WorksheetsWHAP Vocabulary
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1.
This conflict of the 1930s showcased how awful modern warfare could still become. With new technologies like aerial bombing and more efficient weaponry. The Soviet Union and Nazi Germany supplied--and sometimes fought for--different sides on this conflict, trying out their new weapons and tactics in preparation for World War Two. The devastation of this conflict would inspire Pablo Picasso's painting "El Guernica."
a)
Blitzkrieg
b)
The Spanish Civil War
c)
The Russian Revolution of 1917
d)
Rape of Nanking
2.
While the United States committed16 million men to fighting World War Two in two theaters of war and almost beat the Japanese singlehandedly, America's greatest contribution to World War Two would be through this agreement, in which the US loaned war materials--everything from trucks to planes to spam--to other allied powers like the United Kingdom, China, Australia, and the Soviet Union--effectively becoming the "Arsenal of Democracy."
a)
The Atlantic Charter
b)
The Lend-Lease Act
c)
The League of Nations
d)
Appeasement
3.
This international organization was created by the Treaty of Versailles with the intention of uniting countries and creating an atmosphere where differences could be solved diplomatically rather than by violence. It was supposed to protect national and human rights, but without the support of the United States or the Soviet Union, and with countries like Japan, Italy, and Germany dropping out...it had little power, as shown by Italy's slow conquest of Ethiopia without intervention. It would be replaced by the United Nations after World War Two.
a)
Lend-Lease Act
b)
The League of Nations
c)
The Weimar Republic
d)
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
4.
This treaty shocked the world as fascist Nazi Germany and the communist Soviet Union--polar opposites on the political spectrum who had been "saber rattling for most of the 1930s"-- signed a non-aggression pact stating that they would not fight each other for 5 years. In fact, a secret clause of the treaty stated that they BOTH would invade Poland. For most of the world this signaled that Britain and France would be alone in trying to stop fascism.
a)
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
b)
League of Nations
c)
The Weimar Republic
d)
Lend-Lease Act
5.
This event, occurring on the night of November 9th-10th, 1938, was the first major violent act in what would become known as the Holocaust. Across Germany, riots incited by Nazi party members targeted Jewish businesses and synagogues. Over 90 Jews died in what became known as "The Night of the Broken Glass" and the message was made painfully clear: get out...or else. Unfortunately, immigration quotas and bans made it impossible for most Jewish refugees to escape.
a)
Kristallnacht
b)
The Beer Hall Putsch
c)
Blitzkrieg
d)
The Rape of Nanking
6.
Following Hitler's seizure of power following the Reichstag fire and the Enabling Act of 1933--which gave him complete control of the German government--he ordered the creation of these ordinances that limited Jewish participation in German society and ultimately marginalized Jews so that they would be easily targeted later by Hitler's regime.
a)
The Holocaust
b)
Kristallnacht
c)
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
d)
The Nuremberg Laws
7.
This event pushed a Germany already hurting from the sanctions of the Treaty of Versailles over the edge. Germany's economy plummeted, inflation skyrocketed, and an already desperate country became more so and turned to Hitler and the Nazi party who seemed kind of crazy, but were at least promising a better life for "German" Germans.
a)
The Beer Hall Putsch
b)
The Spanish Civil War
c)
The Great Depression
d)
Rape of Nanking
8.
A government in which the government controls all aspects of social life and all governmental power is controlled by a single person who rules absolutely with total control and "dictates" what direction the country will go in.
a)
The Weimar Republic
b)
Totalitarian Dictatorship
c)
The League of Nations
d)
Blitzkrieg
9.
Following Hitler's failed attempt to seize control of the German government--the Beer Hall Putsch--Hitler was jailed for treason. While in jail he wrote this document, which blamed socialists and Jews for Germany's loss in World War I and outlined how the Nazis would remedy that betrayal and bring a beleaguered Germany back to prominence.
a)
Mein Kampf
b)
Das Kapital
c)
Beer Hall Putsch
d)
The Weimar Republic
10.
A tactic used by the leaders of Britain and France in the buildup to WWII to try to give Hitler what he wanted--to "appease" him, in an effort to avoid conflict. Spoiler alert: it didn't work. If anything it emboldened Hitler and encouraged his agenda.
a)
Appeasement
b)
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
c)
Lend-Lease Act
d)
Weimar Republic
11.
