MWH - 2024 Spring Semester Final Exam Review (Chapter Questions)

Match the following estates to their definitions.

• First Estate

• Clergy, who had enormous wealth & privilege

• Second Estate

• almost everyone in France & bourgeoisie were at the top

• Third Estate

• Nobility, who went from defending land in the Middle Ages to losing all of their people under King Louis XVI?

What was the biggest reason France was in financial trouble?

• taxes

• wars

• deficit spending

• other countries raiding their banks

What was one of the main issues the Estates-General argued over when they met in 1789?

• taxes

• voting

• representation

• type of government to have

Who's assassination was the case of WWI?

• US President

  Woodrow Wilson

• Archduke

  Franz Ferdinand

• Nazi Germany's

  Adolf Hitler

• British Prime Minister

  Winston Churchill

Which of the following led to WWI being a long, deadly stalemate?

• tanks

• poison gaas

• machine guns

• trenches

Russia, France, and Great Britain were part of which side during WWI?

• Allies

• Central

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria were part of which side during WWI?

• Allies

• Central

When the US joined WWI, which side were they on?

• Allies

• Central

On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded ___. This was the final straw for European countries appeasing Hitler & began WWII.

• Great Britain

• Poland

• the Soviet Union

• the United States

Who attacked Pearl Harbor on December , 1941?

• Germany

• Japan

• Italy

• Soviet Union