Chapters 24-32

Question 1

Canada was a product of

Answer 1

Slow evolution

Question 2

Cinco de Mayo is important to Mexican history because

Answer 2

A small Mexican force defeated a larger French force

Question 3

Which U.S. president was in office when the Indian Removal Act was passed?

Answer 3

Andrew Jackson

Question 4

What was the period of economic prosperity in the last two decades of the nineteenth century called?

Answer 4

The Gilded Age

Question 5

Which Mexican statesman led La Reforma?

Answer 5

Benito Juarez

Question 6

What provided the means and motives for the U.S. to spread west?

Answer 6

The Industrial Revolution

Question 7

What became the symbol of new mobility and new freedom for middle class women in the U.S. and Canada in the mid-1800s?

Answer 7

Bicycles

Question 8

The loss of guaranteed British markets led to

Answer 8

A boom in Canadian trade

Question 9

Japan and Qing China came into conflict in

Answer 9

Korea

Question 10

The British considered the problem in China not to be of opium but of

Answer 10

Free Trade

Question 11

The Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists was also known as the

Answer 11

Boxers

Question 12

Where did the most notorious abuse take place in the drive to meet the demand for rubber?

Answer 12

Congo Free State

Question 13

What advance in medical technology helped make the domination of inland Africa possible?

Answer 13

Quinine

Question 14

The lack of _________ among African peoples facilitated the process of European imperialization.

Answer 14

Alliances

Question 15

W.E.B Du Bois believed that New Imperialism led to

Answer 15

White domination

Question 16

Why did the Egyptian king support the construction of the Suez Canal?

Answer 16

He thought it would generate revenue for Egypt and protect its independence

Question 17

What was the main purpose of the Berlin Conference?

Answer 17

To divide Africa between the major European states

Question 18

David Livingstone believed that Africans were

Answer 18

Fully capable

Question 19

What affect did famines have on British imperialist goals in Africa?

Answer 19

Famines enabled easy British victories over weakened African people

Question 20

Who founded the Republic of China after the revolution of 1911?

Answer 20

Sun Yat-sen

Question 21

Which of the following was the first use of chemical weapons in history?

Answer 21

Mustard gas

Question 22

What was Joseph Stalin’s slogan?

Answer 22

Socialism in One Country

Question 23

What was the most important strategic Ottoman position on the southern front?

Answer 23

The Dardanelles

Question 24

Carranza saw Zapata’s desire to redistribute the large plantations as

Answer 24

An intrusion on the rights of property owners

Question 25

Archduke _______ was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist.

Answer 25

Ferdinand

Question 26

Before and during the war, all of the following societies had a major revolution except for

Answer 26

Britain

Question 27

What did the French do in lieu of German payment?

Answer 27

Occupied the Ruhr Valley

Question 28

What event led Hitler to arrest Communist members of the Reichstag?

Answer 28

Fire in the Reichstag

Question 29

New Deal programs included all of the following except for

Answer 29

Workers Compensation

Question 30

Which of the following were both Mussolini and Hitler contemptuous of?

Answer 30

Representative government

Question 31

During the Spanish Civil War the Soviet Union supported the ________ and the Nazis supported ________ .

Answer 31

Republicans, Franco

Question 32

From which empire did the country of Turkey emerge?

Answer 32

Ottoman Empire

Question 33

Which event led the Congress Party to launch its first mass public protest to gain Indian self-rule?

Answer 33

Amritsar Massacre

Question 34

What is collectivization?

Answer 34

Stalin's replacement of peasant villages with large, state-run farms

Question 35

Hitler promised all the following traditional values after the communists and Jews were taken care of except

Answer 35

Innovation

Question 36

Which American president chose to drop atomic bombs on Japan?

Answer 36

Harry S. Truman

Question 37

How did Stalin defend Russia from potential future invasions after WWII?

Answer 37

Acquired border countries to form a geographic barrier

Question 38

What is the purpose of the United Nations?

Answer 38

To guarantee international peace through diplomacy

Question 39

Which of the following groups did the Nazis attempt to exterminate?

Answer 39

Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and disabled people

Question 40

The Bretton Woods Conference formed a plan to prevent a repeat of

Answer 40

Economic difficulties following WWI

Question 41

What is the blitzkrieg?

Answer 41

All of the above

Question 42

How much money did the Marshall Plan make available for European reconstruction?

Answer 42

$12 billion

Question 43

Where did the first decisive military victory for the Allies occur?

Answer 43

North Africa

Question 44

Which side did India's prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, take in the Cold War?

Answer 44

He did not take a side

Question 45

With regards to the Soviet sphere influence the U.S. policy was one of

Answer 45

Containment

Question 46

The Non-Aligned Movement included

Answer 46

A group African and Asian leaders

Question 47

What did the outcomes of war in Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Congo have in common?

Answer 47

None were democratic by the mid-1970s

Question 48

Under Fulgencio Batista most Cubans lived without all of the following except

Answer 48

Housing

Question 49

The Great Leap Forward directed the "masses" to pour their energy into

Answer 49

Communal production

Question 50

The U.S. and the Soviet Union both presented themselves as

Answer 50

Champions of freedom

Question 51

Relations deteriorated between the U.S. and Cuba after Cuba's

Answer 51

Agrarian Reform Law

Question 52

Which country experienced the "Velvet Revolution"?

Answer 52

Czechoslovakia

Question 53

What were the guerilla fighters who opposed Brezhnev's regime in Afghanistan called?

Answer 53

Mujahaddin

Question 54

The Soweto Uprising was a protest by

Answer 54

Black students

Question 55

The Rwandan Genocide took place between which two tribal groups?

Answer 55

Tutsi and Hutu

Question 56

Stagflation is a term that means

Answer 56

A combination of slow growth and inflation

Question 57

What is kleptocracy?

Answer 57

Government by theft

Question 58

The policies of Deng Xiaoping favored

Answer 58

Market incentives

Question 59

What event symbolized the end of the Cold War?

Answer 59

Destruction of the Berlin Wall

Question 60

Data from India, China, Brazil, and the United States show a strong corrolation between

Answer 60

Global economic growth and rising inequality

Question 61

What did Muhammad Yusuf pioneer and eventually win the Nobel Peace Prize for?

Answer 61

Microfinance

Question 62

Was Iraq complicit in the 9/11 terrorist attacks?

Answer 62

No

Question 63

What does the Bharatiya Janata Party attempt to use as a unifying principle?

Answer 63

Hinduism

Question 64

What is the stated purpose of the World Trade Organization?

Answer 64

Establish rules for international trade

Question 65

What does the term BRIC stand for?

Answer 65

Brazil, Russia, India, China

Question 66

What did the One Child Policy lead to in China?

Answer 66

Significant gender imbalance

Question 67

Is the dowry system in India legal?

Answer 67

No