Question 1

The attempted coup in the Soviet Union in August 1991

 

increased the pace of the nation's disintegration.

 

put conservative forces in the nation in control of the course of events.

 

enabled Boris Yeltsin to become President of the Politburo.

 

showed that glasnost had not had any influence in the Russian republic.

 

destroyed Gorbachev's credibility once it became clear that he had organized it.

Question 2

　　　

As a result of the activities of the Red Guards, all of the following occurred except

key party and military officials moved quickly after Mao's death to eliminate them.

 

Jiang Qing and her associates were prosecuted.

 

Deng Xiaoping attained preeminent authority.

 

Mao and all his deeds were condemned by the Chinese Communist Party.

 

it was obvious to all that "The East is Red."

 

Question 3

　　　

A leading Soviet writer of the 1950s was

Vaclav Havel.

 

Gennady Zhuganov.

 

Saul Bellow.

 

Boris Pasternak.

 

Gunter Grass.

 

 

 

 

Question 4

　　　

Mikhail Gorbachev

was the well son of the head of the state oil corporation.

 

was picked for political leadership because of his record as a KGB data interpreter.

 

had moved up rapidly since his appointment to the Party Central Committee in 1978.

 

had spent many years in the gulag.

 

had supported Mao Zedong against Nikita Khrushchev.

 

 

 

 

Question 5

　　　

Mao Zedong's New Democracy

 

Question 6

　　　

After assuming control of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev's policies

　　　　

 

 

were characterized by a program of deStalinization and broader intellectual tolerance.

 

diminished the spirit of rebellion in the Soviet satellites by promising them complete independence in 1973.

 

placed less emphasis on the consumer aspects of the economy.

Question 7

　　　

In the 1990s

 

the Chinese Communist Party has worked to conciliate the rural population by increasing the political democracy in urban areas.

 

rural conditions are more problematic, as most peasants have only superficially benefitted from the post-Mao reforms, and corruption continues unchecked.

 

the Party is apparently experimenting with Confucianism and jingoistic nationalism to unite the society, and thus limiting individualism and economic expectations.

 

China's economy suffered a devastating depression.

 

China prohibited any further foreign investment.

 

Question 8

　　　

A factor that was not an element of Mikhail Gorbachev's policies was that

 

Question 9

Which of the following occurred when Nikita Khrushchev was in power?

Question 10

In the early 1970s

Ho Chi Minh was elected mayor of Saigon and, two years later, of Hong Kong.   Yuri Andropov made major changes in Soviet industrial management by giving top positions in the oil and transport industries to executives from Japan and the West.   Richard Nixon praised Mao Zedong's "mass line" system as not only effective but "as American as apple pie."   elite Soviets used blat to accumulate perquisites, distinguishing them from the general populace.   Lyndon Johnson ended the Vietnam War.

Question 11

Under the new program of the "four modernizations" that began after Deng's political rehabilitation,

Question 12   Chinese "ten thousand dollar households" were

Question 13

The purpose of the SS was to

 

Question 14

Stalin's program of forcibly collectivizing Russian agriculture

Question 15

During World War II, the Soviet Union

Question 16

The turning point on the Eastern Front was the battle of

Leningrad.   Stalingrad.   Normandy.   Warsaw.   Berlin.

 

Question 17

Which of the following was not part of Japanese expectations and war strategy?

 

Question 18

The Beer Hall Putsch of 1923

Question 20

Adolf Hitler was

Question 22

Which of the following acts by Hitler did not constitute a violation of the Versailles Treaty?

Question 23

The concept of a new "Monroe Doctrine for Asia" meant that

Question 25

The Blitzkrieg was

Question 26

The Young Turks

 

Question 27

During the first decades of the twentieth century, Japan

 

Question 28

The writings of most early Chinese authors

 

Question 29

During the 1920s

 

Question 30

A famous alliance between communist and nationalist parties in the 1920s took place in

Burma.   Syria.   the Dutch East Indies.   China.   Vietnam.

Question 31
Latin American culture



Question 32
The New Culture Movement at Peking University


Question 33
Between 1911 and the early 1920s in China,

Question 34
After World War I


Question 35
Many nationalists in European colonies found themselves engulfed in personal turmoil because they

Question 36
Which of the following statements is an accurate statement about Japan during the early decades of the twentieth century?



Its farming population was economically affluent and all farmers owned their land.

Question 37
How did the Bolshevik victory in Russia alter African and Asian ideas about Marxism?


Question 38
Indian nationalism


Question 39
Josip Tito
Question 40 

In the 1960s the relationship between the Soviet Union and Mao Zedong's China





Question 41
Which of the following was not true about the Cold War?




Question 42
The 1975 accord that recognized all central and eastern European borders that had been established since the end of World War II, and committed the signers to the human rights of its citizens, was the


Stuttgart Memorandum.
Geneva Agreement.
Helsinki Agreement.
 


Question 43
What foreign policy strategy did George Kennan advocate in a 1947 Foreign Affairs article?


 
containment
empiricism
isolationism


Question 44
Warfare resumed in Vietnam in 1959 because


 


Question 45
"Peaceful coexistence"


was first used by Sun Yatin 1921.
was treated with suspicion by United States leaders, especially after the crushing of the unrest in Hungary in 1956.



Question 46
The European Recovery Program was better known as the


Point Five Program.

Acheson Plan.
European Plan.
Marshall Plan.


Question 47
The Cuban Missile Crisis


was the first major Mexicancrisis.
was a direct attempt by the United States to remove Fidel Castro from power.


Question 48
China's long isolation from the West began to end with the opening to America that was accomplished by

Question 49
Nikita Khrushchev



Question 50
The Yalta System

(BOTH ARE CORRECT)