Exam 3

Question 1

How did the emergence of Germany as a new nation-state affect the European political scene after 1870?

Answer 1

Germany’s arrival disrupted the established order

Question 2

Which of the following was a factor in causing the great depression

Answer 2

Speculation on the stock market

Question 3

Which of the following was a distinctive and central feature of the German expression of fascism?

Answer 3

An insistence on a racial revolution

Question 4

What effect did WW2 have on communism?

Answer 4

It enabled communist parties in Eastern Europe and China to assume power

Question 5

In contrast to what transpired during WW1, Germany during WW2 was able to,

Answer 5

conquer France quickly

Question 6

What effect did the U.S Marshall Plan have on European economies?

Answer 6

It promoted economic growth and widespread prosperity in Western Europe

Question 7

Which of the following characterized European and American culture in the 1920s?

Answer 7

A new consumerism

Question 8

Which of the following represents a response among many Latin American countries to the global repercussions of the Great Depression?

Answer 8

Import substitution industrialization

Question 9

Which of the following appealed to fascist?

Answer 9

Nationalism

Question 10

Which of the following resulted from Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor?

Answer 10

The wars in Asia and Europe merged into a single global war

Question 11

Which of the following committed the U.S to the defense of Europe against the Soviet Union after WW2?

Answer 11

The NATO

Question 12

Which of the following contributed to Western European recovery after the devastation of WW2?

Answer 12

The ability of Western European countries to integrate their economies

Question 13

What effect did the Bretton Woods system have on globalization after WW2?

Answer 13

It established rules for commercial and financial dealings among major capitalist countries

Question 14

Beginning in the 1960s, which of the following was identified as key issue in Western feminism by women of color?

Answer 14

Ending racism and poverty

Question 15

Which of the following characterizes the response of religious fundamentalism to global modernity?

Answer 15

A selective rejection of certain aspects of modernity

Question 16

Which of the following was a more central issue in environmental movements in developing countries in the industrial West?

Answer 16

Securing food supplies

Question 17

Which of the following opposed neoliberal globalization and offered an alternative approach expressed in the slogan? Another world is possible?

Answer 17

World social forum

Question 18

Which of the following issues was more central to women’s movement in the Global South than in the industrial West?

Answer 18

Economic survival

Question 19

Which of the following describes the relationship between the world;s religions and modernity, science, and globalization since 1945?

Answer 19

Religion offered a means to oppose elements of a secular and global modernity

Question 20

What dot he Gulen movement in Turkey and the Amman Message issued in Jordan in 2005 share in common?

Answer 20

Both sought to encourage cross-cultural and inter-religious dialogue

Question 21

Describing the current era since the Industrial revolution as the Anthropocene Era calls attention to the

Answer 21

lasting impact of human activity on the planet

Question 22

What did nineteenth-century strands of environmentalism share in common?

Answer 22

None of them had a mass following

Question 23

Which movement in the world today has come to symbolize? One world thinking?

Answer 23

Global environmentalism

Question 24

In contrast to the first decolonization of the Americas in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the struggles for independence in Africa, Asia, and Oceania in the second half of the twentieth century

Answer 24

affirmed the vitality of precolonial cultures

Question 25

Which of the following was a social or economic circumstance within the European colonies that contributed to anticolonial movements?

Answer 25

the growing number of Western-educated colonial elites who no longer viewed colonial rule as a vehicle for their people’s progress

Question 26

How did the system of apartheid in South Africa come to an end?

Answer 26

Through negotiations between the white South African government and black South African nationalist leaders

Question 27

In Africa, which of the following contributed to the loss of popular support for the democratic institutions established in the wake of independence from colonial rule?

Answer 27

Poor economic performance

Question 28

Which group of countries has been most successful in stimulating economic growth and industrialization in the late twentieth century?

Answer 28

East Asian countries

Question 29

Which of the following reflects a task of newly independent nation-states in aftermath of decolonization in the second half the twentieth century?

Answer 29

the building of modern economies, stable political systems, and coherent nations

Question 30

Which of the following represented a form of imperialism without territorial possession that came under attack in the twentieth century?

Answer 30

U.S influence in Latin America

Question 31

What did all nationalist movement in Asia, Africa, and Oceania in the second half of the twentieth century share in common?

Answer 31

The goal of political independence

Question 32

Which of the following characterized Mohandas Gandhi’s agenda in India’s struggle for independence?

Answer 32

A religious view of India as an essentially Hindu nation with no room for Muslims

Question 33

Which of the following describes a feature of the strategy of the African National Congress in its resistance to the South African government from 1950 to 1994?

Answer 33

Nonviolent civil disobedience against apartheid

Question 34

Which of the following describes how the Ayatollah Khomeini viewed the revolution he had launched in Iran?

Answer 34

As a model for other Islamic countries to follow

Question 35

Which of the following describes the nature of the process of decolonization in the island societies of Pacific Oceania?

Answer 35

Peaceful, with colonial powers voluntarily relinquishing control

Question 36

What did the Russian and Chinese revolutions share in common with French Revolution?

Answer 36

A vision of the good society in a modernizing future

Question 37

Which of the following made modernization more difficult in China than in Russian?

Answer 37

The larger population in China

Question 38

In contrast to China, the collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union

Answer 38

was marked by extensive violence and the execution or deportation of wealthier peasants

Question 39

In what respect did the communist movements in the twentieth century depart from Marxist theory?

Answer 39

They occurred in largely agrarian societies

Question 40

How did the cold war affect countries emerging from colonial rule in the second half of the twentieth century?

Answer 40

Both the U.S and the soviet union gave them military and economic aid the the hope of gaining their support

Question 41

Which of the following contributed to American global influence in the decades following WW2

Answer 41

Rapid economic growth based on capitalist models

Question 42

What did the different expressions of global communism in the twentieth century share in common?

Answer 42

A common ideology derived from European Marxism

Question 43

Which of the following was a value emphasized in the socialist modernity of communist states?

Answer 43

Equality

Question 44

Which of the following events in China was similar to the search for? Enemies of the people in the Soviet Terror of the late 1930s?

Answer 44

The Cultural Revolution

Question 45

Which of the following reflects a consequence of the policy of glasnost in the Soviet Union not intended by the leadership in Moscow?

Answer 45

Leaders of the nationalist movements accused the Soviet leadership of treating non-Russian areas as colonies to be exploited

Question 46

In the twenty-first century, international tensions born of communism remain in

Answer 46

East Asia and the Caribbean

Question 47

Which of the following was a feature of both Soviet and Chinese reforms in the 1980s and 1990s?

Answer 47

Welcoming foreign investment in joint enterprises