European History Since 1500
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Course Introduction
This course explores the major political, social, economic, and cultural developments that have shaped Europe from 1500 to the present. Beginning with the Renaissance and Reformation, it examines the rise of nation-states, the impact of scientific and industrial revolutions, colonial expansion, and the struggle for political and social reform. The course also covers the world wars, the Cold War, the creation of the European Union, and challenges facing contemporary Europe. Students will analyze key events, influential figures, and transformative movements, gaining a comprehensive understanding of Europe's evolving role in global history.
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Western Civilization Volume II Since 1500 8th Edition by Jackson J. Spielvogel
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Chapter 1: Reformation and Religious Warfare in the
Sixteenth Century
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Q1) the Peasants' War, 1524
Answer: The Peasants' War of 1524 was a widespread uprising of peasants and lower-class citizens in Germany, fueled by social, economic, and religious grievances. The peasants were protesting against oppressive feudal conditions, high taxes, and the exploitation by the ruling class. The war was also influenced by the ideas of the Protestant Reformation, as many peasants were inspired by the teachings of Martin Luther and sought religious freedom and social justice. The conflict resulted in widespread violence and destruction, and although the peasants initially achieved some success, they were ultimately defeated by the ruling nobility and suffered severe reprisals. The Peasants' War had a significant impact on the social and political landscape of Germany, and it highlighted the deep-seated tensions between the ruling class and the lower classes during this period.
Q2) In Calvin's theology, leading a godly life would be evidence that you
A) suffered from overly severe toilet training as a child.
B) have already been chosen to go to heaven.
C) are trying to earn salvation through good works.
D) have been forgiven for your sins through Christ's grace.
E) are a good person.
Answer: B
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Q1) The sea captain who first made a sea voyage directly from Europe to India was A) Bartholomeu Dias.
B) Ferdinand Magellan.
C) Francis Drake.
D) Vasco da Gama.
E) Amerigo Vespucci
Answer: D
Q2) The major European disease that resulted in high rates of mortality among the natives of the New World was A) syphilis.
B) yellow fever.
C) smallpox.
D) scurvy.
E) avian flu.
Answer: C
Q3) What role did private investment and initiative play in the development of European imperialism.Give specific examples.
Answer: not answered
Q4) Ptolemy's Geography
Answer: not answered
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Chapter 3: State Building and the Search for Order in the
Seventeenth Century
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Q1) Versailles was built for Louis XIII.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The French playwright Moliére is noted for all of the following except
A) Tartuffe.
B) benefiting from the patronage of Louis XIV.
C) satirizing French religious and social customs.
D) perfecting neoclassical tragedy.
E) producing and acting in a series of comedies.
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following groups were particularly susceptible to suspicion during Europe's prolonged witchcraft craze?
A) Outsiders.
B) Young, aggressive men.
C) Members of opposing Christian denominations.
D) Witches.
E) Old women.
Answer: E
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Q1) The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century
A) was stimulated by a revived interest in Galen and Aristotle.
B) directly resulted from reaction and revolt against the social and historical conditions of the Middle Ages.
C) was largely due to a monastic revolution.
D) although an innovative phase in western thinking, was based upon the intellectual and scientific accomplishments of previous centuries.
E) was a complete break with the past.
Q2) Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems
Q3) Newton invented
A) a technique for unclogging arteries.
B) a new type of kiln.
C) mathematics.
D) the calculus
E) alchemical principles still drawn on to this day.
Q4) "new drugs"
Q5) "natural philosophers"
Q6) Galen
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Q7) Ethics Demonstrated in the Geometrical Manner
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Chapter 5: The Eighteenth Century: an Age of Enlightenment
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Q1) Isaac Newton and John Locke
A) created two antagonistic religious systems of thought.
B) provided inspiration for the Enlightenment by arguing that through rational reasoning and the acquisition of knowledge one could discover natural laws governing all aspects of human society.
C) claimed that mathematics and science would bring about the cure for the evils of society but only very slowly.
D) said the philosophes were the prophets of the future and that their rejection of the scientific revolution was justified.
E) had little influence on the later Enlightenment as they were perceived to be figures of the "old" seventeenth century.
Q2) Addison and Steele's Spectator
Q3) Emile
Q4) High culture in eighteenth-century Europe was characterized by the A) enormous impact of the publishing industry.
B) decline of French as an international language.
C) decline of the magazine with the rise of the novel.
D) increased dependency of authors on wealthy patrons.
E) complete freedom of the press.
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Chapter 6: The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change
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Q1) Catherine II the Great
Q2) At the beginning of the eighteenth century,
A) the old order was under severe attack.
B) the old order still remained strong.
C) republicanism was in ascendant.
D) enlightened absolutism had proved to be a failure.
E) democracy was spreading.
Q3) William Pitt the Elder
Q4) Montcalm and Wolfe
Q5) Who benefited the most from the Seven Years' War?
