Name:______________________World Civilization Test 4 Multiple Choice: 1 point each 1. The founding of the European Economic Community (EEC) a. initially received strong encouragement from the Soviet Union, which played a leading role until the Cold War erupted. b. established a customs union for its six member states. c. initially embraced the Benelux countries, along with Sweden and Czechoslovakia. d. was initially designed with the hope it would stabilize employment for the working classes, but this hope was soon shown to be impossible. e. was publicly opposed by the United States and the Soviet Union, both of whom threatened military action. 2. Thatcherism a. increased the benefits of the welfare state. b. restricted union power. c. increased the power of the labor unions. d. resulted in high unemployment in southern England. e. ended capitalism in Britain. 3. The policy known as Ostpolitik a. almost led to East German absorption of West Germany. b. was designed by Charles De Gaulle. c. was designed by Conrad Adenauer. d. increased cultural, personal, and economic relations between West and East Germany. e. was an attempt by East Germany to unite with West Germany. 4. Charles De Gaulle did not do which of the following things ? a. see France decrease its gross domestic product during his period of government b. create the Fifth Republic c. increase the power of the office of president d. come to power because of the Algerian crisis e. endeavor to make France a major nuclear power 5. In January, 2007, the EU again expanded as which two nations were added to its roster of members? a. Cyprus and Estonia. b. Hungary and Latvia. c. Bulgaria and Romania. d. Malta and Poland. e. Slovakia and Slovenia. 1 created a "white backlash" which aided a national trend toward greater political conservatism. he adopted a number of conservative policies. ordered the killing of four students at Ohio's Kent State University by army soldiers. e. e. All of the following are correct regarding the presidency of Bill Clinton except a. used illegal methods to obtain information from his political rivals." making civil rights a central plank in his political platform. his hostility toward Jews and Arabs proved politically fatal. 9. Bush except a. was defeated in the 2000 election. 10. d. The Reagan Revolution included all of the following except a. Al Gore. the Department of Homeland Security was established. e. he failed to obtain the release of American spies held by Communist Russia. c. b. e. All of the following are correct regarding the presidency of George W. d. Clinton claimed he was a "new Democrat. finally achieved the right to vote for all black American adults as a result of the Proclamation of 1953. he failed to obtain the release of American hostages held by radical Muslims in Iran. c. Richard Nixon a. pursued a "northern strategy. 11. 7. 8. tax reduction. received no governmental support until 1974. b." b. made minor mistakes. energized Indian and black minorities. refused to end the Vietnam War. d. d. e. his vice president. discontent with the war in Iraq reduced his popularity with the voters. the magnitude of the civil rights problem was more than he could handle in his four-year term. he raised taxes on the wealthy to balance the government budget. b. d. strong support for labor unions and war on poverty programs. he weakened environmental laws. d. but he was careful not to lie to Congress or the people. an increase in military expenditures. a white political leader from Illinois. 2 . c. who together composed 34 percent of the population. the economic crises of stagnant oil prices and deflation. c. b. he was not reelected in 1996. b. 6. c. was strongly opposed by Malcolm X. a resultant huge growth in federal budget deficits. he experienced very low approval ratings from the public. e. the government budget deficit was reduced during his administration. because of his misconduct with a White House intern. Jimmy Carter was defeated for reelection in 1980 because a. The movement for civil rights in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s a. c. a decrease in spending on social welfare programs. The Perónist government employed fascist gangs to overawe opponents. they often lacked sufficient labor to allow them to compete with foreign manufacturers. there was a growth of tourism and mass leisure. b. In 2010. Governmental corruption and ineffectiveness resulted in a military coup in 1976. c. highly technical problems fatally weakened attempts to expand Latin American industry. there was an increase in real wages for many. b. b. 15. a desire to invoke political. foreign capital costs and a welter of other. 