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European History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What settlements were made by the Congress of Vienna? | Belgium and Luxemburg were added to Holland, to form the Netherlands. Prussia gained lands along the Rhine River. Austria reasserted control over northern Italy. |
| A statement by the US government in 1819 telling the Concert of Europe to stay out of the hemisphere. | Monroe Doctrine |
| Any English place that had very few voters yet was represented in Parliament. | rotten borough |
| Voted in by Parliament. Does what they tell them to do. | Prime Minister |
| Extreme pride in one's country, no matter what. | Nationalism |
| What wars figured prominently in creating Germany? | Franco-Prussian War, Danish War, Seven Weeks War |
| Conflict between Germany (Bismarck) and the Catholic Church. | kulturkampf |
| Who created Young Italy? | Mazzini |
| Who created Risorgamento? | Garibaldi |
| A wealthy person creates a company to gain a profit. | Capitalism |
| Who wrote Wealth of Nations? | Adam Smith |
| Opposes any government intervention in business affairs. | Laissez-faire |
| What stopped trade routes between India? | German East Africa |
| Opponents in the Opium War? | Britain and China |
| What did Britain receive as a result of the Opium War? | Hong Kong |
| The real names of the "Boxers" | Society of Righteous Harmonious Fists |
| Showed the British that the Indians were willing to fight. | Sepoy Rebellion |
| What nation fought to control the Balkan Peninsula after WWI? | Ottoman Empire |
| He fought for the creation of the League of Nations. | Woodrow Wilson |
| What nations were created at the Versailles Conference? | Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia |
| USA policy to keep to ourselves after WWI. | isolationism |
| Where is the Sudetenland? | Czechoslovakia |
| What was important in the Sudetenland? | Skoda Works |
| Gave Hitler the Sudetenland. | The Appeasement of Hitler/Munich Conference |
| The pact that says Germany can't fight with Russia. | Nonagression Pact of 1939 |
| Why did Hitler want the Ukraine area of Russia? | Lebensbraum |
| Who believed population's rise would be the end to WWI? | Malthus |
| What caused the Russian Revolution of 1917? | War with Germany. |
| Who wrote The Prince? | Machiavelli |
| What sparked the Thirty Years War? | Defenstration of Prague |
| What situation caused the October Manifesto? | Bloody Sunday |
| What nations were created by the Boer War? | Orange Free States |
| What were the Axis nations? | Ottoman Empire, Germany, Austria |
| "Peace in our time." | Neville Chamberlain |
| What event sparked WWII? | Germany's invasion of Poland. |
| Who created Social Darwinism? | Herbert Spencer |
| What product sparked the Industrial Revolution? | Textile Mills |
| Who created The Iron Law of Wages? | David Ricardo |
| Who replaced Charles X as monarch? | Louis Philippe |
| Last areas to be added to Italy? | Venetia and Rome |
| Where was the armistice of WWI? | Palace of Versailles |
| Policy based on realism rather than ideas. | realpolitik |
| Councils of workers and soldiers. | Soviet |
| What caused France to declare the Franco-Prussian War? | Ems Dispatch |
| Atomic bomb project is called..? | Manhattan Project |
| What sparked WWI? | The assassination of Franz Ferdinand. |
| Who was the "citizen king"? | Louis Philippe |
| Who emancipated the Russian serfs? | Alexander II |
| He was falsely accused of providing military secrets to the Germans. | Captain Dreyfus |
| French developer of the Suez Canal. | Ferdinand D-Lesseps |