World History Final Review
What does the historical word "Renaissance" mean?
"Rebirth" of classical (ancient Greek and Roman) culture in Europe.
Which European nation colonized and established a social hierarchy based on tribal identity in Rwanda?
Belgium
In what ways did the Union victory in the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era fail to improve the United States?
Black people were still oppressed by voting regulations and Jim Crow laws.
What was the outcome of the Second Boer War 1899-1902?
Britain reestablished control over South Africa at great military cost
Which of Germany's acts of aggression caused Britain to declare war?
Hitler's invasion of Poland
Over time, Europeans began to question absolute rule. The Church and absolutist governments practiced heavy _____, they tried to hold down Enlightenment ideas by burning books and exiling and jailing those who wrote books that mocked the Church or government.
censorship
Factory and mine owners preferred to hire women and children instead of men because they could pay them less.
True
King Edward VI was an Anglican who outlawed Catholicism, while his half-sister, Queen Mary I was a Catholic who executed thousands of Protestants.
True
Liberal unrest in 1848 in Vienna was so great the Metternich fled and retired from politics.
True
South Sudan fell into civil war in 2013, leading to the deaths of over 300,000 people.
True
Spain and Austria were heavily involved in the politics of the Italian States between 1500 and 1800.
True
The Prussian noble class was called "junkers".
True
The US rejected political isolationism in favor of internationalism after World War II.
True
The most significant ideas that came from the Paris Peace Treaties of 1947 were based on
human rights
All of the following are religious groups who have fought each other over control of northern India EXCEPT:
Druze
What was the driving motive for most of the Axis Powers' building and trying to keep large empires?
all of these are correct
What were some of the ways that private citizens contributed to the war effort, both in Britain and in the United States?
all of these are correct
Which of the following did the United Nations do in response to the Holocaust?
all of these are correct
If you were in the mood for Dutch art from the late 19th century that rebelled against, yet included many of the techniques of, the previous art styles of the century, whose exhibition would you attend?
Paul Gaugin and Vincent van Gogh
Why was the Invasion of Russia in 1812 Napoleon's largest military blunder?
all of these are correct
Peter the Great's defeat of Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava (1709) during the Great Northern War resulted in
Russia becoming dominant in the Baltic Sea and a part of the European state system.
Russia in the 1990s Yeltsin clashed with the Duma and an attempted coup d'etat by hard-liner communist army officers Yeltsin brutally crushed a nationalist movement in Chechnya Russia suffered major inflation and unemployment as it tried to adapt to capitalism What conclusion can one draw from the information above about the collapse of the USSR?
Russia struggled to adapt to democracy and capitalism
What were two ways Nazis drummed up distrust and hatred for Jews, Roma, communists, and other?
bookburnings and rallies
All of the following were ideas most closely associated with liberalism in 19th century Europe EXCEPT:
hereditary monarchy is the safest and most efficient way to govern
All of the following were ways in which Parliament reformed working conditions EXCEPT:
limiting the number of adult male workers that could be employed in factories and mines
All of the following were problems faced by Great Britain during the 1920s EXCEPT:
n imminent invasion by Benito Mussolini's Fascists
Many felt that Hitler's _____ was less threatening than Stalin's ______.
nazism, communism
All of the following are reasons for stress on developing countries EXCEPT:
overeducated population
Many supported _____ (anti-war.) They remembered the horrors of WWI.
pacifism
German forces were harassed and weakened in France, the Netherlands, and Eastern Europe by
partisans
The German economy was severely weakened by the demands of Clemenceau and Lloyd George that Germany pay France and Britain $33 billion worth in
reparations
The Concordat of 1801
restored Napoleon's relations with the Catholic Church in France
Which of the following became the most popular way to transport goods and travel over land in Britain by 1800?
the steam locomotive
Rudyard Kipling Jules Ferry missionaries What do all the people listed above have in common?
they all believed in "civilizing" Africans with Western Christian ideas
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare
Match the events of the years 1776-1789 in the Thirteen Colonies with their correct chronological order.
1776: Declaration of Independence 1777: Colonists win at the Battle of Saratoga 1781: Britain surrenders to Washington at Yorktown 1783: The Treaty of Paris ends the Revolution and recognizes the colonists' independence 1787: The US Constitution is written, replacing the Articles of Confederation
Indian Removal Act 1830 and the Trail of Tears Seminole Wars, Great Sioux War, fighting the Comanche and Apache creation of impoverished reservations for Native Americans assimilation to white culture broken treaties What is the best title for the list above?
19th Century Actions by the US Government Toward Native Americans
Usman dan Fodio The Mahdi The Wahabbi Movement What is the best title for the list above?
19th Century Muslim Reformers
Who led British forces to victory over Napoleon in Egypt in 1799?
Admiral Horatio Nelson
Emile Zola's "J'Accuse" claimed all of the following about French government and society EXCEPT:
Alfred Dreyfus was a traitor
The Peace of Augsburg (1555) halted fighting between Lutheran Protestants and Roman Catholics by
Allowing German princes to decide whether their states were Lutheran or Catholic.
Which of the following people would most likely have read The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli?
An aspiring aristocrat in Florence.
"I have gold! I need to trade for salt and ivory!" African Trader, c.1500 AD Where could the speaker most likely be found saying this?
At the end of a Trans-Saharan trade route in Timbuktu, Songhai.
Archduke Ferdinand's assassination ____________________________ Serbia refused Austria Hungary declared war on Serbia What event fits in the blank labeled "2" above?
Austria issued Serbia an ultimatum
Which of these WAS NOT a major battle fought during the war?
Battle of Gettysburg
Which of the following was a paramilitary group used by Mussolini to bully and intimidate political opponents?
Black Shirts
Which French monarch refused to accept the Charter of 1814, leading to the July Revolution of 1830?
Charles X
Which of the following was an Argentinean-born communist, working for Cuba, who tried to bring about multiple communist revolutions in Africa in the 1960s?
Che Guevara
Which of the following was NOT a result of the Treaty of Nanjing at the end of the First Opium War?
China was forced to give more enclaves to France and Russia
Lord Charles Townshend's insistence on growing turnips and Jethro Tull's invention of the seed drill were examples of advancements made during Britain's
Agricultural Revolution
There were many talented youths in our German countries who were taught the art of painting but without fundamentals and with daily practice only. They therefore grew up unconscious as a wild uncut tree...and since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art..."
Albrecht Durer
Many Indian nationalists changed from demanding self-rule within the British Empire to full independence after the
Amritsar Massacre
Abraham agrees to a "covenant" with Yahweh:
Date: 1800 B.C. Significance: Judaism spread to every continent in the world, origins of Christianity.
Muhammad speaks to Allah in Mecca for the first time:
Date: 610 A.D. Significance: Dominant in the Middle East, fastest growing religion with 1.8 billion followers.
What part of the Second Reich is shaded in blue on the map above?
Prussia
Which plan called for Germany to do the following? Attack quickly through neutral Belgium to avoid the Maginot Line and invade France Occupy France Send all available remaining German soldiers eastward to fight Russia
Schlieffen Plan
In order to increase US defense against nuclear attack and to force the Soviets to spend money to keep up with US defense spending, President Ronald Reagan called for the creation of the
Strategic Defense Initiative
After Martin Luther proclaimed his Ninety-five Theses, which of the following occurred?
The Church declared Luther an outlaw and some of the nobles supported his ideas.
Women serving as nurses, lorry drivers, and spies Use of propaganda War bonds drives and rationing to provide supplies and weapons Use of conscription All of the items above describe traits of
Total War
The Palestine Liberation Organization sought independence from Israel under the leadership of
Yasir Arafat
Why is Mustafa Kemal "Ataturk" historically significant?
led the Young Turks to overthrow the Ottoman sultan in 1908
The SALT I and SALT II treaties were attempts by the US and USSR to
limit their nuclear arsenals and production
All of the following were overall results of the Revolutions of 1848 EXCEPT:
the concepts of nationalism and liberalism disappeared from European politics
RESULTS of the Catholic Reformation:
1)War-torn Europe. Catholics and Protestants fought each other viciously for centuries. 2) Witch Hunts: Massive and unfair searches for witches...usually eccentric women, outcasts, etc. Usually they were hanged or burned at the stake. 3) Persecution of Jews: Many Jews were forced to outwardly convert to Catholicism, but many practiced Judaism secretly. Many were banished from their counties or nations and those who stayed were forced to live in segregated neighborhoods called ghettos.
Place the following events in Irish history in the correct chronological order.
1: Catholic Emancipation Act passes in Parliament 2: Potato Famine leads to the deaths of a million Irish and the emigration of millions more 3: The Fenian Brotherhood leads demonstrations and engages in violent acts of protest against British rule 4: Charles Stewart Parnell's Irish Nationalist Party wins 86 seats in the British Parliament, increasing the push for home rule 5: Irish republicans stage a major rebellion in Dublin called the "Easter Rising" 6: The Anglo-Irish Treaty separates Ireland into the Irish Free State (lower 26 counties) and Northern Ireland (northern 6 counties) 7: The Irish Free State becomes the fully independent country of Eire (Republic of Ireland)
Place the following events in the order in which they occurred.
1: Louis Philippe, the "Citizen King" is forced to abdicate during the February Days 2: The June Days grew into the Revolution of 1848 in France 3: Louis Napoleon became president of France under the Third Republic
Place the following events in their correct chronological order.
1: Napoleon abdicates the throne after defeat at Leipzig 2: Napoleon is sent into exile in Elba 3: Napoleon escapes exile 4: Napoleon is defeated at Waterloo 5: Napoleon is exiled to St. Helena
During the Catholic (Counter) Reformation, the Council of Trent decided all of the following EXCEPT
Abolished the Inquisition and said all Catholic practices were to be thrown out
At Paris in 1919, Georges Clemenceau of France, David Lloyd George of Britain, Woodrow Wilson of the USA, and Vittorio Orlando of Italy were collectively known as the
Big Four
Napoleon attempted to damage Britain's economy by cutting off trade to mainland European ports. Britain countered this plan by blockading French-dominated ports. The name for Napoleon's plan was the
Continental System
reduction in the number of hours in the "work day" severe restriction on child labor creation of a minimum wage legalization of trade unions Which 19th century political party in Britain would have worked hardest for the reforms listed above?
Labour Party
What system of World War I-style defenses did France build on its border with Germany during the 1920s?
Maginot Line
Which of the following WAS NOT a major cause of the Russian Revolution?
Nicholas II introduced brilliant reforms in 1917.
Fears of aggression by Germany and the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans led to the growth of
Pan-Slavism
Cavour: "I used shrewd diplomacy with France to gain parts of the country I unified." Garibaldi: "But you gave me money to conquer the rest of it, even though you didn't like me." Cavour: "Yes. I had to attain my political goals however I could." What idea is Cavour demonstrating in the conversation above?
Realpolitik
Imre Nagy led an unsuccessful revolt in Hungary (1956) that showed
The West was content to allow Khrushchev to dominate Eastern Europe if it meant no nuclear war
Which World War II leader declared in a radio address in reference to the Germans, "We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!"
Winston Churchill
The Sixth Coalition captured Napoleon and forced him to
abdicate his position as Emperor
What event led to the Revolution of 1905 in Russia?
defeat by Japan in the Russo-Japanese War
All of the following were reasons for Ottoman decline EXCEPT:
expansion of the Ottoman armies into Spain and Portugal
What was the main reason that agriculture experienced major problems during the 1920s?
farmers still overproduced at World War I levels in the 1920s, which reduced their prices and ability to pay loans and debts
All of the following were obstacles to a unified Latin America following independence EXCEPT:
lack of a common language
Where in Korea did the United Nations establish the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in 1953?
the 38th Parallel
Like Mussolini's Italy, Stalin's USSR, and militarist Japan, Hitler's government was
totalitarian
What was the strategy that defined warfare on the Western Front during World War I?
trench warfare
IN WHICH WAYS DID THE ENLIGHTENMENT SPREAD IN EUROPE?
