World History Final

The French National Assembly swore the Tennis Court Oath, which was

The purpose of Stalin’s Five Year Plans was to

According to Karl Marx, the ____, or working class, was oppressed by the middle class.

Germany was especially unhappy with Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles because it

____ became the spokesperson for new world order based on democracy & international cooperation

The Western Front was characterized by

The publication of Martin Luther’s Ninety-five Theses

The Schlieffen Plan was

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese

The Marshall Plan was designed to

The social change brought about by the Industrial Revolution was evident in the

As a result of the Treaty of Paris in 1763,

Galileo’s observations seemed to indicate that

Under the leadership of ____, the Bolsheviks became a party dedicated to violent revolution.

Who has been rightly called the father of modern rationalism?

The Russians defeated Napoleon’s superior Grand Army by

In Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s concept of a social contract,

The Committee of Public Safety was given broad powers to

The conservative elites in Mexico chose ____ to lead a revolt against Spanish rule.

____ was the first country to grant diplomatic recognition to the new American state.

The Edict of Nantes recognized Catholicism as the official religion of France, and

The ideas of ____ can be found in the American Declaration of Independence & the Constitution.

____ administered the Nazi’s Final Solution.

In an attempt to end Russia’s involvement in the war, Lenin

The Truman Doctrine stated that the US would provide ____ to nations threatened by Communism.

World War I was a ____, meaning that it involved complete mobilization of resources and people.

The ____ was crucial to Britain’s Industrial Revolution.

The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in 1494

Napoleon’s coup d’état overthrew the ____ to establish his consulate.

In the Latin American colonial system, who were the mestizos?

What was the “Glorious Revolution”?

____ wrote On The Fabric of the Human Body, which presented an accurate examination of anatomy.

To Voltaire and many other philosophes, the universe was

____ was the brutal head of the Committee of Public Safety.

The Peace of Augsburg formally

According to the Ptolemaic system,

Prince Klemens von Metternich’s claim that he was guided by the principle of legitimacy meant

Louis XIV maintained complete authority as monarch by

____ were Marxists who rejected the revolutionary approach in favor of more political approach.

Otto von Bismarck practiced realpolitik, which was

In an attempt to adjust the trade imbalance with China, Britain began

Leonardo da Vinci was an excellent example of Renaissance Italy’s social ideal because he

When the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik I satellite in 1957, many Americans feared that

The only free states remaining in Africa by 1914 were

Two days after Hitler’s invasion of ____, Britain and France declared war on Germany.

Whose discovery of radium changed the world’s view of the atom?

In 1914, ____ was considered an act of war.

Montesquieu’s most lasting contribution to political thought was his

The High Renaissance in Italy is associated with which three artists?

____ joined José de San Martín’s forces to complete the liberation of Peru.

What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?

The alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy was known as the

The Treaty of Versailles was

The Constitutional Convention began as

Who proposed the germ theory of disease?

Isaac Newton’s universal law of gravitation

Production of ____ was one of the first industries to be affected by the Industrial Revolution.

The American nation’s first constitution was called the

What caused the United States to join the Allies in fighting World War I?

Sans-culottes meaning “without breeches,” implied that the members of this political group were

What is absolutism?

Hitler’s blitzkrieg, or “lightning war,” was

To deal with runaway German inflation, an international commission created the Dawes Plan which

To Darwin, ____ was central to organic evolution.

The alliance between Great Britain, Russia, and France was known as the

Adam Smith believed in laissez-faire, by which he meant that

Oliver Cromwell’s defeat of the king’s forces allowed him to

The Treaty of Paris in 1783 granted the Americans control of

James I of England believed in the divine right of kings, which is

John Locke’s ideas suggest that people were

Under the military pressure of Commodore Matthew Perry’s fleet, Japan

Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire became known as

What was the “white man’s burden”?

____, the aggressive preparation for war, was growing along with nations’ armies.

What was the name of the group that conspired to assassinate Archduke Francis Ferdinand?

Francis Bacon, an English philosopher, believed scientists should

____ was the first to argue that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe.

____ proposed the Open Door policy for China