WorksheetsWorld History (2nd Sem. Final Exam Practice Quiz)
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 13hrs 30mins
T 10.1 - Page 497
Which point of view is reflected in this quotation?
"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." - Joseph Stalin
Stalin's view of free elections in Eastern Europe during the Cold War
Stalin's view of peace agreements made by the Allies with several Axis nations in 1947
Stalin's view of reparations from Germany following World War II
Stalin's view of the assassination of democratic leaders in Poland and Czechoslovakia
T 10.1 - Page 497
What is the best description of the context for this statement by Harry Truman?
"I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."
Churchill and Stalin were behaving aggressively toward Eastern Europe.
Germany was divided into East Germany and West Germany.
Soviet aggression toward Europe was mounting.
The United States was ready to execute the Marshall Plan.
T 10.1 - Page 497
To what American policy does this excerpt refer?
"Wherever it is considered timely and promising, efforts will be made to advance official limits of Soviet power."
collectivization
containment
glasnost
suburbanization
T 10.1 - Page 498
This statement refers to what initiative following World War II?
"The truth of the matter is that Europe's requirements for the next three or four years of foreign food and other essential products - principally from America - are so much greater than her present ability to pay that she must have substantial additional help or face economic, social, and political deterioration of a very grave character."
Marshall Plan
Solidarity Movement
Tet Offensive
Warsaw Pact
T 10.1 - Page 498
What conclusions can best be drawn from the information shown on this map?
Following World War II, an "Iron Curtain" divided East and West Germany from the rest of Europe.
Following World War II, East and West Germany became part of the communist-controlled Soviet Union.
Following World War II, East and West Germany were the most important countries in Europe due to the "Iron Curtain" that divided Eastern and Western Europe.
Following World War II, Germany was divided into East and West sectors. An "Iron Curtain" divided Eastern and Western Europe.
T 10.1 - Page 501
What was the significance of the formation in 1955 of the Southeast-Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)?
Its formation was part of the American and Soviet pursuit of detente.
Its formation was part of the Soviet Union's strategy to contain Western power by forming alliances.
Its formation was part of the United States plan to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.
Its formation was part of the United States strategy to contain Soviet power by forming alliances.
T 10.1 - Page 501
Which pair of letters accurately matches a leader with a role played by that leader in the chart?
a-e
b-f
c-g
d-h
T 10.2 - Page 510
What conclusion can be drawn about the significance of the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community?
It led to increased tariffs and trade barriers that plagued Europe into the 1980s and 1990s.
It returned government-owned industries such as coal and steel to private ownership in Britain and later in other European nations.
It spurred economic growth and led to further regional cooperation such as the creation of the European Community.
It was the last attempt by the nations of Western Europe to cooperate economically until the creation of the European Union.
T 10.3 - Page 514
What were the main reasons for the failure of Mao's Great Leap Forward?
Counterrevolutionaries seized control of China's farmland.
Industries turned out useless goods and communes removed incentives.
The Cultural Revolution proved to be a more effective way to move China forward.
Too many Chinese belonged to the middle class, or bourgeoisie.
T 10.3 - Page 517
Which country is being referred to and compared to Germany in this statement?
As in Germany, the capitalist portion of the country had an economic boom and rising standards of living, while the communist zone went through economic stagnation and decline.
Cambodia
Korea
Philippines
Thailand
10.4 - Page 518
Ho Chi Minh was a significant figure in the history of Southeast Asia because
he led his people against French control and later against the U.S.-backed South Vietnamese government.
he led local guerrillas against the Japanese who overran Indochina during World War I.
supported by the French, he led the North Vietnamese in their fight against South Vietnam.
supported by the United States, he led the non-communist South Vietnamese government.
T 10.4 - Page 519
What events did John F. Kennedy not foresee when he made this statement in 1963?
"I don't think that unless a greater effort is made by the Government to win popular support that the war can be won out there . . . We can help them, we can give them equipment, we can send our men out there as advisors, but they have to win it, the people of Vietnam, against the Communists."
that the United States government would side with the communist guerrillas of North Vietnam
that the United States would become involved in a full-scale war in Vietnam
that the United States would never be able to aid the non-communist government of South Vietnam.
that the United States would play no role in the Vietnam War
T 10.5 - Page 524
What policy is Gorbachev calling for in this statement?
"Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management." - Mikhail Gorbachev
greater openness
lessening restraints on emigration
resisting political oppression
restructuring of the economy
T 10.5 - Page 526
What is the significance of Lech Walesa's election as president of Poland and Vaclav Havel's election as president of Czechoslovakia?
These elections signified the changes in Eastern Europe brought about by the increased dominance of the Soviet Union.
These elections signified the end of the Gorbachev policies of glasnost and perestroika.
These elections signified the power that Mikhail Gorbachev had to put his puppets into positions of power in Eastern Europe.
