NYS GR 1/17 & 18

The idea that all people are born with the natural rights of life, liberty, and property is most directly associated with the writings of

• Baron de Montesquieu
• Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke

Which geographic feature aided industrialization in Great Britain?

• good harbors
• large forests 
• monsoon winds
• highland climate

Capitalism is to private ownership as communism is to

• supply and demand
• state control
• self-determination
• laissez-faire

The terms of the Treaty of Nanjing and of the Treaty of Kanagawa demonstrate the

• unequal relationships that characterized imperialism 
• importance of technology in developing economies
• humanitarian ideals that accompanied missionary activity
• changing roles of men and women associated with modernization

• Japan fi ghts China. (1894)
• Japan defeats Russia. (1905)
• Japan annexes Korea. (1910)
These events reflect the growing power of Japan and its desire to

• spread Shinto
• obtain natural resources
• suppress the Boxer Rebellion
• acquire warm-water ports

• Development of secret alliances
• Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Stalemate along the trenches
Which conflict is directly associated with these events?

• World War I
• Austro-Prussian War
• Boer War
• World War II

The term Zionism can be defined as a form of

• pacifism

• nationalism

• nonalignment

• collective security

• Bitterness over the Treaty of Versailles
• Loss of the Ruhr and overseas colonies
• Rising inflation and unemployment
These factors are most closely associated with 

• the rise of fascism in Germany
• French imperialism in Africa
• the Russian Revolution of 1917
• the communist revolution in China

The organization of campaigns in South Africa against the policy of racial separation and segregation are most closely associated with

• Jomo Kenyatta
• Cecil Rhodes
• Nelson Mandela
• Kwame Nkrumah

Beginning in the late 1970s, one of Deng Xiaoping’s major goals for the People’s Republic of China was to

• encourage economic growth through modernization
• support the practice of traditional religions
• lessen control over the bureaucracy
• protect the purity of revolutionary doctrine