Globalization and Industrial Growth
Western Society and Eastern Europe
Latin America
Africa, the Middle East and Asia
East Asia and the Pacific Rim
100

One similarity among countries that experienced rapid industrialization during the late 1990s and early 2000s was that these nations were

What are developing societies?

100

The most significant issue Canada dealt with in the postwar era was the

What is the separatist movement in French Speaking Quebec?  

100

This political system in Mexico was under control from the 1940s until the 2000 presidential election

What is the Party of the Institutionalized Revolution (PRI)?

100

The greatest barrier to rapid economic breakthroughs in the former European colonies in Africa and Asia was

What is spiraling population increases?

100

__________ headed the American occupation government in Japan after the end of World War II.

Who is Harry Truman?

200

By the end of the twentieth century one of the few countries left in the world that held back from global participation

What is North Korea?

200

Beginning in the Cold War era, Soviet and Western societies shared similar demographic patterns involving

What is decreasing birth rates?

200

The first Latin American nation to extend suffrage to women was

What is Ecuador?

200

India’s Green Revolution most impacted economic growth in the __________ sector

What is the Agricultural sector?

200

__________ dominated the Communist Party of Vietnam from the late 1920s and led the resistance against French and U.S. dominance of this region until his death in 1969.

Who is Ho Chi Minh?

300

The "Yellow Dragon" that China experienced as industrialization increased at the end of the twentieth century was caused by

What is the emission of industrial gasses?

300

By the end of the 1960s, most European workers were employed in

What is the service sector?

300

During the 1950s, radical reform movements in Latin American nations, such as Bolivia and Guatemala, resulted in

What is military takeovers of the national government?

300

In 1972, the new nation of __________ emerged after East Pakistan seceded from West Pakistan

What is Bangladesh?

300

__________ is currently the most common political ideology in most of the Pacific Rim states.

What is communism? 

400

Despite prevention efforts and new treatments that reduced death rates in most parts of the world, AIDS is still an acute problem in areas of

What is Africa?

400

A strong emphasis on central controls coupled with demagoguery and paranoia best described

What is Stalin's rule in the Soviet Union?

400

The activist position taken by Catholic clergy in Latin America during the late twentieth century provoked attacks against the ministry, including the 1980 assassination of

Who is Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador?

400

One of the few secessionist movements that succeeded in Africa and resulted in the division of the country into two states occurred in

What is Sudan?

400

Nationalist rule under Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan during the early postwar era can be described as

What is authoritarian? 

500

Automobile company Volkswagen is __________ because its design is German, its production facilities are in Mexico, and its products are marketed around the world.

What is a multinational corporation? 

500

During the 1960s, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Ingmar Bergman advanced European

What is Filmmaking?

500

By the 1970s, the philosophy of liberation theology used by the Catholic church in Latin America to improve conditions for the poor combined Catholic doctrine with

What is socialist principles? 

500

The post-apartheid 1994 elections in South Africa brought the __________ to power

What is the African National Congress party?

500

The People’s Action Party in __________ suppressed opposition movements and imposed a high degree of unusual discipline on its citizens

What is Singapore?