question

In 2010, this person became the first woman to be elected president of Brazil.

answer

Dilma Rousseff

question

Following his election to the presidency of Iran in 2005, this radical issued a statement publicly calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.

answer

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

question

Which of the following statements is not true of the Brezhnev years in the Soviet Union?

answer

As a result of détente, there was a freer and more relaxed domestic atmosphere.

question

The policy known as Ostpolitik

answer

increased cultural, personal, and economic relations between West and East Germany.

question

The two Muslim states in the Middle East that gave greater rights to women before 1980 were

answer

Turkey and Iran.

question

During the first decades of the twentieth century, women in the Middle East

answer

were aided by the "modernist" movement's efforts to change female statuses and roles by interpreting Islamic views in a manner closer to those prevailing in the West.

question

The keiretsu are

answer

large companies that maintain relationships in a more informal manner than the zaibatsu.

question

Of the AIDS cases reported around the world, ____ percent are found on the continent of Africa.

answer

65

question

All of the following are correct about Kashmir except

answer

the majority of the population is Hindu

question

Glasnost allowed

answer

criticism of the government and Soviet society generally.

question

In 2000, fighting in which breakaway Russian state reduced the republic's capital of Grozny to ruins?

answer

Chechyna

question

During the 1990s,

answer

many African writers criticized the national governments and the local populace and not just their earlier colonial rulers.

question

The leader of the successful revolution in Cuba in December 1958 was

answer

Fidel Castro

question

The Great Leap Foward

answer

created huge rural communes, but which failed economically

question

The countries which attained their independence from Britain in 1948 and from the Netherlands in 1950, respectively, were

answer

Burma and Indonesia

question

Jimmy Carter was defeated for reelection in 1980 because

answer

he failed to obtain the release of American hostages held by radical Muslims in Iran.

question

The customary "government party" in Japan between the 1950s and 1993 was the

answer

Liberal Democratic Party

question

Which of the following is part of China's new educational policies?

answer

Foreign models and knowledge gained abroad are now practiced.

question

the regional organization initially formed by Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, and the Philippines is known as

answer

ASEAN SEATO

question

In the mid-1970s, these two African nations adopted a Soviet-style Marxist government:

answer

Angolia and Ethiopia

question

A stabilizing factor in this African nation is an unwritten agreement that allows Christians and Muslims to alternate terms in holding the presidency.

answer

Nigeria

question

Demonstrations occurred on university campuses during the 1960s for all of the following reasons except

answer

To protest grade inflation

question

The reasons for the relatively late development of African nationalism included

answer

Africa's late colonization meant that it would take longer for dissatisfaction to develop and become institutionalized.

question

Under the new program of the "four modernizations" that began after Deng Xiaoping's political rehabilitation,

answer

limited private capitalism was permitted to return to China.

question

The problems that developed within South Korea in the 1980s were the result of

answer

a lack of democratic freedom

question

For a brief period between 1958 and 1961, Egypt merged with what nation to form the United Arab Republic?

answer

Jordan

question

Which statement about permissiveness in Western society is accurate?

answer

Increased drug consumption became a part of modern permissiveness for many.

question

The "little tiger" that was once a British crown colony, but is now an independent state, is

answer

Singapore

question

"Black cat, white cat, what does it matter so long as it catches the mice?" was said by

answer

Mao Zedong.

question

"On the left" in the Soviet Union referred to

answer

buying scarce goods on the black market.

question

Since Chiang Kai-shek's death

answer

the Republic of China has moved toward a more representative form of government.

question

Thatcherism

answer

restricted union power.

question

Pierre Trudeau

answer

pushed for greater industrialization, but his policies were frustrated by inflation and opposition to his attempts to increase the power of the central government.

question

In terms of the chronology of decolonization, it is accurate to say that

answer

the African National Congress became increasingly radical as its modest initial goals were rejected by white South African governments.

question

Kenzaburo Oe

answer

received the Nobel Peace Prize for literature

question

Who was the first prime minister of India?

answer

Jawaharlal Nehru

question

The Cuban Revo

answer

achieved notable success in programs related to health and education.

question

Which of the following statements is not correct about the role of women in India today?

answer

Rural Indian women often have greater advantages than urban women.

question

The term "ethnic cleansing" is associated with the tragedy in which occurred in

answer

Bosnia, during the breakup of Yugoslavia.

question

Since 1979, Iraq has invaded both

answer

Kuwait and Iran.

question

All of the following are correct about China in the early twenty-first century except

answer

the Chinese Communist Party has begun to share power with non-communist groups.