1. salons →people began to meet at these social gatherings to discuss Enlightenment topics like art, literature, music and science. 2. enlightened despots →monarchs who liked and used Enlightened ideas.
Which leader of the Free French led underground movements to harass German occupiers and the Vichy Regime?
Charles de Gaulle
What land battle allowed for the United States to begin moving from island to island, rolling up the Japanese Empire?
Guadalcanal
HAITI→
Haiti began a guerrilla war against France in 1791. Napoleon fought the rebels led by Toussaint L'Ouverture for control of the island's spices and sugar 1800-1803, but costs forced the French to withdraw. Napoleon then sold his largest American possession to the USA in the Louisiana Purchase (1803). Haiti gained independence in 1804.
Which of the following is NOT true about Marshal Josip Tito?
He entered Yugoslavia into the Warsaw Pact
Why was Toussaint L'Ouverture so important to Haiti's revolution?
He fought the French to gain independence for Haiti as well as to abolish slavery
Which word would be the best title for the list of items above? emphasized worldly ideas focused on man's abilities and glorified individualism Petrarch is the best example of an early believer in this idea
Humanism.
How did Romania's end to communism in 1989 differ from other countries' in the "democracy movement?"
It was violent and ended with the execution of its dictator
What was the main reason Korea's Choson Dynasty enforced strict isolationism in response to European trade?
Korea had been invaded many times by foreign powers.
On which sea route were slaves sent from West Africa to the Americas for plantation work?
Middle Passage
What event turned Czar Alexander I almost completely away from liberal reforms in Russia?
Napoleon's invasion of Russia
All of the following were results of Czar Nicholas II signing the October Manifesto EXCEPT:
Nicholas II became the first limited monarch in the Romanov Dynasty, and the Duma gained strength
Over a million Jews and other "undesirables" were put to death at Auschwitz-Birkenau often by the use of
all of these are correct
Which Czech-born Nazi businessman saved over 1,100 Jews by using his influence and bribing Nazi officials?
Oskar Schindler
How did Napoleon come to political power in France in 1799?
Overthrew the Directory and created the Consulate
A form of nationalism Helped to cause WWI Russia is a natural leader and protector Caused many problems for Austria-Hungary What term best describes the characteristics listed above?
Pan-Slavism
In 1517, Martin Luther, a German monk, drew up a list of complaints about indulgences and other abuses. He nailed them to the Church doors at Wittenberg and mailed them to officials. It said:
Popes were too worldly. They were too involved in politics and economics and lived too lavish a lifestyle. •Priests were not trained or educated properly. • The sale of indulgences was wrong. With these documents, if one paid enough money, he could be released into Heaven earlier instead of waiting in Purgatory. (A priest named Johann Tetzel had been selling them outside Luther's town.)
A Chinese explorer in 1500 would try to reach all of the following places via the South China Sea EXCEPT:
Portugal.
Why did Britain begin to embrace economic domination as the way to influence world events in the early-mid 1800s?
all of these are correct
Why did the League of Nations fail to halt the aggression of Germany, Japan, and Italy during the 1930s?
all of these are correct
Austrians dominated the Army The Austrian Parliament was given preference by Franz Joseph German speakers were given more privileges within the empire than other ethnic groups Slavic people had little in common with the Germanic Austrians What would be the best title for the statements above?
Reasons for Discontent within the Dual Monarchy
What were Peter the Great's first two major goals?
Reduce the power of the boyars and strengthen the military.
-Jewish ghettos created in Europe's cities -Huguenots attacked by Catholics -Bloody Mary executes Catholics in England Which of the following ideas applies to the terms and events listed above?
Religious persecution
Which of the following countries did NOT invade Normandy on D-Day?
Republic of Ireland
Why did the United States refuse to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or to join the League of Nations?
Republican lawmakers sought a return to political isolationism based on the Monroe Doctrine
If you wished to travel upstream in a river, which inventor would you want to consult?
Robert Fulton
Which country claimed to be "protector of the Slavs" in the Balkans?
Russia
If you were a trader from Northern Europe in 1500, which body of water would you most want to reach?
The Black Sea.
Robert Clive cotton, gemstones, and tea trade overtaking of the Mughal Empire sepoys All of the above are terms most closely associated with
The British East India Company
Which of the following was NOT a result of the 1991 Gulf War?
The United States occupied Iraq and removed Saddam Hussein
Where did Italy invade and occupy in 1935, with Mussolini claiming it was promised to Italy during the era of the New Imperialism?
Ethiopia (Abyssinia)
Newly independent Nigeria fell into religious and ethnic civil war between the
Ibo and Hausa
The Spread of Calvinism...
In 1541 Geneva, Switzerland invited Calvin to set up a theocracy ruled by Calvinist law. Swiss Calvinists stressed hard work, thrift and morality. They banned fighting, swearing, laughing in Church and public dancing. They closed theaters and taverns. By the mid-1500s, Calvinism spread across Northern Europe, which led to several bloody religious wars with Catholics in those areas. French Calvinists, called Huguenots, faced persecution. In Scotland, John Knox set up a version of Calvinism called the Scottish Presbyterian Church.
BRITAIN→
In 1805, Admiral HORATIO NELSON defeated the French Navy at the Battle of Trafalgar. Although Nelson was killed during the battle, his victory confirmed that Britain's navy could almost completely control the seas around Europe.
The Battle of Caporetto resulted in a humiliating defeat for
Italy
Which battles of 1945 were the last step the US had to take in order to start a massive bombing campaign against the Japanese mainland?
Iwo Jima and Okinawa
Match the Axis leader with his country.
Japan: Hirohito Germany: Hitler Italy: Mussolini
Which massive naval battle of World War I was a loss for Britain, but in the long-run kept German battleships contained in the North Sea?
Jutland
The ____________, signed on November 11, 1918, halted the fighting in World War I.
Armistice
Which U.S. policy was President Teddy Roosevelt trying to strengthen when he organized the building of the Panama Canal?
Monroe Doctrine
What is one word that most accurately describes the overall causes for WWI?
Nationalism
Britain defeated China in 1842 in order to be able to sell _______ to China in exchange for Chinese tea.
Opium
The British East India Company gained a solid foothold in northern India after
Robert Clive led an army of sepoys to overthrow the Mughal sultan in Bengal
Which style of art of the late 1700s and early 1800s was a rebellion against the cold reason and logic of the Enlightenment?
Romanticism
American entrance into World War I was critical because __________ had suffered a revolution and was starting to withdraw from the conflict.
Russia
The pope strengthened the _____, which had gained much power under King Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. It was a court meant to end _____, or speaking against the Catholic Church. It tortured and executed Jews and other non-Catholics in order to "encourage" people to convert back to Catholicism.
Spanish Inquisition, heresy
What did Holy Roman Emperor Charles V do with the lands of the Hapsburg Empire before he died?
Split the empire, giving Spain and the Netherlands to Philip II, and the Holy Roman Empire to Ferdinand I.
After Mao created the PRC in China, where did Jiang Jieshi set up his anti-communist Republic of China?
Taiwan
All of the following were ways in which absolute monarchs centralized power in France EXCEPT:
Taking a vote by the Estates General
The Viet Cong and NVA suffered huge military losses, but won a psychological victory during the
Tet Offensive
What was the result of the Invasion of Normandy?
The Allies fought through the beaches and hedgerows of northern France, moving to liberate Paris shortly after
All of the following were reasons the Renaissance began in Italy EXCEPT:
The Holy Roman Empire invaded the Northern Italian city states in 1500.
Which of the following was NOT a reason that Emperor Qianlong and the Qing Dynasty severely restricted European trade in China?
The Qing had already created their own empire in Europe and the Americas.
What did the failure of the Paris Commune show about France?
The Third Republic was finally stable under the Constitution of 1875.
All of the following are results of the Battle of the Philippines in 1942 EXCEPT:
The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Manila, razing the naval base to the ground
Why did Emmeline Pankhurst rely on shocking protests in order to gain women's suffrage?
The modest and reasonable protests of suffragists such as Millicent Fawcett were not working.
What did the Nazis call their new government?
Third Reich
The Inquisition in Spain was intended for what purpose?
To root out heretics and convert non-Catholics by using torture and secret testimony.
Which of the following does not match its occupying nation after World War II?
China--Britain
A major problem for the UN during and after the Bosnian War and the war in Kosovo centered on handling millions of displaced people and refugees.
True
A philosophe was a thinker who concentrated on government and society, while a physiocrat concentrated on economics and society.
True
The National Assembly reduced the political and economic influence of the Catholic Church in France by passing the
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Kay's flying shuttle Hargreaves's spinning jenny Arkwright's water frame Whitney's cotton gin What theme ties all of the inventions above together?
advances in textile production in England
Both the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole were organized by
al-Qaeda
Why did Serbia invade Bosnia in 1992?
all of these are correct
The principle that "following orders" and "loyalty to a leader" is not an acceptable defense for genocide was established
at the Nuremberg Trials
Which of the following would best describe Russia in the 1800s?
autocratic, rigid social hierarchy, not industrialized
What was the name for the German military's mode of attacking and overcoming their targets with great speed?
blitzkrieg
Frederick II (the Great) of Prussia →He reorganized the Prussian _____, created science academies and allowed freedom of religion. Catherine II (the Great) of Russia →She exchanged letters with ______ and Voltaire and made limited government reforms. Joseph II of Austria →He ended censorship, allowed religious freedom and built hospitals and schools.
bureaucracy, Diderot
How did Bismarck provoke war with France in 1870?
by falsifying parts of the Ems Telegram in order to insult Napoleon III
How did Austrian leaders respond to socialists' and industrial workers' demands in the 1800s?
by putting down all protests with police and military
Conditions in the Trenches on the Western Front rats and lice harassed soldiers soldiers dealt with mud year-round _________________________ barbed wire, sand bags, and machine guns lined the tops of the trenches boredom and trenchfoot were common "shelling" (artillery bombardment) was regular and deadly What term best fills in the blank above?
charging from the trenches involved "going over the top" into "no man's land"
What production system did the factory system replace in Britain?
cottaging system
Free market capitalism and free trade, as well as advances in communications have led to ____ of world markets.
globalization
Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi promoted nonviolent protest by calling for all of the following EXCEPT:
resisting with violence only when arrested
All of the following were contributions of Soviet women on the front lines EXCEPT:
serving as premiers of the USSR
After execution, the remains of people at Auschwitz-Birkenau and other killing centers were sent to
the crematoria
What did the empires of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottomans, and Russia all have in common after World War I?
they all disintegrated as empires
Which of the terms below best describes the political views of Klemens von Metternich of Austria?
conservative
In an effort to carry out genocide Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic ordered ______ against Bosnian Muslims in the mid-1990s and against Albanian Muslims in Kosovo in the late 1990s.
ethnic cleansing
When Germany refused to make its reparations payments in gold in 1923, how did France respond?
occupied the Ruhr Valley, demanding that most of the coal mined there must be sent directly to France
Which of the following was NOT a part of American imperialism (expansionism) in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
the American Civil War
How did Britain gain control of the Suez Canal?
the Egyptian government could not pay its debts, so they sold their shares in the canal company to Britain
The major result of the Enclosure Movement between 1500 and 1800 in England was
urbanization occurred, creating more abundant labor in cities
If you wanted to read why a woman's place was in the home, but have the natural right to an enlightened education, what book would you read?
