WORLD Final 17-18b

It is argued that climate change will be the most pressing environmental issue in the coming years because

• there is no awareness or concern for it now.

• the temperatures had been going down the previous years.

• countries will no longer be able to efficiently rely on solar power.

• the rise in temperature is being made worse by pollution and current environmental policies.

Why did African states face so many problems following their successful independence movements?

• World War II prevented many countries from giving them aid.

• Many countries continued to ship slaves across the Atlantic Ocean.

• Political and ethnic rivalries within the countries emerged after independence.

• The United Nations consistently waged war against rulers who they considered warlike.

In 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed MAINLY because

• key Soviet leaders were assassinated.

• a civil war erupted in the southern republics.

• the United States was a better country and capitalism ruled the world.

• years of economic stagnation left it far behind Western and Asian countries.

During his rise to power, Hitler gained popularity and helped stir extreme anti-Semitic sentiment by

• convincing Germans that the United States was responsible for their many hardships.

• making the people of Germany believe that the Soviet Union was going to attack them.

• blaming the collapse of world trade and other economic failures on Jewish financiers.

• destroying the rule of law in Germany so that Germans would seek retribution on each other.

Who was the powerful and ruthless leader of the Soviet Union from 1929-1953 who also ordered the Great Purge in which he had his real and imagined enemies arrested?

• Adolf Hitler

• Joseph Stalin

• Vladimir Lenin

• Benito Mussolini

Which African ethnic groups are Islamic?

• Arab and Ashanti

• Arab and Swahili

• Ashanti and Bantu

• Ashanti and Swahili

Why are authoritarian and totalitarian systems considered unlimited governments?

• Those systems protect indivdiual freedoms.

• The government leaders have absolute power.

• Those systems have one branch that checks the powers of the other branches.

• The people under those systems are allowed to elect their government leaders.

India

· Great Britain

· The Philippines

· Nicaragua

Politically speaking, what do these four countries have in common?

• They are all colonies.

• They are all monarchies.

• They have all been run by female heads of government.

• They all experienced major revolutions in the 20th century.

William A. Higgins Letter, October 18, 1918. New York State Archives.

• Korea

• Vietnam.

• World War I.

• World War II.

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked the end of decades of _______________ rule in the nation.

• Capitalist

• Communist

• Fascist

• Socialist