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1
Who was the first to led the Bolshevik Red Army?
Trotski
Karl Marx
Adolf Hitler
Tsar Nicholas II
2
What event causes the spread of Imperialism in 19th?
The Industrial Revolution
The French Revolution
The Napoleonic Wars
The Congress of Vienna
3
Choose some characteristics of Romanticist architecture
New materials like iron and glass
Inspired in new styles
Eclectic style, which only combined Gothic and Neo-Baroque
Conic vaults
4
What was the name of Mussolini party?
Fascist Italian Party
Mussolini´s Party
National Nazism Party
National Fascist Party
5
In which years the countries that defeated Napoleon met at the congress of Viena?
From 1818 to 1819
From 1816 to 1817
From 1812 to 1813
From 1814 to 1815
6
Which country defeated Napoleon in the battle of Trafalgar?
United Kingdom
Austria
Russia
Prussia
7
Which one DOESN’T belong to the Old Regime agricultural transformation?
Single rotation
Biennal rotation
Triennal rotation
Continious rotation
8
The modernism used new materials seeking for beauty in the ondulations and asymmetrical shapes inspired by nature.
True
False
9
What were the main changes in agriculture in the 19th century?
The Enclosures Acts and the use of water mills.
The Nortfolk four-course system, the Enclosures, new crops.
Improvements in machinery and the use of coal
The Nortfolk four-course system and the use of electricity and oil
10
Where did it begin the Industrial Revolution?
In Spain
In Great Britain
In Germany
In France
11
The work organisation which aimed to achieve maximum work efficiency was called:
Taylorism
Assembly line
Assembly line Metallurgy
Fordism
12
By who was imposed The Nueva Planta Decrees?
Charles IV
Ferdinand VI
Charles III
Philip V
13
From what artistic movement is that painting?
Impressionism
Dadaism
Expressionism
Fauvism
14
WHO INVENTED THE STEAMBOAT?
George Stephenson
Adam Fulton
Robert Fulton
Robert Farharm
15
Were countries met for the "scramble for África"?
Berlin Conference
Versailles
Pacific Ocean
Las Ventas (Spain)
16
In the Peace through strength treaty (1891-1914), the Triple Entente was:
France, Russia and Italy.
Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
Great Britain, France and Russia.
Germany, France and Russia.
17
IN WHAT YEAR AND WAS THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CREATED?
1865
1864
1866
1868
18
Which group gained the most from the liberal revolutions?
Commoners
Clergy
Nobility
Bourgeoisie
19
How was Hitler´s political party called?
National Association of German Workers Party
National Socialist German Workers` Party
Socialist Nazi Party of Workers
National Workers` Society Party
20
When was the Declaration of Independence?
4 July 1767
4 July 1776
6 July 1767
7 October 1765
21
Who did France and Spain face during the War of Spanish Succession?
GB, the United Provinces, German Empire, Savoy and Portugal
GB, German Emperor and Austria
GB, German Emperor, Savoy, Portugal and Bavaria
GB ,the United Provinces, Savoy, Portugal and France
22
The origin of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain was due to its vast colonial empire?
True
False
23
Louis XV was one of the most important enlightened despots. What country was it from?
Portugal
Spain
Russia
France
24
What were the years of the liberal revolutions of the 19th century?
1815, 1830, 1850
1820,1825, 1850
1820, 1835,1845
1815, 1830, 1848
25
Who brought the Perestroika to the Soviet Union?
Iósif Stalin Jr
Andrei Zhdanov
Yuri Andropov
Mikhail Gorbachev
26
Who founded the main ideas of socialism?
Karl Marx and Mikhail Bakunin
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Henri of Saint-Simon and Friedrich Engels
Karl Marx and Leon Troski
27
Which were the main proxy wars?
the Vietnam War, the Cuban War and the Korean War
The Korean War and the Yom Kippur War
the Vietnam War, the Korean War and the Yaltan war
Neither of them
28
The First French constitution was signed in…?
1799
1791
1698
1889
29
Which 4 countries entered france and exiled Napoleon?
Spain, United kingdom, Austria and Ukraine
Prussia, Germany, Denmark and Netherland
United Kingdom, Austria, Prussia and Russia
Germany, Russia, Spain and the United States
30
What was the cooperation (OEEC) function?
It aimed administering the aid provided by the Marshall Plan.
To take the control of Japan's economic miracle.
To guarantee the free movement of goods and people.
To finish with the hippie movement
31
Some Enlightenment intellectuals criticized absolute monarchy. Which of this is the correct one ?
