History of the Modern World (Western Focus)
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This course explores the major political, economic, social, and cultural developments that have shaped the modern Western world from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Starting with the Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions, students will examine the rise of industrial society, nationalism, imperialism, world wars, and the ideological struggles of the twentieth century, including fascism, communism, and democracy. The course also considers the impact of scientific advancements, cultural movements, and global interactions on Western societies, tracing the evolution of contemporary issues in a globalized world. Through critical analysis of primary and secondary sources, students will gain a deeper understanding of how historical events and ideas have profoundly influenced the Western worlds trajectory.
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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 Persians adopted ________ as their official language,the most common language of Middle Eastern commerce.
Answer: Aramaic
Q2) By the early seventh century b.c.e. ,under the leadership of ________,the Medes and Babylonians successfully destroyed the Assyrian Empire.
Answer: Nebuchadnezzar
Q3) When the Nile floodwaters receded each year,they left ________.
A)devastated communities in their wake
B)miles of ruined farm lands
C)a rich layer of organically fertile silt
D)an abundance of dead fish on the shore
Answer: C
Q4) According to Hammurabi's laws,polygamy was based on ___________.
A)wealth
B)slave owning
C)race
D)necessity
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Rise of Greek Civilization
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Q1) In 498 b.c.e. ,Athenian Greeks made a surprise attack and burned down ________,the old capital of Lydia.
A)Lesbos
B)Sardis
C)Mysia
D)Caria
Answer: B
Q2) Athenian freedom would have been destroyed and future achievements in Greek culture may have never occurred without ________ in 490 b.c.e.
A)the victory over the Persians at Marathon
B)an intervention by Egypt
C)the Ionian Greeks inclusion of democracy
D)the general prosperity taking place
Answer: A
Q3) In the seventh century b.c.e. ,Athens was a typical ________ polis.
Answer: aristocratic
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) After peace was achieved with Persia,why did the Athenians continue collecting funds from the Delian League members?
A)It was necessary as a means to secure the northern border.
B)The army needed to be rebuilt with an administrative center at Athens.
C)It was necessary to prevent an invasion by Persia.
D)It was necessary to maintain Athens's navy and rebuild temples.
Answer: D
Q2) A literary genre called ________ presented a comic-realistic depiction of daily life,turning the attention away from the weakened structure of the polis.
A)Middle Comedy
B)Old Comedy
C)epic poetry
D)lyric poetry
Answer: A
Q3) The Macedonian cavalry was made up of nobles and clan leaders called
Answer: Companions
Q4) When the great Theban general ________ was killed at the Battle of Mantinea,Theban dominance died with him.
Answer: Epaminondas
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Chapter 4: Rome: From Republic to Empire
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Q1) What does the coin stamped with the profile of Brutus that reads "Ides of March" suggest about contemporary reaction to Caesar's assassination?
A)Some celebrated Brutus's act.
B)Brutus was the most hated man in Rome.
C)The Senate was able to censor all news of Caesar's death.
D)No one knew who was Caesar's killer.
Q2) As Rome defeated her neighbors on the Italian peninsula,her peace treaties offered ________.
A)special status as allies for some
B)no quarter
C)prominence to successful military leaders
D)cash for land
Q3) Somewhat ironically,the constant wars fought by the Roman Republic left a historical reputation of ________.
A)artistic accomplishment
B)competent craftsmanship
C)freedom and the rights of man
D)lasting peace
Q4) Was Rome part of the Hellenistic world? Support your answer with details.
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Chapter 5: The Roman Empire
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Q1) Constantine moved his court to Constantinople (modern Istanbul).What were the consequences of removing the Roman Emperor from Rome itself? Can you defend the move? Why or why not?
Q2) By 212 c.e.almost every free inhabitant of the Roman Empire was granted
Q3) Septimius Severus changed conditions in the Roman army for what reason?
A)to help falling recruitment
B)to restore the army's prestige
C)to improve morale
D)in accordance with changing Roman morals
Q4) The Roman authorities were suspicious of Christians because they ________.
A)dressed differently
B)kept caches of weapons in their churches
C)were happier than other citizens
D)had a secret network of communities
Q5) ________ believed in a world of divine and natural law,and his writings were read well into the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Q6) Born in Africa,________ was one of the great early theologians,known for his books Confessions and City of God.
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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) As part of their argument about their superior position,bishops from Rome cited Jesus's words to the apostle ________ in the Gospel of Matthew.
Q2) Major divisions within religious traditions could begin with small disagreements.Which of these was the initial cause of the split between the Sunnis and Shi'a?
