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WH 2nd FINAL
wh 2 semester final
| QUESTION : ) | ANSWER : ) |
|---|---|
| The islands that Christopher Columbus explored in his voyage in 1492 later became known as the _________________.` | West Indies |
| The voyage to Calicut by Vasco da Gama soon led to the creation of a vast trading empire for ________________. | Portugal |
| The first Europeans to challenge Portuguese domination of Asian trade were the ________. | Dutch |
| The first permanent European settlement in Africa was ______. | Cape Town |
| The _________________ divided world trade and exploration rights between the Spanish and Portuguese. | Line of Demarcation |
| The population of ______ grew slowly because the harsh winters kept many French from settling there. | New France |
| The first leg of the _______________ brought European goods to Africa. | triangular trade route |
| The English colonies of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Maryland were mainly set up as havens for persecuted _______________. | religious groups |
| Widespread inflation struck Europe in the mid-1500s due to the increasing amounts of ____________ from the Americas. | gold and silver |
| Joint stock companies allowed early European capitalists to raise large amounts of ___________. | capital |
| In 1607, the English established their first permanent colony in the Americas at ______________. | Jamestown |
| The _______________ set out guidleines for governing the Plymouth colony | Mayflower Compact |
| The economic system of capitalism encourages _______ ownership of most businesses. | private |
| After the death of his chief minister in 1661, ___________ took complete control of the government. | Louis XIV |
| An important goal of ___________ of Spain was to defend the Catholic Reformation | Philip II |
| As a result of the ________________ in 1648, France gained territory on its Spanish and German frontiers | Peace of Westphalia |
| In 1598, the ________________ helped to ensure that French Protestants would not be persecuted. | Edict of Nantes |
| A limited monarchy was created in England by the _____________________. | Glorious Revolution |
| One effect of the ___________ was the severe depopulation of Europe. | Thirty Years' War |
| Louis XIV appointed royal officials from the middle class to his _____ because they helped to check the power of the nobles and Church. | bureaucracy |
| The Puritans were dissenters who sought to change ____ practices in the Church of England. | Catholic |
| Finance minister ______________ helped to make France the wealthiest state in Europe by imposing mercantilist policies to bolster the economy. | Jean Baptiste Colbert |
| Britain passed the _____________ to regulate colonial trade and manufacturing. | Navigation Acts |
| The U.S. banned the sale of _____________ to Japan, and this influenced the Japanese decision to attack the U.S. | iron, steel, and oil |
| The Nazis ____________ Germany, and this was a rejection of the Treaty of Versailles. | re-armed |
| At the Munich Conference in 1938, the ______________ persuaded the Czechs to surrender the Sudetenland. | British and French |
| Hitler decided to invade the _____________ because he wanted their vast natural resources. | Soviet Union |
| German forces set up a "____________" in Vichy after conquering France. | puppet state |
| The U.S. strategy of "___________________" in the Pacific allowed the U.S. to gradually move north toward Japan | island-hopping |
| One of ______'s major goals in Eastern Europe after WWII was to create a buffer zone of friendly governments. | Stalin |
| After WWII, Japan adopted a _______________. | parliamentary democracy |
| The fact that weapons were more powerful than ever before made the ________________ terrifying. | Cold War |
| The American strategy under ______ was to restrain the Soviets through diplomatic agreements. | detente |
| The "_______________" was the fear of communists in the United States. | Red Scare |
| The ______________ was the alliance dedicated to the security of communist nations in Europe during the Cold War. | Warsaw Pact |
| After WWII, the U.S. offered assistance to war-torn European nations through the ________________. | Marshall Plan |
| As a result of Gorbachev's ___________, shortages grew worse and prices soared. | Perestroika |
| The _____________________ and the Cultural Revolution were social reform programs led by Mao Zedong. | Great Leap Forward |
| The defeated Chinese _____________ fled to the island of Taiwan. | Nationalists |
| The purpose of the _____________ talks and the START treaty was to limit the number of nuclear weapons held by the superpowers. | SALT |
| The main goal of the National Liberation Front, or Viet Cong, was to overthrow _______________ government. | South Vietnam's |
| After the Soviet Union split up and communism was defeated in Eastern Europe, China accelerated its embrace of ___________. | communism |
| During the _____________, the Tet Offensive turned American public opinion against the war. | Vietnam War |
| In 1992, the Slovaks and Czechs split _______ into separate nations because they are separate ethnic groups with their own language and traditions. | Czechoslovakia |
| In general, the provisions of the _____________ focused mainly on punishing Germany. | Treaty of Versailles |
| Britain joined WWI when Germany invaded _____. | Belgium |
| The ________________ was considered a valuable ally because it controlled Russian supply routes. | Ottoman Empire |
| VI Lenin was the leader of the _________________ in 1917 during the November Revolution. | Bolsheviks |
| To defend their merchant ships against attacks from ______________, the Allies organized the merchant ships into convoys. | German submarines |
| Georges Clemenceau wanted to weaken Germany at the Paris Peace Conference so that it could never again threaten _______. | France |