Rousseau: separation of legislative
Montesquieu: stated the sovereignty
Voltaire: reinforce the parliamentary power
Montesquieu: reinforce the parliamentary power
32
When did the Roaring Twenties happen?
1925-1927
1928-1930
1924-1929
1926-1930
33
What is the Norfolk four-course system?
New system which used automatic machines of watering.
New cultivation system that consisted of constant crop rotation
Cultivation system that produced less fertilisers.
A type of system in which one land was empty and the rest were harvested
34
Who was the advocator of Economic Liberalism?
Voltaire
Adam Smith
Joseph I
François Quesnay
35
From what artistic movement is that painting?
Impressionism
Expressionism
Dadaism
Fauvism
36
What countries formed the first wave of countries to industrialise?
France, Switzerland, USA, Belgium and Germany
France, Japan, Switzerland, USA and Belgium
France, Japan, Germany and USA
Spain, France, Germany, USA and Belgium
37
How is the assembly that was summoned by the king in the beginning of the French Revolution?
Parliament
Legislative Assembly
Estates-General
National Constituent Assembly
38
What was the Enlightenment?
A movement that emerged in Spain.
A movement that emerged in France.
A movement that emerged in Italy
A movement that emerged in Portugal
39
At Paris Peace Conference, the defeated countries signed treaties and has to reduce their armies, pay war reparations...
False
True
40
WHEN WERE THE ENCLOSURES ACTS APPROVED?
1656
1801
1845
1735
41
What was the most significant protest of the US War of Independe?
stamp act
tea act
Boston Harbour
Boston tea Party
42
The principle of Europe balance spread on the continent under the impulse of Great Britain in which century?
17th century
18th century
19th century
16th century
43
The new division of labour and the use of factories were some of the changes of the the Industrial Revolution?
False
True
44
Who initiated the Stars Wars in the Cold War?
Harry Truman
George Lucas
Ronald Reagan
John Kennedy
45
Where was the UN created?
Brussels Conference
Potsdam Conference
San Francisco Conference
Murcia Conference
46
When did the fall of the Berlin Wall begin?
October 10, 1962.
January 30, 1993.
June 19, 1978.
November 9, 1989.
47
When was the Treaty of Utrecht created?
1614
1812
1713
1799
48
Which invention does not belong to the first industrial revolution?
Railway
Steamboat
Phonograph
Steam engine
49
Who belonged to the Third State?
-The nobility
-The clergy
-The peasants
-The bourgeoisie
50
What was the Crash of 1929?
A change in the economic laws
A fall of the US Stock Exchange
An excess of consumption in relation to production in the United States
A rise in the economy of the United States
51
How did Napoleon Bonaparte arose to power in 1799 ?
By elections
By killing all the people who held the power.
Substituting The Directory by a coup d'etat with A Consulate.
Substituting A Consulate by a coup d'etat with The Directory.
52
The autocratic system existed between 1870 and 1924 in:
Ottoman Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russian Empire.
Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman Empire and Italy.
France, United Kingdom and Russian Empire.
Italy, Greece and Norway
53
What was the spark of the First World War?
France claimed Alsace-Lorraine
Austro-Hungary and Turkish Empires confrontation
The Treaty of versailles
The assassination of the Archduke
54
The Austro-Hungarian Empire has a parliamentary system?
True
False
55
When and where did the Industrial Revolution start?
It started in 1780 in Great Britain
It started in 1790 in Great Britain
It started in 1800 in the United States
It started in 1770 in Great Britain
56
Which was a major effect of European Imperialism on Africa ?
Africans and Europeans developed a respect for each other's cultures
Africans became economically dependent on European Nations
Africans became economically independent on European Nations
Most Africans voluntarily abandoned tribal or ethnic loyalties
57
On what was based the subsistence economies that the economies of colonies were often changed from?
Heavy materials
Immigration
Exporting raw materials
Migration
58
Which of them were important theorist in Enlightenment?
Voltaire and Rousseau and Voltaire
Montesquieu, Frederick II and Rousseau
Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau and Adam Smith
59
The Big Three was made up by which three important persons?
Stalin, Churchill and George Washington
Stalin, Hitler and Franklin Roosevelt
Lenin, Churchill and Stalin
Churchill, Stalin and Franklin Roosevelt
60
Central powers of the First World War ?
Russia , France and Portugal
Germany, France and Spain
Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire
Germany ,Russia and the Ottoman Empire
61
What was the
spark
of the US War of Independence?
levy of taxes
dependent of Great Britain
thought of British Parliament to be despotic
lack of representation in the parliament
62
HOW MANY COUNTRIES INDUSTRIALIZED IN THE FIRST WAVE?
7
4
5
6
