Review for Semester A

Question 1

The belief that a country’s wealth should belong to the all of the people, not just a few.

Accepted Answer

Socialism

Question 2

Religious ideas that opposed accepted church teachings

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Heretics

Question 3

Secular is having to do with only religious arts and learning,

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

Plants and animals that have common characteristics for their environment are biomes

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

In the 1400’s, military rulers no longer controlled the country of Japan. Heads of noble families ruled

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Daimyo

Question 6

What is an agreement to end fighting or a cease fire in a war?

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Armistice

Question 7

The Renaissance was a period of renewed interest in the arts and learning in Europe

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

The deliberate killing of a racial, political, or cultural group. Ex: the Holocaust

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Genocide

Question 9

June 6, 1944, the day in WW 2 when Allied forces invaded Normandy France

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D-Day

Question 10

Materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water and fertile land

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Natural Resources

Question 11

In this situation, the demand for a good or service is greater that the amount supplied in a market

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Shortage

Question 12

A period of low economic activity when many people lose their jobs

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Depression

Question 13

Longitude is the distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich

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Longitude

Question 14

An economic situation in which there is more money with less value

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Inflation

Question 15

This is an international organization created in 1945 to help settle disputes between nations and prevent wars

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United Nations

Question 16

What are the directions on a map that show north, south, east, and west?

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Cardinal Directions

Question 17

This was the restructuring of political & economic life in the USSR under Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980’s

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Perestroika

Question 18

A piece of land that is surrounded on 3 sides by water is called a colony.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 19

What is money that is earned, saved, and invested, to make profits

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Capital

Question 20

The build up of military forces during the Cold War by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R

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Arms Race

Question 21

A program in the USA after WW2 created in effort to provide economic aid to struggling European countries

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The Marshall Plan

Question 22

A group of people who migrated to a different country to live in a new territory controlled by their homeland

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Colony

Question 23

A nation’s direct or indirect control over government or economy of other smaller nations.

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Imperialism

Question 24

Group of workers who share the same jobs, work in the same industry, and push for policies that help all

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Labor Union

Question 25

A half of the earth, usually as divided into northern & southern halves by the equator, or into western & eastern halves

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True

Question 26

An idea that by meeting another government demands that war can be avoided, or giving in to keep peace.

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Appeasement

Question 27

Age of Enlightenment - period from the 17th – 18th centuries known as the Medieval Times, or Dark Ages.

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False

Question 28

Diplomacy is the art of fighting with other countries.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 29

This began when a King and Queen of Spain wanted only Christians in their kingdom

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Spanish Inquisition

Question 30

A system of combining small farms into large factory-like farms run by the government

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Collectivization

Question 31

This was a policy of racial segregation in the Republic of South Africa

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Apartheid

Question 32

A political state in which the government tries to totally control the way citizens think and live

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Totalitarian state

Question 33

The distance of a place north or south of the earth’s equator

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Latitude

Question 34

A partition is to divide a place or location

Accepted Answer

True

Review for Semester A

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Review for Semester A

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