HIST

  1. The costly palace built by Louis XIV, that became the envy of all European monarchs, was_________.
    Versailles
  2. The "sleeping giant" of Eastern Europe in the first half of the seventeenth century was__________.
    The Ottoman Empire
  3. The Parliamentarians were successful in the English Civil War because of _______________________’s New Model Army.
    Oliver Cromwell
  4. During the period of the English Commonwealth, Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector relied upon the ___________________ to maintain his rule.
    Military
  5. The "Glorious Revolution" in 1688 in England was significant for bloodlessly bringing _____________________________ to the throne.
    William of Orange and Mary
  6. Absolutism means___________________.
  7. The witch hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were often directed at ___________________.
    Women
  8. French playwright Moliere is noted for ____________________.
    Tartuffe
  9. The first European to make systematic observations of the heavens by telescope was ___________________.
    Galileo
  10. 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.
    male
  11. The philosophy of René Descartes stressed a separation of mind and _____________________.
    body
  12. The greatest achievements in science during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries came in what three areas?
    • astronomy
    • mechanics
    • medicine
  13. Copernicus was a native of _______________________.
    Poland
  14. The recognized capital of the Enlightenment was ________________.
    Paris
  15. The German philosopher Immanuel Kant proclaimed the motto of the Enlightenment to be ________________________________________.
    Dare to Know
  16. Of great importance to the Enlightenment were the salons, which provided a forum for discussing the ideas of the __________________________________.
    Enlightenment
  17. Who wrote the Encyclopedia?
    Diderot
  18. The Carnival of the Mediterranean world was a period of great _________________.
    indulgence
  19. A cheap and popular alcoholic drink in eighteenth century England was?
    Gin
  20. 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 _______________________.
    • equality before the law
    • the right to assemble
    • the freedom of religious worship
    • the freedom of speech and press
    • the right to hold property
    • the right to seek happiness
  21. What countries participated in the partition of Poland?
    • Austria
    • Prussia
    • Russia
  22. European diplomacy during the eighteenth century was predicated on the idea that in a balance of power
    one state should not have more power than another state.
  23. The War of the Austrian Succession was fought between _____________________________ and _______________________ with _____________________ gaining ______________________.
    Austria and Prussia with Prussia gaining Silesia
  24. Of the great European powers in the eighteenth century, the only one not to possess a standing army and to rely on mercenaries was ____________________________.
    Britain
  25. The domestic system of industrial production in Flanders and England became known as the ______________ system.
    cottage
  26. European society in the eighteenth century witnessed the continued dominance of the ______________________ family.
    nuclear
  27. A key financial innovation of the eighteenth century was the circulation of paper __________________ compensating for a lack of coinage.
    banknotes
  28. Eighteenth-century European cities were _________________ and lacked proper _______________________.
    • overpopulated
    • sanitation
  29. By the eighteenth century, ______________ was the largest European city in terms of population.
    London
  30. When the American Revolution began, the colonials were deeply divided among themselves about revolting against ________________________.
    Britain
  31. The Estates-General consisted of representatives of the three orders: the Second Estate (nobles), the Third Estate (people), and the First Estate, representing the _____________________.
    Clergy
  32. The French revolutionary slogan neatly evoking the ideals of the rebellion was?
    • Liberty
    • Equality
    • Fraternity
  33. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen owed much to the ideas of the _______________________ Declaration of Independence.
    American
  34. The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, written by ___________________________________________ was totally ignored by ____________
    • Olympe de Gouge
    • men
  35. The Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror was headed by _________________________________________.
    Maximilien robespierre
  36. The Constitution of the United States of 1789 created a ______________ branch system of government that allows the branches to check and balance one another.
