Practice Regents 2019

Base your answer to questions #3 & #4 on the speakers' statements below and on your knowledge of social studies.

Speaker A: The market should be controlled by supply and demand, not the whims of the parliament.

Speaker B: History will administer justice to the greedy bourgeoisie when the proletariat revolt.

Which type of economy is Speaker A most likely to support?

• laissez-faire

• barter

• self-sufficient

• mixed

Maximilien Robespierre is best known in French history for

• trying to eliminate enemies of the French Revolution

• rallying French support for the American Revolution

• attempting to preserve the monarchy of Louis XVI

• enforcing the principles of the Napoleonic Code

Based on this information, what was a contributing cause of the Irish famine?

• farming methods that promoted the spread of the potato fungus

• a 50% reduction in the amount of farmland

• a shortage of farmers due to population loss

• increased use of pesticides

A major goal of both the Sepoy Rebellion and the Boxer Rebellion was to

• remove foreign interference

• establish a democratic republic

• gain religious freedom

• lower the tax burden for the peasants

Base your answer on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.

. . .In the rest of the world European political assumptions are so taken for granted that nobody thinks about them anymore; but at least one of these assumptions, the modern belief in secular civil government, is an alien creed in a region [the Middle East] most of whose inhabitants, for more than a thousand years, have avowed faith in a Holy Law that governs all of life, including government and politics. . . .

Source: David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace

What is a valid conclusion based on this reading?

• Political systems in the Middle East often reflect the traditional values of their society.

• Most European states base their political systems on remaining faithful.

• Belief in secular government is universal.

• The Middle East has been a leader in the development of democratic states.

A goal of the Japanese invasion of Manchuria (1931) and of the second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) was to

• acquire industrial resources

• spread the practice of Shinto

• open trading networks

• prevent German imperialism

Adolf Hitler justified his takeover of eastern territory by stating that Germany needed to

• gain more living space for its people

• reestablish its Asian colonies

• give its navy access to Caspian seaports

• enforce established peace agreements

Base your answer on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.

First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.

Source: Martin Niemöller

Which event is Martin Niemöller referring to in this passage?

• Holocaust

• Ukrainian famine

• World War I

• breakup of Yugoslavia

An examination of the Nazi's Russian campaign in the 1940s would show that

• geography can have an effect on the outcome of war

• naval assaults are generally successful

• superior technology offsets natural conditions

• a policy of appeasement is often ineffective

The military conflicts of World War II ended in August 1945 when

• the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki prompted Japan's unconditional surrender

• Allied armies captured Berlin and divided Germany

• Germany and Japan negotiated a settlement for "peace without victory"

• the International Military Tribunal for the Far East began hearing testimony in Tokyo