WH Unit 9 – Flashcard
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During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were united in:
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Their opposition to Nazi Germany
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What was the first Kingdom of West Africa
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Ghana
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After losing the Opium War, Qing (Manchu) leaders were forced to allow Europeans and Japan access to Chinese markets through the
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Unequal Treaties
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Germany was able to reunite because
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Communism collapsed in the Soviet Union.
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Which minority group has faced discrimination in the countries of Turkey and Iraq?
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Kurds
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All of the following statements about the trans-Saharan trade are true, except:
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Muslim merchants controlled the gold trade
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The US and SOviet Union have agreed to which set of trties to reduce the number of atomic weapons since the Cold War ended.
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START Treaties
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The Khmer Rouge was responsible for
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committing genocide in Cambodia.
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President Eisenhower's domino theory was based on the idea of
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Containment
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Which one of the following was an important precedent set during the Korean War?
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The President has committed troops to battle without congressional declaration of war.
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Deng Xiaoping expanded China's economy by instituting
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the Four Modernizations
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After Sun Yixian's death in 1925, Jiang Jieshi (Jiang is also spelled Chaing) took over the
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Guomindang.
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The CIA participated in the Cold War by
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carrying out secret operations in other countries.
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Gandhi's faith in passive nonviolence resistence
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Satyagraha
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What kind of government did Japan adopt after WW2?
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A parliamentary democracy
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What happened at Dien Bien Phu in 1954?
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French troops surrendered and Vietnam won independence.
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The Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 showed that
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Chinese leaders favored order over political freedom.
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Through the ___, the US spent billions helping to rebuil Western Europe after WW2.
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Marshall Plan
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All of the following statements about manorialism are true, except:
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It governed the relationship between the lord and his vassals
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A major result of the Industrial Revolution was
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countries sought new markets for their goods
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What did China export to Europe?
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Silk porcelain, and paper
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Why did the US reject SALT 2? (not this ended the period of the Second Dentente)
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the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
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What was the main goal of the National Liberation Front, or Viet Cong?
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to overthrow South Vietnam's government
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This pro-democracy movement in Poland led to the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 (end of the Cold War)
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Solidarity
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Winston Churchill spoke of an "iron curtain" dividing Europe after World War II. To what was Churchill referring?
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the division of Europe into Eastern and western blocs
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Who became the first prime minister of India, leading the country from 1947-1964?
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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How did the American public view General MacArthur after President Truman fired him?
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They still saw him as a hero.
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How do some scholars believe Ronald Reagan helped bring an end to the Cold War?
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Reagan supported a massive arms buildup that hastened the collapse of the Soviet economy.
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After the Soviet Union split up and communism was defeated in Eastern Europe, China accelerated its embrace of
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capitalism.
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Begun in the early 1980s in China, Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations program was designed to
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introduce some features of a free market.
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What 1958-1960 movement urged the Chinese to massively expand and modernize the Chinese economy?
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Great Leap Forward
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Mao Zedong created agricultural communes to
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make agriculture more efficient.
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The federal government responded to the Savings and Loan crisis by
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bailing out depositors at failed banks.
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The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution were social reform programs led by which leader?
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Mao Zedong
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What ended the civil war in Sri Lanka in 2002 that had been fought between Sinhalese Buddhists and Hindu Tamils?
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The Tamils gained the right to their own regional government.
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What 1968 event caused U.S. military leaders to be concerned that a quick end to the war was not possible?
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The U.S. military suffered a major strategic blow in the Tet Offensive.
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In China's civil war (1945-1949), the United States backed
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Nationalists, led by Jiang Jieshi (Chaing)
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Which group of communist guerrillas overthrew the Cambodian government?
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Khmer Rouge
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Indians were promised greater self-determination for helping Britain in WWI. Indian nationalists, however, were shocked and motivated to demand a faster route to indpendence after the 1919
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Armistrar Massacre
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Which President ordered a blockade of Cuba in 1962?
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Kennedy
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Which of the following best describes the Vietcong's war strategy?
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fight small skrimishes
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Gorbachev pursued glasnost and perestroika reforms in part because
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the war in Afghanistan had drained the nation's resources.
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NAtionalist movements
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are designed to win independence
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The Reagan administration committed the United States to a
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massive arms buildup
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Soviet leader Gorbachev pursued because
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the SU faced serious economic and political probs.
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According to the Brezhnev Doctrine, the Soviet Union would
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use military force if necessary to hold up the Iron Curtain and protect socialism from western threats
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What did India export to Europe?
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Spices
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In 1950, what event began the conflict on the Korean peninsula?
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The North Korean army invaded south of the 38th parallel.
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What was a result of Gorbachev's perestroika?
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Shortages grew worse and prices soared.
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What was the name of the doctrine in which nations like India declared their political and diplomatic independence from both Cold War superpowers?
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Nonalignment
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Why did many Italians support fascist, totalitarian rule under Mussolini?
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It promised a strong, confident government and instilled national pride in Italians.
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It was divided between the Soviet Union and the U.S.
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Cermany
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Which government in Japan encouraged industrialization?
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The Meiji
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What do Tinananmin Square (1989), Prague Spring (Czechoslovakia, 1968), and Hungary (1956) all have in common?
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All sites were polical protests were violently ended
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What happened after the failure of a 1997 peace treaty between the Chechens and Russians?
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Chechens took their fight to other parts of the Caucasus region.
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Whose efforts ended the COld War?
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Ronald Reagan
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Which of the following symbolized the end of communism in Europe?
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the fall of the Berlin Wall
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Reagan supported rebellions in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Grenada to
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weaken the Soviet Union.
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After Sun Yixian's death in 1925, ___ took over the Nationalists.
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Jiang Jieshi (Chaing)
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A period of detente began when this new Soviet leader spoke of peaceful coexistence with the US.
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Khruschev
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Who emerged as the leader of China in 1949?
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Mao
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How did the Soviet Union respond to the normalization of relations between China and the United States?
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Brezhnev invited NIxon to visit Moscow.
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Ultimately, the end of the Vietnam War resulted in
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Communist control of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.
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John Foster Dulles, Eisenhower's secretary of state,
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promoted the policy of binkmanship.
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When the North Koreans overran South Korea in the summer of 1950, United Nations forces stopped their advance at
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the Pusan Perimeter.