    3
  37. The most immediate cause of the French Revolution was the government’s inability to deal with __________ and other economic problems.
    debt
  38. During the Reign of Terror, the majority of the victims were ________________________.
    bourgeoisie
  39. The Industrial Revolution had its beginnings in ____________________.
    Great Britain
  40. The infrastructure advantages in Britain promoting rapid industrialization included canals, roads, bridges, and ____________________________.
    railroads
  41. The first step toward the Industrial Revolution in Britain occurred in the ________________ industry.
    cotton textile
  42. Britain's cotton industry in the late eighteenth century was responsible for the creation of modern _________________________________.
    factories
  43. 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 _________________________.
    beatings
  44. Napoleon's domestic policies included the ___________ Code and a uniformed legal system.
    Civil
  45. The Concordat reestablished the ________________________ but limited the Pope’s authority.
    Catholic Church
  46. Napoleon's Continental System tried to defeat the British by preventing British _____________.
    trade
  47. Napoleon met his final defeat at the Battle of ____________________.
    Waterloo
  48. The Industrial Revolution in the United States required thousands of miles of ______________________ and _______________________ be constructed.
    roads and canals
  49. Compared to Britain, American industrialization was a capital-intensive endeavor because there were more _______________________ workers/laborers in America.
    unskilled
  50. 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.
    children
  51. The so-called American System was the use of _____________________________ parts.
    interchangeable
  52. The European population explosion of the nineteenth century was primarily because of the disappearance of ______________________ from western Europe.
    famine
  53. The only European country with a declining population in the nineteenth century was ______________.
    Ireland
  54. 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.
    women and children
  55. The Congress of ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­_____________ created policies that would maintain the European balance of power.
    Vienna
  56. Giuseppe Mazzini's nationalist organization, _____________________________, failed to achieve his goal of "resurgence" by 1849.
    Young Italy
  57. Mass white male democracy in the United States was achieved during the presidency of ____________________________________________.
    Andrew Jackson
  58. The American romantic author of The Fall of the House of Usher was_______________________________________________________.
    Edgar Allan Poe
  59. The major themes/subjects of Romantic artists were ______________________________ and depictions of nature.
    landscapes
  60. Romanticism in art and music was well characterized by _____________________________, whose compositions bridged the gap between Classicism and Romanticism.
    Beethoven
  61. In architectural styles, the Romantics were particularly attracted to the ___________________.
    Gothic
  62. Regular police forces and prison reform were geared toward the creation of more disciplined and law-
    abiding societies.
  63. In establishing the Second Empire, _____________________ received the overwhelming electoral support of the people.
    Napoleon III
  64. Among ___________________ great domestic projects was a reconstruction of Paris with broad boulevards, public squares, and municipal utilities.
    Napoleon III's
  65. Napoleon's most disastrous foreign policy adventure occurred in  __________________.
    Mexico
  66. The immediate origins of the Crimean War involved Russia's right to protect ____________________ shrines in Palestine.
    Christian
  67. The leader of the Red Shirts who helped to unify Italy through his military command was ______________________________________.
    Giuseppe Garibaldi
  68. The final act of Italian unification occurred in 1870 when _______________________ became the capital city following the withdrawal of French troops.
    Rome
  69. As chancellor of Prussia, Otto von ________________________ largely bypassed parliament in pursuing his political goals of military modernization.
    Bismark
  70. The reforms of Tsar Alexander II centered around the abolition of __________________.
    serfdom
  71. The Russian ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­______________________were local assemblies with limited self-governing powers.
    zemstvos
  72. By 1860, there were approximately ____ million slaves in the United States.
    4
  73. The ________________________________________________ of Marx and Engels based all historical development on class struggle.
    Communist Manifesto
  74. According to Karl Marx, the final result of the struggle between bourgeoisie and proletariat would be a ______________________________ society.
    classless
  75. Charles _________________________________ theory emphasized the idea of the "survival of the fit" in which advantageous natural variants and environmental adaptations in organisms determine their survival.
