FINAL Unit 5 (Chapters 28 – 36)
TEST BANK
Chapter 28 Descent into the Abyss: World War I and the Crisis of the European Global Order
1) Which of the following nations did NOT comprise the Triple Entente alliance in the the early 1900s?
A) Germany
B) Britain
C) France
D) Russia
2) Which of the following was NOT an event leading to the outbreak of World War I?
A) the assassination of the Austrian Archduke by a Serbian nationalist
B) Austria's declaration of war on Serbia
C) the mobilization of the Russian army
D) France's invasion of Belgium
3) As a direct consequence of the war
A) women's participation in the labor force increased greatly.
B) women's participation in the labor force increased only slightly.
C) women's participation in the labor force decreased significantly.
D) women's participation in the labor force stayed basically at the same levels.
4) By 1916, conflict on the western front
A) had become a shifting game of rapid maneuver with few major battles.
B) had resulted in the surrender of France and the establishment of the Vichy government.
C) had resulted in victory for the British and French troops who pushed the exhausted enemy to the borders
of Germany.
D) had settled into a deadly stalemate in which hundreds of thousands of lives were expended for a few feet
of trench.
5) By 1917 the war on the eastern front
A) had stagnated into a stalemate in which neither side had an advantage.
B) led to a major revolution in Russia that toppled the tsarist government.
C) was resolved by a peace treaty between the combatants.
D) resulted in a massive Russian offensive fueled by the numerical superiority of Russian armies.
6) Which of the following was NOT included in the final set of treaties that ended World War I?
A) A League of Nations was formed, but the United States refused to join.
B) Russia was rewarded for its service to the Allies by the grant of substantial territories in Poland and the
Baltic republics.
C) Germany was forced to accept blame for the war and to pay huge reparations to the victorious Allies.
D) Austria-Hungary was divided up into a Germanic Austria as well independent states of Hungary,
Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.
7) Which of the following statements concerning the global aspects of World War I is most accurate?
A) The British dominionsπCanada, Australia, and New Zealandπremained aloof and virtually untouched by
the war.
B) By 1914, the United States had not entered the scramble for colonial possessions.
C) American businessmen prior to 1917 profited by selling goods to both sides and by taking advantage of
European distractions to seize new world markets.
D) The United States aggressively entered the war in 1914 to demonstrate its new position as a world power.
Chapter 29: The World in the 1920s: Challenges to European Dominance
8) Hopes for permanent peace in Europe in 1928 were symbolized by a treaty outlawing war foreverπthe
A) Kellogg-Briand Pact.
B) Warsaw Pact.
C) Roosevelt-Stalin Accords.
D) Adams-Onis Treaty.
9) Which of the following statements most accurately characterized the internal political development of Europe
in the mid-1920s?
A) Parliamentary democracies were strengthened in the aftermath of World War I.
B) German internal politics were disturbed by its division into Allied zones of occupation.
C) Many veterans joined groups on the far right that demanded more authoritarian governments.
D) Only Great Britain remained immune to shifts toward the left or the right.
10) Which of the following reforms was NOT included in the revolutionary constitution of 1917 in Mexico?
A) state takeover of property belonging to the Catholic Church
B) limited foreign ownership of key resources
C) land reform
D) guaranteed rights for workers
11) What was the primary goal of Zapata's forces within the Mexican Revolution?
A) the presidency for Zapata
B) industrialization
C) extension of the plantation economy in Oaxaca
D) sweeping land reform
12) At the end of World War I, what nation emerged as the dominant foreign power in Latin America?
A) Britain
B) Germany
C) United States
D) Spain
13) What foreign power played a major factor in Chinese domestic history from the mid-1890s to 1945?
A) United States
B) Vietnam
C) Britain
D) Japan
14) The Chinese Nationalist Party's greatest failure was its inability to
A) create a military wing of the party.
B) deal with the social and economic crisis of the Chinese peasantry.
