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Pregunta 1

Pregunta
One of the earliest controversial theories that arose out of the Scientific Revolution was____.
Respuesta
  • the Heliocentric Theory
  • the Geocentric Theory
  • the Theory of Motion
  • the Theory of Relativity

Pregunta 2

Pregunta
The Committee for Public Safety guillotined thousands during the ______.
Respuesta
  • National Assembly
  • Battle of Waterloo
  • Franco-Prussian War
  • Reign of Terror

Pregunta 3

Pregunta
The Industrial Revolution began with what country?
Respuesta
  • USA
  • Germany
  • England
  • France

Pregunta 4

Pregunta
Which of the following countries was NOT a part of the Triple Alliance formed in the late 1800s?
Respuesta
  • Italy
  • Russia
  • Germany
  • Austria-Hungary

Pregunta 5

Pregunta
Which of the following was NOT a significant result of the Scientific Revolution in the 17th century?
Respuesta
  • A modern scientific method that stressed reason and observation
  • A widespread growth of knowledge among the general population
  • The uncovering of much knowledge among the general population
  • Challenged the medieval superstition and general acceptance of Aristotle's theories

Pregunta 6

Pregunta
The ____ Estate was a privileged class, containing the nobility.
Respuesta
  • First
  • Second
  • Third
  • Fourth

Pregunta 7

Pregunta
This particular industry was the first to be transformed by the Industrial Revolution.
Respuesta
  • Coal Mining
  • Textiles
  • Railways
  • Steam Engines

Pregunta 8

Pregunta
Which of the following countries was NOT a part of the Triple Entente formed in 1907?
Respuesta
  • Italy
  • Great Britain
  • Russia
  • France

Pregunta 9

Pregunta
Rousseau's concept of the ideal gov't was centered on____.
Respuesta
  • abolition of the gov't
  • a strengthened army
  • a strengthened monarchy
  • the general will of the people

Pregunta 10

Pregunta
IN summer of 1789, a group of delegates in the Estates-General declared their own gov't, which they called the ___.
Respuesta
  • Directory
  • Executive Branch
  • National Assembly
  • Legislative Assembly

Pregunta 11

Pregunta
Which of the following European countries took longer to industrialize due to geographical and transportation limitations?
Respuesta
  • Austria-Hungary
  • France
  • Germany
  • Belgium

Pregunta 12

Pregunta
Which event was the catalyst that sparked World War I?
Respuesta
  • The creation of the Triple Entente
  • The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
  • Kaiser Wilhelm forces Bismarck to resign
  • Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina

Pregunta 13

Pregunta
A philosophe of the 18th century France would ____.
Respuesta
  • support the political theories earlier advocated by Hobbes
  • Ridicule the idea of progress
  • oppose religious intolerance and superstition
  • strongly advocate for a stronger monarchy

Pregunta 14

Pregunta
Nobles who fled France became known as___.
Respuesta
  • émigrés
  • expatriots
  • sans-culottes
  • junkers

Pregunta 15

Pregunta
An economic policy that lets owners of industry and business set working conditions without interference from the gov't is called _____.
Respuesta
  • utilitarianism
  • capitalism
  • mercantilism
  • Laissez-Faire economics

Pregunta 16

Pregunta
Russia's biggest asset in fighting WWI was__.
Respuesta
  • their superior transportation system.
  • their ability to keep their troops armed.
  • their battle strategies.
  • their numbers.

Pregunta 17

Pregunta
All of the following are ideas associated with the work of John Locke except
Respuesta
  • the right of revolution
  • people are inherently selfish and evil
  • people have the ability to improve themselves
  • the power of gov't comes from the consent of the governed

Pregunta 18

Pregunta
When rumors of Louis XVI's plan to use military force against the National Assembly reached Paris, an angry mob attacked ___.
Respuesta
  • Versailles Palace
  • Tuileries Palace
  • The Bastille
  • The Eiffel Tower

Pregunta 19

Pregunta
According to Marx, the final phase of socialism, called ____, is where the workers would control the gov't in a "dictatorship of the proletariat."
Respuesta
  • utilitarianism
  • communism
  • capitalism
  • imperialism

Pregunta 20

Pregunta
One-sided info designed to keep up morale and support a war or cause is called
Respuesta
  • mass communication
  • propaganda
  • rationing
  • armistice

Pregunta 21

Pregunta
Which Enlightenment thinker's work served as a basis for the American Constitution's "check and balances' system?
Respuesta
  • Montesquieu
  • Voltaire
  • Rousseau
  • Diderot

Pregunta 22

Pregunta
Which of the following was NOT an effect of the Napoleon's loss of Battle of Trafalgar?
Respuesta
  • It ensured the supremacy of British Navy.
  • It weakened the French army so France's opponents in Europe could rally against them.
  • The French fleet was significantly decreased because so many ships were captured by the British.
  • It forced Napoleon to give up his plans to invade Great Britain.