A war in which a stalemate occurs and the two sides, instead of conquering each other, wear each other down in destruction men and each other's economies. As one German general put it in WWI, "to bleed the other white." World War I and Vietnam are examples.
a)
Schlieffen Plan
b)
Trench Warfare
c)
War of Attrition
d)
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
12.
This document formally ended the war and severely punished the losing side, particularly Germany who lost territory, had its military limited, and was forced to pay reparations (the war debt) to all the winning countries. More importantly, the severity of this document would breed resentment within Germany and prevent Germany from recovering, opening the door to fascism and Hitler.
a)
Treaty of Versailles
b)
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
c)
Schlieffen Plan
d)
The Zimmerman Telegram
13.
This long planned war plan outlined how Germany would attack France and overwhelm them through the weak point on the line--Belgium. In reality, however, the attack on Belgium to get to France only made Germany the bad guy in the eyes of the world, especially when the drive through Belgium turned into a war crime.
a)
Trench Warfare
b)
The Rape of Belgium
c)
The Schlieffen Plan
d)
The Triple Alliance
14.
Though often painted as the "good guys" in World War I, this alliance system which included Russia, France, and England was just as responsible for the domino effect/chain reaction which precipitated the escalation of World War I.
a)
The Triple Alliance
b)
The Triple Entente
c)
Imperialism
d)
Great Powers
15.
This event was the spark the blew up the very tense "powder keg" of Europe. Militarized, industrialized, and imperial powers, bound together by alliance systems, had a chain reaction that led to war due to this Nationalist act of terrorism.
a)
The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
b)
The Schlieffen Plan
c)
Mustard Gas
d)
Triple Alliance
16.
This document finalized newly Communist Russia's exit from World War I. During the Communist revolution, Vladimir Lenin had promised his followers "peace, land, and bread." He started off with peace via this document, but at the cost of giving Poland to Germany and, very suddenly, Germany didn't have to fight Russia anymore and could focus all its efforts on the French and British. Luckily for the British, America had entered the war.
a)
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
b)
Treaty of Versailles
c)
Schlieffen Plan
d)
October Revolution
17.
As the men who fought World War One discovered that old military tactics were almost suicidal in the face of new military technologies like the machine gun and artillery, they did the most primal thing possible and resorted to this style of warfare where they sought defensive protection over offensive capabilities.
a)
Trench Warfare
b)
Mustard Gas
c)
Sclieffen Plan
d)
War of Attrition
18.
As the Western Front in World War I settled into defensive trench warfare, both sides became desperate to break the stalemate by either getting the upper hand offensively or by breaking the other sides' spirit. This resulted in massive artillery barrages that would destroy whole forests and new, terrible weapons--like this one one--which are now illegal according the Geneva Convention because their use is cruel and unusual...even in war.
a)
Trench Warfare
b)
Tanks
c)
Planes
d)
Mustard Gas
19.
In the first half of the 20th Century, Germany is famous for being militarily brilliant but diplomatically dumb. Late the in the war they committed this diplomatic blunder where they sent a message to Mexico asking them to declare war on the United States to keep the U.S. busy and out of WWI. Rather than keep the U.S. out, the note--uncovered by British intelligence--finally convinced the American public and congress to join the war effort.
a)
The Zimmerman Telegram
b)
The Schlieffen Plan
c)
The Triple Alliance
d)
The Triple Entente
20.
As Britain's powerful Navy blockaded German ports, Germany became increasingly desperate for ways to break that blockade to get vital supplies into Germany and to stop supplies flowing into British ports from America. Unable to match the British in ship-to-ship combat, the Germans turned to this type of naval warfare that would further make Germany the bad guy when they sunk the ocean liner "Lusitania," which had 300 Americans on board.
a)
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
b)
The Sclieffen Plan
c)
Trench Warfare
d)
The Kaiserschlacht
21.
A period of time in 1968 when Czechoslovakian politicians loosened the restrictions on freedom of speech and press and the country began to open itself to the west--at least until the Soviet Union invaded and replaced the open regime. This event showed that beyond the "iron curtain" there were some under the control of the Soviet Union that wished to return to a state of greater freedom.
a)
Glasnost
b)
Prague Spring
c)
Apartheid
d)
Arab Spring
22.
