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European History offers a comprehensive exploration of the continents past from ancient civilizations through the modern era. The course examines key political, social, economic, and cultural developments, including the rise and fall of empires, revolutions, ideological movements, and pivotal conflicts such as the world wars. Students will analyze significant events, figures, and trends that have shaped European societies, considering themes such as nation-building, cultural exchange, technological innovation, and the quest for democracy. Through primary and secondary sources, learners will develop critical thinking and historical analysis skills while gaining a deeper understanding of Europes influence on global history.
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The Western Heritage Combined Volume 11th Edition by Donald M. Kagan
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Chapter 1: The Birth of Civilization
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Q1) The Sumerians developed the first known system for writing,made up of thousands of characters that represented both words and ________.
A)numbers
B)sounds
C)units of measure
D)animals
Answer: B
Q2) Assyrian rulers relied on a system that used governors and military governors because of their empire's ________.
A)use of slavery
B)instability
C)oppressive tax system
D)vast size
Answer: D
Q3) The Greek historian ________ analyzed and explained human behavior completely in terms of human nature and chance,leaving no place for the gods or supernatural forces.
Answer: Thucydides
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Chapter 2: The Rise of Greek Civilization
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Q1) Which of the following is a long-lasting contribution that tyranny made to the development of Greek civilization?
A)increased communication with the rest of the Mediterranean world
B)cultivated arts and literature
C)broke the grip of the aristocracy and gave power to talented citizens
D)All of these are correct.
Answer: D
Q2) Greek colonies,established for the good of the colonists,were sponsored by
A)the colonists themselves
B)the mother city
C)rich merchants
D)nobility
Answer: B
Q3) Like most ancient peoples,the Greeks were ________,and religion played an important part in their lives.
Answer: polytheists
Q4) The marketplace and civic center of the polis was called an ________.
Answer: agora
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Chapter 3: Classical and Hellenistic Greece
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Q1) In 422 b.c.e. ,Cleon,the leader of Athens,and Brasidas,the leader of Sparta,both died in battle,leading the way to the ________.
A)Peloponnesian War
B)Corinthian War
C)Theban War
D)Peace of Nicias
Answer: D
Q2) After divorcing his first wife,Pericles entered into a liaison with a female companion from Miletus named ________.
A)Khloe
B)Demeter
C)Ourania
D)Aspasia
Answer: D
Q3) ________ was the first to argue that reason and reflection showed that reality was fixed and unchanging according to the idea that nothing could be created out of nothingness.
Answer: Parmenides
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Chapter 4: Rome: From Republic to Empire
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Q1) Romans endowed their rulers with the power of ________,the power to command and to enforce those commands.
Q2) The Senate began as a powerful body but over time ceded power to both the consuls and the general populace.How did leaders and the masses erode the influence of the Senate?
Q3) Unlike the terms reached after defeating their Italian neighbors,Rome,under the influence of the conservative Cato,imposed a peace on Macedonia and Carthage that was ________.
A)contingent on cultural exchanges
B)freely given
C)generous
D)harsh
Q4) Rome borrowed mythology,aspects of religion,philosophy,and literature from the ________;educated Romans were expected to be bilingual.
Q5) Compare the influence on Rome of the Etruscans and Greeks.Did the conquest of these two peoples influence Rome's attitude towards their cultures?
Q6) After overthrowing their king,the Roman elite established their state as a ________.
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Chapter 5: The Roman Empire
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Q1) The sculpture on the church of San Marco in Venice portrays Diocletian and three colleagues.Explain the symbolism of the four men.Explain why the sitting of the sculpture is ironic.
Q2) Diocletian divided the empire into four parts,led by a quartet known as the ________.
Q3) Jesus' death was ordered by ________.
A)Augustus
B)Caligula
C)Judas Iscariot
D)Pontius Pilate
Q4) Augustus reduced the size of the Senate to ________.
A)20
B)1000
C)600
D)100
Q5) Why did the Roman underclass live in cramped apartment buildings?
A)Land was at a premium in Rome.
B)It was an inexpensive way to share heating costs with neighbors.
C)Additional height added water pressure to the plumbing.
D)They were concerned about suburban sprawl.
