Final Part 2

Question 1

What was the dynasty in Southern China, created by Hong Xiuquan ( who grew up in a poor family, learned about Christianity and thought he was Jesus’ younger brother)?

Answer 1

Taiping

Question 2

What did Hong Xiuquan call himself and claimed to be as the creator of the Taiping dynasty in southern China?

Answer 2

(he grew up in a poor family, learned about Christianity and thought he was Jesus’ younger brother) Called himself “Heavenly King” and the dynasty as “Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace”.

Question 3

In Russia, to deal with local issues of health, education, and welfare, the government created elected district assemblies, known as what, in 1864?

Answer 3

zemstvos

Question 4

During World War II, what country entered into many areas of Asia including China, Korea, the Philippines, and more, with their actions initially being the reason for the start of the Second World War?

Answer 4

Japanese

Question 5

Who was the prime minister of Cape Colony which is present South Africa, where he played as the organizer of the diamond mining company De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd?

Answer 5

Cecil Rhodes

Question 6

What event in history was mainly between the Russians and the British, as they started to map out terrains that were never visited by Europeans before, starting in Central Asia and made its way down for the control of India in the early 1900s?

Answer 6

Great Game

Question 7

At what conference did delegates of 12 different European states as well as the U.S. and the Ottoman Empire come together to divide up Africa for themselves?

Answer 7

Berlin Conference - The events that followed this conference later became known as the Scramble for Africa.

Question 8

What exerted the U.S. right to intervene in the domestic affairs of nations within the hemisphere if they demonstrated an inability to maintain the security deemed necessary to protect U.S. investments?

Answer 8

The “Roosevelt Corollary”

Question 9

What people worked on plantations or manual laborers for mining enterprises or large scale construction projects, mostly from India?

Answer 9

Indentured servants

Question 10

What was the Franco- Prussian War?

Answer 10

it was a conflict between France and Prussia, signaled the rise of German military power which was provoked by Otto von Bismarck, France was humiliating defeated

Question 11

How were the German offensive in 1914?

Answer 11

a German thrust towards Paris in 1914 that came to a halt along the river Marne and both sides undertook flanking maneuvers, a “race to the sea” that took them to the Atlantic coast.

Question 12

What tasks did women perform during World War I?

Answer 12

the women filled the gaps in the workforce. The combination of patriotism and high wages drew many women to the “male” jobs. The most crucial work performed by women was the making of shells which put many lives in danger during the process

Question 13

What was One of the four sub-Saharan African European colonies controlled by Germans?

Answer 13

Togoland - eventually fell to an Anglo-French force after three weeks of fighting.

Question 14

What was noted by Gertrude Stein to her fellow American writer by the name of Ernest Hemingway?

Answer 14

Lost Generation - It was given to a group of individuals and literati who congregated in Paris in the Postwar years.

Question 15

Who was a German theoretical physicist known for his “Uncertainty principle” and awarded a nobel prize as one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics?

Answer 15

Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976)

Question 16

Who was a Post-impressionist artist who was inspired by the “primitive” art he found in Tahiti, claiming it held a sense of wonder that “civilized” people no longer possessed?

Answer 16

Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)

Question 17

On October 24, 1929; a wave of panic selling on the New York Stock Exchange caused the stocks to plummet. Investors who had overextended themselves in stock purchases watched in agony. Thousands lost life savings, commited suicide. Crisis left investors to sell their securities at any price. This event is known as what?

Answer 17

Black Thursday

Question 18

Lenin implemented what policy to temporarily restore the market economy and some private enterprise in Russia, with large corporations still left under state control but government returned small industries?

Answer 18

NEP (New Economic Policy)

Question 19

What saws in 1935 deprived German Jews of their citizenship and prohibited marriage and sexual intercourse between Jews and other Germans?

Answer 19

Nuremberg Laws

Question 20

What is “the night of broken glass”, on November 9-10, 1938, the Nazis arranged for the destruction of thousands of Jewish shops/stores, the burning of most synagogues, and the murder of 100+ Jews throughout Germany and Austria?

Answer 20

Kristallnacht

Question 21

During the 25 years Mohandas K. Gandhi spent in South Africa, he developed the technique of passive political resistance called what or truth force?

Answer 21

Satyagraha

Question 22

The peacemakers in the 1919 Peace Conference in Paris approved increasing Japanese interference in China, which led to what movement, which was led by students and intellectuals, it galvanized China and all classes protested against foreign (Japanese) interference?

Answer 22

May 4 Movement

Question 23

On September 18, 2931, Japanese troops blew up several feet of rail on the Japanese-built South Manchuria railroad, north of what place, becoming a pretext for a prolonged military conflict between Japan and China?

Answer 23

Mukden

Question 24

During the 1880s, an ideology known as what arose in prominence called by Black American activists, like W.E.B Dubois or Marcus Garvey, calling for the unification of Africa and African people under a unified state, often involving calls for African diasporan immigrants to move back to Africa?

