Practice CST #9

1. In India and Pakistan, feelings of nationalism are intertwined with religious conflict between

Taoists and Buddhists.

Muslims and Hindus.

Buddhists and Hindus.

Christians and Muslims.

2. Use the information below to complete the statement that follows."One way of life is based upon the will of the people, and is distinguished by . . . freedom from political oppression. The second way of life is based on the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the will of the majority. It relies upon . . . the suppression of personal freedoms."This quote from a speech delivered in 1947 forms part of the rationale for the

Monroe Doctrine.

New Frontier.

Truman Doctrine.

Good Neighbor Policy.

3. NATO was created in order to

Develop goodwill between Eastern and Western Europe.

Encourage diplomatic solutions to regional problems in North Africa.

Facilitate regional economic development in North America.

Create a unified military defense between the U.S. and Western Europe.

4. 1. Technological innovations2. Production of nuclear power3. Religious and ethnic conflict4. Existence of vast oil reserves During the twentieth century,which factors from this list have made the Middle East significant to the rest of the world?

1 and 2

3 and 4

1 and 3

2 and 4

5. When the United States sent military aid to African governments to help them resist communism, it was continuing a foreign policy first asserted in the

Marshall Plan.

Potsdam Agreement.

Truman Doctrine.

Teheran Conference.

6. The Soviet Union dealt with uprisings in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia during the 1950s and 1960s by

Taking over direct rule of these countries.

Crushing the uprisings with military force.

Permitting greater democratic reforms in government.

Privatizing industrial enterprises.

7. Use the following information to answer the question.Events of 1968• began as a writers' protest• hard-line Communist leader resigned and was replaced by one more open to democratic reform• new leader instituted reforms allowing greater freedom of speech and the press• Soviets reestablished control and restored hard-line Communists to power In what country did the events beingdescribed above take place?

Czechoslovakia

Yugoslavia

Hungary

Poland

8. The Warsaw Pact was developed in 1955 as a response to the

Formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Start of the Communist revolution in Cuba.

U.S. development of the hydrogen bomb.

UN intervention in Korea.

9. What crisis brought the Soviet Union and the United States to the brink of nuclear war in 1962?

An attempt by leaders in communist Hungary to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact

The creation of East Germany as a separate Soviet military occupation zone

An invasion of South Korea by armed communist forces from North Korea

The installation in Cuba of Soviet offensive intermediate-range missiles

10. The Arab oil embargo against the United States in 1973 was initiated because of U.S. support for

Egypt in the Suez Crisis.

Iraq in its conflict with Iran.

Israel in the Yom Kippur War.

Greece in its conflict with Turkey.