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A basic #review of #European history from the Renaissance to Modern era
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1
Who was a leading figure in the French Revolution?
Jacobin
Napoleon II
Frederick the Great
Robespierre
2
Who were in the Triple Alliance?
Italy, Germany, Austria
Germany, Russia, and Austria
Britain, USA, and USSR
France, Britain, Russia
3
What art movement focused on light colors and the aristocracy?
Dada
Rococo
Romanticism
Impressionism
4
The Congress of Vienna, led by Metternich, followed what war(s)?
World War 1
The Thirty yrs War
Napoleonic Wars
World War 11
5
Which of these was a totalitarian form of government?
All of the options
Nazism
Communism
Fascism
6
What was the period before the French Rev. called?
The New Regime
Aristocratic Domination
Serfdom
The Old Regime
7
Who was the leader of the Zionist movement?
Dreyfus
Mendelhossen
Spinoza
Herzl
8
What was NeoClassicism a reaction against?
Rococo art
Romantic art
Baroque art
Renaissance art
9
Who modernized and westernized early Tsarist Russia?
Catherine the Great
Alexander II
Nicholas II
Peter the Great
10
Who is considered the father of modern political science?
Machiavelli
Henry VIII
Edmund Burke
Adam Smith
11
Who were the first Europeans to believe in social progress?
Communists
The Philosophes
Capitalists
The Physiocrats
12
Who introduced Heliocentricism?
Copernicus
Aristotle
Kepler
Galileo
13
Where did the Habsburgs rule?
Romania
Austria
Germany
Prussia
14
What feminist opposed Rousseau's views on gendered education?
Christine de Pisan
Olympe de Gouges
Emiline Pankhurst
Mary Wollstonecraft
15
Hitler and Stalin promised to remain neutral towards each other in what pact?
Treaty of Versailes
Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact
Treaty of Ultrecht
The Munich Conference
16
What was the US policy towards communism in the cold war?
Utilitarianism
Mutually Assured Destruction
Containment
Appeasement
17
Who was the Triple Entente between?
Britain, Spain, Prussia
France, Britain, Russia
Russia, Britain, Germany
Austria, Germany, Italy
18
What happened to the German economy during the Weimar Republic?
Inflation
Decline
Prosperity
Stagnation
19
What were the consequences of the Scramble for Africa?
Better relations with non European empires
Destructive to the European economy
Created a global economy at expense of native cultures
Stronger african economy
20
Who emerged as Europe's leading commercial nation in the 1700s?
Austria
Russia
Germany
Great Britain
21
How did England avoid dramatic revolution?
Divine right of kings
Moderate reforms
Brutal oppression
Drastic reforms
22
What did urbanization cause?
Changed family structure and women's role
The formation of the proletariat
Spread of disease
All the options
23
What did the Edict of Nantes declare?
Rights of Huguenots
Formation of the Protestant League
Restriction of Calvinism
Elimination of the monarchy
24
Who wrote the communist manifesto?
Franz Ferdinand
Marx and Engels
Marx
Engels
25
Who overthrew the Romanov Dynasty?
Kerensky
Stalin
Lenin
Trotsky
26
Which 3 Eastern empires declined in the 1600s-1700s?
Russia, Germany, and Austria
Bulgaria, Romania, and Lituania
Poland, Hungary, and the Dutch Republic
Ottomans, Holy Roman Empire, and Poland
27
What did the Treaty of Versailles do to Germany?
Excluded them from signing
Forced them to pay reparations
All the options
Demilitarized the Rhineland
28
Who was considered the father of Humanism?
Thoreau
Petrarch
Machiavelli
Erasmus
29
What economy did Adam Smith advocate?
Mercantilism
Competitive free trade market
Labor Unions
Welfare state
30
What was French policy regarding Germany? (pre-ww1)
Keep Germany weak and fractured
Strengthen and trade with Germany
Germany was not worth regard
Build an alliance
31
What did the Treaty of Westphalia do?
Left Germany fractured
All of the options
Established a new balance of power with France as leader
Let German rulers determine religion of own land
32
What was Darwinism applied to human society called?
Racism
Common sense
Social Darwinism
Radical science
33
Who, respectively, united Italy and Germany?
Mussolini and Hitler
Bismark and Napoleon
Cavour and Bismarck
Frederick and Cavour
34
What economic policy valued exports > imports and termed bullion?
Commercialism
Communism
Existentialism
Mercantilism
35
What was the term for a political leader who valued their nation over their religion?
Constitutional Monarch
Politique
Tsar
Dictator
36
Who backed North Korea in the Korean war?
The USA
The USSR
Vietnam
The USC
37
What did the Bill of Rights do?
Gave Parliament more power in the government
Let a woman rule
Established the Divine Right of Kings
Legalized Calvinism
38
What inspired Martin Luther to write the 95 Thesis?
The worker's plight
Church sale of indulgences
Lack of church welfare
Poor treatment of women
39
What did Louis declare, under the policy of "one king, one law, one faith"?
Edict of Nantes
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Peace of Augsburg
Treaty of Utrecht
40
Name in chronological order
Stalin, Lenin, Gorbachev, Khrushchev
Lenin, Stalin, Gorbachev, Khrushchev
Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Gorbachev
Khrushchev, Lenin, Stalin, Gorbachev
41
What did the Pragmatic Sanction accomplish?
Let Fredrick the Great succeed to throne
Let Russia rule the Balkans
Let Maria Theresa succeed to throne
Let Bourbons rule Spain
42
What event exposed anti-semetic views in Europe?
The Franchise Act
Emile Zola's article
The Dreyfus Affair
The Paris Commune
43
Who preached the concept of predestination?
Henry VII
Theodore Herzl
Thomas Munzer
John Calvin
44
What characterized the Romantic movement?
Reason and Mechanical view of world
Classical themes
World gone mad with war
Emotion, nature, and medieval inspiration
45
When did the Soviet Union fall?
1989
1891
1999
1991
46
What effect did the Agricultural Revolution and capitalism have on the population?
Increased slightly
Decreased dramatically
Increased dramtically
Decreased slightly
47
What was the motivation for the Age of Exploration?
New technology and markets
All the options
New trading post colonies
Spreading Christianity
48
Which French King said "I am the state", also known as the Sun King?
Colbert
Louis XVII
Louis XIV
Napoleon III
49
What was the term for trade between the new world and old world?
Scramble for Africa
Age of Discovery
The Columbian Exchange
Mercantilism
50
What government did the Dutch have during their Golden Age?
Democratic representative
Puritan republic
Constitutional monarchy
Protestant nation without an absolute ruler
51
What movement in the 1900s focused on feminism, civil rights, and the welfare state?
USSR
Solidarity movement
The Green Party
Environmentalists
52
What was the EEC?
European Union
European Economic Community
European Economic Communism
Economic Union
53
What Enlightenment thinker saw humans as creatures of goodwill and reason?
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
Erasmus
Thomas Paine
