AP Multiple Choice Questions1750 – 1914

and 1914 - Present

1. Which of the following policies led to radicalism in both the French Revolution after 1789 and the Russian Revolution after 1917?

a) Strikes by factory workers

b) War against foreign enemies

c) Coming to power of the peasantry

d) Creation of a salaried clergy

e) Imposition of socialism

Answer: B

2. The first successful revolution in the Carribean and South America was launched in:

a) Haiti

b) Argentina

c) Cuba

d) Columbia

e) Jamaica

Answer: A

3. In the nineteenth century, women’s use of bound feet (China), white face paint (Japan), and corsets (Western Europe) are examples of which of the following?

a) Practices that inhibit female activitiesb) The beauty of middle-class womenc) Fashions that spread worldwided) The middle class’ setting the fashion for

womene) Women’s participation in the workforce

Answer: A

4. Anti-colonial movements like the Congress Party in India and the Young Turks agreed on which of the following?

a) Their emphasis on purely linguistic nationalismb) The desire to return their societies to an earlier

pre-industrial age.c) Their intent to engage in territorial expansion at

the expense of their weaker neighbors.d) The need for reform in order to resist European

imperialism. e) The need to persuade all anti-colonial

movements to cooperate with European socialist parties.

Answer: D

5. “Extraterritoriality” can best be described as which of the following?

a) Exemption of foreigners from the laws of the country in which they live.

b) Expansion of a country’s international borders to natural boundaries.

c) Extension of dual citizenship to immigrants

d) Acquisition of new colonies or territoriese) Establishment of a government in exile.

Answer: A

6. Which of the following best explains why Japan was more successful than China in resisting imperialist encroachments in the nineteenth century?

a) Japan’s manipulation of the rivalries among western governments.

b) The introduction of democracy by the Meiji Restoration

c) The willingness of Japan’s elite to sponsor reform

d) Lack of interest in Japanese marketse) Abundant natural resources

Answer: C

7. Which of the following facilitated European expansion in Asia in the nineteenth century?

a) The popularity of democratic values among Asians

b) A general easing of tensions and cooperative expeditions among European powers.

c) Europe’s development of new military technologies

d) Asians’ lack of resistance to European diseases

e) Europe’s ability to send numerically superior armies to Asia

Answer: C

8. Which of the following is an accurate comparison of the Chinese and the Mexican revolutions of the twentieth century?

a) Both promoted imperialism

b) Both were supported by Japan

c) Both promoted religious education

d) Both were supported by an elite group of landlords.

e) Both generated land-redistribution policies

Answer: E

9. Which of the following statements about Africa after 1946 is true?

a) Most African colonies gained national independence

b) The Organization of African Unity resolved the issues that most African states found divisive

c) Most African countries joined either NATO or the Warsaw Pact.

d) There was little postcolonial conflict in newly independent states.

e) Colonial patterns of trade disappeared.

Answer: A

10. Which of the following countries experienced the most rapid growth during the Second World War?

a) China

b) Japan

c) Germany

d) The Soviet Union

e) The United States

Answer: E

11. By 1980 most industrialized countries reached a fairly stable population level, but population growth in non-industrialized countries continued at a very high rate. The most like explanation for this difference is that:

a) Climatic shifts resulting from global warming have caused population decline in the industrialized countries.

b) The “green revolution” was rejected by industrialized countries but embraced by non-industrialized countries.

c) Farmers in industrialized countries concentrated on growing cash crops for export rather than food crops for domestic consumption

d) Pollution in industrialized countries caused a decline in human fertility rates

e) Children are a more important source of labor in agricultural than in industrial societies

Answer: E

12. What do Israel, India and Canada have in common?

a) Economies based primarily on the production of raw materials.

b) Defense systems dependent on aid from the United States

c) Parliamentary forms of governmentd) Two official languages at the national

levele) One predominant state religion

Answer: C

13. Which of the following describes the major impact of the introduction of coffee growing in places like Kenya and El Salvador after 1880?