    Darwin
  76. The germ theory of disease was primarily the work of _________________________.
    Louis Pasteur
  77. Elizabeth Blackwell became the first formally educated female doctor in _______________.
    America
  78. What type of new energy source powered the second industrial revolution?
    electricity
  79. Industrialization in _________________________________ was the result of government planning and initiative.
    Japan
  80. When not able to find work in the factories, many working class European _____________________ took jobs as clerks, shop assistants, and nurses.
    women
  81. 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.
    prostitution
  82. Initially, trade _________________________ in the first half of the nineteenth century functioned primarily as mutual aid societies.
    unions
  83. The chief cause of rising European populations between 1850 and 1880 was a declining ____________________ rate.
    mortality
  84. Octavia _______________________’s housing venture was designed to give the poor an environment they could use to improve themselves.
    Hill
  85. All of the following were used to limit family size in the late nineteenth century:
    • coitus interruptus
    • abortion
    • abandonment
    • infanticide
  86. _____________________ in European working-class families were fully expected to work until marriage.
    Daughters
  87. By 1900, most European educational systems were free and compulsory at least at the ---- level.
    primary
  88. 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.
    education
  89. A new development in the age of mass leisure was _____________________________.
    professional sports
  90. Who was responsible for the theory of relativity? __________________________
    Einstein
  91. According to Sigmund ________________________, behavior was determined by one's unconscious and by inner drives of which people were generally unaware.
    Freud
  92. The first professional occupation to be opened up to women was __________________.
    teaching
  93. Who said, "All this colonial business is a sham, but we need it for the elections." ______________________________________
    Otto von Bismark
  94. The "open door" policy was to allow more freedom of trade in so-called spheres of influence in _____________________________.
    China
  95. 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.
    Japan
  96. The Triple Alliance before 1914 included which countries?
    • Germany
    • Austria
    • Italy
  97. European states felt they had to uphold the power of their allies for their own internal security which helped lead to the outbreak of _________________________________.
    the Great War
  98. 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.
    Europeans
  99. The immediate cause of World War I was the assassination of ________________________________ in Sarajevo.
    Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand
  100. Among nineteenth-century European political movements, the one most responsible for triggering World War I was _______________________________.
    nationalism
  101. Most Europeans believed that the _______________________ would be an exciting, emotional release from the otherwise dull and boring existence of mass society.
    Great War
  102. The development of ________________ warfare in France was characterized by long periods of boredom broken by artillery barrages and frontal assaults by enemy troops.
    trench
  103. 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.
    trench
  104. 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 _________________.
    trenches
  105. The _________________  would play a larger role in World War II than in World War I.
    tank
  106. The entry of the ______________________ into World War I in April 1917 gave the nearly-defeated allies a psychological boost.
    United States
  107. The chief reason for the United States' entry into World War I was__________________ violations of the principles of neutrality and freedom of the seas.
    German
  108. The women workers of World War I played an important role in gaining women the right to _________________________ immediately following the war.
    vote
  109. V.I. Lenin, as a leader of the Bolsheviks, promised "peace, land, and _____________."
    bread
  110. The ethnic group that suffered a million dead as victims of genocide during World War I were the _______________________________.
    Armenians
  111. For Woodrow Wilson, the most important thing after the war was to assure acceptance of his ___________________________________.
    Fourteen Points
  112. The Treaty of ______________________ forced Germany to acknowledge "war guilt" and to pay reparations for its alleged wartime aggression.
    Versailles
  113. 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.
    War Guilt Clause
  114. In the aftermath of World War I, the ______________ retreated into isolationism.
    United States
  115. A major cause of the Great Depression in Europe was the recall o____________ loans from European markets.
    American
  116. One significant effect of the Great Depression in Europe was the rise of ________________ movements in many areas of Europe.
    authoritarian
  117. 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.
    Deal
  118. The Middle Eastern Muslim nation that made a conscious effort to adopt a Westernized secular culture after World War I was____________.
    Turkey
  119. Other than Great Britain, in 1939 the only other major democratic state in Europe was _______________.
    France
  120. The first Fascist state in Europe was _______.
    Italy
  121. The growth of Mussolini's ________ movement was aided by popular, nationalistic resentment toward Italy's treatment following World War I.