17. social. Eva Perón opposed the women's organizations that supported the Peronistas. Terrorism is often motivated by all of the following except a. the number of people engaged in agriculture dropped significantly.12. protests against the Vietnam War. b. desire for greater involvement in the running of the university. and religious pluralism. religious commitments and beliefs. d. d. a. c. Dilma Rousseff d. e. b. Inez Batista b. 13. c. Christina Fernández de Kirchner 14. grade inflation. Michelle Bachelet e. the desire for revolutionary upheaval. Demonstrations occurred on university campuses during the 1960s for all of the following reasons except a. e. c. After decades of full or partial military rule. d. 3 . d. this person became the first woman to be elected president of Brazil. Japan refused to buy any goods from countries using import-substitution. The military regime murdered perhaps 6. All of the following are correct about the consumer society except a. the number of blue collar workers increased after the 1960s. e. installment plan buying increased. domestic markets were too small and countries were unable to find enough foreign buyers. c. desires for political retribution.000 leftists in 1976. irrelevant educational requirements. Eva Perón c. 16. e. e. The substitution of traditional imports by increasing domestic industrial production in Latin America began to fail in the 1960s because a. United States firms effectively stifled attempts to establish industry in Latin America. democracy began again with the election of Raúl Alfonsín in 1983. Which of the following was not true about Argentina? a. nationalistic desires aimed at creating new states. d. overcrowded classrooms and uncaring professors and administrators. cocoa. peanuts. 20. little opportunity for the native population to obtain professional or managerial positions. says that African blackness has a humanistic. the Three Gorges. c. Paris. Chernobyl. cotton. Moscow. d. The city that became the art capital of the world after World War II was a. a. b. was a defensive response rejecting views of Western racial superiority. a mixed heritage of imperialism. All of the following were results of European colonialism in Africa except a. Robert Oppenheimer. believes that all persons of African heritage should return to their motherland. the spread of Islam. Agra. c. b. The two writers who were closely associated with existentialism were a. c. e. is believed to provide a common sense of destiny for all black Africans. e. Alan Turing and J. Samuel Beckett and Timothy Leary. d. Samarkand. coffee. c. b. palm oil. assumes that there is a distinctive African personality. e. d. E. Schumacher and Bob Dylan. the primary export crop of Egypt and Uganda was a. New York. The Pan-African belief in a distinctive "African personality" included all of the following except it a. a native wage scale that was inferior to that of the Europeans. Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. F. Tokyo. emotional nature that is different from that of Western materialism. 21. 4 . During the colonial period.18. London. Aswan. a nuclear disaster which occurred in this place served to enhance European awareness of environmental problems. 23. the restriction of Africans to unskilled or semi-skilled jobs. b. d. c. c. Jackson Pollock and Simone de Beauvoir. In 1986. b. 19. d. e. b. d. 22. e. e. b. it was initially aimed at achieving full equality for the educated native population through peaceful means. 26. F. c. A stabilizing factor in this African nation is an unwritten agreement that allows Christians and Muslims to alternate terms in holding the presidency. Sékou Touré and Mangosuthu Buthelezi. In the mid-1970s. b. and twenty percent of the people are squatters. Angola. its policies became more prone to the use of violence to achieve its goals. d. these two African nations adopted a Soviet-style Marxist government: a. The East African term for the people who have achieved a high level of financial success is a. b. unemployment is stagnant at around forty percent. Milton Obote and Menachim Begin. dash. its policies met with cooperative reactions from the white majority who held power. e. Francis Malan and Jomo Kenyatta. d. e. Mali. Angola and Ethiopia. d. The following are true of the African National Congress except a. its original goal was to achieve economic and political reforms "within the system.. Nigeria and Chad. e. 5 . de Klerk and Nelson Mandela." 25. d. chai. c. e. chronically poor soil. The two leaders who ended the apartheid regime without major bloodshed in South Africa were a. in time. e. Nigeria. Chad. hokees. bonsella. Somalia and Tanzania. d.J. Gabon and Cameroon. 27. b. Surhoff and Thabo Mbeki. constant tensions exist between farmers and pastoralists. wabenzi. c. All of the following are problems faced by the capitalist government of Kenya except a. c. 29. landlessness is high. b. Mali and Eritrea. c. Somalia. b. 28. the rate of population growth is among the highest in the world. P. a. it was originally led by Western-inclined intellectuals who had little popular support.24. d. c.W. e. d. c. c. received United States support from President Franklin Roosevelt. The majority of the terrorists who carried out the 11 September 2001 attack on the United States were from a. d. was made more palatable for Arabs by Israeli support for an Arab Palestinian state. the Eisenhower administration secured control of the canal for the Europeans by sending in a United States occupation force. Iran. An Arab blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba was broken.30. the nation was composed of many political parties having diverse interests. African culture has adapted to serve the tourist industry and the export market in the areas of a. novels and poetry written in local languages. 