WWII, Cold War, And Modern History Question Preview (ID: 59416)

a) Mao overthrew the Nationalist Party and took control of mainland China

b) Gorbachev allowed Poland, Hungary, Romania, and East Germany to rule themselves more independently

c) Perestroika led to increased fear of talking openly amongst the Soviet people

d) Golda Meir gained the Prime Minister position in Israel

a) increase the importation of British goods into India

b) lead non-violent protest such as sit-ins, marches, and hunger strikes

c) supported religious tolerance between Hindus and Muslims

d) increased the acceptance of Indians inside South Africa as equals to Europeans

a) both nations signing the SALT treaties to reduce nuclear weapons

b) a coup attempt in Russia

c) the Cuban Missile Crisis

d) the addition of more Satellite States around the USSR strengthening their Iron Curtain

a) Cuban Missile Crisis

b) Berlin Airlift and Wall

c) U-2 Incident

d) Apartheid and ANC

a) the US spent millions of dollars secretly developing the Atomic Bomb

b) Hiroshima had tens of thousands die immediately due to the destructive effects of the blast

c) Nagasaki had tens of thousands die over the next decade from Radiation Poisoning

d) the Holocaust

a) Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito

b) Wilson, Lenin, George

c) Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt

d) Mao, Lenin, Marx

a) the Liberation, Disarmament, and Democratization of Japan

b) nuke the communists in Japan

c) the invasion of Vietnam after they kept American POW's

d) the storming of beaches called Juno and Sword

a) North Vietnam eventually conquered all of Vietnam

b) the North Koreans invaded South Korea

c) the US and USSR directly fought against each other repeatedly

d) there was an increase in nuclear arms, space missions, and propaganda

a) Versailles Conference

b) Munich Conference

c) Potsdam Conference

d) Yalta Canference

a) involved the Atomic Bomb

b) allowed the Allies to push the Nazi forces back into Germany

c) was a major counter-attack victory for Germany

d) was a planned attack on the beaches of Britain

a) US refused to sale Japan oil and war goods

b) America planned to expand its territorial claims in Asia

c) Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941

d) the attack caused the US to also enter WWII in Europe because Hitler declared War on the US

a) Germany's invasion into Poland

b) the annexation of the Sudetenland

c) the expulsion of Jews from Germany

d) Kristallnacht

a) Pearl Harbor was attacked

b) the Treaty of Versailles

c) Nazis leaders were tried at the Nuremberg Trials

d) the League of Nations was formed

a) Mussolini, Hitler, and Hirohito

b) the United Nations

c) the League of Nations

d) the Fourteen Points

a) the Triple Alliance

b) the Spanish Civil War

c) the United Nations

d) NATO

a) the end of the coup against Gorbachev

b) open borders in Berlin

c) greater democracy in China

d) the end of Apartheid in South Africa

a) Apartheid led to segregation between Whites and Blacks in South Africa

b) Nelson Mandela spent over 30 years in prison but became the first African to be president of South Africa

c) Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister

d) the ANC supported violence as a way to achieve the end of Apartheid

a) to establish an Islamic state called Palestine in place of Israel

b) to support the Camp David accords

c) to establish a radical Islamic state in Iraq, Iran, and Syria

d) to unite all Arabs together

a) Canada and Mexico

b) Australia and New Zealand

c) Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda

d) nowhere because it is too barbaric for people to consider doing

a) multinational corporations

b) the War on Terror

c) NATO and the European Union

d) getting African leaders to cooperate in unity