AP World- Ch. 27 Questions

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  1. Which region defied the common pattern of increasing Western domination in the nineteenth century?
    Russia and Japan
  2. Which of the following statements concerning the development of Russia and Japan prior to 1914 is accurate?
    Both Russia and Japan had programs of industrialization underway by 1914, but were unable to rival the industrial might of the West.
  3. The Stolypin reforms
    granted greater freedom to the peasantry from redemption payments.
  4. Which of the following statements concerning Russia's territorial expansion is NOT accurate?
    Russia supported nationalist movements in Poland to create a buffer zone between Russia and the West.
  5. The Crimean War
    was won by Western nations because of industrial advantages over Russia.
  6. What was NOT a consideration in the reform of serfdom?
    It was the purpose of the tsar to sweep away the peasant communities on which serfdom depended.
  7. Local political councils introduced as part of Alexander II's program of reform were called
  8. One of the important results of the establishment of railway systems in Russia was the opening of
  9. Count Witte
    served as minister of finance from 1892 to 1903.
  10. Which of the following was present during the Russian program of industrialization?
    rich natural resources
  11. he political goal of the Russian anarchists was
    the abolition of all formal government in Russia.
  12. Which group used terrorism as their chief political method?
  13. Russian Marxists
    believed that Russia could have a proletarian revolution without going through a distinct middle-class stage.
  14. Which statement concerning the nineteenth-century Tokugawa Shogunate is most accurate?
    The Shogunate continued to combine a central bureaucracy with semi-feudal alliances with regional daimyos and the samurai.
  15. Which group in Tokugawa Japan advocated concentration of specifically Japanese culture?
    national studies group
  16. Which was NOT a policy of the new Meiji government?
    reinforcing the daimyos
  17. Which of the following was NOT an effect of industrialization in Japan?
    rejection of traditional values
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