A)disagreement over what should be the official version of the Qur'an
B)disagreement over leadership of Islam
C)which language to use in Muslim services
D)which city would be the center of Islam
Q3) Emperor Heraclius defeated the Sassanid king Khosro II and recovered ________.
A)John the Baptist's head
B)the crown of thorns
C)a piece of Christ's cross
D)the shroud of Turin
Q4) Because he condemned idolatry and immorality,Muhammad was ________.
A)chased out of Medina
B)chased out of Mecca
C)forced to wear a hair shirt
D)removed as his people's leader
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Q5) ________ is defined as the opposition to the use of images in Christian worship.
Chapter 7: The High Middle Ages: the Rise of European Empires
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Q1) The First Crusade was successful largely due to which of these factors?
A)assistance from the Byzantine Empire
B)the assistance of Shiite Muslims
C)divisions within Islam
D)weather conditions
Q2) In terms of stability and centralized authority,the Holy Roman Empire most resembled which of these in the 1200s?
A)Italy
B)France
C)England
D)the papacy
Q3) In 1084,in response to his second excommunication and the growing power of the papacy,Henry installed his own ________,Clement III.
Q4) What was the Domesday Book?
A)a county-by-county survey of property
B)a book of theories as to how Armageddon would occur
C)an account of the battle of Hastings and the conquest of Britain
D)instructions on how to blend monarchical and parliamentary elements of government
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Chapter 8: Medieval Society: Hierarchies, towns,
universities, and Families (1000-1300)
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Q1) As towns grew,their populations swelled with ________ moving there from the countryside.
Q2) Refer to Map 8-1 on page 244.Based on this map,which of the following statements is most accurate?
A)In the Middle Ages all of continental Europe was linked by trade networks.
B)Russia remained outside of European trade networks.
C)Trade routes on land took more time than trade routes via water.
D)Trade routes via water were restricted to the Mediterranean.
Q3) Small artisans and craftspeople slowly developed their own protective associations,or ________,and began to gain a voice in government.
Q4) Which of these careers was open to women?
A)law
B)medicine
C)scholarship
D)weaving
Q5) How did economic and intellectual change introduce challenges to the traditional concept of medieval society? How did elites respond to these challenges?
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Q6) In the later Middle Ages,serfs started paying their dues in ________ payments.
Q7) In the twelfth century,knighthood was legally restricted to men of ________.
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Chapter 9: The Late Middle Ages: Social and Political Breakdown
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Q1) How did the Hundred Years' War contribute to the growth of nationalism and the centralization of political power in both France and England?
Q2) ____________,the religion of Russia,added strong cultural bonds to the close commercial ties that had long linked Russia to the Byzantine Empire.
Q3) Advocates of the ________________ sought to fashion a church in which a representative council could effectively regulate the actions of the pope.
Q4) Under the rule of Prince Vladimir (r.980-1015),what city was the most important in Russia?
A)Minsk
B)Saint Petersburg
C)Kiev
D)Moscow
Q5) The Black Death refers to ________.
A)the famine that occurred from 1315 to 1317
B)a virulent plague that struck fourteenth-century Europe
C)a disease transmitted through African slaves
D)the collapse of the European economy in the fourteenth century
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Q6) The _____________ was a French tax,levied directly on the peasantry.
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Chapter 10: Renaissance and Discovery
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Q1) One way in which the northern humanist Desiderius Erasmus gained fame as a religious reformer was by ________.
A)elaborating Scholastic theology
B)editing the works of the Church Fathers
C)issuing a new edition of Abelard's works
D)pleasing church authorities
Q2) Who sponsored Genoese adventurer Christopher Columbus?
A)Catherine of Aragon
B)King Henry VIII
C)Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain
D)Archduke Phillip
Q3) The great masters of the High Renaissance were ________.
A)Titian,Donatello,and Giotto
B)Titian,Vincent van Gogh,and Masaccio
C)Vincent van Gogh,Donatello,and Giotto
D)Leonardo da Vinci,Raphael,and Michelangelo
Q4) How did the Spanish conquerors create a Spanish world empire? Cortés took over the Aztecs in Mexico.Pizarro conquered the Incas in Peru.How were they able to take over these powerful people in such a short amount of time? Explain.
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Chapter 11: The Age of Reformation
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Q1) German Protestant rulers realized the political implications of the demise of the Roman Catholic Church and formed a defensive alliance called the ________.
A)Peasants' Revolt
B)Edict of Worms
C)Swiss Reformation
D)Schmalkaldic League
Q2) Which of the following was an influential women's order founded in 1535 for the religious education of girls from all social classes?
