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World History Sem 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How did the Scientifice Revolution lead to the Enlightenment | It encouraged people to use reason to try to understand social, political, and economic issues |
| What rules discoverabe by reason did Enlightenment thinkers try to apply to the study of human behavior | natural law |
| In A Vindicaion of Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft agrued that women and men should have equl | Education |
| WHo wrote theat people have a natural right to overthrought a government that violates their rights? | John Locke |
| Which statement best describes the ideas of Thomas Hobbes and Jean Jacques Rosseau? | Hobbes beleived people in their natural state were bad;Rosseau belevied they were good |
| Influential opponents of the Enlightenment included | Church Authorities |
| Enlightenment wrighters often faced censorship because they | challenged the old order |
| A literary form that developed during the Enlightment was | The Novel |
| An Enlightenment despot was a ruler who | Influenced political and social change |
| Which statement best describes enlightement despots of the 1700's | They kept sbsolute power for theselves |
| Because the American colonies were home to diverse groups | Social distinctions were more blurred then Europe |
| When George III became king of Great Britian in 1760 he | Decided to reasssert the powers of the crown |
| Britian passed the Navigation Acts to do what? | regulate colonial trade and manufacturing |
| The Battle of Saratoga marked a turning point in the AMerican Revolution because | The American victory concinved France to support the Reovlution |
| What is the pourpose of the Bill of Rights | to recognize that the people have rightes the government must protect |
| This man beleved in a powerful government. He argued that peopple were naturally cruel, greedy, and selfish. If they were not controlled, they would fight, rob, and opress one another | Thomas Hobbes |
| Who was one of the most famous philosophes took the name Voltaire he was best know because he defended the principal of freedom of speech | Francois-Marie Arouet |
| He belevied that some controls by goverment were necessary, but they should be miminal and only goverments that had been freely elected should impose these controls | Jean- Jacques Rosseau |
| Who was refering to the freedom of religion when he said "in my kingdom, everyone ccan go to heaven in his own fashion' | Frederick the Great of Prussia |
| What included John Lock's ideas of the government's obligation to protect the people's natural right to "life, liberty, and property" It also included another of Locke's ideas: people had the right "to altar and abolish" unjust governments | The Declaration of Indipendence |
| What established a government run by the people, for the people | The United States Constitution |
| Frence socity during the Old Regime was divided into three estates. In France's Old Regime the clergy belonged to | First Estate |
| The Third estate was | the largest of the estates |
| Louis XVI was forced to dismiss his financial advisior, Jacques Necker when Necker proposed | taxing the first and second estates |
| One Important result of the meeing of the Estates General called my Louis XVI wass | the National Assembly |
| How did Eurpoean monarchs and nobles feel about the French Revolution | The opposed it because they feared revolution would spread |
| The declaration of the rights of man and the citizen was modeled on the | American Declaration of Indipendence |
| Who resisted the ideas of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen | Louis XVI |
| The national assembly voted to pay off the huge government debt by | selling church lands |
| What kind of government did the Constitution of 1791 set up? | a limited monarchy |
| When the new national convention met in 1792 what form of government did the radical create | a repubic |
| What helped Naopleon rise to power | his military successes |
| Which country was able to remain outside Nampleon's empire | Britian |
| The Nepoleonic Code was a reform of the nation's | legal system |
| a disastrous attempt to invade Russia was the beginning of Napoleon's downfall What war tactic helped the Russians defeat Napoleon | schorched- earth policy |
| The cheif goals of the congress of vienna were to | preserve peace thought a balance of power and restore monarchies |
| What caused a severe economic crisis in France | bad harvests deficit spending and costly wars |
| What led parisians to storm the Bastille in search of weapons | Fear that the royal troops would occupy Paris |
| Who was a journalist who spoke out in favor of womens rights and was eventually imprisoned and excuted | Olympe de Gouges |
| When the radicals took control of the National Assembly they called for the election of a new legislative body called the National Convention what was to be extened to all male citizens at this time | Suffrage the right to vote not just property owners alll male citizens |
| What was the guillotine | it had a fast falling blade which etinguised life immidetally it was introduced as a more humane way of beheading people |
| What did Austria, Russia, Prussia, and Great Britian do to protect order in Europe | They extended their wartime alliance into the postwar era. They pledged to act together to maintain the balance of power and to suppress revolutanary unrisings, especally in france |
| Which statement best describes the Industrial Revolution | There was a gradual change in the way people lived and worked |
| What is one way improved agriculture contributed to population growth | it created a surplus of food |
| During the industrial revolution life changed in what basic way | People migrated from rural areas to citied |
| Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. The cotton gin was a machine that could | Seperate seeds from raw cotton |
| The flying shuttle and the spinning jenny were technolofical advances that led to the factory system in a pratufular industry. The first factories developed in what industry | textiles |
| why did factory owners often prefer to hire women | would coul be paid less then men |
| those who benefited most from the industrial revolution were | entrepreneures |
