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The "new" products that European nations sought to obtain from colonies in Africa andAsia in the nineteenth century included - ANSWER oil tin rubber
In the nineteenth century, European nations exploited areas of Asia and Africa for thefollowing except - ANSWER manufactured goods to be sent from Asia to Europe.
in the 19 century imperialism - ANSWER b. was motivated by a desire to control marketsas well as raw materials.
neocolonialism refers to euro colonial tactics - ANSWER e. after former Europeancolonies were replaced by independent nation-states.
Remote location and mountainous terrain spared which of the following from colonialrule? - ANSWER etheopia and afrghanistan
A rising non-western nation that avoided colonial subjugation by pursuing a concertedstrategy of political and economic reform was - ANSWER JAPAN
What was the general idea of Thomas Babington Macaulay's educational policy forBritain's Indian subjects? - ANSWER We should produce a class that is Indian in blood and color but English in taste and intellect. Which of the following is not a true statement about nineteenth-century Westernexpansion in Southeast Asia? - ANSWER Burma retained its independence.
All of the following are correct about the slave trade except it - ANSWER e. it revived inEast Asia because of the opium trade.
- David Livingstone - ANSWER obtained great fame from his African missionary andanti-slavery work.
The Boers were predominantly of what ethnic background? - ANSWER dutch the great trek - ANSWER was the northeastward migration of the Boers after the Britishtake-over of the Cape Colony. in southern africa in the 1800s - ANSWER the British were more sympathetic to therights of the local population than were the Boers. Which of the following pairs, naming the European power and its African holding, is notcorrect? - ANSWER germany-congo
European powers rushed to increase their penetration of Africa because of all except -ANSWER fear of Russian economic expansion into Central Africa.
hich of the following was not linked to the European "missionary factor" as a motivationto conquer the peoples of Africa? - ANSWER c. The competition among the European powers to create an African industrial revolution. The missionary who urged Europeans to introduce the "three Cs" (Christianity,commerce and civilization) was - ANSWER david livingston
The Berlin Conference of 1884 - ANSWER b. established guidelines to ease the frictionscreated by European ambitions in Africa.
the Boer War - ANSWER b. was the result of the discovery of gold and diamonds in theBoer-held Transvaal region.
f The opening of the Suez Canal preceded the Berlin Conference over Africa. - ANSWER t In order to avoid violence and to gain the popular support of colonial peoples, theEuropeans generally quickly introduced democratic institutions in their colonies. - ANSWER f In Southeast Asia, the European emphasis on cash crops led in many areas to thereplacement of subsistence agriculture by the growth of large plantations. - ANSWER t
In general, the British preferred direct rule, while the French usually implementedindirect rule in their African colonies. - ANSWER f
n most of East Asia, such as in Japan, imperialism did not result in the establishment offormal Western colonial control. - ANSWER t
Lord Macartney's trip to Beijing in 1793 - ANSWER failed, as the Chinese governmentdid not want additional trade with Britain.
To try to increase trade profits in China, the Britis - ANSWER shipped large amounts ofopium into China at a massive profit.
Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the nature of the OpiumWar? - ANSWER The British used Chinese objections to opium importation as a pretext to unilaterally invade China and forcibly open it to Western trade The Opium War - ANSWER gave Britain control of Hong Kong. Which of the following was not a feature of the treaty that ended the Opium War? -
ANSWER The British agreed to stop exporting opium to China. the taiping rebellion - ANSWER "peaked" with the rebel capture of the old Ming capitalof Nanjing.
Hong Xiuquan - ANSWER was the Christian leader of the Taiping Rebellion. the "spheres of influence" - ANSWER were in part the result of local chinese strongmento sell exclusive economic priveleges to foreign governments and merchants
In 1894, the Qing went to war with Japan over - ANSWER Korea The Open Door Policy - ANSWER served to calm the increasingly frantic pace ofWestern imperialism in China.
The Boxer Rebellion - ANSWER b. was an uprising against foreigners by a secret societyopposed to foreign imperialism.
The medical doctor who formed the Chinese nationalist organization known as theRevive China Society was - ANSWER Sun Y at-sen.
The Chinese revolution of 1911 - ANSWER eft a power vacuum in the country due to thecollapse of the Manchu Dynasty.
All of the following are correct about China at the end of the nineteenth century except -ANSWER the Qing had finally succeeded in uniting all Chinese behind the regime.
The Japanese opening to the West resulted from - ANSWER the naval expeditions ofCommodore Perry.
