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Question 1

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The term "manifest destiny" is associated with what country?
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  • United States
  • Japan
  • Germany
  • Russia
  • Great Britain

Question 2

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In 1803, the United States doubled in size after the Louisiana territory was purchased from
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  • Mexico
  • Spain
  • Canada
  • Great Britain
  • France

Question 3

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The last major Indian victory against the United States armed forces came in 1876 at the Battle of
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  • Little Big Horn
  • the Plains
  • Topeka
  • Bleeding Knee
  • Wounded Knee

Question 4

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Which of the following was not one of the chief factors for the outbreak of the American Civil War?
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  • the election of Abraham Lincoln
  • the issue of slavery
  • he imperatives of building industrial-capitalist system against those of an export-oriented plantation economy
  • the traditional argument between British and French alliance
  • states' rights as opposed to the federal government's authority

Question 5

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The U.S Civil War changed character on January 1, 1863, after
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  • the Battle of Gettysburg
  • Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation
  • the Nat Turner slave rebellion
  • the Battle of Antietam
  • The Confederate states signed an alliance with the British

Question 6

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New France passed into British control after
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  • the War of 1812
  • the Thirty Years' War
  • the Seven Years' War
  • the American Revolution
  • the War of the Spanish Succession

Question 7

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The main spark for the outbreak of the Mexican-American War in 1845 was the United States' acceptance of the new state of
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  • New Mexico
  • Missouri
  • Arizona
  • Texas
  • California

Question 8

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The War of 1812
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  • cost Canada almost one third of their territory
  • split the country along ethics lines
  • split the country along religious lines
  • led to a Canadian-U.S. alliance against Great Britain
  • stimulated a new sense of Canadian unity against an external threat

Question 9

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The U.S. invasion of Canada in the War of 1812
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  • allowed for the Americans to claim the Dakotas, Idaho, and Montana
  • ensured Quebec would remain independent from the rest of Canada
  • was the key event in ensuring the American victory over the British
  • was repelled
  • resulted in a humiliating defeat for the Canadian and a long-standing hatred for the U.S

Question 10

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The first Prime Minister of Canada was
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  • Louis Riel
  • Martin Fierro
  • John Macdonald
  • Pierre Trudeau
  • Viscount Macartney

Question 11

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Emiliano Zapata was
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  • a caudillo who dominated Argentina in the 1840s
  • a Mexican agrarian rebel who fought for the goals of La Reforma
  • the "Mechiavelli of the pampas"
  • the first influential Brazilian writer
  • the president of Mexico in the 1920s

Question 12

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The early stages of industrial development in the United States depended in large part on investment captial from whic of the following nations?
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  • Great Britain
  • Japan
  • France
  • Spain
  • China

Question 13

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In terms of the industrial development in the United States in the late nineteenth century, the most important economic development was
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  • the introduction of the steam engine
  • the introduction of the factory system
  • the rise of trade unions
  • the construction of the railroad lines that lined all U.S. regions
  • the vast increase in the merchant marine fleet for overseas commerce

Question 14

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The National Policy, which was designed to attract migrants, protect nascent industries through traiffs, and build national transportation systems was a policy in
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  • the United States
  • Mexico
  • Canada
  • Argentina
  • Japan

Question 15

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The primary goal of the Creole leaders on the Latin American independence movements was to
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  • established a unifies Latin American state
  • seize political power and keep it
  • establish democracy
  • redistribute property and restructure society
  • eliminate the racial categorization of the people

Question 16

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By the 1860s, Britain's leading supplier of beef was
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  • the United States
  • Holland
  • Argentina
  • Brazil
  • Canada

Question 17

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Immigration to Latin America
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  • Was almost nonexistent after the abolition of th slave trade
  • was limited to Africans
  • was limited to Europeans
  • Included peoples from all over Europe and Asia
  • Had little impact of social and economic development

Question 18

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After the conclusion of the American Civil War, freed blacks
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  • achieved economic and political equality with whites
  • received enough grants of land to become substantial economic competitors to the white population
  • flocked to take advantage of the Back to Africa program
  • quickly lost their political and civil liberties in the South
  • almost unanimously migrated to the west in pursuit of economic opportunity

Question 19

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in 1882, the United States government ordered a halt to migration from
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  • Ireland
  • Japan
  • Russia
  • China
  • India

Question 20

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The Northwest Rebellion was led by
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  • Louis Riel
  • Jefferson Davis
  • Jourdan Anderson
  • John Macdonald
  • Porfirio Diaz

