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WorksheetsWH Final Exam Review
Total questions: 105
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Estate
Which of the following made up the First Estate?
The Clergy
The Nobles/Aristocracy
The Common Folk
Nobles
What was the famous means of execution during the French Revolution?
Guillotine
Hanging
Burning at the Stake
Drowning
What is the term used for the height of the French Revolution, during rich Robespierre led?
The Reign of Terror
The Reign of Horror
The Time of Terror
The Golden Era
Who overthrew The Directory in a coup d'etat?
Robespierre
King Louis
Jean Valjean
Napoleon Bonaparte
This was a hated royal fortress and prison that was stormed by French peasants in 1789
Bastille
Bourgeoisie
Coup d'état
Arc de Triomphe
Economic system based on the use of machinery and technology.
Partnership
Corporation
Nationalism
Industrialism
The belief that Darwin’s ideas about competition between pieces applied to society too.
Communist Manifesto
Social Darwinism
Social Evolution
Socialism
The French people were divided into three classes known as…
Estates
Directories
Assemblies
Political groups
Woven clothes are also called…
Estates
Textiles
Telecoms
None of the above
The middle class of French society.
Nobility
Clergy
Bourgeoisie
Peasants
City where Napoleon was defeated.
Waterloo
Berlin
London
Paris
He was the leader of the Committee of Public Safety in France.
Robespierre
Napoleon
Louis XVI
Louis Pasteur
Designed a steam engine in 1769.
James Hargreaves
James Watt
Edmund Cartwright
Edmund Arkwright
A key figure in the development of socialism.
Adam Smith
Karl Marx
Louis Pasteur
Thomas Edison
Money invested in businesses is called…
Capital
Corporations
Partnerships
Textiles
The major centers of the Industrial Revolution that brought workers and machines together.
Factories
Textiles
Estates
Corporations
The Industrial Revolution started in
US
France
Germany
Britain
A feeling of intense loyalty to one's country.
Nationalism
Militarism
Conscription
Propaganda
A fascination with war and the military.
Nationalism
Mobilization
Militarism
Entente
Payments made for war damages.
Reparations
Rationing
Repayments
Mandates
A nation's direct or indirect control over the government or economy of other smaller or weaker nations.
Colony
Protectorate
Militarism
Imperialism
Assembly and movement of troops in order to prepare for action.
Militarism
Mobilization
Mandate
Conscription
A defense agreement to help another country if war breaks out.
Alliance
Association
Entente
Arrangement
Setttlement in a new territory that keeps close ties with its homeland.
Colony
Protectorate
Sphere of Influence
Duma
Used by European powers to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform.
Scientific Darwinism
Manifest Destiny
Social Imperialism
Social Darwinism
This was considered to be the spark that started WWI. It was not considered to be a long-term cause of WWI.
Assassination of a member of the British royal family
Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The Zimmermann telegraph
The sinking of the Lusatania
Indian soldiers hired by the British East india Company.
Brown Shirts
Communists
Boxers
Sepoys
What warfare strategy was most commonly used in WWI?
Guerrilla Warfare
Blitzkering
Standard Warfare
Trench Warfare
Enrollment into military service by force.
Militarism
Concordat
Conscription
Covenant
An understanding among nations that provides for a common course of action.
Entente
Armistice
Allies
Mandate
An area which an imperial or foreign power has exclusive rights and privileges.
Sphere of Influence
Protectorate
Colony
Entente
A war fought between the Dutch and British over South Africa.
Opium War
Dutch War
Boer War
Open Door War
What was the name of the war where Britain sent navy to force China to allow Britain to sell opium in China
Opium War
War of 1812
War of the worlds
English war
A cease-fire.
Armistice
Mandate
Reparation
None of the above
What surrounded many of the trenches for protection?
Tall walls built out of timber
Barbed wire
Chain linked fences
Large ditches
Germany, Japan, and Italy were known as the _______________
Axis Powers
Allied Powers
Central Powers
Nazi Powers
The United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union were known as the ____________
The United Nations
Axis Powers
Central Powers
Allies
The idea that if you meet another countries demands, war can be avoided.
Inflation
Appeasement
Collectivization
Reparations
Concentration camp located in Poland.
Lichtenburg
Dachau
Versailles
Auschwitz
Deliberate killing of a racial, political, or cultural group.
Assassination
Genocide
Coup
Collateral Damage
This naval base was bombed by Japan on December 7, 1941.
Coronado Harbor
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Harbor
San Diego Naval Base
___________ supported the policy of appeasement.
Churchill
Roosevelt
Chamberlain
Wilson
A government program set up by FDR to help boost the American economy during the Great Depression.
Fair Deal
Great Society
New Frontier
New Deal
During the early years of WWII the U.S. ________________.
Stayed neutral
Fought with the Axis Powers
Fought with the Allied Powers
Declared war on Mexico
Hitler blamed the __________ for many of Germany's problems.
French
Jews
United States
Communists
Germany’s attempt to annihilate the Jews of Europe was known as the
Gestapo
Holocaust
Kristallnacht
D-Day
The major cause of the Great Depression was _________________.
WWI
U.S. stock market crash
U.S. tariffs were too high
Capitalism
Why was appeasement not a good way to deal with Hitler?
Hitler would be satisfied once he had what he wanted.
Hitler only wanted to take back the Rhineland.
Hitler would never be satisfied no matter how much land/power he had acquired.
How did the U.S. respond after Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941?
Allowed Japan to take control of the Pacific.
Declared war on Japan a day later.
Stayed neutral.
Invaded mainland Japan a year later.
What was the treaty that ended WWI that laid some of the unrest that would later explode into WWII?
Geneva Conference
Paris Peace Accords
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Versailles
The Nazi program of exterminating Jews during the Third Reich
Blitzkrieg
Final Solution
Lebensraum
Genocide
Deliberate killing of a racial, political, or cultural group.
Assassination
Genocide
Coup
Collateral Damage
What is D-Day?
June 6, 1944; day in WWII when allied forces invaded Normandy, France.
December 7, 1941; day when Pearl Harbor was attacked.
The day the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan.
The day Germany surrendered.
Which event finally brought an end to WWII?
D-Day
The victory at Midway
Hitler's suicide
Dropping of the atomic bombs
Truman decided to use atomic bombs because...
The Axis Power deserved total destruction.
He wanted to make Japan pay for attacking Pearl Harbor.
The early ending of the war would save many American lives.
He wanted to show the rest of the world the new weapon the U.S. had.
Which battle was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?
Battle of Singapore
Battle of Midway
Battle of Guadalcanal
Battle of the Coral Sea
The major cause of the Great Depression was _________________.
WWI
U.S. stock market crash
U.S. tariffs were too high
Capitalism
Why was appeasement not a good way to deal with Hitler?
Hitler would be satisfied once he had what he wanted.
Hitler only wanted to take back the Rhineland.
Hitler would never be satisfied no matter how much land/power he had acquired.
This plan pumped 13 billion worth of supplies into Western Europe.
Johnson Plan
Churchill Plan
Truman Plan
Marshall Plan
Between what years did the Cold War take place?
1945-1990
1955-1993
1945-1984
1947-1989
The U.S. policy that meant “a relaxing of tensions” was called what?
Glasnost
Perestroika
Detente
Solidarity
This organization was formed in order to help stop the spread of communism.
NATO
Warsaw Pact
HUAC
EEC
Who were the two countries involved in the space race?
The U.S. and Russia
The U.S. and the Soviet Union
Russia and Britain
Germany and the Soviet Union
The Geneva Accords separated Vietnam at this parallel.
19th parallel
38th parallel
17th parallel
33rd parallel
This city was divided by a wall during the Cold War.
Bremen
Berlin
Hamburg
Munich
He was the communist leader of Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Chiang Kai-Shek
Ngo Dinh Diem
Mao Zedong
Ho Chi Minh
This policy gave Soviet citizens more freedom of speech. This word also means “openness”
Detente
Perestroika
SALT
Glasnost
The Cold war is...
A series of bloody battles between the United States and the Soviet Union.
A period of tension between the United States and Soviet Union with no actual fighting.
A series of bloody battles between Germany and the Soviet Union.
A period of tension between Germany and the United States.
The incident in which the U.S.S.R. positioned nuclear missiles on an island very close to the U.S. is called the…
Nuclear Missile Crisis
Key West Crisis
The Cold War Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Iron Curtain is the…
Figure of speech which signifies the division between democracy and communism in Europe.
Dividing line between North and South Korea
Dividing line between North and South Vietnam
New terminology of the European Union
What role did nuclear weapons play during the Cold War?
Nuclear weapons were not important during the Cold War.
Nuclear weapons were used to end the Cold War.
The build-up of nuclear weapons by the U.S. and U.S.S.R. was a key point of the Cold War.
The U.S. was upset that it did not have nuclear weapons, while the U.S.S.R. did.
After World War II, Germany was divided between…
France, Britain, Soviet Union
U.S., France, Soviet Union, Britain
Germany and Italy
Germany, Italy, and Japan
The idea of holding back the spread of communism.
Containment
Marshall Plan
Geneva Accords
Domino Theory
A treaty that promised aid to anyone threatened by communism
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Berlin Pact
Allies
This was the focus of the United States after WWII
Becoming a neutral country again
Economic faliure
Building a new empire
Economic growth
A relaxation of tensions
Apartheid
Glasnost
Perestroika
Detente
A word meaning “rebuilding” aimed at boosting the Soviet economy.
Detente
Glasnost
Perestroika
This plan pumped 13 billion worth of supplies into Western Europe.
Johnson Plan
Churchill Plan
Truman Plan
Marshall Plan
Communism first spread to these two Asian countries in the late 1940s.
Japan and China
Korea and Japan
China and Korea
China and Taiwan
Between what years did the Cold War take place?
1945-1990
1955-1993
1945-1984
1947-1989
The U.S. policy that meant “a relaxing of tensions” was called what?
Glasnost
Perestroika
Detente
Solidarity
This organization was formed in order to help stop the spread of communism.
NATO
Warsaw Pact
HUAC
EEC
Who were the two countries involved in the space race?
The U.S. and Russia
The U.S. and the Soviet Union
Russia and Britain
Germany and the Soviet Union
This city was divided by a wall during the Cold War.
Bremen
Berlin
Hamburg
Munich
He was the communist leader of Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Chiang Kai-Shek
Ngo Dinh Diem
Mao Zedong
Ho Chi Minh
This policy gave Soviet citizens more freedom of speech. This word also means “openness”
Detente
Perestroika
SALT
Glasnost
The Cold war is...
A series of bloody battles between the United States and the Soviet Union.
A period of tension between the United States and Soviet Union with no actual fighting.
A series of bloody battles between Germany and the Soviet Union.
A period of tension between Germany and the United States.
The incident in which the U.S.S.R. positioned nuclear missiles on an island very close to the U.S. is called the…
Nuclear Missile Crisis
Key West Crisis
The Cold War Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Iron Curtain is the…
Figure of speech which signifies the division between democracy and communism in Europe.
Dividing line between North and South Korea
Dividing line between North and South Vietnam
New terminology of the European Union
After World War II, Germany was divided between…
France, Britain, Soviet Union
U.S., France, Soviet Union, Britain
Germany and Italy
Germany, Italy, and Japan
The German capital that was split into 4 zones after WWII.
Hamburg
Berlin
Frankfurt
Hamburg
The idea of holding back the spread of communism.
Containment
Marshall Plan
Geneva Accords
Domino Theory
A treaty that promised aid to anyone threatened by communism
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Berlin Pact
Allies
This individual came up with the idea of containment.
George Marshall
George Kennan
George Patton
Harry Truman
This agreement put limits on the nuclear weapons of both superpowers.
SALT
NATO
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
This conference resulted in Germany being split into 4 zones
Paris
Berlin
Yalta
Potsdam
