Lobal II Quizzes - Quiz 12a - Decolonization & Post WWII Nationalism

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1

These maps could best used to teach about

imperialism
decolonization
environmentalism
extremism

2 Which historical group played the biggest role in explaining why the new India was partitioned?

The Congress Party
The Muslim League
The United Nations
NATO

3 What was the eventual political result of the map above?

a two country partition in to Pakistan and India
a fight over who killed Gandhi
a separate country for the Sikhs
a mass genocide of British citizens in India

4 What immediate crisis occurred as a result of Indian independence?

a war between Hindus and Muslims
a genocide of Hindus
a massive migration of Hindus to India, and Muslims to Pakistan
deportation of millions of Sikhs

5 What was the policy of India during the Cold War?

Non-Alignment
Containment
The Truman Doctrine
The Iron Curtain

6 JOHANNESBURG—Africa is often depicted as a place of war, disease and poverty, with a begging bowl extended to the world. But a new report paints a much more optimistic portrait of a continent with growing national economies and an expanding consumer class that offers foreign investors the highest rates of return in the developing world. ... -“Report Offers Optimistic View of Africa’s Economies,” New York Times, June 24, 2010

What additional evidence would best support the argument in this passage?

a rise in poverty rates for most African countries
increases in the mortality rate of African children
growth in the gross domestic product for some African countries
continuously high inflation rates throughout

7 What policy was reversed giving South African blacks a say in their government from 1990 onward?

genocide
Eurocentrism
apartheid
partition

8 Who was the first black leader of South Africa in the 1990s?

Jomo Kenyatta
Nelson Mandela
Desmond Tutu
Abdel Nasser

9 : “. . . I saw that the whole solution to this problem lay in political freedom for our people, for it is only when a people are politically free that other races can give them the respect that is due to them. It is impossible to talk of equality of races in any other terms. No people without a government of their own can expect to be treated on the same level as peoples of independent sovereign states. It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else. . . .” — Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah , Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1957

Which idea is expressed in this statement by Kwame Nkrumah?

free trade
collective security
self-determination
peaceful coexistence

10 One way in which Kwame Nkrumah, Jomo kenyatta, and Kenneth Kaunda are similar is that they all

supported the United Nations military action in the Persian Gulf War
played a major role in independence movements in Africa
rejected financial aid from the World Bank
opposed the Pan-African movement

11 Jomo kenyatta and Kwame Nkrumah were African leaders opposed to

militarism
socialism
nationalism
colonialism

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  • Peacekeeping missions are operating in more than a dozen of the world's many trouble spots.
  • The authority to intervene and use force, if necessary, is found in several articles in the Charter.

Which organization is referred to in these statements?

Green Peace
League of Nations
United Nations
Rwandan Revolutionary Front (RPF)

13 One of the areas that the organization is very successful at is?

UNICEF (United Nations Children Fund)
preventing the Cambodian Genocide
preventing the Rwandan Genocide
The Marshal Plan

14 The group inside the United Nations responsible for emergencies is called the?

National Assembly
The Directory
The Committee of Public Safety
The Security Council

15 The five permanent members of this group today are?

Japan, Canada, Mexico, United States, Germany
China, Russia, United Kingdom, United States, France
China, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, United States, Germany
China, Japan, United Kingdom, Angola, Canada