C) industrialize China.
D) rid itself of its ties to the Qing dynasty.
15) What early Communist leader emphasized the role of the peasantry in revolutionary solutions to Chinese
problems?
A) Sun Yat-sen
B) Chiang Kai-shek
C) Mao Zedong
D) Yuan Shikai
16) Who emerged as the head of the Nationalist Party and de facto ruler of China by the late 1920s?
A) Sun Yat-sen
B) Mao Zedong
C) Chiang Kai-shek
D) Li Dizhao
17) Which of the following statements concerning the political situation in Russia after Lenin's seizure of power is
most accurate?
A) Lenin hoped to establish a majority party based almost entirely on the Russian peasantry.
B) The first parliamentary election following the revolution returned a majority for the Social Revolutionary
Party, not Lenin's Bolsheviks.
C) Lenin remained completely dedicated to the principles of parliamentary government, a position that
garnered him the support of Russian liberals.
D) Lenin abandoned power in the face of a popular plebiscite for another form of government.
18) How did Stalin's view of communism differ from that of Lenin?
A) Lenin was only interested in the Russian revolution and did not visualize any further revolutionary
process.
B) Lenin was more interested in including a broad swath of the Russian population in the communist
movement.
C) Stalin represented a strongly nationalist version of communism and concentrated on "socialism in one
country."
D) Stalin was not a member of the Communist Party.
Chapter 30: The Great Depression and the Authoritarian Response
19) Which of the following statements is most correct?
A) The intensity of the Great Depression had similar precedence in the history of industrial society
B) The intensity of the Great Depression had no similar precedence in the history of industrial society
C) Its duration was typical of most economic failures
D) Most world governments saw the Depression coming, but were unable to affect it.
20) Franklin Roosevelt's program introducing several social insurance programs in the U.S. was called the
A) New Frontier.
B) Fair Deal.
C) New Deal.
D) Fast Deal.
21) The Popular Front elected in France in 1936
A) was representative of the incapacitation of parliamentary government in Europe prior to World War II.
B) remained in power until 1945.
C) successfully addressed the problems of the depression by introducing strong measures of social reform.
D) was composed primarily of the most conservative political parties.
22) Which of the following was NOT a factor leading to the development of fascism in Germany?
A) the impact of the depression
B) treaty arrangements that forced Germany to accept the blame for World War I
C) the recent and shaky tradition of parliamentary government
D) the division of Germany into zones of occupation by the victorious allies in World War I
23) In the election of 1932, Hitler's National Socialist Party
A) received a majority of all votes cast in Germany.
B) failed to achieve a majority, but won more votes than any other single party.
C) was prevented from participating.
D) boycotted the electoral process.
24) In Germany under Hitler, government economic planning
A) did not exist.
B) was focused on a return to a preindustrial system.
C) helped to restore production levels by emphasizing armament construction.
D) was modeled on the programs of the American New Deal.
25) What event brought an end to many of the Liberal governments in Latin America?
A) World War I
B) the Great Depression
C) World War II
D) the Mexican Revolution
26) Between 1914 and 1930, Latin America was swept by
A) strikes and labor unrest in response to economic dislocation.
B) Indian uprisings.
C) conservative revolutions in favor of caudillos.
D) a series of European invasions.
27) The spurt of industrial growth that occurred throughout Latin America when World War I cut off the
traditional agricultural exports is called
A) "export laden capitalization."
B) the "Laffer curve."
C) "indigenization."
D) "import substitution industrialization."
28) What was the Soviet agricultural policy immediately following Stalin's concentration of power in 1928?
A) equitable redistribution of land among all peasants
B) commercialization
C) free-market structure
D) collectivization
29) The artistic style that received official state preference under Stalin was
A) "Socialist realism."
B) Romanticism.
C) cubism.
D) modeled almost entirely on Western imitations of Western functionalism.
30) Which of the following was NOT typical of the Soviet economy?