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Chapter 6: Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages:
Creating a New European Society and Culture 4761000
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Q1) The Frankish kings who defeated the Lombards gave the pope the lands surrounding Rome,to be known as ________.
A)Greater Metropolitan Rome
B)the Duchy of Benevento
C)Frankish Italy
D)the Papal States
Q2) The "expansion of Europe within Europe" refers to ________.
A)the conquest of eastern Europe,formerly barbarian Hungary
B)a population boom made possible by innovations in agriculture
C)a redrawing of maps,based on information gathered from Vikings
D)the tilling of all available land each growing season
Q3) The end of the Byzantine Empire came with the conquest of ________ in 1453 by the Ottoman Turks.
Q4) Reading Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali on marriage,one is struck by the fact that he writes for an audience of ________,which indicates a lot about his attitude towards relationships.
A)clergy
B)laity
C)men
D)women
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Chapter 7: The High Middle Ages: the Rise of European Empires
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Q1) Why were the Crusades so important to the people of Europe? Do you think that the Crusades accomplished things that could not have been achieved otherwise?
Q2) Why did Otto make so many bishops and abbots into agents of his empire?
A)They were the only skilled administrators around.
B)They opened up a fifth column in Otto's struggles with Pope Urban II.
C)Taxing them provided the bulk of his revenue.
D)They could not marry and so posed no threat of forming a competitive dynasty.
Q3) What distinguished the Franciscans from the heterodox movements?
A)their focus on living simply
B)a desire to follow Christ's example
C)their emergence from a backdrop of intense religiosity
D)Franciscan operation within the church hierarchy
Q4) On July 27,1214,the first great European battle occurred at ________ in Flanders.
Q5) The High Middle Ages witnessed the peak of Romanesque art and the transition to ________.
Q6) What is the Magna Carta? Many argue that its establishment was the first step in a long historical process leading to the rule of constitutional law.Do you agree or disagree? Explain.
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Chapter 8: Medieval Society: Hierarchies, towns,
universities, and Families (1000-1300)
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Q1) The age of seven was important in medieval views of children because at that age children ________.
A)became fully responsible for all their sins
B)left the home to pursue apprenticeships
C)entered the fourth stage of life
D)could reason and begin to learn vocational skills
Q2) Which of these careers was open to women?
A)law
B)medicine
C)scholarship
D)weaving
Q3) Which of the following social groups emerged after the revival of towns in the eleventh century?
A)the landed nobility
B)the clergy
C)the peasantry
D)long-distance traders and merchants
Q4) The first important Western university,established by Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa in 1158,was in ________.
Q5) Wergild payments can be used as evidence of _________.
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Chapter 9: The Late Middle Ages: Social and Political
Breakdown (1300-1453)
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Q1) Peasant revolts in the period of the Black Death were triggered by ________.
A)attempts to reimpose pre-1340s economic conditions
B)anger at the disproportionate loss of life among the lower classes
C)religious ferment
D)the rapid growth of towns
Q2) Which of these statements best summarizes trends in England and France in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries?
A)Royal power centralized and national consciousness was extinguished by warfare and the plague.
B)Royal power centralized and national consciousness grew.
C)Royal power waned as townspeople asserted their new identity.
D)Royal power and national consciousness both suffered a steep decline.
Q3) The plague barely touched areas away from major trade routes such as
A)Constantinople
B)Italy
C)France
D)Russia
Q4) The _____________ was a French tax,levied directly on the peasantry.
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Q5) The first great battle of the Hundred Years' War took place in the _____________ on June 23,1340.
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Chapter 10: Renaissance and Discovery
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Q1) What was the primary reason Spanish explorers sailed the Atlantic Ocean?
A)to measure the actual size of the Atlantic Ocean
B)to bring more slaves back to Spain
C)to find more gold on the other side of the Atlantic
D)to find a shorter route to the East Indies
Q2) The monarchy of Ferdinand and Isabella in Spain was an example of the emergence of ________ in the 1400s.
A)absolute monarchy
B)sovereign states
C)despotism
D)enlightened absolutism
Q3) Which of the following cities had uninterrupted trade with the Near East throughout the Middle Ages?
A)Lyon
B)Pisa
C)Paris
D)Naples
Q4) Explain in detail the rationale and methods used in the French invasion of Italy.Were the French successful? What effect did the French invasion have on different Italian states?