With the possibility of nuclear annihilation being always a present fear during the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union began to explore ways in which they could slow down the arms race and passed these treaties in order to avoid further escalation of the arms race, but the U.S. did not ratify the treaty due to Soviet aggression in Afghanistan. Eventually the talks would lead to Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties.
a)
SALT treaties
b)
Glastnost
c)
Trans-Pacific Partnership
d)
Perestroika.
23.
This international organization was created so that the members could agree upon petroleum prices worldwide and therefore have major economic influence for its member parties. The power of this organization was first seen in the oil crisis of 1973 in which the member countries refused to trade with the U.S. due to the U.S.'s involvement in the Yow Kippur War.
a)
NAFTA
b)
OPEC
c)
NATO
d)
European Union
24.
In the wake of decolonization, minority white South Africans seized control of the South African government and put in place this system of extreme racial segregation which lasted from 1948-1991 and was designed to keep power in the hands of the the white minority. Through the efforts of Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu, it would finally come to an end in 1991.
a)
Glasnost
b)
Perestroika
c)
Apartheid
d)
Sandinistas
25.
Realizing that China could not compete with the West without creating "socialism with Chinese characteristics," this man called for economic change in China so that China could become an economic powerhouse. His policies resulted in greater openness to the west, but that openness would allow the germ of revolution to get into China. However, he was crush that germ in the Tiananmen Square massacre, ensuring that China would remain Communist.
a)
Mikhail Gorbechev
b)
Chang Kai Shek
c)
Mao Zedong
d)
Deng Xiaoping
26.
In 1978 the leaders of Egypt, the most populous and powerful Islamic power in the Middle East, and Israel, the Jewish state which had been the target of conflict from Arab powers since its creation, met with U.S. President Jimmy Carter and signed this treaty, bringing peace between the two countries. Anwar El Sadat and Menachem Begin would win the Noble Peace Prize for their efforts for peace.
a)
SALT treaties
b)
Camp David Accords
c)
OPEC
d)
NAFTA
27.
The easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries. As the nuclear arsenals of the opposing sides got so large-to the scale of global annihilation-leaders from the U.S. and U.S.S.R. urged for this.
a)
Perestroika
b)
Glasnost
c)
Apartheid
d)
Detente
28.
From the lessons of the Great Depression and how it led to the rise of fascism and communism, this international organization was created to ensure that countries who owed money could borrow money from this organization rather than succumb to the type of severe economic hardship that results in desperate populations making poor decisions.
a)
International Monetary Fund
b)
NAFTA
c)
Trans-Pacific Partnership
d)
European Union
29.
This term translates from Russian as "openness" and refers to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of being more open to the West in economic and political discussion. It showed the the Soviet Union's hard-line Communism was not sustainable and that many beyond the Iron Curtain were ready to end the Cold War in favor of more open diplomacy. Of course, Vladimir Putin is ruining that.
a)
Perestroika
b)
Glasnost
c)
Apartheid
d)
Detente
30.
This treaty abolished tariffs and trade barriers between the three North American countries. While it increased trade between the three nations, some critics argue that it has resulted in the loss of America's industrial capacity as factories have moved to Mexico where there are less restrictions and unions and cheaper wages. Ultimately, other companies have moved to China for the same reasons.
a)
NAFTA
b)
OPEC
c)
Trans-Pacific Partnernship
d)
World Trade Organization
31.
This was the codename of the massive American military research program to develop the atomic bombs that would be used to end World War Two with detonations on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Some Historians also claim that this was the first shot in the Cold War and that maybe the use of atomic bombs was more to scare Stalin in the Soviet Union into playing nice at the end of the war.
a)
The Manhattan Project
b)
The Warsaw Pact
c)
Nuclear Deterrence
d)
The Marshall Plan
32.
In order to avoid another situation like the economic fallout of the Treaty of Versailles after World War I, in which economically desperate nations turn to fascism or communism, the American chief of staff (head general) suggested that the U.S. lend billions of dollars in aid so that countries like Japan, France, and West Germany could rebuild, thereby making sure their economies were strong and that they were in America's debt.
a)
The United Nations
b)
The Marshall Plan
c)
Containment Doctrine
d)
Berlin Airlift
33.
Alarmed by the rapid spread of Communism to so many Eastern European and East Asian countries, U.S. President Truman called for a new alliance of Democratic powers to stop the communist dominoes from continuing to fall. The United States, Canada, and the countries of Western European signed a treaty creating this alliance where if any one of them was attacked by a communist power, all of the others would aid the attacked country.
a)
NATO
b)
Warsaw Pact
c)
NAFTA
d)
United Nations
34.