A) control of virtually all economic sectors
B) emphasis on heavy industrial goods
C) need to create a massive armaments industry
D) ready availability of consumer goods
Chapter 31: A Second Global Conflict and the End of the European World Order
31) Which of the following countries was NOT a member of the Axis powers?
A) The Soviet Union
B) Germany
C) Italy
D) Japan
32) After 1937, the government of Japan was dominated by
A) socialists who gained power in the aftermath of the depression.
B) labor unions whose position was strengthened by their control of industry.
C) the emerging estate of middle-class liberals intent on a broader franchise.
D) a military regime dedicated to the ultra-nationalist goals.
33) Hitler came to power in Germany
A) as a result of entirely legal and constitutional means.
B) with the support of socialists.
C) after a short, but violent, overthrow of the constitutional government.
D) after a lengthy civil war between forces of conservatives and communists.
34) Which of the following did NOT contribute to the fall of France to the Germans?
A) The refusal of English troops to fight with the French
B) Divided and weak leadership
C) Delays over rearming the French forces
D) A thoroughly demoralized French population
35) All of the following groups were targeted by Hitler in the mass executions that would become known as the
"final solution" EXCEPT
A) musicians.
B) homosexuals.
C) Gypsies.
D) Jews.
36) Universally recognized as the greatest naval battle in history, the Japanese fleet was effectively put out of
commission at
A) Midway
B) Tarawa
C) Coral Sea
D) Iwo Jima
37) Which of the following statements concerning warfare in the European theater during World War II is most
accurate?
A) France mounted a fanatic defense of its home territories, only succumbing to the Nazi advance in 1944.
B) By the summer of 1940, most of France lay in German hands, while a semi-fascist collaborative regime
ruled in Vichy.
C) British resistance crumbled before the air assaults of Germany, and an amphibious assault knocked the
British from the war.
D) From 1939 on, the chief resistance to the German advance was provided by American forces.
38) Which of the following statements concerning Zionism following World War II is most accurate?
A) Zionists turned to violent attempts to eject the British from Palestine in response to the British attempts to
limit immigration to the Middle East.
B) The Zionist movement turned to peaceful demonstrations and boycotts on the model of the Indian
nationalist movement and refused to participate in violence.
C) The Zionist movement, frustrated by the failure to achieve an independent nation, weakened after World
War II.
D) The Zionist movement was eliminated after World War II by the combined action of the Palestinian Arabs
and the British.
39) What was the solution to the division in India between Muslims and Hindus in 1947?
A) The British established a single government with a Hindu majority, but with specific offices reserved for
Muslims.
B) The government of India was divided between two houses of the Indian parliament--one for Muslims,
one for Hindus.
C) The British simply withdrew from India without any political settlement of the problem of religious
division.
D) The British decided to divide India into two nationsπa Muslim Pakistan and a secular, but
Hindu-dominated, India.
40) What document during World War II included a clause that recognized the "right of all people to choose the
form of government under which they live?"
A) the Marshall Plan
B) the Atlantic Charter
C) the Balfour Declaration
D) the Truman Doctrine
Chapter 32: Western Society and Eastern Europe in the Decades of the Cold War
41) What crisis emerged in 1956 that demonstrated the diminished powers of European nations in world affairs?
A) Portugal attempted to reassert its control over Goa.
B) The Netherlands sought to establish colonial rule in South Africa.
C) Britain and France attempted forcibly to halt Egypt's nationalization of the Suez Canal.
D) France was driven from Libya.
42) Which nation was NOT part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization during the 1980s?
A) The United States
B) Britain
C) Soviet Union
D) Canada
43) A program of loans that was designed to aid Western European nations rebuild from WWII's devastation was
A) The Dreyfus Plan.
B) The McArthur Plan.
C) Marshall Plan.
D) The Churchill Plan.
44) Which of the following paralleled the development of the welfare state?