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Wollstonecraft
Although Allied blockade and bombing campaigns against Germany during World War II led to food and material shortages, Hitler promised
Final Victory
Deng Xiaoping's reform program, which improved agriculture, industry, science and defense was called the
Four Modernizations
plentiful entrepreneurs willing to take risks on new enterprises with their wealth there was a population boom after agricultural advances, leading to abundant labor supply plentiful natural resources, such as coal and iron ore the government was favorable to business What would be the best title for the list above?
Gears Turning: Reasons the Industrial Revolution Started in Britain
Price Revolution entrepreneurs capitalism money economy What would be the most fitting title for the list above?
Results of the Commercial Revolution
The US promised not to invade Cuba The USSR promised to remove its nuclear weapons from Cuba The US and USSR began to discuss nuclear arms limitations Nikita Khrushchev was steadily pushed out of power in the USSR Which of the following would be the best title for the list above?
Results of the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
What caused the chaos that led Lenin to create the NEP (New Economic Policy)?
The Russian Civil War
Nasser nationalized the largest canal in the world Britain, France and Israel invaded Egypt to regain the canal The USA pressured them to withdraw to avoid nuclear war The USSR gained influence in Egypt and relations between the USA, Britain and France were damaged Which of the following events is described by the information in the list above?
The Suez Crisis
Taking of Hawaii as a US territory 1893 Acquisition of Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines by the US from Spain after the Spanish American War 1898 Building of the Panama Canal 1904-1914 What do these events imply about US foreign policy in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
The US looked to expand its territories and influence beyond North America to compete with other world powers
NATO was created as a multi-member military organization in 1949 because... --The Berlin Blockade showed Stalin's aggression --Soviets developed their first A-bomb in 1949 --The US wanted to prevent a Soviet invasion of West Germany Which choice best ties together the series of statements above?
The West wanted collective security against Soviet expansion
People are born naturally sinful In a state of nature, life would be "nasty, brutish, and short" To protect people, a wise absolute monarch should rule Leviathan (1651) Which thinker is most closely associated with the ideas above?
Thomas Hobbes
Henry VIII (Henry Tudor)—Henry wanted a male heir to his throne, but Henry's wife, Catherine of Aragon, did not bear a son; because of this, he asked Pope Clement VII to _____ his marriage with her. The pope was allied with the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V (AKA Charles I of Spain). Charles V was Catherine's uncle. Therefore, the pope rejected Henry's request.
annul
Why did corporations rise during the Industrial Revolution?
they were a way for entrepreneurs to pool wealth and reduce the risk involved in business ventures
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V peacefully accepted the rise of Protestantism in his territories.
False
Imperialism was unanimously accepted in Britain and other imperialist countries.
False
Despite liberating the northern part of South America, what goal did Simon Bolivar fail to achieve?
creation of a unified Gran Colombia
All of the following were parts of the legacy of Napoleon's rule in Europe EXCEPT:
creation of an absolute monarchy in Britain
Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House Emile Zola: Germinal All of the authors and works above sought to
critique the harsh realities of industrial societies
Climate change and global warming pollution and emission of greenhouse gasses destruction of the Amazon Rainforest desertification All of the items above are examples of __?__ in today's world.
environmental challenges
terrible smell from mills and factories falling of coal ash on towns constant noise coming from factories disposal of factory and human waste in streets and bodies of water All of the items above are examples of
environmental pollution in industrial cities
What was the overall effect of the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna on European countries?v
growth of nationalism in European countries
What was the significance of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918?
It took Russia out of the war and left Germany with only one battle front.
How did the United States add territory during the 1800s?
It used a mix of war, treaties, purchases, and forced migrations to gain land from ocean to ocean.
Why was the Silk Road important?
It was a series of land routes bringing goods from China to India, the Middle East and Europe.
What was the long-term economic outcome of the American Civil War?
the Industrial Revolution was sped up and the US became an industrial power
Why were labor unions formed during the Industrial Revolution?
to collectively bargain with factory and mine owners
Place the events of 1776-1789 in the Thirteen Colonies/United States in correct chronological order.
1: Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence at the Second Continental Congress 2: The Colonial Army wins a major victory at the Battle of Saratoga 3: With help from Lafayette and the French Navy, Washington forces the British to surrender at Yorktown 4: The United States is recognized and formalizes the Articles of Confederation as its government 5: Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution
Place the following events from 1770-1775 in the Thirteen Colonies in chronological order.
1: The Boston Massacre ends in the deaths of 5 colonists 2: The Boston Tea Party results in the East India Company losing lots of money 3: Britain passes the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts 4: The First Continental Congress convenes 5: The Battles of Lexington and Concord end in partial victories for the colonial militia
"Hello! Would you like to join me and 100 other investors in funding a trade expedition to Goa? Each of us could make a fortune, or if the ships sink, none of us would lose more than we invested in the expedition." Who would have been the speaker of the quote above?
A board member of the Dutch East India Company
In response, Henry VIII passed the ______ (1534). It created the ______ (also known as the Anglican Church), and Henry VIII became its leader. He cut ties with the pope, and the Catholic Church excommunicated him.
Act of Supremacy, Church of England
Which two authors would you most likely hire to tell sweeping epic tales of war, romance, revenge and societal criticism in France?
Alexandre Dumas and Victor Hugo
Which US President negotiated the Dayton Accords between Israel and the PLO, leading to the creation of the Palestinian National Authority?
Bill Clinton
Which of the following is NOT true of Bismarck's campaign against socialism in Germany?
Bismarck arrested and executed all socialist leaders in the Second Reich
The richest part of the 3rd Estate, made up mainly of merchants and professionals, was called the
Bourgeoisie
Which country, worn out by World War II, decided to partition Palestine into a half-Jewish, half-Arab state before leaving in 1948?
Britain
What was the result of the creation of the Mandate System set up at the Paris Peace Conference?
Britain and France treated their mandates like colonies
Which two countries pressured the Qajar Shahs into permitting spheres of influence to control oil production in Persia?
Britain and Russia
The swearing of the Tennis Court Oath by the National Assembly led to the creation of which document?
Constitution of 1791
The Aswan High Dam was Anwar Sadat's most impressive achievement as President of Egypt.
False
Match the Enlightened Despot with the correct description.
Frederick the Great: Prussia Joseph II: Austria Catherine the Great: Russia
How was Germany administered after World War II?
Germany and Berlin were both split into occupation zones to be overseen by Britain, France, the USSR and the USA
First female Prime Minister of Israel Signed the Israeli declaration of independence Maintained close ties to the USA Won the Yom Kippur War against Egypt Which leader is being described above?
Golda Meir
The reforms of Emperor Napoleon III of France between 1862 and 1871 led his government to be known as the
Liberal Empire
Which European political figure's actions led to the instability that allowed Latin Americans to win independence between 1800 and 1830?
Napoleon Bonaparte
"If the king will not live by the law, he must be executed." "England should be governed by a Lord Protector and a Puritan parliament." "Irish Catholics must be crushed." "All people in England must be properly educated." Who would have been most likely to make the statements above?
Oliver Cromwell
Anarchists sabotage and bomb government targets High Unemployment and taxation Opposition from the Pope Mass emigration to the Americas Agriculture and industry struggle What is the best title for the list of statements above?
Conditions in Newly Unified Italy
The Trail of Tears, assimilation, and "reservations" are all part of which U.S. characteristic in the 19th century?
Cruelty and disregard for Native American peoples.
Which paramilitary group did the German government rely on to crush the Sparticist Revolt?
Freikorps
Which Japanese admiral planned the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Isoroku Yamamoto
What items would have been traded most often from the Europe to Africa as part of the Triangular Trade?
Manufactured goods and weapons
Who is considered one of the main architects of Pakistan's independence?
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
What did Winston Churchill mean by stating in 1946 that Stalin had pulled an "iron curtain" across Europe?
Stalin was denying the West political and economic access to newly liberated nations in Eastern Europe after WWII
Ended the War of the Spanish Succession Allowed Philip V to remain King of Spain, but had to give up claims in France Louis XIV had to recognize the House of Hanover's right to the English throne and Gibraltar What is the best title for the statements above?
The Peace of Utrecht
What is the name given to the formal imperial rule of Britain in India between 1858 and 1947?
The Raj
Imperialist countries were motivated by a desire to gain natural resources that could be converted to industrial manufactures.
True
Mussolini's economic ideas called for repression of worker strikes as well as cooperation between owners, workers, and the government to plan production. What word best describes this economic philosophy?
corporatist
The German title 'kaiser' means 'emperor'.
True
The most notable form of indirect rule was Britain's creation of "protectorates".
True
If you were a member of the WACS, WAVES, or WASPS in the United States during World War II, you were
a woman serving in an auxiliary branch of the US military
Which of the following were NOT effects of industrial life on industrial workers?
effective government regulations that reduced workers' misery in industrial communities before 1820
With whom did the Ottomans compete for control over the Balkan Peninsula?
Austria-Hungary and Russia
Which of the following is NOT a signer of the North American Free Trade Agreement?
Cuba
Which of the following would NOT produce a Romantic poem about nature and emotion if you asked them to do so?
Emile Zola
Napoleon was born in Paris and had no education before he became an officer in the French Army.
False
Peter the Great adopted East Asian technology and culture as a way to modernize Russia.
False
Russia and Portugal were the first two countries to declare war on France to restore Louis XVI to the throne.
False
The U.S. gave guns and money to __?__for the "containment" of communism as part of the Truman Doctrine.
Greece and Turkey
Whose ideas were the basis for capitalism?
Adam Smith
Louis XIV protected Huguenots by enforcing the Edict of Nantes.
False
What did Germans believe was crippling their economy the most after WWI?
What did Germans believe was crippling their economy the most after WWI?
Which pair of famous people is an appropriate representation of the struggle between conservative ideas and liberal ideas affecting the voting reform movements in Britain?
William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli
Match each of the "Civil War Amendments" with its definition.
abolished slavery in all US states 13th Amendment established freed slaves as citizens of the US 14th Amendment granted voting rights to former slaves
How should WWI trenches be described?
filthy, dangerous, full of rats, mud, and boredom
Early 19th century conservatives generally believed in all of the following EXCEPT:
free market capitalism was a more efficient and preferable economic system than mercantilism
Which of the following is NOT true of Prime Minister William Gladstone of Britain?
he and Benjamin Disraeli were so successful as Prime Ministers because they held mutual admiration and trust for each other
Which of the following was NOT a reason that Brezhnev's policy of détente with the USA failed?
he blockaded West Berlin in protest to US influence in the Middle East
How did Hitler eventually gain the role of Chancellor of Germany in 1933?
he was appointed by Paul von Hindenburg
All of these were problems facing Emperor Franz Joseph shortly after taking the throne of Austria in 1848 EXCEPT:
helping the Seventh Coalition battle Napoleon Bonaparte
Why did the United States invade Afghanistan in 2001?
it was harboring the terrorists who planned the September 11 attacks
Pedro I's new government in Brazil differed from other new Latin American governments in that it was a(n)
limited monarchy
German and Ottoman colonies taken over by the Allies after World War I became known as what?
mandates
The Kellogg-Briand Pact's terms contained binding political agreements about engaging in war to solve diplomatic conflict.
False
The Mughal Empire had no centralized bureaucracy.
False
During the early 1920s, the most feared political ideology in Western Europe and the United States was bolshevism (communism).
True
During the reign of Louis XIV, France set cultural trends in Western Europe in art, music, and dance.
True
Saddam Hussein was captured and executed in 2006.
True
The Cold War was characterized by diplomatic and economic maneuvering on the parts of the US and USSR between 1946 and 1991.
True
World War I propaganda played on base emotions and emphasized the atrocities committed by a country's enemies.
True
Zulu economic activity centered on agriculture and livestock.
True
Which two groups intervened to stop genocide committed by the Serbs in both the Bosnian War and war in Kosovo?
