Download World History Spring 2011 Final Review Chapter 14 1. To secure his

World History Spring 2011 Final Review
Chapter 14
1. To secure his crown, what religion did Henry IV of France convert to?
2. What was the primary reason the War of the Spanish Succession was fought?
3. What are some characteristics of the artistic technique of mannerism?
4. What happened as a result of the Edict of Fontainebleau, particularly for Huguenots?
5. For what reason were most wars fought between 1559 and 1648?
6. What were the outcomes of the War of the Spanish Succession?
7. What country/region suffered most during the Thirty Years’ War?
8. What happened to the German states as a result of the Peace of Westphalia?
9. What country emerged as the strongest state in Europe after the Thirty Years’ War?
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What was significant about the Edict of Nantes?
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What was Peter the Great’s main goal as czar?
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The conflict between what two groups started the Thirty Years’ War?
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Who was the main conflict of the Thirty Years’ War between?
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Who came to power during the Glorious Revolution in England?
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What was significant about the English Bill of Rights of 1689?
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Why was the Habeas Corpus Act important?
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What powers did absolute monarchs have?
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What was the major weakness of the Hapsburg’s Austrian Empire?
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Intendants in France were used for what reason?
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What were the various purposes of Louis XIV’s palace at Versailles?
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Who did the witch hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries mostly target?
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What did Frederick William the Great Elector do because of the Thirty Years’ War?
20. Hobbes’ theory of government involved what kind of leadership?
21. Who believed that all men were born as a tabula rasa, or blank slate?
22. According to John Locke, what 3 natural rights are all people born with?
Chapter 17 - Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
23. The Scientific Revolution began when scientists began to question what theory?
24. In general (and excluding women), how did the philosophes view the role of women?
25. In contrast to Rene Descartes, what was Francis Bacon’s method of reasoning?
26. What was Johannes Kepler’s contribution to astronomy during the Scientific Revolution?
27. Who made discoveries in the field of medicine during the Scientific Revolution?
28. Who first proposed the heliocentric theory of the universe?
29. Who proposed the theory of universal gravitation?
30. The Enlightenment can also be called the “Age of __________”
31. What are the 5 key concepts of the Enlightenment?
32. What are the causes of the Scientific Revolution?
33. What were the motivating factors of the “Enlightened despots?”
34. Who edited and published the Encyclopedia?
35. Enlightenment ideas influenced Catherine the Great to do what in Russia?
36. What reforms did Joseph II of Austria enact?
37. What are the long-term effects of the Enlightenment on people’s view of society?
38. Who said, “I think, therefore I am?”
39. Who wrote Crime and Punishment and argued that punishments should fit the crimes?
40. What did Galileo observe about planets?
41. Adam Smith’s idea of laissez-faire refers to what?
Chapter 18 – French Revolution
50. Members of what estate paid most of the taxes prior to the revolution?
51. What were the three estates of France prior to the revolution?
52. What was the immediate cause of the French Revolution?
53. What event symbolically started the French Revolution on July 14, 1789?
54. What did the Tennis Court Oath pledge?
55. What were the main problem that faced the Estates General meeting?
56. What group that controlled the Legislative Assembly wanted to spread the revolution through war with
Austria?
57. The revolution turned radical at the hands of the ________________, who imprisoned Louis XVI.
58. What group imposed and controlled the Reign of Terror?
59. The Thermidorian Reaction brought what change to the National Convention?
60. Who controlled the government of the Directory?
61. How was Napoleon’s Continental System designed to hurt the British?
62. What did the Concordat of 1801 do?
63. What did the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen proclaim for men? Women?
64. The Constitution of 1791 established what kind of government?
65. What happened in Europe as a result of Napoleon’s reign?
66. What were the causes of the French Revolution?
67. What did the Napoleonic Code do for women, religion, and jobs?
68. Who issued the Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen?
69. What government that ruled France during the revolution declared it a republic?
70. What government that ruled France during the revolution did so mostly with the support of the military?
71. What government that ruled France during the revolution executed Louis XVI?
72. The Committee of Public Safety passed what measure to deal with the war it faced from other countries?
73. What was important about Napoleon’s defeat at the Battle of Trafalgar?
Chapter 19 and Chapter 20 - Industrial Revolution and Change
74. What were the factors that led the Industrial Revolution to start in Britain first?
75. What did the use of railroads mean for the Industrial Revolution?
76. What was the new labor system created for factories like?
77. What were the main products of the 2nd Industrial Revolution?
78. Why did cities grow during the Industrial Revolution?
79. Lower-class women tended to work in what kinds of jobs during the Industrial Revolution?
80. How did the Women’s Social and Political Union call attention to women’s rights?
81. What was industrial capitalism based on?
82. Governments wanting more informed voters and more skilled workers led to a focus on what?
83. Who believed history is driven by class conflict between those in power and those not?
84. What class was the Proletariat and what class was the Bourgeoisie?
85. What did the Concert of Europe want to maintain in Europe?
86. What two philosophies acted as forces for change in the 19th century?
87. How successful were the revolutions in Austria in 1848?
88. What country became independent after the revolutions of 1830?
89. What was the goal of the Frankfurt Assembly?
90. Who conquered Sicily and southern Italy, and then let it join northern Italy?
91. Who won the Austro-Prussian War? What happened in this war?
92. What were the effects of the Franco-Prussian War?
93. What did the Compromise of 1867 create?
94. What wars did Otto von Bismarck use to achieve German unification?
Chapter 21 and 22 – Imperialism
95. How did Thailand remain the only free state in Southeast Asia?
96. Europeans were interested in Egypt for what waterway connection?
97. What country/region was not invited to the Berlin Conference?
98. Who was the Boer War between?
99. Who first explored the jungles of Central Africa?
100. What were the positive effects of British rule on India?
101. What were the negative effects of British rule on India?
102. What were Gandhi’s goals for his movement in India?
103. Who were the “liberators of South America?”
104. How did Matthew Perry open trade between Japan and the U.S.?
105. Why did Japan want to expand in the late 1800s?
106. What was the last dynasty to rule in China?
107. Who led the Tai Ping Rebellion?
108. What countries had spheres of influence in China?
109. What were the goals of the Tai Ping Rebellion?
110. What U.S. policy ensured that no single country could dominate the Chinese government?
111. Who was the Boxer Rebellion directed against?
Chapter 23 - World War I
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In the summer of 1914, what was the first country to declare war?
What two states had a rivalry for domination of the Balkans?
What was the purpose of the Schlieffen Plan?
Why did Germany declare war on Russia?
Why did Britain declare war on Germany?
What battle halted the Schlieffen Plan?
What developed between Germany and France on the western front after the first year of war?
What were the characteristics of trench warfare?
How was the Great War considered a total war?
What was Germany’s greatest victory in battle?
What battles illustrated the human costs of trench warfare?
What did the United States’ entrance into the war initially provide for the Allies?
When did the February and October Revolutions in Russia occur?
How did Lenin win support for the Bolshevik party?
What did the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk do?
What were soviets?
What advantages did the Red Army have over the White Army during the Russian Civil War?
Why did the United States enter the Great War?
What was the main purpose of the League of Nations?
What did the Treaty of Versailles do to Germany in regards to land?
What did Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles say?
What was propaganda used for during World War I?
When did the armistice begin?
Chapter 24 - Years between the Wars
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How did women change during the 1920s?
What was people’s general outlook on life after World War I?
Who opened one of the first birth control clinics in Boston?
Who believed that people couldn’t be held responsible for their actions if they didn’t control their
unconscious minds?
What style of art thought life was meaningless and art should be, too?
What style of art wanted to portray the world of dreams?
What amendment granted women the right to vote in the U.S.?
Where was the financial center of the world after World War I?
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What renounced the use of war as an instrument of national policy?
With what treaty did France and Germany accept their western frontier from the Treaty of Versailles?
Who was elected and what did he enact to combat the Great Depression in America?
Where does the term fascism come from?
What are the characteristics of fascism?
What is the purpose of a secret police force?
How did the NEP save Russia from economic disaster?
How did Joseph Stalin come to power in the Soviet Union?
What were the two goals of the Five-Year Plans?
What were the downsides of the Five-Year Plans?
Who wrote using the “stream of consciousness” technique?
Who was a leading figure in the existentialism movement?
Chapter 26 - World War II
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What policy did Hitler use to bring Germany out of the Great Depression?
What was Kristallnacht?
What was the major significance of the Nonaggression Pact?
What was the “miracle at Dunkirk?”
How did Hitler’s planned operations fare during his invasion of Britain?
What did the Lend-Lease Act do?
What was Germany’s strategy of blitzkrieg?
How was France split up after Germany defeated it?
What were the results of Operation Torch?
What was Hitler’s planned invasion of the Soviet Union called?
What advantages did the British have during the Battle of Britain?
What was Germany final counter-attack?
What was the invasion of Sicily and Italy like for the Allies?
Who was victorious during the Battle of Stalingrad?
What was the “Final Solution?”
What were the sanctions the U.S. imposed against Japan in the 1930s?
What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?
What battle gave the U.S. control of the seas around the Philippines?
What was America’s strategy for defeating Japan?
When was the Pearl Harbor attack?
When was D-Day?
Be familiar with the characteristics of the following art styles...on the exam, you’ll see 5 pieces of artwork and
have to match the painting to its style.
- Realism
- Romanticism
- Impressionism
- Post-Impressionism
- Cubism
- Surrealism