WorksheetsOBARCLAY WHMT 3rd Nine Weeks Exam Study Guide
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The ____________ Established a self-governing Canadian nation.
Declaration of Canadian Liberty
Treaty of France in 1763
The British North America Act
Canadian Revolution
The effect of the Crimean War was to
destroy the Concert of Europe and leave Austria without friends among the Great powers.
destroy the gold fields in the Crimea
force the Estonian economy into a decline that lasted for twenty years.
strengthen the Concert of Europe with the addition of France.
The ______ was crucial to Britain's Industrial Revolution
The steam engine
bicycle
flying shuttle
water powered loom
who developed a steam engine that could drive machinery?
Henry Cort
James Hargreaves
Edmund Wilson
James Watt
To Darwin, _____ was central to organic evolution.
organic selection
natural selection
genetic engineering
natural production
__________ emphasized feelings and imagination as sources of knowing.
Realpolitik
Rationalism
Romanticism
Conservatism
The formation of the Confederate States of America was sparked by
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth
The Battle of Fort Sumter
the decision of the Kentucky convention to secede from the United States.
The election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States
Otto von Bismarck practiced Realpolitik, which was
the study of the governments of other nations, both past and present.
A theory of politics based on practical matters rather than theory or ethics.
the view that military might equaled political might.
a belief that animals have political rights.
The factory created a new labor system in which
workers had to work regular hours and do the same work over and over.
products were produced by an assembly line of workers and animals.
workers had to adjust to periods of hectic work, followed by periods of inactivity.
machines were valued more highly than the men who ran them.
_________ is the belief that people should be as free as possible from government restraints.
Liberalism
Industrial capitalism
Nationalism
Monoculturalism
The production of _________ was one of the first industries to be affected by the Industrial Revolution.
furniture
automobiles
Cotton cloth
toys
By attacking Austria in May 1915, Italy
became a world power.
betrayed Germany and Austria.
helped to knock Russia out of the war.
won the war
The German advance toward Paris was halted at
the German-Belgian border
the Battle of Tannenburg
the French-Belgian border
the Battle of Marne
The Schlieffen Plan was
Germany's plan for a two-front war with Russia and France, which had formed a military alliance.
Austria-Hungary's attempt to negotiate a peaceful settlement with Serbia.
Germany's proposal for dividing up Serbia between Russia and Austria-Hungary.
the Black Hand's plan to assassinate the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.
World War I was a __________, meaning that it involved a complete mobilization of resources and people.
mobile conflict
modern conflict
trench war
total war
France's approach to peace was guided in large part by
a vision to create a League of Nations to prevent future wars.
the desire for national security
a need to reclaim territories lost during the war
the desire to obtain control over some of Germany's former colonies.
The Treaty of Versailles was
A defensive alliance between Great Britain, France, and the United States.
a peace settlement that consisted of five separate treaties with the defeated nations.
forced upon Austria, and gave some of its land to the new state of Poland
The treaty signed with Germany that many Germans felt was a harsh peace.
The Red Secret Police, known as the Cheka, began
A Red Terror campaign to destroy all those who opposed the new regime.
infiltrating the governments of Russia's enemies as spies
to plot against Lenin almost immediately after he came to power
to restore order to Russia after years of civil war
Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire became known as
the Eastern Powers
the Allied Powers
the League of Nations
the Central Powers
What was the name of the group that conspired to assassinate Archduke Francis Ferdinand?
the Black Hand
the Bosnian Militia
the Serbian Peoples Front
The Red Band
_________ was a literary and visual arts movement that rejected romanticism.
Realism
Secularism
Evolutionism
Nationalism
Who proposed the germ theory of disease?
Charles Darwin
Farhid Molotof
Michael Faraday
Louis Pasteur
The Western Front was characterized by
innovative strategy and tactics that fully utilized the new technologies available to both armies.
the slow but steady advance of the German Army.
trench warfare that kept both sides in virtually the same positions for four years.
decisive victories by the French army, quickly driving back the German forces.