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Chapter 11: The Age of Reformation
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Q1) The Reformation broke out first in the cities of ________.
A)Germany and France
B)England and Switzerland
C)Switzerland and Germany
D)England and Germany
Q2) The address On Improving the Studies of the Young was written by _______.
Q3) In 1532,the English Parliament passed the ___________,which effectively placed canon law under royal control and thereby placed the clergy under royal jurisdiction.
Q4) How did predestination factor into Calvin's theology?
A)Predestination played no part in Calvin's theology.
B)Predestination played a small part in Calvin's theology.
C)Predestination was central to Calvin's theology.
D)Predestination was important but not central to Calvin's theology.
Q5) Luther's ninety-five theses ________.
A)earned him a position teaching at Wittenburg University
B)had little real impact
C)sparked the Reformation in Germany
D)expressed his belief that salvation could be bought and sold
Q6) Shakespeare wrote during the _________ Age.
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Chapter 12: The Age of Religious Wars
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Q1) During the first half of his reign,Philip II focused on ________.
A)events in Germany
B)the Netherlands
C)the Mediterranean and the Turkish threat
D)the growth of English power
Q2) Which writer advised people to look within themselves for religious truth and no longer to churches and creeds?
A)William Shakespeare
B)John Calvin
C)Valentin Weigel
D)Martin Luther
Q3) French Protestants were known as ____________ and were under surveillance in France in the early 1520s.
Q4) What event caused the Protestants and Catholics of the Netherlands to unite against a common enemy,the Spaniards?
A)the Spanish Fury
B)the exile of William of Orange
C)the signing of the Perpetual Edict
D)the issuing of the Edict of Nantes
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Chapter 13: European State Consolidation in the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth
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Q1) Refer to the passage "Encountering the Past: Early Controversy over Tobacco and Smoking." What were James's specific objections to tobacco? Do you think he was ahead of his time in his stance on tobacco? In present-day society "sin taxes" still thrive.Identify at least three industries in which the government imposes sin taxes today.Do you agree or disagree with this type of legislation? Explain.
Q2) Under the rule of Peter the Great,Russia's boyars ________.
A)gained power
B)became the primary agents of modernization
C)lost much of their power
D)were exiled to Siberia
Q3) Under the Peace of Nystad in 1721,Russia gained control of________.
A)Estonia,Livonia,and part of Finland
B)Livonia,Latvia,and Finland
C)Estonia,Latvia,and part of Finland
D)Livonia,Sweden,and part of Finland
Q4) The dangers and turmoil of Peter the Great's youth convinced him that the power of the tsar must be made secure from the jealousy of the ________.
Q5) The Hohenzollern capital was at ________.
Q6) The Glorious Revolution placed _________ on the English throne.
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Chapter 14: New Directions in Thought and Culture in the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
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Q1) According to Hobbes,human beings escape the terrible state of nature by
A)becoming selfless and obeying others
B)taking part in a tacit contract
C)naturally being sociable
D)embracing Christianity
Q2) How did the telescope change the understanding of the universe for scientists?
A)It increased the accuracy of physical observations.
B)It required a new level of mathematical accuracy.
C)It improved navigation.
D)It required increased attention to scientific subjects.
Q3) Baroque art became associated with ________.
A)the Renaissance
B)English nobility
C)Roman Catholicism
D)popular Protestantism
Q4) Traditional beliefs and superstitions remained solidly in place in the culture and led to the eruption of panics and ________ in almost every Western land.
Q5) Bernini was hired by Urban VIII to decorate ________.
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Chapter 15: Society and Economy Under the Old Regime in the Eighteenth Century
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Q1) The change that rationalized the use of land and created higher productivity was the
A)enclosure laws
B)peasant rebellions
C)bread riots
D)Agricultural Revolution
Q2) The Dutch exemplified which of these responses to population growth?
A)monetary incentives for small families
B)birth control
C)establishing overseas colonies
D)increasing agricultural productivity
Q3) In the 1700s,the middle classes were distinguished from the nobility by _________.
A)where the two groups lived
B)inherited privilege
C)wealth
D)involvement in commerce
Q4) To improve their lifestyle and income,landlords in Western Europe began a series of innovations in farm production that became known as the ________.
