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1
Who is considered the "father of humanism"?
Dante
Machiavelli
Boccaccio
Petrarch
2
The final German offensive of World War II.
The Battle of Masurian Lake
The Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Marne
The Battle of the Argonnes Forest
3
This map
best
represents Europe in approximately what year?
1789
1810
1648
1870
4
Why did Henry VIII work closely with Parliament to establish the Anglican Church?
Henry wanted to give the church greater legitimacy
Parliament was ready for war if Henry didn't work with them
Henry wanted Parliament to take the lead in the new church
The English Constitution required it
5
Who was the first prime minister of Great Britain from the Labour Party?
Benjamin Disraeli
Ramsay MacDonald
William Gladstone
Robert Walpole
6
Which of the following describes the policy of economic reform under Gorbachev?
Gosplan
Comintern
Glasnost
Perestroika
7
What group was the Test Act designed to protect against?
Anglicans
The Chartist Movement
Puritans
Catholics
8
What was the result of the Edict of Worms?
Luther was declared an outlaw in the Holy Roman Empire
The Schmalkaldic League declared allegiance to Martin Luther
Luther announced his criticisms of the sale of indulgences
Luther was excommunicated from the Catholic Church
9
This image represents what significant event of the French Revolution?
The women's march on Versailles
The royalist revolt in the Vendee
The execution of Louis XVI
The storming of the Bastille
10
Victor Emmanuel II was able to gain what Austrian territory in the Austro-Prussian War?
Rome and the Papal States
Lombardy
Venetia
Sicily
11
The 1881 assassination of this Tsar led to a retraction of "liberal" reforms.
Nicholas II
Nicholas I
Alexander III
Alexander II
12
The "Defenestration of Prague" involved
Lutherans throwing Catholics out a window
Catholics throwing Calvinists out a window
Calvinists throwing Catholics out a window
Catholics throwing Lutherans out a window
13
In the late 20th century, between which two countries did border negotiations become violent?
East and West Germany
Hungary and Romania
The Czech Republic and Slovakia
Bosnia-Herzegovina and Yugoslavia
14
What new development of the Industrial Revolution is depicted in this image?
The spinning jenny
The steam engine
The cotton gin
The hand loom
15
Who was the leader of the free French during World War II?
Marshal Petain
Alfred Dreyfus
Jacques Blom
Charles de Gaulle
16
During World War II, a puppet government was set up in this French city.
Paris
Avignon
Vichy
Nice
17
Together with General Blucher of Prussia, this man defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
Horatio Nelson
Sir Francis Drake
The Duke of Wellington
Robert Walpole
18
As a result of the 1905 Revolution in Russia, Tsar Nicholas II agreed to
Withdraw from the Russo-Japanese War
End serfdom
Abdicate in favor of his son
Create an elected national assembly
19
On what date did the Soviet Union finally declare war on Japan in World War II?
August 9, 1945
July 15, 1945
August 8, 1945
August 6, 1945
20
In this map, this line was established by...
The Truman Doctrine
The Lateran Accord
The Treaty of Tordesillas
The Concordat of Bologna
21
The two goods/services for which Florence was most known were:
Banking and pottery
Banking and wool
Wool and pottery
Wool and weapons
22
Which Enlightenment
philosophe
argued that men and women inhabit "separate spheres"?
Spinoza
Rousseau
Diderot
Voltaire
23
An overnight Nazi pogrom against Jews that destroyed thousands of businesses and killed dozens.
The Nuremberg Law
The Night of Long Knives
Kristallnacht
The Wannsee Program
24
Who are these "separated at birth" characters?
George V and Wilhelm II
George V and Nicholas II
Wilhelm II and Nicholas I
Nicholas II and Edward VI
25
Which artistic movement focused on the importance of emotions and dreams?
Realism
Romanticism
Neoclassicism
Baroque
26
Which political group was considered the "moderate" faction during the French Revolution?
The Mountain
The sans-culottes
The Jacobins
The Girondin
27
Which of the following is the closest estimate of the total # of casualties in World War II?
110 million
25 million
40 million
60 million
28
Which of the following is the proper order of Hitler's conquests?
