Chapter 12 Multiple Choice Self-Quiz

. An uprising in the ______ Ghetto enraged the Nazis, who destroyed the entire zone in the spring of 1943, killing over 7000 and deporting and massacring over 55,000 others.

. In January 1975, leaders of three armed factions signed an agreement with the _________ government to work together towards a peaceful transition to independence for Angola.

. The Bretton Woods Accords of 1944:

. Between 1943 and 1945, the Allies met at all of the following cities for talks about the post-War transition, EXCEPT:

. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed primarily to:

. The United States and the Soviet Union maintained a monopoly on nuclear weapons capability into the 1980s.

. The Warsaw Pact was formed primarily:

. The East German government erected the Berlin Wall, a militarized boundary nearly 100 miles long separating the Communist from the non-Communist sectors of Berlin in:

. The Big Five" World War II allies received permanent seats in the United Nations' Security Council

. Parts of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

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China's communist government entered the conflict in _______ in 1950, seeing the U.N. army as a tool of the United States, which had provided the largest number of troops.

. Soon after Japan surrendered, Ho Chi Minh issued a declaration of independence for:

. The non-aligned movement:

. More than 10 million people moved during the partition of __________, and between 500,000 and one million people died.

. In 1952, a movement called _________ mobilized people from the Kikuyu region of northwest Kenya into armed resistance against the British colonial government.

. Recent scholarship has offered evidence of systematic use of torture by the British in the suppression of the independence movement in:

. After World War II, most countries focused their economic development strategies on:

. In 1956, the British and French supported an invasion of Egypt because of:

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A military coup in ___________ supported by the US government convinced Ernesto Che Guevara to foment violent uprisings against US imperialism.

. Soviet forces brutally suppressed dissent in _______ in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968.

. The value of international trade grew at an average of almost ________ per year between 1948 and 1973.

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