AP World Sem 2 Final

The DeBeers Diamond company was owned by this man, a prominent advocate for British exploration and colonization of the African continent.

Cecil Rhodes

________ was the primary fossil fuel used during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Coal

Which country was able to defeat the Ottomans in 1821 after 400 years of being in the Ottoman Empire?

Greece

By the 18th Century which was Britain's most valuable colony

India

While the Byzantine Empire was ___________, the Ottoman Turks had adopted ________ as their faith.

Christian, Islam

After the British victory in the Opium War, the British seized control of this Asian port.

Hong Kong

After the _______ mutiny of 1857, British authorities instituted harsh measures against any Indian resistance to British dominance.

Sepoy

Inequalities such as those from minority religions being required to pay extra taxes and forced military service were imposed on:

non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire

The first European power to establish settlements on the island of Sri Lanka, also known as Ceylon, was:

Portugal

Rebellions by Arabic-speaking populations lead to Egypt breaking from _________ control in 1882, only to end up being occupied by ________ forces.

Ottoman, British

Which was the only African country to remain independent by 1900?

Ethiopia

The French colony of Indochina was best known for trees that produced the sap used to make this valuable industrial material.

Rubber

In the early 20th century, persecution of minority groups like the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks from their government came as a result of:

the Ottoman Empire dissolving

British supremacy in North America was established following the end of what?

French and Indian War

Which was not a function of the British East India Company and the Dutch East India Company:

To exclude private investors from funding the companies

This man served in the Russian Duma during the last years of Tsar Nicholas II, and acted as head of the Provisional Government from March of 1917 to October of 1917.

Alexander Kerensky

Which of the following was a work of literature based on real-life experiences of a WWI veteran of the trenches?

All Quiet on the Western Front

In the late summer of 1914, the German military strategy to invade France through Belgium and capture Paris was known as the:

Schlieffen Plan

Otto Dix was best known for his contributions in the field of:

Post-WWI realist art

While the Russian communists were referred to as the "Reds" in the Russian Civil War, their opponents were known as the:

Whites

________ is the process by which a standing monarch voluntarily renounces his position of authority.

Abdication

The political ideology of Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco was known as:

Fascism

Gulags were established as:

Prison camps in Siberia for political dissidents during the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin

This city in Bosnia controlled by Austria-Hungary in 1914 was the site of the assassination that sparked WWI.

Sarajevo

How did Hitler's life end?

He committed suicide in his Berlin bunker as the Soviet army approached the city

________ fled the Soviet Union after Lenin's death and was assassinated in Mexico City.

Leon Trotsky

This Native American tribe used its language to transmit sensitive US military codes during WWII:

Navajo

In July of 1948, Truman signed Executive Order 9981, which:

Ended racial segregation in the armed services

The Ukrainian term ________ refers to the famine-genocide under Stalin.

Holodomor

This Chinese military leader fled to Taiwan after the communists won mainland China.

Chiang Kai Shek

All of the following battles were fought on the Western Front during WWI EXCEPT the:

Battle of Tannenberg

The American effort to develop a nuclear weapon during WWII was called the:

Manhattan Project

This small nation fended off a Soviet attack in 1939-40 with sniper defenses during winter.

Finland

At the 1945 ________, Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met to discuss postwar Europe.

Yalta Conference

The plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945 was called the:

Enola Gay

In 1993, this Eastern Bloc nation voted for a "Velvet Divorce" that split it into two.

Czechoslovakia

_________ was the last French fortress in Indochina, which fell in 1954.

Dien Bien Phu

In 1991, Iraq under Saddam Hussein invaded which neighboring nation?

Kuwait

The ________ were the anti-colonial group that evolved into the Vietcong.

Vietcong

This Eastern bloc nation saw the execution of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989.

Romania

Following NATO's creation, the Soviet Union created this military alliance.

Warsaw Pact

This US-backed Cuban leader was ousted by Fidel Castro in 1959.

Fulgencio Batista

This Arabic term meaning "disaster" refers to the Palestinian refugee crisis of 1948.

Nakba

_________ was the term for the movement to establish a Jewish homeland.

Zionism

In 1972, Nixon made what radical change in US foreign policy?

Opened trade with China

This Indian politician was assassinated in 1991 after investing in education and science.

Rajiv Gandhi

During the Yugoslav Wars, this leader was accused of war crimes.

Slobodan Milosevic

Which region of the world was dominated by France in the 19th-20th centuries?

North Africa

This Yugoslavian leader split from Soviet control in 1954.

Josip Broz Tito

The Dandi March was instigated by Gandhi after what British action?

A tax on salt

Operation Ajax in 1953 was a joint UK-US operation in Iran that:

Ousted Prime Minister Mossadegh

This Irish revolutionary evaded execution after the 1916 Easter Rising.

Eamon de Valera

The key principle of the Truman Doctrine was:

Containment

___________ was the Hungarian leader executed after protests against Soviet domination.

Imre Nagy

The Mau Mau Uprising took place in which British colony?

Kenya

The Zapatista uprising in Chiapas happened because of:

farmers were angry about cheap US corn crops flooding Mexican markets

The economic reforms called "Four Modernizations" took place in:

China

This Guatemalan indigenous rights activist fought corruption and poverty.

Rigoberta Menchu

The Green Revolution refers to:

Mechanized agriculture and population growth in developing countries

The main function of NAFTA is:

ending tariffs between the US, Canada, and Mexico

An unsustainable agricultural practice that depletes soil is:

Planting Monoculture crops

Deliberately mating animals for traits is known as:

Animal husbandry

A controversial issue with the World Bank/IMF is:

borrowing money

Using lab methods to develop resistant plant/animal breeds is:

Scientific horticulture

The study of health, disease, and mortality over time is called:

Epidemiology

Match leaders to countries: Syngman Rhee → South Korea, Deng Xiaoping → China, Francisco Franco → Spain, Robert Mugabe → Zimbabwe

Stage Three societies that replaced farm labor with mechanized industry are called:

Newly Industrialized Countries

Training and containing animals over time is called:

Animal domestication

The Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 was when:

the army fired on student protestors who were demanding more social and political liberties

The root cause of Sectarian violence is:

Violence between different ethnic and/or religious groups

Group that lived under Argentina's dictatorship and seeks justice:

Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

Model used to chart stages of development of societies:

The Demographic Transition Model

Match nations to activist groups: Argentina → Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Mexico → Zapatistas, Vietnam → Ho Chi Minh, South Africa → African National Congress

Watching movies, social media, internet use is part of:

Popular culture

________ was an American anarchist known for bombing campaigns in the 1970s-1990s.

Ted Kaczynski