UN and NATO
All of the following were reasons President Harry Truman decided to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki EXCEPT:
US desire to break up the Allies after World War II
Why was Alexander II's emancipation of the serfs in 1861 considered unsuccessful?
it did not create a prosperous new class of farmers and wealthy landowners were angry at Alexander II
People are born naturally reasonable but can be corrupted by their surroundings To prevent such corruption, create 3 branches of government This will create "checks and balances" The Spirit of the Laws (1748) Which thinker is most closely related to the list above?
Baron de Montesquieu
Which civil rights group gained fame for its work to gain equality for black South Africans?
African National Congress
The ethnic and political conflicts among the subjects of Austria-Hungary as well as the Ottoman Empire in southern Europe led the region to be called the
Balkan Powder Keg
What was the nickname for the Balkan Peninsula in the early 1900s?
Balkan Powder Keg
Somali resistance to US intervention in the Somali Civil War resulted in the _______ and President Bill Clinton's withdrawal of US troops from the country.
Battle of Mogadishu
The attack on Malala Yousefzai and the allowance of Osama bin Laden to hide in Pakistan brought international concern about
Pakistan's policies toward terrorists
What palace did Louis XIV have built so he could seem more majestic as well as keep an eye on his nobles?
Palace of Versailles
The Italian nationalist movement of the 1850s and 1860s was called the
Risorgimento
Siddhartha Gautama begins Buddhism:
Date: 500 B.C. Significance: Dominant in Southeast Asia, over 500 million followers, offshoot of Hinduism.
Which two men are most closely associated with bringing information about the interior of Africa to Western newspapers?
David Livingstone and Henry Stanley
What incident sparked the Thirty Years' War?
Defenestration of Prague
What did Emile Zola's "J'Accuse" demonstrate about French society in the 1800s?
Despite several revolutions and reforms, anti-Semitism was still very powerful.
Deficit Spending in the 1780s Bad Harvests in the 1780s Costly Wars fought by Louis XIV in the early 1700s What is the best title for the ideas listed above?
Economic Causes of the French Revolution
Henry IV of France granted the Huguenots religious toleration by announcing the
Edict of Nantes
Louis Pasteur : pasteurization and rabies vaccines :: _____________ : smallpox vaccine.
Edward Jenner
Which "special action units" carried out mass genocide behind the front lines of the German military as it swept across Eastern Europe during World War II?
Einsatzgruppen
Emperor Hirohito regularly overrode the choices made by his military leaders during before and during World War II.
False
Which of the following was the "spark" that triggered World War I?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip
What was the goal of the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-1922?
to reduce the production levels of battleships and other naval war vessels
Which of the following was sent from Europe to Africa on the Triangle Trade Routes?
All of these
What was the result of the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885?
Europeans 'carved up' Africa into areas of domination for themselves
What was the name given to the series of street demonstrations, guerrilla fights, and terrorist attacks led by the PLO against Israel between 1987 and 1994?
Intifada
Which Catholic Republican paramilitary group used car bombs as one of its primary methods of terror in trying to end British control over Northern Ireland?
Irish Republican Army (IRA)
______ developed the theory of gravity, laws of motion, and mostly invented Calculus.
Isaac Newton
What was the primary religious faith within the Ottoman Empire?
Islam
Which of the following is NOT correct about the Napoleonic Code?
It made the other parts of the Grand Empire equal to France in foreign affairs
What was the historical importance of Miguel de Cervantes' work Don Quixote?
It was a satire that mocked medieval ideas of chivalry.
What was the name of the operation headed by J. Robert Oppenheimer to create Fat Man and Little Boy (the atomic bombs)?
Manhattan Project
The Mau Mau Uprising was a failed guerrilla war fought by the Kikuyu people against colonial rule in
Kenya
Communist North Korea was led by ____, while capitalist South Korea was led by ____.
Kim Il Sung; Syngman Rhee
After which German pogrom of 1938 did the Nazis begin to send German Jews to concentration camps in large numbers?
Kristallnacht
Bismarck took control of Catholic schools Bismarck took the power to appoint Catholic priests The German public rejected Bismarck's political program against Catholics Bismarck withdrew the measures he had enacted against Catholics The political program was considered a failure The line of events above describe Bismarck's campaign against Catholicism in Germany, which he called
Kulturkampf
Which Chinese city, suffering a massacre in 1937 at the hands of the Japanese, became a main example of the ways in which Japan treated the peoples it conquered?
Nanjing
How did the United States acquire Louisiana?
Napoleon Bonaparte sold it to Thomas Jefferson in 1803
AUSTRIA→
Napoleon crushed Austria and Russia at the Battle of Austerlitz (1805) and annexed Austria as part of his Grand Empire. He also dissolved the Holy Roman Empire, creating the Confederation of the Rhine out of it. Austria tried to break away from the Grand Empire in 1809, but failed. Soon after, Napoleon divorced Josephine de Beau... and married Marie Louise of Austria to keep closer ties with the Austrian royal family.
What new country was officially recognized in 2005 after years of brutal civil war with the government of Sudan?
South Sudan
Which plan called for offensive tactics and "élan" to win a war against Germany?
Plan XVII
Who took control of the USSR when Lenin died in 1924?
Stalin
Who would you hire to paint you realistically or just take your photograph in the 1800s?
Thomas Eakins and Mathew Brady
Anwar Sadat lost the Yom Kippur War to Israel.
True
During the Protestant Reformation the ideas of secularism and individualism grew in popularity.
True
Hitler and his propaganda minister, Josef Goebbels spread fierce anti-semitism.
True
Hitler's Four-Year Plan was an order to Hermann Goering to prepare Germany for war.
True
The Hapsburgs were strong supporters of Roman Catholicism.
True
What type of rule did Somalia experience after its republic collapsed in 1991?
warlordism
All of the following were long-term causes of the Boer War of 1899-1902 EXCEPT:
Queen Victoria had long-sympathized with Dutch farmers in the Transvaal
President Wilson expressed outrage at the deaths of 128 Americas after a German U-boat torpedo sank the
RMS Lusitania
THE NETHERLANDS→
Small groups of people fought Napoleon's soldiers.
From which country did the US acquire the territory of Florida in 1819?
Spain
At Yalta, the Big Three agreed on the creation of the United Nations and on joint occupation of Germany after the war.
True
Christian missionaries and European adventurers tried to influence the native people with whom they came in contact.
True
Colonial soldiers in Africa and Asia tended to side with and fight alongside their colonizers during World War I.
True
Heinrich Himmler was the leader of the SS in Nazi Germany.
True
Philip II of Spain built El Escorial to show his tremendous power, wealth, and devotion to Catholicism.
True
I. Was intended to rebuild Europe after World War II II. Was intended to show the world how the USSR was exerting its control over Eastern Europe after World War II Which of the above statements are true of the Marshall Plan 1947-1948?
Both I and II are true
Protectionism and tariffs worsened the growing economic crisis in the West in the late 1920s.
True
How did Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli gain working class support for the Conservatives in 1867?
passing a bill that greatly increased the number of male voters in Britain
What was historically significant about the 2nd Battle of Ypres (1915)?
Germany became the first country to ever use large amounts of poison gas on an enemy in battle
Why was the United Nations, created in 1945, immediately more powerful than the League of Nations had been?
all of these are correct
Why were the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences of 1945 significant in the early development of the Cold War?
all of these are correct
As a result of international pressure, South Africa ended its policy of legal segregation, called
apartheid
Therefore, the main policy of the League of Nations (mostly led by Britain's P. M. Neville Chamberlain) was _____ →giving in to Hitler's and Mussolini's invasions in return for peace.
appeasement
Germans were extremely bitter because the peace treaty at the end of WWI. Which of the following provisions WAS NOT in the treaty?
Germany must pick a strong new kaiser to replace Wilhelm II.
Gorbachev "streamlined" the USSR's government using ____ and allowed more "openness" through ____.
Perestroika; Glasnost
I'm just a simple Flemish man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.
Peter Paul Rubens
Which of these was NOT a reason for governments to use censorship and propaganda?
To prevent the army from saying cruel things about the enemy
Nationalism in Europe grew because of Napoleon's creation of the Grand Empire.
True
There were 'hot wars' between the US and Soviet allies, and between the Soviets and US allies, but the superpowers did not fight each other in any direct large-scale conflict.
True
Europeans only created economic and political spheres of influence in Latin America.
False
Olympe de Gouges was a monarchist who wanted to restore Louis XIV's absolute power.
False
The Germans refused to execute Russian Jews and Roma living in Germany during World War II, fearing it would anger Stalin.
False
The Bronte sisters wrote works of literature in the style of realism.
False
The Duke of Wellington and Field Marshal Blucher are most closely associated with their defeat at the hands of Napoleon at Waterloo.
False
All of the following were reasons for the British East India Company's influence over the Mughal Empire EXCEPT:
Mughal traders were isolationist and uninterested in European trade
Czar Alexander III's policy of "Russification" most led to
pogroms against Jewish people in Russia
Which statement is NOT true according to the map?
Rome and the Papal States were the last to join unified Italy
How could one describe the Soviet economy under Leonid Brezhnev in the 1970s?
stagnant
Barbed wire and trenches created a _________ in which no one could advance.
stalemate
Mughal traders relied heavily upon European merchants and the exchange of
Textiles.
Match the territory with the colonial power that oversaw it under the Mandate System.
Britain: Palestine Transjordan Iraq Tanganyika France: Syria Lebanon
outlawing of the practice of sati refusal to promote Indians to high ranks in the military disdain for the caste system classification of Indians as second-class subjects use of cow and pig fat in cartridges for army weapons All of the above are examples of
British cultural insensitivity leading to the Sepoy Rebellion
Which paramilitary group, also called the "S.A.", or "Stormtroopers" did Hitler use to bully his political opponents?
Brown Shirts
Which of the following was NOT a major American Civil War battle?
The Battle of Bunker Hill
Which one of this set of painters would have told you to close your eyes, open them and then paint the fleeting "impression" you saw onto a canvas?
Claude Monet and Edgar Degas
What term is applied to the overall movement of goods, people, cultures, and diseases between Europe and the New World between 1500 and 1800?
Columbian Exchange
What do El Greco and Diego Velazquez have in common historically?
They were both painters during Spain's Siglo de Oro.
How extensive were the voting reforms of 19th century Britain?
They were gradual and only enfranchised a few more people at a time throughout the 1800s.
Frederick the Great won the War of the Austrian Succession, but only gained Silesia from it.
True
increased government surveillance increased security in public places and in transportation use of torture techniques, such as waterboarding confusion as to whether suspected terrorists are criminal or prisoners of war heightened news coverage and social media discussion about terrorism All of the above are
US responses to terrorism
Match the leader to his or her country during the fall of Communism in Europe in 1989.
USA: Bush Czech: Havel Poland: Walesa Great Britain: Thatcher Romania: Ceausescu East Germany: Krenz West Germany: Kohl
Match the Allied leader with his country.
USA: Roosevelt Britain: Churchill Soviet Union: Stalin
Hitler ended political threats to his new government by assassinating S.A. leaders during the
Night of the Long Knives
Why did Henry VIII break England away from the Catholic Church?
Not wanting to anger Charles V., the Pope refused to annul Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
LITERATURE→ Straightforward PROSE fiction became a popular way to spread Enlightened ideas. _____, like ROBINSON CRUSOE written by Daniel Defoe told stories of adventure.
Novels
How did Britain abolish slavery in its empire?
Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833
Believed Luther's teachings were mostly correct but incomplete People must live a sober and righteous life Salvation is determined by Predestination Set up a theocracy in Geneva, Switzerland
John Calvin
People are born "tabula rasa" ("blank slate") with the ability to reason People are born with the rights of life, liberty, and property People have sovereignty and should overthrow tyrannical governments The best government is a limited monarchy or republic Two Treatises of Government (1689) Which thinker is most closely associated with the list above?
