21) what has contributed to a growing gap between the poor and the wealthy in the middle east?  
* western influences
* the presence of oil
* urbanization
* fighting between sects


22) what is one lasting effect of the arab-israeli war on the middle east?
* tens of thousands of jews are persecuted within muslim nations and not allowed to travel to israel.
* shi’ites and sunnis fight over who should control the government in lebanon.
* islamists continue to fight for a large, unified arab state governed by islamic law.
* tens of thousands of arab palestinians are refugees and have no homeland.


23) which nation of southeast asia does not have direct access to the sea?
     
* myanmar
* cambodia
* laos
* thailand


24) what are the major landforms of southeast asia?
* mountains and coastal plains
* peninsula and archipelagoes
* plains and deserts
* basins and river valleys


25) which climates are found in southeast asia?
* humid continental and tundra
* tropical wet and tropical dry
* desert and semiarid
* tundra and subarctic


26) which statement about u. s. involvement in vietnam is false?
* four u. s. presidents held office during the vietnam war.
* president johnson urged passage of the gulf of tonkin resolution that increased troops.
* president jimmy carter was responsible for bringing the troops home from vietnam.
* many americans protested the war in vietnam after the tet offensive.


27) what happened to south vietnam soon after the u. s. troops moved out of the region?
* south vietnam was forcibly reunited with north vietnam and became a single communist nation.
* south vietnam won its independence and became a democratic nation.
* the communists took over south vietnam, but eisenhower’s domino theory did not prove to be accurate.
* south vietnam remained anticommunist but continued to be ruled by a dictator.


28) what do national leaders ngo dinh diem of south vietnam, augusto pinochet of chile, and joaquin balaguer have in common?  
* they were all communist leaders supported by the   
* ussr
*   during the 1960s and 1970s.
* they all led guerrilla fighters in wars against the united states.
* they were all dictators supported by the united states because they were not communist.
* they all supported democracy and free elections in their countries and received aid from the united states.


29) what was a cause of the soviet invasion of czechoslovakia?
* dubcek was expelled from the communist party of czechoslovakia   
* (ksc)
*   and demoted.
* brezhnev thought the prague spring reforms would open the door for a return to capitalism.
* the czech army had begun incursions across the border into poland which sought soviet support to stop them.
* czech militants started an uprising in prague that soviet troops were asked to put down.


30) what was the major goal of the united states taking actions such as u. s. president johnson stationing warships off the dominican coast, the u. s. cia engineer a truck drivers' strike that paralyzed chile, and u. s. cia urging the chilean military to take action?  
* to promote genuine democracy in chile
* to ease tensions between latin america and the united states
* to obtain territory for the united states
* to contain communism