HIST 410N FINAL EXAM 2 – QUESTION AND ANSWERS (Graded A)
Question 1.1. (TCO 1) Historical research involves four main tasks. Discover refers to the
... [Show More] task of: (Points: 4)
a) locating primary sources to learn the facts
b) Asking questions like "Who created the source and why?"
c) analyzing all the available primary sources and judging which is the most accurate
d) distributing the new findings to the world
Question 2.2. (TCO 6) In 1917, as World War I raged through Europe, Russia: (Points: 4)
a. finally broke through the German army and drove into Germany
b. defeated the Austrians and invaded the Balkans
c. experienced two revolutions and sued for peace
d. was completely overrun by the Germans
Question 3.3. (TCO 5) All of the following were major factors that helped the Reds to win the Russian Civil War except: (Points: 4)
a. peasants and minority nationalities feared a White victory more than a Red one
b. Whites wanted to continue WWI
c. Bolsheviks controlled the heartland of Russia
d. Whites were not unified as well as Bolsheviks
Question 4.4. (TCO 5) What event marked the beginning of World War II? (Points: 4)
a. the Nazi-Soviet Pact
b. the German invasion of Poland
c. the Anschluss
d. Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland
Question 5.5. (TCO 9) What city was divided during the Cold War, and became a hotspot for espionage and intrigue? (Points: 4)
a. Paris
b. London
c. Berlin
d. Rome
Question 6.6. (TCO 9) How did the Korean War start? (Points: 4)
a. Communist troops from South Korea attacked North Korea.
b. Communist troops from North Korea attacked South Korea.
c. China attacked United Nations troops.
d. North and South Korea were divided after a bitter civil war.
Question 7.7. (TCO 8) What was the intention of the Marshall Plan? (Points: 4)
a. to rebuild the military power of western Europe
b. to help the Japanese economy recover from the War
c. to rebuild the economies of war-shattered Europe
d. to prevent the spread of communism into Africa and Asia
Question 8.8. (TCO 6) Bangladesh is: (Points: 4)
a. home to thousands of Muslim radicals who fled Afghanistan
b. the site of a long conflict with the Soviet Union and mujahedin rebels
c. the former eastern part of Pakistan, and one of the world's poorest nations
d. a mountainous region with a small population
Question 9.9. (TCO 2) Which Middle Eastern country is the site of the Kabbah, Islam's holiest site, and the world's largest oil producer? (Points: 4)
a. Egypt
b. Saudi Arabia
c. Iran
d. Kuwait
Question 10.10. (TCO 2) Arab-Israeli wars occurred in: (Points: 4)
a. 1946, 1948, 1955, 1967, 1975
b. 1948, 1958, 1968, 1970, 1973
c. 1948, 1958, 1967, 1973, 1990
d. 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982
Question 11.11. (TCO 4) Poland achieved the election of its first Roman Catholic pope when Cardinal Karol Jozef Wojtyla assumed the papacy as Pope: (Points: 4)
a. John Paul II
b. Paul VI
c. John XXIII
d. John Paul I
Question 12.12. (TCO 4) The only Eastern European country that had widespread bloodshed in 1989 was: (Points: 4)
a. Romania
b. Czechoslovakia
c. Bulgaria
d. Poland
Question 13.13. (TCO 7) One reason that the United States invaded Iraq in 2003 was: (Points: 4)
a. Iraq was thought to have WMDs (Weapons of Mass Destruction)
b. Iraq had invaded Israel
c. Iraq was home to al-Qaeda
d. Iraq invaded Kuwait
Matching
Question 1.1. (TCO 10) Match the terms in Column I with the descriptions in Column II.
(Points: 18)
Potential Matches:
1: belief that the Church should work for social reform Liberation Theology
2: populist president of Argentina during the 1940s and 1950s Juan Peron
3: black civil rights leader during the 1960s Martin Luther King Jr
4: Cuban revolutionary hero who died in Bolivia Che Guevara
5: the native peoples of Latin America Indigenous
6: dictator of Cuba from the 1930s to the early 1960s Fulgencio Batista
Question 2.2. (TCO 3) Match the terms in Column I with the descriptions in Column II.
(Points: 18)
Potential Matches:
1: animals threatened with extinction Endangered Species
2: the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-1950s Global Warming
3: a pattern of resource use that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment for future generations Globalization
4: any form of precipitation that is unusually acidic Acid Rain
5: an ongoing process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated Sustainable Development
6: the change from fertile land to desert, which plagues many African countries Desertification
1. 1. (TCO 1, 2) Identify and analyze two causes of World War I. Use historical examples to support your answer.
