Regents Review #11 [2025]

Which current global problem was initiated with the development of atomic weapons?

• threats to world peace from unrestricted nuclear proliferation

• increased health risks for humans and animals from industrial pollution

• elevated carbon dioxide in the atmosphere due to the deforestation of the rainforests

• changes in world weather patterns and species habitats due to melting polar ice caps

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was written in response to

• atrocities committed during World War II

• the burning of Hutu homes in Rwanda

• demands for better treatment of Latin American peasants in Guatemala

• the forced migrations of city people under the rule of the Khmer Rouge

After World War II, a key reason the Soviet Union established satellite nations in Eastern Europe was to

• ease tensions with the Chinese government

• expand trade opportunities with Western Europe

• protect its western border from attack

• maintain freedom of the seas

Which individual suggested the idea that if a government fails to protect its people's natural rights of life, liberty, and property, the people have the right to overthrow it?

• Karl Marx

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• 
  Niccolo Machiavelli

Peter the Great's power to take the action shown in this drawing is most directly a result of which of the following?

• democratic reforms in Russia

• the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church

• Bolshevik Revolution

• 
  Russia's absolute monarchy

This quotation, written in September 1815, represents the views of

• 
  Martin Luther

• Catherine the Great

• Adam Smith

• Simón Bolívar

The changes shown on these maps most closely parallel similar changes in which country during approximately the same time period?

• Germany

• France

• Great Britain

• Russia

The situation described in these lyrics most directly resulted from which of the following?

• Black Death

• war between Catholics and Protestants

• the Holocaust

• failure of the potato crop

The Parliamentary response to circumstances like these was to

• adopt safety reforms

• offer support to striking workers

• take over poorly run businesses

• ship most manufacturing overseas

Transportation in the 1800s was revolutionized by the development of the

• 
  caravel

• astrolabe

• steam engine

• airplane