    Fascist
  122. The city in which Hitler spent his formative years and developed his fundamental ideas was _____________________________.
    Vienna
  123. The Nazi policies toward _______________ claimed that through childbearing and service in the home women would bring about the triumph of the Aryan race
    women
  124. The only eastern European nation to maintain political democracy throughout the 1930s was ____________________________.
    Czechoslovakia
  125. Among the positive achievements of the Stalinist era in the Soviet Union was more _______________________ opportunities.
    educational
  126. The most famous of the Surrealistic painters was __________________________.
    Salvador Dali
  127. Hitler's first act of aggression took place in 1936 when the Germans occupied what area? ___________________________________
    Rhineland
  128. Hitler took Poland in 1939 using Blitzkrieg or "_________________________" tactics and with active support from Joseph Stalin.
    lightening war
  129. Immediately following the fall of____________, France and Britain declared war, but remained relatively inactive militarily.
    Poland
  130. 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 ________.
    Neville Chamberlain
  131. Hitler's plan for defeating Britain relied on Germany's Luftwaffe gaining control of the ________________________.
    skies
  132. Serious conflict in Asia contributing to the outbreak of World War Two in the Pacific began with Japan's 1937 violent incident with______.
    China
  133. The ancient "way of the warrior" that was revived during the 1930s was ____________.
    bushido
  134. 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 ____________________.
    Japan
  135. 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 _________________________.
    Midway
  136. In the Pacific theater by 1942, the American technique in combating Japan was known as “________________________________.”
    island hopping
  137. Hitler's "Final Solution" to the Jewish problem called for the extermination of all European _____________________.
    Jews
  138. Besides the Jews, another group singled out by the Nazis for extermination were the_______.
    Gypsies
  139. The only country to use women as combatants in World War II was_____________________.
    the Soviet Union
  140. The ___________________ Project was to develop the atomic bomb.
    Manhattan
  141. Atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of ___________ and _____________.
    • Hiroshima
    • Nagasaki
  142. 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.
    American
  143. The nation that experienced the greatest losses in World War II was the ____________.
    Soviet Union
  144. The ______________________ Plan intended to rebuild European prosperity and stability.
    Marshall
  145. 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.
    Chinese
  146. The Communist military response to the formation of NATO was the _________________ Pact.
    Warsaw
  147. The policy created in 1947 and used by the Americans against Communism was called.
    containment
  148. The event that immediately preceded and sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis was the ____________________.
    Bay of Pigs
  149. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 concluded with improved communications between the U.S. and the ________ to prevent nuclear war.
    Soviet Union
  150. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 concluded with improved communications between the U.S. and the ________ to prevent nuclear war.
    Soviet Union
  151. ________________________ from World War II through the 1970s was characterized by the leadership of Tito, who asserted Yugoslavia's independence from the Soviet Union.
    Yugoslavia
  152. The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s included all of the following:
    • race riots in the Los Angeles district of Watts
    • the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
    • saw the Supreme Court approve the concept of "separate but equal" in public schools
    • the civil rights leadership of Martin Luther King.
  153. All of the following statements regarding women in the post-war era are correct:
    • many more married women joined the work force than before
    • working-class women continued to receive less pay than men
    • the post-war "baby boom" declined in the 1960s, in part due to "the pill
    • "much of the theoretical foundation for the women's liberation movement was found in the work of Simone de Beauvoir.
  154. American motion pictures in the ----- years have been the primary vehicle for the diffusion of American popular culture throughout the world.
    post-war
  155. The following statements are correct about popular music during the 1950s and 1960s:
    • American musicians such as Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley inspired many British musicians
    • There was an "invasion" of British musical groups into the United States in the 1960s
    • American popular music spread beyond the boundaries of just western civilization
    • White American singers such as Elvis Presley were influenced by African-American rhythm and blues.
  156. The "permissive society" is characterized by all of the following:
    • sexual freedom
    • experimentation with drugs
    • decriminalization of homosexuality
    • increasing rates of divorce
  157. The recreational drug of choice among college and university students in the 1960s was __________________________.
    marijuana
  158. The author of The Feminine Mystique and who was a founder of the National Organization of Women was ________________________.
