Deck 6: Decolonization and the Global South

Question 1

What was the purpose of the Treaty of Tordesillas?

A) Allow Spain to colonize California.
B) Cede the East Indies to Holland.
C) Allow Portugal to open a trade station in Nagasaki, Japan.
D) Divide the New World between Spain and Portugal.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Why has China's interest in Africa grown in recent years?

A) A desire to communize the developing world.
B) Its effort to balance Western influence in Africa.
C) Its need for raw materials.
D) Its desire for naval bases.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

What defines the countries that belong to the global South?

A) Relative economic development.
B) Geographic location.
C) Ideological preference.
D) Nonalignment.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What European explorer traveled the Silk Road to China?

A) Ferdinand Magellan.
B) Christopher Columbus.
C) Marco Polo.
D) Hernando de Soto.

Question 5

What European country followed Spain and Portugal in developing an overseas empire?

A) Holland.
B) Great Britain.
C) Sweden.
D) France.

Question 6

Which conquistador destroyed Peru's Inca Empire?

A) René-Robert La Salle.
B) Francisco Pizarro.
C) Hernán Cortes.
D) José Marti.

Question 7

Which of the following was not a part of the Spanish Empire?

A) Brazil.
B) The Philippines Islands.
C) Mexico.
D) Florida.

Question 8

What event led Great Britain to assume formal direct control of India?

A) The Quit India Movement.
B) The Sepoy Rebellion.
C) The Anglo-Sikh War.
D) The Bodo Rebellion.

Question 9

What technological innovation dramatically increased the demand for slaves in America?

A) The cotton gin.
B) The flying shuttle.
C) The spinning jenny.
D) The power loom.

Question 10

What body of theorists has the greatest interest in explaining how attitudes towards the slave trade evolved?

A) Realists.
B) Liberals.
C) Constructivists.
D) Marxists.

Question 11

Which of the following did not contribute to European imperialism in the late nineteenth century?

A) Balance of power.
B) Missionary zeal.
C) Nationalism.
D) Industrialization.

Question 12

What poet urged Europeans and Americans "to take up the White Man's burden"?

A) Wilfred Owen.
B) W.B. Yeats.
C) Rudyard Kipling.
D) Robert Graves.

Question 13

Which of the following territories did the United States seize in the Spanish-American War?

A) The Philippines.
B) Haiti.
C) Hawaii.
D) Honduras.

Question 14

Which European power controlled Gabon, Middle Congo, and Ubangi-Chari-Chad (today, the Central African Republic and Chad)?

A) Germany.
B) Belgium.
C) France.
D) Great Britain.

Question 15

Why is imperial occupation of territory harder today that it was 100 years ago?

A) The spread of economic interdependence.
B) The inhibitions caused by international law.
C) The changed norms of great powers.
D) The spread of political consciousness among the masses.

Question 16

Which Europeans conquered what is today Indonesia?

A) The French.
B) The Dutch.
C) The Spanish.
D) The English.

Question 17

Which European power conquered Libya in 1911?

A) Great Britain.
B) France.
C) Italy.
D) Germany.

Question 18

Who was William Wilberforce?

A) The British governor of Virginia.
B) A British abolitionist.
C) The British general who drove the French from Canada.
D) The founder of the British East India Company.

Question 19

What non-European power sought to emulate the Europeans in building an empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

A) China.
B) Japan.
C) India.
D) Turkey.

Question 20

Where did Japan establish a protectorate in 1905?

A) New Guinea.
B) Mongolia.
C) Manchuria.
D) Korea.

Question 21

Which of the following African countries successfully resisted a European effort to conquer it in 1896?

A) South Africa.
B) Zimbabwe.
C) Cameroon.
D) Ethiopia.

Question 22

Which of the following countries gained control of Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria?

A) Great Britain.
B) Belgium.
C) France.
D) Germany.

Question 23

What colonial territory is portrayed in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness?

A) Sierra Leone.
B) Rhodesia.
C) The Gold Coast.
D) The Belgian Congo.

Question 24

What European country took possession of Rwanda, Burundi, Tanganyika, and Namibia?

A) Russia.
B) Portugal.
C) Germany.
D) Austria-Hungary.

Question 25

Which of the following European countries had no colonies in Africa or Asia?

A) Italy.
B) Germany.
C) Portugal.
D) Austria-Hungary.

Question 26

What was the major result of the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885?

A) An agreement to begin the process of decolonization.
B) An Anglo-French agreement under which Egypt would be under British influence and Morocco under French influence.
C) A division of Africa into spheres of influence.
D) The settlement of outstanding British and Russian colonial differences.