Pregunta 23

Pregunta
Which was NOT a reform pushed by the Chartist Movement in England?
Respuesta
  • Voting rights for women
  • secret ballots
  • annual Parliamentary elections
  • a salary for members of Parliament

Pregunta 24

Pregunta
Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace was called ___.
Respuesta
  • The Treaty of Versailles (duh)
  • The Paris Peace Conference
  • The Fourteen Points
  • The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Pregunta 25

Pregunta
Which Enlightenment thinker pushed for reform in the justice and trial system?
Respuesta
  • Mary Astell
  • Voltaire
  • Beccaria
  • Diderot

Pregunta 26

Pregunta
What did Napoleon consider his most significant achievement?
Respuesta
  • the lycees - gov't run public schools
  • the concordat restoring the Catholic Church in France
  • The sale of North American landholdings to the US
  • The Napoleonic Code of Laws

Pregunta 27

Pregunta
A policy that local cultures had to adopt the language and culture of the colonizing country was called____.
Respuesta
  • paternalism
  • sphere of influence
  • protectorate
  • assimilation

Pregunta 28

Pregunta
Which of the following was NOT a direct result of the March Revolution?
Respuesta
  • The Bolsheviks take over the winter palace
  • the provisional gov't is formed
  • Czar Nicholas steps down from the throne
  • Socialist revolutionaries begin to form soviets

Pregunta 29

Pregunta
Which Enlightenment thinker pushed for reform in the justice and trial system?
Respuesta
  • Mary Astell
  • Voltaire
  • Beccaria
  • Diderot

Pregunta 30

Pregunta
Which of the following was NOT one of Napoleon's major mistakes?
Respuesta
  • 1799 coup d'etat against the French gov't
  • invasion of Russia
  • Peninsula War in Spain
  • blockade of European ports in 1806

Pregunta 31

Pregunta
The product that allowed Britain to gain economic power in China was______.
Respuesta
  • opium
  • tea
  • silk
  • gunpowder

Pregunta 32

Pregunta
Which of the groups formed the White Army?
Respuesta
  • Nobles who supported the return of the Czar
  • Socialists who opposed Lenin's style of socialism
  • People who wanted a democratic gov't
  • all the options
  • none of the options

Pregunta 33

Pregunta
Which Enlightenment thinker's ideas were most influential on the ideals of the American Revolution and subsequent gov't?
Respuesta
  • Hobbes
  • Diderot
  • Wollstonecraft
  • Locke

Pregunta 34

Pregunta
Which of the following was NOT a significant goal of the Congress of Vienna?
Respuesta
  • containment of France by surrounding it with stronger gov'ts
  • restore the balance power between major countries
  • forcing repayment of war debt by France
  • returning legitimate monarchs to European thrones

Pregunta 35

Pregunta
Under the terms of this agreement, Japan opened two ports to the United States
Respuesta
  • Treaty of Kanagawa
  • Open Door Policy
  • The Extraterritorial Rights
  • McKinley Tariff Act

Pregunta 36

Pregunta
The civil war that began in 1920s China was between what two groups?
Respuesta
  • Imperialists and Communists
  • Nationalists and Communists
  • Nationalists and Imperialists
  • Nationalists and the Japanese

Pregunta 37

Pregunta
A large program of gov't reform that aimed to pull United States out of the Great Depression was called ___.
Respuesta
  • The Kellogg-Briand Agreement
  • The Rome-Berlin Axis
  • The New Deal
  • The Popular Font

Pregunta 38

Pregunta
Why were the Europe's post-WWI new democracies unstable?
Respuesta
  • Post-war financial insercurity
  • Large numbers of political parties made effective gov't difficult
  • Lack of trust in coalition gov't
  • All answers

Pregunta 39

Pregunta
The new post-WWI democratic gov't in Germany was called______.
Respuesta
  • The Weimar Republic
  • The Popular Front
  • The Dawes Plan
  • The Third Reich

Pregunta 40

Pregunta
Which country was largely responsible for getting Germany out of its inflation crisis of the early '20s?
Respuesta
  • Great Britain
  • USA
  • France
  • Germany

