Chapter 13 Multiple Choice Self-Quiz

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. At the end of U.S. President Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972, the leaders of the two countries issued the Shanghai Communique, which committed the two countries to:

mutual defense against Soviet aggression. correct incorrect

a timely solution to the Korean problem. correct incorrect

nuclear disarmament. correct incorrect

progressive development of trade. correct incorrect

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. In July 2012, more than 600 million people in __________ lost their electricity as the country's power grid failed.

India correct incorrect

China correct incorrect

Brazil correct incorrect

Russia correct incorrect

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. Beginning in the late 1950s, tensions increased between China and __________ over border disputes, ideological differences, and personal conflicts between their leaders.

North Korea correct incorrect

the Soviet Union correct incorrect

North Vietnam correct incorrect

Manchuria correct incorrect

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. In the 1970s, almost every country in Latin America had:

denounced US intervention in Vietnam. correct incorrect

trade alliances with the Soviet Union. correct incorrect

joined OPEC. correct incorrect

anti-communist, authoritarian, military-dominated governments. correct incorrect

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. In the 1970s, both _________ developed nuclear weapons technology in the context of their own rivalry.

Guatemala and Honduras correct incorrect

India and Pakistan correct incorrect

China and North Korea correct incorrect

Kenya and Ethiopia correct incorrect

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. In part, as retaliation against Western support of Israel in the ________ war, OPEC drastically curtailed production, raising prices and diminishing the global supply of oil.

1967 correct incorrect

1993 correct incorrect

1953 correct incorrect

1973 correct incorrect

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. In 1979, a mass uprising drove Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi from power in:

Iran correct incorrect

Iraq correct incorrect

India correct incorrect

Indonesia correct incorrect

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. Which of the following countries was NOT a major oil exporter in the 1970s?

Ecuador correct incorrect

Japan correct incorrect

Nigeria correct incorrect

Iran correct incorrect

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. Inside ________ in the 1970s, resistance against the Marxist government grew from numerous factions, including Islamic traditionalists.

Indonesia correct incorrect

India correct incorrect

Saudi Arabia correct incorrect

Afghanistan correct incorrect

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Born into one of the world's wealthiest families in _________, Osama bin Laden joined the Afghan resistance against the Soviet invasion.

Iraq correct incorrect

Saudi Arabia correct incorrect

Lebanon correct incorrect

Pakistan correct incorrect

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. Karol Jozef Wojtyla, as Pope John Paul II, was the first _____________ leader of the world’s largest Christian organization in more than four hundred years.

Non-Italian correct incorrect

Non-Jesuit correct incorrect

Non-Aligned correct incorrect

Non-Elected correct incorrect

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. Named the new General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in 1985, _________ launched a series of reforms that eventually brought down the Soviet Union.

Konstantin Chernenko correct incorrect

Yuri Andropov correct incorrect

Wojciech Jaruzelski correct incorrect

Mikhail Gorbachev correct incorrect

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. In the 1980s, the world's leading market economies (like the U.S. and the U.K.):

returned to economic policies of the early 1930s. correct incorrect

worked to reduce state interventions in the market place. correct incorrect

increased state interventions in economic activities. correct incorrect

were too challenged by the Cold War to focus on economic policy. correct incorrect

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. The 1989 Tiananmen Square protesters in China:

were met with repression. correct incorrect

ignited civil rights reforms. correct incorrect

objected to China's diplomatic optening to the United States. correct incorrect

advocated for the reuturn of Mao Zedong. correct incorrect

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. Some scholars suggest that each of the following factors played a role in ending the Cold War EXCEPT:

the death of Ratko Mladic. correct incorrect

the leadership of men like Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev and Pope John Paul II. correct incorrect

the failing Soviet economy. correct incorrect

domestic Soviet political reactions to fluid circumstances. correct incorrect

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. The poorest country in Central Asia and the Middle East, in terms of lowest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, ca. 2015 was:

Kuwait correct incorrect

Qatar correct incorrect

Afghanistan correct incorrect

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) correct incorrect

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. The agreements that formed the European Union:

addressed economic relationships exclusively. correct incorrect

altered traditional domains of nation-state sovereignty. correct incorrect

limited the number of particiapting countries to fifteen. correct incorrect

automatically expired in 2016. correct incorrect

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By 2017, roughly ______ of the world's population had access to the Internet.

ten pecent correct incorrect

one-quarter correct incorrect

half correct incorrect

ninety percent correct incorrect

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. Currently, China and India together account for approximately ______ of the world's current population and ________ of its economic output.

two-thirds; fifty percent correct incorrect

ten percent; ten percent correct incorrect

one-quarter; thirty percent correct incorrect

one-third; fourteen percent correct incorrect

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. _________, a chain of islands off the coast of India that became independent in 1965, is the lowest country on the planet and is slowly disappearing as climate change raises water levels in the Indian Ocean.

Sri Lanka correct incorrect

The Comoros correct incorrect

The Maldives correct incorrect

The Solomon Islands correct incorrect