Question 21

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The Suez Canal was essential for
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  • facilitating trade between both U.S. coasts
  • British control over India
  • Spanish control over the Philippines
  • French control over Vietnam
  • the maintenance of the Ottoman Empire

Question 22

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All of the following were motivations driving European powers to seek new colonies during the era of new imperialism except
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  • the search for overseas markets for goods and investments
  • the search for natural resources
  • consideration of national prestige
  • the need for coaling stations for steam-powered navies
  • the search for cheap labor to import into Europe as "guest-workers"

Question 23

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The battle of Omdurman
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  • ensured British domination over New Zealand
  • allowed France to establish a colony in Vietnam
  • led to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire
  • opened the doors for British colonial rule in Sudan
  • doomed Russia to defeat in the Russo-Japanese War

Question 24

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the "White Mans Burden" refers to
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  • Europeans punitive civilization mission
  • the relentless search for markets
  • the physical and mental inferiority of the white race
  • Russia
  • Ottoman Empire

Question 25

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The most important figures in the uprising in 1857 in India were
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  • Russian military officials looking for advantage in the Great Game
  • disgruntled sepoy troops
  • french agents working to cause unrest in an important British colony
  • the representatives of the Indian National Congress
  • American soldiers looking for an excuse to pry India away from British control

Question 26

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In the 1820's the British were able to reverse the balance of trade with China, long unfavorable to them, by selling the Chinese
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  • weapons
  • drugs
  • steamships
  • tea
  • machines

Question 27

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Hong Xiuguian, leader of the Taiping rebellion, claimed to be
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  • descended from the Ming Emperors
  • Jesus' younger brother
  • the hidden imam
  • Shogun
  • Manchus

Question 28

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Between 1859 and 1893, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos all fell under the control of
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  • England
  • France
  • the Dutch
  • Germany
  • the United States

Question 29

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By 1900, the only part of Southeast Asia not under European imperial rule was
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  • Vietnam
  • Cambodia
  • Malaysia
  • Siam
  • Laos

Question 30

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The Congo Free State was established in the 1870s by
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  • Italy
  • Belgium
  • England
  • France
  • Germany

Question 31

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The Berlin Conference
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  • set up a timetable for decolonization in Africa
  • devised the ground rules for the European colonization of Africa
  • Ended the Crimean War
  • established the Triple Alliance
  • legitimized the German colonization of the Marshal Islands

Question 32

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The Boers were
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  • east African coastal merchants
  • Indians who served as soldiers for the British
  • Malaysian tribal chieftains who allied with the Dutch
  • Australian aborigines
  • Dutch settlers in South Africa

Question 33

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In 1770, Captain James Cook anchored his fleet at Botany Bay, near what modern city?
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  • Melbourne
  • Sydney
  • Cape Town
  • New South Wales
  • Wellington

Question 34

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Which matching of imperial power and colony is not correct?
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  • England and New Zealand
  • Germany and the Marshall Islands
  • Dutch and Indonesia
  • United States and Fiji
  • France and Tahiti

Question 35

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The Monroe Doctrine
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  • ensured the neither the Europeans or the Americans would ever interfere in western hemisphere affairs
  • opened Japan to U.S. trade
  • gave the British an inroad into New Zealand
  • worked as a justification for the U.S. intervention in western hemispheric affairs
  • handed the Philippines over to the United States

Question 36

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The United Stats occupied Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guan, and the Philippines after its victory in
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  • World War I
  • the Opium War
  • the War of 1812
  • the Filipino Civil War
  • the Spanish-Cuban-American War

Question 37

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Emilio Aguinaldo led and uprising in
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  • Mexico against the Spanish
  • Fiji against the British
  • Indonesia against the Dutch
  • the Philippines against the United States
  • Brazil against the Portuguese

Question 38

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Which one of the following Pacific island remained independent from European, American, and Japanese colonial powers in the 19th century?
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  • Micronesia Islands
  • Philippine Islands
  • Hawaiian Islands
  • Samoan Islands
  • Tonga Islands

Question 39

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The Sino-Japanese War began with a dispute over
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  • Burma
  • Korea
  • Mongolia
  • Vietnam
  • Siberia

Question 40

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Japan became a major imperial power after its victory in the
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  • Sino-Japanese War
  • Crimean War
  • Korean War
  • Russo-Japanese War
  • Opium War

Question 41

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The author of the Essay of the Inequality of the Human Races was..
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  • Josiah Clark Nott
  • Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau
  • Charles Darwin
  • Herbert Spencer
  • Ram Mohan Roy

