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2017 Spring Final Exam Review Part II
2017 Spring Final Exam Review Part II
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Between the wars, WWII, Cold War, Globalization
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Who was Indira Gandhi?
1st Prime Minister of China
1st female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1st female Prime Minister of India
1st Prime Minister of Spain
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Who was Golda Meir?
1st Prime Minister of China
1st female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1st Prime Minister of Spain
1st female Prime Minister of Israel
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What is al-Qaeda?
Capitalist organization in Russia
Terrorist organization in the Middle East
Democratic organization in West Germany
Communist organization in China
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What is the purpose of the United Nations?
Maintain worldwide peace and security
Take food from the needy
Fighting wars to ensure world domination
Developing relationships between countries
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Why was India partitioned in 1948?
To separate the Indians from the Russians
Due to increased violence between religious/ethnic groups
To remove all Chinese communists from India
To create a Christian majority nation
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Which of Hitler's acts pre-World War II event occurred last?
Invasion of Poland
Anschluss with Austria
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Occupation of the Sudetenland
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What was the Marshall Plan?
A secret plan to smuggle communist into Cuba
The organization of police officers
Aid to rebuild Western Europe
A document outline the ideas of South Korea
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Who painted Guernica which depicted the horrible bombing during the Spanish Civil War?
Joseph Stalin
Albert Einstein
Pablo Picasso
Franklin Roosevelt
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Why did the Berlin Wall fall?
End the separation of Germany
End of the Cold War
President Kennedy destroyed it
Mikhail Gorbachev destroyed it
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Define perestroika
Introduced by Gorbachev
Openness
Restructuring
Added capitalism into Soviet economy
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Who was Sun Yat Sen?
Brought democracy to Korea
Brought communism to China
Brought democracy to China
Brought communism to Korea
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Why did appeasement not work with Hitler?
He was bent on global domination, not satisfied
He wanted to meet Churchill
Appeasement actually did work
He only wanted to control France
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What caused the breakup of the USSR?
Poor economic conditions
Lost to USA Hockey in the 1980 Winter Olympic semifinal
Had more nuclear weapons than the US
Policies of Gorbachev
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Who invented the theory of relativity and helped develop the atomic bomb?
Franklin Roosevelt
Pablo Picasso
Joseph Stalin
Albert Einstein
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What is fascism?
Govt with a monarchy
Govt with increased nationalism and militarism
Govt with communism
Govt with democratic leaders
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What was important about Pearl Harbor?
Forced the US into Vietnam War
Forced the US into Korean War
Forced the US into World War I
Forced the US into World War II
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What was important about Hiroshima?
Japan's capital city
Site of the FIRST atomic bomb drop
Site of the SECOND atomic bomb drop
Site of the THIRD atomic bomb drop
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Who was South Africa's first black president?
Idris Elba
FW deKlerk
Martin Luther King
Nelson Mandela
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What was the Truman Doctrine?
A popular movie starting Jim Carrey
Give money to countries who fight the spread of communism
Doctor's office of Harry Truman M.D.
Providing guns to countries who fight capitalism
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What is environmentalism?
Fight for the consumption of fossil fuels, smog, & acid rain
Wanting the destruction of the environment
Concern for the protection of the environment
Fight against air pollution, deforestation, climate change
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Define glasnost
Introduced by Gorbachev
Freedom of speech
Openness
Restructuring
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What was the significance of Gandhi's Salt March?
Act of civil disobedience against British control in India
A need to collect British salt from the Atlantic Ocean
Act of violent rebellion against British control in India
An agreement between Gandhi and Nehru for a salt monopoly
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What was the SALT Treaty designed to do?
Increase the number of nuclear weapons
Reduce the number of nuclear weapons
Created the United Nations
Partitioned India into two countries
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Which of the following were superpowers after World War II?
United States
Great Britain
China
Soviet Union
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What is appeasement?
Making a "date" very happy
Asking forgiveness rather than permission
Creating a feeling of euphoria
Giving stuff to stop someone from continuing their plan
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What is a totalitarian government?
Govt controls NO PART of a country
Govt controls ONLY the politics of a country
Govt controls ALL PARTS of a country
Govt controls ONLY the economy of a country
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What was created after World War II that increased problems between Jews and Arabs?
The nation of Jordan
The nation of Israel
The Ottoman Empire
The nation Lebanon
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What major decisions were made at the Yalta Conference?
War crimes are to be tried
Italy would be allowed to keep Mussolini in power
Germany would be divided into 4 zones
Free elections would be held in Eastern Europe
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What world economic problems occurred in the 1920s and 1930s?
Marshall Plan
High levels of inflation
Great Depression
High unemployment
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Fascist Leader?
Stalin, Soviet Union
Franco, Spain
Hitler, Germany
Mussolini, Italy
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What was the Rape of Nanking?
Chinese mass murder and rape of Japanese civilians
Japanese mass murder and rape of German civilians
Russian mass murder and rape of Japanese civilians
Japanese mass murder and rape of Chinese civilians
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What is OPEC?
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Organization of Potassium Eating Countries
Old People Eating Candy
Official Party of the Environmental Club
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What is globalization?
Trying to destroy the globe
Increased in cultural diffusion
Increased international cooperation between countries
Use of multinational corporations
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What was the Holocaust?
Genocide against European Jews, other minority groups
Not the correct answer
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How was the Korean War and Vietnam War similar?
Fight to stop the spread of communism
ZERO nuclear weapons were used
The US supported the "South" countries
Fought in the jungles
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Who was Margaret Thatcher?
1st Prime Minister of Spain
1st female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1st Prime Minister of China
1st female Prime Minister of India
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First satellite in space
American Explorer
Soviet Explorer
Soviet Sputnik
American Sputnik
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What were the students protesting in Tienanmen Square for?
More dictatorships in the government
More royal monarchs in the country
More communism in the government
More democracy in the country
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What major decisions were made at the Potsdam Conference?
Unconditional surrender of Japan
Set up rules to run Germany in the 4 zones
African countries granted independence
NO FREE ELECTIONS in Eastern Europe
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What was important about the invasion of Poland?
Started World War II
Started the Cold War
Started the Korean War
Started World War I