Of the various causes of World War I, which do you think was the most important and why? (Points: 40)
The two causes of World War I are; mutual defense alliances and imperialism. In mutual defense alliances, countries over time in Europe made mutual defense agreements that pull the battle. This means that if any one country was attacked, allied countries were bound to defend them. The alliances in the World War I were;
• Russia and Serbia
• Germany and Austria-Hungary
• France and Russia
• Britain and France and Belgium
• Japan and Britain
Austria-Hungary declared a war on Serbia, Russia got involved to defend Serbia. Germany declares war on Russia. Then France drawn against Germany and Austria—Hungary. Germany attacked France through Belgium pulling Britain into war. Then Japan entered the war. Later, Italy and the United States would enter on the side of the allies.
Imperialisms is the second cause for the World War I, when one country increase their power and wealth by bringing additional territories under their control. Before World War I, for European countries parts of Africa and Asia are their contention because these countries provide them raw materials. The increasing competition and desire for greater empires led to an increase in confrontation that helped push the world into World War I. I think the most important cause was mutual defense alliances
Question 2. 2. (TCO 5, 11) Analyze how the stipulations of the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I, along with the Great Depression of the 1930s, contributed to the outbreak of World War II.
Then analyze significant ways in which World War II changed the world. Make sure you use enough historical details to support your answer. (Points: 40)
The peace agreements at Versailles that ended World War I and also rise the tide of nationalism. Both of these forces lead to World War II. The victorious Allies met at the Paris Peace Conference to decide the new makeup of Europe. In that agreement, Russia and the central powers were not allowed to participate. The three Allied leaders - British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, French leader Georges Clemenceau, and American President Woodrow Wilson - had different goals. British are more concerned for rebuilding of England and French wanted to punish Germany. Wilson wanted to make a new League of Nations to prevent future wars. The Allies forced the new German Republic to sign the Treaty. World War II changed the world in the way how to figure our opponents. This war also helps us to recognize our true allies and enemies. This war also improves the technologies used in war. For example this war used atomic bomb. The U.S. dropped atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan. Allies pulled together to defeat Germany and Italy. Military air forces were of great use and improved the odds of winning tremendously.
Question 3. 3. (TCOs 9, 10) Identify and analyze the main events of the Korean War and Cuban Missile Crisis. Then assess how these events affected the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. Make sure you use enough details to support your answer. (Points: 41)
Korean War was the point when the Cold war extended beyond USA and USSR and took a global face. Since 1910, Korea was under the rule of Japan and in 1945, when Soviet Union attacked Japan, it occupied Northern part of Korea and USA occupied South Korea. By 1948, a communist government set its rule in North Korea and a Right wing government set its rule in South Korea but both the countries had border disputes. Due to these disputes, North Korea backed by Soviet Union and China attacked South Korea and 21 UN countries including USA started defending South Korea. The US military troops were overtly involved in the operations of the Korean War. In the post war period, South Korea and USA signed a mutual defense treaty and apart from that South Korea prospered economically more than North Korea. But more or less, the war can be viewed as being fueled by the cold war between USA and Soviet Union.
Question 4. 4. (TCOs 4, 8) Analyze how the Solidarity (Solidarnosc) movement in Poland led to the collapse of communism in Poland. Point out what events led to the growth of the Solidarity movement, and then identify and analyze the events that followed Gorbachev's policy of political pluralism in Poland. Use specific details to support your answer. Then evaluate the relative success of democracy and capitalism in Poland, after the end of the Cold War. (Points: 41)
The Solidarity movement originated in the working class, but unlike the previous three risings it also worked with and was involved with the Polish intellectual community. The most influential cause was unification and working together of Poland's most influential social classes, the Polish intelligentsia, the workers, and the Church. This strategy eventually led to the infamous 'roundtable' talks, and the collapse of communism itself in Poland. The rise of Solidarity accordingly contributed to a far-reaching debate over political and economic reform in the USSR. Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet communist party in 1985. Gorbachev publicly identified himself with reformist Soviet academics who argued that the Polish crisis was attributable not simply to the mistakes of Poland's leaders but to a general weakness afflicting all single-party, planned economies of the Soviet type. Gorbachev's efforts to persuade Soviet workers and managers to take responsibility for the quality of their work, in return for enhanced rewards, met first with apathy, then with hostility and resistance. Gorbachev was attacking the mainspring of the Soviet system. And finally it leads to the collapse of the USSR itself.
The Cold War (1945-1991) was basically an ideological standoff between the ideas of Communism supported by the Russians and Democracy/Capitalism supported by the Americans. A democratic Poland would have been hostile to the Stalin, but it is hard to imagine Poland launching another war against the Soviet Union or contributing to another invasion of the Soviet Union. [Show Less]