Deck 31: South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Global Connections, Since 1945

Question 1

In 1971, East Pakistan did which of the following?

A) It declared war on India.
B) It seceded from West Pakistan and renamed itself Bangladesh.
C) It developed nuclear weapons.

Answer 1

It seceded from West Pakistan and renamed itself Bangladesh.

Question 2

The greatest religious violence in recent Indian history was between which groups?

A) Buddhists and Hindus
B) Muslims and Hindus
C) Christians and Muslims

Answer 2

Muslims and Hindus

Question 3

In what conflict did Pakistan forge an alliance with the United States?

A) The Korean War
B) The Vietnam War
C) The 2001 Afghanistan conflict

Answer 3

The 2001 Afghanistan conflict

Question 4

What is the largest minority group in Sri Lanka?

A) Pakistanis
B) Sinhalese
C) Tamils

Question 5

Nearly one-half of all manufacturing jobs in Pakistan are in what industry?

A) Steel
B) Textiles
C) Weapons

Question 6

When did India achieve its independence?

A) 1953
B) 1933
C) 1947

Question 7

How many Muslims are there in India?

A) 20 million
B) 100 million
C) 140 million

Question 8

In what year did France withdraw from Vietnam?

A) 1950
B) 1954
C) 1962

Question 9

In what city is the Bollywood film industry centered?

A) Mumbai
B) Bangalore
C) New Delhi

Question 10

Who was the world's first woman prime minister?

A) Khaleda Zia of Bangladesh
B) Hasina Wajed of Bangladesh
C) Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka

Question 11

After 1991, two parties, and the women who head those parties, have alternated what top leadership spot in Bangladesh?

A) Grand Imam
B) First Parliamentarian
C) Prime Minister

Question 12

Pakistan is what percent Sunni Muslim?

A) 40 percent
B) 60 percent
C) 95 percent

Question 13

Ngo Dinh Diem, the U.S.-supported leader of South Vietnam, was unpopular for which of the following reasons?

A) His pro-Muslim policies alienated Buddhists.
B) He pushed for political liberalization too quickly.
C) He was seen as an American puppet.

Question 14

Bangladesh is officially which kind of states?

A) A Muslim state
B) A secular state
C) A Hindu state

Question 15

Roughly what percentage of Indians live below the poverty line?

A) 90 percent
B) 50 percent
C) 75 percent

Question 16

In 2009, Indian courts overturned laws prohibiting what?

A) Homosexuality
B) Women's education
C) Islam

Question 17

India's first non-Hindu Prime Minister, in 2004, was which of the following?

A) Manmohan Singh
B) Sonia Gandhi
C) Indira Gandhi

Question 18

What is the national language of India?

A) Urdu
B) English
C) Hindi

Question 19

Violence in Sri Lanka has traditionally erupted between which two groups?

A) Majority Buddhists and minority Hindus
B) Majority Hindus and minority Buddhists
C) Majority Buddhists and minority Muslims

Question 20

Seeking independence from the French, which text did Viet Minh leader Ho Chi Minh refer to while describing his cause?

A) The Declaration of Independence
B) The Declaration of the Rights of Man
C) The Bible

Question 21

In 1950, Indonesia gained independence from which European nation?

A) Britain
B) France
C) The Netherlands

Question 22

Which of the following is the dominant demographic group in Malaysia?

A) Malay Muslims
B) Malay Buddhists
C) Chinese

Question 23

Which U.S. President began the United States' military involvement in Vietnam?

A) Dwight D. Eisenhower
B) John F. Kennedy
C) Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 24

What was the Muslim League's vision for independent India?

Question 25

How many ethnic groups live in Indonesia today?

A) More than 50
B) More than 200
C) More than 700

Question 26

What was the INC's vision for independent India?

Question 27

What is the BJP's position on Muslims in India?

Question 28

Which of the following is largely due to chemical defoliants used by the American army in Vietnam?

A) Fewer forests than anywhere else in Southeast Asia
B) The world's highest rate of birth defects
C) More affordable farmland than China

Question 29

What Laotian group did the United States support and arm in 1960?

A) The Hmong
B) The Pathet Lao
C) The Khmer Rouge

Question 30

What role did government play in the new Indian economy?

Question 31

Who was the first Prime Minister of independent Burma?

A) Aung San
B) Pol Pot
C) U Thant

Question 32

By 1968, how many American troops were in Vietnam?

A) 100,000
B) 250,000
C) 550,000

Question 33

Who removed Sukarno from power in Indonesia in 1965?

A) Communist insurgents
B) United States
C) Indonesia generals

Question 34

What is the Tet Offensive regarded as the turning point in the Vietnam War?

