WORLD HISTORY II EXAM 2

The Crimean War

isolated the Austrians from the rest of the great powers of Europe.

A rising non-western nation that avoided colonial subjugation by pursuing a concerted strategy of political and economic reform was

japan

The Chinese revolution of 1911

left a power vaccum in the country due to the collapse of the Manchu Dynasty

In the nineteenth century, European nations exploited areas of Asia and Africa for the following except

manufactured goods to be sent from Asia to Europe

In the United States in the early 1900s

mass immigrations

In Southeast Asia, imperialist governments

often blended direct and indirect rule, with the latter used widely in rural areas such as Malaya.

The Boer War

was the result of the discovery of gold and diamonds in the Boer Transvaal

The new Italian kingdom established in 1861

was, to a significant degree, the result of the diplomatic and political work of Cavour and the military actions of Garibaldi

The Second Empire in France

was brought down by the disastrous 1870 war with Prussia.

The European working classes at the end of the nineteenth century constituted almost

95 percent of the population.

All of the following are correct about Russia in the nineteenth and early twentieth century except

Alexander III and Nicholas II continued Alexander II's reforms.

In the Treaty of Shimonoseki, the Japanese obtained all except

Beijing's Forbidden City.

The territory annexed by Austria in 1908, which enraged Serbia, was

Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Which of the following is not a true statement about nineteenth-century Western expansion in Southeast Asia?

Burma retained its independence.

The Russo-Japanese War

was initiated by a Japanese surprise attack on the Russian naval base at Port Arthur

The individual who left a massive estate to create a worldwide British Empire to "civilize" the world

Cecil Rhodes.

The missionary who urged Europeans to introduce the "three Cs" (Christianity, commerce and civilization) was

David Livingstone

The Meiji Restoration

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when fundamental economic and cultural changes occurred in Japan, transforming it from a feudal and agrarian society to an industrial and technological one.

The Philippine guerrilla leader who failed to thwart the United States conquest was

Emilio Aguinaldo

Which of the following was not a result of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870?

German unification was achieved. The loss of territory created a desire for vengeance on the part of the French. Louis Napoleon made himself Emperor of the Third Republic.* <--- CORRECT! :) The French suffered a military and political humiliation.

. The United States Secretary of State who proposed the Open Door Policy was

John Hay

In 1894, the Qing went to war with Japan over

Korea

Muhammad Ali Pasha

Leader of Egyptian modernization in the early nineteenth century. He ruled Egypt as an Ottoman governor, but had imperial ambitions. His descendants ruled Egypt until overthrown in 1952.

Which of the following was true of developments in the United States through the Civil War?

Mass white male electoral participation was instituted during the era of Andrew Jackson

Which of the following led a peasant revolt in Burma against colonial rule?

Saya San

In the last decades of the nineteenth century in China

Taiwan was taken over by Japan.

Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the nature of the Opium War?

The British used Chinese objection to opium importation as a pretext to unilaterally invade China and forcibly open it to Western trade.

German unification

The unification of Germany into a politically and administratively integrated nation state officially occurred on 18 January 1871

By combining the old Cape Colony and Natal with the Boer Republics in 1910, the British created the

Union of East Africa.

Which of the following was not a Meiji economic policy?

a graduated and progressive income tax

. The Sepoy Mutiny was caused by

animal fat and lard that was on the rifle cartridges used by the Sepoy troops, which upset both Hindu and Muslim soldiers.

The British Raj

established a new school system to educate the children of the elite.

European powers rushed to increase their penetration of Africa because of all except

fear of Russian economic expansion into Central Africa

The Berlin Conference of 1884

regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period

The emancipation of the Russian serf

required that the former serfs pay for their freedom in installments

With an aroused concern over the emergence of Japanese imperialist power in 1894, the European powers forced the Japanese to

return the Liaodong Peninsula to China.

Wilfred Laurier

smoothed relations between Canada's English- and French-speaking populations.

The "Eastern Question" in the nineteenth century concerned the fate of

the Ottoman Empire.

In terms of resistance to imperial control, it can be accurately said that

the consequences of imperialism are more complex than was earlier believed

The Japanese opening to the West resulted from

the naval expeditions of Commodore Perry.

Thailand

was able to remain independent because France and Britain preferred that it remain so in order to serve as a buffer between their colonial territories.