World History Final Exam Review

Which of the following is true about the formation of Israel?

• Israeli people were happy with the borders established by the UN

• Israel has been consistently growing since its establishment

• Israel's establishment led to controversial land disputes

• The establishment of Israel was emphatically supported by neighboring nations

What do Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur have in common?

• They went through recent economic crises

• Had modern religious based conflicts

• Engaged in state-sponsored genocide or ethnic cleansing

• Established independent democracies after the end of Cold War

Osama bin Laden was the founder of ____, an organization responsible for the attacks of 9/11 against the United States.

• the Nazi Party

• the Taliban

• Isis

• the Vietcong

• Al Qaeda

What is an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America?

• NAFTA

• WTO

• UN

• IMF

What is divine right?

• The right to rule was given to the monarch by God
• a Birth right
• soldiers for hire
• a monarch for hire

Who was Peter the Great?

• This man promoted Westernization campaigns to make his country more European

• This man demonstrated absolutism by building the city Versailles as a way of distracting the French nobility

• This man didn't believe that the average person was intelligent enough to participate in government, which led him to believe that enlightened monarchy was best

• This man thought that humans were naturally greedy and chaotic and would need a large government to control them

The power of the human mind to think and understand in a logical way

• reason

• philosophies

• natural rights

• contract

An agreement between rulers and the people to cooperate for mutual social benefits in pursuit of a better society

• divine right

• free enterprise

• laissez-faire

• social contract

Social Contract. People are born good but corrupted by society. Limited and freely elected government

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

This philosopher believed that government power should be divided into three branches.

• Locke

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• Beccaria