.
Algeria
After the loss of the American Revolution, the British would use they colonies in ________________ as a penal project
Australia
The navigator James Cook, during one of his many exploratory journeys in the Pacific, landed in 1770 on the east coast of ______ and claimed it for Great Britain.
Australia
Restructuring the economy via autonomy granted to companies slowly, and restricting access to booze through state stores, was but one part of this famous Soviet policy.
perestroika