History True/False on Exam (Semester 2)

After Mexico won its independence from Spain, Antonia Lopez de Santa Anna introduced major reforms, such as reducing the power of the Catholic church and the military.

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After WWI, Japan's vast natural resources enabled the country to remain self-sufficient.

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Although they could hire children, most factory owners in the early 19th century preferred hiring adults because child labor laws required that special protections be in place for children.

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British built railroads, roads, and canals in India in order to boost the Indian Industrial economy.

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China was Britain's most important colony known as the "jewel in the crown."

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Despite reforms and modernization, Japan was not able to defeat a European power.

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During World War II, Russia, Germany, and Italy were known as the Axis Powers.

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During a period known as the Hundred Days, Napoleon's troops met disaster during the winter in Russia.

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During the 2nd Sino-Japanese War, China invaded Japan.

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During the Qing Dynasty, Chinese and Manchu women and men often married.

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Enlightenment ideals had little or no impact in the new nation known as the United States.

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G-boats were German submarines used to attack Allied ships during World War I.

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General Douglas MacArthur never lost a battle during World War II.

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Germans viewed the Weimar Republic favorably after leaders signed the Versailles treaty.

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In 1514 Safavid forces crushed the ottoman forces at the Battle of Chaldiran.

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In 1917, the White army overthrew the Russian monarchy.

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In his classic work, The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith defended the mercantile system, arguing that government regulations on restricting imports protected a nation's wealth.

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In the 1770s, the colonists were much more attached to Britain than they were to the colony in which they lived.

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In the 1800s after nations passed laws abolishing slave trade, emperors lost interest in Africa.

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In the St. Bartholomew Day Massacre, the Huguenot royalty of France ordered the killing of tens of thousands of French Catholics.

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Indian elites and middle classes welcomed British rule because the British strengthened the market for goods manufactured in India.

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Like his father and grandfather, Shah Jahan was a Muslim who believed in religious tolerance.

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Manchester, England was founded as a model industrial town and provided well-playing work for single young women from the countryside.

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Once reports of the widespread killing of Jews in Europe were confirmed, the Allies did as much as they could to rescue Jews.

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Once the Czar took command of the Russian forces, the Russian army enjoyed many military successes.

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Only male citizens were executed during the Reign of Terror.

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Prince Klemons von Metternich supported freedom of religion and of the press.

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Russia's victory in the Russo-Japanese War weakened revolutionary movements in Russia for two decades.

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Stalin signed the nonaggression pact with Germany because he feared Britain and France were too weak to protect his country from Germanys growing army.

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Sultan is the name western Europeans gave to Turkish rulers.

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The Allied Powers gained control of the Darnelles in the Gallipoli Campaign.

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The Allies were able to control the waters of the Atlantic from the first days of the war, ensuring that the vital supply line to Great Britain and the Soviet Union was kept open.

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The Battle of Verdun, Battle of the Somme, and the Third of Ypres dramatically changed the positions of the front lines.

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The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 ensured that European leaders would respect Africans traditional ethnic boundaries as they divided Africa.

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The Chinese suspended trade restrictions on British goods as a result of a meeting with Lord George Macartney.

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The Girondins were eager to try and execute the king to prevent a return of the monarchy and to defend the revolution.

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The Spanish Armada, which totaled about 130 ship and 20,000 soldiers and sailors, proved itself invincible.

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The Turks of Anatolia were primarily Christian.

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The dropping of an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima ended the war in the Pacific.

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The expansion of railroads raised consumer prices and put many manufactured products out of reach of most working-class people.

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The exploration of Hernan Cortes and Francisco de Coronado brought great wealth to the Americas and Portugal.

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The ideas of Thomas Hobbes later inspired revolutionaries in Europe and the Americas and became a foundation for modern democracy.

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The treaty the ended the opium wars gave the british extraterritoriality, which is the right to try Chinese citizens in British courts.

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Those who support Laissez-faire economics believe the government should pass a variety of tariffs to protect domestic industry as well as raise money for government services.

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Vladimir Lenin became the new czar of Russia as a result of the Revolution of 1905.

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Washington's army defeated British troops in the Battle of Long Island and drove the British troops into New Jersey.

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William and Mary were crowned king and queen of England in order to prevent a Puritan monarch form occupying the throne.

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World War II was the 1st war in which American women were allowed to take part in combat.

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in 1894, China won a war with Japan over Korea.

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After being forced to retreat in the Battle of the Marne, Germans were able to defend their positions on the Western front by digging heavily defended trenches.

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Although Italy was politically united in the late 1800s, the Catholic church did not recognize the government and prohibited Catholics form voting.

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Although many Africans demanded independence from the European domination, only Egypt won independence during the interwar years.

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Americans increasingly rushed to buy stocks in the 1920s because over the decade, the market rose by 400 percent.

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Americans were able to win the Battle of Midway in large part because they had broken the secret Japanese code used to transmit messages and as a result knew the date and location of the planned Japanese attack.

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Andreas Vesalius dissected the bodies of executed criminals in order to advance medicine through the study of human anatomy.