question

Economic development in Africa has been difficult for all of the following reasons except

answer

a declining population.

question

The women's movement writer of The Second Sex was

answer

Simone de Beauvoir

question

Popular culture

answer

became, in the area of sports, highly commercialized during the second half of the twentieth century.

question

The controversial Indian writer who uses the technique of magical realism and who has angered Muslims is

answer

Salman Rushdie.

question

The civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s

answer

created a "white backlash" which aided a national trend toward greater political conservatism.

question

The number of Soviet citizens who lost their lives in World War II is estimated at

answer

20 Million

question

In the twentieth century, Western women

answer

experienced a dramatic change in status.

question

In the 1950s, India

answer

took a neutral position in the Cold War.

question

Australia

answer

now draws more than one-half of its immigrants from East Asia.

question

A leading Soviet writer of the 1950s and winner of the Nobel Prize was

answer

Boris Pasternick

question

In 2007, the European Union added which two nations to its membership?

answer

Bulgaria and Romania

question

All of the following are problems faced by the capitalist government of Kenya except

answer

chronically poor soil.

question

Which Korean term is equivalent to the Japanese term zaibatsu?

answer

Chaebol

question

All of the following are correct regarding the presidency of Bill Clinton except

answer

because of his misconduct with a White House intern, he was not reelected in 1996

question

Mao Zedong's Little Red Book

answer

superseded all other learning sources during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.

question

Due to Cold War fears, the United States

answer

backed away from its policy of breaking up the zaibatsu.

question

The formal establishment of the new state of Israel in May 1948

answer

resulted in Arab denial of Israel's recognition.

question

The hopes for a lasting Middle East peace after the Camp David Accords were never realized, in part because of

answer

Israeli's policy of establishing Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank territories

question

All of the following were results of European colonialism in Africa except

answer

the spread of Islam

question

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

answer

was established, originally under Egyptian auspices, to represent Palestinian interests.

question

After assuming control of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev's policies

answer

were characterized by a program of de-Stalinization and broader intellectual tolerance.

question

Which of the following is not true about the events that occurred in the Soviet Union in December 1991?

answer

The Congress of People's Deputies denied Yeltsin the temporary power to rule by decree.

question

Which of the following statements is not correct?

answer

Foreign control of commerce in India was strongly encouraged after independence.

question

Which of the following is not correct about the economies of the Middle East?

answer

most of the most fertile agriculture land is owned by peasant farmers

question

Which of the following is a correct statement about postwar Canadian political development?

answer

the liberal party created canadas welfare state

question

In 1971, East Pakistan became the independent nation of

answer

Bangladesh

question

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

answer

enabled Mao to regain control of the party after the disastrous Great Leap Forward.

question

Which of the following has occurred in China since the 1949 revolution?

answer

Today, many Chinese people, especially the young, are trying to Westernize their dress and appearance.

question

Characteristic of Stalin's domestic policies after World War II was

answer

an emphasis on the growth of heavy industry.

question

During the 1980s and 1990s, there was a great deal of talk that the achievements of Japan and the "little tigers" indicated that the world was about to enter a new historical phase of the

answer

Asian Miracle.

question

Immediately after World War II, General MacArthur's responsibilities included the demilitarization of Japanese society and

answer

trying Japanese for war crimes and laying the foundations of postwar Japanese society.

question

In his Arusha Declaration of 1967, Julius Nyerere attempted to

answer

establish a system of socialism and self-reliance.

question

The founding of the European Economic Community (EEC)

answer

established a customs union for its six member states.

question

In the aftermath of independence, India's greatest economic weakness was in

answer

agriculture.

question

The policies advanced by Deng Xiaoping

answer

roughly doubled China's per capita income during the 1980s.

question

Early in 1990, Gorbachev struck out Article 6 of the Soviet constitution, thereby

answer

legalizing the formation of political parties other than the Communist Party.

question

The first leaders of the People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea, respectively, were

answer

Kim Il Sung and Syngman Rhee.

question

The existentialists believed that

answer

the world was absurd and without meaning.

question

Under the regime of Lee Kuan Yew

answer

thrift, hard work, and an obedience to authority were the tenets of state policy.

question

Which of the following was not a problem faced by the government of Helmut Kohl?

answer

the armed hostility of France

question

In regard to the relationship between Islam and women's rights, which of the following is the most valid statement?

answer

Saudi Arabia has been the most conservative country in the Middle East in this matter.

question

All of the following are correct about early African nationalist activities except

answer

most of the anti-colonial nationalists were committed to violence.

question

All of the following are true about events in Poland from 1980 to 1991 except

answer

mass public demonstrations caused significant changes in government policy.