Question 27

What was the result of the 1931 Statute of Westminster?

A) Independence of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
B) Independence of South Africa.
C) Imposition of a protectorate over Egypt.
D) The merging of Tanganyika and Zanzibar to form Tanzania.

Question 28

Which of the following was the dominant figure in South America's wars of liberation?

A) Bernardo O'Higgins.
B) Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.
C) Toussaint L'Ouverture.
D) Simón Bolívar.

Question 29

What city became the capital of India in 1911?

A) Calcutta.
B) New Delhi.
C) Bombay.
D) Madras.

Question 30

What political institution led the fight for Indian independence.

A) The Congress Party.
B) The All India Forward Bloc.
C) Indian National Lok Dol.
D) The Bharatiya Janata Party.

Question 31

Who influenced Mahatma Gandhi's belief in passive resistance?

A) Henry David Thoreau.
B) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
C) William Gladstone.
D) Sun Yat-sen.

Question 32

Who was India's last viceroy?

A) Louis Mountbatten.
B) George Curzon.
C) Robert Bulwer-Lytton.
D) Archibald Wavell.

Question 33

What type of identity in India separates Hindus into different social groups?

A) Class.
B) Ethnicity.
C) Caste.
D) Race.

Question 34

What country did Achmed Sukarno lead to independence?

A) Malaya.
B) Indonesia.
C) Singapore.
D) Burma.

Question 35

What religious divide separates India and Pakistan?

A) Hindu and Muslim.
B) Shia and Sunni Muslim.
C) Hindu and Catholic.
D) Buddhist and Muslim.

Question 36

What did British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan mean in 1960 when he declared that "the wind of change is blowing through this continent"?

A) The countries of Asia are prepared to oppose communism.
B) The countries of Europe are ready for economic integration.
C) The countries of Africa are determined to achieve independence.
D) The countries of Latin America are turning to free-market capitalism.

Question 37

Where was the only case of major violence in the decolonization of British Africa?

A) Kenya.
B) Uganda.
C) Nigeria.
D) Sierra Leone.

Question 38

What British adventurer pioneered British colonial penetration of southern Africa?

A) Robert Clive.
B) General William Elphinstone.
C) Cecil Rhodes.
D) Sir Pierre Cavagnari.

Question 39

What was apartheid?

A) The official policy of religious separation followed by India after partition in 1947.
B) The official policy of racial separation followed by South Africa after 1948.
C) Iraq's unofficial policy of separating Shia and Sunni Muslims after 2009.
D) Kenya's policy of providing government posts to members of different tribal groups.

Question 40

Who was South Africa's first Black African president?

A) Jacob Zuma.
B) Nelson Mandela.
C) Desmond Tutu.
D) Peter Botha.

Question 41

What French colony began a massive insurrection to gain its independence after 1954?

A) Morocco.
B) Ivory Coast.
C) Chad.
D) Algeria.

Question 42

What was the main criticism of "modernization theory"?

A) It assumed that Western Europe and the United States represented models of development that less-developed countries (LDCs) should follow.
B) It asserted the superiority of traditional social values in the achieving economic and political development.
C) It assumed that political change would have to occur before economic modernization could take place.
D) It advocated retaining colonial institutions in the process of economic modernization.

Question 43

What is the central claim of postcolonial theorists?

A) Poor countries depend on rich countries for political guidance.
B) Rich countries enjoy structural power over poor countries.
C) Rich countries depend on poor countries for key commodities.
D) The leaders of poor countries are mainly educated in rich countries.

Question 44

Which of the following is not associated with state fragility and possible failure?

A) Demographic pressures.
B) Economic decline.
C) The absence of public services.
D) Insufficient foreign aid.

Question 45

Which of the following countries is the site of an insurrection led by the militant Islamic group called al-Shebab?

A) The Philippines.
B) Somalia.
C) Yemen.
D) Nigeria.

Question 46

Which of the following best describes the policy of nonalignment?

A) Strict neutrality.
B) Complete isolation from global politics.
C) Pro-Western.
D) Non-membership in either the Western or Soviet blocs.

Question 47

What are Chinese migrants from rural to urban centers called?

A) "Bare branches."
B) "Backwoodsmen."
C) "Blind flow."
D) "Hukou violators."

Question 48

What is the system called in which states play visible and significant roles in markets?

A) Free-market capitalism.
B) Managed markets.
C) State capitalism.
D) Central planning.