A) It resulted in the defeat of U.S. forces in the region.
B) Negative media coverage of Tet in the United States solidified the antiwar movement.
C) It allowed the establishment of the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

Question 35

Which of the following is the most populous nation in Southeast Asia, with 240 million people?

A) Vietnam
B) Indonesia
C) Malaysia

Question 36

Which of the following nations is NOT a member of ASEAN?

A) Brunei
B) Malaysia
C) Australia

Question 37

What were Nehru's domestic policies?

Question 38

Why did Kashmir join India rather than Pakistan?

A) The Muslims of Kashmir were separatists who feared the Muslims of Pakistan.
B) The leader of Kashmir was a Hindu.
C) India threatened to invade Kashmir if it did not join.

Question 39

Why did the INC lose support to Hindu Nationalists?

Question 40

What is the best description of why Pakistan was created, splintering India just as it achieved independence?

A) Due to concerns about overpopulation
B) To protect and empower India's Muslim minority
C) At the insistence of the United Nations

Question 41

What were Suharto's domestic and foreign policies?

Question 42

How did the global financial crisis of 2008 affect Thailand and Burma?

Question 43

How did Nehru's vision for India align with Gandhi's? How where their visions different? What results did Nehru achieve in attempting to realize this vision?

Question 44

Why did fighting resume in Vietnam after 1956?

Question 45

Nehru helped to create the Non-Aligned Movement, which refused to commit to what?

A) Either side in the Cold War
B) Division of Kashmir
C) Modernization and westernization in Asia

Question 46

Why are many Indian farmers in so much debt?

Question 47

How did Malaya achieve independence?

Question 48

What was the result of the peace settlement at Geneva reached by French and Vietnamese parties in 1954?

Question 49

How did the global financial crisis affect Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia?

Question 50

Which of the following was not a problem for the newly created state of Pakistan?

A) Lack of top civilian leaders
B) Lack of strong military
C) Lack of balanced economic base

Question 51

What is the purpose of ASEAN?

Question 52

How and why was Sukarno removed from power?

Question 53

What role did the United States play in Thai politics in the postwar period?

Question 54

How did Sukarno rise to leadership in Indonesia?

Question 55

What role has Islam played in contemporary Indonesian politics?

Question 56

What disagreements are characteristic in Malaysian politics?

Question 57

Why did the US intervene in the Vietnam conflict?

Question 58

How has Indian politics changed from the late 1990s to the present day?

Question 59

How did ethnic, communal, and political differences contribute to the violence that occurred during Indian independence?

Question 60

What was Nixon's strategy for ending U.S. involvement in Vietnam?

Question 61

In 1955, Nehru prevailed on the Indian parliament to do which of the following?

A) Declare war on Pakistan
B) Grant rights to women and untouchables
C) Expel Muslims

Question 62

How has globalization brought uneven benefits and detriments to Indian society? Why?

Question 63

What social, political, and economic challenges are faced by Southeast Asia today? Which are the most pressing?

Question 64

How did the Vietnam conflict become a regional war? What effect did it have on other Southeast Asian states and why?

Question 65

How did Ho Chi Minh successfully rally forces to defeat the French and nearly the South Vietnamese? How was the Viet Cong revolt part of this effort?

Question 66

Nehru's "Third Way" system attempted to mitigate between which of the following?

A) The United States and USSR
B) Islam and Hinduism
C) Capitalism and socialism

Question 67

How has Aung San Suu Kyi gone from world peace icon to heavily criticized? What policies and aims earned her both of these reputations?

Question 68

Describe the reasons for the rise and fall of Sukarno. What role did ethnic, political, and religious opposition to Sukarno's vision play in his demise?

Question 69

How as Southeast Asia recovered (or not) from the terrible violence of the 1970s and 1980s?

Question 70

What were the motivations of the New Order initiative? How did the Indonesian government try to achieve them and what results did they have?

Question 71

How are Malaysian politics, society, and the economy similar to or different from Singapore's? What accounts for these similarities and differences?

Question 72

Why did Sikh extremists occupy and fortify the Golden Temple of Amritsar in 1983?

A) They wanted Sikhism to become the official religion of India.
B) They wanted to secede from India and join Pakistan.
C) They wanted an independent Sikh homeland.

Question 73

How similar were the governments of Thailand and postcolonial Burma from the end of World War II to the 1970s? What differences existed between them and why did those differences exist?

Question 74

Sikhism combines tenets of which of the following religions?

A) Christianity and Islam
B) Christianity and Buddhism
C) Islam and Hinduism