World History Final

According to Karl Marx, the ____, or working class, was oppressed by the middle class.

What was the “white man’s burden”?

____ was the brutal head of the Committee of Public Safety.

____, the aggressive preparation for war, was growing along with nations’ armies.

____ wrote On The Fabric of the Human Body, which presented an accurate examination of anatomy.

The French National Assembly swore the Tennis Court Oath, which was

The Marshall Plan was designed to

____ joined José de San Martín’s forces to complete the liberation of Peru.

Oliver Cromwell’s defeat of the king’s forces allowed him to

Hitler’s blitzkrieg, or “lightning war,” was

The only free states remaining in Africa by 1914 were

Leonardo da Vinci was an excellent example of Renaissance Italy’s social ideal because he

Germany was especially unhappy with Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles because it

____ was the first to argue that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe.

Prince Klemens von Metternich’s claim that he was guided by the principle of legitimacy meant

World War I was a ____, meaning that it involved complete mobilization of resources and people.

What was the “Glorious Revolution”?

Louis XIV maintained complete authority as monarch by

Adam Smith believed in laissez-faire, by which he meant that

Under the leadership of ____, the Bolsheviks became a party dedicated to violent revolution.

In 1914, ____ was considered an act of war.

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese

Francis Bacon, an English philosopher, believed scientists should

To deal with runaway German inflation, an international commission created the Dawes Plan which

The Treaty of Paris in 1783 granted the Americans control of

The ideas of ____ can be found in the American Declaration of Independence & the Constitution.

Montesquieu’s most lasting contribution to political thought was his

Two days after Hitler’s invasion of ____, Britain and France declared war on Germany.

In the Latin American colonial system, who were the mestizos?

The Committee of Public Safety was given broad powers to

The Western Front was characterized by

When the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik I satellite in 1957, many Americans feared that

Napoleon’s coup d’état overthrew the ____ to establish his consulate.

What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?

____ were Marxists who rejected the revolutionary approach in favor of more political approach.

In Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s concept of a social contract,

In an attempt to end Russia’s involvement in the war, Lenin

To Darwin, ____ was central to organic evolution.

____ became the spokesperson for new world order based on democracy & international cooperation

The alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy was known as the

What was the name of the group that conspired to assassinate Archduke Francis Ferdinand?

The Treaty of Versailles was

The Truman Doctrine stated that the US would provide ____ to nations threatened by Communism.

The purpose of Stalin’s Five Year Plans was to

____ was the first country to grant diplomatic recognition to the new American state.

The publication of Martin Luther’s Ninety-five Theses

The social change brought about by the Industrial Revolution was evident in the

Who proposed the germ theory of disease?

Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire became known as

To Voltaire and many other philosophes, the universe was

In an attempt to adjust the trade imbalance with China, Britain began

The Peace of Augsburg formally

The Constitutional Convention began as

Who has been rightly called the father of modern rationalism?

Production of ____ was one of the first industries to be affected by the Industrial Revolution.

Sans-culottes meaning “without breeches,” implied that the members of this political group were

As a result of the Treaty of Paris in 1763,

Whose discovery of radium changed the world’s view of the atom?

Under the military pressure of Commodore Matthew Perry’s fleet, Japan

The alliance between Great Britain, Russia, and France was known as the

Isaac Newton’s universal law of gravitation

The Schlieffen Plan was

The American nation’s first constitution was called the

The High Renaissance in Italy is associated with which three artists?

John Locke’s ideas suggest that people were

____ proposed the Open Door policy for China

What caused the United States to join the Allies in fighting World War I?

The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in 1494

The Edict of Nantes recognized Catholicism as the official religion of France, and

What is absolutism?

Galileo’s observations seemed to indicate that

According to the Ptolemaic system,

James I of England believed in the divine right of kings, which is

____ administered the Nazi’s Final Solution.

The Russians defeated Napoleon’s superior Grand Army by

The conservative elites in Mexico chose ____ to lead a revolt against Spanish rule.

Otto von Bismarck practiced realpolitik, which was

The ____ was crucial to Britain’s Industrial Revolution.