Survey of World History II Final Test Solutions
Course Introduction
Survey of World History II explores the major developments in global history from approximately the 16th century to the present. This course examines the rise and impact of early modern empires, revolutions, industrialization, colonialism, and the transformation of societies through global conflicts and cultural exchanges. Students analyze significant political, economic, social, and cultural trends that shaped the modern world, emphasizing connections and comparisons across regions. By engaging with primary sources, historical scholarship, and diverse perspectives, learners gain a deeper understanding of how past events influence contemporary global issues.
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The Essential World History Volume II Since 1500 7th Edition by William J. Duiker
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Chapter 14: New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Bantus
Q2) As a result of European expansion into Africa, A)the Mwene Metapa was entirely eliminated by the Portuguese. B)the economic conditions of the continent were unaltered.
C)North African political regimes were toppled by French forces. D)internal conflict among native African groups was intensified. E)most Africans became wealthier.
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Paramesvara
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). the VOC
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). the Gold Coast
Q6) Compare and contrast slavery in Africa before the sixteenth century to African slavery after the arrival of the Europeans.What are the continuities,if any,and what are the differences?
Q7) How did technological advancements,the rise of stronger governments,and economic growth cause European societies to become involved in maritime expansion in the 1400s and 1500s? Why then? Page 3
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Chapter 15: Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building
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Q1) Explain the differences in the terms Catholic Reformation and Counter Reformation.
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). the Holy Roman Emperor,Charles V
Q3) Advocates of "mercantilism" argued for all of the following except
A)governments should abstain from any involvement in the economy.
B)a nation prosperity depended upon a plentiful supply of bullion (gold and silver).
C)exports must exceed imports.
D)tariffs should be place on foreign goods.
E)governments should improve transportation facilities and grant trade monopolies to businesses.
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Ivan IV (the Terrible)
Q5) After the Council of Trent,the Catholic Church had a clear body of doctrine under the supremacy of the pope.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). the witchcraft mania
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Chapter 16: The Muslim Empires
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Q1) Were the personal qualities of Mughal leaders or were the particular circumstances of a period more influential in determining the success or failure of particular reigns before 1707?
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Azerbaijan
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Din-i-Ilahi
Q4) The technological invention associated with the success of the Mongols in conquering much of the Eurasian continent was siege weapons. A)True B)False
Q5) What were the significant cultural contributions of Ottoman art?
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). caliph
Q7) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). vezier/wazir
Q8) What factors can explain the success of the Mughals in unifying much of the Indian subcontinent,something that had not been done since the Mauryas and the Guptas?
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Q9) What were the major cultural contributions of Mughal India? Of Safavid Persia?
Chapter 17: The East Asian World
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Japanese Fortress Palaces
Q2) The peasant revolt that brought down the preoccupied Ming Dynasty,and precipitated the ascension to control of the Manchus,was led by the disgruntled postal worker,
A)Yuan Shi-Kai.
B)Li Zicheng.
C)Zheng Chenggong.
D)Koxinga.
E)Kangxi Lon.
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). bakufu
Q4) The first Jesuit missionary to arrive in Japan was
A)Matthew Ricci.
B)Ignatius Loyola.
C)Francis Xavier.
D)Peter Beckett.
E)Francis of Assisi.
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Edo and Kyoto
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Chapter 18: The West on the Eve of a New World Order
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Q1) The intellectuals of the Enlightenment advocated the A)creation of a new religion of sciences.
B)use of the scientific method to foster progress toward a "better" society.
C)application of religious precepts to all knowledge.
D)inversion of human development.
E)abandonment of reason for the purpose of developing human knowledge.
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). daily newspapers and coffeehouses
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). the Grand Empire
Q4) The most important product of European industry in the eighteenth century was A)spices.
B)steel.
C)coal.
D)textiles. E)oil.
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Declaration of Independence
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Catherine the Great
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Chapter 19: The Beginnings of Modernization:
Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Austro-Prussian War and Franco-Prussian War
Q2) Industrial development in the United States before 1870
A)made no real impression on either the society or the economy.
B)included an efficient transportation network.
C)had Asian immigrants making up over half of the factory labor until the 1850s.
D)depended upon slave labor in the factories.
E)was mainly a development of the southern states.