Question 42

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Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau viewed Europeans as
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  • smart but docile
  • somewhat intelligent but remarkably energetic
  • intelligent and morally superior to all other peoples in the world
  • dull and arrogant
  • unintelligent and lazy

Question 43

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The social Darwinist believed that
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  • a sharp distinction had to be made between the biological and social worlds
  • only socialist political and social structure would keep humans from destroying themselves
  • more powerful nations had to protect weaker nations
  • powerful nations were meant to dominate weaker nations
  • human beings had reached the point at which competition among nations was no longer necessary

Question 44

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The term social Darwinism is associated with
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  • Cecil Rhodes
  • Josiah Clark Nott
  • Herbert Spencer
  • Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau
  • Otto van Bisemarck

Question 45

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The spark for World War I was provided when Gavrilo Princip assassinated
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  • Francis Joseph
  • Nicholas II
  • Alexander Kerensky
  • Francis Ferdinand
  • Otto van Bismark

Question 46

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The first total war in world history was
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  • the Crimean War
  • the American Civil War
  • World War II
  • the Franco-Prussian War
  • World War I

Question 47

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Approximately how many combatants dies in World War I?
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  • one million
  • three million
  • four million
  • nine million
  • fifteen million

Question 48

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The term for the idea that people with the same ethic origins, language, and political ideals had the right to form sovereign state was
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  • Utopian socialism
  • positive nationalism
  • democratic republicanism
  • Fabianism
  • self-detemination

Question 49

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The nationalistic aspirations of subject minorities was most threatening to a state such as
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  • England
  • Austria-Hungray
  • Spain
  • France
  • Germany

Question 50

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What affect did World War I have on the status of women?
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  • working class women enjoyed the greatest advancement in economic opportunity
  • the demands of total war actually reduced the opportunities for women
  • all women took advantage of the new economic opportunities which lasted long past the war
  • the slaughter caused by the capitalistic tensions caused 32 percent of women to join socialist or communist parties
  • women in many countries received the vote in the years after the war.

Question 51

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The Twenty-One Demands were issued
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  • by the United Stats to Japan
  • by Japan to China
  • by Austria to Serbia
  • by England to Germany
  • by Germany to France

Question 52

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The Japanese fought in World War I due to their
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  • anger over German atrocities against Chinese civilians
  • long-standing Franco-Japanese alliance
  • fear of Americans entering into China
  • desire to acquire German colonies in Asia
  • erupted after the assassination of Nicholas II

Question 53

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The March Revolution of 1917
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  • swept Lenin into power in Russia and led to the creation of the Soviet Union
  • resulted in the long-anticipated collapse of the Ottoman Empire
  • forced France out of the war
  • led to the establishment of a reform-minded provisional government in Russia
  • erupted after the assassination of Nicholas II

Question 54

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The last tsar of Russia was
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  • Alexander II
  • Ivan IV
  • Nicholas II
  • Ivan III
  • Alexander III

Question 55

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The main reason for the failure of the provisional government in Russia in 1917 was
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  • Lenin's inexperience in actually running a government
  • the growing rivalry between Stalin and Trotsky
  • the strain placed on the government by the unpopular alliance with Germany
  • the public's desire for total victory, which clashed with the government's pacifistic approach
  • the inability to satisfy popular demands for an end of the war

Question 56

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The Treaty of Brest Litovsk
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  • was harsh toward the Germans and led to resentment after the war
  • forged the alliance between England and France that would later be expanded to the Triple Entente
  • forced the Chinese to give Hong Kong to the British
  • ended Russia's involvement in World War I
  • was shaped by American desires

Question 57

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Woodrow Wilson agreed to many harsh stipulations to the Treaty of Versailles
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  • because he felt that Germany had to be punished on a world stage
  • because of his personal hatred of the French
  • in return for the creation of the League of Nations
  • because of his hatred for Germany, caused by the sinking of the Lusitania
  • as a means of showing that democracy was the single best form of government

Question 58

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In wake of World War I, Mustapha Kemal became president of
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  • Russia
  • Egypt
  • Persia
  • Syria
  • TUrkey

Question 59

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The mandate system
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  • led to the occupation of Germany after the war
  • allowed the Germans to repay their reparations to the Allied powers
  • allowed for the rapid spread of communism
  • angered the Arab world because it was little more than a glorified form of imperialism
  • was one of Windrow Wilson's Fourteen Points

Question 60

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In the years after World War I, the idea of progress
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  • gave a sense of hope in the midst of terrible human suffering
  • remained the foundation of Asian thought
  • became even more popular among liberal Christian thinkers
  • was bolstered by the growing popularity of Confucian thought
  • was roundly attacked

