Questions 1-10

Question 1

What were the causes of WWI

Answer 1

Military Conflicts
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism

Question 2

Due to the Global Depression, how did govts. take more active roles in their economies?

Answer 2

FDR’s New Deal
Stalin’s 5 year plan
Fascist Corporatist economies
Populist Govt. in Mexico

Question 3

What land-based empires collapsed?

Answer 3

Ottomans
Qing Dynasty
Russian Empire

Question 4

What were the causes of WWII?

Answer 4

Totalitarianism in Central Europe
Treaty of Versailles
German desire for Lebensraum
Economic Depression

Question 5

Examples of genocides and ethnic cleansing

Answer 5

Holocaust
Holodomor
Cambodians under Khmer Rogue
Armenians in Turkey
Tutsi in Rwanda

Question 6

What shift in global power occurred after WWII?

Answer 6

Balance of superpowers: USA vs Soviets
Non-aligned movements in Indonesia and Ghana

Question 7

What major alliances formed that lead to smaller conflicts during the cold war?

Answer 7

NATO vs Warsaw Pact
Proxy wars:
Korea
Vietnam
Angola
Nicaragua

Question 8

What occurred in China as a result of internal tension and Japanese aggression?

Answer 8

Communist Revolution
Great Leap Forward

Question 9

Which political leaders or movements sought to distribute land and resources throughout the world?

Answer 9

Communist Revolution (Vietnam)
White Revolution (Iran)
Mariam (Ethiopia)
Govts. in Brazil and Mexico

Question 10

As colonial boundaries were redrawn after WWII, what population displacements and resettlements occurred?

Answer 10

Division of the Middle East into Mandates
Two-state solution of Israel and Palestine
Partition of India