Q3) The key figure of Russian industrialization was
A)Alexander III.
B)Nicholas II.
C)Ivan Denisovich.
D)Sergei Eisenstein.
E)Sergei Witte.
Q4) The first steam-powered locomotive was pioneered by
A)Richard Trevithick.
B)Elihu Babbage.
C)James Watt.
D)George Stephenson.
E)Edmund Cartwright.
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Chapter 20: The Americas and Society and Culture in the West
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Monroe Doctrine
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Realism
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton
Q4) Was the United States Civil War both the force that ended slavery and,by aiding nationalism,the factor that led to the rise of its imperialism a generation later? Why and how,or why not and how not?
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Charles Darwin's Origin of Species/Descent of Man
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Casper David Friedrich and Eugene Delacroix
Q7) The creator of "relativity theory" was
A)Max Plank.
B)Albert Einstein.
C)Louis Sullivan.
D)Enrico Fermi.
E)Ludwig Holstein.
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Chapter 21: The High Tide of Imperialism
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Q1) Which of the following was not linked to the European "missionary factor" as a motivation to conquer the peoples of Africa?
A)The belief in the tenets of social Darwinism.
B)The acceptance of the concept of the "White Man's Burden."
C)The competition among the European powers to create an African industrial revolution.
D)The desire to spread Christianity.
E)The attempt to bring some medical knowledge and assistance.
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). "modernizing elite"
Q3) In the second half of the nineteenth century
A)a Frenchman built the Suez Canal,but it ultimately came under British control.
B)British General Charles Gordon restored Egyptian rule in Sudan with his Sikh-Gurkha army.
C)Tunisia came under the total domination of Berber rebels.
D)the Turks took control of Tripoli from the Italians.
E)France occupied the island of Taiwan.
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Kenya's central highlands
Q5) Compare and contrast the strategies of European colonialism and neo-colonialism.
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Chapter 22: Shadows Over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge
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Q1) Was the Opium War a turning point in Chinese history? Why and/or why not?
Q2) In the Treaty of Shimonoseki,the Japanese obtained all except A)Taiwan.
B)the Liaodong Peninsula.
C)Port Arthur.
D)greater international prestige.
E)Beijing's Forbidden City.
Q3) What were the causes and consequences of the Russo-Japanese War? For Japan? For Russia? For China?
Q4) Sun's plan for revolution in China called for the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty,followed initially by the A)expulsion of foreign missionaries and businessmen.
B)institutionalization of democratic republicanism in China.
C)takeover of China by the military.
D)execution of anyone opposing the revolution.
E)ouster of all foreigners from China.
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Boxer Rebellion
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Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Japanese gardens and wood-block prints
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and Revolution
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Q1) The Dawes Plan was all of the following except it
A)was developed after the massive inflation of 1923.
B)served as a mechanism for the reduction and stabilization of German war reparations.
C)provided Germany with a $200 million recovery loans.
D)ultimately resulted in American investments in Europe that produced a period of prosperity there in the 1920s.
E)permanently solved all of Germany's economic problems.
Q2) How did the results of the Peace Conference create problems in postwar Europe? For whom,in particular? Could these problems have been dealt with more effectively? If so,how?
Q3) After World War I,many Europeans were overwhelmed with a sense of despair and a belief that something was dreadfully wrong with most Western values.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). David Lloyd George
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). "stream of consciousness"
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24: Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Asia,
the
Middle East, and Latin America From 1919 to 1939
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo
Q2) What happened during the 1920s and 1930s to change the direction of both political and foreign policy in Japan? Were the changes that major,or did factors that had been there since the 1870s simply become more prominent?
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Iran's 1906 Constitution
Q4) In what ways did the ideas and actions of Turkey's Mustapha Kemal compare with those of Mohandas Gandhi in India and the leaders working to enhance Chinese independence? Did Gandhi's presence in India help to offset the divisive impact of communal differences? Why or why not?
Q5) Indian nationalism
A)was initially founded by people who were educated,socially elite urbanites.
B)was sharply divided,Muslim against Buddhist,from the beginning.
C)had an articulate peasant,Sutan Sjahrir,as its first prominent leader.
D)had no organization until the arrival of Gandhi in 1931.
E)was fomented by dissatisfied peasants in the Punjab.