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Chapter 16: The Transatlantic Economy, trade Wars, and Colonial Rebellion
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Q1) From the British victory in the French and Indian War,Great Britain became not only a European power,but also a world power until ________.
A)the worldwide depression in the 1930s
B)World War I
C)World War II
D)the beginning of the Cold War
Q2) The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle brought the official end to ________.
Q3) Which of the following factors allowed European nations to exert influence and dominance over much of the world?
A)cultural superiority
B)religious convictions and the spread of Christianity to new colonies
C)technological superiority
D)agricultural advances and population increases
Q4) What were the political and ideological impacts of the American Revolution on the citizens of Europe? How did the successful overthrow of Britain offer political hope for other nations?
Q5) After the repeal of the Stamp Act,in 1766,Parliament issued the ________ Act,which stated that although the Stamp Act was repealed,Parliament alone had the sole power to legislate for the colonies.
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Chapter 17: The Age of Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Thought
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Q1) Monarchs such as Joseph II and Catherine II made "enlightened" reforms part of their drive to ________.
A)increase revenues and gain political support
B)begin the process of moving away from monarchy
C)begin the process of moving toward constitutional monarchy
D)give commoners more political power
Q2) What was the impact of works such as Diderot's Encyclopedia? To what extent did it democratize education?
Q3) The theology embraced by the philosophes was ________,a rational religion without fanaticism and intolerance.
Q4) One of Montesquieu's most far-reaching ideas was the division of ________ in government.
Q5) Catherine the Great of Russia ________.
A)replaced the nobles with loyal government bureaucrats
B)abandoned the ideals of absolutism
C)built a strong alliance with the nobility
D)made an alliance with Poland
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Q6) Rousseau blamed much of the evil in the world on unequal distribution of
Chapter 18: The French Revolution
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Q1) What happened on the Ninth of Thermidor to end the Reign of Terror?
A)Robespierre was executed.
B)Members of the Convention stood together to shout down Robespierre.
C)Robespierre delivered a speech making it clear that no one in the Convention was safe from the Terror.
D)Robespierre replaced the worship of reason with the "Cult of the Supreme Being."
Q2) Who was responsible for the introduction of the revolutionary land tax that all landowners would have to pay regardless of their social status?
A)Jacques Necker
B)Louis XIV
C)René Maupeou
D)Charles Alexandre de Calonne
Q3) With reference to "Encountering the Past: The Metric System," explain how the introduction of the metric system reflected the ideas of the Enlightenment.Relate this to other measures undertaken by the government of France during the Revolution.
Q4) The French term ________ refers to the days on which the populace of Paris redirected the course of the revolution.
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Chapter 19: The Age of Napoleon and the Triumph of Romanticism
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Q1) The Sorrows of Young Werther is quintessentially Romantic in being __________.
A)highly emotional
B)focused on women's issues
C)dark
D)written in the vernacular
Q2) Describe the German philosophy of idealism.How did this approach fit into the larger context of its time?
Q3) How did ideas about Islam change for Europeans during the Romantic Era? Explain the reasons for these changes.
Q4) For his service in recovering the port of Toulon from the British,Napoleon was
A)appointed a brigadier general
B)given command in Italy
C)asked to serve as First Consul
D)asked to serve as head of the Directory
Q5) ___________ of Russia wanted all of Poland under his control.
Q6) The Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I and Empress Josephine is by
Q7) Napoleon signed the Treaty of Tilsit with ___________.
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Chapter 20: The Conservative Order and the Challenges of Reform (1815-1832)
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Q1) By 1830,________ had achieved independence.
A)Uruguay
B)most of Latin America
C)Colombia and Bolivia
D)Mexico
Q2) The Decembrist Revolt began with a revolt among ________.
A)officers
B)peasants
C)slaves
D)landowners
Q3) A major impediment to an alliance between liberals and workers was the liberal policy of ________.
A)opposition to labor unions
B)population control
C)a free market
D)supporting imperialism
Q4) Political liberals found inspiration in the 1789 French Declaration of the ________.
Q5) On August 25,1830,disturbances broke out in ________ after the performance of an opera about a rebellion in Naples against Spanish rule.
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Chapter 21: Economic Advance and Social Unrest
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Q1) German conservatives gained power by playing on conflicts between ________.