question

The East African term for the people who have achieved a high level of financial success is

answer

Wabenzi

question

In 1993, President de Klerk agreed with Nelson Mandela to implement

answer

democratic national elections

question

The policies of Francois Mitterand

answer

had disappointing economic results that led to the coming to office of a more conservative premier.

question

African culture has adapted to serve the tourist industry and the export market in the areas of

answer

wood carving, painting, and sculpture.

question

In Kenya

answer

capitalism is the dominant economic system.

question

Yukio Mishima

answer

opposed the "coca-colonization" of Japan and the world.

question

All of the following about the rule of the Shah of Iran before 1979 are correct except it

answer

attempted to establish a purely Islamic society.

question

Which of the following was not characteristic of Soviet society during the Brezhnev years?

answer

A disregard for law and order.

question

Anwar Sadat

answer

differed from Nassar, proving to be far more pragmatic.

question

The new prime minister of Great Britain immediately after World War II, Clement Atlee,

answer

established the welfare state in Britain.

question

Japanese rap music is

answer

not as associated with sex, violence, or drugs.

question

Which of the following statements is not a true depiction of Mexican development in recent decades?

answer

In 1996, Mexican peasants received net incomes equal to those of wealthy American farmers.

question

In 2010, the thirteen-year rule of Britain's Labour Party came to an end as which conservative became Prime Minister?

answer

David Cameron

question

The "economics of oil"

answer

played a role in Gamal Abdul Nasser's espousal of pan-Arabist ideas, as he wanted all groups in the region to share in the oil wealth.

question

Women in South and Southeast Asian societies

answer

have, in a few instances, held high political office, as indicated by the careers of Indira Gandhi, Corazón Aquino, and Benazir Bhutto.

question

Terrorism is often motivated by all of the following except

answer

a desire to create political, social, and religious pluralism.

question

At present, air pollution in China is ____ the United States.

answer

ten times as bad as in

question

Which of the following has not been a factor in the development of Singapore's economy?

answer

a democratic government

question

In May, 1989, the Chinese Communist rulers suppressed the "fifth modernization" by their action at

answer

Tiananmen Square.

question

All of the following are correct about the consumer society except

answer

the number of blue collar workers increased after the 1960s.

question

The Pan-African belief in a distinctive "African personality" included all of the following except it

answer

believes that all persons of African heritage should return to their motherland.

question

The Reagan Revolution included all of the following except

answer

strong support for labor unions and war on poverty programs.

question

Jackson Pollack was a practitioner of

answer

Abstract Expressionism.

question

All Israeli governments have been composed of coalitions of several political parties because

answer

the nation was composed of many political parties having diverse interests.

question

Major developments in Latin America since 1955 have included

answer

an increase in the number of democratic regimes in the 1980s and 1990s.

question

Following his election to the presidency of Iran in 2005, this radical issued a statement publically calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.

answer

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

question

Which nation's Supreme Council unilaterally declared its independence from the Soviet Union on March 11, 1990?

answer

Lithuania

question

Which of the following is not correct about the events of the Arab-Israeli dispute in recent years?

answer

The intifada of Russian immigrants divided Israeli opinion, ending peace efforts.

question

All of the following were correct about the Chinese Red Guards except

answer

they received re-enforcements from Taiwan.

question

The country that suffered a domestic holocaust at the hands of the Khmer Rouge is

answer

Cambodia

question

The city that became the art capital of the world after World War II was

answer

New Yorkkkkkk

question

The ethnic tensions that resulted as an unanticipated by-product of glasnost were caused by

answer

the desire on the part of many ethnic minorities to retain the dominance of communism throughout the Soviet Union.

question

At the close of World War II, the Soviet Union

answer

had citizens who worked longer hours than before the war, ate less, and were ill-housed and poorly clothed.

question

The tragic situation in the Central African states of Rwanda and Burundi was the conflict between

answer

Tutsis and Hutus.

question

The following are true about the Japanese educational system except

answer

that it possesses a non-restrictive and individualistically-oriented environment.

question

The Islamic revival of the late twentieth century

answer

has had a political impact in long-secular Turkey.

question

Samuel Beckett, in Waiting for Godot, developed the dramatic movement known as

answer

the Theater of the Absurd

question

The following are true of the African National Congress except

answer

its policies met with cooperative reactions from the white majority who held power.

question

Among the selectively distributed benefits of Western civilization in Africa in the 1940s was/were

answer

railway networks and other industrial sectors in Algeria and South Africa.

question

Following the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi,

answer

the Bharatiya Janata Party began to directly challenge the Congress Party for power.

