1. During World War II, Dutch government-in-exile had intention to create a "Commonwealth" of the following region EXCEPT____.
a. Indo-Chinese
b. Indonesia
c. Surinam;
d Curacao
2. Malaysia became independent in 1957 from ____.
a. Dutch
b. France
c. Britain
d. U.S.
3. Following are Portuguese colonies in Africa EXCEPT____.
a. Mozambique
b. Angola
c. Rhodesia
d. Guinea-Bissau
4. Majority of white settlers of ____ remained as citizens of the colony after its independence.
a. Indonesia
b. Algeria
c. Angola
d. South Africa
5. The fundamental reason of U.S.'s military involvement in Iran domestic issue in 1950s was ____.
a. protection of its citizens
b. oil
c. support of democratic government
d. support of human right there
6. USSR got control of the following states EXCEPT ____.
a. Poland
b. Czechoslovakia
c. Romania
d. Finland
7. After World War II, Stalin did all the following EXCEPT ____.
a. containment of returning of POWs in labor camps
b. imprisonment and execution of potential dissenters
c. shutdown of information about the other side
d. accept Jews as "cosmopolitans" in USSR
8. Which of the following was not led by Moscow?
a. NATO
b. Cominform
c. Comecon
d. Warsaw Pact
9. Soviet economic system was good for the following EXCEPT ____.
a. in war time directing resources to military enterprises
b. directing resources to scientific enterprises
c. directing resources to the extensive Soviet educational system
d. producing in sufficient quantity and quality to satisfy people's changing needs
10. Which of the following cooperation in Western Europe happened first after World War II?
a. Coal and Steel Community
b. Treaty of Rome
c. European Economic Community
d. European Union
11. China today is NOT ____.
a. creditor of the United States
b. purchaser of raw materials in the west's ex-colonies
c. consumer of Europe's luxuries
d. leader of developing countries
II. True or False
1. France and Britain considered World War II was the beginning of the end of empires.
2. By the late 1950s, the "Third World bloc" gained equal military, economic and people right across all nations.
3. As Japan's power collapsed, nationalist leaders had proclaimed new governments in Indochina and Indonesia, and imperial rulers would have to either persuade independent leaders to participate in an overarching system-federation or commonwealth-or shoot their way back in. The Netherlands and France tried both approaches.
4. British and American were great supporters of Dutch to keep Indonesia as its colony after World War II.
5. Hundreds of thousands died in war in 1947 during India-Pakistan partition.
6. Britain and France recognized that selling tropical commodities from their colonies might be the only way for countries with shattered industrial plants and huge debts to earn dollars and promote economic recovery.
7. For France, in "old colonies" like those of the Caribbean, inhabitants were citizens; in "new colonies" such as those in Africa, inhabitants had mostly been subjects.
8. There was the schizophrenic character of postwar French colonialism-at times integrative, capable of rational debate with African or Asian political activists, at times brutally violent against an entire category of people perceived to be a threat.
9. In 1950s in Africa, similar to France, more decentralized colonial structure of Great Britain still fostered such a debate over equivalence of all subjects of the queen.
10. As colonies turned into independent states and possibilities for converting empire into federation came to naught, France and Britain became more firmly centered in Europe.
11. the National Liberation Front contained so many different visions of a liberated society and so many competing factions that civil war erupted within weeks after the French agreed to recognize Algerian independence.
12. The horizontal unity of third world nations replaced vertical connections between the leaders of rich states with those of poor ones after conference of Bandung in 1955.
13. Deep alienation from the failures and hypocrisies of Soviet claims led to an almost complete defection of elites from party rule in 1991 when conservatives tried to turn back the clock.
14.While planning for the future during the war, the Roosevelt administration expressed no small antagonism toward the British and French empires.
15. The United States provided incentives-including after 1949 a program of development assistance-forelites in new and old states to cooperate with transnational corporations and American policy. Washington used its economic and military muscle to prevent sovereign states from going too far against what were perceived as American interests.
16. The United States and its allies decided, after hesitation, not to eliminate the Japanese emperor and to leave many of the large corporations of both Germany and Japan intact; they also tried to ensure that militarism would not return to either place.
17. For China, the years between the fall of the Qing in 1911 and the declaration of the People's Republic in 1 949 turned out to be yet another interlude in a very long imperial history, not the end of a great state.
18. After 1949, China became wholeheartedly a disciple of Russian communism.