Modern World Final Exam Review 1

Sent the Spanish Armada to England

Led Russia during the Enlightenment of the 1700s

Known as the “Sun King”

Promoted the ideas of separation of powers after observing how well it worked in the United States

What kind of ruler has full control over everything that happens in his realm of influence?

What was the name of the government established in Germany directly following WWI?

WWII started with what country being invaded?

Where was the first area of disagreement in the Cold War?

What winning country never joined the League of Nations?

What country experienced the Bolshevik Revolution?

Leader of Great Britain

President who resigned because of the Watergate scandal

Who replaced David Cameron as prime minister of Great Britain?

Leader of the USSR after Stalin’s death

What country became increasingly involved in India during the 17th century?

Who became the first female Prime Minister of Great Britain?

Even though still a Communist by party affiliation, who helped bring some freedoms to Czechoslovakia?

How many nations were created out of Yugoslavia?

What kind of new commercial organization sprang up in the 16th century?

Who became the president of France in 2016?

Leader of the US during most of WWII

President that started the Great Society

Leader of Nationalist Spain

Who brought France back from the ashes of WWII?

Believed that men give up their rights for the protection of the government

President whose “doctrine” stated that the US would send money to countries threatened by communist expansion

Prior to WWII, what were the three totalitarian countries in Europe? (choose 3)

Became king due to the restoration of the French monarchy

Who was the first chancellor of Germany following WWII?

Promoted the ideas of evolution

Name for French Protestants

Leader of the Communist Chinese

The Rhineland was taken from what country?

What nation heavily invested in Germany before WWII?

President during the Korean War

Began the Protestant Reformation

What rebellion broke out in China in response to westernization?

Believed to be the founder of Feminism

Brought Russia into the modern age

Influential in the unification of Germany

What country did Germany merge with following the Franco-Prussian War to become a united Germany?

Famous Utopian Socialist in Great Britain

English king that adopted the English Bill of Rights

Ruling dynasty in India before European control

Ruled England following the English Civil War

Leader of Norway

Leader of the US when WWII ended

Believed that gov. is a contract and if a gov. breaks the contract then the gov. may be abolished & create a new one

First leader of Russia under the Communism

Who became the Solidarity leader in Poland and helped them gain some freedoms?

Did Eastern or Western Europe recover faster from WWII?

Leader of Vichy France

Leader of the Nationalist Chinese

President in the 1980s who greatly strengthened America

Tried unsuccessfully to create a European empire

Accepted as a national hero in France after the French Revolution

Led the Committee of Public Safety in France

President impeached because of the Lewinsky scandal

Followed Yeltsin as president of the USSR

What prized possession did England lose because King George III was determined to “be king”?

What crop changed South American and Caribbean life drastically?

What event led to the downfall of Spain?

What was the South African policy of segregation known as?

What communist country posed the most threat to the US in the 1960s?

Became president of Russia in 2008

Which type of monarchy has more power?

Who were the two major players in the Cold War? (choose 2)

Controlled Germany until Wilhelm II

Under which Prime Minister did Britain create their modern welfare state?

Leader of the USSR

Leader of Germany

What country did the Protestant Reformation begin in?

Leader of Italy

What nation left World War I part of the way through World War I?

Believed that man is born “tabula rasa” and is shaped by his experiences

British PM who supported the US following the 9/11 attacks in creating an international coalition against terrorism?

President elected in 2016

Leader of free France

Most active in missions work following the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation

Longest ruling British monarch

What nation was the first ruling power in South America?

Soviet leader whose “Doctrine” stated that the USSR would intervene in another nation if socialism was threatened

President during the majority of the Vietnam War

Published the first printed edition of the Greek New Testament

Military leader of Japan

Austrian king who fully embraced Enlightenment philosophy

What nation remained divided following WWII because the USSR would not give up their portion?

Who said, “All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”?

What two events caused the United States to become involved in World War I? (choose 2)

The Sudetenland was taken from what country?

Leader of the USSR in 1985

English King that was beheaded

Leader of the USSR after Khrushchev

First president of the USSR

Following WWI, what nation was the strongest on the European continent?

Became king of England after Elizabeth I died childless

Who promoted Post- structuralism (aka deconstruction)?

Russian czar who repealed many political reforms following his father’s assassination

Who became the first female national leader in all of German history?

What war effectively ended Metternich’s Congress System?