In the aftermath of World War Two, this international group was formed to replace the League of Nations, which had failed to stop the aggressive actions of pre-World War II Italy, Germany, and Japan and little to stop the human rights atrocities of the Spanish Civil War. To avoid such inaction in the future, this organization was created to keep tabs on international disagreements and prevent human rights violations.
a)
The League of Nations
b)
The United Nations
c)
NATO
d)
The Warsaw pact
35.
In response to the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Soviet Union formed this international alliance organization with it's satellite states (countries within its sphere of influence) and other communist countries in an effort to provide a similarly united front against capitalist countries.
a)
The Warsaw Pact
b)
Containment Doctrine
c)
The United Nations
d)
The U.S.S.R.
36.
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, this movement to create a new Jewish homeland--where Jews could control their own fate and not be discriminated against--very suddenly and very obviously gained a great amount of popularity and resulted in the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 with British land (that they had won from the Ottoman Empire in World War I--another effect of "The Great War").
a)
Zionism
b)
Detente
c)
The Warsaw Pact
d)
The Treaty of Versailles
37.
This man would lead Communist forces in the Chinese civil war, ultimately defeating the Chinese Nationalist forces who were exhausted from fighting in World War Two. Thus, he became the first leader of Communist China. While his rule was cruel, oddly enough Communism works really well in China because of the concept of filial piety.
a)
Chang Kai Shek
b)
Hideki Tojo
c)
Mao Zedong
d)
Laozi
38.
This was the first instance in which the Cold War became "hot" as Communists clashed with Capitalist forces in a small peninsula in East Asia. The northern half of this country, which was communist, invaded the southern half and communism seemed to be spreading before the U.S. intervened to insure that communism was contained. Ultimately the conflict ended exactly where it began, on the 38th parallel of latitude, which, to this day, is a demilitarized zone and a symbolic divide between communism and democracy/capitalism.
a)
The Korean War
b)
The Vietnam War
c)
Partition of Germany
d)
The Chinese Civil War
39.
The Soviet Union, in an effort to level the playing-field with the United States in the arms race, tried to place Nuclear Weapons on a large, communist-controlled island of the coast of Florida. The United States had nuclear missiles which could reach Moscow from Turkey. The U.S.S.R. was seeking a balance of power, but instead got caught in a giant game of nuclear "chicken" and blinked first. The missiles never reached the island due to a U.S. naval blockade and the Soviet Union looked weak on the global stage (but they were still really scary).
a)
Nuclear Deterrence Theory
b)
Containment Doctrine
c)
The Berlin Airlift
d)
The Cuban Missile Crisis
40.
In place of actual war, The Cold War would feature a different kind of competition--the United States and the Soviet Union rushed to build bigger nuclear weapons than the other and larger arsenals to create a threat of "mutually assured destruction" where no one wants to attack for fear of destroying the world.
a)
Military Industrial Complex
b)
Detente
c)
Arms Race
d)
Containment Doctrine
41.
Along with Frederich Engles, Karl Marx wrote this document, which examined the negative effects of the Industrial Revolution on the poor and, influenced by the French Revolution, asserted that the working classes of the world should and would rise up to overthrow their Capitalist oppression, creating a socialist world of equality. The writers, however, failed to take into account how much greed is a part of human nature and how powerful a force Nationalism is.
a)
Das Kapital
b)
Declaration of the Rights of Man
c)
The Petit Bourgeoisie
d)
The Communist Manifesto
42.
During the Industrial Revolution, as the need for farmworkers decreased and families flowed into cities, overcrowding resulted in the creation of these specialty apartments, where several families could share an apartment. They were often dingy, dirty, and full of disease.
a)
Tenements
b)
Textiles
c)
Condominiums
d)
Lower middle class
43.
The Industrial Revolution may have run on coal, but the use of coal to power these machines allowed mills and factories to mass produce their products. Additionally it revolutionized farm working, having the power of multiple horses. It would even revolutionize imperialism and warfare, allowing ships to go up river and travel faster than ever.
a)
Cotton Gin
b)
Spinning Jenny
c)
Steam Engine
d)
Proletariat
44.
In light of the negatives of the Industrial Revolution it is a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
a)
Communism
b)
Romanticism
c)
Progressivism
d)
Bourgeoisie
45.
Enabled by the Scientific Revolution, fueled by coal, and powered by steam, this new historical era ushered in a time of unprecedented production and invention. New machines that made life easier were everywhere, but at a cost to the environment and psychology of people. It would also facilitate imperialism.
a)
The Industrial Revolution
b)
Socialism
c)
Communism
d)
Anthropocene
46.
Covered thinly with gold. A word used to describe the Industrial Revolution because it seemed fantastic and glittering on the surface but it was cold, dirty, and metallic underneath that gold plating.
a)
Bourgeoisie
b)
Gilded
c)
Proletariat
d)
Romanticism
47.
While not as revolutionary or angry as Karl Mark call for, this political movement within many industrialized countries like England, Germany, France, and the United States and made up of educated middle class and wealthy citizens, pushed for better treatment of workers, children, and the environment.
a)
Progressivism
b)
Romanticism
c)
Socialism
d)
Capitalism
48.
This was one of the reasons given by the elite of Europe and the United States for Imperialism, advocating that Europeans and people of European descent had a moral obligation to "civilize" the savages of the world and protect them from their ignorance...so it was only necessary that Europe and America conquer the world.
a)
Imperialism
b)
Congress of Vienna
c)
White Man's Burden
d)
Berlin Conference
49.
An area controlled largely under the control of an imperial power by economic and political bullying with little need for military intervention or conquest. Particularly applied to China where the Opium Wars allowed European powers to seize economic control of certain "economic zones."
a)
Spheres of Influence
b)
Imperialism
c)
Darwinism
d)
Capitalism
50.
As Europeans conquered and colonized the world, their views of the people they interacted with shifted to be more racial and arrogant in nature. They often misapplied science to explain why they, the conquerers, were so well suited to rule. The rich also used this term to explain why they were rich and the poor were poor.
a)
White Man's Burden
b)
Elitism
c)
Social Darwinism
d)
Progressivism
51.
Following the realization of how behind Japan was, Japan entered into the modern era with this abrupt shift and reformation of their country. The emperor moved the capital of Kyoto to Tokyo in 1868, consolidated power, made education mandatory for boys and girls, and set about industrializing country to make it a Pacific "Great Power." This road would eventually lead to Japan's actions in WWII.
a)
Meiji Restoration
b)
Congress of Vienna
c)
Tokugawa Shogunate
d)
Kyoto Protocols
52.
Aboard the British surveying ship HMS Beagle, this man visited the Galapagos islands and other exotic locales noting how species tend to specialize based on their location and needs. He hypothesized that the members of a species more specially suited to their environment would breed more successfully, leading to evolution over time. His book "On the Origin of Species" shook the Scientific World and called into question long-held religious beliefs, but really it was just another product of the Humanist Scientific Revolution.
a)
Sir Isaac Newton
b)
Charles Darwin
c)
Commodore Perry
d)
Copernicus
53.
Symbolic and indicative of the United States' potential as a World Power, this 1823 policy stated that European Powers would stay out of the Western Hemisphere (other than their current colonies) or they would be attacked by the United States, which considered the whole Western Hemisphere it's sphere of influence. Some see this as the beginning of the U.S. being a "global police force" while others see it as the beginning of American Imperialism.
a)
Berlin Conference
b)
Roosevelt Corollary
c)
Monroe Doctrine
d)
Truman Doctrine
54.
Facilitated by the Industrial Revolution and necessitated (made necessary) by Imperialism this giant engineering project in Egypt was completed in 1869 and immediately became of vital strategic importance as it allowed ships to pass from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean with ease, bypassing the route around Africa that took up to a month longer.
a)
Suez Canal
b)
Liberia
c)
Panama Canal
d)
Congo Free State
55.
Compromising 95% of pre-Revolution French society, this portion of society included everyone NOT of noble birth or part of the clergy. Neglected by the French aristocracy and forced to carry the tax burden of an indebted France, it was their unrest that would lead to the French Revolution.
a)
The First Estate
b)
The Third Estate.
c)
The Second Estate
d)
The Wealth of Nations
56.
This monarch's lavish lifestyle and inability to understand or fix the economic and social problems 18th century France was experiencing would lead to his (and his wife's) beheading.
a)
King Louis XVI
b)
King Louis XIV
c)
Napoleon Bonaparte
d)
Simon Bolivar
57.
