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1
The agricultural improvements of the agricultural revolution led most directly to...
Population declines
Cottage industries
The enclosure movement
The "putting out" system
2
An overnight Nazi pogrom against Jews that destroyed thousands of businesses and killed dozens.
The Night of Long Knives
Kristallnacht
The Nuremberg Law
The Wannsee Program
3
The government under which Prime Minister is considered the "height of British liberalism"?
Winston Churchill
Ramsay MacDonald
Benjamin Disraeli
William Gladstone
4
The Nazi invasion of Russia was known by what name?
Operation Valkyrie
Operation Werrmacht
Operation Fortitude
Operation Barbarossa
5
In the late 20th century, between which two countries did border negotiations become violent?
Bosnia-Herzegovina and Yugoslavia
Hungary and Romania
East and West Germany
The Czech Republic and Slovakia
6
The only two African territories not colonized by Europeans were?
Ethiopia and Liberia
Liberia and the Congo
South Africa and Ethiopia
South Africa and the Congo
7
Which of the following is
not
considered an "enlightened despot"?
Joseph II of Austria
Frederick the Great of Prussia
Louis XV of France
Catherine the Great of Russia
8
What event led Louis XIV to the belief that to rule France, he had to control the nobility?
The Great Fear
The Edict of Nantes
The French Revolution
The Fronde
9
What are ethnic Hungarians also called?
Huns
Romani
Slavs
Magyars
10
In what year did Martin Luther nail his "95 Theses" to the church door in Wittenberg?
1517
1555
1527
1494
11
What event was used by Hitler to justify suspending civil liberties in Germany?
Operation Valkyrie
The Beer Hall Putsch
Kristallnacht
The Reichstag Fire
12
In what year did the "Sack of Rome" occur?
1347
1494
1555
1527
13
What was the purpose of the "beard tax" of Peter the Great?
He needed money to build his castle at St. Petersburg
He wanted to demonstrate his control over the Russian nobles
He wanted members of his court to look more "western"
He was concerned over sanitary issues related to facial hair
14
Which battle in 1571 demonstrated Philip II's desire to weaken the Ottoman Empire?
The defeat of the Grand Armada
The Battle of Sedan
The Battle of White Mountain
The Battle of Lepanto
15
The Anabaptists for a brief time held what city, hoping to create an Anabaptist communal city?
Wartburg
Wittenberg
Munster
Marburg
16
What is the term used to describe the Prussian nobility?
Boyars
Noblesse d' Epee
Junkers
Despots
17
Which of the following led to the first major split among "protestants"?
The Siege of Munster
The Edict of Worms
The Great Schism
The Colloquy of Marburg
18
During this year of revolts, Greece finally gained its independence from the Ottoman Empire
1789
1815
1830
1848
19
Which artistic movement focused on the importance of emotions and dreams?
Romanticism
Baroque
Neoclassicism
Realism
20
Who painted this work?
da Vinci
Michelangelo
Raphael
Botticelli
21
This World War I battle outside of Paris halted the Germans and led to trench warfare.
Battle of the Marne
Battle of the Somme
Battle of Sedan
Battle of Verdun
22
What agreement reinstated Catholicism as the "majority religion" in France?
The Concordat of 1801
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Unam Sanctum
The Lateran Accord
23
Who designed this piece of architecture?
Filippo Brunelleschi
Alberto Ghiberi
Leon Alberti
Ezio Auditore
24
What nation was known as the "sick man of Europe" by the 19th century?
Ottoman Empire
Poland
Spanish Empire
Austrian Empire
25
Who was the political mastermind behind the unification of Italy?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Victor Emmanuel II
Camillo Cavour
Giuseppe Mazzini
26
What action is reflected in this image?
Wilhelm II's dismissal of Bismarck
Bismarck heading to the "captain's cabin" to control Germany
Bismarck's refusal to help Wilhelm II in expanding the navy
Bismarck's actions that led to the unification of Germany
27
The 1881 assassination of this Tsar led to a retraction of "liberal" reforms.