| The right of ____________ to choose their own form of government was one of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. | Eastern Europeans |
| Under ___________________ rule in Italy, there was a one-party dictatorship. | Mussolini's |
| When Japan invaded ___________ in 1931, the League of Nations responded by condemning Japan's actions, but did nothing to stop it. | Manchuria |
| In the 1920s, the U.S. became the world's leading _______. | economic power |
| A key characteristic of ____________ in the 1920s and 1930s, was supremacy of the state. | fascism |
| In 1935, the Nazis passed the _________, which deprived Jews of German citizenship. | Nuremberg Laws |
| One cause of Stalin's ____________ was that he feared rival party leaders. | Great Purge |
| A production method in which workers repeatedly perform one task in the manufacturing process is called the ___________. | assembly line |
| A company that sells ownership shares to many ____ is a corporation. | investors |
| The theory of ____________________ applied the idea of natural selection to the development of busiiness and society. | Social Darwinism |
| Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo were writers of the ___________ movement. | Realism |
| The fact that women could not _____ and were barred from most schools limited their effectiveness in the temperance movement. | vote |
| Romanticism can be described as a revolt against the _____________'s emphasis on reason. | Enlightenment |
| The _____________ process was a method for producing steel. | Bessemer |
| Jose de San Martin helped ______________ win freedom from Spain. | Argentina |
| Napoleon's occupation of ______ spurred Simon Bolivar and his followers to begin the struggle for independence. | Spain |
| Unlike revolutions in other Latin American countries, ____'s fight for freedom was carried out by slaves. | Haiti |
| Who introduced many social reforms in Germany because he wanted to avoid a socialist revolution? | Bismarck |
| When Italy unified, it took a constitutional ______. | monarchy |
| Italian unification was complete when ___________ were turned over to Victor Emmanuel by Giuseppe Garibaldi. | Naples and Sicily |
| When the Frankfurt Assembly offered _______________________ the throne of a united German state in 1848, the ruler refused because the offer came from "the people." | Frederick William IV of Prussia |
| The ___________ was formed to push for Indian self-rule. | Indian National Congress |
| Who believed that opening the interior of Africa to Christianity and trade would end the slave trade? | David Livingstone |
| Henry Stanley was hired by ____________ to explore the Congo River basin and arrange trade treaties with African leaders. | King Leopold II |
| What country was able to remain independent because it modernized and imported European weapons? | Ethiopia |
| Ethiopia was able to preserve its independence by defeating ______ invaders in 1896. | Italian |
| The purpose of the _____________________ was to protect U.S. trading rights in China. | Open Door Policy |
| The United States Constitution created a ____________, which divided power between national and state governments. | federal republic |
| The _____________ imposed taxes on such items as newspapers and pamphlets in the American colonies | Stamp Act |
| They system of _________________ in the United States Constitution was influenced by the ideas of Montesquieu, an Enlightenment thinker. | checks and balances |
| Britain passed the _____________ to regulate colonial trade and manufacturing. | Navigation Acts |
| The _____________________ marked a turning point in the American Revolution because the American victory convinced France to support the Revolution | Battle of Saratoga |
| American leaders gathered in ___________ in 1787 to revise the Articles of Confederation. | Philadelphia |
| The Declaration of the __________________________ was modeled on the American Declaration of Independence. | Montesquieu |
| The ________________________ was a form of economic warfare. | continental system |
| When the new _______________ met in 1792, the radicals created a republic. | National Convention |
| Under the __________________, men regained complete authority over their wives | Napoleonic Code |
| The only country that was able to remain outside Napoleon's European Empire was ________________. | Great Britain |
| During the _____________________, trials and executions were carried out under the authority of the Committee of Public Safety | Reign of Terror |
| Participants in the __________________ vowed to continue meeting until they were able to bring about a just constitution. | Tennis Court Oath |
| The Russians used the scorched-earth policy to defeat _________________. | Napoleon |
| During the _________________, people migrated from rural areas to cities. | Industrial Revolution |
| Which group established communities where all work is shared and all property is owned in common? | Utopians |
| The first ____________ developed in the textile industry. | factories |
| Karl Marx despised ____________ because he believed that it created prosperity for a few and poverty for many. | capitalism |
| One long-term result of the ______________ was a general rise in the standard of living. | Industrial Revolution |
| Steam became an efficient power source because of improvements made by ________________. | James Watt |
| Most early factory workers were _________ because they could be paid less than men. | women |
| The development of ____________ enabled the growth of railroads. | steam power |
| Napoleon's final defeat was at the Battle of _________________. | Waterloo |
| The Declaration of the __________________________ was modeled on the American Declaration of Independence. | Rights of Man and the Citizen |
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