These elections signified the transformation of Eastern Europe from dominance by the Soviet Union to new democracies.
T 10.5 - Page 526
Which country represents "X" in the chart?
Cuba
Czechoslovakia
Portugal
West Germany
T 6.4 - Page 338 & T 11.1 - Page 534
Which of the following was founded primarily to promote nationalist goals?
OPEC
the Congress Party
the Nonaligned Movement
the United Nations
T 11.1 - Page 535
"When we came close to Amritsar, we found that they had started stopping trains, killing people in them, but we were lucky. Everyone said put your windows up, they are cutting down people."
The violence described in this passage was the result of
an intifada.
the Amritsar massacre.
the Mau Mau uprising.
the partition of South Asia.
T 11.1 - Page 536
Which name belongs in the empty cell on this table?
Ferdinand Marcos
Jawaharlal Nehru
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Suharto
T 11.1 - Page 537
This map can most easily be used to show
cultural diversity in South Asia.
how the boundaries of Pakistan were established by Britain.
the role of geography in the development of Bangladesh.
the source of territorial disputes between India and its neighbors.
T 11.1 - Page 537 & T 11.2 - Page 547
What is one similarity between Nigeria and Pakistan?
Both countries benefited from the discovery of oil deposits.
Both countries gained independence from Britain in the 1940s.
Both countries won independence primarily through armed struggle.
In both countries, ethnic groups tried to break away and form separate nations.
T 11.1 - Page 539
"The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries." - Muhammad Yunus
How did this writer work to achieve the goals he describes?
by cutting economic ties to former colonial powers
by encouraging nations to set up socialist economies
by nationalizing private industries
by providing loans to small businesses
11.1 - Page 540
"Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day . . . Yet even under the most crushing state machinery, courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man." - Aung San Suu Kyi, Freedom From Fear
How does this passage reflect the writer's own experiences?
She fought for independence against a European colonial power.
She practiced nonviolent resistance to a military dictatorship.
She was a member of an ethnic minority that was a victim of genocide.
She was imprisoned by the regime of a corrupt hereditary monarch.
T 11.1 - Page 541 & T 11.3 - Page 555
How was the election of Corazon Aquino in 1986 similar to the Iranian revolution of 1979?
They both had the support of the United States.
They both led to the formation of democratic governments.
They both removed long-term authoritarian rulers from power.
They both represented a rejection of western values and ideas.
T 11.2 - Page 544
In what two African countries was the path to independence most similar?
Algeria and Kenya
Ghana and Congo
Nigeria and Angola
Zimbabwe and Egypt
T 11.2 - Pages 544, 545
"In our African tradition, there are never two chiefs; there is sometimes a natural heir to the chief, but can anyone tell me that he has ever known a village that has two chiefs? That is why we Congolese, in the desire to conform to the traditions of our continent, have resolved to group all the energies of the citizens of our country under the banner of a single national party." - Mobutu Sese Seko
This quotation illustrates what challenge faced by many newly-independent African nations?
the conflict between ethnic loyalty and national unity
the impact of the Cold War on new nations
the rise of long-term dictatorships
widespread government corruption
T 11.2 - Page 545
According to this map, what was the second African nation south of the Sahara to win its independence after World War II?
Ghana
Guinea
South Africa
Tunisia
T 11.2 - Page 548
The genocide in Rwanda resulted from a long conflict between
an ethnic majority and an ethnic minority.
Christians and Muslims.
supporters of the Soviet Union and supporters of the United States.
white colonists and the black majority.
T 11.3 - Page 552
The name of which group belongs in the center of this concept web?
Hutus
Kurds
Shiites
Tamils
T 11.3 - Page 552
"We came to Palestine to do away with the helplessness of the Jewish people through our own endeavors. Therefore, you will realize what it meant for us to watch from here millions of Jews being slaughtered during these years of war." - Golda Meir, speech, 1946
What is the most valid inference that can be drawn from the above statement?
Meir believed Jews could not be safe without their own country.
Meir emigrated to the Palestine Mandate after the Holocaust.
Meir wanted non-Jewish settlers to leave Israel.
Meir wanted to keep the territories Israel won from its Arab neighbors.
T 11.3 - Page 552
How would a map showing the same area between 1967 and 1979 look different?
The map would label Iran as 'Persia."
The map would show more territory under Egyptian control
The map would show more territory under Israeli control.
The map would show the mandate system still in place.
T 11.3 - Page 554
"Egypt nationalized this Egyptian company and declared freedom of navigation will be preserved. But the imperialists became angry." - Gamel Abdel Nasser
In this speech, Nasser is defending his decision to
declare independence from Britain.
end western control of the Suez Canal.
go to war with Israel.
seize control of the Egyptian government.
T 11.3 - Page 554
"Nobody could have predicted what the spark for large-scale demonstrations would be or how quickly and widely these demonstrations would spread, but the seeds of discontent were evident across the region in growing labor strikes, protests over socio-economic conditions, and public outcries over regime brutality and corruption."