A)conservatives and liberals
B)nationalists and liberals
C)conservatives and the working class
D)liberals and the working class
Q2) The theory of _____ was based on the principle of the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.
Q3) Who was Karl Marx's collaborator in the writing of The Communist Manifesto?
A)Louis Blanc
B)David Ricardo
C)Thomas Malthus
D)Friedrich Engels
Q4) In the late eighteenth century,Britain began transporting criminals to Australia as an alternative to ________.
A)capital punishment
B)life imprisonment
C)public works imprisonment
D)transporting them to France
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Q5) Saint-Simonianism is a type of ___________.
Q6) In 1834,most German states formed a trading union called the _____.
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Chapter 22: The Age of Nation-States
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Q1) The Balkan tensions of the late 1800s ________.
A)helped to spark the First World War
B)decreased as national groups linked themselves to established states
C)were a major source of political instability in Western Europe
D)were a result of conflicts between the Habsburg and Ottoman empires
Q2) Why was 1860 considered a turning point during the reign of Napoleon III?
A)It marked the shift from a liberal empire to an authoritative empire.
B)It marked the shift from an authoritative empire to a liberal empire.
C)It was the year Napoleon III gained control of the legislature.
D)It was the year Napoleon III permitted labor unions.
Q3) How did the unrest of nationalities affect the Austrian-Hungarian Empire? How did the government react to this unrest? What role did nationalism play during this period? Why do you think some nationalities gained autonomy while others did not? Explain.
Q4) Reforms in the Ottoman Empire were,in general,_______.
A)implementations of Sharia law
B)unsuccessful
C)intended to align the empire with Russia
D)westernizing
Q5) Bismarck's values were stereotypically ________ later in his political career.
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Chapter 23: The Building of European Supremacy: Society
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Q1) During the second half of the nineteenth century,the middle class ________.
A)grew increasingly diverse
B)lost political power
C)made political alliances with the working classes
D)grew increasingly hostile to imperialism
Q2) Legal discrimination and prejudice against Jews continued until World War I in ________.
Q3) Describe the conditions that set the stage for the Russian revolution of 1905.Why did the war with Japan play a significant role in leading to the revolution?
Q4) By the end of the nineteenth century,most Jews in Western Europe ________.
A)considered anti-Semitism a minor and temporary problem
B)seldom experienced any form of anti-Semitism
C)believed anti-Semitism was increasing and becoming a serious problem
D)believed liberal reforms were encouraging anti-Semitism
Q5) Explain the transition in the role of middle-class women from early in the nineteenth century to late in the nineteenth century.
Q6) The British feminist ________,along with her daughters,organized the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903.
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Chapter 24: The Birth of Modern European Thought
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Q1) By midcentury,science had a strong foothold in ________.
A)state-funded elementary schools
B)church schools
C)state-funded elementary schools and church schools
D)French and German universities
Q2) Cubist painters such as Georges Braque and ________ saw painting as an autonomous realm of art with no purpose beyond itself.
Q3) Which of the following modern-day practices would the social Darwinists of the nineteenth century be most likely to support?
A)UN peacekeeping troops in war-torn countries
B)welfare states
C)universal health care
D)price wars between competitors
Q4) The Petit Journal is an example of ________.
A)pulp fiction
B)a socialist newspaper
C)a right-leaning newspaper
D)a mass-circulation newspaper
Q5) Theodor Herzl advocated __________.
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Chapter 25: The Age of Western Imperialism
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Q1) Russia's main rival in southern Middle Asia-the region of present-day Uzbekistan,Turkistan,and areas bordering Afghanistan-was ________.
A)Germany
B)the Ottoman Empire
C)Britain
D)Muslim separatists
Q2) Which of the following statements about British involvement in slavery and the slave trade is true?
A)Britain banned the slave trade in 1807 and abolished it in its own colonies in 1833-1834.
B)Britain banned the slave trade and abolished it in its own colonies in 1833-1834.
C)Britain banned the slave trade in 1807 but never abolished it in its own colonies.
D)Britain did not participate in the slave trade but it allowed slavery in its own colonies until 1834.
Q3) In ________,Europeans could experience different parts of their nation's empires in a pleasant setting of flowerbeds,trees,and greenhouses.
