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Return to Patterns of World History 4e, Volume 2 Student Resources
Chapter 30 Quiz
The End of the Cold War, Western Social Transformation, and the Developing World, 1963–1991
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_____are treaties aimed at discouraging countries from developing nuclear weapons.
"Mutually assured destruction" treaties
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"Mutually agreed peace" treaties
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"Non-proliferation" treaties
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"Armament enhancement" treaties
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The late 1960s and early 1970s witnessed the era of
détente
between the Soviet Union and the United States during which _____.
tensions between the two countries were stepped up
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tensions between the two countries were reduced
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tensions between the two countries remained the same
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tensions were completely ended between the two countries
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The _____in the fall of 1973 abruptly ended the era of
détente
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Egyptian and Syrian surprise attack on Israel
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Israeli surprise attack on Egypt
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Israeli surprise attack on Syria
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Egyptian surprise attack on Syria
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The sweeping set of reforms introduced in Czechoslovakia in 1968, aimed at decentralization and a loosening of censorship restrictions, came to be known as the_____.
"Prague Spring"
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"Prague Manifesto"
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"Prague Holocaust"
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"Prague Crusade"
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The _____advanced the right of the Soviet Union to prevent any member of the Warsaw Pact from attempting to abandon the Soviet alliance.
"Acceptance Doctrine"
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"Brezhnev Doctrine"
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"Forgiveness Doctrine"
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"Gorbachev Doctrine"
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The_____(SDI), nicknamed "Star Wars", was an anti-ballistic missile defense system in outer space proposed by President Ronald Reagan in 1983.
Strategic Disarmament Initiative
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Strategic Defense Initiative
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Strategic Dialogue Initiative
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Strategic Destruction Initiative
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Perestroika
("restructuring") and_____("openness") were the two economic and political policies enacted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s in order to revitalize Communism.
demokratizatsiya
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nomenklatura
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apparatchiks
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glasnost
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The fall of the infamous _____took place on the night of November 9, 1989, and marked the symbolic end of East Germany's Communist regime.
Berlin Wall
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Munich Wall
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West German Wall
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East German Wall
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The Soviet Union ended officially on Christmas Day 1991 and was replaced by the_____, with a now democratic Russia under Boris Yeltsin at its center.
Commonwealth of Satellite States (CSS)
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Commonwealth of Former Republics (CFR)
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Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
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Commonwealth of Satellite Republics (CSR)
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The massive mobilization of Americans during ________ accelerated civil rights efforts to combat segregation in the United States.
World War I
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World War II
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The Korean War
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The Vietnam War
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The 1954 Supreme Board ruling on
Brown v. Board of Education
of Topeka, Kansas, overturned the previous _____, which had upheld the notion that "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional.
United States v. Cruikshank
ruling from 1876
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Worcester v. Georgia
ruling from 1832
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Dred Scott v. Sandford
ruling from 1857
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Plessy v. Ferguson
ruling from 1896
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Among the international conditions which also played a role in fueling the struggle to end desegregation in the United States were the postwar anticolonialist movement in Africa and _____.
Che Guevara's assassination
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the fall of the Bautista regime in Cuba
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Soviet Cold War propaganda
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the Cuban Missile Crisis
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President _____secured the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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John F. Kennedy
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Richard M. Nixon
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Gerald R. Ford
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Which group, formed in the 1960s, sought to end police harassment and advocate for better conditions for Native Americans?
American Indian Coalition
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American Indian Movement
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Native American Alliance
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Native American Rights Movement
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What event is often cited as the beginning of the modern gay rights movement?
The siege of Wounded Knee
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The foundation of the Gay Liberation Front
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The Woodstock Festival
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The Stonewall Riot
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Baby boomers were born between
1940 and 1950
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1945 and 1964
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1965 and 1980
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1950 and 1965
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With the founding of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966, ______, a new term came to define the feminist movement in the late 1960s.
"Women's Liberation"
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"Sexual Liberation"
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"Women's Emancipation"
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"Women's Civil Rights"
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The sharp rise in oil prices and the economic downturn it brought about would ultimately lead in the late 1970s to a phenomenon referred to as_____, a period of high inflation rate but with low economic growth rate.
stagflation
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superflation
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destagnation
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superstagnation
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In 1966, Chairman Mao launched a violent critique of the direction of China's Communist Party, a phenomenon which became known as_____.
The Great Communist Revolution
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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
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The Great Communist Student Revolution
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The Great Student Revolution
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The ascendancy of the pragmatic Deng Xiaoping to China's leadership brought about the 1978 announcement of_____, a set of policies which remain in place in China to this day.
The Four Modernizations
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The Five Emancipations
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The Four Pillars
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The Five Great Hopes
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Communist China's new "open door" policies would allow the market forces of capitalism to create incentives for innovation and economic growth, and the nation's motto became _____.
"Money equals respect."
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"Capitalism is not the enemy!"
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"To get rich is glorious!"
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"The path to riches is the only path."
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Among China's modernization policies in the late 1970s was the mandatory_____, which was aimed at alleviating population pressures that hindered Chinese development.
"no-child-left-behind policy"
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"one-child policy"
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"abstention policy"
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"no-child policy"
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In 2010, China surpassed _____as the second largest economy in the world, after the United States.
France
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The United Kingdom
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Germany
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Japan
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution expanded American involvement in what country?
Vietnam
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Cambodia
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South Korea
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China
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The
Khmer Rouge
was a _____which launched a national campaign of genocide against religious and political opponents in the 1970s.
Vietnamese revolutionary group
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Laotian revolutionary group
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Korean revolutionary group
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Cambodian revolutionary group
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In 1964, Yasir Arafat founded_____, whose militant wing, Fatah, began a guerilla war against Israel and its backers.
The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)
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Al-Qaeda
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The Muslim Brotherhood
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Palestinian Movement Organization (PMO)
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The _____was fought between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, and Syria in June 1967.
Ten-Day War
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Three-Day War
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Six-Day War
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Four-Day War
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In 1979, Egypt and Israel signed _____at Camp David, Maryland.
the first treaty between an Arab country and the Jewish state
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the second treaty between an Arab country and the Jewish state
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the last treaty between an Arab country and the Jewish state
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a temporary treaty between an Arab country and the Jewish state
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The Lebanese Civil War was caused partially by the PLO's upsetting of the delicate balance among the different factions of the Lebanese state, which included:
Shiite Muslims
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Maronite Christians
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Sunni Muslims
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all of the above
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In 1979, Iranian shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi was overthrown in favor of a
liberal democracy
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theocracy
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monarchy
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socialist republic
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The climax of South Africa´s rigid racial social structure came with the institution of legal racial segregation in the form of _____in 1948.
Kholops
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Saqaliba
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Apartheid
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Zionism
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Since the early 1960s, a guerrilla insurgency group called the Sandinistas had sought to overthrow the Somoza regime in ________.
El Salvador
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Guatemala
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Nicaragua
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Honduras
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One of the most tragic episodes of the Cold War in Latin America was the____carried out in Argentina against suspected leftist by the military
junta
from 1976 to 1983.
"Dirty War"
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"Unspoken War"
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"Cruel War"
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"Cold War"
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The kidnapped victims of the Argentine
"Dirty War"
came to be collectively known as the_____.
"Martyrs"
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"Heroes"
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"Disappeared"
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"Shadows"
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Brazil's Cold War-era military dictatorship stayed in power primarily because of
their willingness to use violence
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a general openness to dissent
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support from the left wing of the country
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Brazil's booming economy during the period
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Which of the following Soviet republics gained their independence in 1991?
Georgia
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Hungary
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Ukraine
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Poland
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Demonstrators at Tiananmen Square, like the man pictured above, sought what from the Chinese government?
They wanted to bring back the Cultural Revolution
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The were protesting the "one child" policy
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They wanted to have closer ties with non-communist countries
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They wanted to democratize the political system
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The Arab-Israeli War of June 1967, pictured above, was a resounding victory for what country?
Egypt
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Israel
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Syria
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Jordan
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