HIS 102 Chapter 26 28 & 29 Study Guide

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The author of "The White Man's Burden" was (Ch. 28)

Rudyard Kipling

The Luddites were (Ch. 26)

craft workers who destroyed textile machines

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Ch. 29)

ended Russia's involvement in World War I

During the era of New Imperialism migrants from Asia and Africa were different from European immigrants because (Ch. 28)

they usually went as indentured laborers

Which of following best describes the results of World War I? (Ch. 29)

It led to harsh peace terms on Germany and destroyed the Austro-Hungarian Empire

The first industry to experience widespread mechanization (substituting machinery for human labor) was (Ch. 26)

the cotton textile industry

The creation of competing alliance systems such as the Triple Alliance and Triple Entente in Europe in the decades before World War I was motivated primarily by (Ch. 29)

the desire to create and maintain a balance of power

The British Imperialist who believed England had a duty to expand around the world because they were "the finest race in the world" was (Ch. 28)

Cecil Rhodes

The use of machine tools to produce large quantities of interchangeable parts was developed by (Ch. 26)

Eli Whitney

The official factor in the United States' decision to enter the war was (Ch. 29)

Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare in February 1917

The members of the Triple Alliance were (Ch. 29)

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy

The industrial revolution began in (Ch. 26)

Great Britain

The Twenty-One Demands are best described as (Ch. 29)

an effort by Japan to use World War I to expand its influence in China

The Witte system is the best described as (Ch. 26)

an effort by the Russian government to promote industry and railroads

In the 1800s, trade unions (Ch. 26)

reduced the likelihood of a revolution by protecting the interests of working people

Following Russia's defeat in Crimean War, Alexander II initiated a series of (Ch. 26)

reforms designed to modernize and industrialize the country

Which of following movements was NOT an attempt by non-European elites to preserve or regain their independence by adopting European economic and political techniques? (Ch. 28)

young turks

The two most important settler colonies established by Europeans in the south Pacific were (Ch. 28)

Australia and New Zealand

One of the most famous examples of the slaughter that occurred on the Western Front in World War I is the (Ch. 29)

Battle of Verdun

Which of following best describes the results of World War I?

It led to harsh peace terms on Germany and destroyed the Austro-Hungarian Empire

America the petroleum monopoly, Standard Oil Company, was owned by (Ch. 26)

John D. Rockefeller

The inventor of the flying shuttle was (Ch. 26)

John Kay

The international organization created by Allied statesmen at the Paris Peace Conference at the urging of the United States President Wilson was (Ch. 29)

League of Nations

Which of the following countries experienced "informal dominance" rather than direct colonization? (Ch. 28)

Ottoman Empire

The radical Marxist who created the Bolshevik (later Communist) party and led it to victory in the Russian revolution was (Ch. 29)

Vladimir Lenin

Congo Free State was (Ch. 28)

a private empire established by King Leopold II of Belgium

The Boxer Rebellion is best described as (Ch. 28)

an anti-foreign, anti-Western uprising

A zaibatsu is the best described as (Ch. 26)

an association of large industrial corporations in Japan

In the wake of World War I, Mustafa Kemal (Ch. 29)

became president of Turkey

The term Scramble for Africa refers to the race of (Ch. 28)

countries to claim territories there

The Berlin West Africa Conference, which included delegates from twelve European states and the United States, (Ch. 28)

devised the ground rules for the colonization of Africa

Both the Suez Canal and Panama Canal facilitated the building and maintenance of empires by (Ch. 28)

enabling naval vessels to travel rapidly between the world's oceans

The Mandate System created by the Allies after the end of World War I angered many people in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa because it (Ch. 29)

failed to grant them national self-determination

Approximately how many combatants died in World War I? (Ch. 29)

fifteen million

James Watt invented a more efficient steam pump when he (Ch. 26)

figured out how to make a piston turn a wheel for rotary motion

After the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani in 1893, the United States took over (Ch. 28)

hawaii

Which of following was NOT part of "Home Front" in World War I? (Ch. 29)

importing millions of indentured laborers from Asia

The underlying causes of the Great War included (Ch. 29)

intense nationalism, ethnic resentments, pursuit of economic interests, colonial rivalries, and a general struggle over the balance of power in Europe

