Unit 7, 8, and 9 Test - APWH
Which of the following aspects of the immediate historical situation in China in 1958 best explains the author's perspective in the passage?
Chinese leaders had made it clear that meeting the goals of the Great Leap Forward was the highest priority facing the country.
The "Hutu Ten Commandments" is best explained as being part of which of the following continuities in twentieth-century history?
Extremist groups using propaganda to target specific minority populations
Wilhelm II's assurances in the second paragraph that "nobody is threatening the honor or power of Russia" and that the tsar can "well afford" to await the results of attempts to defuse the crisis best testify to the importance of which of the following factors in the outbreak of the First World War?
Intense nationalism, fueled by mass media, often forced the hand of military and political leaders.
Based on the graph, which technology was developed most recently?
Satellite television
Which of the following best explains the significance of the intended audience of Yin Zeming's pamphlet in shaping the author's narrative?
Since it targets an international audience across the Cold War divide, the pamphlet presents an idealized, propaganda-tinged vision of Chinese accomplishments.
The confrontation illustrated in the two photographs can be seen as a specific example of the global rivalries in the period after 1945 that also directly produced which of the following?
The NATO and Warsaw Pact military alliances
Which of the following is best supported by the information shown on the graph?
The cost of technologies that rely on the use of petroleum declined less rapidly than the cost of technologies that do not rely on the use of petroleum.
Which of the following developments in the period after 1945 most directly prevented localized conflicts such as the one illustrated in the two photographs from escalating into global wars?
The threat of the use of nuclear weapons
Which of the following best characterizes the significance of the events in Russia in the winter of 1917, as shown in the image?
They started a process that eventually led to a communist revolution.
In the context of the late 1930s, the arguments that Hitler makes in the last paragraph are most significant in explaining how
imperialist aspirations contributed to motivating the policies of fascist states
Contrary to the author's implicit argument in the second paragraph regarding South Asian migrants' determination to integrate into British society, the migration of former colonial subjects to imperial metropoles typically resulted in
the preservation of cultural and economic ties between former colonies and metropoles, as immigrant communities maintained some connections to their countries of origin
Which of the following best explains the similarity between Hutu views of the Tutsi in the "Hutu Ten Commandments" and the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany?
Both the Tutsi and Jews were persecuted based on ethnic prejudice.
All of the following statements about Canada in the early twentieth century are factually accurate. Which would most likely help to explain why Yanaihara thought that his claims regarding Korea might be well received by a Canadian audience?
Canada's economy grew during most of the early twentieth century under British rule, and Canadian troops willingly helped the British Empire defend its colonial territories in Asia and Africa.
The passage can best be used to explain the role of which of the following in bringing about the First World War?
Rival great power alliances
The makeup of the force shown in the image is best explained by the fact that by 1917
Russia's army morale and home-front effort were collapsing because of the strains of total war
The unrest reflected in the image is best explained by which of the following features of the Russian government at the time of the photograph?
The Tsarist regime that governed Russia was autocratic and unresponsive to calls for reform.
All of the following statements about the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups in Rwanda are factually accurate. Which would best explain how the attitudes expressed in the "Hutu Ten Commandments" were a reaction to past developments in Rwandan history?
The Tutsi were heavily favored and promoted to positions of power under European colonial rule, while the Hutu were not.
A historian studying the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s would most likely use the letter above to illustrate which of the following?
The alienation of Soviet citizens from their government's official rhetoric of class struggle and anti-capitalism
Which of the following developments or processes in the late twentieth century best explains the participation of foreign troops in the Angolan Civil War, as shown in the two photographs?
The proliferation of Cold War proxy conflicts
The point of view that Hitler expresses in the first three paragraphs is most directly significant in helping to explain how which of the following contributed to starting the Second World War?
The provisions of the Treaty of Versailles that ended the First World War
As indicated by the passage, Vietnam's achievement of independence differed in what way from the achievement of independence by many other former colonies?
Vietnam gained its independence through a violent uprising rather than a negotiated settlement.
Which of the following aspects of the international context in which the petition was produced most likely strengthened the petitioners' demands?
Women's critical contributions to the home front effort during The First World War
Which of the following best explains a likely significant purpose behind Yanaihara publishing his article in a Canadian journal?
Yanaihara wished to justify continued Japanese colonial rule of Korea to potentially hostile Western states.
Which of the following best explains why the passage is likely NOT a reliable source of information regarding the level of popular support and enthusiasm for the Chinese government's push for iron and steel in 1958?
As a government official, the author would have felt compelled to overstate the success of communist policies of resource redistribution to demonstrate his loyalty to the party.
The political activism embodied in the petition is best seen in the context of which of the following broader twentieth-century developments?
Groups and individuals using universal principles to challenge established social norms
As portrayed by Ho Chi Minh in the passage, the Vietnamese independence movement appears most similar to which of the following types of nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century movements?
Nationalist movements
Based on the graph, which of the following best describes the development of transportation and communication in the twentieth century?
New methods of transportation and communication became more affordable over time.
The policy position of the Manitoba Liberal Party quoted in the appeal is best seen as a continuation of which of the following broader trends in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
Political parties embracing mass politics and broader popular participation in the democratic process
Which of the following events that preceded the outbreak of the First World War best explains why Russian troops were being mobilized against Austria-Hungary, as stated in the first paragraph?
Russia was acting in support of Serbia, which was facing an imminent Austro-Hungarian attack following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
The letter above could best be used to illustrate which of the following aspects of the historical context of the late twentieth century?
The globalization of consumer culture despite the rivalries of the Cold War
Which of the following best explains the long-term historical significance of the views expressed by Yanaihara in the passage?
They show that some members of the Japanese elite sought to justify aggressive Japanese colonial efforts in China and the Pacific region.
Which of the following best explains why the author brings up the example of the Sikh migrant cutting his hair before coming to England as a way of supporting his argument that the experiences of South Asian and European immigrants to Britain were "poles apart"?
Unlike European immigrants, South Asian immigrants had to suppress parts of their culture and remove important religious symbols to fit into British society.
Considering the global context of the 1970s, which of the following would have been the most significant difference between young people living outside the Communist bloc and the two young men in the source?
Young people outside the Communist bloc would have been unlikely to need to buy Western goods on the black market.
Based on the historical situation in which the speech was given, Hitler's most significant motivation for giving the speech was likely to continue to
reinforce the idea to the German people that past injustices required Germany to continue its military buildup and engage in future territorial expansion
The argument in the third paragraph regarding the connection between the Partition of India in 1947 and Punjabi migrations to Britain in the 1950s is most directly supported by the author's claim that
resettling Partition refugees led to an economic crisis in rural Punjab, leading to further population movements
Compared to the position of anticolonial movements earlier in the twentieth century, the prospects for movements such as Ho Chi Minh's in the mid-twentieth century could most accurately be described as
stronger because the Second World War weakened imperialist powers
