World History Semester 2 Final Exam

Which of the following contributed to France's financial crisis?

The state of tension between nations without armed conflicts between the main rivals was known as the

All people and resources to the war effort and imposing censorship of the press

What was the Manhattan Project?

Which of the following doctrines promised to aid nations struggling against communist movements?

What was one of the Stalin's golas in Eastern Europe?

When did Britain and France adopt a policy of appeasement toward Germany?

Americans suffered the least amount of casualties during the war because they

How did Western imperialist nations try to modernize the lands they conquered?

To cover the costs of governing their colonies, colonial authorities

The Congress of Vienna

In the late 1800s, American sugar growers overthrew Queen Liliuokalani and aksed the United States to annex

Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?

The Battle of Britain involved

The Allied invasion of _____ was given the code name D-Day.

In 1792, the National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy and declared France

What is genocide, as practiced by the Nazis?

Following the US military withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973, Vietnam

The actions of which country finally forced the US to enter the war

Western nations' overseas expansion was partly a result of manufacturers' need for

One problem that the industrial working class poor had was that the drinking water

Why did Britain consider India its "Jewel in the Crown"?

Where did the US drop the atomic bomb?

Which of the following is the most closely linked to labor reform?

The French people welcomed Napoleon because

The Sepoy Rebellion was caused by

Historians believe that one of Napoleon's greatest impacts is

One advantage European countries had in their imperial expansion was

Mao Zedong's policy to re-start the revolution by imprisoning/killing intellectuals and starting peasant uprisings

What German action finally caused Britain and France to declare war?

While democratic elections were allowed in West Germany, East Germany

The Battle of the Bulge was significant because it marked the

The competition among western powers for global empires caused

What was one reason that Japanese nationalists were determined to seize Manchuria?

The Negritude movement was a movement to

What action began Hitler's plan to limit the rights of German Jews?

He wrote the Wealth of Nations, promoting laissez-faire

Most of the profits from the imperial global exchange went to

What did the National Assembly vow in the Tennis Court Oath?

Which country became involved in the Korean War after UN forces reached the Yalu River in North Korea?

WHo was considered the father of modern Egypt because of his political and economic reforms?

Money to invest in labor, materials, and machines

Mao Zedong and Jiang Jieshi disagreed over

Which event is most closely associated with the end of the Cold War?

How did the Allies end the war with Japan?

Who founded the Pan-Africanism movement?

An agreement to end fighting

The US, Soviet Union, Britain, France, and ____ are permanent members of the United Nations..

In 19th century cities, the poor lived

Many Italians supported the Fascist Party because it

In 1789, King Louis XIV summoned the Estates-General primarily to

Which weapons of mechanized warfare were introduced in World War I?

What was the conflict in which China lost to Britain, forcing them to sign the Treaty of Nanjing and give up Hong Kong

What is the dividing line between North and South Korea?

What were the "Three Principles of the People"?

Why did Gandhi undertake the Great Salt March?

What was the effect of the Berlin Conference?

All of the following were conflicts during the Cold War except

Factory owners blacklisted people suspected of being union members in order to

Economy where production of goods is owned and controlled by society/government

By 1870, the two countries that most closely ranked alongside Great Britain as industrial powers were the US and

What nation(s) signed a nonaggression pact with Germany that led to the invasion and division of Poland?

Having pride in your country and willing to defend it

What 1919 event, killing 379 peacefully gathered Indians, showed British cruelty and inspired Indian nationalism?

What subjects did Spanish painted Diego Velazquez focus on in his paintings?

Means business should operate without government interference

Many Indians were angry at the British after World War I because

How did the League of Nations respond to Japan's actions in Manchuria?

Which of the following ended Russia's involvement in World War I?

What British document supported the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine?

Marie Antoinette was the wife of which French monarch?

What was the Great Salt March an example of

Assembly line innovator

Which of the following conditions during the Industrial Revolution supported Karl Marx's ideas?

Which of the following was used as a justification for imperialism?

President Nixon's Vietnamization policy emphasized that the US must

Which of the following was NOT a cause of World War I?

Germany's plan for fighting France and Russia was called

How did the Napoleonic Code reflect Enlightenment principles?

Agreements or promises to defend and help another country

Operation Overlord is more commonly known as

The Zimmerman telegram

What was the name of the reform movement begun by student protests?

Which country launched the first satellite into space?

The Treaty of Versailles resulted in all of the following EXCEPT

The outbreak at the Bastille released a wave of peasant violence called the

What was the campaign to recapture Japanese held islands in the Pacific called?

Socialism according to Karl Marx, where capitalism would fail and would lead to the creation of a classless society

What was the area between the trenches called during World War I?

An estimated 40,000 people suspected of being traitors were executed by the guillotine during the

Which of the following became an important source of power for the Industrial Revolution?

The leader of the Reign of Terror

He was the dictator of the Soviet Union during World War II.

The Declaration of the Rights of Man guaranteed all of the following EXCEPT

This group comprised 97% of France's population before the revolution

What was one of the outcomes of the Long March?

On which two fronts did Germany fight during World War I?

What did the Nazis establish to help them with the "Final Solution"?

Trying to build up an empire by taking control of weaker nations

World War I was more destructive than earlier wars because