    Betty Friedan
  159. A shocking event of the antiwar protests was the 1970 killing of four student protesters at _______________________________.
    Kent State
  160. A major cause of the 1973 economic recession in Europe was a significant increase in the price of _________________.
    oil
  161. During the Vietnam War, the South Vietnamese Communist guerillas backed by North Vietnam were known as the ____________________.
    Vietcong
  162. The issue that led to Jimmy Carter's defeat in 1980 was his inability to gain the release of American hostages held in ______________.
    Iran
  163. 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 _____________.
    Lyndon Johnson
  164. The American president who journeyed to the People's Republic of China in 1972 was _________________________________.
    Richard Nixon
  165. Under the U.S. presidency of Jimmy ____________________________, a major goal of American foreign policy was the protection of human rights globally.
    Jimmy Carter
  166. The American President who referred to the Soviet Union as the "evil empire" and who was a supporter of the SDI was _______________.
    Ronald Regan
  167. The American president who helped maintain a Vietman-like war in Afghanistan by aiding anti-Soviet insurgents was __________________.
    Ronald Regan
  168. World-wide, the most popular of "mass sports" is soccer’s ___________________________.
    World Cup
  169. The terrorist group who murdered Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games was the _________________________________.
    Red Army
  170. In 1988, the first free parliamentary elections to occur in Eastern Europe for forty years took place in _____________________________.
    Poland
  171. Probably the most symbolic events ending the Cold War was the fall of the ______________.
    Berlin Wall
  172. The Yugoslavian president ousted from power in 2000 and who was subsequently put on trial for war crimes against humanity was _____.
    Slobodan Milosevic
  173. The individual who succeeded Tony Blair as Britain's prime minister in 2007 was _______.
    Gordon Brown
  174. The British prime minister who gave support to the United States in the war on terror and in the Iraq War was ______________________.
    Tony Blair
  175. The common currency that was initially adopted by eleven member states of the European Union is the _______________.
    euro
  176. George H.W. Bush was defeated for reelection in 1992 for all of the following:
    • government budget deficit
    • a downturn in the economy
    • Bill Clinton's strategy of claiming to be a "New Democrat" and more conservative than recent Democratic candidates.
  177. All of the following are correct about the Bill Clinton presidency:
    • a.an economic revival
    • b.a reduction of government budget deficits.
    • c.Clinton was politically damaged because of an affair with a White House intern.
    • d.Clinton's vice president became the Democratic presidential candidate in 2000,
  178. All of the following led to decline in George W. Bush's popularity by his second term as president:
    • the war in Iraq
    • tax cuts that primarily benefitted the wealthy
    • poor handling of the relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina
    • financial corruption in the Republican Party.
  179. The first opportunity for testing the new relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union in the post-Cold War era was the _____________________________.
    Persian Gulf War
  180. The politician who called terrorism "the enemy of our generation" was ________________.
    Bill Clinton
  181. An example of state-sponsored terrorism was the bombing of Pan American flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in ----.
    1988
  182. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the United States initially waged war in ____________________.
    Afghanistan
  183. All are correct about the war in Iraq that began in 2003:
    • the Bush administration claimed that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction
    • the Iraqi army was quickly defeated
    • by 2006, civil war was taking place between Sunnis and Shiites
    • in 2007, Bush increased the number of American troops in Iraq.
  184. Pope Paul II was, advocated or practiced all of the following:
    • the first non-Italian pope since the sixteenth century
    • condemned nuclear weapons and war
    • was a strong believer in social justice
    • travelled widely.
  185. A serious criticism of the _________revolution is it has displaced cultural uniqueness and bodily presence.
    digital
  186. All of the following are social challenges to globalization:
    • mass migration
    • widening gap between the developed and developing nations
    • increased degradation of water and soil resources
    • global warming.
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