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1 The Communist Revolution in China differed from the 19th-century Marxist ideals because this revolution was primarily supported by the
2 The political ideas of Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot were strongly influenced by the writings of
3 During the 1970s and 1980s India and China attempted to improve the quality of life for their people and to increase economic growth by
4 In the Chinese Civil War (1945 - 1949), support for Mao Zedong's Communist forces came primarily from the
5 One way in which the Hitler Youth of Germany and the Red Guard of China are similar is that both organizations
6 One similarity between Stalin’s five-year plans and Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward was that both programs attempted to
7 The Four Modernizations of Deng Xiaoping in the 1970s and 1980s resulted in
8 During the 1980s, a major goal of China was to
9 Which statement is accurate about the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 and the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in 1989?
10 A similarity between the Polish group Solidarity in 1980 and the Chinese protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989 is that both groups
11 The Tiananmen Square massacre in China was a reaction to
12 Which document is most closely associated with the Arab-Israeli conflict?
13 Since 1948, a major reason for the conflict between Arabs and Israelis is that each side
14 ". . .The Nazi Holocaust, which engulfed millions of Jews in Europe, proved anew the urgency of the reestablishment of the Jewish state, which would solve the problem of Jewish homelessness by opening the gates to all Jews and lifting the Jewish people to equality in the family of nations. . .."
This statement is referring to the establishment of which nation?
15 Since the 1980s, the major source of the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Arabs has been
16 In 1979, the signing of the Camp David accords by Egypt and Israel indicated that
17 The first Arab nation in the Middle East to reach a formal peace agreement with Israel under the Camp David accords (1979) was
18 During the 1980s, the economic development of Iran and Iraq was disrupted because of
19 The Iranian Revolution of 1979 resulted in the establishment of
20 In Iran, both the Revolution of 1979 and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism have caused
21 A major cause of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979 was the concern by Islamic leaders that
22 The response of the international community to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 best illustrates the
23 One reason the United States and other Western powers fought the Persian Gulf War was to
24 Economic sanctions were imposed against Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Fidel Castro in Cuba in an effort to
25 What is a long-term effect of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979?
26 One way in which Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini and Afghanistan’s Taliban were similar is that they each
27 One of the main goals of Islamic fundamentalism has been to
28 A goal of most modern-day fundamentalist Islamic societies is to
29 Which has been a serious problem for many nations of the Middle East since World War II?
30 In 1991, Pakistan amended its constitution and made the Koran the basis of all its laws. Which group was responsible for this action?
31 The destruction of the rain forests in Latin America is primarily due to the
32 Mikhail Gorbachev contributed to the fall of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe by
33 Which action occurred in the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev?
34 Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms of perestroika and glasnost resulted in
35 A major development in relations between the Soviet Union and the United States occurred in the late 1980s when the two nations agreed to
36 The destruction of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany in 1990 are events that symbolize the