The mandate system particularly angered the Arab world because (Ch. 29)

it violated promises made by the French and British

The Boer War was different from most other imperialist conflicts in Africa because (Ch. 28)

it was between two groups that were both of European descent

The country, which replaced China as the dominant power in Asia as a result of its successful industrialization and imperialism was (Ch. 28)

japan

The main reason the Provisional Government lost to the Bolsheviks in the struggle for power after the overthrow of the imperial government in Russia was its decision to (Ch. 29)

keep Russia in World War I

The main purpose of cartels and trusts created in the late 1800s was to (Ch. 26)

limit completion in order to insure profitability

Railroads were important to industrial development because they (Ch. 26)

lowered transportation and eased the flow of goods

After gaining Egyptian independence from the Ottomans, Muhammad Ali sought to (Ch. 28)

modernize the country both economically and militarily

The results of the Opium War indicated that China was (Ch. 28)

not strong enough to resist Western demands

The machine gun represented (Ch. 29)

one of the most important advances in military technology and compelled military leaders to rethink their battlefield tactics

Between 1800 and 1914, some fifty million Europeans left their poor agricultural societies and sought (Ch. 28)

opportunities overseas, a majority heading to the United States

The Taiping Rebellion is best described as a revolt of (Ch. 28)

poor Chinese peasants against the ruling Qing dynasty

Herbert Spencer and Social Darwinists believed that (Ch. 28)

powerful nations were meant to dominate weaker societies

The term for the idea that people with the same ethnic origins, language, and political ideals had the right to form sovereign states was (Ch. 29)

self-determination

Henry Bessemer invented the blast furnace and revolutionized the production of (Ch. 26)

steel

The most important result of the Sepoy Mutiny (1857) was (Ch. 28)

the British government assuming direct control of India

The two main groups of Europeans who colonized South Africa were (Ch. 28)

the English and the Boers

The most prominent of the nineteenth-century socialists were (They argued that human history has been a struggle between social classes, and that the future lay with the working class because capitalism would grind to a halt) (Ch. 26)

the German theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

The event, which led to the first of many unequal treaties imposed on China was (Ch. 28)

the Opium War

What did the US construct to facilitate rapid transportation between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans? (Ch. 28)

the Panama Canal

The most famous example of the elaborate (and often inflexible) military preparations made by European countries to achieve quick victories was (Ch. 29)

the Schlieffen Plan of Germany

The United States became an important imperial power in Asia after (Ch. 28)

the Spanish-American War

The United States occupied Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines after its victory in (Ch. 28)

the Spanish-Cuban-American War

Which of the following was NOT a technological invention that aided European imperial expansion in the late 1800s? (Ch. 28)

the astrolabe

The dominant form of industrial organization by the end of the nineteenth century was (Ch. 26)

the factory system

Beginning in the nineteenth century, industrializing lands experienced a social change known as the demographic transition when (Ch. 26)

the fertility rate began a marked decline and people had smaller families

Francis Ferdinand was (Ch. 29)

the heir to the Austrian Empire assassinated by Serbian nationalists

The best example of growing rivalry between European powers in the early 1900s was (Ch. 29)

the naval race between Germany and England

Which of following is NOT a trait associated with the Industrial Revolution? (Ch. 26)

the overthrow of old European monarchies

Industrialization refers to (Ch. 26)

the process that transformed agrarian and handicraft-centered economies into economies distinguished by industry and machine manufacture

One of the main reasons England was the first nation to industrialize, was because (Ch. 26)

the readily availability of coal and overseas resources

The strategy of "wearing down" the enemy by inflicting heavy losses on them through repeated large-scale offensives was known as (Ch. 29)

total war

The goal of the Tanzimat Reforms was to (Ch. 28)

transform the Ottoman legal and political system along European lines

What effect did World War I have on the status of women? (Ch. 29)

women in many countries received the vote in the years after the war

Industrial work had an enormous impact on family life in 19thcentury Europe because (Ch. 26)

work was now removed from the home

The Monroe Doctrine (Ch. 28)

worked as a justification for U.S. intervention in western hemispheric affairs


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