A) increased military spending
B) increased government role in economic policy
C) increased political conservatism
D) decreased government spending overall
45) Which of the following was NOT typical of the European economy after 1950?
A) rampant consumerism
B) rising per-capita disposable income
C) high levels of unemployment
D) difficulties with immigrant laborers
46) Which of the following statements most accurately describes the situation of European peasantry in the social
structure of late twentieth century Europe?
A) The European peasantry disappeared following World War II.
B) The European peasantry decreased in size and became increasingly commercialized.
C) The European peasantry continued to remain exclusively rural and rejected twentieth century urban
culture.
D) Alone among European social classes, the peasantry remained independent of the state bureaucracies.
47) Which of the following was NOT a right achieved by women in the West in the later twentieth century?
A) voting
B) family rightsπaccess to divorce, abortion, birth control
C) access to higher education
D) payment equal to males for equal work
48) Which of the following nations did NOT remain independent of direct Soviet control by 1948?
A) Greece
B) Albania
C) Yugoslavia
D) Poland
49) Which of the following was NOT typical of the Soviet economy?
A) control of virtually all economic sectors
B) emphasis on heavy industrial goods
C) need to create a massive armaments industry
D) ready availability of consumer goods
50) Women in Russian industrialized society
A) rapidly reached the same status as males.
B) were less likely to be in the work force than women in the West.
C) dominated some professions, such as medicine.
D) were afforded the same type of domestic idealization typical of women in the West.
51) Which of the following was a Soviet success during the years of Khrushchev's dominance?
A) the Cuban missile crisis
B) the development of agriculture in Siberia
C) the launching of Sputnik
D) increases in overall agricultural productivity
52) What Russian leader significantly altered political, diplomatic, and economic policies in the Soviet Union after
1985?
A) Yuri Andropov
B) Leonid Brezhnev
C) Mikhail Gorbachev
D) Yuri Gagarin
53) The term perestroika refers to
A) a new freedom to comment and criticize the Soviet government.
B) economic restructuring and more leeway for private ownership.
C) the Soviet space program.
D) the establishment of a liberal democracy.
Chapter 33: Latin America: Revolution and Reaction into 21st Century
54) What distinguishes those regions referred to as the "Third World" from other societies?
A) lack of stable political institutions
B) lack of industrialization
C) lack of major religious systems
D) isolation in the world commercial network
55) Which of the following nations is NOT part of the "First World"?
A) the United States
B) Japan
C) Britain
D) the Soviet Union
56) Which of the following have NOT contributed significantly to the ongoing transformation of Latin American
life?
A) Dynamic change across the board
B) Changes in education
C) Developing social services
D) The position of women
57) The Guatemalan reforms of Juan Jose Arevalo that brought his government into direct conflict with foreign
interests do NOT include
A) ousting the Catholic Church.
B) land reform.
C) improvement in the rights and conditions of workers.
D) a proposed income tax.
58) Which of the following statements concerning the revolution in Guatemala in 1954 is most accurate?
A) The communist Arbenz government that ruled Guatemala was overthrown by liberal reformers under
Arevalo.
B) Communist revolutionaries overthrew the conservative military government despite active U.S. support.
C) The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency aided conservative dissidents in overthrowing the nationalistic
Arbenz government.
D) The U.S.-supported regime that replaced the Arbenz government introduced significant land reform and
limited foreign ownership of Guatemalan industry.
59) Who was the leader of the Cuban revolution that overthrew Fulgencio Batista?
A) Hortensio Herrera
B) Cristobal Colon
C) Juan Peron
D) Fidel Castro
Answer: D
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60) Which of the following statements most accurately describes the outcome of the Cuban revolution?
A) Despite the successful overthrow of Batista, the revolutionary government failed to enact significant
reforms in the plantation economy.
B) The revolutionary government eventually announced its adoption of Marxist-Leninist leanings, broke off
relations with the U.S., and introduced sweeping socialist reforms.
