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WHII People Review

Total questions: 48

Worksheet time: 56mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was known for tacking the 95 Theses to a church door?

a)

King Henry VIII

b)

Pope Leo X

c)

Martin Luther

d)

John Calvin

2.

This monarch created the Church of England after the pope refused to grant his annulment from his first wife.

a)

Anne Boleyn

b)

John Wycliffe

c)

Henry VIII

d)

Thomas Cronwell

3.

Which monarch brought religious unity and tolerance to England while encouraging expansion and power?

a)

Mary Tutor

b)

Elizabeth I

c)

Thomas Cranmer

d)

Sir Thomas Moore

4.

During the Reformation, the Hapsburg family –

a)

fought to suppress Protestantism in the German states

b)

became a Protestant leader in France

c)

led Spain in the Armada against England

d)

forced the princes to become Catholic supporting the Pope

5.

Desiderius Erasmus was known for –

a)

visual arts

b)

creating sonnets, plays, and essays

c)

spreading humanist ideas

d)

mathematics

6.

Which English playwright and poet drew people from all social classes to the theater?

a)

Sir Thomas Moore

b)

William Shakespeare

c)

Leonardo da Vinci

d)

Peter Paul Rubens

7.

Match the following

a)
1.

The Sistine Chapel Ceiling

b)
2.

The Last Supper

c)
3.

The Mona Lisa

d)
4.

La Pieta

8.

What book did Machiavelli write?

a)

The Prince

b)

The Communist Manifesto

c)

The Wealth of Nations

d)

Mein Kampf

9.

Who created the printing press?

a)

Leonardo Da Vinci

b)

Johannes Guttenberg

c)

Niccolo Machiavelli

d)

Martin Luther

10.

Which country sponsored Christopher Columbus's voyage to America?

a)

Spain

b)

France

c)

England

d)

Portugal

11.

Who is this "Great" Tsar in Russian History?

a)

St. Peter

b)

Peter I

c)

Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible)

d)

Henry VIII

12.

French Enlightenment philosopher who strongly believed in freedom of speech and religion

a)

Voltaire

b)

Denis Diderot

c)

Mary Wollstonecraft

d)

John Locke

13.
Enlightenment philosopher who believed people had natural rights of life, liberty, and property.
a)
John Locke
b)
Montesquieu
c)
Rousseau
d)
Voltaire
14.
 _____________________ was an Italian astronomer who developed the telescope, which then confirmed Copernicus’ Heliocentric Theory 
a)
a. Isaac Newton
b)
b. Galileo Galilei 
c)
c. Adam Smith
d)
d. Dennis Diderot
15.

Which of the following represent the ideas of Copernicus

a)
b)
16.

Which person pictured was responsible for starting the Mexican independence movement?

a)

Jose Morelos

b)

Toussaint L'Ouverture

c)

Simon Bolivar

d)

Miguel Hidalgo

17.

Which was a former slave who led the Haitian rebellion against the French?

a)

Jose Morelos

b)

Toussaint L'Ouverture

c)

Simon Bolivar

d)

Miguel Hidalgo

18.

Which was a native resident who led revolutionary efforts in areas of South America?

a)

Jose Morelos

b)

Toussaint L’Ouverture

c)

Simon Bolivar

d)

Miguel Hidalgo

19.

Which is the founder of Buddhism?

a)

Abraham

b)

Siddhartha Gautama

c)

Brahma

d)

Muhammad

20.

Which was the Allied commander in Europe during World War II?

a)

Roosevelt

b)

MacArther

c)

George Marshall

d)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

21.

Winston Churchill, during World War II, was known as –

a)

the Soviet dictator

b)

a general for the United States

c)

the British prime minister

d)

the U.S. President

22.

After World War II, the Nuremberg defendants shown were –

a)

Nazi leaders being tried for war crimes

b)

Communist leaders at the show trials in Moscow

c)

Axis leaders discussing land boundary changes

d)

All released and not held accountable for World War II

23.

Which major leader of World War II was the lead general in the Pacific Theater, during World War II?

a)

Douglas MacArthur

b)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

c)

Winston Churchill

d)

Erwin Rommel

24.

Hideki Tojo was known in World War II as –

a)

the emperor of Japan

b)

an Allied commander

c)

a general for Japan

d)

the Soviet dictator

25.