A)the Capuchins
B)the Ursulines
C)the Jesuits
D)the Theatines
Q3) What advantage did an indulgence grant the buyer?
A)release from time in purgatory
B)the granting of an ecclesiastical post
C)the founding of a religious order
D)freedom from the church's holiday obligations
Q4) The Jesuit order,which was essential to the Counter-Reformation's success,was founded by __________.
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Chapter 12: The Age of Religious Wars
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Q1) One of the first actions Ferdinand took as king of Bohemia was to ________.
A)declare the Lutheran religion as the only legal religion in Bohemia
B)warn the Jesuits to leave or be exiled or sentenced to death
C)ban the practice of Catholicism in Protestant Bohemia
D)revoke the religious freedoms of the Bohemian Protestants
Q2) Catherine de Médicis convinced the king to execute the Protestant leaders in the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre because she claimed that _______.
A)the Guise family had plotted to kill him and take the throne for themselves
B)a Protestant coup was afoot,and that he must save the crown from an attack on Paris
C)she had been plotting an assassination of Coligny
D)the Huguenots had already massacred thousands of peasants
Q3) 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
Q4) How did religious conflict in Europe evolve over the course of the second half of the sixteenth century?
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Chapter 13: European State Consolidation in the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth
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Q1) When James I and Charles I attempted to rule as strong monarchs,they were blocked primarily by ________.
A)Parliament
B)the Anglican Church
C)Spain
D)the Puritans
Q2) How did Frederick William I differ from Frederick the Great in use of military power?
A)Frederick William I was interested in a strong military while Frederick the Great disliked military strength.
B)Frederick the Great was interested in a strong military while Frederick William I disliked military strength.
C)Frederick William I avoided putting his powerful army into places of conflict while Frederick the Great advanced destructive invasions.
D)Frederick William I was reckless with his military strength while Frederick the Great rarely went to war.
Q3) How did the duke of Orléans weaken France after the death of Louis XIV? Which of his initiatives became symbolic of French decline? How?
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Chapter 14: New Directions in Thought and Culture in the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
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Q1) The heliocentric universe was introduced by ________.
A)Nicolaus Copernicus
B)Isaac Newton
C)Johannes Kepler
D)Galileo Galilei
Q2) The idea that humans were,by nature,creatures of reason and basic goodwill is an idea embraced by ________.
A)Locke,in opposition to the ideas of Descartes
B)Hobbes,in opposition to the ideas of John Locke
C)Locke,in opposition to the ideas of Thomas Hobbes
D)Bacon,in opposition to the ideas of John Locke
Q3) The method of investigation that relies on evidence,experimentation,and observations derived from sensory experiences to construct scientific theory is the ________ method.
Q4) Many proponents of mechanism believed________.
A)machines should do the work of humans
B)human beings were machines,slaves to religion
C)humans are machines whose purpose is to produce knowledge
D)the world can be explained in mechanical metaphors
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) What persuaded people to bathe regularly toward the middle of the eighteenth century?
A)Physicians believed that bathing the pores would allow miasma to infect the body.
B)Linen became more popular than woolen clothing,which meant wearers had to be cleaner.
C)Women had less time for housework and wanted to enjoy leisure pursuits.
D)New ideas emerged about the benefits of bathing on good health.
Q2) Why did middle-class people show an increased interest in Wedgwood's fine porcelain?
A)Wedgwood's quality was very good.
B)Middle-class people began to do more entertaining.
C)Wedgwood's porcelain dishes were cheaper than other dishes.
D)Middle-class people admired the porcelain sold to the aristocracy and wanted to have something similar for themselves.
Q3) What do the textbook authors mean by "sustained economic growth"? Do you believe that the sustained economic growth made possible by the Industrial Revolution can continue indefinitely? Why or why not?
Q4) The Russians brutally suppressed the peasant rebellion called ________.
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Chapter 16: The Transatlantic Economy, trade Wars, and Colonial Rebellion
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Q1) What advantage did the peninsulares receive in the Spanish Colonies?
A)They received land.
B)They received the revenue from silver mines.
C)They received the best,most profitable jobs in the region.
D)They were treated like second-class citizens.
Q2) The technique used to assure discipline,prevent injury to the crew,and prevent suicide among Africans on the Atlantic Passage was to ________.
A)tightly pack the Africans in the ship's hold
B)feed the Africans well and keep them entertained
C)keep the Africans in iron shackles throughout the voyage
D)kill any African who created unrest during the voyage
Q3) The Seven Years' War was fought mainly in ________.
A)South America
B)North America
C)South Asia
D)Southern Europe
Q4) A fundamental element in the first two periods of European imperial ventures in the Americas was the presence of ________.
