Which does not describe African participation in World War I?
European Allied navies conscripted African fisherman for combat.

Africans performed construction and garrison duties for both sides.

African soldiers were directly involved in military combat campaigns.

European Allied powers invaded German African colonial territory.

Which is a feminist challenge in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries?

wage equality

access to birth control

traditional gender roles

universal suffrage

Which was a reason for the Sino-Soviet split?

Chinese support for North Korea

Chinese favoritism of the industrial class

Soviet rejection of hard-line Stalinism

Soviet focus on building peasantry

Why was there postwar pessimism?

Conservatism in U.S. and European governments was revived.

Christian religious beliefs were obliterated as a result of war.

Western society declined as it was marked by imperialism and warfare.

Governments denied extending the franchise to women.

Which of the following was a postwar settlement?

Allied collaboration in establishing the United Nations

Soviet agreement to allow only the United States to occupy Japan

Allied harmony on occupation of Berlin by the U.S.S.R.

British agreement to give up its worldwide colonial empire
Which was not a long-term cause of World War I?
European alliance system

issuance of blank check

fierce nationalism

competition over building empires
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QUESTION 15

Which describes Japan’s war in China?
Japan attacked U.S.-held islands off the Chinese coast.

Japan forced the Soviets to sign over Mongolian territory.

Japan engaged in prolonged naval and air battles with communists.

Japan committed atrocities against Chinese civilians.
2 points
QUESTION 16

Which was not a reason for economic growth in Asia since World War II?
extraordinary government economic planning

global free trade policies in the United States

compliant workforce willing to endure low wages

heavy emphasis on export-driven industrialization
2 points
QUESTION 17

Which was not a main event associated with Persian independence?
Muzaffar al-Din Shah Qajar agreed to the formation of a national parliament.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rallied army divisions to oust Russian troops.

Reza Khan mutinied against the Qajar rulers and expelled the British.

Reza Shah Pahlavi established a new royal dynasty in the renamed Iran.
2 points
QUESTION 18

Which was not a way that World War II impacted women?
Jewish women were exterminated en masse.

Korean women were forced into prostitution.

British and U.S. women became heads of households.

Japanese and Italian women led resistance movements.
2 points
QUESTION 19

Which was not a cause of the Russian Revolution?
extravagance and corruption in the tsarist court

inability to prevent mutinies and disintegration of armies

food shortages and massive street demonstrations

the tsar forcing parliamentary leadership out of elected office
2 points
QUESTION 20

Which best describes an environmental concern in the twentieth century?

depleted soils in once-fertile agricultural areas of Africa and Asia

promotion of government-sponsored pronatalist measures

increasing global cooling as a result of greenhouse gas emissions

uncontrolled industrialization posing a dire threat to earth�s ecology
2 points
QUESTION 21

Which does not describe the Battle of Britain?
Forty thousand British civilians died in the four months of air bombing raids.

Southeastern England was bombed heavily, which allowed German land invasion.

The German air force bombed heavily-populated British metropolitan areas.

The British Royal Air Force used its own skill and also U.S.-aid to stave off attacks.
2 points
QUESTION 22

. Which was not a root cause of the conflict over Palestine?

explosion of anti-Jewish riots by threatened Arabs

massive European Jewish migration to Arab lands

armed young Arabs infiltrating Jewish kibbutzim

conflicting promises by Britain to both Arabs and Jews
2 points
QUESTION 23

Which describes communism in Russia from 1917 to 1939?

tolerated limited freedom of speech as long as it supported socialism

forced business leaders to join in government-led corporatism

launched five-year plans to move to a modern industrial state

permitted competitive elections for local and regional assemblies
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QUESTION 24

Which describes Japan in the 1920s?

Working class unions were strengthened.

The middle class greatly expanded.

Universal suffrage was granted to all.

Industrial elites held the majority of wealth.
2 points

Which was not an origin of World War II?
military aggression by Germany and Italy

preemptive attack on Hungary by the Soviet Union

policy of appeasement by Britain and France

armed invasion of northern China by Japan
2 points
Which was a key event associated with the end of apartheid in South Africa?

Afrikaner National Party�s commitment to maintain power through minority rule

dedication of homeland territories for South Africa�s black and colored citizens

international student-led boycott of corporations doing business in South Africa

African National Congress�s perseverance in pursuing non-violent protests
2 points
QUESTION 27

Which was an economic theory of John Maynard Keynes?

Governments should avoid deficit spending in order to increase economic confidence.

Governments should create consumer demand by nationalizing several key industries.

Governments should attempt to stimulate the economy by increasing the money supply.

Governments should generate bond sales to persuade the wealthy to start spending again.
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Which describes an outside influence on Latin America before and after World War I?

Asia and its rising manufacturing sector opened diplomatic negotiations and dominance in Latin American markets.

Vladimir Lenin�s Marxism provided a framework for the growing concern among Latin American intellectuals and artists for impoverished and exploited peasantry.

Enlightened economic liberal ideas from Europe came to be embraced by the rising middle classes in Latin America.

Western-style democracy and its capitalistic economic ideas were adopted by students on university campuses in Latin America.
2 points

WHICH WAS NOT A CAUSE OF THE COLD WAR?

Soviet military domination of Eastern Europe

U.S. policy of containment against communism

Soviet formation of the Warsaw Pact military bloc

U.S. occupation of Japan after World War II
2 points

Which best describes decolonization efforts in India after World War II?

The British fought for a decade before freeing India.

Britain handed over power to Indian officials freely.

The British were expelled by Indian armed forces.

Britain refused Pakistani independence for ten years.