Written by Adam Smith and published in 1776 this work was the first definitive collection of Economic principles dealing with capitalism. Smith argued that a nation's economy will regulate itself via an "invisible hand."
a)
Das Kapital
b)
Mercantilism
c)
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
d)
The Wealth of Nations
58.
Influenced by Enlightenment thinkers like Montesque, Rousseau, and Locke as well as soldiers returning home telling tales of the ideals of the American Revolution, this event was sparked by over-taxation of the common folk and, well, a lack of bread.
a)
The French Revolution
b)
Abolitionism
c)
The Haitian Revolution
d)
Women's Suffrage
59.
Inspired by the American, Haitian, and French Revolutions, this man known as "The Liberator" fought for the freedom of several nations including Colombia, Venezuela, and Bolivia. While his vision of a "Gran Colombia" fell apart after his death, his efforts forever altered the geopolitical scene.
a)
Toussaint L'Overture
b)
Simon Bolivar
c)
Maximillien Robepierre
d)
Napoleon Bonaparte
60.
In the wake of the Century of Revolutions, these new, progressive societies kept revolutionizing in other ways by spreading freedoms to other parts of society. This movement sought to give women the right to vote.
a)
Abolitionism
b)
Vindication of the Rights of Women
c)
Women's suffrage
d)
Mercantilism
61.
More than any other figure of the Century of Revolutions, this man probably had the greatest impact, even though he was trying to build an empire. His efforts to spread French culture and ideals led to a short lived empire but he would indeed spread the French Revolution's revolutionary ideals and a new law code. More importantly, his wars would destabilize and weaken Spain, Portugal, and other countries, allowing for the success of the Latin American revolutions. To fund his army he even sold Louisiana to the U.S. After losing at Waterloo he would be banished from France to the island of Elbe to live out his life as a broken man.
a)
Napoleon Bonaparte
b)
Maximillien Robespierre
c)
King Louis XVI
d)
Toussaint L'Overture
62.
The most important figure of the Haitian Revolution, he was an ex-slave who learned to read and write and led the only successful slave rebellion in the history of the West. Though his country's economy never recovered because of the destruction and the dependency on other countries, still, they were free.
a)
Maximillien Robespierre
b)
Toussaint L'Overture
c)
Napoleon Bonaparte
d)
Simon Bolivar
63.
As a radical Jacobin in the French Revolution this man sought to make sure that the radical, revolutionary ideals needed to cure France of corruption would be carried out. However, he went to far when his "Committee of Public Safety" began executing dissidents (up to 40,000 in total during the Reign of Terror) who did not agree with all his policies. He would be later shot, arrested, and guillotined...but not before he abolished slavery.
a)
Maximillen Robespierre
b)
King Louis XVI
c)
Napoleon Bonaparte
d)
Toussaint L'Overture
64.
As the unifying power of the Catholic Church waned (grew less important) in Europe following the Protestant Reformation, people began to rally around new political organizations that shared cultural traits like language and social beliefs. They became patriotic in their shared principles, but eventually this patriotism would prove dangerous in its extreme form as different countries began to feel superior to others. What do we call this newfound patriotism?
a)
Mercantilism
b)
Socialism
c)
Nationalism
d)
Abolitionism
65.
As the African slave trade was necessitated by the labor shortage created by the Great Dying, this was the journey undertaken by enslaved West Africans in their journey to the Americas aboard the dismal conditions of slave ships.
a)
The Gulf Stream
b)
Encomienda
c)
The Middle Passage
d)
Triangular Trade
66.
Though later replaced by more sophisticated labor systems and slavery, this was a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area, essentially making them like the serfs in Europe.
a)
Encomienda
b)
Repartimiento
c)
The Middle Passage
d)
African Diaspora
67.
The unified government of Japan, named for the family who finally united Japan and who closed Japan to European traders realizing that the competing European empires could and would divide Japan.
a)
The Heian Period
b)
The Meiji Restoration
c)
The Tokugawa Shogunate
d)
Potosi
68.
The spread of African peoples across the Atlantic via the slave trade, who brought into these new societies issues of race that endure still in the twenty-first century and introduced elements of African culture, such as religious ideas, musical and artistic traditions, and cuisine into the making of American cultures such as Santeria, Voodoo, Jazz, Creole, Blues, etc.
a)
The Middle Passage
b)
Triangular Trade
c)
Repartimiento
d)
African Diaspora
69.
For many centuries, Eastern goods had trickled into the Mediterranean through the Middle East from this massive, interconnected web of commerce that existed between Africa, Arabia, India, and East Asia and dated back to the beginning of sailing. It wasn't until around 1500 that Europeans became a serious player on this trade network. Even then their goods were not much desired for and their success depended upon their naval guns and willingness to be middlemen and silver merchants. However, European naval militarism would eventually allow them to gain control of this lucrative trading area.
a)
The Middle Passage
b)
Triangular Trade
c)
Indian Ocean Commercial Network
d)
Silver Drain
70.
French Protestants called "Huguenots" were persecuted by Catholics in France to a great degree until King Henry IV issued this decree in order to bring peace to his country which had been torn apart by the Protestant Reformation.
a)
95 Theses
b)
Edict of Nantes
c)
Council of Trent
d)
Peace of Westphalia
71.
The most often cited of Luther's "95 Theses" was this practice of the pre-Reformation Catholic church to allow sinners to pay for the forgiveness of their sins rather than asking for God's forgiveness and then use the money for Church purposes rather than to help the poor. Luther, other Western European Christians, and most historians saw this as a prime example of the Catholic churches corruption at the time.
a)
Huguenots
b)
Indulgences
c)
Jesuits
d)
The Enlightenment
72.
A religious movement within the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519. It resulted in the 'protesters' forming several new Christian denominations, including the Lutheran and Reformed Churches and the Church of England. Appealed not only to religious sentiments but also to Germans who disliked the Italian - dominated Catholic Church and to peasants and urban workers who wanted to reject the religion of their masters and Kings and Princes who wanted to be free of the Pope's control.
a)
Protestant Reformation
b)
The Enlightenment
c)
Counter Reformation
d)
Sikhism
73.
This movement built off the Humanistic groundwork laid by the Renaissance and rested on the belief in the power of knowledge to transform society this was a movement of intellectual, philosophical, and social forms where scientists and thinkers came forth with new ideas and attacks on traditional beliefs.
a)
The Enlightenment
b)
The Counter-Reformation
c)
The Wahhabi movement
d)
The Protestant Reformation
74.
This meeting led to an effort by the Catholic church to reaffirm and reinvent itself in the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation. Here, Church leaders gave decrees about what core beliefs the Church reaffirmed and condemned some aspects of the Protestant movement. However, the Roman Catholic Church did decide to have greater oversight over its priests and sought to end corruption.
a)
Vatican II
b)
Edict of Nantes
c)
Peace of Westphalia
d)
Council of Trent
75.
His work started on a bet in a coffee shop between scientists. Arguably the most important figure of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment era. While he did not invent the heliocentric model, his theories and calculations (in fact, he invented calculus to prove them) on gravity and planetary motion settled the debate on Earth's place in the solar system for good.
a)
Copernicus
b)
Sir Isaac Newton
c)
Johannes Kepler
d)
Albert Einstein
76.
The man who conquered defeated the Aztecs (with the help of disease and angry Aztec subjects tired of their brutal rule) in 1519, sparking the Spanish conquest of the New World, which would enrich the Spanish Empire and funnel silver and gold to the European Continent.
a)
Akbar
b)
Hernan Cortes
c)
Francisco Pizarro
d)
La Malinche
77.
Powerful winds--the Gulf Stream for example--that blow across the Atlantic ocean, which facilitated European "discovery" of the New World.
a)
Directional Winds
b)
Trade Winds
c)
Monsoon Winds
d)
Tacking Winds
78.
The term applied to a person of mixed Spanish and indigenous blood that showed the way in which the Spanish highly stratified their New World society based on a racial caste system.
a)
Peninsulares
b)
Mestizos
c)
Criollos
d)
Mulattoes
79.
The term given to the cross cultural, transatlantic discoveries and introduction of goods, natural resources, raw materials, religion, institutions, and diseases ignited by the "discovery" of the New World.
a)
Columbian Exchange
b)
Atlantic Ocean network
c)
Trade Winds
d)
Middle Passage
80.