Q5) The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle brought the official end to ________.
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Chapter 17: The Age of Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Thought
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Q1) Rousseau blamed much of the evil in the world on unequal distribution of
Q2) Deism reflected Enlightenment intellectual currents in ___________.
A)rejecting the notion of a deity
B)its rational approach
C)having a special role for women in its observations
D)its opposition to Islam
Q3) The philosophes generally ________.
A)advocated fundamental changes in the social condition of women
B)believed women to be socially equal but not politically equal to men
C)said little about women
D)were not avid feminists
Q4) In the first partition,Poland lost one-third of its territory to Russia,________,and Austria.
Q5) The issue most relevant to physiocrats was ________.
A)legal reform
B)women's social status
C)legislative reform
D)property rights
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Chapter 18: The French Revolution
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Q1) 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.
Q2) In October 1795,who put down the royalist rebels that were intensifying the food riots?
A)Robespierre
B)Napoleon Bonaparte
C)William Pitt the Younger
D)Jacques Danton
Q3) The term sans-culottes was used in revolutionary France to refer to ________.
A)children
B)the professional classes
C)the lower middle-class
D)the lower clergy
Q4) How many émigrés left France after the Revolution?
A)fewer than 1,000
B)10,000
C)over 16,000
D)50,000
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Chapter 19: The Age of Napoleon and the Triumph of Romanticism
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Q1) The English Romantics generally opposed the ideas of _______.
A)the scientific revolution
B)the Enlightenment
C)the Reformation
D)the Renaissance
Q2) The Confederation of the Rhine is just one example of _______.
A)nationalistic responses to Napoleon's conquests
B)Napoleon's interference in political affairs across Europe
C)the devastation of the Napoleonic wars
D)coalitions that sprang up in defense against Napoleon's invasions
Q3) Which of these resulted from the Haitian uprising?
A)Napoleon suppressed all dissent in France.
B)The uprising was suppressed and Haiti was made a French province again.
C)The U.S.made the Louisiana Purchase.
D)Slavery disappeared in Latin America.
Q4) The thing that made Lyrical Ballads unique is that it ________.
A)was written by two friends
B)was written by Coleridge and Wordsworth
C)embodied Romantic poetry
D)rejected the rules of eighteenth-century criticism
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Chapter 20: The Conservative Order and the Challenges of Reform (1815-1832)
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Q1) What event led to the exile of Charles X in France?
A)the July Revolution
B)the Great Reform Bill
C)the storming of the Bastille
D)the Decembrist Revolution
Q2) "The independence of Latin America was a direct consequence of European events." Do you agree or disagree? Explain your answer,using specific information from the text.
Q3) Early nineteenth-century nationalism directly opposed the principle upheld at the Congress of Vienna that ________.
A)ethnicity,rather than monarchies or dynasties,provides the basis for political unity
B)legitimate monarchies or dynasties,rather than ethnicity,provide the basis for political unity
C)military strength,rather than ethnicity,provides the basis for political unity
D)common language should provide the basis for political unity
Q4) The son of a king of Bavaria,________ was chosen to be the first king of the new Greek kingdom.
Q5) Behind the concept of nationalism usually lay the idea of popular ________.
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Chapter 21: Economic Advance and Social Unrest
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Q1) Describe the dynamics that made the Habsburg Empire vulnerable to revolt.What was the progression of the uprisings,and how did each one build upon the prior one?
Q2) In France by about 1850,the largest group of employed women worked ________.
A)in factories
B)as domestic servants
C)on the land
D)in shops
Q3) Charles Fourier believed that workers were more productive when they ________.
A)received frequent praise
B)received high wages
C)performed the same tasks every day
D)worked on different tasks
Q4) Explain how the dynamics of marriage changed for the working class as more families moved to the city and took on factory work.What traditional practices remained throughout the Industrial Revolution?
Q5) Saint-Simonianism is a type of ___________.
Q6) How did changing attitudes about crime influence prison reform? Include a discussion of why the public was initially reluctant to reform prisons.
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Chapter 22: The Age of Nation-States
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Q1) The Hatt-i Sharif of Gülhane ________.
A)banned the practice of Christianity within the Ottoman Empire
B)banned the practice of Judaism within the Ottoman Empire
C)extended civic equality to all Ottoman subjects regardless of their religion
D)required Christians and Jews to convert to Islam
Q2) The most important nationalist leader in Europe,who brought new fervor to the hopes of Italian nationalism and unification in the 1830s and 1840s,was ________.
A)Giuseppe Mazzini
B)Francisco Franco
C)Giuseppe Garibaldi
D)Camillo Cavour
Q3) Prussia excluded Austria from German affairs by ________.
