An Interdependent World Pre-Assessment

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A term given to the division of India into separate Hindu and Muslim nations.

• partition

• intifada

• jihad

• Camp David Accords

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A slowdown in the economy

• recession

• standard of living

• land reform

• apartheid

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A form of government where power is shared between state governments and a central authority.

• federal system

• martial law

• apartheid

• perestroika

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The creation of identical copies of DNA

• cloning

• genetic engineering

• green revolution

• sustainable growth

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Countries that are in the process of becoming industrialized and are prime locations for new manufacturing operations

• developed nation

• emerging nation

• rogue nation

• global economy

Level 2

After World War II, which policy of the Soviet Union most contributed to the start of the Cold War?

• its encouragement of communism in China

• its creation of the Warsaw Pact

• its placing of nuclear warheads on missiles in Cuba

• its refusal to permit elections in Eastern Europe

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The cartoon above depicts the conflict that arose during

• the peace negotiations ending WWII

• Fidel's Castro's revolution in Cuba

• the Cuban missile Crisis

• the Berlin Airlift

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The views expressed in this excerpt were most likely those of -

• Anwar al-Sadat

• Saddam Hussein

• Fidel Castro

• Osama bin Laden

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How did the Cold War differ from World War II?

• During the Cold War, frequent fighting occurred between Russia and the United States.

• During the Cold War, great power rivalry reached as far as Asia and Africa.

• During the Cold War, the world’s two leading powers never fought one another directly

• During the Cold War, countries with different ideologies competed for world power

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The conflicts in Korea and Vietnam were similar in that both witnessed

• local leaders winning their nation’s independence from France

• communists trying to reunify a nation that had been divided

• the United Nations intervening against an aggressor

• China directly intervening in the war