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1
During the Cold War, NATO played an important role. What does the acronym stand for?
No Atlantic Treaties Organization
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
North Arctic Treaty Organization
North Association of Technology Organization
2
Who is this important Vietnamese figure?
Ho Chi Minh
Mao Zedong
Sun Yat-sen
Mao Mao
3
Pablo Picasso is known for what style of art?
realism
cubism
functionalism
surrealism
4
What plan did Stalin introduce to industrialize the Soviet Union?
New Deal
Great Leap Forward
Five Year Plan
The Marshall Plan
5
International organization based in Geneva that monitors and enforces rules over global trade
World Bank
World Health Organization (WHO)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
UNICEF
6
In the Contemporary period, what are the four fastest growing economies? Think BRIC
Brazil, Romania, India, Columbia
Britain, Russia, India, China
Brazil, Russia, India, China
Britain, Russia, India, Columbia
7
What was the shift of operations from the Hunan to Shaanzi province called in China?
Long March
Salt March
Short March
Great Leap Forward
8
Chinese society was known by early Marxist's as what?
serfs
proletarian
rich
bourgeois
9
How did global nature of culture affect music?
Bollywood
Jazz
Reggae
Classical
10
UN agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments
World Bank
NATO
UNICEF
WTO
11
What is the term coined by Winston Churchill for the division of Western and Soviet "spheres"
Steel Curtain
Berlin Wall
Iron Curtain
Roman Wall
12
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was significant in WWI because
Russia held a secret agreement with Germany
Russia agreed to give weapons to the Germans
Russia withdrew from WWI and ceased fire with Germany
Russia joined the Central powers
13
What was the Suez Canal crisis of 1956?
embargoes enabled trade from taking place
Italy invaded Ethopia
Panama and Suez were under U.S. control
Nasser wanted to take away the canal from French/British
14
Who is this important figure from South Africa?
Jomo Kenyatta
Nelson Mandela
Kwame Nkrumah
Mahatma Gandhi
15
This iconic image is known as what?
First atomic bomb in Russia
First atomic bomb on Hiroshima
Nanjing Massacre
Dresden bombing
16
What was the turning point on the Western Front that helped the Allies win the war?
Pearl Harbor
Normandy Landings
Battle of Barbossa
Battle of Midway
17
British Conservative leader who began the longest-running prime ministership in history
Margaret Thatcher
John Keynes
Winston Churchill
Dwight Eisenhower
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Movement within the Catholic church to understand Christianity from the perspective of the poor
New Age Religion
Falun Gong
Hare Krishna
Liberation Theology
19
What is the term for the Jewish nationalism that promoted Jewish migration to the Holy Land
apartheid
Communism
Mandates
Zionism
20
Events held every four years in Ancient Greece to showcase the physical excellence of humans?
The Olympics
Race Riots
World Cup Soccer
Bollywood
21
What were these women called in the 1920s?
Flappers
Suffragists
Zoot Suits
Speak Easies
22
What is apartheid?
establishment of laws outlawing segregation
rigid system of racial segregation in South Africa
ruling class of elites in South Africa
rigid system of racial segregation in U.S.
23
What innovation has made it possible for people to live longer?
Antibiotics and Vaccines
Green Revolution
Heart Disease and Diabetes
More methods of transportation
24
What was a similarity between the goals of Mao Zedong and Emiliano Zapata in these revolutions?
industrialization
improving factory conditions
land redistribution
establishment of human rights
25
How did the global nature of culture affect sports?
All of the above
World Cup Soccer
The Olympics
Cricket
26
What region currently has the most rapid population increase?
Europe
North America
Asia
Africa
27
The following image displays the spark of WWI
Murder of a German emperor by a Russian socialist
The invasion of Poland
The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand
escape of Lenin to Russia
28
Which of the following was a policy associated with Mikhail Gorbachev?
New Economic Policy
Perestroika
New Deal
Collectivization
29
What region to Japan want during the second Sino-Japanese war?
Manchuria
the Philippines
Vietnam
Mongolia
30
Who is this important figure?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Mahatma Gandhi
Nelson Mandela
Gamal Nasser
31
Fascist Italy was led by a charismatic dictator
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Hideki Tojo
32
What psychologist developed new theories over dreams, and the conscious and unconscious mind?
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Albert Bandura
B.F. Skinner
33
Which country had difficult bloody war in their colony during decolonization?
Belgium
Great Britain
United States
France
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What does this image depict?
Anti-war sentiments of WWI
Holocaust representation
Nazi propaganda
Romanticizing war efforts
