7.1 Quiz

Growing alliances in the 20th century were made to help establish a global...

• totalitarian regime

• balance of power

• system of emergent democracy

• downfall of democratic ideals

After the world wars, colonial holdings of major world powers...

• had remined under their control

• had reform their states to allow for greater representation of the elite population

• had devoted most of their resources to technological developments for their overlords

• had become mostly independent

Porfirio Diaz came to power

• by force

• through legal elections

• by popular demand

• by appealing to the desire of the common man

Porfirio Diaz is most well known for

• celebrating Mexican culture

• condemning European encroachment on Mexican territory

• preferring flour over corn tortillas

• attempting to erase Mexican identity

Francisco Madero wrote the Plan de San Luis de Potosi, which urged Mexicans to

• celebrate Indian heritage

• elect him as high chancellor of Mexico

• revolt against Porfirio

• reform Mexican government

Which of the following were ways in which the Russian Czar lost confidence of his people and nobles?

• Russia was humiliated in Russo Japanese War

• He adequately addressed needs of the working class

• He had appropriate relationships with certified doctors

• He effectively led his people in WWI

Which of the following is an accurate comparison of the Chinese and the Mexican revolutions during the twentieth century?

• Both promoted imperialism

• Both were supported by Japan.

• Both promoted religious education

• Both generated land-redistribution policies.

Which of the following contributed significantly to the decline of both the Qing and the Ottoman Empires?

• Widespread revolts by factory workers and labor unions

• Collapse of domestic stock and bond markets

• Attempts by the Soviet Union to spread world communism

• Internal conflict with ethnic and religious minorities

“The immense majority of Mexico’s villages and citizens own only the ground on which they stand. They suffer the horrors of poverty without being able to better their social status . . . or without being able to dedicate themselves to industry or agriculture due to the fact that the lands, woods, and water are monopolized by the few.”

Emiliano Zapata,, Plan of Ayala, 1911

The opinion expressed in the passage above is most consistent with which of the following?

• Privatizing Mexico’s water and mineral resources

• Guaranteeing workers’ rights to organize and go on strike

• Redistributing one-third of the land controlled by large landholders to landless peasants

• Abrogating all contracts giving foreign nationals ownership of Mexican land

All of the following resulted from the French and Russian Revolutions EXCEPT

• a loss of power for the established church

• a socialist economic system

• the execution of the monarch and family

• the rise of a strong autocratic leader