question

The one issue that has served as a unifying factor for all Middle Eastern Muslim states since the 1940s has been their

answer

position on the Palestine question

question

Mikhail Gorbachev

answer

had moved up rapidly since his appointment to the Party Central Committee in 1978.

question

West Germany between 1948 and 1965

answer

saw real wages double between 1950 and 1965.

question

This Chinese artist challenged the authority of the government and was taken into custody on charges of tax evasion.

answer

Ai Weiwei

question

The leader of Poland's Solidarity movement was

answer

Lech Walesa.

question

In 2010, this person became the first woman to be elected president of Brazil

answer

Dilma Rousseff

question

The Egyptian novelist who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988 was

answer

Naguib Mahfouz.

question

The new Indian government of 1947

answer

was based on the British system, with a figurehead president and a parliamentary form.

question

Richard Nixon

answer

used illegal methods to obtain information from his political rivals.

question

Falun Gong is

answer

an officially discouraged Chinese philosophical and religious movement.

question

In 1986, a nuclear disaster in this place served to enhance European awareness of environmental problems.

answer

Chernobyl

question

In the Six Day War of June 1967, which of the following is not true?

answer

The Golan Heights were taken from Syria.

question

Areas in China where national minorities have exhibited unrest are

answer

Tibet and Xinjiang.

question

The rapid economic development of the Asian "little tigers" can be attributed to

answer

a modernizing elite with an economic vision and practicality.

question

During the colonial period, the primary export crop of Egypt and Uganda was

answer

cotton

question

In its struggle to free itself from Communist rule and reestablish an independent political structure, Czechoslovakia experienced

answer

the crushing of reform by Soviet troops in 1968.

question

Under the leadership of Konrad Adenauer,

answer

West Germany was led by a center-right non-socialist government.

question

In responding to recent social and political challenges, the Chinese Communist Party has supported the philosophy of

answer

Confucius

question

In the years since the nations of Africa attained independence,

answer

most of the governments have not been pluralistic democracies.

question

The major dichotomy in Southeast Asia is the contrast between

answer

villages and cities.

question

Charles de Gaulle did not do which of the following?

answer

see France decrease its gross domestic product during his period of government

question

The Petronas Towers

answer

in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, are among the world's tallest buildings.

question

Which of the following was not a factor that promulgated Taiwanese industrial development?

answer

a poorly educated and unmotivated populace

question

The "Japanese Miracle"

answer

had its roots in the initial policy decisions made during the Meiji reform period.

question

The conflict that developed between East and West Pakistan, and eventually led to the establishment of the state of Bangladesh, was caused by

answer

differences in language, history, and ethnic tradition.

question

In his 2010 novel, To the End of the Land, which Israeli author writes of an ordinary Israeli family living amid constant conflict and loss, and was consequently labeled the moral conscience of his nation?

answer

David Grossman

question

Which of the following occurred when Nikita Khrushchev was in power?

answer

the Twentieth National Congress speech

question

Mao Zedong's New Democracy

answer

moved slowly at first, in order not to alienate the peasants.

question

Which of the following was not true about Argentina?

answer

Eva Perón opposed the women's organizations that supported the Peronistas.

question

The substitution of traditional imports by increasing domestic industrial production in Latin America began to fail in the 1960s because

answer

domestic markets were too small and countries were unable to find enough foreign buyers.

question

The treaties signed in September 1951 restored Japanese independence, ended Japanese claims to its former colonies and territories, and

answer

provided the United States with military bases in Japan.

question

It can be said that, by the late 1960s,

answer

Mozambique and Angola were still controlled by Portugal.

question

Leonid Brezhnev

answer

valued stability above all, and blocked any significant attempts to deal with economic or social problems.

question

In 2010, more of these were sold in China than in the United States.

answer

automobiles

question

The Palestine issue included all of the following except it

answer

it was permanently and peacefully settled by the Camp David Accords.

question

The apparent motivation for the assassination of Gandhi was that he

answer

was against creating a strictly Hindu India.

question

All of the following are true about the economies of the Middle East except

answer

the socialist economies in the region have been more prosperous than capitalist ones.

question

A factor that was not an element of Mikhail Gorbachev's policies was that

answer

he wanted to establish an entirely free-market capitalist economy.

question

As a result of the excesses of the Red Guards, all of the following occurred in China except

answer

Mao and all his deeds disappeared from Chinese history books.

