Welcome to your Grade 12 History chapter 5
After carefully reading the following 30 questions, choose the correct answer.
1.
What was the estimated number of lives claimed by World War II?
2.
What was the name of the U.S. program designed to allocate billions of dollars for the reconstruction of post-war Europe?
3.
After World War II, the multi-polar world was replaced by a bipolar one dominated by which two powers?
4.
Who launched the "Great Leap Forward" in China as a spiritual mobilization for economic development?
5.
What was the outcome of the Great Leap Forward between 1959 and 1962?
6.
What was the primary goal of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution launched in 1966?
7.
Who was named as Mao’s successor in 1969 but later plotted to assassinate him?
8.
What group was charged with the "crimes of the Cultural Revolution" after Mao's death in 1976?
9.
Approximately how many people died in the famine caused by the failure of the Great Leap Forward?
10.
Which US Secretary of State created the European Recovery Program?
11.
During the Cultural Revolution, how were students admitted to universities after they reopened?
12.
What shift in geopolitical power occurred after World War II?
13.
What was the second phase of the Cultural Revolution (1969-1976) characterized by?
14.
Lin Piao died in an airplane crash while attempting to flee to which country?
15.
Which event redrew European borders and led to the creation of Israel?
16.
What was the primary impact of World War II on the European industrial infrastructure?
17.
The divisions of which two countries were major results of World War II?
18.
In what year did Mao Zedong die?
19.
What happened to industrial production in China during the Great Leap Forward?
20.
Unlike World War I, what did the Western victors of World War II NOT demand from defeated nations?
21.
Who took Mao's place as head of state after the failure of the Great Leap Forward?
22.
What was the "bipolar world" characterized by?
23.
What occurred during the Great Leap Forward regarding grain reports?
24.
After the 1976 arrests, what was the event that marked the end of the Cultural Revolution?
25.
The Marshall Plan was created for the reconstruction of which continent?
26.
What was the "announced goal" of the Cultural Revolution regarding Mao’s power?
27.
Which of the following was a result of the Cultural Revolution?
28.
In 1968 and 1969, who did Mao call in to take over the revolutionary committees?
29.
What happened to Mao's successor, Lin Piao, in 1971?
30.
Which powerful victor of World War II is NOT mentioned as part of the bipolar world shift?
