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33 Cards in this Set
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Which of the following terms describes the situation during WWI where Latin America was forced to make up for the lack of European imports?
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import substitution industrialization
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What is the specific name given to India’s type of protest during the Independence Movement against the British?
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satyagraha
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Non-Western nationalist movements in the early 20th century had which of the following in common?
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They typically were led by Western-educated elites looking to modernize their nations.
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Which statement BEST explains why India was partitioned in 1947?
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Religious differences led to a political division.
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Prior to World War I, what was the primary difference between the Egyptian and the Indian nationalist movements?
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In India, a single political party dominated the nationalist movement, but in Egypt a variety of competing groups emerged.
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The development of Mohandas Ghandi’s political philosophy was shaped by his
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experience with racial discrimination in South Africa
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The spinning wheel is representative of which independence movement?
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Indian national consciousness
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The man in the photo below is
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Mohatma Gandhi
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What is the BEST description of satyagraha?
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the policy of nonviolent resistance
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All of the following were accomplished by the Mexican Revolution of 1911-1920 EXCEPT
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a true democracy was established with multi-party rule
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Which of the following countries began to experience the demographic transition from high to low birth rates by the beginning of the 20th century?
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The United States
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During which of the following centuries did the largest number of governments experiment with democracy?
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20th
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Which of the following general demographic patterns characterized the 20th century?
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the proportion of African population increased
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Which statement is most accurate about Latin America today?
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Military governments have been replaced by democracies in many Latin American nations.
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What kind of geopolitical alignment has the end of the Cold War brought into being?
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a state of affairs in which one state is the world’s superpower
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How did Deng Xiaoping’s reforms in China differ from those of Mikhail Gorbachev’s in the Soviet Union?
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Gorbachev allowed political and cultural liberalization, whereas Deng did not.
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Which part of the world showed a significant decline in its proportion of the world population during the 20th century?
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Europe
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Advocacy of the socialist market economy is most associated with
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Deng Xiaoping
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Which major country has successfully resisted the trend towards democratic reform in the late 20th century?
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China
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One of the chief by-products of population growth in Third World nations has been
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mass migration to cities
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Multinational corporations
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distribute goods and services around the world.
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At the Paris Conference, Arab leaders
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were frustrates by the limited autonomy granted them as "mandate states".
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Which of the following is not a cause of WWI?
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Alliance system pits Russia and Britain against Germany and Japan
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Which of the following accurately depicts why World War I was considered a global conflict?
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Australia and New Zealand attack Turks at Gallipoli
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Which of the following was NOT a long term effect of WWI?
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Ensuing Spanish flu kills less people than World War I
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Which of the following BEST describes Schieffen Plan?
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A massive attack on France, then a single-front war with Russia
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What was the name of the agreement that the Zionist movement used to justify the creation of Israel?
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The Balfour Declaration.
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Which of the following arose out of the dissatisfaction of the treaties to end the First World War?
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The May Fourth Movement.
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Which of the following statements about Sun Yat-Sen is accurate?
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He was the first leaser of China who was not a foreign invader of from an imperial dynasty.
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The concept of "total war" in WWI refers to the
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mobilizations of economic, natural, and human resources for the war efforts.
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Which of the following is an accurate statement about trends in art and literature after WWI?
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The anxiety, uncertainty, and disillusionment of the postwar period heavily infulenced.
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What lasting effects occurred when women entered the workforce to support the total war effort?
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Women's performance during the war efforts lent validity to the idea of universal suffrage.
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Which of the following best describes the communist takeover of Russia in 1917?
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Taking advantage of widespread radicalism and popular discontent with the Provisional Government, the Communists staged an armed insurrection.
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