C) The largely liberal government that resulted from the revolution returned to the constitution of 1940 and
closer relationships with the U.S.
D) After a brief sojourn in the U.S., Batista was able to return to power with the support of the U.S. military.
61) The sweeping reforms of Castro's Cuba have improved all of the following EXCEPT
A) basic freedom.
B) education.
C) health.
D) housing.
62) The common thread running through all of the military regimes of Latin America was
A) they were all supported by the United States.
B) they were all supported by the working populations.
C) they were all reform-minded.
D) they were all nationalistic.
63) Which of the following statements most accurately reflects the progress of democratization in Latin America
during the 1980s?
A) Despite return to democratic government in many Latin American countries, problems with populist
movements, threats from military leaders, inflation, and the drug trade weakened the new regimes.
B) Once democratic governments were restored in much of Latin America, the influence of the U.S. in the
region began to wane.
C) The return of democracy to Latin America was so universal that military governments ceased to exist.
D) Democratic governments in the 1980s ceased to be troubled by the existence of leftist, guerrilla movements.
64) Conservative governments and dictatorships established in the aftermath of U.S. military intervention in Latin
America were referred to as
A) "Uncle Sam's Amigos."
B) "C.I.A. heaven."
C) "Banana Republics."
D) "Burrito Bandits."
65) What led to the U.S. return to more aggressive policies including direct military intervention following World
War II?
A) the desire to contain communism and the Cold War
B) the discovery of uranium in Mexico
C) the increasing intervention of Japan into Latin American economies
D) the alliance of many Latin American countries with fascist governments during the war
66) Which of the following factors did NOT contribute to significant change in Latin American women's roles?
A) Latin American men
B) Feminist organizations
C) Suffrage movements
D) international pressures
67) Which of the following was NOT a 1980s reason for the increased movement of peoples within the hemisphere?
A) Workers seeking jobs
B) The demands for cheap labor
C) The flight of political refugees
D) Tourism
Chapter 34: Africa, the Middle East, and Asia in the Era of Independence
68) Why have ethnic rivalries and communal violence been endemic in decolonized African states?
A) The level of civilization in Africa was more primitive at the time of colonization.
B) Tribal life in Africa was traditionally more violent than other cultures.
C) The introduction of slavery by whites in the nineteenth century brutalized African culture.
D) Europeans hastily colonized Africa and established boundaries without reference to ethnic groups or
cultural homogeneity.
69) The fragmentation of Pakistan resulted in the creation in 1972 of the independent nation of
A) Myanmar.
B) Sri Lanka.
C) Bangladesh.
D) Bhutan.
70) On what have Third World countries traditionally depended to finance industrialization?
A) development of banking systems
B) sale of resources left behind by colonizers
C) profits of previous industrialization
D) sale of cash crops and minerals
Answer: D
71) "Neocolonialism" refers to
A) Europe's conquest of new colonies in Africa and Asia.
B) Japan's conquest of much of Asia during World War II.
C) the continued relegation of the Third World to economic dependency after decolonization.
D) the creation of colonies by India and the more advanced nations of Africa in the last several decades.
72) The Muslim Brotherhood embraced all of the following EXCEPT
A) a fundamentalist approach to Islam.
B) the promotion of trade unions.
C) non-violence.
D) land reform.
73) The man who emerged as head of the Egyptian government following the 1952 coup was
A) Gamal Abdul Nasser.
B) Ahmad Orabi.
C) Anwar Sadat.
D) Hasan al-Banna.
74) The world's largest functioning democracy is
A) Canada
B) The United States
C) India
D) China
75) Perhaps more than any other Third World nation, India has been successful at
A) controlling population growth.
B) raising living standards.
C) equitable land redistribution.
D) preserving civil rights and democracy.
76) Iran, unlike other areas of the Third World,
A) had not been formally colonized by European powers, but had been reduced to an informal sphere of
influence.
