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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item did China export to Russia?

2. Mao employed the Zhuge Liang ____ City Stratagem in his attack.

3. Zhou's critics had argued that he was too ____.

4. In what year did this event occur?

5. In 1967 Nixon published an article in which publication?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did China change in the first two decades after it became a Republic?

2. Who is considered to be one of the greatest diplomats of the 19th century? What theory does Kissinger refer to when speaking about the man?

3. What does Kissinger say about foreign policy and the actions of the statesmen? How did Mao fit into this mold?

4. What was the relationship between China and Taiwan at this time?

5. Kissinger says that Mao liked to speak in parables. What was Mao's message?

6. Why did Bismarck fail to capture the attention of the United States and China?

7. Mao had two main choices of leadership. What were they?

8. When did Deng return to China? What were his next steps?

9. Who stepped in after Zhou bowed out of the political race?

10. Mao presented a new sense of warmth toward the United States Where was this most noticeable? How did Mao now present the relationship between China and the United States?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an opinion on the future of the United States economy and how it is/will be affected by China. How has the United States relied on China in recent years during times of economic downturn? How might China help the United States during periods of economic recovery? What might China want in return? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Mao and other Chinese leaders focused heavily on the nomadic territories to the north. Why were border wars so important? How did the presence of the nomads help/hinder the conflict between China and the Soviet Union? Who won the conflict?

Essay Topic 3

Chinese had an idea of how to get ahead in foreign trade. This included cornering the market in four main areas. What were those areas? What products were thought to be the most important? Why? How does foreign trade with China help/hinder the United States market? What is your opinion on how the United States should advance in the global trade market?

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