Chapter 27 Student Quiz

. The Cold War is referred to as such because it was fought _____.

Only in the Third World.

Through proxy wars.

Outside of Europe.

Only between the US and USSR.

. Mao Zedong's People's Republic of China modeled itself after _____.

The USSR.

The United States.

Japan.

Earlier imperial China.

. Colonized peoples from many walks of life fought for liberation from imperial control after 1945.

True.

False.

. The main factor keeping Western powers interested in the Middle East was _____.

Gold.

Oil.

Religion.

Slavery.

. Nations had difficulty adapting wartime technology for civilian use in the years after WWII.

True.

False.

. Birth control pills became widely available in _____.

The 1930s.

The 1910s.

The 1940s.

The 1960s.

. Stalin and Mao both saw _____ as the answer to recovery from wartime destruction and economic growth.

Military growth.

Modernization.

Territorial expansion.

Hardline communism.

. The philosophy that said that the individual creates his own authentic existence through action and choice is called _____.

Matonetics.

Nihilism.

Existentialism.

Religion.

. Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks discusses _____.

Decolonization of the mind.

Violent overthrow of colonial powers.

Theories of nonviolence.

The mindset of the colonizer.

. At the conference, Nehru argued for _____ in the Cold War.

Siding with the US.

Siding with the USSR.

Nonalignment.

All of the above.

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