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UN agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments
UNICEF
WTO
NATO
World Bank
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What was a similarity between the goals of Mao Zedong and Emiliano Zapata in these revolutions?
establishment of human rights
land redistribution
improving factory conditions
industrialization
3
What was the shift of operations from the Hunan to Shaanzi province called in China?
Long March
Great Leap Forward
Short March
Salt March
4
Which of the following was a policy associated with Mikhail Gorbachev?
Collectivization
Perestroika
New Economic Policy
New Deal
5
Chinese society was known by early Marxist's as what?
bourgeois
rich
serfs
proletarian
6
What does this image depict?
Holocaust representation
Anti-war sentiments of WWI
Nazi propaganda
Romanticizing war efforts
7
British Conservative leader who began the longest-running prime ministership in history
Margaret Thatcher
John Keynes
Dwight Eisenhower
Winston Churchill
8
Pablo Picasso is known for what style of art?
functionalism
cubism
realism
surrealism
9
How did global nature of culture affect music?
Bollywood
Reggae
Classical
Jazz
10
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was significant in WWI because
Russia held a secret agreement with Germany
Russia joined the Central powers
Russia withdrew from WWI and ceased fire with Germany
Russia agreed to give weapons to the Germans
11
This iconic image is known as what?
Dresden bombing
First atomic bomb on Hiroshima
Nanjing Massacre
First atomic bomb in Russia
12
What was the Suez Canal crisis of 1956?
Panama and Suez were under U.S. control
Italy invaded Ethopia
embargoes enabled trade from taking place
Nasser wanted to take away the canal from French/British
13
Which country had difficult bloody war in their colony during decolonization?
France
United States
Great Britain
Belgium
14
What innovation has made it possible for people to live longer?
Antibiotics and Vaccines
Heart Disease and Diabetes
More methods of transportation
Green Revolution
15
Who is this important Vietnamese figure?
Sun Yat-sen
Mao Zedong
Ho Chi Minh
Mao Mao
16
What region to Japan want during the second Sino-Japanese war?
Mongolia
Vietnam
Manchuria
the Philippines
17
What was the turning point on the Western Front that helped the Allies win the war?
Battle of Barbossa
Battle of Midway
Pearl Harbor
Normandy Landings
18
Who is this important figure from South Africa?
Nelson Mandela
Jomo Kenyatta
Mahatma Gandhi
Kwame Nkrumah
19
How did the global nature of culture affect sports?
Cricket
All of the above
World Cup Soccer
The Olympics
20
Fascist Italy was led by a charismatic dictator
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Hideki Tojo
21
During the Cold War, NATO played an important role. What does the acronym stand for?
North Arctic Treaty Organization
No Atlantic Treaties Organization
North Association of Technology Organization
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
22
International organization based in Geneva that monitors and enforces rules over global trade
World Bank
UNICEF
World Trade Organization (WTO)
World Health Organization (WHO)
23
What is apartheid?
rigid system of racial segregation in U.S.
ruling class of elites in South Africa
rigid system of racial segregation in South Africa
establishment of laws outlawing segregation
24
Movement within the Catholic church to understand Christianity from the perspective of the poor
Falun Gong
Liberation Theology
Hare Krishna
New Age Religion
25
What plan did Stalin introduce to industrialize the Soviet Union?
Five Year Plan
The Marshall Plan
Great Leap Forward
New Deal
26
What is the term for the Jewish nationalism that promoted Jewish migration to the Holy Land
Mandates
Zionism
apartheid
Communism
27
What were these women called in the 1920s?
Zoot Suits
Speak Easies
Flappers
Suffragists
28
The following image displays the spark of WWI
escape of Lenin to Russia
The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The invasion of Poland
Murder of a German emperor by a Russian socialist
29
Events held every four years in Ancient Greece to showcase the physical excellence of humans?
Race Riots
The Olympics
World Cup Soccer
Bollywood
30
What is the term coined by Winston Churchill for the division of Western and Soviet "spheres"
Roman Wall
Berlin Wall
Steel Curtain
Iron Curtain
31
In the Contemporary period, what are the four fastest growing economies? Think BRIC
Britain, Russia, India, China
Brazil, Russia, India, China
Britain, Russia, India, Columbia
Brazil, Romania, India, Columbia
32
What psychologist developed new theories over dreams, and the conscious and unconscious mind?
Sigmund Freud
B.F. Skinner
Carl Jung
Albert Bandura
33
Who is this important figure?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Mahatma Gandhi
Nelson Mandela
Gamal Nasser
34
What region currently has the most rapid population increase?
Africa
North America
Europe
Asia