John Locke
Which two early Catholic reformers influenced Martin Luther's ideas?
John Wycliffe and Jan Hus
Which leader is most closely associated with the liberation of the southern half of South America (Argentina, Chile, Peru)?
Jose de San Martin
Which Nazi is most closely associated with brutal medical experiments carried out on children and others at Auschwitz-Birkenau?
Josef Mengele
______was an English thinker and scientist who discovered the way blood circulates through the human body.
William Harvey
The main reason for invading Iraq in 2003 was the unproven US claim that Saddam Hussein was at that time in possession of weapons of mass destruction.
True
What was the significance of the Munich Conference and Munich Agreement?
showed the failure of appeasement policies in the 1930s
All of the following were reasons the USA officially joined the Allies in 1917 EXCEPT:
support of Americans for autocracy
Which of the following was NOT a result of the Battle of Stalingrad?
the Soviets were forced to negotiate with Germany because Stalin had a limited pool of soldiers to use
Why did Stalin order the blockade of all land and water routes from the American and British zones to western Berlin in 1948?
the US, Britain, and France announced their intention to eventually combine their zones
The "Final Solution" refers to Hitler's decision to commit systematic genocide against Jews.
True
The primary goal for US forces in Iraq since 2004 has been to protect its democracy against insurgents.
True
One reason that the United States entered World War I was Germany's use of what?
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Which two long-running battles of 1916 were technically victories for the Allies, but resulted in the loss of a total over 1.5 million soldiers?
Verdun and the Somme
A person in Britain who sought to be "respectable, hardworking, honest, and true to his or her duties" was trying to live according to which of the following?
Victorian values
Nixon introduced his __?__ policy in order to transfer fighting duties to the South Vietnamese.
Vietnamization
"My trade is to say what I think." "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." "Of all religions, Christianity is the one which should inspire toleration the most." "Read Candide, the novel in which I mock all societies and governments!" Who is speaking in the quotes above?
Voltaire
How did the Ottoman sultans keep control over their diverse empire after 1453?
all of these answers are correct
By resetting the borders in Europe to those of 1789, the Congress of Vienna was trying to reestablish
all of these are correct
In his "Secret Speech" (February 1956) Nikita Khrushchev announced that
all of these are correct
What other countries did Japan invade in the late 1930s besides China?
all of these are correct
What problems did Indira Gandhi face as Prime Minister of India?
all of these are correct
What was similar about Zalfikar Bhutto and his daughter, Benazir Bhutto in Pakistani politics?
all of these are correct
Gandhi's Salt March of 1930, protesting the British monopoly on salt production in India, resulted in
political pressure by other world leaders and the easing of Britain's salt monopoly
The "G.I. Bill" that was passed in 1944
provided funding for college for US servicemen returning home from World War II
What is the belief in divine beings for each World Religion?
Christianity: Monotheistic Judaism: Monotheistic Islam: Monotheistic Hinduism: Polytheistic Buddhism: No official Gods
Match each World Religion with its holy text.
Christianity: New Testament Judaism: Torah Islam: Qur'an Hinduism: The Vedas Buddhism: Tripitaka
How did Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli unsuccessfully attempt to gain working class support for the Conservatives in 1867?
passing a bill that greatly increased the number of male voters in Britain
All of the following were ways in which Nehru worked to westernize the Indian economy EXCEPT:
passing laws to limit population growth
The Covenant of the League of Nations emphasized the need for nations to act individually and to declare war when they deemed it was necessary.
False
The Dawes Plan and the Young Plan helped Germany avoid hyperinflation during the 1920s.
False
The Warsaw Pact was created in 1949 as Stalin's response to the Berlin Airlift.
False
Which Hungarian politician did Emperor Franz Joseph work with to create the Dual Monarchy of Austria Hungary?
Ferenc Deak
How did Napoleon's governing style change after he created the Grand Empire?
Instead of using merit-based choices of officials, he started to place his family members in chart of his territories
What was similar about the missionary work done by Matteo Ricci in China and Francis Xavier in Japan?
They experienced very little success in converting Chinese and Japanese subjects to Catholicism.
Carried out the Glorious Revolution in England Signed the English Bill of Rights Signed the Toleration Act in England Which of the following is most closely related to the list above?
William and Mary
What was the significance of the Battle of Tannenburg?
showed how little Russia had industrialized and prepared for modern war
All of the following were reasons that France had difficulty enforcing the Treaty of Versailles in the 1920s and 1930s EXCEPT:
steady and reliable reparations payments by Germany
Which two European countries colonized Somalia, and left a weak government structure when they left?
Britain and Italy
Most imperialist countries of the late 19th century were not interested in competing with other imperialists for prestige.
False
Austria was ruled by the Hapsburg dynasty, while Prussia was ruled by the Hohenzollern dynasty.
True
France controlled most of the East-West Belt, while Britain controlled most of the North-South Belt in Africa.
True
Middle class businesspeople and factory owners gained the most wealth and political power of any class during the Industrial Revolution.
True
The Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years' War, allowed German States to decide for themselves whether they would be Catholic or Protestant.
True
After Hitler died and Berlin was captured, the Allies declared
V.E. Day
How did Bangladesh gain independence from Pakistan?
War of Liberation, aided by India, to end genocide
After West Germany rearmed, the Soviets created the __?__ in 1955 in Eastern Europe.
Warsaw Pact
What is the name of the Treaty that ended World War I?
reaty of Versailles
The 1832 Reform Act in Britain introduced voting reform by eliminating
rotten boroughs
What nickname was given to the Ottoman Empire during the 1800s?
the Sick Man of Europe
Hinduism first appears in the Indus River Valley:
Date: 2300-1500 B.C. Significance: Became the dominant religion for over 1 billion people, origins of Buddhism.
Jesus of Nazareth is born in Bethlehem:
Date: 4 B.C. Significance: Offshoot of Judaism, world's largest religion.
Which US General administered Japan, Korea and the Philippines after WWII?
Douglas MacArthur
Which of the following was NOT a result of the Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949?
East Berlin and West Berlin declared war on each other, but were halted by UN peacekeepers
"I am the heart of France like the sun is the heart of the universe." "L'etat c'est moi." "I have repealed the Edict of Nantes." Who is speaking in the quotes above?
Louis XIV
Which Bourbon was reestablished as France's monarch by the Congress of Vienna in 1814?
Louis XVIII
Imagine you're in a city in Northern India. A trader from China just opened his cart full of goods. What product would you most likely NOT find in it?
Potatoes.
Luther's teachings were based on all of the following ideas EXCEPT:
Predestination
If you were part of the "issei" or "nisei" at Manzanar in the United States during World War II, you were
a Japanese-American interned by order of Franklin Roosevelt
WSPU women's suffrage large-scale street demonstrations hunger strikes Which 19th century British reformer would be most closely associated with the terms listed above?
Emmeline Pankhurst
Why was the Spanish Civil War important to other European countries?
Germany used it as a testing ground for new weapons and new officers Britain and France were part of a binding military agreement with the Spanish Republic
What program did Mao Zedong create in 1958 in order to accelerate Chinese agricultural production?
Great Leap Forward
What was the overall result of the Greek War of Independence?
Greece gained its independence from the Ottomans with help from other European powers
Which of the following is NOT a multinational or global corporation?
Grotto Pizza
What was the main outcomes of the Battle of Dunkirk?
Winston Churchill's order for every ship and boat to pick up soldiers on the beach saved the bulk of the British army
What was the name of the Jewish nationalist movement in Palestine?
Zionism
What 1995 incident, representing the genocide carried out by the Serbs, prompted international air strikes against Serbia?
Srebrenica Massacre
Catholic Church leaders convened at the Council of Trent, a series of meetings between 1545-1563. They decided several things:
• To end corruption in the church and crack down on "worldly" priests. • That the Bible was one source of religious truth, but not the ONLY one. The pope was considered another source of religious truth.• It created new ecclesiastical schools in order to better educate priests.
Which countries were a part of the Triple Alliance in the late 1800s?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
Heinrich Himmler : SS :: Hermann Goering : _____?_____
Gestapo
Teheran, Yalta, and Potsdam refer to
wartime conferences where the Big Three discussed strategy and post-war occupation of the Axis powers
Who gained confidence, experience, and the right to vote from their wartime efforts?
women
Which Indian scholar, like the British, condemned the caste system and many Indian religious practices?
Ram Mohun Roy
What were the terrorists' motives for the September 11, 2001 attacks?
all of these are correct
How did Algeria gain its independence?
civil war and grant of independence by Charles de Gaulle
Which Vietnamese communist led North Vietnam until his death in 1969?
Ho Chi Minh
Some felt that the _____ was too harsh on Germany.
Treaty of Versailles
All of the following were results of the Korean War EXCEPT:
China annexed Taiwan and Japan
Place the steps Napoleon took to gain political power in their correct chronological order.
1: created the Consulate 2: became First Consul 3: became Consul for Life 4: declared himself Emperor
ART→There were two styles of painting that became popular in this time period: _____ →huge, colorful, complex. Classical style. Usually showed historic battles, important saints, etc.-- _____ →personal, elegant, charming. Often rural settings. Usually showed nobles happy and with friends.
Baroque, Rococo
Then came John Calvin...
Calvin believed in many of Luther's teachings, but he added the theory of predestination. This idea says that God determined who would go to Heaven and Hell before time began and that no one could change his fate. Only by living as a saint could one hope to go to Heaven.
Which leader is best associated with the following things? Ruled as Regent of France during Louis XIII's youth Ignored the Edict of Nantes and attacked Huguenots Entered France into the Thirty Years' War on the side of the Protestants for political and land gains
Cardinal Richelieu
Which diplomatic meeting ended the Russo-Turkish War of 1878 and greatly reduced the lands and power of the Ottomans in Europe?
Congress of Berlin
What city did the Ottomans conquer in 1453, allowing it to control the crossroads of trade for Africa, Europe, and Asia?
Constantinople
Parliament controlled the power of the purse All people have the right of habeas corpus The people and the monarch had to follow laws set by Parliament What is implied by the points made above?
English people wanted a limited monarchy
Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly—because we know a [Catholic] sacrament will not bring us closer to god and there's always the chance that a folly will
Erasmus
The end of communist control over Eastern Europe was symbolized in 1989 by the
Fall of the Berlin Wall
A developing nation is one that is fully industrialized.
False
The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572 was an example of Catholic attacks against Calvinist Protestants during the era of religious wars in late 16th century
France
Who won the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939?
Francisco Franco and the Fascists (Nationalists)
I. stop the flow of manual laborers and intellectuals from East to West Berlin II. avoid armed confrontation over the Berlin Crisis of 1958-1961 III. make travel, work, and relations between East and West Berlin simpler Which of the following reasons for the building the Berlin Wall in 1961 are correct?
I and II only
Father Miguel Hidalgo Jose Morelos Augustin de Iturbide Which country's independence movement was led by the three men listed above?
Mexico
Which Renaissance sculptor created the statue shown above?
Michelangelo.
What was mostly transported to Europe from the Americas along the Triangle Trade Routes?
Raw goods
What philosophy did Otto von Bismarck use as Chancellor?
Realpolitik
Which of the following was NOT brought from Europe to the Americas between 1500 and 1800?
Sugar
What failed uprising of 1850-1864 started because of the misery of China's peasants and resulted in the deaths of 20-30 million Chinese?
Taiping Rebellion
THE AVERAGE EUROPEAN AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT.
The average European was a peasant farmer or lower-class city dweller. At first, he/she gained little from Enlightened ideas. In the East, serfdom was still strong. It wasn't until the late 1700s that life started to change for the average poor European.
During the March Revolution (October Revolution), which of the following occurred?
The czar abdicated and soviet councils were set up.
The First Protestants...
