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.