Anschluss, Sudetenland, Poland, France
Anschluss, Poland, France, Sudetenland
Sudetenland, Poland, France, Anschluss
Sudetenland, Poland, Anschluss, France
29
What is the proper order of the wives of Henry VIII?
Catherine, Jane, Anne, Katherine, Anne, Kathryn
Katherine, Anne, Jane, Anne, Catherine, Kathryn
Kathryn, Jane, Anne, Catherine, Anne, Katherine
Catherine, Anne, Jane, Anne, Kathryn, Katherine
30
What event was used by Hitler to justify suspending civil liberties in Germany?
Kristallnacht
The Reichstag Fire
Operation Valkyrie
The Beer Hall Putsch
31
What led to the "Spanish price revolution," or extreme inflation in Spain?
An increase in goods from the Industrial Revolution
Gold and silver from mines in the New World
Spanish tariffs to prevent competition from foreign goods
The increase in food prices from the Agricultural Revolution
32
What African state was controlled by a Belgian king who treated the natives ruthlessly?
Algeria
Ethiopia
The Congo
The Transvaal
33
Which artistic movement is strongly associated with "genre paintings"?
Realism
Dutch Realism
Baroque
Neoclassicism
34
In what year did Italy unify?
1861
1848
1884
1871
35
In what year did the Holy Roman Empire
officially
cease to exist?
1806
1918
1815
1648
36
Where was Trotsky when the KGB finally caught up to and executed him?
Paris
Mexico
Argentina
London
37
Who wrote
A Room of One's Own
, analyzing women's roles as authors & fictional characters?
Simone de Beauvoir
Virginia Woolf
Betty Friedan
Mary Shelley
38
What 19th century British group opposed the Industrial Revolution by destroying machines?
Luddites
Chartists
Marxists
Fabians
39
Which of the following reflected the doctrine of "Official Nationality" under Nicholas I?
Obedience, Control, Conformity
Christianity, Nationality, Authoritarianism
Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality
Peace, Land, Bread
40
The arguments of which of the following was a precursor to Luther's criticisms of the Church?
Charles V
Thomas More
John Calvin
John Huss
41
The Allies agreed to divide Germany at which meeting?
Tehran Conference
Wannsee Conference
Potsdam Conference
Yalta Conference
42
The image illustrates the German World War I tactic known as:
Blitzkrieg
The Schlieffen Plan
The Maginot Plan
The Luftwaffe
43
Which nation lost the Great Northern War?
Finland
Russia
Sweden
Norway
44
Whose capture at the Battle of Sedan led to the end of the war it occurred in?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Victor Emmanuel II
Napoleon III
Giuseppe Garibaldi
45
Which of the following was a direct result of Stalin's blockade of Berlin
The Berlin Airlift
The building of the Berlin Wall
The introduction of a new currency in West Germany
The Marshall Plan
46
The third wife of Henry VIII, and her fate
Jane Seymour, beheaded
Anne Boleyn, beheaded
Jane Seymour, died after childbirth
Anne Boleyn, died after childbirth
47
Who wrote
The Leviathan
, supporting a secular vision of an absolutist state?
Niccolo Machiavelli
Thomas More
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
48
Who painted this work?
Michelangelo
Raphael
Botticelli
da Vinci
49
This image represents what significant event of the French Revolution?
The decision to execute Louis XVI
Robespierre's speech prior to his arrest
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
The Tennis Court Oath
50
The most famous existentialist philosopher
Virginia Woolf
Soren Kierkegaard
Jean-Paul Sartre
Friedrich Nietzsche
51
Who designed this piece of architecture?
Filippo Brunelleschi
Leon Alberti
Alberto Ghiberi
Ezio Auditore
52
What are ethnic Hungarians also called?
Slavs
Magyars
Romani
Huns
53
Which family dominated the banking industry in Florence during the Renaissance?
The Medici family
The Durer family
The Machiavelli family
The Borgia family
54
The swath of land in Czechoslovakia that Hitler was allowed to annex through appeasement was?
Lebensraum
The Anschluss
The Sudetenland
Alsace-Lorraine
55
What treaty signaled the withdrawal of Russia from World War I?
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Peterhof
The Treaty of Tannenberg
The Treaty of Portsmouth
56
What was the treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War?
The Peace of Augsburg
The Treaty of Tordesillas
The Treaty of Paris
The Peace of Westphalia
57
Economic warfare waged by Napoleon against the British.
