Question

Question 13 (2 points)

What was the effort to ease tensions between the United States and the USSR in the 1970s called?

Question 13 options:

detente


MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction)


the Warsaw Pact


coup d'etat

Question 14 (2 points)
Which of the following situations would NOT be consistent with the United States’ policy of containment?

Question 14 options:

Using the U.S. military to intervene in civil war where communism was being fought


Providing financial aid to a country with a weak economy


Supporting a democratic nation throughout a blockade with supply drops of food


Prevent the Soviet Union from establishing a satellite communist government in Poland

Question 15 (2 points)
What did Gorbachev’s glasnost reform policy call for?

Question 15 options:

Dissolvement of the USSR


Restructuring of the Soviet economy


Openness of speech and expression


Creation of democratic government

Question 16 (2 points)
What led to the partition of India in 1947?

Question 16 options:

Religious tensions


Political tensions


Economic tensions


Cultural tensions

Question 17 (2 points)
Why did the decolonization of Africa occur?

Question 17 options:

European nations no longer wanted to fight with the people of the colonies.


African colonies were prepared to govern themselves.


African nationalism along with changing attitudes towards imperialism in the European countries.


African colonies peacefully negotiated the terms of their independence.

Question 18 (2 points)
What led to the increase in successful independence movements in Africa and Asia following World War II?

Question 18 options:

The rise of social justice movements.


The decline of economic interests in the colonies.


European nations determined that the colonies were prepared for self-rule.


The decline in the colonial empires of European nations.

Question 19 (2 points)
What is one way that Japan changed following World War II?

Question 19 options:

They increased the size of their military.


They adopted a parliamentary government.


They increased the power of the emperor.


They adopted a presidential government.

Question 20 (2 points)
What tactic was used to help India gain independence by Mahatma Gandhi?

Question 20 options:

nonviolent resistance


coup d'eta


guerrilla warfare


terrorism

Question 21 (2 points)
What was the effect of the U.S. troops leaving South Vietnam?

Question 21 options:

South Vietnam was reunited by force with North Vietnam and became a single communist nation.


South Vietnam won its independence and became a democratic nation.


South Vietnam moved towards a capitalist economy.


South Vietnam continued to be anti-communist.

Answer 1

13- The effort to ease tensions between the United States and the USSR in the 1970s was called Detente, and took place during the Nixon administration.

14- Using the U.S. military to intervene in civil war where communism was being fought wouldn't be consistent with the American policy of containment, as the purpose of this policy was to defeat the Soviet Union by preventing the expansion of territory under the control of communist regimes through indirect actions, not through military operations.

15- Gorbachev's glasnost reform policy called for openness of speech and expression.

Glasnost was a policy that was carried out along with perestroika by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, from 1985 to 1991. Compared to perestroika, which was concerned with the economic restructuring of the Soviet Union, the glasnost was concentrated in liberalizing the political system. This stipulated freedoms for the media to have greater confidence to criticize the government.

16- What led to the partition of India in 1947 was an increasingly situation of religious tensions between the Islamic and Hindu populations of the area.

17- The decolonization of Africa occurred because of African nationalism along with changing attitudes towards imperialism in the European countries.

The decolonization of Africa was based on three different circumstances: the desire of African peoples to became independent, European distraction for world affairs and popular resentment against racism and inequality.

18- The independence movements in Africa and Asia following World War II were led by the decline of economic interests in the colonies.

19- Following World War II, Japan adopted a parliamentary government. After the atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan presented its unconditional surrender, so it was occupied by the United States, which dismantled the army, liberated the occupied areas, suppressed the Emperor's political power and determined that the prime minister would be elected by the Parlament.

20- Ghandi used nonviolent resistance to gain independence for India. He established new social struggle methods such as the hunger strike, rejected the armed struggle and carried out a preaching of the "ahimsa" (nonviolence) as a means to resist British rule.

21- The effect of the American troops leaving South Vietnam was that South Vietnam was reunited by force with North Vietnam and became a single communist nation.