Question 61

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The uncertainty principle is associated with
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  • Einstein
  • Spengler
  • Heisenberg
  • Freud
  • Keynes

Question 62

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The spread of photography
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  • led many painters to choose the camera as their instrument of expression
  • resulted in a lack of creative artistic expression because of general pessimism
  • led to a new artistic genre that tried to produce paintings that were more accurate than the camera
  • led many painters to take an almost Luddite-like glee in smashing cameras
  • led many painters to believe that the purpose of painting was not to mirror reality but to create it

Question 63

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One of the biggest results of the artistic experimentation of the 1920s and 1930s was that
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  • artists learned to adhere to accepted public definitions of reality
  • photography was no longer considered a legitimate art form
  • generally accepted standards that distinguished between "good" and "bad" art disappeared
  • impressionism was recognized as the single best art form
  • a set of criteria was established that allowed art students to distinguish between "good" and "bad" art

Question 64

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IN response to the Great Depression, economist John Maynard Keynes
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  • proposed that the government should do nothing and wait out the economic hard times
  • was a big supporter of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff
  • felt that the government should tighten the money supply
  • wrote the capitalism had failed and that it was time for the United States to experiment with communism
  • urged the government to expand the money supply and undertake public works to provide jobs

Question 65

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Which of the following was not one of the chief actions Roosevelt's New Deal?
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  • tighten the money supply
  • give workers the right to organize and bargain collectively
  • provide social security in old age
  • guarantee minimum wages
  • create jobs through public work projects

Question 66

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War Communism
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  • was a term first used by Marx in the Communist Manifesto
  • called for carrying the communist revolution to the rest of the world by force
  • was an unplanned course of nationalization
  • instituted free market reforms
  • had been the central feature of Lenin's philosophy for twenty years before the revolution

Question 67

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Lenin's New Economic Policy of 1921
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  • pushed the peasants onto large state-run collectives
  • stripped all land ownership away from the peasants
  • called for a trading alliance with Communist China
  • temporarily restored the market economy
  • initiated the First Five-Year Plan

Question 68

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The First Five-Year Plan
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  • was a military scheme that called for a massive increase in arms production
  • was designed to transform the Soviet Union from an agricultural nation into an industrial one
  • was designed to increase the agricultural production of the Soviet Union and make it the world's leading food producer
  • was a communist plan to embrace capitalism in order to promote economic growth
  • was a politcal plan to spark a communist revolution in the United States

Question 69

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All of the following constitute steps taken by Benito Mussolini to consolidate power expect
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  • the elimination of all other political parties
  • outlawing freedom of speech
  • instituting a communist system of government
  • decreasing freedom of the press
  • exiling, imprisoning, or killing Italians who spoke out openly against his regime

Question 70

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In decades following World War I, nationalism was most powerful in Asia in the regions of
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  • Korea
  • China
  • India
  • Japan
  • China and India

Question 71

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The most influential organization dedicated to the end of British rule in India was
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  • the Muslim League
  • the Pan-Indian Association
  • the Indian National Congress
  • League of the Fourteen Points
  • Indian Communist Party

Question 72

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Gandhi's greatest accomplishment was
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  • reconciling Hindus and Muslims
  • preventing a bloody revolution in 1929
  • were subject to discriminatory laws and white prejudice
  • a lawyer for Africans
  • transforming Indian nationalism into a mass movement

Question 73

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The Indian Act of 1937
Answer
  • gave total independence to India from Britain
  • instituted new measures of oppression that the British used to quell opposition to their rule in India
  • gave the institutions of a self-governing state to India, although the British government still exercised overall control
  • created the Muslim state of Pakistan
  • provided a clear timetable for the independence of India

Question 74

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah called for the creation of
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  • Pakistan
  • Iraq
  • Palestine
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Indonesia

Question 75

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The Great Depression aggravated the tense situation between Muslims and Hindus in India in part because
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  • Muslims precieved that they were economically controlled by the Hindu majority of India
  • all British economic assistance went to Hindus rather than Muslims
  • the Hindu majority of India refused to do business with Muslims
  • Hindus accused Muslims of being the cause of the depression in India
  • no answer is correct

Question 76

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The May Fourth Movement
Answer
  • disguised the beginning of Stalin's great purge of his enemies
  • was Lenin's shocking free market reforms
  • perfectly expressed growing Japanese nationalism
  • galvanized the Chinese against foreign interference
  • is the perfect representation of Ghandi's nonviolent movement