The first believers in Luther's teachings were called Protestants because they were protesting abuses in the Church. (Although Luther himself claimed to be Catholic to the day he died.) Most northern German states chose Lutheranism, while the southern states remained mostly Catholic.
How would one best characterize the treatment of Indians by the British Raj?
culturally and politically insensitive
The T-4 program in Germany was created to eliminate
mentally ill and disabled
Killing Fields 1.5-3 million dead displacement and liquidation of city dwellers liquidation of intelligentsia invasion by communist Vietnam Pol Pot put on house arrest for life All of the above refer to
results of communist-led genocide in Cambodia 1975-1979
Overall, how did Britain avoid revolution throughout the 19th century?
gradually reforming its voting laws
Napoleon used plebiscites to gain support for the political promotions he gave himself.
True
The Hutu were in the majority while the Tutsi were in the minority in Rwanda.
True
Between the 1890s and 1920s, the Ottomans carried out a genocide against
Armenians
What was Gamal Abdel Nasser's main foreign policy goal?
defeat and eliminate Israel
SPAIN→
After Portugal and Spain refused to completely obey the Continental System in 1807, Napoleon invaded both countries. He tried to give the Spanish throne to his brother, Joseph Bonaparte in 1808. The Spanish resisted with a guerilla war, supported by Britain. This type of war frustrated and exhausted French soldiers in Spain.
Which explorer called for transforming the Indian Ocean into a "Portuguese Lake" as well as taking the port of Malacca?
Afonso de Albuquerque
What two products were the Ottomans most known for trading?
Coffee and ceramics.
Which of the following is NOT a reason that Philip II of Spain sent the Armada to attack England in 1588?
Philip was opposed to the persecution of Protestants in England.
Which of the following is NOT CORRECT in relation to Philip II of Spain?
He defeated Elizabeth I by sending the Armada to conquer England in 1588.
It is a press...Through it, God will spread His Word. A spring of truth shall flow from it: like a new star it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and cause a light heretofore unknown to shine amongst men.
Johannes Gutenberg
Henry's only son, nine-year-old Edward VI ruled from 1547-1553, when he died. He passed several laws protecting Protestants. He was succeeded by Henry's oldest daughter, _____, who reversed many of these laws. As a staunch _____ (like her mother) she tried to change England back to a Catholic state by beheading and burning Protestants at the stake. This earned her the nickname "Bloody Mary".
Mary, Catholic
Which of the following made Henry VIII the ruler of the Church of England?
The Act of Supremacy
Martin Luther's Beliefs
The Bible is the only source of religious truth. • The church "hierarchy" (leadership) had no special powers. One's relationship with God could be individual and personal without priests. This is an idea called the "Priesthood of Al... • People may only be saved through faith alone; good deeds were unnecessary to enter Heaven.
The movement of precious metals and products between traders from multiple empires on multiple continents is an example of
globalization
India and Pakistan have fought wars and threatened each other with nuclear attack over which two disputed regions?
Kashmir and Punjab
Establishing the _________was Wilson's most important goal in his Fourteen Points.
League of Nations
Which phrase is most closely associated with the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen?
Liberty, Equality and Fraternity
Which nationalist leader is most closely associated with Hungarian nationalism of the late 1840s?
Louis Kossuth
All of the following were targets of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US EXCEPT:
The White House
The idea that the German military had been undermined by treasonous elements during World War I and that Germany had fallen victim to Jewish and communist influence as a part of Treaty of Versailles was called the
"Stab in the Back" Theory
What idea, supported by many in Germany in the early 1920s, claimed that Jews, war profiteers, Communists, Socialists, and unruly workers had caused Germany to lose World War I?
"stab in the back" theory
Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles established that
"war guilt" belonged solely to Germany
Where did the UN divide North and South Vietnam (the DMZ) in 1956?
17th Parallel
What is the best description of Baroque art?
Naturalistic, complex, and ornate; depicted scenes of religion or violence or heroism
Between 1509 and 1547, Henry had six wives:
1. Catherine of Aragon: Spanish mother of Mary I., marriage annulled. 2. Anne Boleyn: mother to Elizabeth I., beheaded for supposed infidelity. 3. Jane Seymour: mother to Henry's only son Edward VI, died shortly after. 4. Anne of Cleves: married to Henry only 6 months, marriage annulled. 5. Catherine Howard: beheaded for infidelity. 6. Catherine Parr: outlived Henry VIII.
Place the following events relating to the creation of limited monarchy in England in the correct chronological order.
1. James I becomes the first Stuart monarch in England 2. Charles I becomes King of England and claims divine right 3. The English Civil War commences between Royalist and Parliamentary forces 4. Charles I is executed 5. Oliver Cromwell declares himself Lord Protector of the English Protectorate 6. Charles II returns from exile to lead the Restoration of the monarchy 7. James II takes the throne and declares himself an absolute monarch 8. William and Mary lead the Glorious Revolution
Napoleon's Contributions to Europe...
1. The Napoleonic Code made France a solid, stronger state. 2. Suffrage and rights to education and property were given to more men. 3. His conquests encouraged the rise of NATIONALISM!!!!
Place the events of the 1760s in North America in the correct order.
1: Britain passes the Navigation Acts 2: French and Indian War begins 3: Britain issues the Proclamation of 1763 4: Britain passes the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, and the Townshend Acts
Place the following acts of aggression by Nazi Germany in correct chronological order.
1: Hitler denounces the Treaty of Versailles and openly rearms Germany 2: Germany invades and occupies the Rhineland 3: Hermann Goering's Luftwaffe bombs the Spanish market town of Guernica, killing thousands 4: Germany annexes Austria in the Anschluss 5: Hitler, Chamberlain, Deladier, and Mussolini sign the Munich Agreement, giving the Sudetenland to Germany 6: Germany breaks the Munich Agreement and occupies all of Czechoslovakia 7: Germany and the USSR sign the Nazi-Soviet Pact 8: Germany and the USSR invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany
Place the following events in French history in the correct chronological order.
1: the Franco-Prussian War begins 2: Emperor Napoleon III captured by the Prussians and abdicates 3: the Paris Commune announces it will rule itself separately from the rest of France, but is put down by the French army 4: The French Third Republic is declared after the Constitution of 1875 is adopted
The best economy is a free market with laissez-faire policies by the government The two main laws in economics are 'supply and demand' Mercantilism is a clumsy and ineffective economic system The Wealth of Nations (1776) Which thinker is most closely related to the list above?
Adam Smith
Compared to other African cultures, the Kingdom of Ethiopia was different because it
Adopted Christianity under its Solomonic rulers
All of the following were results of transporting slaves along the Middle Passage EXCEPT:
Africans were only forced to be slaves for seven years and then they were released from their contracts
Which of the following groups of countries is NOT matched with its alliance during WWI?
Allies--Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
Which country's independence movement was most affected by the interventions of Cold War rivals?
Angola
Whose diary tells about hiding in an attic in the Netherlands for several years before being captured by the Gestapo?
Anne Frank
In 1805, while Napoleon won a great land victory at the Battle of ________, his navy suffered a crushing defeat to Britain at the Battle of ________.
Austerlitz; Trafalgar
Where did the British finally defeat the "Desert Fox", Erwin Rommel, in 1942, gaining their first major land victory over Germany during World War II?
Battle of El Alamein
At which battle did Shaka's massacre of 1,300 British lead to a massive British military campaign to defeat him?
Battle of Isandlwanda
series of religious reforms in the 1550s and 1560s established the Church of England as England's official state religion set forth a Book of Common Prayer to be used in all Anglican Churches was worded to promote religious toleration in England All of the terms and phrases above refer to the
Elizabethan Settlement
Nobles and Clergy who fled France during the French Revolution were called
Emigres
People created new religious orders (or groups) of priests and nuns:
Ignatius of Loyola created the Jesuits, or Society of Jesus to do missionary work in Europe and abroad.
What title did Mussolini take after the Acerbo Law made him dictator of Italy?
Il Duce
Match the Enlightenment artwork style with its description.
Baroque: bright, vibrant, depicting religious moments Rococo: cooler, more blended, depicted country moments Neoclassical: detailed and bold, romanticized Rome and Greece
The RAF fought round the clock against the Luftwaffe The Luftwaffe bombed British cities, as seen in the London Blitz The British navy fought German U-boats in the English Channel and North Atlantic Churchill led Britain to hold out and prevent German invasion Hitler turned his attention to invading the USSR in 1941 What term is most closely associated with the items above?
Battle of Britain
Prussia defeats Denmark in eight months in 1864 and occupies Schleswig and Holstein Prussia defeats Austria in six weeks in 1866 after a dispute over Schleswig and Holstein Prussia defeats France in ten months in the Franco-Prussian War 1870 What do the statements above imply?
Bismarck had assembled an industrial, fast-moving army
Why was the Muslim League created in 1906?
Both I and II are correct
Parisian women led a large group of people to the gates of the Palace of Versailles in 1789, demanding that King Louis XVI open his food stores. As a result, the King and Queen were pressured to live in the Tuileries Palace in Paris. This event was called the
Bread March
How did Spain pay for spices while trading in Manila?
Bringing silver that was mined in Mexico and Peru across the Pacific.
1875 Bought the majority share of the Suez Canal 1882 Attacked by a nationalist uprising in Egypt 1882 Declared Egypt a protectorate What country is being described in the timeline above?
Britain
Which of the following was NOT a reason that Britain agreed to Indian independence after World War II?
Britain had lost India to the Japanese in 1941
All of the following were reasons for Irish resentment toward British rule during the 1800s EXCEPT:
Britain's threat to withdraw from Ireland and grant it "home rule"
Which countries were a part of the Triple Entente of the early 1900s?
Britain, France, Russia
Match the thinker with the name of the economic or political theory with whom he or she is most associated. (Some answers will be used more than once.)
Emmeline Pankhurst: Women's Suffrage Adam Smith: Free Market Capitalism Jeremy Bentham: Utilitarianism Robert Owen: Utopian Socialism Karl Marx: Communism
All of the following were effects of the US government's occupation of Japan after WWII EXCEPT:
Emperor Hirohito was forced to abdicate
Which of the following rulers instituted enough reforms during his reign that his county became known as the "Liberal Empire"?
Emperor Napoleon III
If you wanted to read essays about government, society, and economics from famous thinkers of the Enlightenment Era, which book would most likely contain them?
Encyclopedie by Diderot
Czar Nicholas I claimed to be protecting Orthodox Christians in southeastern Europe Britain and France saw Nicholas I's motives as a simple land-grab in the Black Sea region and declared war Disease ravaged both the Russians and their enemies during the conflict Russia was defeated by the superior military technology of Britain, France, and Sardinia Russia ceded territory to the Ottomans, and neither Russia nor the Ottomans could have navies in the Black Sea Which term best summarized the statements above?
Causes and Results of the Crimean War
Roundheads : Parliament's forces :: ___________ : Charles I's forces
Cavaliers
Nationalism, religion, and glorification of the history of Rome and Italy The individual is nothing; the state is everything distrust of democracy; instead, rule by a single powerful leader use of scapegoats and control of mass media corruption and election fraud male dominance and social hierarchy emphasis on militarism and expansionism What is the best title for the items listed above?
Characteristics of Fascism
Rank each World Religion from the most number of believers to least number of believers in the world today.
Christianity: 1 Islam: 2 Hinduism: 3 Buddhism: 4 Judaism: 5
Match each World Religion with its earliest leader(s) or founder(s).
Christianity: Jesus of Nazareth Judaism: Abraham and Moses Islam: Muhammad Hinduism: Aryan peoples Buddhism: Siddhartha Gautama
Which of the following was the Empress Dowager who put down the Self-Strengthening Movement?
