13 - Global History Regents Prep

Beginning in the late 1970s, one of Deng Xiaoping’s major goals for the People’s Republic of China was to

• encourage economic growth through modernization
• support the practice of traditional religions
• lessen control over the bureaucracy
• protect the purity of revolutionary doctrine

• Japan fi ghts China. (1894)
• Japan defeats Russia. (1905)
• Japan annexes Korea. (1910)
These events reflect the growing power of Japan and its desire to

• spread Shinto
• obtain natural resources
• suppress the Boxer Rebellion
• acquire warm-water ports

Which event most directly influenced the change referred to in this passage?

• outbreak of the Boxer Rebellion

• meeting of the Berlin Conference

• signing of the Munich Pact

• collapse of the Ottoman Empire

Camillo di Cavour is to unification of Italy as Otto von Bismarck is to unification of

• Venezuela

• Germany

• France

• Serbia

Under the rule of which leader did these changes occur?

• Emperor Meiji

• Kemal Atatürk

• Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek)

• Benito Mussolini

One way in which the motives for the Arab Spring and for the French Revolution are similar is that people wanted to

• rid society of secular beliefs
• alter the government to bring about reform
• create change through nonviolent means
• end economic inequalities using social media

The terms of the Treaty of Nanjing and of the Treaty of Kanagawa demonstrate the

• unequal relationships that characterized imperialism 
• importance of technology in developing economies
• humanitarian ideals that accompanied missionary activity
• changing roles of men and women associated with modernization

The Scientific Revolution popularized the idea that

• understanding is the result of observation and experimentation

• Earth is the center of the solar system

• church doctrine should be the source of new ideas

• scientific research should be supervised by political authorities

Social Darwinism and the ideas expressed in the “White Man’s Burden” were used by Europeans to justify their policies of

• pacifism

• communism

• isolationism

• imperialism

Which conclusion about Irish views on the potato famine is best supported by this passage?

• The Irish potato famine resulted in several natural disasters.

• The exporting of grain overseas was the sole cause of the Irish potato famine.

• British colonial policies worsened the effects of the Irish potato famine.

• Ireland did not produce any grain and livestock during the Irish potato famine.