WORLD CULTURES FINAL EXAM REVIEW

After gaining their independence, India and Pakistan fought a war over

Who took control of Afghanistan in 1998?

The Soviet policy with a goal of purging the country of Stalin's memory was called

The term Raj is used to refer to the period of Indian history when India was...

What is the name of the group that fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan?

Argued Indians needed to change some of their cultural and religious practices for independence

The failed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro is known as the

What effect did the visit of Commodore Perry have on the Japanese?

Which nation adopted and then largely abandoned the policy of assimilation in Africa?

The four modernizations in China called for progress in:

Between 1934-1939, the Great Purge was a campaign to eliminate

Because the US needed to heal its internal conflicts over Vietnam, we shifted from a policy of

What idea was the major justification for US foreign policy during the Cold War?

A state in which the gov't controls every aspect of public and private life is 

The Cuban Missile Crisis pitted Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev against President

The students protesting in Tiananmen Square were protesting against the Chinese gov't's...

What unexpected turn of events occurred in postwar Vietnam involving the USA?

Developing countries not aligned with the US or the USSR were called

Resulted in Israel gaining Jerusalem, the Sinai Peninsula, Golan Heights, and the West Bank

African leader who exploited European rivalries and built a modern army

The purpose of the Berlin Conference was to...

The dividing of India into two nations was referred to as the

The existence of two Chinas intensified the Cold War between the US and Soviet Union by

In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded...

The European policy of paternalism reflected the belief that Africans should be

The British gov't took direct command of India after the...

Which of the following lost the Crimean War?

How did foreign nations oppose South Africa's policy of apartheid?

The Strategic Defense Initiative was a system to protect _______ against _______ missiles

Who announced a policy of openness that promoted foreign investments in Russia?

During the Cold War, most third world countries were

Which exiled leader led the religious opposition to Western influences in Iran?

Why did the UN fail to create separate Palestinian and Jewish states in the late 1940s?

The policy of detente was mainly intended to

The first American president to visit Communist China was

The best example of geopolitics - an interest in taking land for strategic purposes

Which of the following best describes the national boundaries in Africa at the end of the 1800s

Which of the following countries wanted closer access to the Indian Ocean through Afghanistan?

Nationalists led a rebellion against their sultan, then modernized in...

What led Great Britain finally to grant India limited self-rule?

Yugoslavia was led from 1945-1980 by

The Suez Canal was built through the combined efforts of the

Who led the famous protest known as the Salt March

The Soviet policy to open up the political and social systems

After communism collapsed in Yugoslavia...

Who was responsible for the Great Purge?

Why did Britain sell opium to China?

Which leader won China's civil war?

Under what program did Gorbachev attempt to modify the economic structure of the Soviet system?

What was it called when Bosnian Serbs used violence to rid Bosnia of its' Muslim population?

Radical Russian Marxist revolutionaries were called

The 1978 Camp David Accords were signed by

Islamic revolutionaries held more than 60 Americans hostage for over a year in...

The alliance established by European communist nations in response to NATO

True or false: The Intifada caused Israel to declare war on Palestine?

Before 1990, the most powerful policy-making body in the USSR was the

The Meiji era in Japan was from 

The most valuable of all British colonies, or the "Jewel in the Crown"

Which group was known for taking a 6,000 mile journey known as the Long March?

The reforms that led to democratization of the USSR were begun by

What promise was made to Indians in exchange for the WWI service to the British?

The assassinations of Yitzhak Rabin and Anwar Sadat were similar, because each assassin...

After which nation did Japan decide to model a strong central gov't during the Meiji era?

In the 1920s, Chinese peasants aligned themselves with

Yeltsin's plan to dramatically reduce the Russian gov't's involvement in their economy

The brutal policy of ethnic cleansing was most widely used in Bosnia against

The 1956 Suez Crisis began when Egypt

An area in which a foreign nation controls trade and investment is called a 

Can you read a map?

The Tiananmen Square protests resulted in...

Negative consequences of European imperialism in African can best be seen in the genocide in