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| 10659860028 | What was often shaped by the need to align with either the United States or the Soviet Union? | Decolonization | 0 | |
| 10659860029 | What was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)? | military alliance consisting of the United States and western European countries. b | 1 | |
| 10659860030 | What was the Soviet-dominated counterpart to NATO? | Warsaw Pact | 2 | |
| 10659860031 | What did the Marshall Plan do? | provided 12.5 billion dollars in economic aid to friendly European countries. | 3 | |
| 10659860032 | What was the significant failure mechanism within the United Nations? | Rivalry among permanent members in executive veto actions | 4 | |
| 10659860033 | How did the USSR violate the agreement to participate in the World Bank? | instituting a closed monetary system for itself and allied communist countries in Eastern Europe. | 5 | |
| 10659860034 | What was the triumph of the Green Revolution? | the development of "miracle rice" | 6 | |
| 10659860035 | Who were the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council? | *Not "Sweden" | 7 | |
| 10659860036 | In the wake of World War II, the model of economic recovery in the west emphasized what? | the production of consumer goods | 8 | |
| 10659860037 | Why did many of the eastern European nations welcome Communism and Soviet influence after WW II? | The Soviets were enemies of fascism which had been imposed on them from Hitler. c | 9 | |
| 10659860038 | What 4 factors raised the standards of living in post-war Western Europe? | a. increased wages. b. government sponsored health care. c. social welfare programs including pensions and grants to the poor. d. income redistribution. all of these. | 10 | |
| 10659860039 | Why was the Korean War limited to the Korean peninsula? | the United States feared that attacking China might prompt Soviet retaliation. | 11 | |
| 10659860040 | Restrictions on U.S. military operations during the Vietnam War were designed to prevent what? | prevent China from entering the war. | 12 | |
| 10659860041 | Who were the Viet Cong? | North Vietnamese supported communist guerilla movement. | 13 | |
| 10659860042 | The discovery by the United States that the Soviet Union had deployed nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962 sparked the ___________. | the Cuban missile crisis | 14 | |
| 10659860043 | List 4 elements/facts about the Helsinki Accords. | a. were finalized in 1975. b. were a precursor to human rights dialogue. c. called for government and economic contact across the iron curtain. d. said that no boundaries should be changed by military force. All of these | 15 | |
| 10659860044 | What was President Lyndon Johnson's reform agenda for American reforms called? | Great Society | 16 | |
| 10659860045 | Why were Greece and Turkey admitted to NATO? | to check Soviet expansion in Europe | 17 | |
| 10659860046 | What event was the catalyst for the space race? | The Soviet Sputnik satellite launch | 18 | |
| 10659860047 | Which world leader claimed he would "reduce [the opposition] to a smoking, radiating ruin at the end of two hours" in the event of attack? | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 19 | |
| 10659860048 | Who were the first humans to walk on the moon in the 20th century? | Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong. | 20 | |
| 10659860049 | Bangladesh emerged as an independent nation from _____________. | Bengali Pakistan. | 21 | |
| 10659860050 | In 1947 India and Pakistan went to war over what region? | northwestern state of Kashmir. | 22 | |
| 10659860051 | Who inspired a nationalist coalition against the French? | Ho Chi Minh | 23 | |
| 10659860052 | List 4 elements/facts regarding the French-Algerian War. | *Not "It ended with Algeria becoming officially a part of France" | 24 | |
| 10659860053 | What was the first British colony in West Africa to gain independence? | Ghana | 25 | |
| 10659860054 | Why did Kenya face a difficult task in winning independence? | the influence of coffee planters. | 26 | |
| 10659860055 | Why did independence in French West Africa come slowly? | French promises of vast improvements for Africans | 27 | |
| 10659860056 | South African governments used policies of racial segregation called ____________. | apartheid | 28 | |
| 10659860057 | Which leader of the African National Congress organized guerrilla resistance in 1960? | Nelson Mandela | 29 | |
| 10659860058 | Most of the leaders of African independence movements were among the most __________ members of their society. | among the most westernized members of their society | 30 | |
| 10659860059 | Compared to other areas of Africa, independence in the Belgian Congo was ____ and ____. | chaotic and violent | 31 | |
| 10659860060 | Who was Steve Biko? | one of the founders of the Black Consciousness Movement. | 32 | |
| 10659860061 | Why did the United States overthrow the Guatemalan government in 1954? | it threatened to seize large agricultural estates owned by the United Fruit Company | 33 | |
| 10659860062 | In 1956, 25 percent of Cuban national income was derived from what? | sugar manufacture and export | 34 | |
| 10659860063 | Why was Latin America's decolonization significantly different from that of Africa? | independence movements had occurred in the nineteenth century but were not followed by industrialization. | 35 | |
| 10659860064 | What was the Bay of Pigs invasion? | was a United States-sponsored attempt to overthrow Castro. | 36 | |
| 10659860065 | What was the goal of Castro and his revolution? | end American economic imperialism | 37 | |
| 10659860066 | _________ nations were usually newly independent, poor nations. | Third World Nations | 38 | |
| 10659860067 | In 1956, Israel, Great Britain, and France joined together to do what? | invade Egypt and seize the Suez Canal. | 39 | |
| 10659860068 | The Cold War isolated and excluded Japan from world political issues, helping Japan to do what? | rebuild and develop its economic strength. | 40 | |
| 10659860069 | Mao Zedong's 1958 Great Leap Forward was a plan designed to do what? | industrialize using small-scale industries and collectivized agriculture. | 41 | |
| 10659860070 | The 1966 Chinese Cultural Revolution was initially intended to do what? | instill revolutionary fervor in a new generation. | 42 | |
| 10659860071 | Since World War II, the most important political issue in Arab countries has been the struggle with __________. | Israel | 43 | |
| 10659860072 | List 4 facts regarding Israel since 1948. | *Not ". It lost land to Jordan in 1948. " | 44 | |
| 10659860073 | List 4 facts of the Six Day War of 1967. | *Not "it was a loss for Israel" | 45 | |
| 10659860074 | The superpowers didn't view the struggle between Israel and the Arab states as a vital concern until what happened? | the oil wealth of the Middle East was discovered. | 46 | |
| 10659860075 | The Egyptian-Israeli war in 1973 led directly to what? | Arab oil embargo. | 47 | |
| 10659860076 | An example of new awareness of environmental issues in the United States was the establishment of what? | establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970. | 48 |