Which is a legacy of Napoleon?

a)

Unified Europe under French domination

b)

Refused to be crowned emperor

c)

Awakened feelings of pride and nationalism

d)

France was not centralized and lacked a constitution

26.

Who was a strong nationalist leader that wanted a single republic and joined southern Italy to northern Italy?

a)

Alexis de Tocqueville

b)

Count Cavour

c)

Giuseppe Garibaldi

d)

Louis XVIII

27.

Realpolitik was the philosophy of this individual who is credited with establishing the German state following the Franco-Prussian War -

a)

Otto von Bismarck

b)

Count Cavour

c)

Victor Emmanuel III

d)

Giuseppe Garibaldi

28.

Britain, France, and Israel did not support returning the Suez Canal to what country, led by Gamal Abdul Nasser?

a)

Iran

b)

Iraq

c)

Egypt

d)

Panama

29.

Who was the Prime Minister during the Yom Kippur War?

a)

Golda Meir

b)

Bibi Netanyahu

c)

David Ben Gurim

d)

Levi Eschol

30.

Where was Vasco de Gama from?

a)

France

b)

Portugal

c)

Spain

d)

England

31.

Where was Sir Francis Drake from?

a)

Spain

b)

Portugal

c)

France

d)

England

32.

Where was Jacques Cartier from?

a)

France

b)

Spain

c)

England

d)

Portugal

33.

Who is the first person to circumnavigate the globe?

a)

Christopher Columbus

b)

Hernan Cortez

c)

Ferdinand Magellan

d)

Sir Francis Drake

34.

What Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztec Empire?

a)

Francisco Pizarro

b)

George Marshall

c)

Sir Francis Drake

d)

Hernan Cortez

35.

What Spanish conquistador conquered the Incan Empire?

a)

Francisco Pizarro

b)

Hernan Cortez

c)

Ferdinand Magellan

d)

John Green

36.

Which of these best describes Oliver Cromwell?

a)

He was a supporter of the king.

b)

He was a member of the nobility.

c)

He was a devout Catholic.

d)

He was an enemy of the king.

37.

Parliament invited William and Mary to take the English throne on the condition that they

a)

convert to Catholicism.

b)

promise not to have children.

c)

promise to stay at home and rule from Holland.

d)

accept Parliament’s limits on their power.

38.

After Charles I became king, tensions increased when he

a)

freed all prisoners from jail throughout the country.

b)

formed an alliance with England’s traditional enemies, France and Spain.

c)

asked Parliament to take over the role of taxation.

d)

dissolved Parliament when members refused to give him funds.

39.

What are European descended Latin Americans known as?

a)

Indians

b)

Creoles

c)

Mestizos

d)

Gringos

40.

What were the people of Native American and European descent known as?

a)

Creoles

b)

Indians

c)

Mestizos

d)

Gringos

41.

The Policy of Containment was created in the __________ Doctrine

a)

Monroe

b)

Roosevelt

c)

Kennedy

d)

Truman

42.

Who was the communist leader of Vietnam?

a)

Mikhail Gorbachev

b)

Deng Xiaoping

c)

Ho-Chi-Minh

43.

Who was the Nationalist leader of China in the Chinese Civil War?

a)

Ho-Chi-Minh

b)

Mao-Tse-Tung

c)

Shrek

d)

Chiang Kai-Shek

44.

Who was the communist leader of China in the Chinese Civil War?

a)

Mao Zedong

b)

Deng Xiaping

c)

Chieng-Kai-Shek

45.

Who was the leader of India that had a close relationship with the USSR and started nuclear programs?

a)

Indira Gandhi

b)

Deng Ziaoping

c)

Mikhail Gorbachev

d)

Margaret Thatcher

46.

Who was the communist Chinese leader that continued communist rule after Mao Zedong?

a)

Mikhail Gorbachev

b)

Deng Ziaoping

c)

Margaret Thatcher

47.

Who was the last president of the USSR?

a)

Vladimir Lenin

b)

Joseph Stalin

c)

Mikhail Gorbachev

d)

Nikita Khrushchev

48.

Who was the British prime minister that asserted the UK's military power?

a)

Margaret Thatcher

b)

Mikhail Gorbachev

c)

Indira Gandhi

d)

Elizabeth III