AP World History Unit 8

All of the following African leaders were political prisoners at one time, EXCEPT for:

• Mandela

• Mugabe

• Kenyatta

• Obwadi

What statement about Africa after 1946 is true?

• most African colonies gained independence

• most African countries joined NATO

• colonial patterns of trade disappeared

• most African countries joined the Warsaw Pact

Anticolonial movements, like the Young Turks, agreed on which of the following?

• the need for reform to resist Soviet Imperialism

• the need for reform to resist European Imperialism

• the need for reform to resist Chinese Imperialsim

• the need for reform to resist Japanese Imperialism

What was the primary cause of the Cold War?

• conflicting ideologies of capitalism and communism

• proxy wars in Latin America

• competition for natural resources in Africa

• the nuclear arms race

What was a major change in international relations in the 1980s and 1990s?

• decline in power of multinational corporations

• rapid establishment of overseas colonial empires

• easing of confrontations between communist and non-communist countries

• disbanding of most political parties

Which of the following describes a metropole?

• an area where all refugees gather to find safety

• the parent state of a colony

• the spread of technology

• resistance to immigration

China enacted a strategy for modernization and economic development in the 1950s and resembled a strategy of:

• USA

• India

• Japan

• Soviet Union

Which of the following represents a superpower domination by a smaller nation during the Cold War?

• Prague Spring

• Helsinki Accords

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

All of the following were policies pursued by both the US and USSR during the Cold War except:

• development of nuclear arsenals

• centralized planning of the economy

• promotion of proxy wars

• reliance on military alliances

When did the US and USSR emerge as superpowers?

• after the Civil War

• after WWI

• after WWII

• After the Korean War