World Civ: Unit Test

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Chiang Kai-shek became leader of China's ____________ Party after the Warlord Period.
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Nationalist
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Which is the best definition of a command economy?
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an economy managed by the government
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What happened when Hungary opened its borders?
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Thousands of people left East Germany.
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What goal characterized the Chinese revolutionaries in 1911?
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fighting for economic freedom
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What negative effects did East Germany experience after reunification? Check all that apply.
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many business closings slow economic growth
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Which of the following best describes the two sides that faced each other during the Cold War?
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Communists and non-Communists
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When Serbia used murder and terror to eliminate Muslims, they called the policy
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ethnic cleansing
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Which best characterizes Europe in the period between the signing of the Schuman Plan and the formation of the European Union?
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Nations took sizable steps toward cooperation.
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The most important goal of the Schuman Plan was to
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attain stability and peace in Europe.
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Deng Xiaoping felt that the first step to modernizing China's economy involved
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restoring the education system.
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Which of the following phrases best describes East Germany after World War II?
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Communist economic system
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Read the passage from a Soviet ambassador. The foreign policy of the United States . . . is characterized in the postwar period by a striving for world supremacy. This is the real meaning of the many statements by President Truman and other representatives of American ruling circles; that the United States has the right to lead the world. —Nikolai Novikov, Ambassador of the USSR, September 1946 Which of the following words best characterizes the ambassador's perspective of American foreign policy?
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distrust
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Which best explains why the Great Leap Forward hurt China's economy?
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The changes meant farms could no longer produce enough food.
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What is a tariff?
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a tax on goods leaving or entering the country
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Defectors from East Germany were people who
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fled their homes to move permanently to the West.