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Questão 1

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

Questão 2

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

Questão 3

Questão
The Industrial Revolution began with what country?
Responda
  • USA
  • Germany
  • England
  • France

Questão 4

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

Questão 5

Questão
Which of the following was NOT a significant result of the Scientific Revolution in the 17th century?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 6

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

Questão 7

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

Questão 8

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

Questão 9

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

Questão 10

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

Questão 11

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

Questão 12

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

Questão 13

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

Questão 14

Questão
Nobles who fled France became known as___.
Responda
  • émigrés
  • expatriots
  • sans-culottes
  • junkers

Questão 15

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

Questão 16

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

Questão 17

Questão
All of the following are ideas associated with the work of John Locke except
Responda
  • 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

Questão 18

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

Questão 19

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

Questão 20

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

Questão 21

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

Questão 22

Questão
Which of the following was NOT an effect of the Napoleon's loss of Battle of Trafalgar?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 23

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

Questão 24

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

Questão 25

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

Questão 26

Questão
What did Napoleon consider his most significant achievement?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 27

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

Questão 28

Questão
Which of the following was NOT a direct result of the March Revolution?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 29

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

Questão 30

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

Questão 31

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

Questão 32

Questão
Which of the groups formed the White Army?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 33

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

Questão 34

Questão
Which of the following was NOT a significant goal of the Congress of Vienna?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 35

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

Questão 36

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

Questão 37

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

Questão 38

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

Questão 39

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

Questão 40

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

Questão 41

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

Questão 42

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

Questão 43

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

Questão 44

Questão
Russification is_____.
Responda
  • 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

Questão 45

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

Questão 46

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

Questão 47

Questão
What was different about Japan's form of Fascism compared to the European Fascists?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 48

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

Questão 49

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

Questão 50

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

Questão 51

Questão
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)
Responda
  • 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

Questão 52

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

Questão 53

Questão
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].
Responda
  • capitalism
  • imperialism
  • industrialization
  • socialism

Questão 54

Questão
The right to vote is called [blank_start]suffrage[blank_end].
Responda
  • suffrage

Questão 55

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

Questão 56

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

Questão 57

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

Questão 58

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

Questão 59

Questão
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].
Responda
  • Crimean War
  • World War II
  • Battle of the Bulge

Questão 60

Questão
[blank_start]Sepoys[blank_end] were Indian soldiers led by British officers.
Responda
  • Sepoys

Questão 61

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

Questão 62

Questão
Mussolini was also called [blank_start]II Duce[blank_end].
Responda
  • II Duce

Questão 63

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

Questão 64

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

Questão 65

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

Questão 66

Questão
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].
Responda
  • Kellogg-Briand Agreement
  • New Deal
  • Rome-Berlin Axis

Questão 67

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

Questão 68

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

Questão 69

Questão
Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles was called the "war guilt."
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 70

Questão
The Great Purge was a reign of terror set by Putin.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 71

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

Questão 72

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

Questão 73

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

Questão 74

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

Questão 75

Questão
Which of the following was NOT a part of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 76

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

Questão 77

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

Questão 78

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

Questão 79

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

Questão 80

Questão
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.
Responda
  • 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

Questão 81

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

Questão 82

Questão
[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.
Responda
  • Scientific Revolution

Questão 83

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

Questão 84

Questão
[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.
Responda
  • Galileo

Questão 85

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

Questão 86

Questão
[blank_start]Isaac Newton[blank_end] founded the theory of motion.
Responda
  • Isaac Newton

Questão 87

Questão
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.
Responda
  • Enlightenment

Questão 88

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

Questão 89

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

Questão 90

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

Questão 91

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

Questão 92

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

Questão 93

Questão
What were the main ideas of Voltaire? Select all that apply.
Responda
  • 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."

Questão 94

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

Questão 95

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

Questão 96

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

Questão 97

Questão
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.
Responda
  • philosophes

Questão 98

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

Questão 99

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

Questão 100

Questão
What was the Tennis Court Oath?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 101

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

Questão 102

Questão
What was the Legislative Assembly?
Responda
  • 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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