Unit 8 Test Review APWH

Which of the following statements about Africa after 1946 is true?

• Most African colonies gained national independence.

• The Organization of African Unity resolved the issues that most African states found divisive.

• Most African countries joined either NATO or the Warsaw Pact.

• There was a little postcolonial conflict in newly independent states.

• Colonial patterns of trade disappeared.

Which of the following is the basis for nearly all the boundaries of today’s sub-Saharan African states?

• Postcolonial conquests of one African state by another

• Fragmentation of countries after they achieved independence from Europe

• Decisions by European powers during the process of colonization

• Precolonial linguistic groupings

• International agreements mediated by the United Nations

Which of the following best explains why the Soviet Union was willing to undertake projects such as the one discussed in the passage?

• The need to suppress armed resistance to Soviet rule in Central Asia

• The mass migration of Turkmens and other Central Asians to Soviet Russia

• Soviet embrace of economic liberalization and free-market principles

• Pressure resulting from the need to keep pace with Western economic development during the Cold War

The title of the article best suggests that the author is responding to the arguments of which of the following?

• Postcolonial and anti-imperialist thinkers

• Advocates for radical feminism

• Neoliberal economists and advocates of free-trade policies

• Supporters of conservative nationalism

The author’s point of view regarding the West was likely influenced by which of the following developments at the time he was writing?

• The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War

• The growing strength of environmental protest movements

• The outbreaks of ethnic violence in Africa and Eastern Europe

• The spread of the liberation theology movement in Catholic Latin American states

Which of the following was a principal cause of the Cold War?

• Proxy wars in Latin America

• Competition for natural resources in Africa

• The nuclear arms race

• Conflicting capitalist and communist ideologies

Which of the following describes a major change in international relations in the 1980s and 1990s?

• The rapid establishment of large overseas colonial empires by European powers

• The disbanding of most regional political organizations

• The decline in power of multinational corporations

• The reduction of confrontations between communist and noncommunist countries

The development of the British cuisine described in the excerpted speech above is best seen as an example of which of the following?

• The effects of migration by former colonial subjects to imperial metropoles

• The spread of culture through new communication technology

• The global spread of western popular and consumer culture

• The resistance to immigration by nativist groups

China’s strategy for modernization and economic development in the 1950s most closely resembled the developmental strategy of

• India

• Japan

• Britain

• the Soviet Union

• the United States

The Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union during the second half of the twentieth century was characterized by competition primarily over

• religion and culture

• the distribution of natural resources

• ideology and economic structure

• control of key trade routes