In 1914, _______ was considered an act of war.
breaking a military alliance
assassination of a member of royalty
ending diplomatic relations.
mobilization of a nation's army
Who led the Spanish military in a revolt against the democratic government?
Richard Blaine
Leon Trotsky
Francisco Franco
Benito Mussolini
The __________ was the leading policy-making body of the Communist Party.
Ulema
squadristi
NEP
Politburo
An ________ is a period of low economic activity and rising unemployment.
inflationary period
economic cycle
expressionist cycle
economic depression
Who was the propaganda minister for Nazi Germany?
Heinrich Himmler
Hermann Hesse
Joseph Göebbels
Leni Riefenstahl
The literary work of _______ includes Siddhartha and Steppenwolf.
James Joyce
Hermann Hesse
Joseph Göebbels
Leni Riefenstahl
Surrealist _________ painted everyday objects but separated them from their normal contexts.
Salvador Dali
Hannah Höch
Hermann Hesse
James Joyce
Germany was especially unhappy with Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles because it
Declared that Germany and Austria were responsible for starting the war.
forced Germany to reduce the size of its Army and Navy.
forced Germany to give back the territories of Alsace and Lorraine
awarded sections of eastern Germany to the new Polish State.
_______ became the spokesperson for a new world order based on democracy and international cooperation.
Georges Clemenceau
Woodrow Wilson
Rosa Luxemburg
Karl Liebknecht
Under the leadership of __________, the Bolsheviks became a party dedicated to violent revolution.
Alexandra Romanov
Alexander Kerensky
Grigori Rasputin
V. I. Lenin
What caused the United States to join the Allies in fighting World War I?
The Germans' use of unrestricted submarine warfare
the sinking of the Titanic
the German embargo on gasoline
the United State's fear of the Austro-Hungarian powers.
________ overthrew Porfirio Diaz to gain control of Mexico.
Miguel Hidalgo
Austin de Iturbide
Francisco Madero
Emiliano Zapata
Who was the first Indian author who was also a social reformer, spiritual leader, educator, philosopher, singer, and painter?
Mumbai Gujarat
Rabindranath Tagore
Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
Mohandas Gandhi
In 1857, a growing Indian distrust of the British led to
the First War of Independence, which the British called the Sepoy Mutiny
the British replacing indirect rule with divine rule.
a treaty between Great Britain and India, restoring independence to India.
the British establishing a fort at Kanpur.
The Böers were descendants of
German colonists who pushed the Zulu peoples out of Nigeria.
the indigenous Zulu peoples of South Africa
Watusi nomads, who had been driven south by German colonists.
the original Dutch settlers of Cape Town and the surrounding areas.
Who seized power in Egypt in 1805 and established a separate Egyptian state.
General Charles Gordon
Muhammad Ali
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Muhammad Ahmad
What was the "white man's burden"?
the unpopular belief that Europeans were responsible for the mass destruction of many African cultures.
bigger, stronger Europeans could carry more baggage.
the belief that Europeans had a moral responsibility to civilize primitive peoples
the crowded urban living conditions created by the Second Industrial Revolution.
The only free states remaining in Africa by 1914 were
Rhodesia and Algeria
Liberia and Ethiopia
Nigeria and Rhodesia
Egypt and Morocco
In an attempt to end Russia's involvement in the war, Lenin
called a general strike that shut down all factories in Petrograd on March 10th.
seized the Winter Palace and overthrew the Russian government.
signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany, which gave up large amounts of Russian territory
united the soviets under the Bolshevik Party
________, the aggressive preparation for war, was growing along with nations armies.
Mobilization
Conscription
Militarism
Warmongering
_______ were councils composed of representatives from the workers and soldiers.
Dumas
Bolsheviks
Soviets
Vanguards
Why did Admiral Holtzendorff promise Emperor William II "not one American will land on the continent"?
He was misled by the British spies working within the German navy.
He wanted to convince the Emperor to resume unrestricted submarine warfare.
He believed the United States had no interest in the war.
He thought the Americans would honor their treaty with Germany.