Alexander II
Nicholas II
Nicholas I
Alexander III
28
What was the most influential religious order created during the Counter-Reformation?
The Ursuline Order
The Inquisition
The Dominicans
The Society of Jesus
29
19th c. term for the value system that kept middle/upper class women set roles in Britain/
Cult of domesticity
Gender status
La femme querelle
Separate spheres
30
Which nation led the way during the
second
Industrial Revolution?
Russia
Great Britain
France
Germany
31
What was the primary reason why Russia left World War I early?
The October Revolution
The Decembrist Revolt
The destruction of Moscow
The assassination of Alexander II
32
How many "zones of occupation" was Germany divided into after World War II?
4
6
3
2
33
The image is most closely associated with who, and what?
Brahe, the heliocentric view
Galileo, the geocentric view
Copernicus, the heliocentric view
Copernicus, the geocentric view
34
Which of the following is the proper order of Hitler's conquests?
Sudetenland, Poland, France, Anschluss
Anschluss, Poland, France, Sudetenland
Anschluss, Sudetenland, Poland, France
Sudetenland, Poland, Anschluss, France
35
Robespierre was arrested and executed during the...
Thermidorean Reaction
Great Fear
Brumaire Opposition
Great Terror
36
This map
best
represents Europe in approximately what year?
1810
1648
1870
1789
37
What African state was controlled by a Belgian king who treated the natives ruthlessly?
The Congo
Ethiopia
The Transvaal
Algeria
38
The final German offensive of World War II.
Battle of the Marne
The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Argonnes Forest
The Battle of Masurian Lake
39
This agreement created by Mussolini recognized the Vatican as an independent country.
The Vatican Accord
The Italia Irredente
The Lateran Accord
The Concordat of Bologna
40
Who was the leader of the free French during World War II?
Charles de Gaulle
Jacques Blom
Alfred Dreyfus
Marshal Petain
41
Which North American empire was conquered by Francisco Pizarro?
Haitian
Maya
Inca
Aztec
42
Economic warfare waged by Napoleon against the British.
Splendid Isolation
The Continental System
The British Ulcer
Manifest Destiny
43
Who is this northern Renaissance painter?
Durer
Vermeer
Brueghel
Van Eyck
44
The Allies agreed to divide Germany at which meeting?
Potsdam Conference
Tehran Conference
Wannsee Conference
Yalta Conference
45
Whose capture at the Battle of Sedan led to the end of the war it occurred in?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon III
Victor Emmanuel II
Giuseppe Garibaldi
46
Which of the following was a direct result of the Corn Laws?
Pugachev's Rebellion
The English Civil War
The Irish Rebellion
The Peterloo Massacre
47
A painting on wet plaster, allowing the paint to penetrate & become fixed as the plaster dries
Fresco
Sfumato
Chiaroscuro
Oil painting
48
What 19th century British group opposed the Industrial Revolution by destroying machines?
Fabians
Luddites
Marxists
Chartists
49
Who is considered the first prime minister of Great Britain?
Ramsay MacDonald
William Gladstone
Benjamin Disraeli
Robert Walpole
50
During the "Prague Spring" of 1968, Czechoslovakia attempted to...
End military links with the Warsaw Pact
Introduce a capitalist economy
Break completely from the influence of the Soviet Union
Allow greater personal liberties
51
The "Defenestration of Prague" involved
Catholics throwing Calvinists out a window
Calvinists throwing Catholics out a window
Catholics throwing Lutherans out a window
Lutherans throwing Catholics out a window
52
British PM in the 1980s:introduced privatization, crushed unions, and helped win the Cold War.
Theresa May
Margaret Thatcher
David Cameron
Harold Wilson
53
What treaty signaled the withdrawal of Russia from World War I?
The Treaty of Peterhof
The Treaty of Portsmouth
The Treaty of Tannenberg
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
54
Why did Henry VIII work closely with Parliament to establish the Anglican Church?