Q6) As a result of the French and Indian Wars, France
A) gained India.
B) lost California.
C) gained the Ohio River Valley.
D) gained Louisiana.
E) lost Canada.
Q7) partitions of Poland
Q8) "balance of power"
Q9) Grand Tour Page 8
Q10) "reason of state"
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Chapter 7: A Revolution in Politics: the Era of the French Revolution
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Q1) The French Republic's army in the 1790s
A) received little backing from the home front.
B) was small, but effective in battle.
C) fueled modern nationalism and was raised through total mobilization of the population.
D) was totally defeated by foreign aristocratic forces.
E) got weaker and smaller as the decade went by.
Q2) In convening the Estates General in 1789, the government actually doubled the representation of the Third Estate.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Because of France became "a nation in arms," the French revolutionary armies were significant in the development of modern nationalism.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Girondins and the Mountain
Q5) July 14, 1789
Q6) French Parlements
Q7) Napoleon Bonaparte
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Chapter 8: The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society
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Q1) In the eighteenth century, India still struggled to find a viable industry for its labor force, given that cotton was not an option due to competition from England.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Great Britain?
Q3) The Industrial Revolution's effect on the standard of living
A) especially benefited the middle classes.
B) led to much increased disparity between the richest and poorest classes in society.
C) eventually led to an overall increase in purchasing power for the working classes.
D) a and c
E) all the above
Q4) Richard Trevithick
Q5) the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union
Q6) Other than in mines, British children in the nineteenth century were generally treated with gentle decency.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism,
1815-1850
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Q1) The primary driving force in the revolutions of Belgium, Poland, and Italy in 1830 was
A) nationalism.
B) religion.
C) racism.
D) socialism.
E) romanticism.
Q2) Compare and contrast the concepts of romanticism as exhibited in Caspar David Friedrich's Man and Woman Gazing at the Moon with Eugene Delacroix's The Death of Sardanapalus.
Q3) The author of Reflections on the Revolution in France and the founder of modern philosophical conservatism was
A) Viscount Castlereigh
B) William Pitt the Younger.
C) Horatio Nelson.
D) Edmund Burke.
E) Robert Owen.
Q4) Latin America revolts
Q5) Giuseppe Mazzini and Young Italy
Q6) serjents, "bobbies," and Schutzmannschaft
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Chapter 10: An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850-1871
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Q1) What reasons does the author give to convince the reader that continental industrialization came of age between 1850 and 1871? How did continental industrialization differ from England's?
Q2) "survival of the fit"
Q3) The dominant literary and artistic movement in the 1850s and 1860s was
A) Romanticism.
B) Realism.
C) Positivism.
D) Impressionism.
E) Modernism.
Q4) Austro-Prussian War
Q5) Alexander II and the serfs
Q6) North German Confederation
Q7) Hegel's dialectic
Q8) Realism
Q9) Whose role was more essential to the unification: Cavour's, Mazzini's, or Garibaldi's?
Q10) Joseph Lister
Q11) Florence Nightingale
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Chapter 11: Mass Society in an Age of Progress, 1871-1894
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Q1) Which one of the following was not a part of the emergence of the late nineteenth century "mass society"?
A) the extension of voting rights to the lower classes.
B) diminishment of the conditions of the lower classes.
C) a better standard of living for the lower classes.
D) mass leisure.
E) the "weekend" became established as a time of fun.
Q2) "day-trippers"
Q3) In a cartel
A) a vertically integrated company worked to monopolize all business in its industry.
B) independent enterprises worked together to control prices and fix production quotas.
C) independent associations of grocers cooperated to artificially drive down prices.
D) private militias orchestrated intelligence gathering to diminish the police powers of modern nation states.
E) dependent enterprises worked with an overseeing organization to lower tariffs.
Q4) Graham Bell
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Chapter 12: An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and
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Q1) Camille Pissarro and Claude Monet
Q2) What were the causes of the "New Imperialism" of the late nineteenth century? What were some of the arguments to justify this imperialism? What were the results or consequences of this imperialism?
Q3) the Pankhursts and the "suffragettes"
Q4) How did "bearing the white man's burden" affect European society in modern times?
Q5) Growing tensions in modern German society were exemplified by
A) rapidly rising suicide rates especially in cities.
B) refusals by German leaders to enact new welfare legislation.
C) the use of military forces to put down urban riots.
D) the proliferation of ultra-nationalist right-wing political groups with anti-Semitic, racist, and imperialist beliefs.
E) peasant rebellions, particularly in the Rhineland region.
Q6) Cecil Rhodes
Q7) Define Social Darwinism.How did this interpretation of human existence shape late nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European society? In what sections of modern society today do we see the persistence of this philosophy?
