Period 6 Review Questions
1. What are some of the NEW scientific paradigms during this period (1900-Present) ?
2, Who helped get the Comstock Law overturned as she pushed for the development of the birth control pill?
3. What are some examples of new military technology developed during the 20th Century that increased wartime casualties ?
4. What is The most famous and strongly integrated regional trading bloc?
5. One groups of people who were displaced during the 20th century was ______
6. Name the land-based dynasties that collapsed due to a combination of internal and external factors during the 20th century.
7. ______was a Nationalist leader of Vietnam who led the fight for independence against the French and later became the Communist leader of North Vietnam.
8. ______was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who burned himself to death in Saigon during the Vietnam War to protest against the persecution of Buddhists by the government in South Vietnam.
9. What ended the Cold War?
10. The proliferation of conflicts led to various forms of ethnic violence and displacement of peoples resulting in refugee populations. Name some examples of Ethnic Conflicts.
11. The 1997 agreement at Kyoto was aimed at controlling which threat?
12. Muhammad Ali Jinnah called for the creation of ______.
13. What was The Bandung Conference?
14. The Egyptian who became the leader of the Arab world in the 1950s and 1960s was______
15. After a long bloody conflict, the Algerians gained their independence in 1962 from ______
16. The leader of the first sub-Saharan African nation to gain independence, Ghana, and the most important Black Nationalist leader in Africa was ______.
17. The disastrous Great Leap Forward was backed by Chinese leader, ______.
18. Which Cold War Warrior and U.S. President helped challenged the Soviet Union’s ability to match U.S. spending in the 1980? He is also known for his free market economic policies as well.
19. Who was the leader of African National Congress and he eventually became the first black President of South Africa? ______
20. Ideologically, the two competing sides in the Cold War were?
21. Who was the Jamaican leader of the Pan African movement who believed blacks should seek return to Africa and celebrate their black pride if they could not return? ______
22. Who was a Hindu leader in the Indian Nationalist Movement, a member of the Indian National Congress, who believed in Satyagraha as the leader of the peaceful, nonviolent protest against the British?
23. The Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) were signed in 1972 between ______& ______
24. Name some examples of a “proxy war” between the Superpowers.
25. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi instituted this policy in India which helped India’s wealthier farmers but drove the masses of peasants into deeper poverty. ______It produced food for the earth’s growing population as it spread chemically and genetically enhanced forms of agriculture.
26. Students in China that were exposed to the democratic societies of western Europe and the U.S. staged a pro-democracy demonstration in 1989 known as
27. Global conflicts had a profound influence on popular culture. An example would be the Paintings authorized by the Communist regimes to create a distinctive art form different from Western cultures and seen as appropriate to the communist mission, glorifying the common people, ______
28 A new spiritual movement developed in China in the 1990s was ______which incorporated elements of Buddhism and Daoism with a focus on meditation and slow moving exercise like Tai Chi.
29.______is a United Nations financial agency founded in 1944 that seeks to promote international monetary cooperation and the stabilization of national currencies and help nations resolve balance of payment problems. It was a new economic institution founded to spread the principles and practices associated with the free market economies throughout the world.
30. A literary and ideological movement founded by black intellectuals, politicians and writers living under French domination in the 1930s which rejected French colonialism and racism and emphasized a shared African heritage and also emphasized some Marxist ideas was ______
31. Give some examples that the notion of human rights became more important in the latter half of the 20th century:
32 What are some Sources of global conflict in the first half of the 20th century?
33. Name an example of the trend in the 20th century i of migration of former colonial subjects to imperial metropolis and maintaining economic and cultural ties between the colony and colonizing country even after the dissolution of the relationship.