Chapter 27 Quiz C with References

. 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.

. The US policy of attempting to keep communism from spreading was called _____.

Keynesianism.

Trumanism.

Containment.

Proxy war.

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

The USSR.

The United States.

Japan.

Earlier imperial China.

. In order to protect Europe from communism, the US formed a military alliance called _____.

The European Union.

The Warsaw Pact.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

The Organization of American States.

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

True.

False.

. The primary reason that Britain gave India independence in 1947 was _____.

That they finally realized the justice of Indian demands for self-rule.

That they were broke from the war.

That they were focused on maintaining control over China.

All of the above.

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

Gold.

Oil.

Religion.

Slavery.

. Kwame Nkrumah was radicalized by _____.

The British Invasion of the Gold Coast.

Increasing terrorist activity in North Africa.

The Italian invasion of Ethiopia.

The institution of South African apartheid.

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

True.

False.

. The space race was driven by Cold War rivalry, but also created cooperation and communication between nations.

True.

False.

. Birth control pills became widely available in _____.

The 1930s.

The 1910s.

The 1940s.

The 1960s.

. The European Economic Community _____.

Reduced tariffs and worked to develop common trade policies.

Created a common welfare state.

Encouraged nationalism.

Ended up discouraging competition and weakening economies.

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

Military growth.

Modernization.

Territorial expansion.

Hardline communism.

. The postwar period was one fo static culture focused on conformity.

True.

False.

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

Matonetics.

Nihilism.

Existentialism.

Religion.

. Culture was an important way that the US sought to win the Cold War.

True.

False.

. 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.

. The Bandung Conference was meant to ensure the independence of Asian and African nations despite _____.

The pressures of Cold War.

The temptation of aid from superpowers.

Military threats from former colonial powers.

The outbreak of WWII.

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

Siding with the US.

Siding with the USSR.

Nonalignment.

All of the above.

. Because all of the nations at the Bandung Conference had similar experiences of colonialism and independence, there were no divisive issues between them.

True.

False.

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