A period of European history, lasting from about 1300 to 1600, during which renewed interest in classical culture led to far-reaching changes in art, learning, and views of the world?

Napoleon's policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and continental Europe, intended to destroy Great Britain's economy?

The agreement by which people define and limit their individual rights, thus creating an organized society or government?

An economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people, private property does not exist, and all goods and services are shared equally

A person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risks of a business

The systematic killing of an entire people

The fascist policies of the National Socialist German Workers party, based on Totalitarianism, a belief in racial superiority and state control of Industry

A person who supports artists, especially financially

An 18th century European movement in which thinkers attempted to apply the principles of reason and the scientific method to all aspects of society?

A machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution

In the first half of the 19th century, a European who favored drastic change to extend democracy to all people

The shift, beginning in England during the 18th century, from making goods by hand to making them by machine

A deliberate and public refusal to obey a law considered unjust?

A policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries?

A mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians, carried out by the Nazi government of Germany before and during World War II?

A 16th century movement for religious reform, leading to the founding of Christian churches that rejected the Pope's authority?

A logical procedure for gathering information about the natural world, in which experimentation and observation are used to test hypotheses

An assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in France?

A political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others?

The idea that government should not interfere with regular industries and businesses?

The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit

To the Nazis, the Germanic peoples who formed a "Master Race"

The making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war?

A king or queen who has unlimited power and seeks to control all aspects of society?

A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements?

A member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops occupying his or her country?

A sudden seizure of political power in a nation

An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit?

An independent geopolitical unit of people having a common culture and identity

City neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live?

A political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule?

A philosophy based on the idea that nothing can be known for certain?

Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters?

In the first half of the 19th century, a European - usually a wealthy landowner or noble - who wanted to preserve the traditional monarchies of Europe?

The use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering or leaving a city or region?

The development of industries for the machine production of goods?

An economic system in which the factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the welfare of all?

A government in which the ruler is viewed as a divine figure?

The everyday language of people in a region or country?

In the first half of the 19th century, a European - usually a middle-class business leader or merchant - who wanted to give more political power to elected Parliaments?

A major change in European thought, starting in the mid-1500s, in which the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs

The period, from mid-1793 to mid-1794, when Maximilien Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed?

A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789.

The practice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy cannot live off of the land?

The resources - including land, labor, and capital - that are needed to produce goods and services?

A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically or socially?

A social class made up of skilled workers, professionals, business people, and wealthy farmers?

Government control over every aspect of public and private life?

The belief that people should be loyal mainly to their nation?

In the 1300s, the bubonic plague struck European cities hard, killing up to what % of the population?

Who wrote about a poor Spanish nobleman who went a little crazy after reading too many books about heroic knights?

The Roman Catholic Church owned what % of the land in France?

Who increased his mutton output by allowing only his best sheep to breed?

___________________, invented in 1884, was the world's first automatic machine gun?

Who short the Archduke and his wife?

A self-described "holy man" who claimed to have magical powers?

What Soviet leader sent troops to occupy the eastern half of Poland?

Martin Luther wrote what famous document that attacked "pardon-merchants"?

Who painted portraits of wealthy middle-class merchants?

The nobles owned what percent of the land and paid almost no taxes?

Who invented the seed drill that allowed farmers to sow seeds in well-spaced rows at specific depths?

A German submarine had sunk the British passenger ship____________________ which killed 128 U.S. Citizens?

This set impossibly high quotas to increase the output of steel, coal, oil and electricity?

Who was the leader of Germany's Afrika Korps?

How many times was King Henry VIII married?

Who believed that it was his duty to defend Catholicism against the Muslims of the Ottoman Empire and the Protestants of Europe?

About what % of the people of France belonged to the 3rd Estate?

Who invented a spinning wheel he named after his daughter?

The invention of the ______________________ allowed Europeans to easily travel on rivers to establish bases of control deep in the African continent?

The Zimmerman Note stated that what country would help Mexico "reconquer" the land it had lost to the United States during the Mexican War?

At the Treaty of Versailles, the Allied leaders gave whom the territories that had previously belonged to Germany?

What President declared December 7, 1941, as a "date that will live in infamy"?

Who published Institutes of the Christian Religion?

The big winner in the War of the Spanish Succession was whom?

What French king borrowed heavily in order to help the American Revolutionaries in their war against Great Britain?

Who believed that without wars and epidemics to kill off extra people, most were destined to be poor and miserable?

The perfection of the drug ________________ in 1829 eventually protected Europeans from becoming infected with this disease?

By November 1917, who seized power in Russia?

Kuomintang refers to what?

For generations, many Germans, along with other Europeans, had targeted what group as the cause of their failures?

Who invented the printing press?

What painter painted the Mona Lisa?

Peter the Great organized his own police force, whose chief duty was to hunt down and murder people that he considered traitors?

Marie Antoinette was known as Madame Deficit.

Edmund Cartwright invented a power loom that sped up weaving after its invention in 1787.

In March 1918, Russia and Great Britain signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

Collective Farms refers to large, government owned farms?

6 million Poles died in death camps and in Nazi massacres?

Ivan the Terrible was just 24 years old when he became the sole ruler of Russia.

The Prussian Commander threatened to destroy Versailles if the French Revolutionaries harmed any member of the Royal Family.

5.8 million soldiers died as a result of World War I.

Chiang Kai-Shek headed the Kuomintang.

Between 5 and 10 million peasants died as a result of Joseph Stalin.

A system in which the government made all economic decisions is a Command Economy

On February 2, 1943, 90,000 frostbitten, half-starved German troops surrendered to the Soviets

President Truman called for the internment of Japanese Americans