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69 Cards in this Set
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What did Young Turks advocate? |
A militantly secular Turkish state |
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Which of the following reflects the combination of foreign and Japanese elements characteristic of Meiji reforms in the late nineteenth century? |
The Meiji constitution |
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Which of the following contributed to the contraction of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century? |
Nationalist- Inspired independence movements in Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania |
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In what ways was Japan in a better position than China or the Ottoman Empire in its encounter with Western imperialism? |
Japan was of less interest to the Western powers |
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How was the Taiping Uprising different from other peasant rebellions in China? |
Its ideology was a unique form of Christianity |
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Which of the following was an anti foreign movement that erupted in northern China at the turn of the twentieth century and seriously weakened the Qing dynasty? |
The Boxer Uprising |
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In what respect were the Qing China and the Ottoman Empire similar in the nineteenth century? |
Both were semi- colonies within the informal empires of Europe |
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Which was the only country outside Europe and North America to launch its own Industrial Revolution successfully? |
Japan |
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What was the significance of the opium trade in China in the nineteenth century? |
It reversed the trade imbalance in favor of Britain |
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Which of the following events established Japan as an economic, political, and military competitor in Asia? |
The Russo- Japanese War |
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Which of the following was a term of the Treaty of Versailles? |
Germany was to accept sole responsibility for causing WW1
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Which country was least affected by the Great Depression
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The Soviet Union
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Which of the following strained Japans relations with Western powers in the early 1940s?
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Japanese military operations in Indochina, Malaya, Indonesia, and Burma
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What happened to Europe's empires in Asia and Africa after the end of WW11?
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European empires collapsed as colonies demanded and achieved independence
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Which of the following represents a response among many Latin American countries to the global repercussions of the Great Depression? |
Import substitution industrialization |
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Which of the following resulted from Japans attack on Pearl Harbor? |
The wars in Asia and Europe merged into a single global war |
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What effect did the US Marshall Plan have on European economies? |
It promoted economic growth and widespread prosperity in Western Europe |
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Which of the following characterized Europeans and American culture in the 1920s? |
A new Consumerism |
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Which of the following committed the United States to the defense of Europe against the Soviet Union after WW11? |
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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Which of the following was a reason for the popularity of the Nazi Party once it seized power in the 1930s? |
Its success in bringing Germany out of the Great Depression |
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What was the result of the reforms instituted under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping in China in the 1980s? |
Rapid economic growth based on capitalist models |
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Which of the following contributed to the failure of Soviet reforms to strengthen socialism and revive a stagnant economy? |
The planned economy was dismantled before a functioning market- based systems could emerge |
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In contrast to Russia, the communist revolution in China |
focused on building peasant support in the countryside |
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Which of the following contributed to the outbreak of the Russian Revolution? |
The pressure of WW1 |
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Which of the following reflects aspects of the Chinese Communist Partys strategy on its revolutionary path to power? |
Land reform and guerrilla warfare |
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In what respect did the communist movements in the twentieth century depart from Marxist theory? |
They occurred in largely agrarian societies |
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Which of the following was a feature of both Soviet and Chinese reforms in the 1980s and 1990s? |
Welcoming foreign investments in joint enterprises |
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What did the Russian and Chinese revolutions share in common with the French Revolution? |
A vision of the good society in a modernizing future |
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How did the cold war affect countries emerging from colonial rule in the second half of the twentieth century? |
Both the US and the Soviet Union gave them military and economic aid in the hope of gaining their support |
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Which of the following contributed to American global influence in the decades following WW11 |
A productive economy in a country untouched by the destruction of war |
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In contrast to Indians struggle for independence in the twentieth century, black South Africans struggle for control of their country was |
waged against an internal community of permanent white settlers who controlled the country |
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In the Global South, which of the following was the standard by which people measured and granted legitimacy to their governments? |
Economic development |
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Which of the following represented a form of imperialism without territorial possessions that came under attack in the twentieth century? |
US influence in Latin America |
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Which of the following was a social or economic circumstance within the European colonies that contributed to anti colonial movements? |
The growing number of Western- educated colonial elites who no longer viewed colonial rule as a vehicle for their peoples progress |
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Which of the following represented a fundamental contradiction that undermined the colonial enterprise in the second half of the twentieth century?
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The ideal of national self-determination was at odds with the denial of independence to colonies.
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In Africa in the early 1980s, what happened to the political parties that had led the movements for independence from colonial rule?
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Most were soon swept away by military coups.
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Which of the following resulted from the so-called White Revolution of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Iran?
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Discontent and resentment that led to an Islamic revolution
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Which group of countries has been the most successful in stimulating economic growth and industrialization in the late twentieth century?
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East Asian countries
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What did all nationalist movements in Asia, Africa, and Oceania in the second half of the twentieth century share in common?
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The goal of political independence |
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Which of the following characterized Mohandas Gandhi's agenda in India's struggle for independence?
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A nostalgic return to preindustrial society composed of self-sufficient villages
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Which of the following has contributed to the environmental changes of the twentieth century?
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The explosive increase in the world population
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Which of the following characterizes the response of religious fundamentalism to global modernity?
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A selective rejection of certain aspects of modernity
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Which of the following issues was more central to women's movements in the Global South than in the industrial West?
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Economic survival |
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Which of the following is considered a success of the international women's movement?
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International recognition that women's rights are human rights
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Which of the following has been a goal of Islamic fundamentalist groups in the Muslim world since the 1970s?
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To create a distinctly Islamic modernity not dependent on Western ideas
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What do those who speak of a so-called American Empire point to in support of their opinion?
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American economic, military, and cultural influence around the world
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Which of the following reflects a response of African feminists to Western feminism in the 1970s and beyond?
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They criticized Western feminism as a form of cultural imperialism.
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Which of the following was a distinctive feature of environmental movements in the Global South?
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The involvement of poor people
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Which of the following highlights the global mobility of capital in the world since 1945?
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Foreign direct investment |
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In the permissive economic climate of recent decades, transnational corporations frequently relocate their facilities in search of
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the least restrictive environmental regulations
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Scramble for Africa |
Europeans taking over Africa in the period of New Imperialism |
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Decolonization |
freeing a country from being dependent on another country |
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah |
lawyer, politician and founder of Pakistan |
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Bolsheviks |
member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party |
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Comintern |
International communist organization that advocated world communism |
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Deng Xiaoping |
Leader of China from 1978-1989 |
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Warsaw Pact |
Military alliance of communist nations |
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Total War |
War without restrictions |
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Dependant Development |
Central concept of dependency theory |
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Boxer Rebellion |
uprising in China against western and Japanese influence |
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Difference between Russian and Chinese communism? |
Russia -1917 Laborers City Internationalism China -1921 Peasants Rural area Nationalistic |
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British views of colonialism and the colonized? |
Said people where monkeys, shape of skull mattered, weren't as advanced EXP: Propoganda posters, White mans Burden |
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3 world systems |
-1st World/ United states and allies/ Capitalism -2nd World/ Russia and eastern european communist block/ communist -3rd world/ ex colonies/ industrialize |
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Opium War? |
-China didn't want Opium, Britain does so they bring gunships -Britian wins -Treaty of Nanking, Low tariffs on british goods and dual citizen ship for britians |
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Formal and Informal Imperialism? |
Formal- territorial control/ political and economic control -EX: When Britain had control over the colonies Informal- Home country only gains economic control, only wants money |
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Socialism |
Community should regulate production, distribution and exchange |
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Communism |
property is publicly owned, each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs |
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Fascism |
Dictator, government controls everything |
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Capitalism |
Distribution of foods are determined mainly by competition in a free market |