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Mao Dun's Midnight and Ba Jin's Family
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Chapter 25: The Crisis Deepens: World War II
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). the Grand Alliance
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). the Enabling Act
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). National Socialist German Workers' Party/Nazis
Q4) At the Yalta Conference,in February 1945,Franklin Roosevelt informed the Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin that the United States had exploded an atomic bomb.
A)True B)False
Q5) Stalin's first two five-year plans
A)moved sixty million people from European to Asian Russia.
B)transformed Russia into an agricultural country.
C)emphasized the production of consumer goods.
D)resulted in large increases in the nation's heavy industry and oil production.
E)reduced the number of industrial cities in the Urals and Siberia.
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). the Rhineland and Ethiopia
Q7) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Beer Hall Putsch
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Chapter 26: East and West in the Grip of the Cold War
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Q1) The Sino-Soviet dispute
A)was rooted in a struggle between the Chinese and the Soviets for control of Tibet.
B)was aggravated by the lack of Soviet support for Chinese efforts to reclaim Taiwan.
C)bore no relationship to the level of Soviet economic assistance to China.
D)saw Mao describe China as the international leader of industrialized nations.
E)produced a Soviet invasion of China in 1965.
Q2) The Geneva Conference of 1954 divided Vietnam at the 17<sup>th</sup> parallel but envisioned unification elections would be held by 1956.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Douglas MacArthur and the Yalu River and Chinese "volunteers"
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Indochina conflict(s)
Q5) "Star Wars" was John F.Kennedy's plan to send men to the moon by the end of the 1960s.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 27: Brave New World: Communism on Trial
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Q1) "Black cat,white cat,what does it matter so long as it catches the mice?" was said by A)Mao Zedong.
B)Confucius.
C)Nikita Khrushchev.
D)Mikhail Gorbachev.
E)Deng Xiaoping.
Q2) Characteristic of Stalin's domestic policies after World War II was
A)the end of collectivization.
B)an emphasis on the growth of heavy industry.
C)an emphasis on consumer goods.
D)the imprisonment of two million returning soldiers,accused of "capitalist subversion."
E)exiling hundreds of thousands of former czarist officials.
Q3) Stalin's economic policy after World War II was more successful in providing consumer goods than in promoting the growth of heavy industry.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Falun Gong
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Chapter 28: Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Fidel Castro,Bay of Pigs,and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Jimmy Carter and hostages in Iran
Q3) "On balance,the 1960s was the most significant decade in recent American history." Discuss,pro and con.
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Postmodernism,Poststructuralism or deconstruction
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Abstract Expressionism and Jackson Pollack
Q6) The so-called "Americanization of the world" has resulted from all of the following influences except A)Hollywood movies.
B)popular musical forms such as jazz and rock and roll.
C)television.
D)advertising.
E)the bleak world-view of absurdist drama and literature.
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Q7) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). existentialism,Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre
Q8) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).E.F.Schumacher's Small is Beautiful
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Chapter 29: Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). HIV and AIDS
Q2) Uhuru is Arabic for "liberty."
A)True
B)False
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy
Q4) Which of the following statements is not correct about the events of the Arab-Israeli dispute in recent years?
A)The intifada of Russian immigrants divided Israeli opinion,ending peace efforts.
B)Militant Palestinian terrorists have made many Israelis concerned about their security.
C)Anwar Sadat was assassinated by Islamic militants.
D)Recent Arab-Israeli peace talks produced a tentative,partial peace agreement in 1993.
E)Jewish settlements on the West Bank have angered and frustrated many Palestinians.
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Wole Soyinka's The Interpreters
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Chapter 30: Toward the Pacific Century
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Sri Lanka and the Elam Tigers
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Soka Gakkai Buddhist sect
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Junichiro Koizumi
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Urdu and Bengali
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). India's constitution of 1950
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Hyderabad and Kashmir
Q7) In the 1950s,India
A)took a neutral,third-world position in the Cold War.
B)opposed United States "hegemonism" in the Philippines and Manchuria.
C)took the side of the Soviet Union in the Cold War.
D)opposed Chinese independence.
E)rejected the Marxist policies begun by Nehru.
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Q8) What evidence is there of the survival of Confucian values in the nations of East Asia? What Confucian values seem to have been lost? Why?
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