The English Constitution required it
Henry wanted to give the church greater legitimacy
Henry wanted Parliament to take the lead in the new church
Parliament was ready for war if Henry didn't work with them
55
Who issued the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713?
Emperor Charles VI
Empress Maria Theresa
Emperor Charles V
King Frederick the Great
56
The correct order of "phases" of the Thirty Years' War
Danish, Bohemian, Swedish, French
Bohemian, Danish, Swedish, French
Swedish, Bohemian, Danish, French
Bohemian, Swedish, Danish, French
57
Germany was finally unified under which royal family?
House of Habsburg
House of Hohenzollern
House of Bourbon
House of Hanover
58
What led to the "Spanish price revolution," or extreme inflation in Spain?
The increase in food prices from the Agricultural Revolution
Gold and silver from mines in the New World
An increase in goods from the Industrial Revolution
Spanish tariffs to prevent competition from foreign goods
59
On what date did the Soviet Union finally declare war on Japan in World War II?
August 6, 1945
August 9, 1945
August 8, 1945
July 15, 1945
60
During World War II, a puppet government was set up in this French city.
Avignon
Nice
Paris
Vichy
61
This image represents what significant event of the French Revolution?
The Tennis Court Oath
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
The decision to execute Louis XVI
Robespierre's speech prior to his arrest
62
Whose work
The Second Sex
argued for equality for women?
Simone de Beauvoir
Mary Wollstonecraft
Betty Friedan
Catherine d' Pisan
63
What was the real reason behind Russia's movement into Crimea in 1850?
Russia sought to conquer the Ottoman Empire
Russia had formed an alliance with the Ottoman Empire
Russia wanted to protect Slavs and Orthodox Christians
Russia wanted a warm-water port with Mediterrean access
64
Which Enlightenment figure declared humans were born a "tabula rasa," or blank slate?
Jean-Jaques Rousseau
Voltaire
John Locke
Denis Diderot
65
What is the correct order of the wars which helped unify Germany?
Austro-Prussian; Schlesweig-Holstein; Franco-Prussian
Austro-Prussian; Franco-Prussian; Schlesweig-Holstein
Schlesweig-Holstein; Austro-Prussian; Franco-Prussian
Schlesweig-Holstein; Franco-Prussian; Austro-Prussian
66
Leader of the modern, anti-immigrant Freedom Party in Austria.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
Jorg Heider
Nigel Farage
Angela Merkel
67
As a result of the 1905 Revolution in Russia, Tsar Nicholas II agreed to
Abdicate in favor of his son
Withdraw from the Russo-Japanese War
Create an elected national assembly
End serfdom
68
This post-WWII leader introduced the modern "welfare state" to Britain, including the NHS.
Clement Attlee
Anthony Eden
Margaret Thatcher
Winston Churchill
69
What did the Dreyfus Affair reveal about the French Third Republic
The presence of anti-Semitism
The desire for a constitutional monarchy
The need to industrialize
The influence of socialism in the government
70
The "final solution" to the "Jewish Question" in Germany was decided at...
The Berlin Conference
The Wannsee Conference
The Potsdam Conference
The Munich Conference
71
What new development of the Industrial Revolution is depicted in this image?
The cotton gin
The spinning jenny
The steam engine
The hand loom
72
Which Enlightenment
philosophe
argued that men and women inhabit "separate spheres"?
Spinoza
Diderot
Voltaire
Rousseau
73
Victor Emmanuel II was able to gain what Austrian territory in the Austro-Prussian War?
Rome and the Papal States
Sicily
Lombardy
Venetia
74
This painting is an example of what artistic style?
Neoclassicism
Romanticism
Rococo
Renaissance
75
Who was the author of
The Book of the Courtier
?
Nicolo Machiavelli
Alighieri Dante
Petrarch
Baldassare Castiglione
76
Which of the following was
not
one of the Henrys in the "War of 3 Henrys"?
