Regents Review Flashcards by Nykole Elaine

The main cause of the Arab israeli conflicts from 1948 to 1973 was the clash between

Arab nationalism and Jewish nationalism

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In 1979 the signing of the camp David accords by Egypt and Israeli indicated that

Former enemies were able to negotiate

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A major factor that continues to contribute to terrorist activities in the Middle East is

The Palestine effort to establish a homeland

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The actions of most Islamic fundamentalists show that they support

Traditional Muslim teachings

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In Iran, the Revolution of 1979 and the rise of Islamic Fundamentalism resulted in

A return to many traditional customs

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During the 1980s, the economic development of Iran and Iraq was disrupted because of

The war fought between these nations

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The ground war during Operation Desert Shield lasted

100 hours

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The Iran Iraq war was caused by

Border disputes

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How was the US involved in the Iran revolution in 1979

put Pahlavi in charge of Iran and he became a dictator

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Which country is trying to get independence from China?

Tibet

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A place where the conflict is mostly about government issues is known as a

Political hotspot

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An issue between two or more groups in a culture- sometimes with violence

Conflict

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True or False: the treaty of Versailles contributed to unrest throughout Europe

True

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This nation was formerly known as East Pakistan

Bangladesh

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This congress party leader was independent India’s first prime minister

Jawaharlal Nehru

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This politician was twice elected prime minister of Pakistan but was remover from office in 1996

Benazor Bhutto

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The civil war between the Tamils and others in this Buddhist dominated country began in the early 1980s

Sri Lanka

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This Muslim league leader died shortly after becoming the first Governor General of independent Pakistan

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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This former prime minister of India was assassinated by Sikh extremists in retaliation for ordering the attack on the golden temple

Indira Gandhi

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A cease fire line established by the UN in 1949 left a third of this territory under Pakistani control and the rest under Indian control

Kashmir

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Which social scientists focus their studies on scarcity, resources, and profit motives

Economists

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A geographer attempts to understand and interpret patterns and processes primarily by

Analyzing spatial data at different scales

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In a parliamentary system with multiple political parties in which no single party gains a majority, elections usually result in

Coalition governments (coalition: to bring together)

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Which factor most influenced the construction of semipermanent settlements during the Neolithic period?

Production of surplus food

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Which geologic feature was central in helping the Romans unify their empire?

Mediterranean Sea

Which region was the birthplace of Confucianism, Buddhism and Hinduism

Asia

Which area served as a cultural bridge between early China and Japan

Korea

The role of Muslim religious leaders in Africa was to

Introduce the teachings of the Koran (Qur'an)

The Abbasid and Ummayad empires are most closely associated with

Creating an Islamic golden age

The European system of manorialism is most closely associated with

Maintaining economic self-sufficiently

The kingdoms of Ghana and Mali became prosperous and powerful because of

Their participation in the gold and salt trade

The Chinese belief that China was the Middle Kingdom is an example of

ethnocentrism

The Ottoman Turks viewed Constantinople as being strategically important because it

Was a crossroads between Europe and Asia

One way in which the voyages of Zheng He authorized by Emperor Yongle of China and the explorations funded by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain are similar is that these voyages and explorations resulted in

Trade and cultural diffusion

Which geopolitical region is Argentina in

Latin America

Which situation was an unintended consequence of Spain's colonization of the Americas?

Transmission of communicable diseases

One way in which Suleiman the Magnificent and Louis XIV are similar is that they both

Strengthened the authority of the nobility

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the heliocentric theory became the centerpiece for the debate between

Science and religion

In which way did the ideas of the enlightenment influence the French Revolution

The divine right theory of kings was challenged

In which way did the geographic diversity of Latin America affect newly independent countries?

Making political unity difficult

The Haitian Revolution and the Sepoy Rebellion happened in response to

European colonial policies

Which circumstance contributed to the breakdown of the alliance between the US and the Soviet Union

Stalin's unfulfilled promise of free elections

Which of the following worked together to produce similar goals

Truman Doctrine and containment

What were the long term effects of the Cultural Revolution

Widespread chaos that closed down factories and threatened farm production

How did the "Bay of Pigs" failure lead to the Cuban missile crisis?

Khrushchev believed the United States was too weak to oppose Soviet expansion into Cuba

Which country became divided due to Cold War tensions

Germany

Why was an airlift needed to overcome the Soviet blockade of West Berlin

Because it was located well within the iron curtain

What did the pogroms that occurred in the late 19th century Russia do?

Kill all the kulaks

Who were the Bolsheviks?

Radical Russian Marxist revolutionaries

Who did China's peasants align themselves with in the 1920s

Communists

What were soviets under Russia's provisional government?

Local councils

What was the purpose of the soviet states Five-Year Plans

Economic development

Who seized power from Persia's Shah and changed the name of his country to Iran

Reza Shah Pahlavi

What did Sun Yixian's Revolutionary Alliance accomplish?

Overthrowing the last emperor

Which group was know for taking a 6,000 mile journey known as the "Long March" ?

Chinese communists, fleeing the nationalists

Who led the famous protest known as the Salt March

Mohandis K Gandhi

Which territories were lost under the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland

Giving in to the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace

Appeasement

Opposition to all war

Pacifism

Lightning war

Blitzkreig

Mass executions of people due to religion, race, ethnicity etc

Genocide

The purpose of the Kellogg-Briand Pact was to

end war forever

One effect of the Great Depression was

High unemployment

Why were Italians attracted to fascism in the 1920s

It promised order in a time of uncertainty

Which of the following describes fascism

It glorified blind loyalty to the state

What was a dress rehearsal for WWII by demonstrating the destructive power of modern warfare?

The Spanish Civil War

"Operation Barbarossa" refers to Hitler's plan to conquer

the Soviet Union

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Brought the United States into the war

In response to Axis aggression in the 1930s, western democracies followed a policy of

Appeasement

What was the result of Germany's invasion of Poland

Britain and France declared war on Germany

What was the allies plan for victory over the Nazis?

The allies would fight Germany on two fronts to weaken it

Why were thousands of US citizens put in internment camps during the war

They were of Japanese descent and falsely labeled as enemies

Which of the following weapons contributed most to the stalemate on the western front during WWI

The automatic machine gun

WWI was more destructive than earlier wars because

Modern weapons were more deadly

Which of the following statements is true regarding the Ottoman Empire in WWI

It joined the central powers

Which of the following helped Allies to achieve the breakthrough they sought in WWI

The involvement of the US

Which of the following was an effect of militarism in Europe in the late 1800s

Nations made political and military alliances

Why was it difficult to gain an advantage over the enemy in trench warfare

The machine gun made it nearly impossible for troops to advance

Which of the following helped turn WWI into a global war

The submarine

Which of the following statements is true regarding the role of women during WWI

They kept their nations economies going during the war

Which of the following ended Russia's involvement in WWI

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

In 1918 Europe was

In ruins

A final set of demands are

Mandates

To prepare military forces for war they will

Mobilize

Ideas that are spread in order to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause

Propaganda

For much of WWI the United States followed a policy of ______

Neutrality

In waging a _____, a nation channels all of its resources into the war effort

Ultimatum

Which of the following social items might seen by some people as justified by Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution

Only the strongest in business will survive

The 19th century term "white mans burden" reflects the idea that

Europeans had a responsibility to improve the lives of their colonial peoples

The phrase "Scramble for Africa" is most associated with

European imperialism

Which of the following was true concerning imperialism in India

India was run by the British East India Company for awhile

Which of the following was the main reason why Europeans imperialists areas like Africa

To get raw materials and establish new markets for their goods

Which of the following would be a political reason why Europeans imperialized other areas

To establish military bases overseas

What best describes the position the Japanese took towards foreigners before the Meiji Restoration

They had chosen a policy of isolationism

A main effect of the Meiji Restoration was that

Japan became more westernized

Imperialist powers were initially interested in Iran largely because of its

Oil

At the Berlin Conference, it was agreed that a European power could not claim any part of Africa unless

It had set up a government office in the area

The industrial revolution encouraged imperialism by creating a need for

Raw materials and new markets

Through the 1700s, Europeans did not travel to the interior of Africa because

It's difficult geography and disease

What threatened the Ottoman Empire in the early 1800s

Nationalism and European powers eager to seize ottoman lands

Why did Russia scheme to gain control of Bosporus and the Dardanelles during the decline of the Ottoman Empire?

To gain access to the Mediterranean Sea

What was a result of the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857?

Britain began to rule India as a colony

What was one result of the Opium war?

Britain gained the island of Hong Kong

Identical components that speeded both assembly and repair because they could be used in place of one another

Interchangeable parts

_____ was an artistic movement that attempted to represent the world as it was

Realism

The right to vote

Suffrage

Why does Darwin's theory of evolution cause controversy?

It disagrees with the biblical account of creation

What was a direct result of the discovery that germs caused disease

Improved sanitation

In the 19th century the poor lived

In tenements near the factories

What new feature of city life in the late 1800s had the greatest impact on the poor?

Sewage systems

In cities the poor helped each other out through

Mutual aid societies

A realist English writer who portrayed the lives of slum dwellers

Charles Dickens

Invented dynamite

Alfred Nobel

British nurse who improved sanitation and survival rates in the British military

Florence Nightingale

Henry Ford used these to mass produce automobiles

Assembly line

This person invented the code used with telegraphs

F B Morse

The Salvation Army began in what country?

Great Britain