The British Ulcer
Splendid Isolation
The Continental System
Manifest Destiny
58
Who was the political mastermind behind the unification of Italy?
Giuseppe Mazzini
Victor Emmanuel II
Camillo Cavour
Giuseppe Garibaldi
59
What agreement reinstated Catholicism as the "majority religion" in France?
The Concordat of 1801
The Lateran Accord
The Unam Sanctum
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
60
The only two African territories not colonized by Europeans were?
Liberia and the Congo
Ethiopia and Liberia
South Africa and the Congo
South Africa and Ethiopia
61
Who is considered the first prime minister of Great Britain?
Robert Walpole
William Gladstone
Ramsay MacDonald
Benjamin Disraeli
62
Which of the following was a direct result of the Corn Laws?
The Peterloo Massacre
Pugachev's Rebellion
The English Civil War
The Irish Rebellion
63
Where was Napoleon's final place of exile?
Elba
Corsica
St. Helena
Waterloo
64
Who was the financial minister under Louis XIV?
Colbert
Mazarin
Richelieu
Sully
65
Which term refers to the slavery-like grant of labor given to Spaniards in the New World?
Hacienda
Encomienda
Reconquista
Tordesillas
66
The term for the selling of church offices, widely criticized by the 16th century, is?
Simony
Heresy
Blasphemy
Indulgences
67
The "Dual Monarchy" of Austria-Hungary was formed through this treaty.
The Compromise of 1888
The Compromise of 1905
The Compromise of 1854
The Compromise of 1867
68
During the revolutions of 1830, this bourgeois man became the "citizen king" of France
Louis XVIII
Louis Napoleon
Charles X
Louis Philippe
69
What was the real reason behind Russia's movement into Crimea in 1850?
Russia had formed an alliance with the Ottoman Empire
Russia sought to conquer the Ottoman Empire
Russia wanted to protect Slavs and Orthodox Christians
Russia wanted a warm-water port with Mediterrean access
70
In what year did the "Sack of Rome" occur?
1347
1527
1555
1494
71
In what year did Martin Luther nail his "95 Theses" to the church door in Wittenberg?
1517
1494
1527
1555
72
The Nazi invasion of Russia was known by what name?
Operation Valkyrie
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Fortitude
Operation Werrmacht
73
Which of the following is
not
considered one of Hitler's major mistakes in World War II?
Operation Fortitude
Battle of Britain
Operation Barbarossa
Dunkirk
74
The event that landed Hitler in prison for a brief period.
The Beer Hall Putsch
Kristallnacht
The Defenestration of Munich
The Night of Long Knives
75
The work of Bartolomeo de las Casas about native American treatment gave rise to what?
The Index
The inquisition
The Reconquista
The Black Legend
76
What political treatise argued that a leader should be both a lion and a fox?
The Prince
Utopia
The Inferno
The Book of the Courtier
77
What did the Dreyfus Affair reveal about the French Third Republic
The desire for a constitutional monarchy
The influence of socialism in the government
The need to industrialize
The presence of anti-Semitism
78
The first Tudor monarch in England, winner of the War of the Roses, was...
Henry VII
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
Mary I
79
The correct order of "phases" of the Thirty Years' War
Bohemian, Swedish, Danish, French
Bohemian, Danish, Swedish, French
Danish, Bohemian, Swedish, French
Swedish, Bohemian, Danish, French
80
Bismarck used this to help instigate war with France
The Schlesweig-Holstein Affair
The Ems Telegram
The capture of Napoleon III
The Zimmerman Telegram
81
What was the most influential religious order created during the Counter-Reformation?
The Dominicans
The Society of Jesus
The Ursuline Order
The Inquisition
82
Who authored
Utopia
?
Niccolo Machiavelli
Thomas More
Miguel de Cervantes
Baldassare Castiglione
83
How many "zones of occupation" was Germany divided into after World War II?
6
4
2
3
84
During the Austrian uprising of 1848, who was forced to flee Vienna?
Talleyrand
Franz Joseph I
Ferdinand I
Metternich
85
Which of the following led to the first major split among "protestants"?
