Abeka World history Final Exam 1

___ was an attempt by the Nazis to destroy the Jewish people.

president during part of the cold war and especially during the superpower rivalry and the Cuban missile crisis.

What was Caesar Augustus plan for 200 tears of prosperity in the Mediterranean?

After World War II, the long period of intense rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States.

What was the importance of John Wycliffe?

communist leader of North Vietnam, used guerilla warfare to fight anti-commonest.

What Treaty divided the Charlemagne Empire into 3 parts?

Who started philosophy with the question "What is the best way to live?"

What is the most magnificent church building of the middle ages and the greatest achievement of the byzantine empire?

Former state dept. official, Accused of being soviet spy

Production of crude oil reached about 2 million barrels per day. owns 10% of worlds oil storage.

____ victories prevented western Europe form being taken up by Muslims.

George Bush Leader of NAZI Party. Blamed Jews for all of Germany troubles.

What was the name of the Carthage war that mean in Latin: Phoenician

Who united 2 states and became the first pharaoh of Egypt?

The battle of Midway was one of the most decisive battle in the pacific theatre.

Tony Blair Prime Minister of the UK from 1997 to 2007

The Brahma hindu religion used what as their social structure?

jailed for 26 years and then became the first black president of South Africa, ANC supporter?

Who successfully transformed Russia into a great power that would play an important role in European history?

What was Rome's greatest contributions to civilization?

Solidarity showed that working class and intelligent could unite and compete effectively for the leadership of a nation

Who was the first President of the Russian Federation

The third Crusade was an attempt by European leaders to reconquer the Holy Land from Saladin. Was also called ___.

What was the main part of Mesopotamia?

What was discovered by Napoleon's men that contained a message carved in hieroglyphics?

Who authored "The Communist Manifesto" and "Das Kapital", created the main form of modern communism.

Lenin and communists created a new state called what?

Banished to Taiwan after WWII.

What book is knows as the day of judgement, as a way of counting everything King William had.

Who invented the movable printing press?

Who was maybe the greatest Renaissance artist or in general artist of all time

Who created the trading center of Timbuktu?

What is Modern history?

Who was known as the father of the hydrogen bomb?

Who said "Education must engage with and enlarge with and enlarge experience"?

Who was called "My shepherd" and "My anointed"

What was the first important European civilization after the flood?

Charles Martel defeated the invading Muslims at ___.

This Statesman brought Athenian Democracy to the fullest.

What war did the U.S. fought against Iraq when they illegally invaded Kuwait.

PLO chairman

9/11 was an Islamist extremist group named al-Qaeda attacked America.

Who said morality is not either/or (good or bad); it's more complex than that; it boils down to the 'will to?

What was used with apostolic succession that misused scripture to found the Roman church?

London the first city to be destroyed by an atomic bomb

What is Medieval history?

What is the worlds oldest living civilization?

CIA operation to overthrow Fidel Castro by landing 1200 disgruntled Cuban exiles in the Bay of Pigs

What was the significance of Hapshetsphut?

A series of major attacks by communist forces in the Vietnam War

Britain's Conservative Party leader and Prime minister in 1979.

Cuban revolutionary leader who overthrew the corrupt regime of the dictator.

Homer wrote the Iliad and the odyssey

General of Imperial Japanese Army.

Sumer was the first postdiluvian civilization.

What is the acronym for a space based, laser-armed, anti-mid range ballistic missile defense system?

Who lead the Carthaginian forces into the second Punic war at a victory in the Battle of Cannae?

Became prime minister of Italy in 1922 and eventually dictator.

Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in Tiananmen Square

What was the mountain all the Greek gods lived on?

Who concluded that the order of the universe had to come form god?

Lenin overthrew the provisional government in this...

Who began the first great persecutions against the new testament church?

___ was the founder of Islam. Most of his early life was spent as a merchant.

Spain's king in the Golden Age great cultural growth in literature, music and the visual arts.

Who was the descendant of Noah's son that built and lead the first world empire?

An attack by the Japanese Aircraft to America on December 7, 1941

He ran on a campaign based on the common man and populist ideas. used the SDI to avoid conflict.

Who overthrew the provisional government in the Bolshevik revolution

Who wrote against Gnosticism in his work, All Heresies?

What document put into place "No taxation without representation"?

Lech Walesa founded Solidarity

George W. Bush former governor of Idaho

Became known as ___ the conqueror after his victory at the Bartle of Hastings.

Who was known as the father of history?

Translated the Rosetta Stone?

Who was the first medieval pope?

Who was leader of the great Mongolian Empire

Britain united Boer republics with Cape Colony to form new, independent state of South Africa

A political organization formed to unite Arab groups and to bring about an independent state of Palestine.

Who, dissatisfied with Hindu made Buddhism?

What is ancient history?

Who painted the Mona Lisa and Last Supper?

Who was the first great leader of the Byzantine Empire?

Bioethics is...

Pearl Harbor was an attempt to win back France from Nazi Germany by landing troops on the French beaches of Normandy.

Who Ruled Communist Party of Russia from 1922-1953. Famous for his purges; cruel, tyrannical and evil?

Who Declared war on Germany?

Under the command of this general the American expeditionary force arrived in France at the rate of 300,000 men a month?