World History Final - Semester 2

What countries made up the Grand Alliance?

Who was seen as the prime example of what Absolutism was?

What empire/dynasty is NOT considered a “gunpowder empire”?

Who lost their colonies in Africa after WWI?

The reliance on military strength.

What was the cause of the Crimean War?

How long did people believe World War I would last?

What country was the most populous in Europe after the Renaissance?

How much did it cost to get into the Globe Theater?

Political disorder; lawlessness.

What was the major war tactic that was used in World War I?

What was the type of government that was used in England after the Civil War led by Oliver Cromwell?

Who was the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire that held true power?

What started almost immediately after WWII ended?

The unique cultural identity of a people based on a common language, religion, and national symbol.

A political philosophy that glorifies the state above the individual.

Who was an organist as well as a music director for a church in Germany?

What leader would be a part of their society even eating and drinking with them on occasion?

A system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls the means of production.

Who created the checks and balance system that we use today in American society?

An economic system based on industrial production or manufacturing.

What minority group faced genocide/ethnic cleansing after WWI in the Middle East?

Where was the homeland for the Jews during the Zionist movement?

What did the Civil Code/Napoleonic Code resort back to?

Who led the Allied Forces on D-Day?

What does the Panama Canal connect?

Who didn’t have to pay the taille in France?

Who led independent movements in India?

What document was influenced by the English Bill of Rights in France?

What was the economic crisis that hit the U.S. & countries indebted to the U.S.?

A policy of killing or forcibly removing an ethnic group from its lands.

The movement for women’s rights.

A suicide mission in which young Japanese pilots intentionally flew airplanes into US ships.

A political philosophy, holding that people should be as free as possible from gov. restraint.

Restrictions intended to enforce international law.

How did Cecil Rhodes want to connect “the Cape to Cairo” in Africa?

What were the gun cartridges greased with, which in turn led to the Great Rebellion In India?

What empire/kingdom alphabet was based on phonetics?

The right to vote.

What country did the Qing Dynasty sign the Treaty of Nerchinsk with?

German for "lightning war"

The deliberate mass murder or physical extinction of a particular racial, pol., or cultural group.

The government control of banks and most industries, the seizing of grain from peasants.

What countries made up the Axis Powers?

Who was forced to pay reparations at the Paris Peace Conference?

What religion spread throughout the non-mainland states in Southeast Asia?

The refusal to take sides or become involved in wars between other nations.

An artistic movement that seeks to depict the world of the unconscious.

Who believed that natural selection was a part of organisms?

Refusal to obey laws that are considered to be unjust.

Who did the Germans look to help them unify their states after the Frankfurt Assembly failed?

The belief that the king gets his power from God and not from his subjects.

A truce or an agreement to end fighting.

Who attacked Pearl Harbor that led the U.S. to enter WWII?

What empires/dynasties architectural style combined Persian and Indian influences?

An administrative organization that relies on non-elective officials and regular procedures.

Who devised a method called psychoanalysis?

What area were Russia and Austria-Hungary fighting over that ended up being a cause of WWI?

What leader is known for using Fascism?

How did the British use the Taj Mahal when they were in charge of India?

What architecture piece put most of the population of the Mogul empire in poverty?

The British term for the German air raids on British cities and towns during WWII.

A form of gov. in which the leader is not a king and certain citizens have the right to vote.

What country was Adolf Hitler born in?

Rights with which all humans are born, including the rights to life, liberty, and property.

What were women fighting for during the suffrage movement?

What did the Japanese gain from winning the Russo-Japanese War?

Who discovered that the sun was the center of the universe rather than the Earth?

What country had the most successful Nationalist/Communist Alliance?

What human organ did William Harvey discover was beginning point for the circulation of blood?

Who wrote the trilogy Family, Spring, and Autumn?

Philosophers during the Enlightenment period believed who should have natural rights?

What American document was created to make sure that it was a federal system?

What was the major good that was being manufactured in the cottage industry?

The extension of a nation’s power over other lands.

Who wrote Don Quixote?

A policy of national isolation by abstention from alliances and other international relations.

What was discussed in the meetings called the Concert of Europe?

A movement to end slavery.

A payment made to the victor by the vanquished to cover the costs of war.

A political philosophy, favoring obedience to political authority and organized religion.

Who wrote The Communist Manifesto?

What was the objective of the Committee of Public Safety in France?

A policy of national isolation by abstention from alliances and other international relations.

What country was NOT a totalitarian state after World War I?