Review Quiz #10 [2025]

These laws indicate a government policy of

• censorship

• discrimination

• extraterritoriality

• laissez-faire

Which factor most influenced Japan’s expansion efforts in the 1930s and 1940s?

• competition with Russia for territory

• a desire to reclaim territory that historically had been Japanese

• limited amount of industrial resources on Japan’s home islands

• revenge for the bombings of Tokyo

During both World War I and World War II, the economic policies of many governments were designed to

• limit consumption by rationing goods

• collectivize agriculture

• rebuild destroyed housing

• eliminate tariffs on imports

One way in which these organizations are similar is that they all

• battled against religious separatists

• supported the creation of colonies

• encouraged nationalist sentiments

• opposed the use of civil disobedience

The terms of the Treaty of Nanjing and of the Treaty of Kanagawa demonstrate the

• unequal relationships that characterized imperialism

• humanitarian ideals that accompanied missionary activity

• importance of technology in developing economies

• changing roles of men and women associated with modernization

The idea that all people are born with the natural rights of life, liberty, and property is most directly associated with the writings of

• Baron de Montesquieu
• Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke

Which phrase best illustrates the theory of laissez-faire capitalism?

• businesses operating with little government regulation
• the state establishing production quotas
• central planning committees setting prices on goods
• decisions related to distribution being based on community traditions

• Japan fights China. (1894)
• Japan defeats Russia. (1905)
• Japan annexes Korea. (1910)
These events reflect the growing power of Japan and its desire to

• spread Shinto
• obtain natural resources
• suppress the Boxer Rebellion
• acquire warm-water ports

FW de Klerk and Nelson Mandela received the Nobel Peace Prize for their work to end the 

• foreign control of the diamond mines
• discriminatory policy of apartheid
• anarchy in Somalia
• Boer War

The 19th-century ideas of Social Darwinism and the “White Man’s Burden” were often used to justify

• isolationism
• imperialism
• appeasement
• disarmament