According to this passage, what sparked a series of protests in the Middle East?
dissatisfaction with autocratic governments
Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
the gap between oil-rich nations and nations without oil
western influence in the culture and economy of the Middle East
T 11.4 - Page 561
What has been one major obstacle to the creation of separate Israeli and Palestinian states in the Middle East?
Both sides claim the same city as their capital.
Both sides have rejected the UN partition plan.
Neither side has been willing to sign the Oslo Accords.
Neither side will recognize the other's right to exist.
T 12.2 - Page 577
What basic citizenship right was restricted under South Africa's pass laws?
freedom of movement
freedom of speech
the right to a fair trial
the right to vote
T 12.2 - Page 578
Nonviolent protest and economic sanctions both played a key role in ending
apartheid in South Africa.
military rule in Argentina.
the caste system in India.
the Tiananmen Square massacre in China.
T 12.3 - Page 583
What impact did Deng Xiaoping's "Four Modernizations" have on China?
They increased economic ties between China and the West.
They lowered standards of living through most of China.
They replaced China's command economy with a market economy.
They tightened the grip of the Communist party over China.
T 12.3 - Page 586
Which statement accurately describes the state of the caste system in India since independence?
Dalits have made some progress in employment and education.
The constitution left the traditional caste system firmly in place.
The government has completely dismantled the caste system.
The government has passed new laws discriminating against the lower castes.
T 12.4 - Page 591
Which of the events shown on this table led to the longest violent conflict?
the first
the fourth
the second
the third
T 12.5 - Page 595
What challenge did Germany face after its reunification in 1990?
East Germans paid higher taxes to finance the rebuilding of the western part of the country.
Factory closings in the former West Germany led to widespread unemployment.
Racist groups blamed immigrants for the country's problems and attacked foreign workers.
The collapse of the Warsaw Pact threatened to destabilize the region.
T 12.5 - Page 596
What valid conclusion can you draw from this map?
Former Communist countries have been excluded from the European Union.
Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia share a common legal system.
People and goods can move freely between Bulgaria and Ireland.
Portugal and Spain share a common government.
T 12.5 - Page 597
What agreement is described in the following text?
In a jointly held referendum in Ireland and Northern Ireland on May 22, 1998 - the first all-Ireland vote since 1918 - the agreement was approved by 94 percent of voters in Ireland and 71 percent in Northern Ireland. However, the wide disparity between Catholic and Protestant support in Northern Ireland (96 percent of Catholics voted in favor of the agreement, but only 52 percent of Protestants did) indicated that efforts to resolve the sectarian conflict would be difficult.
Good Friday Agreement
Helsinki Accords
Kyoto Protocol
The Dayton Accords
T 12.5 - Page 600
Which of the cities shown on this map was the last to become a national capital?
Podgorica
Pristina
Sarajevo
Skopje
T 12.6 - Page 603
"It is the defining feature of our time. Bringing distant markets and people across the world together is a huge change that affects everyone, whether they are peasants in India, students in London, or bankers in New York." - Mike Moore, director-general of the WTO
What movement is being described in the above passage?
globalization
the computer revolution
the Green Revolution
the war on terrorism
T 12.6 - Page 606
"We are an independent, secular, non-profit organization and a global movement of people who work together to fight poverty and injustice."
The organization described in the passage above would be an example of
a multinational corporation.
a regional bloc.
an international peacekeeping force.
an NGO.
T 12.6 - Page 606
Organizations such as the WTO and the G-8 are generally opposed to
foreign investment.
globalization.
outsourcing.
protectionism.
T 12.6 - Page 606
Which of the following is most similar in type and goals to NAFTA?
Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
World Bank
World Trade Organization (WTO)
T 12.7 - Page 611
"Article 1. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. . . .
Article 3. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. . . ."
These excerpts from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights show the influence of
Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations.
Helsinki Accords.
the Declaration of Independence.
the writings of Karl Marx.
T 12.8 - Page 618
Which grouping of letters correctly matches a terrorist group from the chart's first column with the country where that terrorist group operated?
a)-e), b)-f), c)-h), d)-g)
a)-e), b)-h), c)-g), d)-f)
a)-g), b)-h), c)-e), d)-f)
a)-h), b)-e), c)-f), d)-g)
T 12.8 - Page 619
"Our response involves far more than instant retaliation and isolated strikes. Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes visible on TV and covert operations secret even in success." - President George W. Bush
The "response" mentioned in this speech was a response to what event?
the Mumbai bombings
the overthrow of the Taliban
the September 11 attacks
the Tiananmen Square massacre
T 12.9 - Page 622
Which of the following developments was the driving force behind space exploration in the 1960s?
globalization
the Cold War
the computer revolution
the founding of the United Nations
