Final Exam

Question 1

Which reason did NOT contribute to the start of the Great Depression in the 1930’s?

Accepted Answer

Growth of the Nazi Party

Question 2

Which statement BEST describes the Treaty of Versailles?

Accepted Answer

was resented by Germany, did little to promote lasting peace

Question 3

Who was the Prime Minister of England during the Battle of Britain?

Accepted Answer

Winston Churchill

Question 4

What is Divine Right?

Accepted Answer

The belief that a king gets his power directly from God

Question 5

A _____________ system is a system which a European power ruled another power directly

Accepted Answer

Imperial

Question 6

Why did Martin Luther disagree with the Roman Catholic Church?

Accepted Answer

He believed that salvation was based on faith alone

Question 7

Who was the militaristic leader of World War 2 Japan?

Accepted Answer

Hideki Tojo

Question 8

Which Enlightenment thinker would most likely agree with right to “life, liberty and property”?

Accepted Answer

John Locke

Question 9

period in which Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety used the guillotine

Accepted Answer

Reign of Terror

Question 10

Who founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)?

Accepted Answer

Ignatius of Loyola

Question 11

Part of the triangular trade which sent enslaved people from the west Africa to Americas called

Accepted Answer

Middle Passage

Question 12

What major battle was the turning point for the Russians in Eastern Front of World War II?

Accepted Answer

Stalingrad

Question 13

What two countries did the Line of Demarcation divide newly discovered lands

Accepted Answer

Portugal and Spain

Question 14

Why did the United States declare war on Japan?

Accepted Answer

The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor

Question 15

Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?

Accepted Answer

England

Question 16

The Munich Agreement of 1938 BEST illustrates which of the following seeds of World War II?

Accepted Answer

Failures of the Treaty of Versailles

Question 17

What was the MAIN reason for Japanese imperialism in Asia?

Accepted Answer

Japanese needed more raw materials than they provide

Question 18

Which empire was located on the western coast of South America, in modern-day Chile and Peru?

Accepted Answer

Incan

Question 19

Karl Marx’s idea that workers should collectively own the means of production

Accepted Answer

Communists

Question 20

Which statement BEST describes nationalism?

Accepted Answer

having pride in a common heritage or shared history

Question 21

The first European sailor to reach India by sailing around Africa was

Accepted Answer

Vasco da Gama

Question 22

What was one of Napoleon's MOST important achievements?

Accepted Answer

Creating a uniform code of law

Question 23

What caused the French Revolution of 1789?

Accepted Answer

burdening the 3rd estate with the heaviest taxes

Question 24

Who conquered the Aztec Empire?

Accepted Answer

Hernando Cortes

Question 25

Which idea would supporters of laissez-fair support?

Accepted Answer

Allowing private companies to set wages

Question 26

What was the name of the book written by Rousseau

Accepted Answer

The Social Contract

Question 27

Known as the Sun King

Accepted Answer

Louis XIV

Question 28

What is the name of the theory that a country’s power depends on its wealth?

Accepted Answer

Mercantilism

Question 29

What is the purposeful extermination of an ethnic, religious or national group is known as?

Accepted Answer

Genocide

Question 30

Which two cities were the targets of the United States’ atomic bombs in 1945?

Accepted Answer

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 31

In 1935, Italian Fascists led by Benito Mussolini invaded the African Nation of

Accepted Answer

Ethiopia

Question 32

What was Woodrow Wilson’s chief goal at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919?

Accepted Answer

establish the League of Nations

Question 33

Which incident triggered the start of World War I in 1914?

Accepted Answer

the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand

Final Exam

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Final Exam

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