Question 77

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The former teacher and librarian that became the leader of the Chinese communist movement was
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  • Jiang Jieshi
  • Sun Yatsen
  • Shanfei
  • Mao Zedong
  • Guomindang

Question 78

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Who launched the Northern Expedition?
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  • Sun Yat-sen
  • Mohandas Gandhi
  • Jiang Jieshi
  • Puyi
  • Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Question 79

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The Long March
Answer
  • destroyed Mao Zedong credibility with the Chinese
  • left Jiang Jieshi in complete control of the Chinese Communist Party
  • forced Mao Zedong to flee China and hide in the Soviet Union
  • greatly strengthened Mao Zedong's leadership position
  • a revolution that placed the Japanese communist party in power

Question 80

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The Mukden incident
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  • started active warfare between the Chinese nationalists and communists
  • started the career of Mao Zedong
  • resulted in the signing of the of the Sino-Russian Pact
  • provided Germany with an excuse to send troops into Poland
  • provided Japan with the excuse to send troops into Manchuria

Question 81

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Manchukuo was the
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  • Japanese nationalist leader who led Japan into World War II
  • Korean leader who vainly fought to push the Japanese out of Korea
  • Japanese puppet state in the former Manchuria
  • the code name for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
  • scene of the biggest naval battle in the Pacific during World War II

Question 82

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Africans were participants in World War I because
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  • they were paid a great deal of money by the Europeans to participate
  • many believed in the cause of the Entente powers versus the Central powers
  • many believed in the cause of the Central powers versus the Entente powers
  • they were bound by colonial ties to European powers
  • they were paid a great deal of money by the Europeans to participate and many believed in the cause of the Entente powers versus the Central powers

Question 83

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All of the following African colonies were compelled by European colonial powers to participate in World War I excpet
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  • British colonies
  • Spanish colonies
  • Beligian colonies
  • Italian colonies
  • German colonies

Question 84

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After World War I, colonial powers
Answer
  • let go of their colonial holdings
  • gave the colonials the right to vote
  • shut down exportation
  • made the colonies dependent on the European economy
  • granted independence for those colonies that served during the war

Question 85

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Pan-Africanism is an idea that advocated
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  • the formation of individual African states whose boarder were the same as those established by the European colonial powers
  • the creation of individual African states based solely on religious affiliation
  • the creation of individual African stats based on language groups
  • the establishment of Muslim stats throughout Africa
  • the unification of all people of African descent around the globe into one African state

Question 86

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One of the greatest proponents of Pan-Africanism was
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  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Malcolm X
  • Jomo Kenyatta
  • Marchus Garvey
  • Jesse Jackson

Question 87

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Which of the following are U.S. policies towards Latin America?
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  • New Deal
  • Dollar Diplomacy
  • Good Neighbor Policy
  • Latin American Assistance Plan
  • Dolor Diplomacy and Good Neighbor Policy

Question 88

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Who of the following is most closely associated with the Good Neighbor Policy?
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  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Warren Harding
  • Herbert Hoover
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 89

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World War II began with
Answer
  • the assassination of Francis Ferdinand
  • Japanese attacks to China
  • A Russian invasion of Poland
  • the Nazi invasion of Poland
  • the German takeover of Czechoslovakia

Question 90

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The height of Japanese atrocity in China was reached at the rape of
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  • Beijing
  • Shanghai
  • Hong Kong
  • Nanjing
  • Manchukuo

Question 91

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The Guomindang during World War II was
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  • an Asian economic organization
  • a Japanese government that rules the Philippines
  • the resistance government of the Chinese versus Japan's invasion of China
  • the resistance government of Korea versus Japan's invasion of Korea
  • an Asian political action group in the United States that campaigned against discrimination versus Asians

Question 92

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The Tripartite Pact brought together
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  • England, France, and the Soviet Union
  • China, England, and the United States
  • Germany, Italy, and Japan
  • England, the Soviet Union, and the United States
  • Germany, Italy, and Austria

Question 93

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The Italian fascists used which war as an excuse to intervene and gain valuable military experience?
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  • Russian Civil War
  • Ethiopian Civil War
  • Czechoslovakian Civil War
  • Algerian Civil War
  • Spanish Civil War

Question 94

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The high point of appeasement was
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  • the Munich Conference
  • the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact
  • the German invasion of Poland
  • Germany sending troops into the demilitarized Rhineland
  • the Washington Conference

Question 95

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In the wake of the Munich Conference, what leader proposed that the meeting had ensured "peace in our time"?
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  • Winston Churchill
  • Aldolf Hitler
  • Benito Mussolini
  • Joseph Stalin
  • Neville Chamberlain
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