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AP World History: 1900-Present
AP World History: 1900-Present
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military and political alliance, anti-communist countries
EU
NAFTA
Warsaw Pact
NATO
2
Which event triggered the surrender of Japan, ending World War 2?
The United State dropping atomic bombs on Japanese cities
The fall of Nazi Germany
The invasion of Normandy
The Soviet Invasion of Manchuria?
3
All of the following are causes of the First World War
EXCEPT
extreme and aggressive nationalism
the assassination of key Church figures
imperial rivalries
nations glorifying military strength
4
Chinese initiative led by Mao Zedong that was intended to promote industrialization and tech.
China's Industrialization Plan
All China Together
Great Leap Forward
Cultural Revolution
5
Which Chinese leader founded the People's Republic of China?
Deng
Qin Shihuangdi
Mao Zedong
Chiang Kai-shek
6
Which of the following is NOT a technological example of Globalization?
Satellite Communications
Internet
Self-imposed isolation
Jet Commercial Airliners
7
Whose reforms essentially dismantled the communist elements of the Chinese economy?
Deng Xiaoping
Mao Zedong
Chiang Kai-Shek
Sun Yat-sen
8
Which leader of the Soviet Union turned the nation into a totalitarian state built around them?
Kruschev
Gorbachev
Stalin
Lenin
9
Which of the following was a main cause of World War 2?
Pan-Africanism
U.S. domination of the world economy
The fall of the Ottoman Empire
Germany and Japan using military force to get resources
10
Which of these would be an example of fascism?
The love of designer fashion
Brutal suppression of the opposition via emotional appeal
Censorship of pro-capitalist material
Abolishing nationalist ideas because they divide people
11
Which technological innovation would best assist the modern feminist movement?
Hybrid corn
Penicilin
Organ transplants
Birth Control pills
12
Mikhail Gorbachev’spolicy of “openness” which allowed greater freedom and ended most censorship
Uperstrup
Glasnot
Crimea
Pestroika
13
How did fascism affect the German economy?
Caused WWII
Allowed for more economic opportunities
Helped bring Germany out of the great depression
It caused great economic distress
14
What caused Russia to withdraw from WW1?
Lenin's Revolution of 1905
The October Revolution
Bloody Sunday
Devastation from scorched earth policies
15
Which international organization triggered a recession in the 1970s through a fuel embargo?
IMF
OPEC
WTO
U.N.
16
Which of the following next explains the rise in independence movements following World War 2?
The rise of the United Nations
U.S. dominance of world affairs
The weakening of major empires and their inability to go on
The rise of the Soviet Union and CCommunist revolutions
17
What important event happened after WW2?
The Partition of India
The Holocaust
the forming of the League of Nations
The forming of the U.N.
18
What was the affect of Karl Marx's writing on the world?
It spurned revolutions throughout the globe
It inspired a critique from Adam Smith
Capitalism was made popular
What Marx described as communism became a reality
19
Which of these is NOT a component of the Cold War?
A race to build nuclear weapons
A war of skirmishes among superpowers
A war of competing economic philosophies
A war of propaganda to recruit 3rd parties
20
These 4 Asian nations industrialized between 1960-2000 becoming incredibly successful economies
The Pan-Asian Economies
Four Asian Tigers
The Little Giants
Four Asian Markets
21
Which of these is a transnational movement that unites people based on racial ancestry?
Young Bosnia
Young Turks
Pan Africanism
Socialism
22
This Asian nation went from a command economy to a semi-capitalist and is the 2nd largest today
China
Taiwan
Korea
Japan
23
Which of the following is NOT a reason for the rise in exponential population growth?
improved genetic crop varities
declining infant mortality rates
Improved medicine and medical tech.
increased death rates
24
Which American civil rights leader championed peaceful protest and equality between races?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Mahatma Gandhi
Nelson Mandela
Malcolm X
25
South African whites limited African social and political integration in every possible way.
Jim Crow Laws
Pure Racism
Apartheid
Extraterritoriality
