Global Regents Review #2

One way in which the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment are similar is that both

• led to increased power for royal families in Europe
• sought to reconcile Christian beliefs and science
• questioned traditional values and past practices  
• promoted nationalistic revolutions in eastern Europe

… We must ask ourselves three questions. 1. What is the Third Estate? Everything. 2. What has it been until now in the political order? Nothing. 3. What does it want to be? Something. …Based on this passage, what did the Third Estate want?

• independence from France
• more influence in the political system
• removal of the monarchy
• freedom of religion in France

Which social change occurred during the Industrial Revolution?

• growth of the working class
• development of the extended family
• expansion of privileges for the landed nobility
• increased status for religious leaders

One way in which the government under Czar Nicholas II of Russia and the government under Benito Mussolini of Italy are similar is that both governments

• liberated the serfs and industrial workers
• reformed the executive branch by incorporating theocratic principles
• established policies of censorship and repression
• used televised propaganda to rally the masses

The movement to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine is best known as

• Zionism
• multi-culturalism
• Marxism
• Militarism

 A primary objective of the New Economic Policy (NEP) in the Soviet Union was to

•  promote private ownership of heavy industry
• organize support for educational reforms to improve literacy
• coordinate efforts to end World War I
• gain stability by increasing production

After World War I, the rise of Benito Mussolini in Italy and the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany are most closely associated with

• the development of fascism

• the desire for containment influences

• an emphasis on democratic traditions

• a return to conservative religious practices

The idea that all people are born with the natural rights of life, liberty, and property is most directly associated with the writings of

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Thomas Hobbes

• Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

• John Locke

The terms of the Treaty of Nanjing and of the

Treaty of Kanagawa demonstrate the

• unequal relationships that characterized

  imperialism

• humanitarian ideals that accompanied

  missionary activity

• importance of technology in developing

  economies

• changing roles of men and women associated

  with modernization

Use of the term Iron Curtain is meant to symbolize

• religious philosophy

• political ideology

• art and architecture

• resources and climate