The Edict of Worms
The Siege of Munster
The Great Schism
The Colloquy of Marburg
86
Who was the hero of Verdun and later head of the French "puppet" government in World War II?
Jacques Chirac
Louis Blanc
Marshal Petain
Charles de Gaulle
87
What was the "powder keg" of Europe?
The Ottoman Empire
The Balkan States
The Black Hand
The Baltic States
88
This World War I battle outside of Paris halted the Germans and led to trench warfare.
Battle of Sedan
Battle of the Marne
Battle of Verdun
Battle of the Somme
89
Which North American empire was conquered by Francisco Pizarro?
Aztec
Haitian
Inca
Maya
90
Which nation led the way during the
second
Industrial Revolution?
Great Britain
Russia
Germany
France
91
What are
rotten boroughs
?
Districts in London with high levels of prostitution
Manufacturing areas where workers were mistreated
Unfair electoral districts resulting from population changes
Districts where enclosures moved peasants off common lands
92
What event led Louis XIV to the belief that to rule France, he had to control the nobility?
The French Revolution
The Edict of Nantes
The Fronde
The Great Fear
93
The group of Parisians that took over Paris for a brief time during the Franco-Prussian War.
The Committee of Public Safety
The Commune
The sans-culottes
The Mountain
94
Which of the following had the
weakest
monarchy circa 1500?
France
The Holy Roman Empire
Spain
England
95
The government under which Prime Minister is considered the "height of British liberalism"?
Ramsay MacDonald
William Gladstone
Benjamin Disraeli
Winston Churchill
96
What action is reflected in this image?
Bismarck heading to the "captain's cabin" to control Germany
Wilhelm II's dismissal of Bismarck
Bismarck's refusal to help Wilhelm II in expanding the navy
Bismarck's actions that led to the unification of Germany
97
Who was the author of
The Book of the Courtier
?
Alighieri Dante
Petrarch
Nicolo Machiavelli
Baldassare Castiglione
98
This agreement created by Mussolini recognized the Vatican as an independent country.
The Vatican Accord
The Lateran Accord
The Italia Irredente
The Concordat of Bologna
99
Which of the following was a direct result of the Pragmatic Sanction?
The Habsburg Empire was divided between Ferdinand and Philip
The Magyar Rebellion
Prussia invaded Silesia
Poland was partitioned
100
Which of the following faiths was most connected to the growing wealthy middle class?
Anabaptism
Catholicism
Calvinism
Lutheranism
101
Who is this northern Renaissance painter?
Brueghel
Durer
Vermeer
Van Eyck
102
Which war led to France's loss of virtually all of its colonial possessions in the New World?
The Seven Years' War
The War of Spanish Succession
The War of Jenkins' Ear
The Napoleonic Wars
103
Which of the following devised the "three laws of planetary motion"?
Nicolaus Copernicus
Tycho Brahe
Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler
104
What is the term used to describe the Prussian nobility?
Despots
Noblesse d' Epee
Boyars
Junkers
105
Which of the following is
not
one of the five major city-states of Renaissance Italy?
Milan
Florence
Genoa
Venice
106
The end of this war allowed German states to be Calvinist, while establishing new nations
The Thirty Years' War
The Schmalkaldic War
The Seven Years' War
The Hundred Years' War
107
What was the purpose of the "beard tax" of Peter the Great?
He wanted to demonstrate his control over the Russian nobles
He was concerned over sanitary issues related to facial hair
He wanted members of his court to look more "western"
He needed money to build his castle at St. Petersburg
108
What is the correct order of the wars which helped unify Germany?
Schlesweig-Holstein; Franco-Prussian; Austro-Prussian
Schlesweig-Holstein; Austro-Prussian; Franco-Prussian
Austro-Prussian; Franco-Prussian; Schlesweig-Holstein
Austro-Prussian; Schlesweig-Holstein; Franco-Prussian
109
The Anabaptists for a brief time held what city, hoping to create an Anabaptist communal city?
Wittenberg
Munster
Marburg
Wartburg
110
Which of the following was
not
one of the Henrys in the "War of 3 Henrys"?
Henry III
Henry of Navarre
Henry II
Henry of Guise
111
Which battle in 1571 demonstrated Philip II's desire to weaken the Ottoman Empire?