Pregunta 41

Pregunta
Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Great Depression?
Respuesta
  • Overly strict gov't regulation of Wall Street
  • Uneven distribution of wealth
  • Overproduction on American farms
  • Buying stocks on a margin

Pregunta 42

Pregunta
The alliance between Hitler and Mussolini was known as _____.
Respuesta
  • The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
  • The Kellogg-Briand Agreement
  • The Rome-Berlin Axis
  • The Coalition

Pregunta 43

Pregunta
The US foreign policy in the 1930s could best be described as______.
Respuesta
  • Isolationism
  • Appeasement
  • Aggression
  • Imperialism

Pregunta 44

Pregunta
Russification is_____.
Respuesta
  • the movement of Russian troops from Moscow to its border countries
  • an attempt to force Russian culture on all ethnic groups with the empire
  • a movement towards modernization in Russia
  • the policy of freeing the serfs, but still leaving them tied to the land through gov't debt

Pregunta 45

Pregunta
The violent British response to a peaceful protest against the Rowlatt Acts was know as ____.
Respuesta
  • Bloody Sunday
  • The May Fourth Movement
  • The Amritsar Massacre
  • The Long March

Pregunta 46

Pregunta
Japan became an imperial power by annexing and harshly ruling this country .
Respuesta
  • Korea
  • China
  • Laos
  • Vietnam

Pregunta 47

Pregunta
What was different about Japan's form of Fascism compared to the European Fascists?
Respuesta
  • Japan's Fascists pushed for extreme nationalism
  • They did not try to establish a new system of gov't in Japan
  • the focus in Japan was on military power
  • Japan's fascists wanted to expand its empire

Pregunta 48

Pregunta
The Prussian leader used nationalism to unify Germany under Prussian control.
Respuesta
  • Otto van Bismark
  • Kaiser Wilhelm I
  • Camilio di Cavour
  • Horatio Nelson

Pregunta 49

Pregunta
By 1871, ____ and _____ were the two most economically and militarily powerful countries in Europe.
Respuesta
  • Prussia and Russia
  • Austria and Hungary
  • Italy and France
  • Germany and Great Britain

Pregunta 50

Pregunta
In which country did the status and roles of women increase during the post-war period?
Respuesta
  • Turkey
  • the USSR
  • Iran
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Turkey, USSR, and Iran
  • Turkey and Saudi Arabia

Pregunta 51

Pregunta
The following events are suppose to be in chronological order, but two events have been switched around. Select the two events that should be switched around. (They are numbered in the order that you should use)
Respuesta
  • 1. The Tennis Court Oath
  • 2. The storming of Batille
  • 3. Napoleon declares himself emperor (the first time)
  • 4. The Reign of Terror
  • 5. Louis XVI is sent to the guillotine
  • 6. Napoleon declares himself emperor (the second time)
  • 7. The Congress of Vienna
  • 8. Czar Alexander II frees the serfs in Russia

Pregunta 52

Pregunta
[blank_start]Urbanization[blank_end] was the movement of people to cities in large numbers.
Respuesta
  • Urbanization

Pregunta 53

Pregunta
An economic system in which the factors of production are privately owned and money is invested for profit is call [blank_start]capitalism[blank_end].
Respuesta
  • capitalism
  • imperialism
  • industrialization
  • socialism

Pregunta 54

Pregunta
The right to vote is called [blank_start]suffrage[blank_end].
Respuesta
  • suffrage

Pregunta 55

Pregunta
[blank_start]Zionism[blank_end] was a movement that worked for the creation of the Jewish homeland in Israel.
Respuesta
  • Zionism

Pregunta 56

Pregunta
[blank_start]Charles Darwin[blank_end] was a scientist whose theory of evolution remains controversial to this day.
Respuesta
  • Charles Darwin
  • Isaac Newton
  • Albert Einstein
  • Nicolaus Copernicus

Pregunta 57

Pregunta
[blank_start]Social Darwinism[blank_end] is the belief that those who have progressed industrially are inherently superior to those who have not.
Respuesta
  • Social Darwinism
  • Paternalism
  • Imperialism

Pregunta 58

Pregunta
[blank_start]Paternalism[blank_end] is a governing policy in which peoples' needs are provided for but few rights are granted.
Respuesta
  • Paternalism

Pregunta 59

Pregunta
The war fought between Russia and the Ottoman Empire over Ottoman territory near the Black Sea was called the [blank_start]Crimean War[blank_end].
Respuesta
  • Crimean War
  • World War II
  • Battle of the Bulge

Pregunta 60

Pregunta
[blank_start]Sepoys[blank_end] were Indian soldiers led by British officers.
Respuesta
  • Sepoys

Pregunta 61

Pregunta
A 1900 rebellion against the Dowager Empress and foreign influence in China was called the [blank_start]Boxer Rebellion[blank_end].
Respuesta
  • Boxer Rebellion
  • Takagwa Rebellion

Pregunta 62

Pregunta
Mussolini was also called [blank_start]II Duce[blank_end].
Respuesta
  • II Duce

Pregunta 63

Pregunta
[blank_start]Fascism[blank_end] is a militant political movement that emphasized loyalty to the state and obedience to its leader.
Respuesta
  • Fascism

Pregunta 64

Pregunta
A temporary alliance of several political parties is a/an [blank_start]coalition government[blank_end].
Respuesta
  • coalition government

Pregunta 65

Pregunta
The [blank_start]Munich Conference[blank_end] was a conference between Germany, Italy, Britain and France to discuss the fate of Czechoslovakia.
Respuesta
  • Munich Conference

Pregunta 66

Pregunta
The pledge to "renounce war as an instrument of national policy," signed by almost every country in the world in 1928, was the [blank_start]Kellogg-Briand Agreement[blank_end].
Respuesta
  • Kellogg-Briand Agreement
  • New Deal
  • Rome-Berlin Axis

Pregunta 67

Pregunta
What countries were mainly a part of the Allied Powers? Check all that apply.
Respuesta
  • Great Britain
  • Russia
  • France
  • Bulgaria
  • USA
  • Japan
  • Italy

Pregunta 68

Pregunta
Which main countries were a part of the Central Powers? Check all that apply.
Respuesta
  • Germany
  • Austria-Hungary
  • Ottoman Empire
  • Italy
  • France

Pregunta 69

Pregunta
Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles was called the "war guilt."
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 70

Pregunta
The Great Purge was a reign of terror set by Putin.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 71

Pregunta
[blank_start]Mustafa Kemal[blank_end] was the Turkish leader who prevented the [blank_start]Greeks[blank_end] from invading.
Respuesta
  • Greeks
  • Mustafa Kemal

Pregunta 72

Pregunta
When the US entered the war, Stalin wanted the Allies to open up a new front in what part of Europe?
Respuesta
  • Italy
  • France
  • The Balkans
  • The Soviet Union

Pregunta 73

Pregunta
The largest land and sea attack in history is known as ____.
Respuesta
  • Operation Barbarossa
  • The Battle of Leyte Gulf
  • The Battle of Iwo Jima
  • Operation Overlord

Pregunta 74

Pregunta
Following the war, pre-war gov'ts were quick to return to the following countries EXCEPT_____.
Respuesta
  • Denmark
  • Belgium
  • France
  • Germany
  • All options
  • France and Germany
  • Russia and Denmark

Pregunta 75

Pregunta
Which of the following was NOT a part of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact?
Respuesta
  • Poland would be divided between Germany and the Soviet Union
  • Germany would help supply the Soviet Union
  • The Soviet Union would be granted the Baltic countries and Finland
  • Neither side would attack the other

Pregunta 76

Pregunta
Germany's takeover of what country forced Britain and France to declare war?
Respuesta
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Denmark
  • Poland
  • Austria

Pregunta 77

Pregunta
This attack was meant to neutralize the "dagger pointed at Japan's throat."
Respuesta
  • Battle of Midway
  • Battle of Guadacanal
  • Pearl Harbor
  • Doolittle's Raid

Pregunta 78

Pregunta
The fighting in Egypt was largely over who had control of what strategic location?
Respuesta
  • The Suez Canal
  • The Mediterranean Sea
  • The Maginot Line
  • El Alamein

Pregunta 79

Pregunta
This event resulted in the largest number of combat-related civilian deaths in the war.
Respuesta
  • The Siege of Leningrad
  • Hiroshima
  • The Battle of Stalingrad
  • D-Day

Pregunta 80

Pregunta
A student numbered the following in chronological order, but two were switched around. Select the two events that should be switched. THE ORDER IS NUMBERED.
Respuesta
  • 1. Attack on Pearl Harbor
  • 2. Germany invade Poland
  • 3. The Siege of Leningrad begins
  • 4. The Nuremberg Laws are put into effect
  • 5. The Battle of Coral Sea
  • 6. The Nuremberg trials begin

Pregunta 81

Pregunta
The [blank_start]geocentric[blank_end] theory was the idea that the earth is at the center of the universe.
Respuesta
  • geocentric

Pregunta 82

Pregunta
[blank_start]Scientific Revolution[blank_end] was the time when scholars challenged the ways of ancient thinking and the church; old ways of thinking were replaced by new theories.
Respuesta
  • Scientific Revolution

Pregunta 83

Pregunta
The [blank_start]heliocentric[blank_end] theory is idea that planets rotated around the sun.
Respuesta
  • heliocentric

Pregunta 84

Pregunta
[blank_start]Galileo[blank_end] was Italian scientist who built his own telescope and found that Jupiter had four moons, earth’s moon had an uneven surface and the sun had dark spots.
Respuesta
  • Galileo

Pregunta 85

Pregunta
The [blank_start]scientific method[blank_end] is a logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas.
Respuesta
  • scientific method

Pregunta 86

Pregunta
[blank_start]Isaac Newton[blank_end] founded the theory of motion.
Respuesta
  • Isaac Newton

Pregunta 87

Pregunta
The [blank_start]Enlightenment[blank_end] was a new intellectual movement that stressed reason and and thought and thee power of individuals to solve problems.
Respuesta
  • Enlightenment

Pregunta 88

Pregunta
A [blank_start]social contract[blank_end] is an agreement by which the people create the government.
Respuesta
  • social contract
  • coalition

Pregunta 89

Pregunta
[blank_start]John Locke[blank_end] was a philosopher who believed humans could learn from their experiences and improve themselves.
Respuesta
  • John Locke
  • Voltaire
  • Mary Wollstonecraft

Pregunta 90

Pregunta
[blank_start]Montesquieu[blank_end] - French writer who devoted himself to the study of political liberty
Respuesta
  • Montesquieu
  • Rousseau
  • John Locke

Pregunta 91

Pregunta
[blank_start]Montesquieu[blank_end] was a French writer who devoted himself to the study of political liberty
Respuesta
  • Montesquieu

Pregunta 92

Pregunta
What were the main ideas of Beccaria? Select all that apply.
Respuesta
  • Right to speedy trial
  • All humans are born selfish
  • Women should be educated
  • Degree of crime should be equal to punishment

Pregunta 93

Pregunta
What were the main ideas of Voltaire? Select all that apply.
Respuesta
  • Religious freedom/freedom of speech
  • Political liberty
  • People should give up their rights to the gov't
  • "I do not agree with a word you say, but I will defer to death for your right to say it."

Pregunta 94

Pregunta
What were the main ideas of John Locke? Select all that apply.
Respuesta
  • natural rights (life, liberty and property) should be protected
  • no absolute monarchy
  • civilization corrupted natural goodness
  • absolute monarchies are needed

Pregunta 95

Pregunta
What were the main ideas of Montesquieu? Select all that apply.
Respuesta
  • separation of power
  • political liberty
  • torture should be abolished
  • women should be educated

Pregunta 96

Pregunta
What were the main ideas of Rousseau? Select all that apply.
Respuesta
  • civilization corrupted natural goodness
  • natural rights are life, liberty, and property
  • individual freedom
  • women's equality

Pregunta 97

Pregunta
The [blank_start]philosophes[blank_end] are the French social critics who believed that all people could apply reason to all aspects of life. Reason, nature, happiness, progress, and liberty are their core beliefs.
Respuesta
  • philosophes

Pregunta 98

Pregunta
The [blank_start]Old Regime[blank_end] was a social and political system in 15th century to late 18th century France.
Respuesta
  • Old Regime

Pregunta 99

Pregunta
What was the Great Fear?
Respuesta
  • wave of panic through France’s countryside after the storming of Bastille
  • the killing of people Stalin disliked

Pregunta 100

Pregunta
What was the Tennis Court Oath?
Respuesta
  • The Third Estate delegates stayed inside an indoor tennis court until they made a new constitution
  • Decision by the French monarchy that all decision should be made while playing tennis
  • Promise between France and Russia to remain allies

Pregunta 101

Pregunta
Why was the Third Estate unhappy under the Old Regime?
Respuesta
  • They had no power to influence government
  • They were heavily taxed
  • They often went hungry
  • All of the choices

Pregunta 102

Pregunta
What was the Legislative Assembly?
Respuesta
  • French legislative body that created laws and approved/rejected wars
  • group of representatives from each of the three estates
  • Parisian workers and small shopkeepers wanted the Revolution to bring changes to French
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