Answer 24

Pan-Africanism

Question 25

What Mexican President nationalized the Mexican oil industry, which was a controversial event because the industry was controlled by foreign investors from the United States and Great Britain?

Answer 25

Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas

Question 26

How did World War II begin in a conflict between Japan and China during the 1930s?

Answer 26

The Battle on the Marco Polo bridge between China and Japan in July 1937 was the first act of undeclared war. Japan won and advanced toward Shanghai and Nanjing, killing thousands of people. By December of 1937, Japan controlled both cities.

Question 27

At what conference in September 1938, did European politicians engage the policy of appeasement, meaning conceding to demands by Hitler, or “appeasing” him, in order to stop the aggressive German expansion?

Answer 27

Munich conference

Question 28

The lands of the Soviet Union were under the scope of Germans, who wanted to expel Jews, Slavs, and Bolsheviks in order to gain more “lebensraum” (living space). The plan to invade the Soviet Union in June was called what?

Answer 28

Operation Barbarossa - 3.6 million soldiers, 3700 tanks, and and 2500 planes.

Question 29

The turning point in the Pacific War came at what (June 4, 1942) where the U.S. prevailed because they had aircraft carriers that survived the Pearl Harbor attack?

Answer 29

Midway

Question 30

What government remained the civilian authority in the unoccupied southeastern parts of the country and provided a prominent place where the French were willing to collaborate with the Germans?

Answer 30

Vichy government

Question 31

Known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The global war directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. How many died during this war?

Answer 31

50 - 80 million

Question 32

What plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion (nearly $110 billion in 2016 US dollars) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II?

Answer 32

The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP)

Question 33

What agreement was between the United States and European countries during Cold War to stop the Soviet Union countries from expanding and maintain peace in postwar Europe in 1949?

Answer 33

NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Question 34

Why did the Soviet Union and other communist countries implement the Warsaw Pact and what did it bring?

Answer 34

The Soviet Union and other Communist countries used the Warsaw Pact counteract NATO; The Warsaw Pact came to be seen as quite a potential militaristic threat, as a sign of Communist dominance, and a definite opponent to American capitalism. (1955)

Question 35

In 1962, Cuba had arsenal of nuclear missiles and launch sites directed by Fidel Castro pointed at America during the Kennedy presidency and became known as what?

Answer 35

Cuban Missle Crisis

Question 36

Tito’s resistance to Soviet control led to major split with Stalin, and in 1948, Stalin expelled what country from the Soviet bloc?

Answer 36

Yugoslavia

Question 37

The Vietnam war ended with the Paris Peace Accords, a complex set of agreements but was later torn up what what country?

Answer 37

torn up as forces from North Vietnam and the NLF (National Liberation Front) continued their struggle to conquer South Vietnam in 1975 and unification in 1976.

Question 38

What movement in Czechoslovakia swept communists out of the office and restored democracy by 1990?

Answer 38

Velvet Revolution - “Velvet” because there was little violence with the transfer of power in societies formerly communist.

Question 39

Who was the Romanian dictator who refused to acknowledge the necessity to reform and was killed during the nationalist uprising due to the brutal secret police force, Securitate?

Answer 39

Ceauşescu

Question 40

The issue of Muslim separatism grew despite the possibility of rioting and fighting between the Muslims and Hindus and in August 1946, the Muslim League called for a Day of Direct Action where six thousand people died in the _______ __________ killing.

Answer 40

Great Calcutta

Question 41

In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson ordered a bombing campaign against what place which strengthened tensions?

Answer 41

North Vietnam

Question 42

The Algerian war of liberation led by what, ended in 1962, when the Algerians gained independence from France?

Answer 42

Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) (National LIberation Front)

Question 43

Members of the militant nationalist movements were labeled by the British government as what or communists?

Answer 43

Mau Mau subversies

Question 44

Islamist influences penetrated Iran during the lengthy regime of what person, whom the CIA helped bring to power in 1953 who got pressure from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini?

Answer 44

Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Question 45

Who served as president of Nicaragua during the CIA-backed coup that removed Arbenz from Guatemalan government, and he demonstrated to be a staunch anti-communist U.S. ally replacing the previous president Augusto Cesar Sandino?

Answer 45

Anastasio Somoza Garcia

Question 46

White police gunned down black demonstrators in what city, near Johannesburg in South Africa, where sixty nine blacks were killed and 200 wounded?

Answer 46

Sharpville

Question 47

Who emerged as a leader in Myanmar, deriving her political authority from her father and assumed the leadership of the democracy movement after her return from exile in 1988, calling for a nonviolent revolution against Myanmar’s “fascist government”?

Answer 47

Suu Kyi

Question 48

Who was a Sri Lankan politician who served as the fifth President of Sri Lanka, from 12 November 1994 to 19 November 2005?

Answer 48

Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga