HIST

The costly palace built by Louis XIV, that became the envy of all European monarchs, was_________.

The "sleeping giant" of Eastern Europe in the first half of the seventeenth century was__________.

The Parliamentarians were successful in the English Civil War because of _______________________’s New Model Army.

During the period of the English Commonwealth, Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector relied upon the ___________________ to maintain his rule.

The "Glorious Revolution" in 1688 in England was significant for bloodlessly bringing _____________________________ to the throne.

Absolutism means___________________.

The witch hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were often directed at ___________________.

French playwright Moliere is noted for ____________________.

The first European to make systematic observations of the heavens by telescope was ___________________.

The overall effect of the Scientific Revolution on the argument about women was to generate facts about differences between men and women that were used to prove __________________ dominance.

The philosophy of René Descartes stressed a separation of mind and _____________________.

The greatest achievements in science during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries came in what three areas?

Copernicus was a native of _______________________.

The recognized capital of the Enlightenment was ________________.

The German philosopher Immanuel Kant proclaimed the motto of the Enlightenment to be ________________________________________.

Of great importance to the Enlightenment were the salons, which provided a forum for discussing the ideas of the __________________________________.

Who wrote the Encyclopedia?

The Carnival of the Mediterranean world was a period of great _________________.

A cheap and popular alcoholic drink in eighteenth century England was?

Enlightenment political thought advanced the concept of human natural rights included: equality before the _______________; the right to ______________________; the freedom of ____________________ worship; the freedom of __________________ and _____________________and the right to hold________________ and the right to seek _______________________.

What countries participated in the partition of Poland?

European diplomacy during the eighteenth century was predicated on the idea that in a balance of power

The War of the Austrian Succession was fought between _____________________________ and _______________________ with _____________________ gaining ______________________.

Of the great European powers in the eighteenth century, the only one not to possess a standing army and to rely on mercenaries was ____________________________.

The domestic system of industrial production in Flanders and England became known as the ______________ system.

European society in the eighteenth century witnessed the continued dominance of the ______________________ family.

A key financial innovation of the eighteenth century was the circulation of paper __________________ compensating for a lack of coinage.

Eighteenth-century European cities were _________________ and lacked proper _______________________.

By the eighteenth century, ______________ was the largest European city in terms of population.

When the American Revolution began, the colonials were deeply divided among themselves about revolting against ________________________.

The Estates-General consisted of representatives of the three orders: the Second Estate (nobles), the Third Estate (people), and the First Estate, representing the _____________________.

The French revolutionary slogan neatly evoking the ideals of the rebellion was?

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen owed much to the ideas of the _______________________ Declaration of Independence.

The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, written by ___________________________________________ was totally ignored by ____________

The Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror was headed by _________________________________________.

The Constitution of the United States of 1789 created a ______________ branch system of government that allows the branches to check and balance one another.

The most immediate cause of the French Revolution was the government’s inability to deal with __________ and other economic problems.

During the Reign of Terror, the majority of the victims were ________________________.

The Industrial Revolution had its beginnings in ____________________.

The infrastructure advantages in Britain promoting rapid industrialization included canals, roads, bridges, and ____________________________.

The first step toward the Industrial Revolution in Britain occurred in the ________________ industry.

Britain's cotton industry in the late eighteenth century was responsible for the creation of modern _________________________________.

A frequent method employed to make the many very young boys and girls working in new British industries obey the owner's factory discipline was repeated _________________________.

Napoleon's domestic policies included the ___________ Code and a uniformed legal system.

The Concordat reestablished the ________________________ but limited the Pope’s authority.

Napoleon's Continental System tried to defeat the British by preventing British _____________.

Napoleon met his final defeat at the Battle of ____________________.

The Industrial Revolution in the United States required thousands of miles of ______________________ and _______________________ be constructed.

Compared to Britain, American industrialization was a capital-intensive endeavor because there were more _______________________ workers/laborers in America.

Primary reasons for the use of children as a source of labor in the Industrial Revolution was low-paid ____________________ could easily move around large industrial equipment.

The so-called American System was the use of _____________________________ parts.

The European population explosion of the nineteenth century was primarily because of the disappearance of ______________________ from western Europe.

The only European country with a declining population in the nineteenth century was ______________.

Efforts at industrial reform in the 1830's and 1840's in Great Britain included a reduction of working hours for children to no more than 12 hours a day, outlawed  ____________________ and __________________ in coal mines, required  daily education for working children, and appointment of government factory inspectors.

The Congress of ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­_____________ created policies that would maintain the European balance of power.

Giuseppe Mazzini's nationalist organization, _____________________________, failed to achieve his goal of "resurgence" by 1849.

Mass white male democracy in the United States was achieved during the presidency of ____________________________________________.

The American romantic author of The Fall of the House of Usher was_______________________________________________________.

The major themes/subjects of Romantic artists were ______________________________ and depictions of nature.

Romanticism in art and music was well characterized by _____________________________, whose compositions bridged the gap between Classicism and Romanticism.

In architectural styles, the Romantics were particularly attracted to the ___________________.

Regular police forces and prison reform were geared toward the creation of more disciplined and law-

In establishing the Second Empire, _____________________ received the overwhelming electoral support of the people.

Among ___________________ great domestic projects was a reconstruction of Paris with broad boulevards, public squares, and municipal utilities.

Napoleon's most disastrous foreign policy adventure occurred in  __________________.

The immediate origins of the Crimean War involved Russia's right to protect ____________________ shrines in Palestine.

The leader of the Red Shirts who helped to unify Italy through his military command was ______________________________________.

The final act of Italian unification occurred in 1870 when _______________________ became the capital city following the withdrawal of French troops.

As chancellor of Prussia, Otto von ________________________ largely bypassed parliament in pursuing his political goals of military modernization.

The reforms of Tsar Alexander II centered around the abolition of __________________.

The Russian ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­______________________were local assemblies with limited self-governing powers.

By 1860, there were approximately ____ million slaves in the United States.

The ________________________________________________ of Marx and Engels based all historical development on class struggle.

According to Karl Marx, the final result of the struggle between bourgeoisie and proletariat would be a ______________________________ society.

Charles _________________________________ theory emphasized the idea of the "survival of the fit" in which advantageous natural variants and environmental adaptations in organisms determine their survival.

The germ theory of disease was primarily the work of _________________________.

Elizabeth Blackwell became the first formally educated female doctor in _______________.

What type of new energy source powered the second industrial revolution?

Industrialization in _________________________________ was the result of government planning and initiative.

When not able to find work in the factories, many working class European _____________________ took jobs as clerks, shop assistants, and nurses.

A rise in female ------ in European cities during the later nineteenth century can best be attributed to heavy migration to cities by country women and their increasingly desperate struggle for urban economic survival.

Initially, trade _________________________ in the first half of the nineteenth century functioned primarily as mutual aid societies.

The chief cause of rising European populations between 1850 and 1880 was a declining ____________________ rate.

Octavia _______________________’s housing venture was designed to give the poor an environment they could use to improve themselves.

All of the following were used to limit family size in the late nineteenth century:

_____________________ in European working-class families were fully expected to work until marriage.

By 1900, most European educational systems were free and compulsory at least at the ---- level.

Although several motives drove European states to develop systems of mass public ---- for their citizens, the chief reason for which they did this was political, to produce more informed voters in expanding electorates and to heighten patriotism.

A new development in the age of mass leisure was _____________________________.

Who was responsible for the theory of relativity? __________________________

According to Sigmund ________________________, behavior was determined by one's unconscious and by inner drives of which people were generally unaware.

The first professional occupation to be opened up to women was __________________.

Who said, "All this colonial business is a sham, but we need it for the elections." ______________________________________

The "open door" policy was to allow more freedom of trade in so-called spheres of influence in _____________________________.

The Meiji Restoration in __________________________ created a political system democratic in form but rigidly authoritarian in practice and sent many Japanese abroad to be educated in the ways of the west and adopted many western reforms in political and military organization.

The Triple Alliance before 1914 included which countries?

European states felt they had to uphold the power of their allies for their own internal security which helped lead to the outbreak of _________________________________.

Before the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the general outlook for the future by most ________________________was highly optimistic with material progress expected to create an earthly utopia.

The immediate cause of World War I was the assassination of ________________________________ in Sarajevo.

Among nineteenth-century European political movements, the one most responsible for triggering World War I was _______________________________.

Most Europeans believed that the _______________________ would be an exciting, emotional release from the otherwise dull and boring existence of mass society.

The development of ________________ warfare in France was characterized by long periods of boredom broken by artillery barrages and frontal assaults by enemy troops.

As fought in the World War I, ______________________  warfare became a senseless slaughter of troops on all sides with hundreds of thousands of men dying for battlefield gains of a few miles and became increasingly unreal as baffled and incompetent officers persistently ordered their men to accomplish battlefield objectives that were impossible.

As soldiers on both sides realized that no one could gain an advantage in trench warfare daily life for the soldier became increasingly squalid and miserable in rat-infested _________________.

The _________________  would play a larger role in World War II than in World War I.

The entry of the ______________________ into World War I in April 1917 gave the nearly-defeated allies a psychological boost.

The chief reason for the United States' entry into World War I was__________________ violations of the principles of neutrality and freedom of the seas.

The women workers of World War I played an important role in gaining women the right to _________________________ immediately following the war.

V.I. Lenin, as a leader of the Bolsheviks, promised "peace, land, and _____________."

The ethnic group that suffered a million dead as victims of genocide during World War I were the _______________________________.

For Woodrow Wilson, the most important thing after the war was to assure acceptance of his ___________________________________.

The Treaty of ______________________ forced Germany to acknowledge "war guilt" and to pay reparations for its alleged wartime aggression.

The feature of the Versailles Treaty that most Germans found very hard to accept was Article 231, the "_______________________" which imposed heavy war reparations on Germany.

In the aftermath of World War I, the ______________ retreated into isolationism.

A major cause of the Great Depression in Europe was the recall o____________ loans from European markets.

One significant effect of the Great Depression in Europe was the rise of ________________ movements in many areas of Europe.

Franklin Roosevelt's New _________ policies in the United States brought about a partial economic recovery, but full employment did not return until World War II's rearmament in the economy.

The Middle Eastern Muslim nation that made a conscious effort to adopt a Westernized secular culture after World War I was____________.

Other than Great Britain, in 1939 the only other major democratic state in Europe was _______________.

The first Fascist state in Europe was _______.

The growth of Mussolini's ________ movement was aided by popular, nationalistic resentment toward Italy's treatment following World War I.

The city in which Hitler spent his formative years and developed his fundamental ideas was _____________________________.

The Nazi policies toward _______________ claimed that through childbearing and service in the home women would bring about the triumph of the Aryan race

The only eastern European nation to maintain political democracy throughout the 1930s was ____________________________.

Among the positive achievements of the Stalinist era in the Soviet Union was more _______________________ opportunities.

The most famous of the Surrealistic painters was __________________________.

Hitler's first act of aggression took place in 1936 when the Germans occupied what area? ___________________________________

Hitler took Poland in 1939 using Blitzkrieg or "_________________________" tactics and with active support from Joseph Stalin.

Immediately following the fall of____________, France and Britain declared war, but remained relatively inactive militarily.

The British politician who was told by a member of his own party that "You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!" was ________.

Hitler's plan for defeating Britain relied on Germany's Luftwaffe gaining control of the ________________________.

Serious conflict in Asia contributing to the outbreak of World War Two in the Pacific began with Japan's 1937 violent incident with______.

The ancient "way of the warrior" that was revived during the 1930s was ____________.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the main priority for the United States was defeating Germany first and then turning its great naval war machine against ____________________.

The naval battle in the Pacific that is considered the turning point of the war and established U.S. Naval supremacy in the area was _________________________.