Henry II
Henry of Navarre
Henry III
Henry of Guise
77
The work of Bartolomeo de las Casas about native American treatment gave rise to what?
The Index
The Reconquista
The Black Legend
The inquisition
78
Who was the hero of Verdun and later head of the French "puppet" government in World War II?
Louis Blanc
Charles de Gaulle
Jacques Chirac
Marshal Petain
79
The first Tudor monarch in England, winner of the War of the Roses, was...
Mary I
Henry VII
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
80
Who authored
Utopia
?
Thomas More
Baldassare Castiglione
Niccolo Machiavelli
Miguel de Cervantes
81
What was the result of the Edict of Worms?
Luther was excommunicated from the Catholic Church
The Schmalkaldic League declared allegiance to Martin Luther
Luther was declared an outlaw in the Holy Roman Empire
Luther announced his criticisms of the sale of indulgences
82
During the Austrian uprising of 1848, who was forced to flee Vienna?
Talleyrand
Ferdinand I
Metternich
Franz Joseph I
83
What was the treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War?
The Treaty of Tordesillas
The Peace of Westphalia
The Peace of Augsburg
The Treaty of Paris
84
Which of the following is
not
one of the five major city-states of Renaissance Italy?
Florence
Genoa
Venice
Milan
85
During the revolutions of 1830, this bourgeois man became the "citizen king" of France
Louis Philippe
Charles X
Louis XVIII
Louis Napoleon
86
The arguments of which of the following was a precursor to Luther's criticisms of the Church?
John Huss
John Calvin
Thomas More
Charles V
87
During the second half of the 19th century, who was the leader of the Tory party?
Ramsay MacDonald
Benjamin Disraeli
David Cameron
William Gladstone
88
Which of the following was a direct result of Stalin's blockade of Berlin
The introduction of a new currency in West Germany
The Marshall Plan
The building of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Airlift
89
Bismarck used this to help instigate war with France
The Zimmerman Telegram
The Schlesweig-Holstein Affair
The Ems Telegram
The capture of Napoleon III
90
The most famous existentialist philosopher
Jean-Paul Sartre
Soren Kierkegaard
Friedrich Nietzsche
Virginia Woolf
91
The term for Bismarck's policies that specifically targeted the Catholic Church in Germany
Realpolitik
Kulturkampf
Blood and iron
Reichsfuhrer
92
The only newly-created country after World War I that still had a democracy by 1930 was...
Hungary
Poland
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
93
Hitler's purging of the Nazi party and the SA, to gain military support & eliminate rivals.
The Night of Long Knives
The Wannsee pogrom
Kristallnacht
Kulturkampf
94
In what year did Italy unify?
1848
1871
1861
1884
95
This image represents what significant event of the French Revolution?
The execution of Louis XVI
The women's march on Versailles
The storming of the Bastille
The royalist revolt in the Vendee
96
This agreement allowed German princes to choose Lutheranism or Catholicism for their territory
Peace of Prague
Peace of Westphalia
Peace of Augsburg
Treaty of Tordesillas
97
What was the "powder keg" of Europe?
The Ottoman Empire
The Balkan States
The Black Hand
The Baltic States
98
Which family dominated the banking industry in Florence during the Renaissance?
The Durer family
The Machiavelli family
The Medici family
The Borgia family
99
In what year was the Act of Union that established "Great Britain"?
1815
1789
1707
1688
100
The "Dual Monarchy" of Austria-Hungary was formed through this treaty.
The Compromise of 1905
The Compromise of 1888
The Compromise of 1867
The Compromise of 1854
101
The Schuman Plan (1950) - membership of "the six" to control/integrate European production.
European Union
European Economic Community
Council of Europe
European Coal and Steel Community
102
Which of the following devised the "three laws of planetary motion"?
Tycho Brahe
Johannes Kepler
Nicolaus Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
103
Which war led to France's loss of virtually all of its colonial possessions in the New World?
