Unit 7/8 Review

Question 1

Which of the following was a long-term cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union during the late 20th century?

Accepted Answer

The cost of the arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States

Question 2

Which of the following was a common characteristic of the revolutions in Russia, China, and Mexico in the early 20th ce.

Accepted Answer

Nationalism and socialism helped shape all three revolutions.

Question 3

Which of the following countries experienced the greatest number of war-related deaths during the Second World War?

Accepted Answer

The Soviet Union

Question 4

Mao Zedong and Mohandas Gandhi both appealed to which of the following as a base of support?

Accepted Answer

Peasants

Question 5

Western-led military alliance systems such as NATO that emerged during the Cold War period sought to

Accepted Answer

prevent the spread of communism

Question 6

Which of the following was a similarity between the approaches of China & the USSR in managing their own economies?

Accepted Answer

Direct intervention in their economies to aid industrialization

Question 7

Which of the following contributed significantly to the decline of both the Qing and the Ottoman Empires?

Accepted Answer

Internal conflict with ethnic and religious minorities

Question 8

The founding North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is best understood in the context of which of the following?

Accepted Answer

The Cold War

Question 9

Which of the following was a major similarity between the goals of the Chinese and Mexican Revolutions?

Accepted Answer

Support for redistribution of land to poor peasants

Question 10

Which of the following most directly led to the start of the First World War?

Accepted Answer

Nationalist competition among industrialized powers for resources

Question 11

A historian researching the motives of the perpetrators of the Holocaust would find which of these sources most useful?

Accepted Answer

Letters & publications written by Nazi leaders before the Second World War

Question 12

The immediate result of the drawing of new geographic boundaries for Pakistan, India, and East Pakistan in 1947 was

Accepted Answer

religious and ethnic violence that led to mass migrations and massacres

Question 13

Which of the following countries experienced the most rapid economic growth during the Second World War?

Accepted Answer

the United States

Question 14

After the Second World War, countries around the world did which of the following to restore the global economy?

Accepted Answer

Established new financial institutions, such as the World Bank.

Question 15

Which of the following is an accurate comparison of the Chinese & the Mexican revolutions during the twentieth century?

Accepted Answer

Both generated land-redistribution policies.

Question 16

In the early twentieth century, nationalist movements in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East were led primarily by

Accepted Answer

educated urban elites

Question 17

Which of the following best describes a difference between the theories of revolution of Mao Zedong and those of Lenin?

Accepted Answer

Mao placed emphasis on the revolutionary potential of peasants.

Question 18

Which of the following factors contributed most significantly to the decline of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century?

Accepted Answer

Independence movements inspired by ethnic nationalism

Question 19

China’s strategy for modernization & economic development in the 1950s most closely resembled the strategy of

Accepted Answer

the Soviet Union

Question 20

Which of the following is true of both India and China in the period from 1945 to 1990 ?

Accepted Answer

In the 1950s, leaders of both countries focused on industrial development.

Question 21

Which of the following was the most immediate effect of the collapse of the communist regime in the Soviet Union?

Accepted Answer

The end of the Cold War

Question 22

Which of the following was the major long-term political effect of the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Governments began to take a more active role in economic life.

Question 23

Which of the following best supports the contention that the First World War was the first total war?

Accepted Answer

Governments mobilized large segments of their populations and economies

Question 24

Which of the following African countries continued to have a sizeable population with European ancestry in the 1990s?

Accepted Answer

South Africa

Question 25

In order to achieve victory in China & Vietnam, Asian communists such as Mao Zedong and Ho Chi Minh did what

Accepted Answer

Adapted their revolutionary theories to reflect the peasants.

Question 26

Nationalist leaders such as Ho Chi Minh, Jomo Kenyatta, and Kwame Nkrumah, had which of the following in common?

Accepted Answer

Opposition to colonial rule

Question 27

The global economic downturn of the 1930s had which of the following effects on nations in Europe and North America?

Accepted Answer

Governments took a more active role in regulating their economies

Question 28

Which of the following was a significant factor that prevented many African states from achieving political stability?

Accepted Answer

Ethnic & religious conflicts caused by rival groups within the same borders

Question 29

Which of the following was a significant effect of Western imperialism in the twentieth century?

Accepted Answer

The development of nationalism among colonized peoples

Question 30

Which of the following led to the most dramatic change in the status of Chinese peasant women in the 1940’s and 1950’s?

Accepted Answer

Banning of arranged marriages and communist gender equality

Unit 7/8 Review

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Unit 7/8 Review

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