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History Multiple Choice

Questão 1 de 50

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The United States and the Soviet Union became rivals after World War II because

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • The Soviet Union began developing nuclear weapons.

  • The Marshall Plan failed to rebuild war-torn Europe.

  • Communists and Western capitalists distrusted each other.

  • The United States threatened to invade Soviet satellite states

Explicação

Questão 2 de 50

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The Truman Doctrine promised to

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Restore control of satellite states to the Soviet Union.

  • End the civil war in Greece and rid the country of communism.

  • Give economic aid to countries threatened by communism.

  • Use military force to fight Communist expansion in Asia.

Explicação

Questão 3 de 50

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The Marshall Plan was based on the idea that

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • North and South Korea should be unified.

  • Military force was the best way to contain communism.

  • Nations should maintain large arsenals of nuclear weapons.

  • Communism succeeded only in countries with economic problems.

Explicação

Questão 4 de 50

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The Berlin Wall was erected in order to

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Protect Soviet military supplies.

  • Retaliate against U.S. aggression.

  • Prevent the spread of communism.

  • Stop the flow of refugees from East Germany.

Explicação

Questão 5 de 50

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The Warsaw Pact was a

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • development of trade agreements amongst the Western European states.

  • A military agreement between the United States, France, and Great Britain.

  • U.S. policy to rebuild war torn Europe.

  • military alliance of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European states.

Explicação

Questão 6 de 50

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NATO was formed to provide

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Mutual help to the Soviet Union and its allies around the Atlantic ocean.

  • Economic relief to East Germany.

  • Military support for Brazil.

  • Mutual help to the United States and its allies around the Atlantic ocean.

Explicação

Questão 7 de 50

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Which war sparked an expansion of United States' military alliances around the world?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • The Korean War.

  • The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

  • The War in Vietnam

  • Russia's war with Ukraine

Explicação

Questão 8 de 50

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The United States policy of containment was designed to

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Keep communism within its existing boundaries and prevent Soviet aggression.

  • Limit political discussion in the United States.

  • Limit the loss of American troops around the world.

  • Stop biological warfare from damaging the United States.

Explicação

Questão 9 de 50

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What was the arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • The United States nationalized their economy to better beat the Soviets.

  • Both countries built up their armies and increased their weapons arsenals.

  • A reduction of traditional armed forces in favor of nuclear weapons.

  • The Soviets started a free market economy to better beat the United States.

Explicação

Questão 10 de 50

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What was the policy of deterrence?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • The United States needed to become allies with every country in the world to prevent Soviet aggression

  • A policy that led to a reduction of nuclear weapons.

  • The Soviets believed they could stop U.S. aggression by expanding their industrial capacity.

  • The policy held that huge arsenals of nuclear weapons on both sides prevented war.

Explicação

Questão 11 de 50

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After Mao's forces claimed victory in the civil war...

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • The Chinese people voted overwhelmingly to follow Chiang Kai-Shek

  • The communists overturned Mao and took away his leadership.

  • Mao gave up the presidency and invited the south to join his forces.

  • Chiang Kai-Shek and his 2 million followers fled to Taiwan.

Explicação

Questão 12 de 50

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The purpose of Mao's Great Leap Forward program was to

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Allow more people to work in industry.

  • Encourage workers to start new businesses.

  • Increase the governments aid to individuals.

  • Force more people to farm private plots of land.

Explicação

Questão 13 de 50

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The Red Guards consisted of people who were

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Eager to help others.

  • Traditional.

  • Future capitalists.

  • Unhappy and discontented.

Explicação

Questão 14 de 50

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Why did the people of China ultimately reject the Cultural Revolution?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • The Red Guards' actions horrified them.

  • Its ideas were rooted in old culture.

  • It stood for change.

  • Mao did not believe in it.

Explicação

Questão 15 de 50

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Why did the United States fear the spread of communism to China?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • The United States worried that communists would dominate the world.

  • The United States believed China was poised to launch a military attack on the U.S.

  • The United States feared China's growing industrial power.

  • It interrupted United States' plans to invade China.

Explicação

Questão 16 de 50

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The primary purpose of the Red Guards was to

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Encourage western thought and tradition in China.

  • Protect members of the intellectual class in China.

  • Force the Chinese people to obey the new ideas and eliminate the old ones.

  • Preserve Chinese tradition.

Explicação

Questão 17 de 50

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Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party when they won the civil war following World War II

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Premier Nikita Krushchev

  • People's Republic Leader Sun Tzu

  • Chairman Mao Zedong

  • President Chiang Kai-Shek

Explicação

Questão 18 de 50

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Why did the huge communes in China fail?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • The peasants were unwilling to work on farms.