An incredibly important breakthrough in European shipbuilding that was a necessary step for the European age of exploration. They were small but their lateen sails and maneuverability made them incredibly seaworthy and important as Europeans ventured out into the Atlantic in search of routes to India and China.
a)
Schooner
b)
Junk
c)
Caravel
d)
Jasak
81.
Despite the building of the Great Wall, a combined force of Mongols, Jurchen, and Han Chinese vassals from the area of modern-day Manchuria came together as "Manchus" and overthrew Ming Dynasty China to create this final dynasty that would build the borders of modern China before finally falling in 1912.
a)
Qing
b)
Yuan
c)
Qin
d)
Mughal
82.
The increased interconnectedness of all parts of the world is called
a)
"gradualism."
b)
"universalism."
c)
"globalization."
d)
"Spaceship Earth."
83.
What is an absolute monarchy?
a)
The power is in the hands of all.
b)
All of the power is given to the people and no power is given to the monarch.
c)
The king (monarch) has all of the power.
d)
The king shares his power with the parliament
84.
Spanish and Portuguese officials who resided temporarily in Latin America
a)
Caudillos
b)
Peninsulares
c)
Gauchos
d)
Natives
85.
Laissez-faire means...
a)
natural rights
b)
iron law of wages
c)
let it happen
d)
tabula rasa
86.
An economic system in which a government controls all economic activities in its colonies to make the government stronger and richer is called
a)
Capitalism
b)
Mercantilism
c)
Communism
d)
Marxism
87.
What movement mainly led to the age of exploration?
a)
Renaissance
b)
Scientific Revolution
c)
feudalim
d)
the Crusades
88.
Excommunicate
a)
exclude someone from the Church
b)
to change for the better
c)
a machine to print books
d)
to break the rules of one's church or Faith
89.
...a man of mixed race, especially the offspring of a Spaniard and an American Indian.
a)
Mestizo
b)
Mulatto
c)
Mesa
d)
Favela
90.
a blending of beliefs and practices from different religions into one faith
a)
primate city
b)
syncretism
c)
maquiladora
d)
free trade zone
91.
The spreading out or scattering of a group of people.
a)
pastoral
b)
diaspora
c)
patriarch
d)
syncretism
92.
The belief that your life is already determined for you is
a)
Predestination
b)
Bhuddism
c)
Indulgence
d)
Salvation
93.
The poem, The White Man's Burden, by Rudyard Kipling, represents the belief that European culture was _______.
a)
superior to other cultures
b)
misunderstood by Americans
c)
the oldest culture in the world
d)
a replica of Ancient Greek culture
94.
The policy of taking colonies for economic interests is called ___.
a)
Nativism
b)
Imperialism
c)
Communism
d)
Socialism
95.
What was the Boxer Rebellion?
a)
The movement in China to improve the political structure and economic production of goods.
b)
The religious movement in which a peasant named Hong Xiugquan, the brother of Christ, rebelled against the Qing Dynasty.
c)
A movement in China in which the people of China rebelled and attempted to remove foreigners from the country.
d)
A movement in China in which European powers carved out trading centers despite protests made by the Chinese government.
96.
What Cold War event benefited Japan in the 1950s due to U.S. purchasing of supplies and spending by servicemen stationed there?
a)
Korean War
b)
the Berlin airlift
c)
Vietnam War
d)
the Cubin Missile Crisis
97.
Lenin's approach was adopted by the groups of Russian Marxists known as
a)
anarchists
b)
Mensheviks
c)
Bolsheviks
d)
Decembrists
98.
A program of loans that was designed to aid Western European nations rebuild from WWII's devastation was the
a)
The MacArthur Plan
b)
The Marshall Plan
c)
The Churchill Plan
d)
The Dreyfus Affair
99.
Choose the correct term that matches the definition.
"System in which the government owns and operates major businesses and controls other parts of the economy."
"System in which the government owns and operates major businesses and controls other parts of the economy."
a)
Feudalism
b)
Socialism
c)
Marxism
100.
Cuban revolutionary; overthrew dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1958; initiated series of reforms to establish Socialist reforms; came to depend almost exclusively on USSR
a)
Fidel Castro
b)
Raul Castro
c)
Che Guevara
d)
Lee Harvey Oswald
101.
The members of the Triple Entente were the French Republic, the British Empire and the Russian Empire and are known as
a)
Allies
b)
Enemies
c)
Republic
d)
League of Nations
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