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Chapter 26: Alliances, War, and a Troubled Peace
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Q1) The first power to mobilize against Russia in 1914 was ________.
A)Austria
B)France
C)Germany
D)Serbia
Q2) What were the most important factors that enabled the Bolsheviks to seize power? In your opinion,could power have been attained in a different,perhaps more peaceful,manner? Why or why not? Explain.
Q3) The formation of the Triple Entente is best seen in light of the ________.
A)alliance between France and Russia
B)German alliance with Russia
C)creation of the Triple Alliance
D)end of the Habsburg Empire
Q4) The Kingdom of Serbs,Croats,and Slovenes was also known as ________.
Q5) The disintegration of the German army forced ________ to abdicate on November 9,1918.
Q6) If Germany had not invaded ________,British public opinion might have continued to favor neutrality.
Q7) Any kind of ________ was generally understood to be equivalent to an act of war.
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Q8) The tsar and his family were murdered by ________.
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Chapter 27: The Interwar Years: the Challenge of Dictators and Depression
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Q1) Which of these nations provided an exception to the authoritarian regimes that were common in eastern Europe between the wars?
A)Hungary
B)Romania
C)Czechoslovakia
D)Poland
Q2) German unemployment from March 1930 to March 1932 ________.
A)rose slightly
B)rose by 30 percent
C)more than doubled
D)quadrupled
Q3) Italy became a single-party,dictatorial state in ________.
Q4) Which of these best explains the Great Purges?
A)They were a natural outgrowth of the Bolshevik takeover.
B)They were the kind of revolution foreseen by Marx.
C)They were a reaction to the Versailles settlement.
D)They were largely the product of Stalin's own fears and goals.
Q5) On March 23,1933,the Reichstag passed an ________ that permitted Hitler to rule by decree.
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Chapter 28: World War Ii
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Q1) Before the war was over,the Nazis killed perhaps ________ prisoners of war and civilians in the Soviet Union.
Q2) Military deaths in World War II numbered approximately ________ million.
A)5
B)30
C)15
D)50
Q3) Compared to Jews in Western Europe,nineteenth-century Jews in Poland experienced ________.
A)similar forms of discrimination and emancipation
B)more discrimination and greater emancipation
C)no discrimination and none of the same forms of Jewish emancipation
D)more discrimination and none of the same forms of Jewish emancipation
Q4) At the time of the Yalta Conference,Eastern Europe was occupied by ________.
A)Nazi Germany
B)Great Britain
C)the United States
D)the Soviet Union
Q5) The ________ French government collaborated with the Nazis.
Q6) In 1945,the French formed the ________ Republic.
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Chapter 29:
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the Emergence of a New Europe
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A)the shooting of a reconnaissance aircraft
B)condemnation of the shooting from European nations
C)Eisenhower's refusal to apologize for the United States' surveillance of the Soviet Union
D)the United States' competition with Soviet space missions
Q2) The revolutions of 1989 ________.
A)were mostly nonviolent
B)involved intervention by the Soviet military
C)were undertaken by a relatively small number of people
D)resulted in high civilian casualties
Q3) What were the causes of the breakup of Yugoslavia? Give at least two events leading to the breakup,and explain the underlying tensions that made the country vulnerable to fragmentation.
Q4) Which of the following came first in the breakup of Yugoslavia?
A)NATO bombing of Serbia
B)war in Kosovo
C)war in Bosnia
D)Kosovo declares its independence
Q5) The literal meaning of the Muslim term ________ is "a struggle."
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Chapter 30: Social, cultural, and Economic Challenges in the West Through the Present
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A)by the U.S.Army
B)in a joint venture of the U.S.Army and IBM
C)at Moore Laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania
D)at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Q2) Between 1945 and 1960,approximately ________ Europeans left Europe each year.
A)250,000
B)500,000
C)750,000
D)1,000,000
Q3) Decolonization in the postwar period ________.
A)forced many European colonials to seek refuge from persecution
B)led many European colonials to return to Europe from overseas
C)resulted in many Europeans residing in their former European colony
D)was pushed as much by European public opinion as anything else
Q4) The first machine genuinely recognizable as a modern digital computer was the ________.
Q5) Since World War II,governments have begun to spend more money on ________ than they do on the military.
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