Hong Xiuquan claimed to be the younger brother of Jesus Christ. - ANSWER t In the 1890s, the Boxers expelled the Russians and the Germans from the Liaodong andShandong peninsulas, but failed to drive Britain from Hong Kong. - ANSWER f
Footbinding in China was practiced exclusively among upper-class women who did nothave to perform physical labor. - ANSWER f
By the beginning of the nineteenth century, the practice of foot-binding had completelybeen eradicated in China. - ANSWER f
In spite of the democratic form of Japan's Constitution of 1890, the nation remainedunder the control of a ruling oligarchy - ANSWER t
As a result of the Chinese-Japanese War of 1894, Japan replaced China as theparamount power in Vietnam. - ANSWER f
Japanese industrial development in the late nineteenth century was accomplishedwithout significant government involvement. - ANSWER f
Unlike women in Europe and the United States, Japanese women did not tend to take upout-of- home employment prior to World War I. - ANSWER f
CHAPTER - ANSWER 23 On June 28, 1914, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, wasassassinated in the Bosnian city of - ANSWER Sarajevo.
Among the major factors leading to the outbreak of war in mid-1914 was - ANSWERreckless brinkmanship on the part of Europe's diplomats.
Using the Schlieffen Plan, - ANSWER Germany invaded France by way of Belgium. All of the following developments occurred during the first year of World War I except -ANSWER Russia badly defeated the Germans at the Battles of Tannenberg and Masurian Lakes. In a failed effort to open a Balkan front, in 1915 the British launched an attack on -ANSWER gallipoli
By 1917, World War I had - ANSWER forced the Germans into waging unrestrictedsubmarine warfare against the United States
he troops of which country turned the tide of the war in 1918? - ANSWER USAAA!! The United States in or immediately following World War I - ANSWER took an idealisticstance at the Paris Peace Conference.
The British government in World War I - ANSWER sharply limited free speech when itimplemented the Defense of the Realm Act.
Which of the following is not true? During World War I, West-European governments -ANSWER sought to strengthen free-market capitalism.
Tsar Nicholas II abdicated his throne as a result of strikes that broke out - ANSWERafter working class women staged a massive food march on International Women's Day in Petrograd in early 1917. The Provisional Government that took power after the tsar abdicated was headed by -ANSWER alexander kerensensky
Which of the following was not a penalty imposed on Germany in the Versailles Treaty? -ANSWER the transfer of Bavaria to France as a reparations payment
Which of the following nations were created by the 1919 Paris Peace Conference? -ANSWER Czechoslovakia and Polan
Which of the following is an accurate description of Middle Eastern "mandates"instituted after World War I to institute Western imperialism into former Ottoman territories? - ANSWER Britain took control of Iraq and Palestine. In retrospect, it is clear that the First World War - ANSWER helped to produce structuralcrises that toppled and/or destabilized governments across central and eastern Europe, even going so far as to deliver a jolt to the great European overseas empires. Which of the following was a manifestation of American isolationism? - ANSWER failureof the United States to join the League of Nations
The crisis stemming from German non-payment of its 1922 reparations installment -ANSWER led to severe hyperinflation, as Germany's "passive resistance" made the mark worthless. The Treaty of Locarno - ANSWER guaranteed the new German borders with Belgiumand France in the west.
All of the following statements are correct about the Great Depression except -ANSWER economic depressions were a new phenomenon in the European experience.
- As a result of the Great Depression, - ANSWER Marxism and fascism gained inpopularity.
The Popular Front in France - ANSWER faced great economic challenges such asrunaway inflation and later the Great Depression.
The Weimar Republic - ANSWER initiated a program of workers' rights, but its policiesfailed to end the depression.
The New Deal was the attempt by the Roosevelt Administration to - ANSWER have thefederal government participate more actively in the economy
In ten months at Verdun, 700,000 men lost their lives for only a few miles of terrain. -ANSWER t
It was the decision of the German government to return to unrestricted submarinewarfare that brought the United States into World War I in 1917. - ANSWER t
Because of post-war economic growth, the great majority of women retained their jobsafter World War I. - ANSWER f
In the Great Depression, most democratic governments followed the classical liberalremedy by lowering wages and raising tariffs. - ANSWER t
By the end of the civil war in 1921, the Soviet economy had recovered to 90 percent ofits 1913 levels. - ANSWER f
fter World War I, many Europeans were overwhelmed with a sense of despair and abelief that something was dreadfully wrong with most Western values. - ANSWER t
- Which of the following statements is not correct about the events of the Arab-Israelidispute in recent years? a. The intifada of Russian immigrants divided - ANSWER kk
