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History - CST review #4
the questions i missed and don't know in 2nd semester part 2
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History
9th Grade
04/16/2011

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What occurred in the Soviet Union because of glasnost?
Definition
release of imprisoned dissidents (people who disagreed with the government), criticism of the government by the media was allowed, and decreased censorship
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What was perestroika?
Definition
Gorbachev's attempt to modify the economic structure of the Soviet economy by allowing some private enterprise. The move from communism to capitalism
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Why did the Jews want a homeland in Israel?
Definition
They believe it was promised to them by God
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Why did many Western European countries support the creation of Israel?
Definition
Sympathy from the holocaust
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Why did the Palestinians reject the UN partition plan?
Definition
They did want to give away half of their territory
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Wht land did Israel acquire in the Six-day War (1967)?
Definition
West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, and Sinai Peninsula
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What did Israel return to Egypt in exchange for peace after the Camp David Accords?
Definition
Sinai Peninsula
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Basic Mexican History summary
Definition
Mexico won its independence from Spain, Texas was annexed by the US (Mexican-American War)
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As part of the Coolumbian Exchange, what was introduced to Europe?
Definition
potatoes
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As part of the Columbian Exchange, what was carried west across the Atlantic?
Definition
livestock
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Who/What helped the Spanish conquer the Aztecs?
Definition
Native enemies of the Aztecs, the spread of disease, and the possession of superior weapons
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Who was the Aztec King?
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Montezuma
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Who was the light skinned, bearded Aztec god?
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Quetzalcoatl
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Who conquered the Aztec Empire?
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Cortes
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Who was the Native American who helped Cortes as a translator?
Definition
Malinche
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Who was the a Creole Priest who made the famous "Cry of Dolores," demanding independence from Spain?
Definition
Hidalgo
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Who was the leader of Mexico while the French ruled?
Definition
Maximillian
Term
the only Native American to every be the President of mexico. Known for his reforms?
Definition
Juarez
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Who was the Mexican Dictator who invited foreign companies to invest in Mexico?
Definition
Diaz
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Who fought for land reform in Southern Mexico?
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Zapata
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Who was the Mexican Warlord who fought against Diaz in Northern Mexico?
Definition
Villa
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Who was the famous Mexican painter?
Definition
Rivera
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In the mid-1800s, the US entered a conflict due to US actions taken regarding what state?
Definition
Texas
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Mexican-American War
Definition
armed conflict between the United States and Mexico in the wake of U.S. annexation of Texas,
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Why was the Mexican Revolution fought?
Definition
to end Porfirio Diaz's dictatorship
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What did China's Forbidden City reflect?
Definition
distinction between class in China, the wealth of the emperor, and China's isolationsm
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What is Japan's Meiji era known for?
Definition
The modernization of Japan
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What country invaded Manchuria in 1931?
Definition
Japan
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What did Japan conquer in WWII?
Definition
western China, HOng Kong, Southeast Asia, and the Phillippines
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What resulted from the Opium War?
Definition
China suffered a humiliating defeat, the Treaty of Nanjing was signed, and China gave up the island of Hong Kong
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Who is known as the "Father of modern China?"
Definition
Sun Yixian
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Who were the victims of the Shanghai Massacre, and who were their murderers?
Definition
Chinese Communists were killed by Chinese Nationalists
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In the 1920s, who did China's peasants begin to align themselves with?
Definition
the Communists
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Who did the Kuomingtang eventually make an uneasy alliacne with to fight Japan?
Definition
The Chinese Communists
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Who was the leader of the Chinese Nationalist during the Civil War?
Definition
Jiang Jieshi / Chiang Kai-shek
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Where did the Chinese Nationalist flee to after losing the Chinese Civil War?
Definition
Taiwan
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Who was the leader of the Chinese Communists during the Civil War and after?
Definition
Mao Zedong
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What was the Great Leap Forward?
Definition
A time period when the Chinese peasants wasted time melting down steal items instead of farming causing a famine that killed close to 30 million people.
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What was the main purpose of the Cultural Revolution?
Definition
Destroy capitalistic influences and preserve revolutionary Communist values
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During the Cultural Revolution, who were the "new heroes" of China?
Definition
peasants
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During the Cultural Revolution, who were teh Red Guards?
Definition
Student militia units
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What program did Deng Xiaoping embrace and refer to as the "second revolution?"
Definition
The Four Modernizations
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How did Deng Xiaoping increase China's agriculture production?
Definition
He allowed farmers to sell crops in excess of a set quota
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What has even moderate China's governments refused to change?
Definition
China's political system/ amount of freedom
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What Chinese leader began China's move away from Communism?
Definition
Deng Xiaoping
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What were sutdents protesting who were killed in Tinanmen Square?
Definition
China's lack of political freedom
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What country was a former colony of the US?
Definition
The Philippines
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Who wrote the _Wealth of Nations_ which discussed the benefits of capitalism
Definition
Smith
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Who was the founder of communism?
Definition
Marx
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Yalta Conference
Definition
where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill planned the final stages of World War II and agreed to the territorial division of Europe
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United Nations
Definition
•an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security. It included General Assembly and Security Council.
They may or may not have had 50 countries during WWII.
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Rape of Nanjing
Definition
six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing
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Castro
Definition
Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba
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Mao Zedong
Definition
Chinese communist leader
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Boris Yeltsin
Definition
President of Russia. He was elected before the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. He served until 1999. Yeltsin was instrumental in keeping a cout d'etat from occurring which would have returned hard line communists to power in Russia.
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How many signed UN charter?
Definition
50
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Where and when was the first universal election? Who won?
Definition
South Africa; 1994; Mbkei
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Solidarity Movement
Definition
•a union of interests or purposes or sympathies among members of a group
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Walesa
Definition
Polish labor union leader, Nobel laureate, and President of Poland from 1990 to 1995. He was instrumental in the collapse of communism in Poland and throughout Eastern Europe through the work of the labor union Solidarity.
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Gurion
Definition
leader of Jews in Palestine
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In 1979, Soviet Union invaded which country?
Definition
Afghanistan
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glasnost
Definition
•a policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems
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