World war I

Question 1.1. (TCO 6) World War I was considered a total war, which meant (Points : 4)

compulsory military service for all eligible men.

government supervision of key industries.

government propaganda, control of the media, and curbs on civil liberties.

All of the above

Question 2.2. (TCO 6) The main fronts in World War I were in (Points : 4)

France and Russia .

Germany and Austria.

Italy and Greece.

Africa and Asia.

Question 3.3. (TCO 5) Nicholas II of Russia abdicated the throne following (Points : 4)

the Bolshevik takeover.

the return of Lenin to Russia.

the failure of his troops to put down demonstrations in Petrograd.

Both A and B

Question 4.4. (TCO 5) The Big Three of World War II were (Points : 4)

Stalin, Eisenhower, and Churchill.

Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini.

Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Stalin.

Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill.

Question 5.5. (TCO 9) What city was divided during the Cold War and became a hotspot for espionage and intrigue? (Points : 4)

Paris

London

Berlin

Rome

Question 6.6. (TCO 9) China’s communists finally won the long civil war under the leadership of (Points : 4)

Mao Zedong

Kim Il Sung

Syngman Rhee

Chiang Kai-shek

Question 7.7. (TCO 8) The first serious proposal for a European Economic Community came from (Points : 4)

Willy Brandt.

Jean Monnet.

Claude Monet.

Charles deGaulle.

Question 8.8. (TCO 6) Bangladesh is (Points : 4)

home to thousands of Muslim radicals who fled Afghanistan.

the site of a long conflict with the Soviet Union and mujahedin rebels.

the former eastern part of Pakistan, and one of the world’s poorest nations.

a mountainous region with a small population.

Question 9.9. (TCO 2) Gamal Nasser was (Points : 4)

a pan-Arabist, secular, national leader.

an advocate of fundamentalist Islam.

a Turkish leader.

a loyal ally of the United States.

Question 10.10. (TCO 2) Following the Arab-Israeli 1967 war, (Points : 4)

the Israelis and Palestinians agreed to negotiate.

the Israelis demanded direct negotiations, and the Arabs demanded Israel’s withdrawal from the occupied territories prior to negotiations.

the Arabs demanded Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories and face-to-face negotiations.

the United States and U.S.S.R. negotiated a settlement to the conflict.

Question 11.11. (TCO 4) One problem that arose in East Germany after reunification was (Points : 4)

the presence of U.S. troops.

lack of support for the EU.

a lack of national pride.

high unemployment.

Question 12.12. (TCO 4) In which of the following periods of Soviet history did the Soviet Union achieve superpower status? (Points : 4)

1985–1992

1917–1928

1928–1939

1945–1989

Question 13.13. (TCO 7) In the last part of the twentieth century, traditional religious values have (Points : 4)

increased in much of the Islamic and Christian worlds.

disappeared everywhere.

stayed the same everywhere.

decreased in the West and Middle East.

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Question 1.1. (TCO 10) Match the terms in Column I with the descriptions in Column II.

(Points : 18)

Potential Matches:

1 : last leader of the Soviet Union

2 : one-time leader of Israel

3 : one-time leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization

4 : black civil rights leader during the 1960s

5 : former dictator of Cuba

6 : populist president of Argentina during the 1940s and 1950s

Answer

: Fidel Castro

: Yasser Arafat

: Martin Luther King, Jr.

: Golda Meir

: Juan Peron

: Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 2.2. (TCO 3) Match the terms in Column I with the descriptions in Column II.

(Points : 18)

Potential Matches:

1 : policy of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev authorizing Soviet intervention in socialist states to maintain communist rule

2 : Cold War collective security treaty linking the United States and Western Europe

3 : a global economic organization designed to encourage the influence of market forces on world trade and production.

4 : the precursor to the European Union, a postwar system of economic integration among western European states

5 : an ongoing process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated

Answer

: Globalization

: NATO

: European Economic Community

: Brezhnev Doctrine

: World Trade Organization