Cixi
The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) created by Ignatius of Loyola was an example of a strictly-trained religious order devoted to
Combating Protestantism acting as missionaries to convert natives to Catholicism in the New World.
Propaganda Little Red Book Mobilization of the Red Guards What is the best title for the list above?
Creation of Mao's Personality Cult
The spread of Christianity by European traders, officials, and missionaries is an example of
Cultural diffusion.
Which of the following wrote a fictional novel called Robinson Crusoe about an adventure on a tropical island?
Daniel Defoe
Which Irish politician in Parliament was most closely associated with pushing the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829 through Parliament?
Daniel O'Connell
What region in western Sudan has been torn apart by the government-backed Janjuweed?
Darfur
The French withdrew from Vietnam in 1954 after their defeat to the communists at
Dien Bien Phu
Which idea claimed that southeast Asia would "fall" to communism if communism spread to South Vietnam?
Domino Theory
Which of the following did Emile Zola NOT include as part of his argument in his article, "J'Accuse!"?
Dreyfus was an inept military leader
Which of the following was NOT a result of the reunification of Germany in the 1990s?
East and West Berlin remained separated politically and economically
When Mary I died, her half-sister _____ became Queen. Though an Anglican like her father, she practiced religious _____, allowing both Catholics and Protestants to practice their faiths. She would go on to earn fame by defeating the Spanish Armada in 1588 and making England very powerful and prosperous during her 45 year reign (1558-1603). She never had children, earning her the nickname _____ (Virginia is named for her), and opening the door for her cousin _____ of Scotland to begin the Stuart family dynasty in England.
Elizabeth I, toleration, Virgin Queen, Mary Stuart
Which country, led by emperor Menelik II, successfully resisted Italian imperialism in Africa in the late 1800s by winning the Battle of Adwa in 1896?
Ethiopia
After World War I, Germany was permitted to keep a standing army in the Rhineland for security and a sizable navy to protect against Russian aggression.
False
Belgium did not gain independence from the Netherlands until after 1945.
False
France's annexation of Algeria is considered informal imperialism.
False
Frederick the Great refused to participate in the Partition of Poland (1772).
False
Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia accepted the Frankfurt Assembly's offer to become king of a new confederation of German States in 1848.
False
Guangxu's Hundred Days of Reform successfully started China on the road to modernization.
False
Henry IV of France's Edict of Nantes (1598) was meant to encourage French Catholics to persecute Huguenots.
False
Molasses and sugar were not transported to Europe from the Caribbean as part of the Triangle Trade.
False
Most monarchs and nobles in Europe, South America, and Asia promoted liberalism as their main political goal.
False
The Holy Roman Empire was unified and had little ethnic diversity in the 16th and 17th centuries.
False
The Janjuweed in Sudan only target Christians in their genocidal attacks.
False
The League of Nations granted Emperor Haile Selassie his request for assistance and forced Mussolini to leave East Africa.
False
The New Imperialism refers to the era of colonization started by Christopher Columbus in 1492.
False
The Partition of India resulted in the smooth and bloodless creation of India and Pakistan.
False
Which of the following is NOT a result of the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
Fidel Castro declared neutrality in the Cold War
Which country would be most associated with resisting Soviet invasion through the use of cross-country skis and white camouflage?
Finland
Match the correct French estate, or social rank, with its description
First Estate: Clergy Second Estate: Nobles and Aristocracy Third Estate: Commoners
end of secret treaties and alliances free trade free speech freedom of the seas "self-determination" reduction of large militaries territorial adjustments creation of an association of nations for 'collective security' In January 1918, before World War I was over, Woodrow Wilson proposed the ideas above in a plan for long-lasting peace he called the
Fourteen Points
The regions colored in dark (navy) blue on the map above represent
France and its directly owned territories under Napoleon
cash and carry policy signing the Atlantic Charter with Churchill passing the Lend-Lease Act All of the items listed above are ways
Franklin Roosevelt worked to help the Allies before the US entered World War II
created an efficient bureaucracy and controlled nobles in Prussia allowed non-nobles to serve as judges in Prussia encouraged literacy and education in Prussia promoted religious and ethnic toleration and more free speech in Prussia What is the best title for the list of statements above?
Frederick the Great's Domestic Policy
Which one of the following terms is NOT defined correctly?
Free Market--that to which all people may go to obtain necessities if they are in need
Why did Garibaldi give the lands he conquered in southern Italy and Sicily to Victor Emmanuel II?
Garibaldi was showing nationalism by choosing to unify the country rather than separate it
Which of the following was not an outcome of the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s?
Germany starved because of a lack of potato imports from Ireland.
What did Bismarck mean by his reference to "iron and blood" in his speech to the German Parliament in 1862?
Germany would be built on an aggressive and advanced military
What nationalist leader led his group "Young Italy" in a failed attempt to create a republic in Rome in 1848?
Giuseppe Mazzini
______ created "Young Italy", tried unsuccessfully to create an Italian republic in Rome in 1848, and was exiled.
Giuseppe Mazzini
What 1998 accord settled the relationship between Northern Ireland, the U.K., and Ireland, as well as disarming the IRA?
Good Friday Agreement
establishments of a federal republic with rights for states secular government that fought to end discrimination based on the caste system expansion of the vote in India What is the best title for the items listed above?
Government of Jawaharlal Nehru
In which 1966-1976 campaign did Mao purge his opposition?
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Which resolution in 1964 allowed Lyndon Johnson to escalate the Vietnam conflict?
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Which family dynasty ruled Austria in the 1800s?
Hapsburgs
Guernica, by Pablo Picasso (1937) What is the significance of the mural (painting) above?
He showed the atrocities of the Germans in bombing the market town of Guernica
How did Philip II of Spain view marriage?
He used it to try to strengthen Catholic power in Europe.
Who became the Prime Minister of Japan in 1941 and ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Hideki Tojo
Rank the Five World Religions in order of appearance from oldest to youngest.
Hinduism: 1 Judaism: 2 Buddhism: 3 Christianity: 4 Islam: 5
Older boys were forced to be educated in National Socialism (Nazism) through their attending meetings of the
Hitler Youth
How could one describe the attitudes of Korean, Chinese, and Japanese nobles toward Christian missionaries during the 1600s?
Hostile.
Which Islamic fundamentalist terrorist group has seized large portions of Syria and Iraq over the last decade, carrying out brutal acts of violence against civilians and military people alike?
ISIS (ISIL)
The almamy of Futa Toro tried to outlaw slave trade in his kingdom by using the religious law of which faith?
Islam
1948 War for Independence 1956 Suez War 1967 Six Day War 1973 Yom Kippur War What is true of all the conflicts listed above?
Israel won significant military victories over Egypt
What was the result of Napoleon's creation of the Confederation of the Rhine?
It ended the existence of the Holy Roman Empire
The Storming of the Bastille by Jean-Pierre Houel Why is the event shown in the painting significant?
It is a nationalist symbol of the French revolution.
Why was the end of Czechoslovakia's communist government called the Velvet Revolution?
It was a smooth and bloodless government change
Why were Italians drawn to Mussolini's criticism of the Treaty of Versailles?
Italy did not gain the amount of territory it demanded at the Paris Peace Conference
MUSIC→Music became popular as a way to entertain people. Several composers wrote important musical works during this time. --_____ →German. Wrote complex, beautiful religious-type music and operas. --George Handel→German. Lived in England. Wrote operas for the English nobles. Most famous work was MESSIAH. --Wolfgang Amadeus _____ →German. Child prodigy. Wrote operas, symphonies and religious music. Died young and penniless at age 35.
J.S. Bach, Mozart
Which of the following was NOT an effect of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Japanese people can no longer live in Hiroshima or Nagasaki today
People are born naturally reasonable but can be corrupted by circumstances Social and economic inequality cause this corruption The people are sovereign and should rely on the "majority will" to guide their government The Social Contract (1762) Which thinker is most closely related to the list above?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Leader of Britain's Conservative Party 1979-1990 Strong proponent of free market capitalism Defeated Argentina in the 1982 Falklands War to retake the islands Ardent anti-communist Enjoyed a close political relationship with Ronald Reagan Who is being described in the list above?
Margaret Thatcher
Who was the leader of the Vichy Regime and was sentenced to life imprisonment after World War II for treason?
Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain
Jews had ruined pure Aryan culture and blood Jews had worked to undermine Germany during World War I Jews used Communism to try to control the world's banking and finances Pure Germans deserved "lebensraum" and should take it from Eastern European slavs All other races besides Germanic people were "untermenschen", or sub-humans Pure Germans need to legally end the Weimar government and eliminate the "Jewish threat" What is the title of the book where you can find these statements by Adolf Hitler?
Mein Kampf
In the late Middle Ages many began to outwardly question some of the practices of the Catholic Church. Popes competed for political and economic power and other worldly affairs. Causes of the Protestant Reformation:
Merchant wealth challenged the Church's view of usury (high rates of interest.) •The English and German nobility disliked Italian domination of the Church. • The Church's great political power and wealth caused conflict.
The INF Treaty (1987), which intended to limit the Soviets' and Americans' nuclear arsenals, was signed by Ronald Reagan and
Mikhail Gorbachev
Father of Modern Egypt modernized the Egyptian army improved and revised tax collection and the bureaucracy oversaw irrigation and agricultural advancements What is the best title for the statements above?
Muhammad Ali
Which of the following terrorist attacks involved the kidnapping and murder of Israeli athletes?
Munich Olympic Massacre 1972
Why what group split from the Congress Party in order to seek a separate nation for Islamic people in India?
Muslim League
The "Napoleonic Wars."
Napoleon conquered eastward and westward, spreading ideas from the French Revolution. He set up pro-French governments. He also installed the Napoleonic Code and the Continental System. People in other countries resisted...
The Decline...
Napoleon's Grand Army was defeated in 1813 at the battle of Leipzig in 1813 by the "Sixth Coalition" (Austria, Russia, Prussia, Britain, Sweden). • In 1814, the Sixth Coalition invaded France and forced Napoleon to abdicate (give up his throne). They exiled him to the island of Elba. • The French tried to restore Louis XVIII to the throne, but it did not go well. Napoleon escaped Elba and returned to France. Many loyal followers rejoined him. This 3-4 month period of Napoleon's return was called the Hundred Days. • The Battle of Waterloo (1815). (Belgium) British, Prussian, Dutch and some German soldiers, called the "Seventh Coalition" and led by Britain's Duke of Wellington, defeated and captured Napoleon at this battle. Napoleon was sent to jail on the island of St. Helena in the south Atlantic, where he died in 1821.
RUSSIA→
Napoleons largest mistake was his invasion of Russia. He began his attack late in the summer of 1812. Napoleon's invasion failed for two reasons: 1. The Scorched Earth Policy→At the order of Czar Alexander I, Russians burned fields, houses and supplies so that Napoleon could not use them. 2. The Russian Winter and Terrain→Napoleon's soldiers did not have enough food or clothes. Also, Napoleon's supply line was very long and easy to attack. 3. Napoleon returned to France with fewer than HALF of his men. This campaign was seen as a mistake and damaged his popularity with many in France.
Which South African leader won a joint Nobel Peace Prize with F. W. de Klerk for the social changes they worked together to bring about?
Nelson Mandela
The USA's _____ (1937-1939) prohibited the USA from intervening in Europe.
Neutrality Acts
Passed in 1935 and 1937 Jews are not permitted to be citizens of the Third Reich Jews have no property rights, cannot serve in the military, and cannot marry ethnic Germans Jews are sub-human and not actually full human beings, so persecution of them is permissible by law Applied not only to Jews, but to Roma and those with genetic diseases What is the best title for the list of items above?
Nuremberg Laws
What were the Three Pillars that made up Czar Nicholas I's vision for Russian identity?
Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality
Who organized the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the US?