The Battle of Lepanto
The Battle of Sedan
The Battle of White Mountain
The defeat of the Grand Armada
112
During the second half of the 19th century, who was the leader of the Tory party?
Benjamin Disraeli
Ramsay MacDonald
David Cameron
William Gladstone
113
Germany was finally unified under which royal family?
House of Hanover
House of Bourbon
House of Hohenzollern
House of Habsburg
114
The image is most closely associated with who, and what?
Copernicus, the geocentric view
Galileo, the geocentric view
Copernicus, the heliocentric view
Brahe, the heliocentric view
115
During the "Prague Spring" of 1968, Czechoslovakia attempted to...
Allow greater personal liberties
Break completely from the influence of the Soviet Union
Introduce a capitalist economy
End military links with the Warsaw Pact
116
What was the primary reason why Russia left World War I early?
The Decembrist Revolt
The assassination of Alexander II
The October Revolution
The destruction of Moscow
117
The term for Bismarck's policies that specifically targeted the Catholic Church in Germany
Realpolitik
Blood and iron
Kulturkampf
Reichsfuhrer
118
The "Charge of the Light Brigade" was a critical event of which war?
The Crimean War
The Napoleonic Wars
The Thirty Years' War
The Seven Years' War
119
Theodor Herzl was the leading advocate for what idea?
Laisses-faire economics
Partitions of Poland
Utilitarianism
Zionism
120
The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre was directed against whom?
Huguenots
Lutherans
Catholics
Anabaptists
121
This agreement allowed German princes to choose Lutheranism or Catholicism for their territory
Peace of Prague
Treaty of Tordesillas
Peace of Augsburg
Peace of Westphalia
122
What happened in 1968 that caused de Gaulle to flee and virtually disappear for over 6 hours?
Reports of de Gaulle embezzling government funds
Assassination rumors due to French support for US in Vietnam
Huge student/worker protests against capitalism, consumerism
Anger over a corruption scandal within de Gaulle's cabinet
123
Robespierre was arrested and executed during the...
Thermidorean Reaction
Brumaire Opposition
Great Fear
Great Terror
124
Which of the following is
not
considered an "enlightened despot"?
Catherine the Great of Russia
Joseph II of Austria
Frederick the Great of Prussia
Louis XV of France
125
What nation was known as the "sick man of Europe" by the 19th century?
Spanish Empire
Ottoman Empire
Poland
Austrian Empire
126
During this year of revolts, Greece finally gained its independence from the Ottoman Empire
1830
1815
1789
1848
127
Which Enlightenment figure declared humans were born a "tabula rasa," or blank slate?
Jean-Jaques Rousseau
Denis Diderot
Voltaire
John Locke
128
The "final solution" to the "Jewish Question" in Germany was decided at...
The Berlin Conference
The Munich Conference
The Potsdam Conference
The Wannsee Conference
129
Hitler's purging of the Nazi party and the SA, to gain military support & eliminate rivals.
The Wannsee pogrom
Kristallnacht
Kulturkampf
The Night of Long Knives
130
This painting is an example of what artistic style?
Neoclassicism
Rococo
Romanticism
Renaissance
131
Whose work
The Second Sex
argued for equality for women?
Catherine d' Pisan
Betty Friedan
Mary Wollstonecraft
Simone de Beauvoir
132
The only newly-created country after World War I that still had a democracy by 1930 was...
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Hungary
133
In what year was the Act of Union that established "Great Britain"?
1815
1707
1688
1789
134
Which system of government was supported by the majority of Enlightenment philosophes?
Democracy
Republicanism
Enlightened absolutism
Constitutional monarchy
135
A painting on wet plaster, allowing the paint to penetrate & become fixed as the plaster dries
Sfumato
Fresco
Oil painting
Chiaroscuro
136
The first suicide bombing recorded in history was the assassination of...
Alexander III
Alexander II
Alexander I
Nicholas II
137
The agricultural improvements of the agricultural revolution led most directly to...
The enclosure movement
Cottage industries
The "putting out" system
Population declines
138
Who issued the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713?
Emperor Charles VI
Empress Maria Theresa
Emperor Charles V
King Frederick the Great
139
19th c. term for the value system that kept middle/upper class women set roles in Britain/
La femme querelle
Cult of domesticity
Separate spheres
Gender status