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Which of the following helped to discredit early 20th century notions of race?
The horrors of the Nazi regime
What effect did the Bretton Woods system have on globalization after World War II?
It established rules for commercial and financial dealings among major capitalist countries.
Which of the following resulted from the advent of the moving assembly line?
Workers lost control over the pace of their work.
Which of the following was a product of industrialization?
Education became the job of the state
Beginning in the 1960s, which of the following was identified as a key issue in Western feminism by women of color?
Ending racism and poverty
Which of the following was the first step in the end of the communist era?
The death of Mao Zedong in China
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
Which of the following describes a major change in international relations in the 1980s and 1990s?
The reduction of confrontations between communist and noncommunist countries
Which of the following resulted from Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor?
The wars in Asia and Europe merged into a single global war.
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
In the nineteenth century, which group in the Ottoman Empire advocated a program of radical secularization and modernization along European lines?
Young Turks
What was a result of the reform program launched by the Japanese leadership in the late nineteenth century?
A radical transformation of the social structure of Japan
Which of the following was a consequence of nineteenth-century European imperialism on colonized societies?
The integration of colonial economies into a global network of exchange centered in Europe
Most of the European capital invested in Latin America was used to finance which of the following?
Railroads
Which of the following is true of the women's movement by the early 1900s?
In the most industrialized countries of the West, it had become a mass movement.
Which of the following was an effect of the Haitian Revolution throughout the Atlantic world?
Slave owners and whites were filled with a deep caution and fear.
Why have the Atlantic revolutions been described as democratic revolutions?
Their overall thrust was to extend political rights further than ever before.
Which of the following marked a major turning point in the relationship between China and Christian missionaries?
The pope's claim of authority over Chinese Christians
Which of the following is an example of how Mughal India handled religious differences in the early modern era?
Akbar formulated a state cult that combined elements of Islam, Hinduism, and Zoroastrianism.
Which of the following is a principle or practice upheld in Sikhism?
Equality of men and women
Which of the following characterizes how European countries sought to control trade in Asia from 1450 to 1750?
By force of arms and conquest
Which of the following was a reason that Portugal, Spain, France, and Britain were the first to expand into the New World?
They were on the Atlantic coast and were closer to the Americas.
Which of the following is an example of the Mongol rulers' policy toward people in the conquered territories?
Chinese and Muslim officials were allowed to hold advisory positions in government.
What happened to the Mongols in Persia in the fourteenth century?
The Mongols assimilated into Persian society.
Which of the following was a long-term effect of the Black Death on European society?
Labor shortages that weakened serfdom
Which of the following was a European colonial view that shaped the development of African identity in the nineteenth century?
The notion of an Africa divided into tribes
Which of the following highlights the relationship between imperialism and nationalism?
Colonies as symbols of "Great Power" status
Which of the following was a way in which the Mongols contributed to the globalization of the Eurasian world
In providing a secure environment for traders, they facilitated long-distance international commerce.
How did many Native Americans in Mesoamerica and Peru respond to Spanish missionaries' efforts to convert them to Catholicism?
They blended their old customs into Catholic practices.
Which of the following was an outcome of the establishment of European empires in the Americas?
The emergence of an Atlantic world connecting four continents
Which of the following describes what happened to the native populations of the steppes and Siberia as a consequence of Russian imperial expansion?
Assimilation
How did the slave trade affect African states?
Some African states depended on revenues from the slave trade.
Which describes the role that Europeans played in the economy of the early modern era?
They were essentially middlemen funneling American silver to Asia
How did the decision by the Chinese state to require payment of taxes in silver in the 1570s affect the global economy?
The value of silver around the world skyrocketed.
In what way did nineteenth-century developments in the sciences depart from Enlightenment principles?
They emphasized conflict and struggle as the motors of progress
Which of the following was a result of the end of slavery in the Atlantic world?
New forms of dependent labor like sharecropping emerged.
Which of the following groups benefited the most from the Industrial Revolution in nineteenth-century Britain?
The middle classes
Which group in the United States in the early twentieth century supported reforms to improve working conditions and called for greater governmental intervention in the economy?
The Progressives
Which of the following describes a feature of Karl Marx's vision of the society he predicted would emerge after the collapse of capitalism?
A society without classes and conflict
In what respect were Ethiopia's and Siam's (Thailand) encounters with European imperialism in the long nineteenth century similar?
Both avoided the colonization to which their neighbors succumbed.
How did Charles Darwin's ideas on evolution influence Western imperialism?
They were used to justify the displacement or destruction of "weak" races.
Which of the following reflects the effect of colonial rule in Africa on the lives of women?
Women of impoverished families became heads of household in the absence of men.
What was the significance of the opium trade in China in the nineteenth century?
It reversed the trade imbalance in favor of Britain.
Which of the following was a more prominent feature of World War II than World War I?
The blurring of the line between civilian and military targets
Which of the following did Japan, Italy, and Germany share in the 1930s?
Aggressive ambition for conquest and empire building
Which of the following represents a response among many Latin American countries to the global repercussions of the Great Depression?
Import substitution industrialization
Which of the following best supports the argument that colonialism was responsible for the lack of economic development in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East in the late twentieth century?
The tendency of former colonies to export raw materials
What did many 18th century Enlightenment thinkers and Karl Marx have in common?
Both argued that religion was doomed to extinction.
Which of the following was a distinctive feature of environmental movements in the Global South?
The involvement of poor people
During the late twentieth century, some regions within the developed world reinvented themselves as hubs for education, health care, and information technology because of which of the following?
A decline in manufacturing within those regions
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