  • Russia invaded China interrupting the switch to communes.

  • Bad weather and the peasants hatred of the new system.

  • The huge communes in China did not fail, they were successful.

Explicação

Questão 19 de 50

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What was Mao's idea of a permanent revolution?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • An ongoing violent conflict between the government and its people.

  • An atmosphere of constant revolutionary fervor enabling China to achieve the final stage of communism.

  • A state of freedom in which every member of society was able to vote on every decision the government made.

  • A cultural shift from devotion to the government to devotion to the family and tradition.

Explicação

Questão 20 de 50

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What was the Little Red Book?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • A pamphlet instructing Communist Party members in urban combat.

  • A journal recording Western thoughts on the Chinese Civil War.

  • A collection of Mao's thoughts and an important source for Chinese communists.

  • A collection of famous Chinese artworks for preservation.

Explicação

Questão 21 de 50

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The United States sent troops to Vietnam to

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Drive the French out of Vietnam.

  • Stop the North from controlling the South.

  • Gain the support of the American public.

  • Stop the South from controlling the North.

Explicação

Questão 22 de 50

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During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba if the United States would

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Not invade Cuba.

  • Send aid to Cuba

  • Stop the blockade of Cuba

  • Remove missiles from Florida.

Explicação

Questão 23 de 50

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The United States considered Cuba a threat because

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Cuba, which is 90 miles from Florida, had ties with the Soviets.

  • The Cuban government had been overthrown and was unstable.

  • Cuban exiles had informed the United States about missiles in Cuba.

  • Castro and Kennedy did not trust each other.

Explicação

Questão 24 de 50

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The United States government believed that if they lost South Vietnam to communism.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • United States citizens would turn against the war

  • North Vietnam would become communist too.

  • Other Asian countries would come to the aid of South Vietnam.

  • Other Asian countries would also fall to communism.

Explicação

Questão 25 de 50

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Which government allied with North Korea in its attempt to take over South Korea?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • United States

  • France

  • Vietnam

  • Soviet Union

Explicação

Questão 26 de 50

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At the end of World War II, which country refused to end its colonial rule of Vietnam?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Japan

  • Britain

  • China

  • France

Explicação

Questão 27 de 50

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What military action began the Korean War?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • China attempted to conquer the Korean peninsula.

  • With the approval of Stalin, North Korean troops invaded South Korea.

  • Japan deployed gunships to rebuild their imperial empire.

  • Vietnam started sending troops to other communist countries in Asia.

Explicação

Questão 28 de 50

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What political theory was used to justify United States military involvement in Vietnam.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • The policy of deterrence, a belief that possessing huge arsenals of nuclear weapons?

  • Mutually Assured Destruction, a military doctrine that guaranteed absolute destruction to all sides if nuclear weapons were used.

  • The cultural revolution, the idea that only through radically transforming a country's culture could communism be stopped.

  • The domino theory, an idea that if one country fails to communism neighboring countries will also fall.

Explicação

Questão 29 de 50

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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was the result of a CIA plan

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • To liberate North Korea from communist rule.

  • To win the Vietnam War.

  • The use exiled Cuban fighters to invade Cuba.

  • To launch a surprise attack on the Soviet Union.

Explicação

Questão 30 de 50

1

When the United States and the Soviet Union used substitutes to fight each other, they became involved in

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • the construction of massive public works projects

  • Economic sabotage

  • Proxy wars.

  • a naval arms race

Explicação

Questão 31 de 50

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British India was divided along religious lines into which two countries in 1947?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Punjab and Bangladesh

  • Bangladesh and Pakistan

  • India and Punjab

  • India and Pakistan

Explicação

Questão 32 de 50

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Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated as a consequence of

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Violence following the creation of Bangladesh.

  • The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.

  • Violence following the independence of Pakistan from India.

  • Conflict surrounding Punjab independence.

Explicação

Questão 33 de 50

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Jawaharlal Nehru modeled the new Congress Party in charge of the independent Indian government after

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • The socialists ideals of the British Labor Party.

  • The communist ideas of the Chinese Communist Party.

  • Traditional Indian monarchies

  • The Russian oligarchies.

Explicação

Questão 34 de 50

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How did Indira Gandhi's government react to militant Sikhs demand for independence of the Punjab region?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • The government cut off all financial aid to the region.

  • The government used military force to crush the rebellion, killing more than 450 Sikhs.

  • The government granted independence to the Punjab region.

  • There was an increase in the number of Sikh representatives in the national government of India.

Explicação

Questão 35 de 50

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What is the significance of Kashmir in India's history?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Its independence brought about peace between India and Pakistan

  • For decades, India and Britain fought over who would control it.

