Global Regents Review Part 4

A nation usually demands the greatest conformity from its citizens during times of

• war

• prosperity

• scientific and artisitic creativity

• industrial expansion

What would a study of the recent civil wars in Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Rwanda show about these conflicts?

• Ethnic conflict was not a factor in the late 20th century

• The United Nations was successful in resolving these disputes

• Genocide was used as a political and military tactic

• Civilians were not affected by these disputes

"...we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

The first is freedom of speech and expression...

The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way...

The third is freedom from want...which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants...

The fourth is freedom from fear...a worldwide reduction of armaments ...[so] that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against and neighbor..."

Which development promoted President Roosevelt to make this statement?

• The great famine in the Soviet Union resulting from Stalin's persecution of the peasants

• the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II

• the coming of the Great Depression

• the growing military aggression of Nazi Germany

What is the key idea of this cartoon?

• Genocide in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur has been stopped.

• Human rights issues are best dealt with by the United Nations.

• The United Nations has not been effective in ending genocide.

• Fear of war crimes trials has brought peace to troubled regions

The policy of Pol Pot that is shown in this cartoon is called

• appeasement

• peaceful coexistence

• genocide

• nonalignment

The treatment of intellectuals under the rule of the Khmer Rouge, of the Jews in Europe during World War II, and the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire are examples of

• cultural diffusion

• modernization

• fundamentalism

• genocide

What is the main idea of the cartoon?

• Labor camps remain China's primary method of punishing political prisoners

• The Chinese consider the United States an imperialistic power

• Economic development in modern China has sometimes been achieved by ignoring human rights issues

• The Chinese believe that human right abuses are also an issue in the United States

The Holocaust in Europe and the treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire have both been cited as examples of

• genocide

• imperialism

• socialism

• divine right

In a command economy, major economic decisions are made by

• wholesalers of agricultural goods

• consumers of foodstuffs

• manufacturers of industrial goods

• officials of the government

A basic economic difference between capitalism and socialism concerns the issues of the

• role of the government in controlling public education

• role of trade in achieving national prosperity

• ownership of the means of production and distribution

• amount of resources spent on industrial expansion