| Laissez- faire economists beleved | a free market would benifit everyone |
| The main purpose for selling stock was to allow companies to raise | capital |
| a production meethod in which workers repeatedly preform one task in the manufacturin process in called | the assembly line |
| the population of europe exploded between 1800 and 1900 in a large part because | Medical advances reduced the death rate |
| How did workers respond to the harsh conditions of industrial life | they formed unions and mutual aid socities |
| what did some critics of women's suffrage claim | women were too emotional to vote |
| the three social classes in western europe by the lat 1800 were | the upper class the middle class and the workers and peasants |
| As an army nurst during the crimean war, she insisted on better hygiene in the field hospitals | Florence Nigtingale |
| what provided a new source of labor and increased demand for factory goods | population growth |
| what two advanced in transportation m made it faster, cheeper, and easier to reach global markets | railroads and steamships |
| What law was passes in the early 1800's to reduce a child's workday to 12 hours and remove children from cotton mills | The Factory Acts |
| To improve efficiency manufaturers designed products with these | interchangable parts |
| What was one reason that the womens movement faced strong opposition | men beleved that women belonged in the home |
| Why was Charles Darwin's threory of natural selection contravercial | to contradicted the accepted biblical account |
| Which nations made up the triple alliance? | Germany Italy Austria-Hungary |
| Why were Serbian nationalists angry when Francis Ferdinand of Austria visited Bosnia | They saw the Austrians as oppressive foreign rulers |
| Which of the following had the greatest impact of the outcome of teh World War I | submarines |
| What event made Britian to fight in the World War I | Germany invaded Belgum |
| For which of the following reason did the Schilieffen Plan fail | Russia mobilized it's army quickly |
| A stalemate developed along the Western Front early in World War I because | trench warfare made it diffucult for either side to win an advantage |
| What countries battled each other on the Eastern Front during World War I | Germany and Russia |
| What was the Ottoman empire condidered such a valubal ally | it controlled Russian supply routes |
| Some colonial subjects were eager to participate in the war because | They beleved they would gain greater civil rights |
| How did women help in the war effort during world war I | they worked in war industries |
| In The Zimmerman note, Germany offered which of the following to Mexico if it joined the Central Powers | The return of Mexican lands held by the United States |
| What what the immediate result of Russia's withdrawl from World War I | Germany concentrated it's forces of teh Western Front |
| The "Big Three" included the leaders of | Frace, Britian and the United States |
| In general the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles focused mainly on | punishing Germany |
| Which one of these events occured first | Russia entered World War I |
| What were the two major alliance formed prior to World War I | Triple Alliance and Triple Entente |
| What was the spark that lit the powder keg of Europe or started World War I | The assination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand |
| What happened because of the stalemate on the Western Front | Neither side could advance they dug into trenches and fought over a fe hundred yards of land |
| After the war what "war" did the British and French have | a propaganda war |
| What league did the US refuse to join | League of Nations |
| What was on reason why the Spanish Civil war was called a "dress rehersal: for World War II | The Nazis used the war to test their new weapons |
| What did the Nazi-Soviet pact accomplish for Germany | It gave Germany a free hand in Poland |
| What even marked the beginning of the World WarII | the German invasion of Poland |
| In which French city did German forces set up a "puppet state" capital after conquering Franc | Vichy |
| Adolf Hitler dicided to invade the Soviet Union becasue | He wanted to soviet union's vast natural resources |
| Adolf Hitler's "final solution" was his plan to | Ruthlessely murder all European Jews |
| The concept of total war included | The regulation of wages and prices |
| How did Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt give in to Joesf Stalin at the confrence in Tehran in 1943 | They let the borders in the Nazi-Soviet Pact stand |
| What was the important about the Battle of Bulge | it delayed the allied advance from the west |
| The German air force was almost grounded by the time of teh D-Day invasion because | The Germans had little fuel due to Allied bombing |
| The US strategy of "island hopping" in the Pacific | allowed the US to gradually move north toward Japan |
| Who made the final dicision to use the atomic bomb in an attempt to end the war in teh Pacific | President Harry S Truman |
| What important principal did the Nuremberge trials demonstrate | The national leaders could be held accountable for wartime actions |
| What was on of Josef Stalin's major goals in Eastern Europe after World War II | to crate a protective buffer zone of friendly governments |
| The Truman Doctrine was rooted in the idea of | Containment |
| How did the western democracies desperately try to preserve peace during the 1930s | they adopted a police of appeasement or giving in to the demand of an agressor in order to keap peace |
| Adolf Hitler's program to kill all people he judged as "racially inferior" was also know as | The Holocaust |
| What happened to many people in the US Canada and Japan after the war | They lost there jobs property and civil rights |
| What did the women do whal the men were away at WOrld War II | They replaced the in essential war industry jobs |
| Where did the US drop the two bombs in Japan | Hiroshima and then Nagasaki |
| What was the North Atlantic Treat Organization (NATO) | was a military alliance of the US, Canada< and nine european countries who pledged to help one another if they were ever attacked. |
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