Q8) Boer War
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Chapter 13: The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis:
War and Revolution
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Q1) November 11, 1918
Q2) At the end of World War I, the Austrian Empire
A) continued to hold Serbia and most of the Balkans.
B) got most of southern Russia.
C) was occupied by Germany.
D) merged with the Ottoman Empire.
E) broke apart into independent nation-states.
Q3) Hindenburg and Ludendorf
Q4) In the Balkans crisis of the summer of 1914, Russia gave diplomatic support to Austria-Hungary in the hope of restraining Germany's William II from ordering an invasion of Russia.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In August 1914, the perception of the upcoming war among Europeans was that A) it would be the dawn of a new socialist Europe.
B) the war would be very short, possibly only weeks in duration.
C) it would mark the end of European civilization.
D) its long-term nature would revive Europe's suffering economy.
E) it would be avoided at the last minute, once the diplomats finally met together.
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Chapter
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Q1) Lebensraum
Q2) collective farms
Q3) Fascio di Combattimento
Q4) Ataturk and Mohandas Gandhi
Q5) Surrealism
Q6) League of Nations
Q7) the Unknown Soldier(s)
Q8) The most famous of the Surrealistic painters was
A) Arnold Schonberg.
B) Pablo Picasso.
C) Walter Gropius.
D) Jackson Pollack.
E) Salvador Dali.
Q9) Which one of the following states first adopted fascism?
A) Germany
B) Spain
C) Italy
D) Russia
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Chapter 15: The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War
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Q1) "land girls"
Q2) War broke out between Russia and Germany in 1941 when
A) Germany launched a surprise attack on Russia.
B) Russia launched a surprise attack on Germany.
C) Russian agents assassinated Hitler's nephew.
D) Russia refused to sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
E) Japan staged a fake attack in eastern Russia, making it look like a German offensive.
Q3) Was it morally right to use the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Q4) The Nazi rule of Europe was most ruthless in
A) Eastern Europe because the Slavs were considered racially inferior.
B) France due to the long rivalry between France and Germany.
C) Norway, Denmark, and the Netherlands due to their close proximity to Germany.
D) Italy because the Italians were generally considered to be disloyal.
E) Greece and Yugoslavia, because of the strategic nature of the Balkans region.
Q5) "The outcome of World War II guaranteed that a "cold war" would occur.Discuss, pro and con.
Q6) Compare the home fronts of Great Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Germany.What differences and similarities do you find? How did the organization of each home front affect the outcome of the war?
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Chapter 16: Cold War and a New Western World, 1945-1965
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Q1) Which one of the following does not characterize life in the United States during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower?
A) Real wages grew.
B) The New Deal programs continued.
C) The "Red Scare" intensified.
D) The Civil Rights Movement had successes.
E) The United States withdrew into isolationism.
Q2) rapprochement
Q3) Mahatma Gandhi and an "orgy of blood"
Q4) As president of France, Charles de Gaulle's position in the Cold War was to
A) closely align France with the Warsaw Pact nations.
B) make France the "third" nuclear power and pursue a largely independent political course.
C) let American policy guide France and other European nations.
D) make France the leading European power in NATO.
E) join the non-aligned third-world nations.
Q5) EEC/Common Market
Q6) Discuss the major social changes affecting the status, expectations, and ambitions of women that occurred in Western society form 1945 to 1970.
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Chapter 17: Protest and Stagnation: the Western World,
1965-1985
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Q1) Student protests in Europe backfired to an extent as
A) some people detested what they saw as the lawlessness of the privileged.
B) too many people died during protests in 1968.
C) the students themselves began to have doubts.
D) the full police powers of the states of Europe were brought down upon the protesters.
E) their university funding was withdrawn.
Q2) After the construction of the Berlin Wall, East Germany developed the strongest economy among the Soviet Union's Eastern European satellites.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the early 1970s the European Community expanded with Great Britain, Ireland, and Denmark becoming member states.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What major economic problems and consequences that plagued the West during the 1970s?
Q5) Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)/"Star Wars"
Q6) permissive society
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Chapter 18: After the Fall: the Western World in a Global Age
Since 1985
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Q1) multiculturalism
Q2) Vaclav Havel
Q3) Iraq war
Q4) A serious criticism of the digital revolution is
A) that it makes cultures more independent B) that it has increased bodily reality.
C) it is not technically advance.
D) it has displaced cultural uniqueness and bodily presence.
E) it is not affordable, costing too much money.
Q5) Helmut Kohl, Gerhard Schroeder, and Angela Merkel
Q6) Which of the following artists was a Neo-Expressionist?
A) Jean-Michael Basquiat.
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Jackson Pollock
D) Andy Warhol
E) Allan Kaprow.
Q7) What are the basic problems and antagonisms between Serbia and the other countries that once made up Yugoslavia-Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Slovenia? What forces in the post-Cold War world enabled this dangerous and bloody conflict to escalate so terribly? Page 23
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