a) The end of taxes paid to the governmentb) The weakening of the European colonial

military and landowning elitec) Access to cheaper food for Africans and Latin

Americansd) Increased control over the land by Africans

and Latin Americanse) Greater dependence on foreign markets by

Africans and Latin Americans

Answer: E

14. Which of the following is an accurate description of relations between European states and the Ottoman Empire in the period 1815 to 1914?

a) The Ottomans were expanding at the expense of Russia, England and France

b) Russian, English and French expansion came at the expense of the Ottomans.

c) The Ottomans, in alliance with the Russians, English and French, sought to impede German unification.

d) The Ottomans supported nationalism in the Balkans to destabilize Europe.

e) The Ottomans and the French cooperated in colonizing North Africa.

Answer: B

15. Which of the following is true of both Russia and Japan by 1914?

a) Both were characterized by a high degree of ethnic homogeneity.

b) Both had effective democratic institutions that restrained the power of the monarchs.

c) Both had low rates of literacy

d) Marxism had become a strong influence among urban workers in both countries.

e) Rapid, state-sponsored industrialization had occurred in both countries.

Answer: E

16. During the nineteenth century, Asian and African rulers usually desired transfer of which of the following western technologies?

a) Medicines

b) Weapons

c) Navigational instruments

d) Textile manufacturing equipment

e) Chemical fertilizers

Answer: B

17. In the nineteenth century, the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires were two examples of:

a) Nationalistic empires

b) Republican empires

c) Colonial empires

d) Multinational empires

e) Nation-states

Answer: D

17. Which of the following was among the first results of the European Industrial Revolution in other parts of the world?

a) The beginning of the transatlantic slave tradeb) Increased demand for commodities such as

cotton and palm oilc) The search for oil in Africa, Asia and Latin

Americad) Construction of textile factories in Africa and

Asiae) The partition of Africa by European imperial

powers.

Answer: B

18. In the nineteenth century, Latin American urban dwellers were most similar to western European urban dwellers in which of the following areas?

a) Literacy and cultural tastes

b) Ethnic and racial composition

c) Export and import patterns

d) Standards of living

e) Levels of literacy

Answer: A

19. Of the following, which represents a challenge to superpower domination by a smaller nation during the Cold War?

a) Prague Spring

b) Helsinki Accords

c) Brezhnev Doctrine

d) Marshall Plan

e) Truman Doctrine

Answer: A

20. In what region of the world do the largest number of Muslims live?

a) Europe

b) North Africa

c) The Middle East

d) South and Southeast Asia

e) Sub-Saharan Africa

Answer: D

21. Mao Zedong and Mohandas Gandhi both appealed to which of the following as a base of support?

a) Warlords, wealthy landowners, and merchants

b) Westernized elites

c) Traditional rulers

d) Peasants

e) Urban factory workers

Answer: D

22. Which of the following led to the most dramatic change in the status of Chinese peasant women in the 1940s and 1950s?

a) The policies of Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) that attempted to give rural women more economic opportunities

b) Maoist principles that banned arranged marriages and made women an important part of the Communist women’s movement.

c) The Christian missionaries and their work among peasant families

d) The success of the Japanese during the occupation in making men and women equal participants in the economy

e) United Nations policies that provided women in rural China with resources and an education

Anwer: B

23. Which of the following countries practiced indirect rule in governing its colonizes in Africa?

a) Portugal

b) France

c) Germany

d) Great Britain

e) Belgium

Answer: D

24. “Perestroika is an urgent necessity arising from the profound processes of development in our socialist society. This society is ripe for change.”

Which of the following spoke the words above?

a) Adolph Hitlerb) Leninc) Karl Marxd) Boris Yeltsine) Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer: E

25. Western European foreign policy in the late 1800s was characterized by:

a) Pan-Slavism, colonialism, and an arms race

b) Détente, colonialism, and an arms racec) Imperialism, militarism, and deterenced) An arms race, imperialism, and a series

of alliancese) Containment, détente, and the domino

theory

Answer: D