APWH

Question 1

List one major failure and one major success of the Chinese Revolution

Answer 1

Great Leap forward; Cultural Revolution

Question 2

What model did the Chinese Communists use when choosing a path for economic development?

Answer 2

Stalin’s Five Year Plans and Collectivization

Question 3

What social and economic problem did the Chinese communists offer to the peasantry?

Answer 3

Land reform

Question 4

Who is generally considered the ‘father’ of Chinese nationalism?

Answer 4

Sun Yat-sen

Question 5

What was the major difference between Marxism as proposed by Marx and the Marxism that was outlined by Li Dazhao and Mao Zedong?

Answer 5

The peasants were to create a revolutionary class

Question 6

What was the name of the movement formed by students and nationalist politicians who joined together to form a liberal democratic government in china following the end of World War 1?

Answer 6

May Fourth Movement

Question 7

Who was the white Afrikaner South Africa president who pushed for a dismantling of apartheid and freed Nelson Mandela from prison?

Answer 7

F. W. De Klerk

Question 8

What was the name of the regions within South Africa that were set aside for main ‘tributes’ of black South Africans?

Answer 8

Homelands

Question 9

Which Middle Eastern state is as an example of one that rejected Western culture in the name of religious revivalism?

Answer 9

Iran

Question 10

What group overthrew the Egyptian government in 1952 and who became the new leader of Egypt?

Answer 10

Free Officers/Nasser

Question 11

What political movement was formed by Hasan Al Banna in 1928?

Answer 11

Muslim Brotherhood

Question 12

Name two post colonial governments where authoritarian military governments have earned a reputation for brutality and gross violations of human rights?

Answer 12

Uganda, Myanmar, Zaire, Rwanda, North Korea

Question 13

What is one of the patterns of post colonial governments that is best exemplified by Kwame Nkrumah?

Answer 13

Charismatic rulers and Authoritarianism

Question 14

What characteristics do the economies of post colonial society have?

Answer 14

Exporters of primary products that have declined in price

Question 15

Peter Stearns lists Corazon aquino, Indira Ghandi, and Benazir Bhutto as examples of women who have served as national leaders in the post colonial era. What point does he make about all of these women that relates to the status of women in general in post colonial societies?

Answer 15

They all owned their political success to family connections to powerful male leaders in their countries

Question 16

List two social trends in the post colonial world that have made economic development and political stability more difficult?

Answer 16

Rising population, urbanization

Question 17

Which major power administered the state of Palestine units its partition in 1948?

Answer 17

Great Britiain

Question 18

What was the term given to the rigid racial segregation practiced in South Africa after 1948?

Answer 18

Apartheid

Question 19

What was the dominant pattern of decolonization in settler colonies in Asia and Africa following WW2? List examples.

Answer 19

Repression and guerilla war: Kenya, Algeria, Southern Rhodesia

Question 20

what was the dominant pattern of decolonization in tropical dependencies in asia and Africa following WWII? List examples peacful withdrawal by stages;

Answer 20

India, Ghana, Gold Coast, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Congo

Question 21

What African country became the first independent black african state in 1957 and who was its leader?

Answer 21

Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah

Question 22

Who became the leader of the Muslim League in India during WWII?

Answer 22

Muhammed Ali Jinnah

Question 23

What was the name of the nationalist political party that formed in Egypt?

Answer 23

Wafd Party

Question 24

What was the name of the literary movement among French-African intellectuals that celebrated the virtues of African physical and cultural history?

Answer 24

Negritude

Question 25

List two African American political figures who had a powerful impact on emerging nationalist leaders and ‘pan-Africanism’ in the interwar years?

Answer 25

Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Dubois

Question 26

what was the general pattern of the events between European powers and their colonies during and immediately following WWI?

Answer 26

They usually promised them independence and great control over their affairs, but when the time came, they did not follow through. protest by indigenous elites and mass protest tool place in many colonies.

Question 27

Who was the Jewish French officer who was falsely accused of a crime and whose trial became synonymous with anti-Semitism in western Europe?

Answer 27

Dreyfus

Question 28

What was the name of the political party formed by muslims in 1906?

Answer 28

Muslim League

Question 29

what was the term for Gandhi’s tactics of non-violence such as peaceful boycotts, strikes, and non-cooperation?

Answer 29

Satyagraha

Question 30

what group of profession came to dominate the nationalist, anti-colonial movements in india and Egypt respectively?

Answer 30

india-lawyers, Egypt-urban middle class,business and professions

Question 31

what was the british government in India referred to as?

Answer 31

Raj

Question 32

What is the name of the political party in Indian that led Indians to independence and has governed through most of the postcolonial era?

Answer 32

Indian National Congress Party

Question 33

What have been the major demographic trends in Latin America over the past 40 years?

Answer 33

Population increase; migration especially urbanization

Question 34

What was the foreign policy that guided the US in its relations with Latin America following World War II?

Answer 34

Containment of communism

Question 35

What was the name of the policy instituted by Franklin Roosevelt that promised to end military intervention and deal more fairly with Latin America?

Answer 35

Good Neighbor policy

Question 36

What was the term given to conservative governments, often dictatorships in Latin America that were dependent upon friendly to the US?

Answer 36

Banana republics

Question 37

In which central american country did a successful socialist revolution take place in the 1980s?

Answer 37

Nicaragua

Question 38

What was the political trend in terms of types of government in Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s?

Answer 38

Military dictatorships/bureaucratic authoritarianism

Question 39

what was name of the movement within the Catholic Church to address issues of social justice in Latin America?

Answer 39

Liberation theology

Question 40

Who was the militant Argentine revolutionary who fought withe Fidel Castro?

Answer 40

Che Guevara

Question 41

Who was the authoritarian leader that Castro overthrew?

Answer 41

Fulgenico Batista

Question 42

What was Cuba’s main export crop?

Answer 42

Sugar

Question 43

Which Central American country’s elected government was overthrown in the 1950’s by a CIA lead “anti-communist” operation?

Answer 43

Guatemala

Question 44

What was the American corporation that dominated the economy and politics of several Central American countries including Guatemala?

Answer 44

United Fruit Company

Question 45

Who were the two famous revolutionaries of the Mexican Revolution?

Answer 45

Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata

Question 46

What was the name of the resistance movement that arose in the heavily Indian state of chiapas in the 1990s?

Answer 46

Zapatistas