Africa/Asia: History

1.

1 point

What happened to U.S. General Douglas MacArthus during the Korean War?

He became a hero to North Koreans

President Truman Fired him.

The American people disgraced him.

He got transferred to China.

2.

1 point

Which organization voted to create the state of Israel in 1948?

League of Nations

United Nations

European Union

World Jewish Federation

3.

1 point

Beginning with President Eisenhower, several U>S. presidents expanded U.S. military involvement in Vietnam. The main goal of the U.S effort was to

assist the Viet Cong to rebuild North Vietnam

stop China from making Vietnam a colony

stop Communist forces fro taking over the whole nation

support the presidency of Ho Chi Minh

4.

1 point

What event led directly to the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001?

al-Qaeda's September 11 terrorist attack

Iraq's invasion of Kuwait

Iran's attack on Iraqi oil fields

Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza strip

5.

1 point

the 1977 Camp David Accords were a peace agreement between which two countries?

Israel and Syria

Iran and Iraq

Saudi Arabia and Iran

Israel and Egypt

6.

1 point

Mao Zedong's program to renew the spirit of the Chinese revolution was called the

Great Leap Forward

Cultural Revolution

Bourgeois Revolution

Long March

7.

1 point

Which reason explains how Japan was able to rebound from defeat in World War II and become an economic power?

abundant natural resources for manufacturing

economic assistance from the Soviet Union

rebuilding assistance from the United States

growing military industrial complex

8.

1 point

Which country gained control of the land as a result of the Six-Day War in 1967?

Israel

Syria

Saudi Arabia

Lebanon

9.

1 point

Which anti-apartheid leader became president of South Africa in 1994?

Mansa Musa

Nelson Mandela

Zara Yakob

Frederik Wilem de KlerK

10.

1 point

Mohandas Gandhi is BEST remembered as

the head of the Communist revolution in Vietnam

the leader of India's movement to achieve independence from Britain

president of the East India Company

China's most famous nationalist leader

11.

1 point

After which war did the Ottoman Empire officially come to end?

Vietnam Wr

World War II

World War I

U.S Civil War

12.

1 point

One of the MAIN reasons the United States occupied Japan after World War II was that

China wanted this to happen since Japan had taken over China prior to World War II

Japan already showed that it was incapable of governing itself as shown by the puppet government of Manchukuo

the United States never wanted Japan to be a militaristic power again

Japan's economy was already strong; it just needed help with its government

13.

1 point

After World War II, Korea was

controlled in the north by the Soviet Union

controlled in the south by the Soviet Union

completely controlled by the Soviet Union

controlled in the north by the United States

14.

1 point

Since the withdrawal of Israeli troops, where in the present-day country of Israel have the Palestinian people began self-rule in an effort to establish a Palestinian state?

Golan Heights

Negev

Haifa

Gaza Strip