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As Shah, Esmail made Shiism the official safavid religion even though most people in the empire were Sunni.

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Bismarck sought to reduce the appeal of socialism by enacting legislation that provided benefits for health.

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Collectivization was the process of combining small farms to form large, mechanized farms.

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Electricity drastically changed industry and daily life more than any other technological advance of the late 1800s.

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For their support in the Spanish-American War, the United States granted independence to the Philippines in 1900.

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Germans made solid advances in the Allied battle lines at the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium.

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Had the U.S and others eased immigration regulations in the 1930s, more European Jews could have been saved from the Holocaust.

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Herbert Hoover and his advisors believed the Great Depression was a normal, healthy adjustment to an overheated economy.

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Hitler was able to rise into power because the Germans were desperate for a strong leader who could improve their lives.

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Hongwu, founder of the Ming dynasty, worked to eliminate mongol influences from China and to revive traditional Chinese values and practices such as Confucian principles.

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If the Mughal Empire had remained strong, British trade in India would have remained limited.

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In 1861, the French attempted to restore a French empire in the Americas by installing Australian archduke Maximilian as emperor of Mexico.

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In Germany, the Nazi party grew in strength as a result of the Great Depression.

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In his experiments with dogs, Ivan Pavlov proved that animals would be taught certain reflex actions.

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In the 1500s, the Ming heavily restricted foreign trade and travel in order to limit China's contacts with the outside world.

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In the Battle of Tannenburg, German forces crushed a Russian invasion.

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Increased industrialization created a need for a more educated workforce because factories needed managers who could read and write.

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John locke believed that the purpose of government was to protect people's natural rights.

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Kay reforms during the Meiji era, and the emperor's support, helped Japan quickly become one of the worlds great industrial powers.

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Kemal Ataturk sought to turn Turkey into a modern nation by making Turkey's government completely secular.

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Kepler solved problems with Copernicus's theories by showing that the planets orbited the sun in an eclipse, not a circle.

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Lenin's introduction of limited capitalist activity was intended to encourage more food production.

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Louis XIV is history's best example of an absolute monarch.

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Many Germans accepted Hitler's anti-semitism an chis claims that Germans were a "master race"because they felt humiliated by the Treaty of Versailles and wanted a convenient scapegoat for Germany's problems.

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Many colonists settled in North America because land was plentiful and cheap, the English class system was largely absent, and individuals could more easily improve their station I'm life than they could in England.

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Mass production made putting together products and repairing machines much easier.

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Mein Kamph described Hitler's major political ideas, including his belief in the facia superiority of Aryans.

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Napoleon Bonaparte was a brilliant military leader who could be described as ruthlessly ambitious.

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Negative effects of industrialization included crowded, dirty cities and polluted air and water.

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Oliver Cromwell as lord protector of England clamped down on social life by closing theatres and limiting other forms of popular entertainment.

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Only 8,000 out of 100,000 Chinese communists survived the 6,000-mile trek through China, in which began in 1934.

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Queen Elizabeth I had a good relationship with Parliament and called it into session 10 times during her 45-year reign.

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Samuel Slater became known as the father of American Industry after building complex machinery form memory at a mill in Rhode Island.

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The "Scramble for Africa" was promoted by economic interests, political competition between European powers, and the cultural motives such as European's belief in their own superiority.

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The Battle of Guadalcanal was a series of brutal battles over a 6-month period that eventually led to an American victory over Japanese forces.

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The Battle of the Bulge was significant because it marked the end of major German resistance.

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The Catholic and Royal Army began a counterrevolution in Western France.

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The Congress of Vienna restored some of the monarchies that Napoleon had eliminated.

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The Congress of Vienna split Italians into 3 groups, placing northern Italy under Austrian rule, other states under Hapsburg rule, and others under the control of a French ruler.

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The Fourteen Points included provisions for a reduction of weapons, an affirmation of the right of all people to choose their governments, and plans to form an organization of the world's nations to protect one another.

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The Germans States suffered especially horrible devastation on the Thirty Years War.

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The Ottoman Empire consisted of many cultures that spoke many different languages and practiced many different religions. However, the ottomans governed their diverse subjects with tolerance.

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The Spanish-American war began when the U.S battleship exploded in a Cuban harbor.

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The Third Estate included the bourgeoisie, the artisans and workers, and the peasants.

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The Third Estate proclaimed them a legislature called the National Assembly.

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The british did not allow India to become independent, even though 800,000 Indian soldiers served in WWI.

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The emergence of public transportation helped suburbs grow.

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The meatpacking industry helped fuel the growth of Chicago, whose population exploded from 30,000 in 1850 to 1.7 million in 1900.

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The militarization of the Rhineland violated the Treaty of Versailles.

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The murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria led to the outbreak of World War I.

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There was tension between the US and the Soviet Union at the Potsdam Conference.

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Thomas Edison built the worlds 1st central power plant.

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Thomas Paine's pamphlet, Common Sense, argued that the American colonies deserved to be an independent nation.

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Tragically, as Great Britain bought more American cotton, slavery became more entrenched throughout the south.

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U.S Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton argued that industrialization would help the young United States gain economic independence.

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