World History Review SP 2018 (Renaissance to present)

Question 1

Who believed all men are born with three natural rights?

Accepted Answer

John Locke

Question 2

Under Bin Laden's leadership, Al Qaeda gave the reason to disliked the US as being

Accepted Answer

the US is allied with Israel, US troops are "infidels", US troops had entered the Muslim holy land of Saudi Arabia, US troops had killed Iraqi Muslims during the Gulf War

Question 3

In 1935, the Nazi Party passed the __________ which outlined what a Jew could or could not do.

Accepted Answer

Nuremberg Laws

Question 4

What became known as the "national razor"

Accepted Answer

Guillotine

Question 5

Pres. Bush led a UN coalition in __________. It liberated Kuwait but left Saddam in power.

Accepted Answer

the Persian Gulf War

Question 6

Who is Nelson Mandela?

Accepted Answer

First black president in South Africa

Question 7

What was a mode of cheap transportation that developed in the Industrial Revolution?

Accepted Answer

railroads

Question 8

Sepoys in India rebelled because the British government

Accepted Answer

violated their religious practices

Question 9

Which of the following was NOT a requirement of Germany in the Treaty of Versailles?

Accepted Answer

Destruction of all industry in the Rhineland

Question 10

Introducing vanilla, potatoes, and corn to Europe is an example of

Accepted Answer

The Colombian exchange

Question 11

Which of the following was NOT a cause of the French Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Clashes within the Clergy

Question 12

Who was involved in the Boer War in Africa?

Accepted Answer

Boers and British

Question 13

What thinker of the Scientific Revolution first proposed the Heliocentric Theory ?

Accepted Answer

Copernicus

Question 14

The rebirth of art and learning is known as

Accepted Answer

Renaissance

Question 15

What were the imperialist European nations looking for when they conquered Africa and Asia?

Accepted Answer

Raw materials and new markets

Question 16

Absolute rulers believed God appointed them to be king or queen. This is

Accepted Answer

Divine Right

Question 17

Saddam was given weapons by

Accepted Answer

US, USSR, West Germany, and France

Question 18

Opposition to the Shah of Iran was led by ________________, an Islamic fundamentalist.

Accepted Answer

Ayatollah Khomeini

Question 19

ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) formed because

Accepted Answer

followed a strict brand of Islamic law/fundamentalism Islam., the Civil War in Syria, al Qaeda was not defeated in Iraq, the Americans left

Question 20

The French word for middle class is

Accepted Answer

bourgeoisie

Question 21

He was the American president who ended the Cold War

Accepted Answer

Reagan

Question 22

Corrupt behavior of priests and the sale of indulgences by the Church caused

Accepted Answer

the Reformation

Question 23

The Jewish Agency declared independence of the Jewish & Arab state created by the UN, naming it

Accepted Answer

Israel

Question 24

He was the American president who invaded Iraq after the 911 attacks

Accepted Answer

Bush

Question 25

Known as "the night of broken glass", this is often seen as the beginning of the Holocaust.

Accepted Answer

Kristallnacht

Question 26

Ayatollah's new Islamic government was

Accepted Answer

demanding strict adherence to Islam, hostile to the West, denied rights to women, banning books, movies, and music

Question 27

What was America's Foreign Policy before Japan bombed Pearl Harbor?

Accepted Answer

Isolationism

Question 28

One thing Leonardo Da Vinci is known for is

Accepted Answer

Painting the Mona Lisa

Question 29

What event triggered the American global "war on terror?"

Accepted Answer

Four hijacked airliners killing almost 3,000 people on 9/11

Question 30

This battle was the turning point in the European theater of World War II

Accepted Answer

Stalingrad

Question 31

"God, glory, and gold" are the three reasons for

Accepted Answer

European exploration

Question 32

Three branches of government was an idea from

Accepted Answer

Baron de Montesquieu

Question 33

What were some long term effects in Africa due to Imperialism?

Accepted Answer

Tribal wars, Identity problems, Loss of independence, Break down of traditional culture

Question 34

During the 1930s, Hitler, Mussolini, and the military leaders of Japan

Accepted Answer

began invading neighboring lands

Question 35

The US strategy in the Pacific during WWII was often called _________, or leapfrogging.

Accepted Answer

Island Hopping

Question 36

What country did Germany invade first, to start WWII?

Accepted Answer

Poland

Question 37

A new way of thinking about the natural world based on careful observation and questioning

Accepted Answer

Scientific Revolution

Question 38

This individual is known as the father of modern economics.

Accepted Answer

Adam Smith

Question 39

What was the middle passage?

Accepted Answer

forced voyage of enslaved Africans to the Americas

Question 40

Jihad means

Accepted Answer

"holy war"

Question 41

Since Saddam's death,there have been several ______________ In Iraq.

Accepted Answer

successful elections with very high voter turnout.

Question 42

The time period when machine-made goods increased was called

Accepted Answer

Industrial Revolution

Question 43

The longstanding German battle plan to conquer France first, then Russia, was known as

Accepted Answer

The Schleiffen Plan

Question 44

Bin Laden led terrorist attacks against Americans in

Accepted Answer

the USS Cole, The World Trade Centers, the Pentagon, and the US Capitol, Two US embassies in Africa, Somalia

Question 45

The religious practice when priests release people from the penalty for their sins for money is

Accepted Answer

Indulgences

Question 46

Mohandas Gandhi used his policy of ________________ to achieve independence in India

Accepted Answer

Non-violence

Question 47

When Napoleon crowned himself emperor it demonstrated that

Accepted Answer

his power was over the church

Question 48

The ruling family known for supporting the arts during the Renaissance was

Accepted Answer

Medici

Question 49

During this meeting, European nations divided African colonies among themselves.

Accepted Answer

Berlin Conference

Question 50

Which two countries opposed each other during the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

Soviet Union and the United States

Question 51

The Soviet Union hid missiles on the island of

Accepted Answer

Cuba

Question 52

The first European explorer to set up a colony in North America was

Accepted Answer

Christopher Columbus

Question 53

The Ottoman Empire dissolved after

Accepted Answer

World War I

Question 54

The economic system in which people own property and invest to make a profit is

Accepted Answer

Capitalism

Question 55

What did art in the Renaissance focus on?

Accepted Answer

Humanism, Secularism, Realism, and Individualism

Question 56

Which two cities did America drop the Atomic Bomb on at the end of WWII?

Accepted Answer

Nagasaki and Hiroshima

Question 57

Who was involved in the Opium War?

Accepted Answer

Great Britain and China, China and British

Question 58

Karl Marx idea for a classless society is known as

Accepted Answer

Communism

Question 59

European nations began to conquer large areas of Africa and Asia. This practice is known as

Accepted Answer

Imperialism

Question 60

What event is considered the beginning of WWI?

Accepted Answer

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Question 61

Anti-Semitic Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected as President to

Accepted Answer

Iran

Question 62

When revolutionary mobs stormed a French prison looking for gunpowder, it was called

Accepted Answer

storming the Bastille

Question 63

This area of the world, the Middle East, is a crossroad for three major religions:

Accepted Answer

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Question 64

This symbolized the end of World War I, and is often seen as a cause of WWII.

Accepted Answer

The Treaty of Versailles

World History Review SP 2018 (Renaissance to present)

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World History Review SP 2018 (Renaissance to present)

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