Question 1

During the Cold War, what did the United States and the Soviet Union expect from Third World countries?

Accepted Answer

A)  They expected them to join one or the other of the two opposing Cold War camps. 
B)  They expected them to encourage world peace and nuclear disarmament. 
C)  They expected them to remain politically neutral. 
D)  They expected them to adapt elements from First World and Second World political philosophies to their own specific circumstances. 
A)  They expected them to join one or the other of the two opposing Cold War camps. 
B)  They expected them to encourage world peace and nuclear disarmament. 
C)  They expected them to remain politically neutral. 
D)  They expected them to adapt elements from First World and Second World political philosophies to their own specific circumstances.

Question 2

Which of the following issues led to the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union?

Accepted Answer

A)  Their expanding overseas empires impinged on one another, creating borderland conflicts. 
B)  They had diametrically opposed political and economic ideologies. 
C)  They had been on opposing sides during World War I and II. 
D)  They both wanted to colonize western Europe's former colonies. 
A)  Their expanding overseas empires impinged on one another, creating borderland conflicts. 
B)  They had diametrically opposed political and economic ideologies. 
C)  They had been on opposing sides during World War I and II. 
D)  They both wanted to colonize western Europe's former colonies.

Question 3

Which of the following is a reason why some First World powers supported South Africa during the 1950s and 1960s?

Accepted Answer

A)  South Africa was anticommunist. 
B)  South Africa was a strategic military and commercial outpost. 
C)  South Africa had developed a democratic society. 
D)  South Africa, especially Johannesburg, was an important center for global finance. 
A)  South Africa was anticommunist. 
B)  South Africa was a strategic military and commercial outpost. 
C)  South Africa had developed a democratic society. 
D)  South Africa, especially Johannesburg, was an important center for global finance.

Question 4

Which of the following reflects the Chinese Communist Party's approach toward women?

Accepted Answer

A)  It rejected women's rights in order to build support with the patriarchal Chinese peasantry. 
B)  It subordinated women's individual rights to the rights of the family as an institution. 
C)  It believed that women were selfish to demand more rights during the war with Japan. 
D)  It freed women from oppressive laws and customs as part of its government. 
A)  It rejected women's rights in order to build support with the patriarchal Chinese peasantry. 
B)  It subordinated women's individual rights to the rights of the family as an institution. 
C)  It believed that women were selfish to demand more rights during the war with Japan. 
D)  It freed women from oppressive laws and customs as part of its government.

Question 5

Which of the following led European Jews to migrate to Palestine during the first half of the twentieth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  They believed that returning to their place of origin would lead to self-determination. 
B)  They sought assimilation into an existing regional Semitic culture. 
C)  They wished to create a new European colony in the Middle East, to replace the Ottoman Empire. 
D)  They hoped to learn Palestinian agricultural techniques, in order to achieve economic success. 
A)  They believed that returning to their place of origin would lead to self-determination. 
B)  They sought assimilation into an existing regional Semitic culture. 
C)  They wished to create a new European colony in the Middle East, to replace the Ottoman Empire. 
D)  They hoped to learn Palestinian agricultural techniques, in order to achieve economic success.

During the Cold War, what did the United States and the Soviet Union expect from Third World countries?

Which of the following issues led to the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union?

Which of the following is a reason why some First World powers supported South Africa during the 1950s and 1960s?

Which of the following reflects the Chinese Communist Party's approach toward women?

Which of the following led European Jews to migrate to Palestine during the first half of the twentieth century?

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Rivers, Cities, and First States, 3500-2000 Bce

Nomads, Chariots, Territorial States, and Microsocieties, 2000-1200 Bce

First Empires and Common Cultures in Afro-Eurasia, 1250-325 Bce

Worlds Turned Inside Out, 1000-350 Bce

Shrinking the Afro-Eurasian World, 350 Bce-250 Ce

Han Dynasty China and Imperial Rome, 300 Bce-300 Ce

The Rise of Universal Religions, 300-600 Ce

New Empires and Common Cultures, 600-1000 Ce

Becoming the World, 1000-1300 Ce

Crises and Recovery in Afro-Eurasia, 1300-1500

Contact, Commerce, and Colonization, 1450-1600

Worlds Entangled, 1600-1750

Cultures of Splendor and Power, 1500-1780

Reordering the World, 1750-1850

Alternative Visions of the Nineteenth Century

Nations and Empires, 1850-1914

An Unsettled World, 1890-1914

Of Masses and Visions of the Modern, 1910-1939

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Exam 20: The Three-World Order, 1940-1975

During the Cold War, what did the United States and the Soviet Union expect from Third World countries?

Which of the following issues led to the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union?

Which of the following is a reason why some First World powers supported South Africa during the 1950s and 1960s?

Which of the following reflects the Chinese Communist Party's approach toward women?

Which of the following led European Jews to migrate to Palestine during the first half of the twentieth century?

Becoming Human

Rivers, Cities, and First States, 3500-2000 Bce

Nomads, Chariots, Territorial States, and Microsocieties, 2000-1200 Bce

First Empires and Common Cultures in Afro-Eurasia, 1250-325 Bce

Worlds Turned Inside Out, 1000-350 Bce

Shrinking the Afro-Eurasian World, 350 Bce-250 Ce

Han Dynasty China and Imperial Rome, 300 Bce-300 Ce

The Rise of Universal Religions, 300-600 Ce

New Empires and Common Cultures, 600-1000 Ce

Becoming the World, 1000-1300 Ce

Crises and Recovery in Afro-Eurasia, 1300-1500

Contact, Commerce, and Colonization, 1450-1600

Worlds Entangled, 1600-1750

Cultures of Splendor and Power, 1500-1780

Reordering the World, 1750-1850

Alternative Visions of the Nineteenth Century

Nations and Empires, 1850-1914

An Unsettled World, 1890-1914

Of Masses and Visions of the Modern, 1910-1939

Globalization, 1970-2000

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