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A basic #review of #European history from the Renaissance to Modern era
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Where did the Habsburgs rule?
Prussia
Austria
Germany
Romania
2
What was French policy regarding Germany? (pre-ww1)
Germany was not worth regard
Keep Germany weak and fractured
Build an alliance
Strengthen and trade with Germany
3
Who modernized and westernized early Tsarist Russia?
Peter the Great
Catherine the Great
Alexander II
Nicholas II
4
Who overthrew the Romanov Dynasty?
Kerensky
Trotsky
Lenin
Stalin
5
What economic policy valued exports > imports and termed bullion?
Existentialism
Communism
Commercialism
Mercantilism
6
What was the US policy towards communism in the cold war?
Mutually Assured Destruction
Utilitarianism
Appeasement
Containment
7
What effect did the Agricultural Revolution and capitalism have on the population?
Increased dramtically
Decreased dramatically
Decreased slightly
Increased slightly
8
The Congress of Vienna, led by Metternich, followed what war(s)?
World War 1
The Thirty yrs War
Napoleonic Wars
World War 11
9
Who was a leading figure in the French Revolution?
Jacobin
Napoleon II
Robespierre
Frederick the Great
10
What was NeoClassicism a reaction against?
Renaissance art
Baroque art
Romantic art
Rococo art
11
Who emerged as Europe's leading commercial nation in the 1700s?
Russia
Germany
Great Britain
Austria
12
Which 3 Eastern empires declined in the 1600s-1700s?
Bulgaria, Romania, and Lituania
Ottomans, Holy Roman Empire, and Poland
Russia, Germany, and Austria
Poland, Hungary, and the Dutch Republic
13
What did Louis declare, under the policy of "one king, one law, one faith"?
Treaty of Utrecht
Peace of Augsburg
Edict of Nantes
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
14
What Enlightenment thinker saw humans as creatures of goodwill and reason?
John Locke
Erasmus
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Paine
15
What did urbanization cause?
The formation of the proletariat
All the options
Changed family structure and women's role
Spread of disease
16
Who preached the concept of predestination?
Thomas Munzer
Henry VII
John Calvin
Theodore Herzl
17
What movement in the 1900s focused on feminism, civil rights, and the welfare state?
Environmentalists
USSR
The Green Party
Solidarity movement
18
What was the period before the French Rev. called?
The New Regime
Serfdom
The Old Regime
Aristocratic Domination
19
Who introduced Heliocentricism?
Aristotle
Kepler
Copernicus
Galileo
20
Who were in the Triple Alliance?
Britain, USA, and USSR
Germany, Russia, and Austria
France, Britain, Russia
Italy, Germany, Austria
21
Hitler and Stalin promised to remain neutral towards each other in what pact?
Treaty of Ultrecht
Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact
Treaty of Versailes
The Munich Conference
22
What did the Treaty of Westphalia do?
All of the options
Let German rulers determine religion of own land
Established a new balance of power with France as leader
Left Germany fractured
23
Who was the leader of the Zionist movement?
Spinoza
Mendelhossen
Dreyfus
Herzl
24
What feminist opposed Rousseau's views on gendered education?
Mary Wollstonecraft
Emiline Pankhurst
Olympe de Gouges
Christine de Pisan
25
What characterized the Romantic movement?
World gone mad with war
Reason and Mechanical view of world
Classical themes
Emotion, nature, and medieval inspiration
26
Who backed North Korea in the Korean war?
The USA
The USSR
Vietnam
The USC
27
Who, respectively, united Italy and Germany?
Frederick and Cavour
Bismark and Napoleon
Cavour and Bismarck
Mussolini and Hitler
28
What art movement focused on light colors and the aristocracy?
Rococo
Dada
Impressionism
Romanticism
29
How did England avoid dramatic revolution?
Divine right of kings
Moderate reforms
Drastic reforms
Brutal oppression
30
What was the motivation for the Age of Exploration?
Spreading Christianity
All the options
New technology and markets
New trading post colonies
31
What did the Edict of Nantes declare?
Elimination of the monarchy
Rights of Huguenots
Restriction of Calvinism
Formation of the Protestant League
32
Who wrote the communist manifesto?
Marx
Franz Ferdinand
Marx and Engels
Engels
33
What happened to the German economy during the Weimar Republic?
Prosperity
Inflation
Stagnation
Decline
34
Which of these was a totalitarian form of government?
Nazism
Communism
Fascism
All of the options
35
Who were the first Europeans to believe in social progress?
Capitalists
The Philosophes
Communists
The Physiocrats
36
What did the Bill of Rights do?
Established the Divine Right of Kings
Let a woman rule
Gave Parliament more power in the government
Legalized Calvinism
37
What was the term for trade between the new world and old world?
The Columbian Exchange
Mercantilism
Scramble for Africa
Age of Discovery
38
What did the Pragmatic Sanction accomplish?
Let Russia rule the Balkans
Let Fredrick the Great succeed to throne
Let Bourbons rule Spain
Let Maria Theresa succeed to throne
39
What government did the Dutch have during their Golden Age?
Democratic representative
Protestant nation without an absolute ruler
Puritan republic
Constitutional monarchy
40
What economy did Adam Smith advocate?
Welfare state
Labor Unions
Mercantilism
Competitive free trade market
41
What inspired Martin Luther to write the 95 Thesis?
Lack of church welfare
Poor treatment of women
Church sale of indulgences
The worker's plight
42
When did the Soviet Union fall?
1991
1999
1989
1891
43
Who was considered the father of Humanism?
Machiavelli
Thoreau
Petrarch
Erasmus
44
What were the consequences of the Scramble for Africa?
Better relations with non European empires
Destructive to the European economy
Stronger african economy
Created a global economy at expense of native cultures
45
What was the term for a political leader who valued their nation over their religion?
Politique
Dictator
Tsar
Constitutional Monarch
46
What was Darwinism applied to human society called?
Racism
Common sense
Social Darwinism
Radical science
47
What was the EEC?
European Economic Communism
European Union
European Economic Community
Economic Union
48
What event exposed anti-semetic views in Europe?
The Franchise Act
Emile Zola's article
The Paris Commune
The Dreyfus Affair
49
Who was the Triple Entente between?
France, Britain, Russia
Austria, Germany, Italy
Britain, Spain, Prussia
Russia, Britain, Germany
50
What did the Treaty of Versailles do to Germany?
Excluded them from signing
Demilitarized the Rhineland
Forced them to pay reparations
All the options
51
Which French King said "I am the state", also known as the Sun King?
Colbert
Louis XVII
Napoleon III
Louis XIV
52
Who is considered the father of modern political science?
Edmund Burke
Machiavelli
Henry VIII
Adam Smith
53
Name in chronological order
Lenin, Stalin, Gorbachev, Khrushchev
Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Gorbachev
Stalin, Lenin, Gorbachev, Khrushchev
Khrushchev, Lenin, Stalin, Gorbachev