B) did not have problems with inequitable land distribution.
C) possessed a substantial Western-educated middle class.
D) was heavily industrialized and not dependent on the export of cash crops or mineral wealth.
77) Which of the following was not an intended role of apartheid in South Africa?
A) To spread the profits from the countries mineral wealth to where it would do the most good
B) Economic dominance for the white majority
C) Monopoly of political power
D) To impose a system of extreme segregation on all races of the country
78) Which of the following methods was NOT used by the South African government to suppress dissent among
the black population?
A) arrest of opposition leaders
B) favoritism shown to some leaders in order to divide opponents of apartheid
C) use of spies and police informers
D) use of state programs to improve the conditions of the black townships
79) One of the signs of slightly diminished racial tensions in South Africa in 1990 was the freeing of
A) Steve Biko.
B) Julius Nyerere.
C) Nelson Mandela.
D) Jomo Kenyatta.
Chapter 35: Rebirth and Revolution: Nation-Building in East Asia and the Pacific Rim
80) In what way was the restoration of an independent Korea complicated?
A) Korea had become a colony of China, which refused to restore independence.
B) Korea was divided into zones controlled by the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
C) Korea's government was claimed by surviving members of the old monarchy.
D) Korea had no prior experience as an independent government.
81) Who was the political leader of the Soviet-dominated People's Democratic Republic of Korea?
A) Syngman Rhee
B) Lee Ho Park
C) Kim Il-Sung
D) So Kim Chung
82) The first leader of the U.S.-dominated Republic of Korea was
A) Syngman Rhee
B) Lee Ho Park
C) Kim Il-Sung
D) So Kim Chung
83) Which of the following statements most accurately reflects the situation in Korea following the Korean War?
A) Northern and southern Korea were rapidly reunited under a single, authoritarian government controlled
by the Soviet Union.
B) Northern Korea threw off its ties with China and the Soviet Union and sought a closer relationship with
the U.S.
C) Korea remained divided with relatively authoritarian governments in both halves of the divided nation.
D) Southern Korea became fully democratic, but moved closer to political neutrality during the Cold War.
84) Which of the following was NOT a factor in the amazing economic growth of Japan following the 1950s?
A) cheap loans for technological innovation
B) educational expansion
C) a growing population and a reduction in the agricultural labor force
D) a rapidly growing military-industrial complex
85) What nation other than Japan in the Pacific rim was the most obvious example of the spread of new economic
dynamism?
A) South Korea
B) North Korea
C) Vietnam
D) Malaya
86) Which of the following statements is most accurate?
A) After the civil war that brought the Communists to power, the country was rapidly demilitarized.
B) The Peoples Liberation Army, the source of the Communist rise to power, gained dominance over the
Communist Party.
C) Most of China was administered by civilian bureaucrats recruited from the old Confucian scholar-gentry.
D) The army remained clearly subordinate to the Communist Party, with cadre advisors attached to military
contingents.
87) Unlike most third world countries, China responded to its population problem in the mid-1960s by
A) accepting U.N. proposals for birth control programs.
B) limiting urban couples to two children and rural couples to one.
C) refusing to adopt any birth-control programs in order to foster more communist children.
D) allowing unrestricted births among the peasantry, but limiting urban couples to one child.
88) During the 1980s, all of the following were typical of the Chinese government EXCEPT
A) encouragement of private market production for the peasantry.
B) private enterprise within the industrial sector.
C) domination by the "pragmatists."
D) democratic reform.
89) From the seventeenth century, Vietnam had been part of the colonial system of what European power?
A) Britain
B) Portugal
C) Spain
D) France
90) Communist opposition to the U.S.-supported government in South Vietnam was referred to as the
A) Viet Cong.
B) Viet Minh.
C) VNQDD.
D) Tayson.
91) Which of the following statements concerning the U.S. participation in the Second Indochina War is most
accurate?
A) The U.S. continued to rely on the Diem government and the South Vietnamese military until 1973.
B) The U.S. only intervened directly in the war in 1975.
C) Effective U.S. military intervention typified by strategic bombing resulted in the consolidation of Vietnam
under the rule of the government at Saigon.
D) The American armed forces withdrew in 1975 precipitating the collapse of the unpopular military regime
of the south.
Chapter 36: Globalization and Resistance: World History 1990-2003
92) Which of the following factors did NOT play a role in the demise of communism?
A) Soviet leadership
B) Reassertion of Eastern European initiative
C) Western Europe's thriving Economy
D) The steadfastness of Chinese policy
93) In protest against the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union, the U.S.
A) boycotted the United Nations.
B) threated nuclear war.
C) invaded Iraq.
D) boycotted the 1980 Moscow Winter Olympics.
94) Which of the follow was NOT a factor leading to stagnation of industrial production in the Soviet Union?
A) Shortage of raw resources and materials
B) Rigid central planning
C) Health problems
D) Poor worker morale
95) Which of the following is not one of the Baltic states?
A) Estonia
B) Latvia
C) Lithuania
D) Ukraine
96) This man succeeded Yeltsin as leader of Russia.
A) Tastin
B) Shovin
C) Putin
D) Estin
97) The heaviest populated country on the continent of Africa is
A) South Africa
C) The Ivory Coast
B) Nigeria
D) Tanzania
98) In 2001, this country was excluded from the United Nations' Human Rights Commission.
A) The United States
B) China
C) Russia
D) Romania
99) The Persian Gulf War of 1991 was in response to the Iraqi invasion of
A) Israel
B) Kuwait
C) Syria
D) Iran
100) The common currency of the European Union is called the
A) dollar.
B) euro.
C) dinero.
D) peso.
101) The increased interconnectedness of all parts of the world is called
A) Gradualism.
B) Universalism.
C) Globalization.
D) Spaceship Earth.
102) Which of the following is NOT a new development regarding the globalization of the Earth?
A) Advances in creating a prototype universal language
B) The end of the cold war led to new opportunities for global communication
C) Advanced technical developments
D) The adjustment of peoples everywhere to the notion of global communications
103) The textbook mentions this company as the most striking international cultural influence since the 1970s.
A) Nike
B) McDonalds
C) Ford
D) Sony
104) Which of the following is NOT a issue raised against economic globalization?
A) Damage to labor conditions through use of cheap workers
B) Damage to the environment
C) Its pace is too slow
D) Rampant consumerism
105) Which of the following is NOT a trend running counter to globalization?
A) Nationalism
B) Religious differences
C) Ethnic competition
D) The Internet
Short Answer Questions: Pick 2
1) In what ways did Stalinism alter the original concepts of Soviet economy and government?
a. Topic: Revolution: The First Waves
2) Define "total war." How did the World Wars of the 20th century demonstrate the application of "total war"?
a. Topic: World War II
3) In what ways did the Indian independence movement provide a model for other decolonization movements?
a. Topic: World War I and the Postwar Crises of the European Empires
4) Discuss the role of the military in Latin American political development during the late twentieth century.
a. Topic: The Search for Reform and the Military Option
5) What problems tend to be typical of all third world nations?
a. Topic: The Challenges of Independence
6) How did the experience of decolonization in Vietnam differ from that of most third world nations?
a. Topic: Colonialism and Revolution in Vietnam
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B
61) A
62) D
63) A
64) C
65) A
66) A
67) D
68) D
69) C
70) D
71) C
72) C
73) A
74) C
75) D
76) A
77) A
78) D
79) C
80) B
81) C
82) A
83) C
84) D
85) A
86) D
87) B
88) D
89) D
90) A
91) D
92) D
93) D
94) A
95) D
96) C
97) B
98) A
99) B
100) B
101) C
102) A
103) B
104) C
105) D