The War of Jenkins' Ear
The Seven Years' War
The Napoleonic Wars
The War of Spanish Succession
104
Who wrote
The Leviathan
, supporting a secular vision of an absolutist state?
Niccolo Machiavelli
Thomas More
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
105
The "Charge of the Light Brigade" was a critical event of which war?
The Seven Years' War
The Crimean War
The Napoleonic Wars
The Thirty Years' War
106
Which system of government was supported by the majority of Enlightenment philosophes?
Enlightened absolutism
Constitutional monarchy
Democracy
Republicanism
107
In this map, this line was established by...
The Treaty of Tordesillas
The Lateran Accord
The Concordat of Bologna
The Truman Doctrine
108
The group of Parisians that took over Paris for a brief time during the Franco-Prussian War.
The sans-culottes
The Commune
The Committee of Public Safety
The Mountain
109
Which artistic movement is strongly associated with "genre paintings"?
Realism
Baroque
Neoclassicism
Dutch Realism
110
What are
rotten boroughs
?
Manufacturing areas where workers were mistreated
Unfair electoral districts resulting from population changes
Districts where enclosures moved peasants off common lands
Districts in London with high levels of prostitution
111
The end of this war allowed German states to be Calvinist, while establishing new nations
The Hundred Years' War
The Thirty Years' War
The Schmalkaldic War
The Seven Years' War
112
Which of the following was a direct result of the Pragmatic Sanction?
Prussia invaded Silesia
The Habsburg Empire was divided between Ferdinand and Philip
The Magyar Rebellion
Poland was partitioned
113
Which political group was considered the "moderate" faction during the French Revolution?
The Mountain
The sans-culottes
The Jacobins
The Girondin
114
Theodor Herzl was the leading advocate for what idea?
Laisses-faire economics
Utilitarianism
Zionism
Partitions of Poland
115
Which of the following faiths was most connected to the growing wealthy middle class?
Anabaptism
Catholicism
Lutheranism
Calvinism
116
The term for the selling of church offices, widely criticized by the 16th century, is?
Indulgences
Blasphemy
Simony
Heresy
117
The third wife of Henry VIII, and her fate
Jane Seymour, beheaded
Jane Seymour, died after childbirth
Anne Boleyn, died after childbirth
Anne Boleyn, beheaded
118
Which nation lost the Great Northern War?
Sweden
Finland
Norway
Russia
119
The swath of land in Czechoslovakia that Hitler was allowed to annex through appeasement was?
Alsace-Lorraine
The Anschluss
Lebensraum
The Sudetenland
120
What group was the Test Act designed to protect against?
Anglicans
Catholics
The Chartist Movement
Puritans
121
Who is considered the "father of humanism"?
Dante
Boccaccio
Machiavelli
Petrarch
122
The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre was directed against whom?
Huguenots
Anabaptists
Lutherans
Catholics
123
In what year did the Holy Roman Empire
officially
cease to exist?
1806
1918
1815
1648
124
Which of the following describes the policy of economic reform under Gorbachev?
Comintern
Perestroika
Glasnost
Gosplan
125
Who was the financial minister under Louis XIV?
Colbert
Richelieu
Mazarin
Sully
126
Which of the following had the
weakest
monarchy circa 1500?
Spain
France
England
The Holy Roman Empire
127
What political treatise argued that a leader should be both a lion and a fox?
The Inferno
Utopia
The Prince
The Book of the Courtier
128
The image illustrates the German World War I tactic known as:
The Maginot Plan
Blitzkrieg
The Luftwaffe
The Schlieffen Plan
129
The event that landed Hitler in prison for a brief period.
The Defenestration of Munich
The Night of Long Knives
The Beer Hall Putsch
Kristallnacht
130
Which term refers to the slavery-like grant of labor given to Spaniards in the New World?
Reconquista
Tordesillas
Encomienda
Hacienda