Osama bin Laden
Where were the killing centers at Treblinka, Sobibor, and Maidenek?
Poland
The Quadruple Alliance that decided Napoleon's fate included all of the following EXCEPT:
Portugal
Leonid Brezhnev created the Brezhnev Doctrine by crushing protests in Czechoslovakia during the "____" of 1968.
Prague Spring
The 5:5:3 ratio from the Washington Conference that limited Japan's naval production in comparison to the US and Britain Japanese competition with American interests in the Pacific Japan's perception of American racist immigration policies Japanese perception of their own racial superiority The United States' criticism of Japanese empire-building The United States' ending of oil and scrap metal shipments to Japan The United States' freezing of Japanese bank assets in the US What is the best title for the list of items above?
Reasons Japan Attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941
-Jewish ghettos created in Europe's cities -Huguenots attacked by Catholics -Bloody Mary executes Catholics in England Which of the following ideas applies to the terms and events listed above?
Religious persecution.
Poland's revolution in 1830 failed because of the intervention of
Russia
The Utopians wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
Sir Thomas More
Which of the following was NOT an item that was brought from the Americas to Europe between 1500 and 1800?
Smallpox
Which political group led Poland to end its communist government?
Solidarity
In 1500, the Ottoman Empire controlled southwest Asia (the Middle East), northeast Africa, and
Southeastern Europe
Which of the following were NOT reasons for the beginning of the Protestant Reformation?
The Catholic Church took steps to reduce corruption and abuses in the 15th century.
The Catholic Church's Reaction...
The Church called Luther to the Diet of Worms, a major Church council in Germany, and demanded that he recant, or take back, what he had written in the Ninety-five Theses. He refused. Holy Roman Emperor Charles V declared Luther an outlaw and Pope Leo X excommunicated him.) Luther took refuge with wealthy nobles in Germany. They saw this as an opportunity to gain power and popular support. Several revolts and uprisings led to a permanent split in the Catholic believers.
Which two conflicts best symbolize the Irish push for freedom from Great Britain?
The Easter Rising of 1916 and the Anglo-Irish War of 1919-1921
Britain just voted to leave ____, an association of European states with widespread economic, political, and judicial powers led by Germany and France.
The European Union
All of the following were long-term results of the Thirty Years' War EXCEPT:
The Holy Roman Empire gained territory and political power
Which series of Catholic courts in Europe would interrogate, torture, try, and punish Jewish people, witches, or heretics?
The Inquisition
The USA would not interfere in European politics Any colonies Europeans already held in the Western Hemisphere, they could keep Europeans could not engage in any new colonization in the Western Hemisphere Any attempt to create new colonies in the Western Hemisphere would be considered hostile to the USA Some Latin Americans were happy for this protection, while others saw it as the USA trying to increase its dominance in the hemisphere Europeans did not respect the proclamation until Britain's navy helped to enforce it What is being discussed in the statements above?
The Monroe Doctrine
What did King Afonso I of the Kongo's letters to the King of Portugal demonstrate?
The Portuguese were illegally slave trading in Kongo and could not be stopped
If you were a British or French pilot during World War I, which flying ace would you least likely want to engage in a dogfight?
The Red Baron (Manfred von Richtofen)
Which of the following is evidence that Lenin and the Bolsheviks would use any means necessary, including violence and executions, in order to win the Russian Civil War and set up a communist government?
The Reds executed Nicholas II and his family
Which of the following was NOT a result of the launch of Sputnik I?
The US declared that it still possessed more conventional and nuclear missiles than the USSR
Why were the Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway significant?
They were the first victories of the Pacific War for the United States and helped to protect Hawaii against further attack
Thrift, honesty, hard work, and duty were all social values most associated with a person's 'respectability' during the
Victorian Age in Britain
Why was Operation Barbarossa a failure in the end?
the harsh Russian winter and terrain allowed the Soviets to hold out and defeat the Germans at Stalingrad and Leningrad
Where did Napoleon win his first victories and promotions while in defense of the French Revolution?
Toulon and Northern Italy
Africa is ethnically, religiously, and linguistically diverse.
True
Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Yitzhak Rabin of Israel were both assassinated by religious and political extremists in retaliation for negotiating for peace between Arabs and Israelis.
True
Both Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi were assassinated in retaliation for putting down religious or ethnic uprisings.
True
British economist John Maynard Keynes called for more government investment in economies to halt economic downturns.
True
Cromwell's disciplined military force was called the New Model Army.
True
Economic, social, and political tensions in Europe during the 1920s led to the rise of radical authoritarian political parties.
True
Europeans justified their right to overtake other territories by pointing to Social Darwinism, or the application of Charles Darwin's theories to racial groups.
True
France usually used direct rule in their colonies while Britain usually used indirect rule.
True
General John J. Pershing led the American Expeditionary Force into the Western Front in 1917.
True
Individual pashas became independent of Ottoman rule during the 1800s.
True
Most of the Revolutions of 1848 in Europe failed because the middle class bourgeoisie did not fully support them.
True
Mussolini gained popularity when he called for invasions of territories Italy wished to regain in North Africa and the Balkan Peninsula.
True
The Great Fear occurred in 1789 as French peasants thought Louis XVI would take revenge for the Storming of the Bastille.
True
The Jacobins were radicals in the Legislative Assembly who wanted to create a French Republic.
True
Which of the following is NOT an economic or financial institution that directly assist in the economic recovery of developing nations?
World Health Organization
If you were a member of the Bracero Program during World War II in the United States, you were
a Latino agricultural laborer assisting in food production for the war effort
What kind of limited monarchy did William and Mary preside over in England?
a constitutional monarchy
The Zimmermann Telegram sparked the US to join the Allies in early 1917. It contained all of the following EXCEPT:
a promise to Mexico that it would gain control over all of Central America
All of the following were RESULTS of the Ruhr Crisis of 1923 EXCEPT:
agreement by Britain and France to end reparations payments from the Weimar government
All of the following were reasons for a coalition invasion of Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War EXCEPT:
al-Qaida and Iraq were working together to attack the US
Over which issues did Kaiser Wilhelm II finally force Bismarck to resign and retire?
all of these are correct
Some of the earliest European spheres of influence in China could be found near the
all of these are correct
The Troubles in Northern Ireland during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s refer to the attacks between
all of these are correct
What characterized the "arms race" between Britain and Germany between 1890 and 1914?
all of these are correct
Which of the following were forms of economic imperialism used by the British in India?
all of these are correct
Why was James Watt's improvement of Newcomen's steam engine important?
all of these are correct
Which policy, used by Britain and France during the 1930s, gave in to Germany's and Italy's demands in order to avoid war?
appeasement
What was the most devastating weapon by numbers of deaths used on the Western Front?
artillery
Which of the following was NOT a part of factory or mining conditions during the early Industrial Revolution?
educational opportunities and insurance plans for workers
Areas established by the Qing specifically to control trade brought by Europe were called
enclaves
Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of gas warfare during World War I?
gas warfare was abandoned as a tactic by the end of 1916
The U.S. was nicknamed the "Arsenal of Democracy" during the early years of WWII because it
gave weapons and money to France and Britain during early World War II
The Enabling Act of 1933
gave wide sweeping power to Hitler and his cabinet to make laws for Germany
Which of the following was NOT related to the British colonization of Australia?
granting of sovereignty to the Australian colonists in the late 1700s
The USA's use of migrant agricultural laborers during World War II and Germany's employment of Turkish immigrants to rebuild East Germany are examples of the use of
guest workers
What was the significance of the work of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) during World War I?
he helped begin the Great Arab Revolt of 1916 which caused the Ottomans to collapse from inside out
How did Mussolini work to end the Catholic Church's influence in Italian Fascist government?
he signed the Lateran Treaty with the Pope
How did Mussolini gain Victor Emmanuel III's appointment as Prime Minister in 1922?
he threatened to march on Rome with his followers and take the city by force
Which term means "a structured, organized system of ideas or beliefs"?
ideology
James I and Charles I were alike in that they both clashed with Parliament over all of the following EXCEPT:
the dissolution of the Thirteen Colonies in North America
How could one best describe UN efforts to intervene in the Rwandan Genocide?
ineffective
After taking control of North Africa, Britain and the United States agreed that their next step would be to
invade Sicily and Italy, considered the "soft underbelly of Europe, to end fascism and try to take pressure off of Stalin
What was the main strategy used by the USA in fighting the Japanese in the Pacific?
island hopping
The United States' foreign policy under Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s was politically neutral and
isolationist
Which of the following describes the role of the Chartist Movement in 19th century Britain?
it gained little immediate reform, but nearly all of its six demands for government reform were enacted before 1914
How did the British criminal system change between 1800 and 1900?
it greatly reduced and then ended capital punishment and transportation to Australia
All of the following were reasons the Union won the American Civil War EXCEPT:
it had much more creative and decisive generals than the Confederacy
All of the following are reasons the League of Nations was weakened in the years after World War I EXCEPT:
it took too much funding from Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary
Why was the Battle of the Bulge significant?
it was the last major German offensive and it ended in defeat in early 1945
How did Ghana gain its independence?
negotiation and peaceful strikes
All of the following were reasons for the weakness of the new Weimar government EXCEPT:
refusal of Britain or France to recognize its legitimacy as a government
Madame Geoffrin has just invited you to speak after dinner on the condition of poor people in Paris and how the local government is not upholding the social contract. In this scenario, you're most likely attending a
salon
What incident sparked the Rwandan Genocide of 1994?
shooting down of the Hutu president's plane by the RPF
All of the following were objectives of Britain's failed Gallipoli campaign EXCEPT:
take control of the North Sea to keep Germany's navy hemmed in
Why was Czar Alexander II assassinated?
the "People's Will" were angry with him for rolling back most of his liberal reforms in the 1870s
Pol Pot led which brutal authoritarian government in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979?
the Khmer Rouge
Which two groups are were used as Hitler's body guard as well as an instrument of terror against Jews?
the SS and Gestapo
Where did Jewish people rise up against German forces for three weeks in 1943, leading to the liquidation of the city's Jewish ghetto?
the Warsaw Ghetto
What was the historical significance of the Dreyfus affair?
the affair shown a light on corruption and anti-Semitism in the French government, legal system, and army
The Camp David Accords, signed by Menachem Begin of Israel, Anwar Sadat of Egypt, and Jimmy Carter of the USA called for all of the following EXCEPT:
the breakup of the unified Israeli state
social media bioethics, genetic engineering, and cloning computer systems smartphones medical advances All of the items above are examples of
the impact of technology on the world today
Romanticism during the Napoleonic era was a rebellion against
the reason and logic that dominated Enlightenment thought
All of the following were effects of the Vietnam War on the U.S. EXCEPT:
the removal of the communists from North Vietnam
Which of the following was NOT included in Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points?
the return of New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas to Mexico
"Melancholy, out of step with society, and mysterious." What type of 19th century fictional character is being described above?
the romantic hero
Renaissance Protestant Reformation Scientific Revolution American and French Revolutions Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions What did all of the items listed above have in common?
they all were based on reasonable questioning of established authority
"Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" 1844 The Texas War of Independence 1835 The Mexican War 1846 The Gadsden Purchase 1853 The California Gold Rush 1849 Purchase of Alaska from Russia 1867
they were seen as logical outcomes of America's "Manifest Destiny"
Why did merchants pressure Sir Robert Peel to adopt "free trade"?
they wished to import large quantities of goods without the added tariffs applied under the Corn Laws
What was the primary goal of the Locarno Treaties of 1925 and 1926?
to avoid war by readjusting Germany's western borders and reestablish diplomacy between Germany and other nations
Why did the British fight the Opium Wars against China?
to continue the sale of opium to Chinese merchants in return for Chinese tea
Why did Luddites smash textile machines and attack factory owners?
to protest the changes to their way of life brought on by labor-saving machines
