WHAP - quarter 3 exam review

Japan's industrialization during the Meiji period and the Soviet Union's industrialization during the 1920s and 1930s had which of the following characteristics in common?

Industrialization in both countries was achieved largely through state direction rather than through private initiative.

Which of the following best explains the general increase in the living standards of industrial workers between 1800 and 1914?

The increased supply of inexpensive consumer goods

Adoption of which of the following power sources has contributed the most to increasing the energy available to humans?

Fossil Fuels

The political developments illustrated by the memoir and map contributed most directly to which of the following?

The creation of new independent states in the Middle East

Based on the memoir, it can be inferred that the Ottoman Empire's weakness was the result of which of the following developments of the nineteenth century?

Economic problems and social disorder

Which of the following best explains why Argentina exported a large volume of food in the second half of the nineteenth century, such as the exports discussed in the passage?

European countries' need to support their growing urban populations

The passage can best be used as evidence for which of the following world historical trends that took place during the period 1800-1900?

The growth of export economies specializing in agricultural goods

Which of the following best describes the cause of the sepoy mutiny alluded to in the passage?

Indians' reaction to ammunition designed for new British weapons

The passage best exemplifies which of the following?

The decline of nativist influence in the United States

Which of the following contributed the most to the growth of the movement to abolish slavery in the Atlantic world?

The adaptation of Enlightenment ideas challenging established social hierarchies

Based on Bayly's argument, Indian liberal ideas were most clearly influenced by which the following?

Enlightenment concepts of natural rights

The telegram best illustrates which of the following continuities in the first half of the twentieth century?

State efforts aimed at the destruction of specific populations

Ideas such as those expressed in Source 2 would have been most readily endorsed by adherents of which of the following?

Anti-Imperialism

According to Source 1, Kipling was promoting an approach to colonization that most clearly reflected the principles of

Social Darwanism

The sentiments expressed in Source 1 best illustrate which of the following aspects of European imperialism?

Its use in providing a rationale for the creation of empires through colonization of foreign lands

Which of the following best explains the overall political trend in China described in the passage?

The internal challenges to the Qing as a result of existing external pressures

Based on the map and our knowledge of world history, it could be inferred that Germany's challenges to Europe's existing political order were a result of which of the following processes?

Governments using industrial processes to foster military modernization.

Which of the following best explains the changes in the territorial boundaries in Western Europe from 1914 to 1918?

The development of total war policies by European governments

Which of the following best describes how nineteenth-century European industrialization affected European women's lives?

Married women found in increasingly difficult to balance wage work and family responsibilities.

Which of the following best explains the overall political trend in China described in the passage?

The internal challenges to the Qing as a result of existing external pressures

The passages can best be used as evidence for which of the following world historical trends that took place during the period 1750 to 1900?

The use of economic imperialism to influence less developed states

Use the passage to answer all parts of the question that follows.

A) Japan's militarism and imperial expansion in the 1930s led to aggression in China, including the invasion of Manchuria (1931) and the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), driven by a desire for regional dominance.

B) Similarity to Nazi Germany: Like Nazi Germany, Japan committed mass killings and war crimes against civilians, justified by racist ideologies. The Nanking Massacre mirrors Nazi atrocities, such as the Holocaust and brutal occupation of Eastern Europe.

C) Chang's Point of View: The title suggests the Rape of Nanking is an overlooked atrocity, comparing it to the Holocaust to emphasize its scale and brutality.

Hitler's goals were most clearly advanced by which of the following developments of the twentieth century?

New technology and tactics for conducting war

Which of the following best describes the cause of the sentiments described in the passage?

German's nationalist reaction to the peace settlement after World War I

Based on the telegrams, the start of "the most terrible war [Europe] has ever seen" was most directly a result of which of the following?

The influence of Europe's flawed alliance system intensified by nationalist feelings

Which of the following best describes the strategy used in the European war that began shortly after the exchange of telegrams between Czar Nicholas and Kaiser Wilhelm?

Total warfare

All the following contributed to the rise of industrialization in western Europe and North America during the nineteenth century EXCEPT

increased rights for laborers

The passage is best seen as evidence for which of the following?

The lasting impacts of the Mexican Revolution's political goals

The developments relating to migration described in the passage contributed most directly to which of the following?

The establishment of ethnic enclaves in urban areas

Which of the following was the main factor leading to the fall of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate and the rise of the Meiji government?

Pressure from Western powers

A) Identify and explain ONE way in which a government consolidated its power during the period 1750-1900.

B) Identify and explain ONE way in which consolidation of government power was challenged between 1750-1900.

C) Identify and explain ONE major continuity of state formation from the period 1450-1750.

A) The Meiji Restoration of 1868 centralized power by abolishing the feudal system, in place of samurai, a national army was formed, and the economy and government were reformed on the basis of Western models. This consolidated state power and created a centralized industrialized Japan.

B) The Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) of China challenged Qing control as rebels, led by Hong Xiuquan, demanded land and social reforms. The rebellion weakened the Qing government, leading it to rely on local warlords and reducing central control.

C) Most states used bureaucracy to exercise control. The devshirme system and hierarchical bureaucracy were used by the Ottoman Empire to govern its multicultural population, as were other empires like Ming China and absolutist France.

Which of the following groups in late-nineteenth-century Egypt would have been most likely to support the author's ideas expressed in the letter?

Urban middle class

Most world historians would agree that the key to European predominance in the world economy during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was

the Industrial Revolution

The conditions described in the passage most directly reflect which of the following changes?

The expansion of European empires during the Scramble for Africa

The "taking over" described in the passage is best seen as an example of which of the following?

The acquisition of direct imperial control over non-state entities