Final unit

Question 1

What was the Berlin Wall?

Answer 1

A wall built in German that separated East and West Germany

Question 2

What did the fall of the Berlin Wall symbolize?

Answer 2

The unification of Germany as a whole country

Question 3

North American Free Trade Agreement

Answer 3

eliminated tariffs among the US, Canada, and Mexico

Question 4

World Trade Organization

Answer 4

founded to bring order to international trade

Question 5

NATO

Answer 5

alliance to keep each other safe

Question 6

NGO

Answer 6

non-governmental organization

Question 7

Contras

Answer 7

against Sandinistas, financed by Ronald Reagan

Question 8

Holocaust

Answer 8

influential in creating Israel, Hitler, killing Jews, genocide, ended in 1962, Nuremberg Laws

Question 9

“Asia Tigers”

Answer 9

South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong

Question 10

Khomeini

Answer 10

US - “Great Satan”, religious ruler in Iran

Question 11

Dent Xiaoping

Answer 11

Reversed Mao Zedong economy, socialist, freeing industries

Question 12

Cold War didn’t

Answer 12

Force world into two blocks

Question 13

OPEC

Answer 13

Global recession during 70s, fuel prices

Question 14

Response to Tiananmen protests

Answer 14

Forcibly repressed calls for democracy & freedom

Question 15

US involvement in Vietnam, USSR involvement in Afghanistan

Answer 15

Support that would remain strong allies

Question 16

Marxist beliefs (basis of communes)

Answer 16

Gov’t should control Econ in public interest

Question 17

Commune

Answer 17

Eliminated family life

Question 18

Gandhi winning independence for India from Britain

Answer 18

Non-violent protest & civil disobedience

Question 19

Goal of Green Revolution

Answer 19

Help farmers in developing worlds, modern technology, more productive

Question 20

Cuban gov’t overthrow by Castro

Answer 20

Low econ growth & corruption of Batista regime

Question 21

Diminishing power of Europe after WWI

Answer 21

Reliance on funding, loss of oversea markets, colonies beliefs that Europe was divided & unstable

Question 22

Indian National Congress

Answer 22

Jawaharlal Nehru

Question 23

Suffered most within Ottoman Empire

Answer 23

Armenians

Question 24

South Africa

Answer 24

Nelson Mandela, Afrikaner National Party, Apartheid Movement

Question 25

Mustard gas

Answer 25

WWI, deadly, blindness

Question 26

Cause of WWI

Answer 26

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Question 27

Central powers WWI

Answer 27

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottomans

Question 28

Triple Entente

Answer 28

Britain, France, Russia

Question 29

Schlieffen Plan

Answer 29

Quick attack against France through Belgium, Belgium resisted, failed

Question 30

Battle of Gallipoli

Answer 30

Turkey, capture Constantinople, failed

Question 31

Armenian genocide

Answer 31

Turkey, over 1 million murdered/starved

Question 32

Sykes-Picot agreement

Answer 32

Divided Arab lands between Britain & France, secret

Question 33

Balfour Declaration

Answer 33

Land in Palestine as a home for Jews for help in WWI

Question 34

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 34

Russian Revolution, Bolsheviks, head of USSR

Question 35

Zimmerman Telegram

Answer 35

Sent to Mexico to convince Mexico to attack US

Question 36

Paris Peace Conference

Answer 36

Decided terms of WWI & Treaty Of Versailles

Question 37

Good Neighbor Policy (Franklin Roosevelt)

Answer 37

Revamped US approach to Latin American relations

Question 38

Manchurian invasions

Answer 38

Japanese blew up Japanese railroads & blamed China, Japan left League of Nations

Question 39

Pan-Africanism

Answer 39

W. E. B. DuBois & Marcus Garvey, proud of culture

Question 40

Chinese cultural revolution

Answer 40

Mao Zedong, Great Leap Forward (communes), metals didn’t work, Deng Xiaoping fixed everything

Question 41

Pearl Harbor

Answer 41

Japan bomber America, America blew two Japanese cities

Question 42

Truman Doctrine

Answer 42

Battle lines of Cold War, free & enslaved

Question 43

Detente

Answer 43

Reduction in hostility, cool the arms race, the start of the end

Question 44

Wilson

Answer 44

Created League of Nations

Question 45

Churchill

Answer 45

Hitler is bad, WWII

Question 46

Shah

Answer 46

Hated, disagreed, overthrown by Khomeini

Question 47

Iranian Revolution

Answer 47

1978, new gov’t, two sects of Islam, Shia saw themselves as oppressed

Question 48

Results of Iranian revolution

Answer 48

Parliment, minority’s were protected, constitution, Shia, limited royal power