World History - 2nd Semester Review (Vocab)

The nobles owned what % of the land and paid almost no taxes?

The Roman Catholic Church owned what percent of the land in France?

This set impossibly high quotas to increase the output of steel, coal, oil, and electricity?

What Soviet leader sent troops to occupy the eastern half of Poland?

this refers to large, government owned farms?

Who was known as Madame deficit?

By November 1917, who seized power in Russia?

What painter painted the Mona Lisa?

An adoption of the social, political, or economic institutions of Western countries

The perfection of this drug protected Europeans from becoming infected with Malaria?

The Prussian commanders threatened to destroy what French city (French Revolution)?

Who invented the printing press?

For generations, many Germans, along with other Europeans, had targeted what group?

A deliberate and public refusal to obey a law considered unjust

A social class made up of skilled workers, professionals, business people and wealthy farmers

The factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the welfare of all

The making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war

90,000 frostbitten, half-starved German troops surrendered to what country?

The use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering a region

Who was the leader of Germany's Afrika Korps?

A political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others

At least how many million Congolese died due to the abuses inflicted during Leopold's rule?

Who published Institutes of the Christian Religion? 

A person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risks of a business

A German submarine had sunk the British passenger ship________which killed 128 U.S. citizens?

Economic system in which the factors of production are privately owned

The shift from making goods by hand to making them by machine

To the Nazis, the Germanic peoples who formed a "Master race"

About what % of the people of France belonged to the 3rd estate?

An independent geopolitical unit of people having a common culture and identify

A sudden seizure of political power in a nation

What President forced Japanese Americans into internment camps?

The belief that people should be loyal mainly to their nation

A member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops

Who was just 24 when he became the sole ruler of Russia?

Kuomintang refers to what?

In the 1300s, the bubonic plague struck European cities hard, killing what % of the people?

Government control over every aspect of public and private life

8.5 million soldiers died in what war?

A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically 

How many times was King Henry VIII married?

Who invented the power loom?

King or Queens who held all of the power within their states boundaries

What President declared December 7,1941 as a "date that will live in infamy"?

What Russian leader organized his own police force whose duty was to hunt down traitors?

Who invented the seed drill that allowed farmers to sow seeds in well-spaced rows?

What President said he wanted to educate the Filipinos?

The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit

The invention of the ____________ allowed Europeans to easily travel on rivers?

Martin Luther wrote what famous document that attacked "pardon - merchants"?

Who believed that it was his duty to defend Catholicism against the Muslims

The systematic killing of a racial, ethnic, or religious group

A philosophy based on the idea that nothing can be known for certain

What French King borrowed heavily to help the American Revolutionaries?

A system in which the government made all economic decisions is a _________________

Who invented a spinning wheel he named after his daughter?

Armed with pitchforks and other farm tools, they broke into nobles homes and documents

The fascist policies of the National Socialist German Workers Party

A mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians

A wealthy noble who wanted to preserve the traditional monarchies of Europe

Machine of execution born in France

The Zimmerman Note stated that what country would help "reconquer" the land it had lost?

A form of complete socialism in which the means of production would be owned by the people

_____________, invented in 1884, was the world's first automatic machine gun

A period of European history, lasting from about 1300 to 1600

Who headed the Kuomintang?

Refers to the economic policy of letting owners of industry and business set working conditions

A merchant who wanted to give political power to parliament

An assembly of representatives from all three estates

The period of Robespierre's rule

A European who favored drastic change to extend democracy to all people

Who wrote about a poor Spanish Nobleman who went crazy after reading about heroic knights?

City neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live

A person who supports artists, especially financially

The practice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime

A government in which the ruler is viewed as a divine figure

Napoleon's policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and continental Europe

A policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries

At the Treaty of Versailles, the Allied leaders gave whom the territories were Germanies?

Who shot the archduke and his wife?

Thinkers attempted to apply the principles of reason and the scientific method 

A self-described "Holy Man" who claimed to have magical powers?

The study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation

A 16th century movement for religious reform leading to rejecting Pope's authority

Who painted portraits of wealthy middle-class merchants?

In March 1918, Russia and ___________ signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

The big winner in the War of the Spanish Succession was whom?

A logical procedure for gathering information about the natural world

Who increased his mutton output by allowing only his best sheep to breed?

The everyday language of people in a region or country

A political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism

Between 5 and 10 million peasants died as a direct result of what leaders?

The agreement by which people define and limit their individual rights, 

The resources that are needed to produce goods and services

A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts 

What countries strategic location appeared valuable to France and Britain?

How many Jews died in death camps and Nazi massacres?

Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters

Who believed that without wars and epidemics to kill off people, most were going to be poor?

The process of developing machine production of goods