31. e. b. publication. and the Israelis. the Soviet Union attacked Afghanistan. which of the following is not true? a. the Knesset used the American electoral system. As a result of Nasser's nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956. resulted in war between Israel and its Christian neighbors. Iraq. The formal establishment of the new state of Israel in May 1948 a. Israeli forces seized control of the West Bank of the Jordan River. All Palestinians were driven from Israeli-held territory. the French. b. e. painting. e. 35. b. Egypt was attacked by the British. b. resulted in Arab denial of Israel's recognition. the Israelis supported Egypt in revenge for the holocaust. b. d. the Israelis retained perpetual control of the Sinai Peninsula. led to a tentative peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors. high grade steel manufacturing and export. e. In the Six Day War of June. tripling the Onitsha Market pamphlets for tourists since 1994. and sculpture. b. All Israeli governments have been composed of coalitions of several political parties because a. Afghanistan. e. 6 . wood carving. of the diverse population and large area of the country. c. e. a complete disinterest in politics by most Israelis. a. 34. 33. 1967. Jordan. c. 32. d. The Golan Heights were taken from Syria. The city of Jerusalem was occupied. c. the nation was composed of two sharply divided political parties. c. Saudi Arabia. d. pottery and steel fabrication in Axum. d. Since 1979. which had regimes actively working to modernize their societies. have never had any political rights in Iran. 7 . Ronald Reagan's election as the United States president. in part because of a. d. b. c. have made perhaps the greatest advances in Saudi Arabia. c. have had few if any political rights in Israel. Bashar al-Assad. Egypt and Syria. Israeli's policy of establishing Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank territories. a. the 1981 assassination of Sadat by Jewish militants. The two Muslim states in the Middle East that gave greater rights to women before 1980 were a. experienced great changes in their lives before 1970. Mohammad Khatami. The hopes for a lasting Middle East peace after Camp David were never realized. Mahmoud Abbas. c. b. Israel and Jordan. c. b. Kazakhstan and Burundi. 38. d. Iraq has invaded both a. Turkey and Iran. e. the refusal of many non-Islamic states to recognize Israel's right to exist. d. d. During the first decades of the twentieth century. in countries such as Saudi Arabia and Oman. the Sudan and Yemen. 37. Kuwait and Afghanistan. Jordan and the Sudan.36. the death of King Faisal. women in the Middle East a. Sadeq Hedayat. Iran and Afghanistan. this radical issued a statement publically calling for the destruction of the state of Israel. e. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. b. were aided by the "modernist" movement's efforts to change female statuses and roles by interpreting Islamic views in a manner closer to those prevailing in the West. b. where women now have unlimited access to university education and may adopt Western dress. c. Kuwait and Iran. e. Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. e. e. 39. d. Following his election to the presidency of Iran in 2005. 40. barred only two groups. The apparent motivation for the assassination of Gandhi was that Gandhi a. e. was staunchly anti-Hindu. India's greatest economic weakness was in a. The controversial Indian writer who uses the technique of magical realism and who has angered Moslems is a. e. V. industrial production. was against creating a strictly Hindu India. competition over internal development of the nation's natural resources. from voting. c. In the aftermath of independence. didn't want to see the Muslims get what they wanted. 8 . c. as Nehru was an admirer of the United States constitution. had a powerful president. In 1971. Kampuchea. c. d. The new Indian government in 1947 a. Belize. Salmon Rushdie. both b and c 45. c. was caused by a. K. allowed for only one political party. with a figurehead president and a parliamentary form. Sikhs and harijans. R. Forster. many years of international warfare between the two regions. d. e. b. and ethnic tradition. Narayan. 43. Naipaul. Bangladesh. agriculture. b. favored Indian partition. The conflict that developed between East and West Pakistan. c. too much Western investment. e. Sri Lanka. c. d. was discovered to be a secret Sikh. S. e. 42.41. the Congress Party. d. e. consumer products. the demand of the people of East Pakistan to establish an independent Marxist state. b. b. d. 46. differences in language. E. b. history. and eventually led to the establishment of the state of Bangladesh. was based on the British system. d. Myanmar. M. a declining birthrate. 44. Anita Desai. b. East Pakistan became the new independent nation of a. was based on that of the Soviet Union. d. Thailand." 9 . e. TIPAM. Kenzaburo Oe a. Pakistan and Myanmar. Malaysia. SEATO. Liberal Democratic Party. c. painted the famous "portrait of General MacArthur" in eight minutes on a sidewalk. received a Nobel Prize for literature. CENTO. Socialist Party. c. large companies that maintain relationships in a more informal manner than the zaibatsu. b. e. systems of totally independent corporate entities. b. Singapore. e. b. e. 50. and the Philippines is known as a. d. During the 1980s and 1990s. Greater East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." e. respectively. is Japan's greatest living poet. People's Action Party. c.47. c. b. 52. monopoly arrangements. d. 51. d. Party of the Republic. NATO. Asian Miracle. Midway Millennium. is the originator of the "industrial novel. believes rising materialism in present-day Japan represents "progress. were a. Social Democratic Party. The regional organization initially formed by Indonesia. Burma and Indonesia. India and Sri Lanka. Laos and Burma. The countries which attained their independence from Britain in 1948 and from the Netherlands in 1950. The keiretsu are a. Fifth Reich. d. 49. formalized cartel arrangements. ASEAN. newly reconstituted. c. c. that of the a. e. there was a great deal of talk that the achievements of Japan and the "little tigers" indicated that the world was about to enter a new historical phase. Age of the Toyota. b. 48. The customary "government party" in Japan between the 1950s and 1993 was the a. Malaysia and New Zealand. Meiji-oriented systems of corporate dependencies. d. b. South Korea. an astute political leadership that gave the highest priority to political democracy. e. d. and the United States formed a trade compact. 1997? a. the adoption of neo-Marxist policies.53. e. the People's Republican Government ended Hong Kong's capitalist system. Taiwan voted to form an independent republic. the British were to leave in 1997. c. government encouragement of population growth. 54. Taegu. A military coup brought down the government of Singapore. 55. Communist Chinese support. but is now an independent state. Burma. d. Cobola. c. direct state control of the economic sector. The "little tiger" that was once a British crown colony. b. a. unrestrained. 58. Hong Kong. Hong Kong's economic development has taken place in a system employing a. 57. c. Taiwan. after British rule ended. 56. a "modernizing elite" with an economic vision and practicality. d. regardless of the welfare of the Hong Kong population. Migheo. Which of the following happened on July 1. policies that encouraged imports. c. b. Singapore. is a. b. c. b. Australia. 10 . the Chinese agreed to permit a half-century of largely self-governing capitalism in Hong Kong. free-market capitalism. b. Chaebol. the true nature of Hong Kong autonomy after the British left was not discussed. d. New Zealand. a socialist economic philosophy. e. e. b. e. e. c. d. d. Unlike the other economies of East Asia. Hong Kong returned to mainland authority. Which Korean term is equivalent to the Japanese term zaibatsu? a. Pusana. According to the agreement between Great Britain and the People's Republic of China. Hong Kong was recognized as an independent nation by the People's Republic of China. Mao Zedong died. The rapid economic development of the "little tigers" can be attributed to a. massive British foreign aid programs. The country that suffered a domestic holocaust at the hands of the Khmer Rouge is ____________. the concepts of Western democratic pluralism have been encouraged. hard work. 63. The leader of the successful revolution in Cuba in December 1958 was _____________.59. Naguib Mahfouz f. 66. Syria g. e. Ethnic Cleansing h. The first prime minister of India was _______________. the Soviet concept of a centralized socialist society has been favored. 64. The term _____________ is associated with the tragedy which occurred in Bosnia. Which of the following has not been a factor in the development of the Singapore economy? a. 62. c. a highly favorable climate for multinational corporations e. b. 11 . 60. Kwame Nkrumah i. Japanese Miracle d. Cambodia j. a massive program of public works projects c. Jawaharlal Nehru 61. a. a democratic government Choose from the following list to answer 61-70 2 points a. oil refineries and a well-developed banking center d. and an obedience to authority were the tenets of state policy. Fidel Castro c. Egypt merged with _____________ to form the United Arab Republic. during the breakup of Yugoslavia. an unexpected attempt to foster individualism was made. thrift. d. David Cameron b. For a brief period between 1958 and 1961. the first formal political party in black Africa. _______________ led the Convention People's Party. the Chinese population was exiled back to the People's Republic of China. Under the regime of Lee Kuan-yew. 65. Chechnya e. the oversight of Lee Kuan-yew b. The ________________ had its roots in the initial policy decisions made during the Meiji reform period. the thirteen-year rule of Britain's Labour Party came to an end as ______________ became Prime Minister. I will not accept one or two word answers." Discuss. reduced the republic's capital of Grozny to ruins. "Margaret Thatcher was the most significant British Prime Minister in the last half of the twentieth century. 69. 5 points each 1. if any. the answers need to be no less than a paragraph but if you answer correctly your answer should be more than a paragraph. How did colonialism end in Southeast Asia? Why not earlier? Why did it occur earlier in some places than in others? Give examples. what are the present responsibilities. 68. a breakaway Russian state. that the former imperialist European nations owe to Africa? 3. pro and con. 70.67. In 2000. How did the rise of independent states affect the lives and role of women in African societies? How does that role compare with the role played by women in other parts of the contemporary world? 4. The Egyptian novelist who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988 was _______________. Fifty years after independence. 12 . fighting in ____________. 2. In 2010. Essay Questions: Please answer completely and use information from your reading to support your answer. These are essay questions.