Global Liberation and Independence Movements

Global Liberation and Independence Movements
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Global Liberation and Independence Movements
1. The Polish movement that heralded the collapse of Communism
across Eastern Europe was called
(A) A Good Sword
(B) For Our Freedom and Yours
(C) the National Liberation Front
(D) Freedom Now!
(E) Solidarity
2. All of the following are related to the Kenyan independence
movement EXCEPT
(A) Jomo Kenyatta
(B) the Mau Mau
(C) Harry Thuku
(D) Idi Amin
(E) Daniel arap Moi
3. Muhammad Ali Jinnah was the
(A) president of the Muslim League and the founder of Pakistan
(B) chief of Afghani nationalists who fought against the Soviet
invasion
(C) leader of the Tunisian independence movement against France
(D) head of the secessionist Islamic movement in northern Nigeria
(E) promoter of a pan–North African Islamic state in the 1960s
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5. Muslim women who became active participants in Algeria’s war for
independence (1954–1962)
(A) lived primarily in cities
(B) supported the National Liberation Front (FLN)
(C) nursed soldiers but did not actively participate in the fighting
(D) were disparaged by anticolonial Algerian propaganda for fulfilling
an un-Islamic role
(E) made great strides towards female emancipation after the Algerian
War
436. All of the following are true regarding the Tamil people EXCEPT that
(A) they live mostly in southern India and Sri Lanka
(B) the Sri Lankan Civil War cost almost 100,000 lives
(C) they are primarily Buddhist
(D) the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) carried out numerous attacks on civilians
(E) the Tamil Tigers were defeated by the Sri Lankan armed forces in
2009
437. The leader of the Indonesian independence movement who became the
first president of Indonesia and was deposed in a coup in 1966 was
(A) Sukarno
(B) Mohammad Hatta
(C) Suharto
(D) Tunku Abdul Rahman
(E) Yusof bin Ishak
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438. All of the following statements are true regarding the Sikhs EXCEPT that
(A) despite Sikh protests, the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent
divided their homeland in the Punjab
(B) many Sikhs believed that the Indian government desecrated the
Golden Temple at Amritsar
(C) religious violence led to Hindu attacks on Sikhs with the collusion
of the Indian government
(D) the Sikh bodyguards of Indira Gandhi assassinated her in 1984
(E) Sikh militancy eventually led to the creation of the Sikh-majority
state of Khalistan
439. All of the following are true of the literary movement known as Negritude
EXCEPT that
(A) it was influenced by the Harlem Renaissance
(B) it was dominated by French-speaking African and Caribbean writers
in Paris
(C) it began in the 1960s as part of a movement against French
colonialism
(D) Senegalese poet Léopold Senghor was one of the most important
adherents
(E) it decried the lack of humane qualities in European culture compared
to African culture
440. Patrice Lumumba
(A) was placed in power in the Congo by a CIA-backed coup
(B) supported the secession of the oil-rich province of Katanga
(C) won the Nobel Peace Prize for nonviolently settling the so-called
Congo Crisis
(D) was assassinated with the support of the United States and Belgium
(E) was a US-backed dictator who ruled the Congo from 1965 to 1997
441. The first sub-Saharan nation to achieve independence after World War II
was
(A) Ghana
(B) Sierra Leone
(C) Uganda
(D) Kenya
(E) Zambia
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442. All of the following national states became independent nations after
the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991–1992 EXCEPT
(A) Croatia
(B) Albania
(C) Bosnia
(D) Macedonia
(E) Slovenia
443. All of the following are closely related to the struggle against apartheid
in South Africa EXCEPT
(A) Stephen Biko
(B) the Sharpeville Massacre
(C) the African National Congress
(D) the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO)
(E) the Soweto riots
444. The discovery of oil in the Niger Delta led to
(A) the Nigerian government nationalizing the oil industry in 1995
(B) the execution of environmental activists with the collusion of
multinational oil companies
(C) a rise in the production of both cash and food crops in Nigeria
(D) an increase in the standard of living for most Nigerians
(E) the decline of Islamic fundamentalism in Nigeria
445. Which nation was the last to grant women the right to vote?
(A) India
(B) Malaysia
(C) Ecuador
(D) Portugal
(E) Saudi Arabia
446. The US Congress voted to return the Panama Canal and the Panama
Canal Zone to Panama during the administration of President
(A) Lyndon Johnson
(B) Richard Nixon
(C) Jimmy Carter
(D) Ronald Reagan
(E) George H. W. Bush
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