AP World Review

Which of the following best describes warfare during World War I?

• Naval battles between ships fighting over trade routes

• Quick attacks with coordinated aircraft, artillery, and infantry

• Guerrilla combatants attacking from behind trees and in cities

• Soldiers digging in trenches and coming out over the top to attack

Countries that were part of the Triple Entente

• Spain, Portugal, and Belgium

• Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy

• France, Russia, and the United Kingdom

• United States, Japan, and China

What statement about Africa after 1946 is true?

• most African colonies gained independence

• most African countries joined NATO

• colonial patterns of trade disappeared

• most African countries joined the Warsaw Pact

What was the primary cause of the Cold War?

• conflicting ideologies of capitalism and communism

• proxy wars in Latin America

• competition for natural resources in Africa

• the nuclear arms race

What was a major change in international relations in the 1980s and 1990s?

• decline in power of multinational corporations

• rapid establishment of overseas colonial empires

• easing of confrontations between communist and non-communist countries

• disbanding of most political parties

The collapse of the communist regime in the Soviet Union coincided with:

• US involvement in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

• Mao's Great Leap Forward

• end of the Cold War

• expansion of the European Union

After WWII, countries around the world did which of the following to restore the global economy?

• establishment of the IMF

• establish new financial institutions, such as the World Bank

• created the European Union

• allowed the United Nations to take over failing economies

Why was the United Nations founded?

• To ensure that Germany would never become powerful again

• To ensure that another Holocaust could never happen

• To try and preserve peace and international cooperation

• To protect Europe against Russia

What is one explanation for the great change in the world population between 1950 and 2000?

• Family planning was successful.

• There was an absence of war and conflict.

• New medicines and technology were discovered and applied.

• Famine and other natural disasters increased.

Based on this late 20th-century map, which conclusion is accurate?

• The worldwide distribution of wealth is unequal.

• Social mobility between social classes is increasing.

• The communist movement is growing.

• Economic self-sufficiency in less developed countries is increasing.