World History B MV Exam

The following is a predominantly Islamic ethnic group of northern Nigeria and nearby regions

Hausa.

The following is a mineral-rich region of southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that attempted to secede

Katanga.

The following name was given to market-oriented reforms initiated in Vietnam in 1986

Doi moi.

Prior to independence, Nigeria was ruled as a colony of

Britain.

The following is the name of the secessionist state in southeastern Nigeria that existed from 1967 to 1970

Biafra.

Prior to independence, the Congo was ruled as a colony of

Belgium

After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Vietnam became ruled by the following type of government

Communist

The following region has been in dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947

Kashmir.

The killing of dozens of unarmed protesters by South African police in 1960 took place in the following city

Sharpeville

Steve Biko can best be described as

An anti-apartheid activist in South Africa

The South African election that resulted allowed Afrikaner nationalists to quickly push apartheid legislation took place in the following year

1948.

F. W. de Klerk can best be described as

An Afrikaner who worked to end apartheid

The 1976 protest movement started by schoolchildren that led to the killings of hundreds of young black South Africans took place in

Soweto.

Umkhonto we Sizwe can best be described as

A paramilitary group

The South African trial in which major leaders of anti-apartheid groups were charged and convicted took place in

Rivonia

Territory set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa as part of the policy of apartheid was known as

Bantustans.

The following statement best reflects the U.S. position during the Iran-Iraq War

The U.S. provided considerable military and financial support to Iraq.

The Ayatollah Khomeini led a revolution in the following country

Iran.

During the Persian Gulf War, Iraq launch missile strikes against the following two countries

Israel and Saudi Arabia.

SAVAK can best be described as follows

A repressive secret police and security service.

A person who believes traditional religious laws should be followed very strictly would be considered

A fundamentalist.

A country ruled by religious authorities would be considered

A theocracy

In 1990 Iran launched an invasion of the following country

Kuwait.

The Islamic fundamentalist political movement that emerged in the 1990s in Afghanistan was known as

Taliban.

In 2000 al-Qaeda operatives attacked the following target

A U.S. Navy ship.

In 2000 American officials disrupted an al-Qaeda plot to attack the following target

Los Angeles International Airport.

All of the below were goals of the American War on Terror EXCEPT the following statement

Gain territory for the United States and its allies

Al-Qaeda got its start as fighters in

Afghanistan

The following statement best reflects the nationalities of people killed in the 9/11 attacks

Citizens from over 90 countries were killed in the attacks.

Osama bin Laden was originally from the following country

Saudi Arabia.

In 1998 al-Qaeda launched attacks against U.S. embassies in Tanzania and

Kenya.

The following statement best reflect the military actions of the U.S. and its allies after the events of 9/11

Afghanistan was invaded first.

Which of the following nations was NOT an original member of NATO?

Poland.

An area over which aircraft may not fly without risk of interception is known as:

A no-fly zone.

The following statement best reflects the effects of the Berlin Airlift:

considerably more cargo than previously transported into the city by rail.

A person who has left a country in order to settle in another, usually for political reasons, is best described as:

An émigré.

An act of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving is best described as:

A blockade.

Which of the following nations did NOT occupy a sector of Berlin after World War II?

Belgium.

Radio Free Europe was primarily funded by:

United States

A war where a small group uses unconventional tactics to fight a larger traditional military is known as:

A guerilla war.

The country that invaded East Timor in 1975 was:

Indonesia.

The Bay of Pigs Invasion can best be described as:

An attempt to topple a government led by US-trained exiles.

Suharto's political views could best be described as follows:

Strongly anti-communist.

The following term best describes withdrawal from a colony by a colonial power:

Decolonization.

The last name of the dictator overthrown in the Cuban Revolution was:

Batista

As prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh was extremely critical of:

Agreements with British oil companies.

The first president of Indonesia

Sukarno

The lengthy air campaign waged against North Vietnam by the United States that began in 1965 was called:

Operation Rolling Thunder.

The Korean War started when:

North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel.

The politics of Syngman Rhee can best be described as:

Strongly anti-communist.

An agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a period of time is known as:

An armistice.

A state of being deprived of the right to vote is known as

Disenfranchisement

A vote by the electorate on a single political question referred to them for a direct decision is known as

A referendum

The following statement best reflects the religious affiliation of Ngo Dinh Diem:

He was a Roman Catholic

A drop in the price of the following commodity especially weakened the Soviet economy in the 1980s:

Oil

The Soviet policy of more open government and wider access to information launched by Mikhail Gorbachev was known as

Glasnost

The country where Pope John Paul II was born is:

Poland

The last name of the next Soviet general secretary after the death of Stalin was:

Khrushchev.

The following statement best reflects the economy during the Brezhnev era of Soviet history:

This was a period of economic stagnation.

For most of the 1980s the Soviet Union was bogged down in a war in the following country:

Afghanistan.

The last name of the Soviet general secretary most closely associated with the period of détente was:

Brezhnev.

The policy of restructuring the Soviet economic and political systems launched by Mikhail Gorbachev was known as:

Perestroika.

Lenin's effective slogan during the Bolshevik Revolution was

"Peace, Bread, and Land."

An economic system in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined by a central government is known as`

A command economy.

The failed coup d'etat led by a Russian general in mid-1917 was called

The Kornilov Revolt.

The more radical faction of the Social Democratic Party in Russia that became the Communist Party after the revolution was known as

The Bolsheviks.

The attempt by Lenin to jump-start the Soviet economy after the Russian Civil War was called

The New Economic Policy.

The Russian term for the system of prison labor camps maintained in the former Soviet Union from 1930-55 was

Gulag.

The wandering Russian mystic who came into the royal household and became a close adviser of the Tsar was named

Grigori Rasputin.

The period of chaos in the mid-1930s resulting in the deaths and imprisonments of millions of Soviet citizens accused of being threats to the party was called

The Great Purge.

The following term describes strong hostility toward a person, group, or country

Animosity.

The American initiative to aid Europe after the Second World War was known as

The Marshall Plan.

The following term describes a neutral region separating hostile forces or nations

Buffer zone.

The Cold War policy of the United States to prevent the spread of communism beyond its then-current boundaries was known as

Containment

The following wartime conference saw serious disagreement by Allied leaders, foreshadowing the conflict that would become known as the Cold War

Potsdam Conference

A treaty in which the signatories agree not to attack each other is known as

A non-aggression pact.

The use of the term "Iron Curtain" is most closely associated with the following political leader

Winston Churchill.

Allied access to the following European city became the basis for a serious conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1948

Berlin

A country that is formally independent but under heavy political, economic and military influence from another country is called a

A satellite state.

The following person was the the nationalist-minded leader of the Vietnamese communists who led the independence movement for Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh.

The Kuomintang was founded by

Sun Yat-sen

The following failed economic plan of Mao Zedong contributed to the deaths of millions of Chinese citizens

The Great Leap Forward.

A government appointed by and whose affairs are directed by an outside authority is sometimes called

A puppet government

The island of Taiwan is best known today as

The Republic of China.

The struggling post-WWII Japanese economy greatly benefited from spending during the following regional war

The Korean War.

The war between the newly formed State of Israel and a military coalition of Arab states

The Arab-Israeli War.

The war fought in 1967 between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria was known as

The Six-Day War.

The Hebrew term for Jews making the journey to relocate in Israel is

Aliyah.

The Israeli, British and French effort to overthrow the rule of Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt led to the

The Suez Crisis

The radical Palestinian organization founded in 1987 in opposition to the moderate policies of the PLO is known as

Hamas

The following term refers to Jewish residents in Palestine before the establishment of the State of Israel

Yishuv.

The following term refers to the traditional system of religious law developed by Muslim scholars

Shari'a.

The major Palestinian political party closely associated with the PLO is known as

Fatah

The invasion of China by the following foreign power interrupted the Chinese Civil War

Japan

This war front in WWI was most known for its well-developed trench systems

Western Front.

An agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a period of time is known as

An armistice.

The following treaty officially ended the First World War

Treaty of Versailles

The assassination of the following European political leader sparked the First World War

Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Which of the following was NOT discussed as a major long-term cause of World War One?

Industrialization.

The French fortress that was the site of a major offensive by Germany in 1916

Verdun.