Final Exam Review I

Question 1

What economic trend of the “roaring twenties” did the MOST to cause the crash that began the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

The rash overvaluation of stocks in U.S. markets

Question 2

Hitler used fear and resentment to win votes for the Nazi Party and was legally appointed chancellor of Germany.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

Hernan Cortes was the Spanish conquistador who led the expedition that resulted in the fall of the Aztec empire.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

Chernobyl is considered the deadliest and most damaging nonmilitary nuclear incident to date.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

European powers stood by as Nazi Germany violated the Treaty of Versailles by invading WHICH of the following regions?

Accepted Answer

Poland

Question 6

The art and literature inspired by World War I was uniformly pessimistic and antiwar.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

Which of the following proved MOST crucial to Simón Bolívar’s liberation efforts in South America?

Accepted Answer

inclusion of enslaved people, mestizos, and natives in liberation movement

Question 8

The founder of China’s Yuan dynasty was:

Accepted Answer

Kublai Khan

Question 9

20th century chlorofluorocarbons emitted by many household aerosol sprays had what harmful impact on the environment?

Accepted Answer

Depleting the protective ozone layer

Question 10

Which military innovation did the Allies take advantage of to kill large numbers of civilians living under Axis rule?

Accepted Answer

Strategic bombing

Question 11

China famously developed a system of exams to ensure that members of its civil service were as qualified as possible.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

Alan Turing spearheaded much of the theoretical work behind the development of computer science in the 1940s and 1950s.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

At the beginning of WWII, The Soviet Union had recently and publicly signed a neutrality pact with Germany.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

What style of combat MOST dominated the Western Front during World War I?

Accepted Answer

Trench warfare

Question 15

By 1200 China splintered into several states, with the southern Song state the most technologically advanced among them.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

The North American metropolis of Cahokia was built by:

Accepted Answer

The Mississippian civilization

Question 17

Confucian inspired parts of East Asia assigned peasants a higher status than the wealthy merchant class

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

The most strictly stratified forms of social hierarchy are typically referred to as

Accepted Answer

caste systems

Question 19

Which political faction controlled France’s government during the revolutionary Reign of Terror?

Accepted Answer

The Jacobins

Question 20

Napoleon ousted the Spanish king in favor of his brother which weakened the country’s colonial authority overseas.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

Which of the following places assigned certain members of its lower classes to an “untouchable” status?

Accepted Answer

Japan

Question 22

The temple complex of Machu Picchu is most closely associated with the Inca.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 23

Which European conflict caused so much social stress that peasants on both sides rebelled against their governments?

Accepted Answer

Hundred Years' War

Question 24

Which did NOT characterize New Deal policymaking after the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932?

Accepted Answer

mass military conscription

Question 25

What environmental disaster struck the United States and Canada during the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

The "dust bowl" crisis

Question 26

What Great Depression era U.S. policy decision did the MOST to spread its damaging effects to other parts of the world?

Accepted Answer

Imposing high tariffs on goods sold to the U.S. from abroad

Question 27

Which following two countries are currently the world’s most populous?

Accepted Answer

India and China

Question 28

Which two international accords have so far done the most to combat the harmful effects of climate change?

Accepted Answer

Kyoto and Paris

Question 29

Which statement best describes the outcome of the initial interactions between Hernan Cortes and Moctezuma?

Accepted Answer

There was an initial period of cautious diplomacy before tensions escalated

Question 30

How did Moctezuma initially perceive Hernan Cortes and the Spanish conquistadors?

Accepted Answer

As foreigners to be cautiously observed and assessed

Question 31

The long-standing method of organizing large-scale labor among the peoples of the Andes was called:

Accepted Answer

Mit'a

Question 32

Mamluks and janissaries are examples of which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Elite military units recruited by slavery

Question 33

During the early stages of the French Revolution, which of the following actors pressed hardest for meaningful change?

Accepted Answer

The Third Estate

Question 34

Which of the following is NOT true about social and political life after World War I in North America and Europe?

Accepted Answer

All major states in both regions granted women the right to vote.

Question 35

In Latin America where constitutional governance failed, what name was often given to the political strongmen who ruled?

Accepted Answer

Caudillos

Question 36

What was one of Hernan Cortes' primary motivations for exploring and conquering the Aztec civilization?

Accepted Answer

To find gold and other riches

Question 37

What measure did the Nazi regime enact to deprive Jews of their civil rights and to forbid them to marry ethnic Germans?

Accepted Answer

The Nuremberg Laws

Question 38

Which of the following is NOT true of Tenochtitlan?

Accepted Answer

It reached the peak of its power under the Mayans.

Question 39

In capitalist economies, boom and bust cycles lead to periods of growth to alternate with periods of recession.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 40

Which of the following forms of energy does NOT depend on fossil fuels?

Accepted Answer

Nuclear

Question 41

Between 1200 and 1450, most people made their living by

Accepted Answer

agriculture

Question 42

Measured by the number of deaths, the worst disease outbreak of the period after 1900 has been:

Accepted Answer

The Spanish Flu of 1918

Question 43

According to an overwhelming scientific consensus, the primary driver of contemporary climate change is:

Accepted Answer

Human-caused emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon

Question 44

The purpose of guilds in urban centers during this period was typically to

Accepted Answer

give artisans a collective way to set rules of membership and conduct

Question 45

François Toussaint L’Ouverture led which of the following wars of independence?

Accepted Answer

Haiti's

Question 46

In northeast Africa, which religion remained dominant among the Copts of Egypt and the people of Ethiopia?

Accepted Answer

Christianity

Question 47

Which of the following decisions was made by Nazi officials at the Wannsee Conference in early 1942?

Accepted Answer

To construct death camps for the assembly-line extermination of Jews

Question 48

A high degree of social mobility DOES NOT make it relatively easy for someone to gain or lose status within a hierarchy.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 49

Which of the following BEST describes the impact of urbanization during the 1200–1450 period?

Accepted Answer

It fostered the growth of merchant classes.

Question 50

Which fourteenth-century African ruler was celebrated as one of the wealthiest monarchs of the age?

Accepted Answer

Mansa Musa

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