In the Pacific theater by 1942, the American technique in combating Japan was known as “________________________________.”

Hitler's "Final Solution" to the Jewish problem called for the extermination of all European _____________________.

Besides the Jews, another group singled out by the Nazis for extermination were the_______.

The only country to use women as combatants in World War II was_____________________.

The ___________________ Project was to develop the atomic bomb.

Atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of ___________ and _____________.

The official reason for dropping atomic bombs on Japan was to save the hundreds of thousands of ________  lives it was calculated that a U.S.-led invasion of Japan would cost.

The nation that experienced the greatest losses in World War II was the ____________.

The ______________________ Plan intended to rebuild European prosperity and stability.

A critical event causing the development of the Cold War outside of Europe was the victory in 1949 of Communist forces in the ________ Civil war.

The Communist military response to the formation of NATO was the _________________ Pact.

The policy created in 1947 and used by the Americans against Communism was called.

The event that immediately preceded and sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis was the ____________________.

The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 concluded with improved communications between the U.S. and the ________ to prevent nuclear war.

The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 concluded with improved communications between the U.S. and the ________ to prevent nuclear war.

________________________ from World War II through the 1970s was characterized by the leadership of Tito, who asserted Yugoslavia's independence from the Soviet Union.

The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s included all of the following:

All of the following statements regarding women in the post-war era are correct:

American motion pictures in the ----- years have been the primary vehicle for the diffusion of American popular culture throughout the world.

The following statements are correct about popular music during the 1950s and 1960s:

The "permissive society" is characterized by all of the following:

The recreational drug of choice among college and university students in the 1960s was __________________________.

The author of The Feminine Mystique and who was a founder of the National Organization of Women was ________________________.

A shocking event of the antiwar protests was the 1970 killing of four student protesters at _______________________________.

A major cause of the 1973 economic recession in Europe was a significant increase in the price of _________________.

During the Vietnam War, the South Vietnamese Communist guerillas backed by North Vietnam were known as the ____________________.

The issue that led to Jimmy Carter's defeat in 1980 was his inability to gain the release of American hostages held in ______________.

The American president who made the decision to bomb North Vietnam and who significantly increased the number of American troops in the Second Vietnam War was _____________.

The American president who journeyed to the People's Republic of China in 1972 was _________________________________.

Under the U.S. presidency of Jimmy ____________________________, a major goal of American foreign policy was the protection of human rights globally.

The American President who referred to the Soviet Union as the "evil empire" and who was a supporter of the SDI was _______________.

The American president who helped maintain a Vietman-like war in Afghanistan by aiding anti-Soviet insurgents was __________________.

World-wide, the most popular of "mass sports" is soccer’s ___________________________.

The terrorist group who murdered Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games was the _________________________________.

In 1988, the first free parliamentary elections to occur in Eastern Europe for forty years took place in _____________________________.

Probably the most symbolic events ending the Cold War was the fall of the ______________.

The Yugoslavian president ousted from power in 2000 and who was subsequently put on trial for war crimes against humanity was _____.

The individual who succeeded Tony Blair as Britain's prime minister in 2007 was _______.

The British prime minister who gave support to the United States in the war on terror and in the Iraq War was ______________________.

The common currency that was initially adopted by eleven member states of the European Union is the _______________.

George H.W. Bush was defeated for reelection in 1992 for all of the following:

All of the following are correct about the Bill Clinton presidency:

All of the following led to decline in George W. Bush's popularity by his second term as president:

The first opportunity for testing the new relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union in the post-Cold War era was the _____________________________.

The politician who called terrorism "the enemy of our generation" was ________________.

An example of state-sponsored terrorism was the bombing of Pan American flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in ----.

In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the United States initially waged war in ____________________.

All are correct about the war in Iraq that began in 2003:

Pope Paul II was, advocated or practiced all of the following:

A serious criticism of the _________revolution is it has displaced cultural uniqueness and bodily presence.

All of the following are social challenges to globalization: