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| 9645677930 | What distinguished the end of the colonial empires in the second half of the twentieth century from other cases of imperial disintegration? | The mobilization of the masses around a nationalist ideology | 0 | |
| 9645677931 | Which of the following countries became a new nation-state in the late 1940s? | Israel | 1 | |
| 9645677932 | Which of the following represented a form of imperialism without territorial possessions that came under attack in the twentieth century? | US influence in latin america | 2 | |
| 9645677933 | Which of the following was a common characteristic of the leaders of independence movements in European colonies in Asia, Africa, and Oceania in the second half of the twentieth century? | They were educated | 3 | |
| 9645677934 | 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 | resulted in political independence. | 4 | |
| 9645677935 | What did all nationalist movements in Asia, Africa, and Oceania in the second half of the twentieth century share in common? | The goal of political independence | 5 | |
| 9645677936 | Which of the following served as a unifying factor in South Asia before British colonial rule? | Geography | 6 | |
| 9645677937 | In contrast to previous foreign rulers in India, the British were the only ones who | never assimilate into Indian society. | 7 | |
| 9645677938 | Which of the following characterised Mahatma Gandhi's agenda in India's struggle for independence? | A nostalgic return to pre-industrial society composed of self-sufficient villages | 8 | |
| 9645677939 | Which of the following groups favored a broad alliance of everyone opposed to apartheid regardless of race? | African National Congress | 9 | |
| 9645677940 | 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? | Non-violent civil disobedience against apartheid | 10 | |
| 9645677941 | Which of the following represented a fundamental contradiction that undermined the colonial enterprise in the second half of the twentieth century? | the ideal of national self-determination was at odds with the denial of independence to colonies | 11 | |
| 9645677942 | Which of the following was a social or economic circumstance within the European colonies that contributed to anti-colonial movements? | United Nations provided international platform from which to conduct anti-colonial agitation | 12 | |
| 9645677943 | Which of the following was an initial goal of the Indian National Congress (INC)? | Gaining positions of influence in order to protect Indian interests | 13 | |
| 9645677944 | In contrast to Indians' struggle for independence in the twentieth century, black South Africans' struggle for control of their country was what? | waged against an internal community of permanent white settlers who controlled the country | 14 | |
| 9645677945 | How did the system of apartheid in South Africa come to an end? | Through negotiations between the white South African government and black South African nationalist leaders | 15 | |
| 9645677946 | 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? | poor economic performance | 16 | |
| 9645677947 | What accounts for the resurgence of democracy in many developing countries in the decades since the 1980s? | the failure of authoritarian governments to address economic and social problems | 17 | |
| 9645677948 | Which group of countries has been the most successful in stimulating economic growth and industrialization in the late twentieth century? | East Asian countries | 18 | |
| 9645677949 | Which of the following characterizes the economic strategy of most countries in the developing world since the late twentieth century? | dependence on the market to generate economic growth | 19 | |
| 9645677950 | The reforms of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Turkey in the early twentieth century | remove islam from public life | 20 | |
| 9645677951 | Which of the following resulted from the so-called White Revolution of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Iran? | Discontent and resentment that paved the way for an islamic revolution | 21 | |
| 9645677952 | Which of the following reflects a task of newly independent nation-states in the aftermath of decolonization in the second half of the twentieth century? | The building of modern economies stable politics and coherent nations | 22 | |
| 9645677953 | Which leader launched a revolutionary but short-lived program to achieve a peaceful transition to socialism in the early 1970s? | Chile under Salvador Allende | 23 | |
| 9645677954 | In the Global South, which of the following was the standard by which people measured and granted legitimacy to their governments? | Economic Development | 24 | |
| 9645677955 | Which of the following describes how the Ayatollah Khomeini viewed the revolution he had launched in Iran? | As a model for other Islamic countries to follow | 25 | |
| 9645677956 | In Africa in the early 1980s, what happened to the political parties that had led the movements for independence from colonial rule? | most were soon swept away by military coups | 26 |