  • The United States and the Soviet Union used it as a political pawn in the Cold War.

  • Religious differences contributed to India and Pakistan fighting for its control.

Explicação

Questão 36 de 50

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How did the principle of nonalignment influence India's foreign policy?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • India overthrew the governments of Bangladesh and Pakistan.

  • India refused to take sides in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.

  • The United States placed an embargo on Indian goods.

  • Nonalignment led to a war with the Soviet Union.

Explicação

Questão 37 de 50

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Why did the United States pressure the Netherlands to grant independence to Indonesia?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • The Netherlands wanted to colonize all of Southeast Asia.

  • The United States supported Achmed Sukarno's non-Communist National Party.

  • The Indonesian Communist Party was close to collapse.

  • The United States wanted to trade with the Netherlands.

Explicação

Questão 38 de 50

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After the Vietnam War the country of Vietnam was unified under what syle of government?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Khmer Rouge

  • Communism

  • Democracy

  • Monarchy

Explicação

Questão 39 de 50

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Which European country refused to grant independence to it colonial possessions in Southeast Asia?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Spain

  • France

  • Great Britiain

  • The United States

Explicação

Questão 40 de 50

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Who has controlled Myanmar since the 1960s?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Aung San Suu Kyi

  • Ferdinand Marcos

  • Pol Pot

  • The military

Explicação

Questão 41 de 50

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Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser promoted Pan-Arabism, the idea that

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Arabic culture needed to be preserved in museums.

  • Syria should be the leaders of the Arabic people

  • Arab countries needed to develop independently from each other.

  • Arabic people around the world should unify

Explicação

Questão 42 de 50

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Which of the following was one result of the 1947 UN resolution that sought to divide the Palestine Mandate?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • The issue of a Palestinian homeland was finally settled.

  • Many Palestinians fled to refugee camps in neighboring Arab countries.

  • All Israeli's came under Palestinian rule.

  • All Palestinians came under Israel rule.

Explicação

Questão 43 de 50

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The basic religious difference between Iran and Iraq is

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Iraqis are mostly Hindu and Iranians are mostly Sunni Muslim.

  • Iranians are mostly Shia Muslims, while Iraqi leaders under Saddam Hussein were mostly Sunni Muslims

  • Iranians are mostly Sunni Muslims, while Iraqi leaders under Saddam Hussein were mostly Shia Muslims

  • Iraqis are mostly Hindu and Iranians are mostly Shia Muslim.

Explicação

Questão 44 de 50

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One result of the Six Day War that caused the Arab-Israeli conflict to continue for years to come was

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • A million Israelis now lived in Arab-occupied territory.

  • Arabs now occupied the Sinai Peninsula.

  • A million Palestinians now lived in areas under Israeli control

  • Arab states doubled the size of territory under their control.

Explicação

Questão 45 de 50

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During the 1980s, some militant Palestinian Arabs

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Signed a cease-fire agreement with Egypt.

  • Created an organization called the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

  • Overthrew the shah in Iran.

  • Led an intifada, or "üprising," in the territories occupied by Israel.

Explicação

Questão 46 de 50

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How did Israel respond to Arab armies assembling in Syria, Jordan, and Egypt?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Israel surrendered territory to Egypt and Jordan.

  • Israel asked the United Nations for help.

  • Israel launched air strikes against Egypt and Jordan.

  • Israel attacked Saudi Arabia.

Explicação

Questão 47 de 50

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The meeting at Camp David hosted by President Carter between Prime Minister Begin and President Sadat resulted in an Israeli Egyptian peace treaty and

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Renewed bombing of Jordan by Israel.

  • A new alliance between Egypt and the United States.

  • A complete withdrawal of Israel from the Sinai peninsula.

  • Additional attacks Israel by the Egyptian Air Force.

Explicação

Questão 48 de 50

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The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Which groups fought back against the Soviets?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • The Taliban supported by the European Union.

  • The PLO supported by Israel.

  • The Khmer Rouge supported by the France and Spain.

  • The Mujahideen supported by the United States and Pakistan.

Explicação

Questão 49 de 50

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Why did many Iranians under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini oppose the Shah of Iran?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • They wanted to become allies with Iraq.

  • They believed the new Iranian culture was influenced by the United States and was based on greed and materialism.

  • They believed that a new communist government would provide more opportunity for the people to access the oil wealth of Iran.

  • The Iranians believed that they needed to expand their military and become closer allies with the United States.

Explicação

Questão 50 de 50

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What event began the Persian Gulf War?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Israel bombed the Egyptian air force.

  • The United States invaded Afghanistan

  • Saddam Hussein sent troops into Kuwait to seize oil fields.

  • Iran invaded Saudi Arabia

Explicação