Chapter 28 Quiz B with Explanations

. How did the visit of U.S. President Richard Nixon to China in 1972 help the Chinese leadership?

It contributed to the collapse of the communist party and the implementation of democratic rule.

It put pressure on the Soviet Union to give more technology to China in exchange for ending relations with the United States.

It contributed to the end of the Cultural Revolution and advanced the careers of Chinese reformers.

It highlighted the social and economic reforms of Mao Zedong, which bore fruit by the end of the decade.

. How did some Arab nations react to U.S. support of Israel during the Yom Kippur War in 1973?

They created a united military command.

They placed an oil embargo on the United States.

They asked the Soviet Union for military aid.

They turned to the United Nations.

. Which U.S. president combined tax cuts for the wealthy and reduced government spending on many programs in order to combat stagflation in the 1980s?

Ronald Reagan

Henry Kissinger

Richard Nixon

Jimmy Carter

. During the early 1980s, food shortages, inflation, and deteriorating living conditions led to the formation of the Solidarity movement in

The Soviet Union.

Czechoslovakia.

Hungary.

Poland.

. What did the South African government led by Nelson Mandela establish in 1995 in order to encourage national unity and promote understanding between black and white citizens?

The African National Congress

The Anti-apartheid Union

Nongovernmental organizations

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission

. Chinese industrial expansion starting in the late 1970s was based on

the production of machinery for industrial use.

the Soviet model of five-year plans.

the export of inexpensive manufactured goods.

investment from other communist countries.

. Starting in the late 1990s, how did neoliberal policies affect the welfare state in Europe?

They led to significant declines in infrastructure investment.

They led to reductions in social services and education.

They led to growing strain between members of the European Union.

They led to increased taxation and protectionism.

. What step did the European Union take in 1999 that gave it more control over Europe-wide economic policy?

It created a common stock market.

It established common production goals.

It unified all banking systems.

It adopted a common currency.

. In 1988 the South African group Black Noise used rap to protest

unemployment.

youth violence.

global warming.

apartheid.

. In his novel Soul Mountain (2000), Chinese author Gao Xingjian explores the reaction of peasants to the destruction caused by the construction of the

Three Gorges Dam.

Chernobyl nuclear reactor.

Union Carbide plant.

Aswan Dam.

. What global epidemic disease started to spread in the 1980s?

Bird flu

Ebola virus

Swine flu

AIDS

. Expatriate Russian author Andrei Makine's novel, Once Upon the River Love (1998), explores the theme of

global warming.

oppression.

migration.

banishment.

. With the false claim of finding weapons of mass destruction, the United States invaded which country in March 2003?

Iraq

Afghanistan

Pakistan

Iran

. In what way did people often protect themselves from the sense of loss caused by globalization?

They refused to participate in the global economy.

They found security in their local, personal identities.

They supported anti-globalization intellectual movements.

They sought more global understanding through the Internet.

. Which region of Spain started to seek independence as a separate nation in the latter part of the twentieth century?

Aragon

Catalonia

Navarre

Galicia

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