HS World History Final

Question 1

True or false. The Wright brothers made their first successful flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

True or False: Russia erupted into civil war after the Bolsheviks seized power.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

Who invented the Cotton Gin?

Accepted Answer

Eli Whitney

Question 4

True or False: The Dutch colonists, also known as Boers, resented British rule in South Africa.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

What does 'Lebensraum' mean?

Accepted Answer

Lebensraum

Question 6

Who is this Musician?

Accepted Answer

Beethoven

Question 7

True or False. Bismarck developed a system of alliances that we call the Bismarck System.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

Which treaty did Japan sign with the United States, ending their 200-year period of isolation?

Accepted Answer

Treaty of Kanagawa

Question 9

Ms. Ward’s favorite historical period to study is known as the what?

Accepted Answer

Romantic Period

Question 10

True or False: Sigmund Freud developed key theories for understanding human behavior.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

The Swedish chemist whose name is attached to a famous award or prize.

Accepted Answer

Alfred Nobel

Question 12

What did the British parliament pass in 1174 to ensure French Canadian loyalty to British rule?

Accepted Answer

The Quebec Act

Question 13

What term refers to the elimination of weapons?

Accepted Answer

Disarmament

Question 14

True or False: The bombing of Pearl Harbor resulted in the end of World War 2.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 15

True or False. Bismarck negotiated a secret alliance with Russia known as the Triple Alliance.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

Which artist best represented the cubism movement?

Accepted Answer

Pablo Picasso

Question 17

Thomas Jefferson’s purchase of land from the French for $15 million was known as the what?

Accepted Answer

Louisiana Purchase

Question 18

Who invaded Russia in 1941 despite a nonaggression pact?

Accepted Answer

Germany

Question 19

Fascism took root in which two countries between the World Wars?

Accepted Answer

Germany and Italy

Question 20

What country left the war against Germany in 1917?

Accepted Answer

Russia

Question 21

What was the abbreviation for the British Royal Air Force?

Accepted Answer

RAF

Question 22

Who was president in the USA during World War 2?

Accepted Answer

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 23

True or False: Blitzkrieg means 'lightning war' in German.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

What major event led to Germany’s economic collapse?

Accepted Answer

World War 1

Question 25

Which Russian Chemist organized the chemical elements in a chart according to their atomic mass?

Accepted Answer

Dmitri Mendeleev

Question 26

Who invented the flying shuttle?

Accepted Answer

John Kay

Question 27

The 1823 agreement that America would stay out of European affairs was known as the what?

Accepted Answer

Monroe Doctrine

Question 28

What ideology would lead to the events of World War 2?

Accepted Answer

Fascism

Question 29

Which Englishman explored the eastern coast of Australia in 1770?

Accepted Answer

James Cook

Question 30

Who painted this work?

Accepted Answer

Caspar David Friedrich

Question 31

In 1908 who began production of his famous Model T automobile?

Accepted Answer

Henry Ford

Question 32

Buying off an aggressor by making concessions is defined as what?

Accepted Answer

Appeasement

Question 33

What period does this piece of art belong to?

Accepted Answer

The Romantic

Question 34

Austria signed the what in which it turned over territory to Italy?

Accepted Answer

Treaty of St. Germain

HS World History Final

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HS World History Final

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