question

The "fifth modernization" referred to in post-Mao China was

answer

Democracy

question

According to the agreement between Great Britain and the People's Republic of China

answer

Chinese agreed to permit a half century of largely self governing capitalism in hong kong after the british rule ended

question

All of the following are correct about Pakistan since September 11th, 2001 except

answer

Benazir Bhutto was elected president in 2008

question

All of the following are correct about recent Japanese economic developments except

answer

Lacking a domestic market as large as that of the united states, in the 1990s the economy slipped into recession

question

All of the following are correct regarding the presidency of George W Bush except

answer

he raised taxes on the wealthy to balance the government budget

question

All of the following are true of the African National Congress except

answer

its policies met with cooperative reactions from the white majority who held powers

question

All of the Israeli governments have been composed of coalitions of several political parties because

answer

the nation was composed of many political parties having diverse interests

question

As a result of Nasser's nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956

answer

Egypt was attacked by the British, French, and the Israelis

question

Between 1945 and the late 1970s

answer

the gross national product of France grew at an average annual rate of 5.5% in the decade after 1958

question

Canada

answer

has many citizens who believe the US has excessive influence in Canadian politics and over the Canadian economy

question

During the late 1960s and the 1970s

answer

the problems of economic stagnation and political and administrative gerontological were effectively ignored under Brezhnev

question

The European economic community (EEC) was primarily

answer

a political union

question

For the Chinese Communist party, culture is

answer

seen as an important instrument for indoctrination

question

In east Germany

answer

the fall of communism resulted in political reunification with west Germany in 1990

question

Indira Ghandi

answer

developed a policy of forced sterilization to try to cut population growth

question

The initial program of land collectivization in Communist China was

answer

performed in a much less confrontational manner than Stalin had used in the Soviet Union

question

Joseph Stalin

answer

continued his reliance on terror apparatus including the holding of about 9 million soviet citizens in Siberian concentration camps

question

The majority of the terrorist who carried out the September 11 attack on the US were from

answer

Saudi Arabia

question

Nikita Khrushchev

answer

encouraged more freedom for writers

question

Pakistan's early history

answer

was marked by deep internal struggles over language, religious, and regional issues

question

president Sukarno of Indonesia

answer

used economic aid from china and the soviet union to counter western influence, and used domestic Indonesian communists to counter domestic Muslim opponents

question

the so-called "americanism of the world" has resulted from all of the following influences except

answer

the bleak world view of absurdist drama and litterature

question

the soviet economy

answer

grew rapidly in the heavy industry sector during the late 1940s and 1950s

question

this nation took the lead in the so-called "sexual revolution" of the 1960s

answer

sweden

question

this nigerian authors novel The Interpreter lambasted the corruption and hypocrisy of his nations government

answer

Wole Soyinka

question

throughout Europe between the decade of 1948 and 1957

answer

the number of cars tripled

question

the two leaders who ended the apartheid regime without major bloodshed in south Africa were

answer

F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela

question

the two writers were closely associated with existentialism were

answer

Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus

question

unlike the other economies of east asia, Hong Kongs economic development has taken place in a system employing

answer

unrestrained, free market capitalism

question

what, accoording to Jacques Chirac, is the pillar on which the Frence constitution rests

answer

secularism

question

which individual led the Convention Peoples party, the first formal political party in black africa

answer

Kwame Nkrunah

question

which of the following happened on july 1st, 1997?

answer

Hong Kong returned to mainland Chinese authority

question

which of the following is not true about the role of women in post-colonial Africa?

answer

women have achieved considerable success in politics, becoming president or prime minister in several countries

question

which of the following is true of japan today?

answer

the japanese over all per capita standard of living equals or exceeds those of most western nations

question

which of the following statements accurately describes developments relating to Cuba in the late 1950s and early 1960s

answer

the bay of Pigs disaster resulted in soviet decision to place soviet missiles in Cuba

question

which of the following statements characterizes the nature of India today?

answer

India today is a nation of contrast with nearly one third of its nation living in poverty

question

which of the following statements is accurate regarding indian development after the death of Nehru?

answer

Rajiv Ghandi weakened socialist programs of his mother and grandfather

question

In the early 1970s

answer

Stalin's reputation rose under Brezhnev rule

question

During a visit, this soviet leader was astonished that Canadian farmers worked that hard on their own initiative..

answer

Mikhail Gorbachev

question

Which of the following was not among the forms initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev?

answer

the creation of an elite presidential bodyguard to defend against declared assassination attempts

question

Which of the following statements is not correct about religion in the West after World War II?

answer

Church attendance in Europe increased significantly in the 1960s and 1970s.

Final History Exam! – Flashcards

Unlock all answers in this set

Haven't found what you were looking for?

Search for samples, answers to your questions and flashcards