A)denying Austrian claims at the Convention of Gastein
B)defeating Austria in the Seven Weeks' War
C)encouraging and succeeding in an Italian defeat of Austria
D)gaining European-wide support for its policies
Q4) The ________ of 1867 transformed the Habsburg Empire into a dual monarchy.
Q5) Was Bismarck a nationalist? Compare development driven by nationalism in Prussia and the Habsburg empire in the later 1800s.
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Chapter 23: The Building of European Supremacy: Society
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Q1) Who did Napoleon III appoint to redesign Paris,with a partial goal of widening the streets to make for an easier response to insurrections?
A)Baron Georges Haussmann
B)Edwin Chadwick
C)Louis René
D)Pierre-Charles L'Enfant
Q2) Which of these was the major push factor driving migration from Europe in the 1800s?
A)a population boom
B)religious oppression
C)economic opportunity
D)political oppression
Q3) Which of the following is considered a strong trigger for the Russian revolution of 1905?
A)the creation of the Duma
B)the appearance at court by the monk Grigory Efimovich Rasputin
C)the Bloody Sunday shootings
D)the division between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks
Q4) ________ steel production eclipsed that of Britain in 1893.
Q5) In 1894,the ________,was founded to fight for women's rights in Germany.
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Chapter 24: The Birth of Modern European Thought
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Q1) By the start of World War I,most major nations of Europe ________.
A)began providing free public education for the masses
B)provided free elementary and secondary education for the masses
C)began providing free university education for the masses
D)provided free elementary,secondary,and university education for the masses
Q2) Which of the following became a major factor in the emerging mass politics?
A)political cartoons
B)letters to the editor
C)front-page editorials
D)transcripts of political speeches
Q3) Literacy paved the way for women to greatly expand their employment in the arena of ________.
Q4) ________,written by H.G.Wells,was about a mad surgeon's inhuman experiments on animals.
Q5) Max Weber and Ernest Renan approached Islam as a(n)_________.
A)historical phenomenon
B)spiritual development
C)religion equal to Christianity
D)phenomenon caused by Christian crusaders
Q6) How did science fiction find immediate acceptance by the popular culture?
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Chapter 25: The Age of Western Imperialism
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Q1) The British Empire in the early nineteenth century sought to extend its power and influence primarily through which means?
A)conquering additional territory
B)building railroads and canals
C)defeating small Asian and African states
D)promoting imperialism through free trade
Q2) The Boxer Rebellion ended when ________.
A)Chinese troops suppressed the Boxers
B)the Boxers surrendered
C)an international army occupied Beijing
D)China and the Boxers signed a peace treaty
Q3) What explains the similarities and differences between the ways various European states acquired and ruled empires in Africa during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
Q4) How did changes in the natural and social sciences serve to justify European imperialism? Explain how changes in different scientific disciplines related to each other in reinforcing European judgments of Asian and African peoples.
Q5) British and Russian rivalry over Central Asia ended with ________.
Q6) Japan became a major imperial power in Asia in 1895 after defeating ________.
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Chapter 26: Alliances, War, and a Troubled Peace
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Q1) The Balkan crises threatened what two empires?
A)Austrian and Ottoman
B)Russian and Austrian
C)British and Ottoman
D)French and British
Q2) What was Bismarck's plan for ensuring German power and security on the European continent? How did world events and German actions after 1900 upend the European equilibrium that Bismarck had tried to maintain?
Q3) How did the peace settlement after World War I address the underlying causes of the war? Examine both the causes of the war and their corresponding solutions,and assess the likelihood of the solutions succeeding or failing.
Q4) In 1911,Germany responded to a French intervention in Morocco by sending a warship,the Panther,to the Moroccan port of ________.
Q5) The one real strength of the League of Nations was that __________.
A)it had both persuasive and coercive powers
B)there was a consensus about its principles
C)it included all European nations and the U.S.
D)it was opposed to colonialism
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Chapter 27: The Interwar Years: the Challenge of Dictators and Depression
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Q1) The victorious powers demanded that the Treaty of Versailles be ________;the other side demanded that it be ________.
Q2) When American ________ for Europe began to run out,a severe financial crisis struck the Continent.
Q3) The ________ set production goals for every area of economic life and attempted to organize the economy to meet them.
Q4) Royal dictatorships were imposed in ________.
A)Yugoslavia,Bulgaria,Romania,and Greece
B)Yugoslavia,Czechoslovakia,Romania,and Greece
C)Poland,Bulgaria,Romania,and Czechoslovakia
D)Yugoslavia,Bulgaria,Austria,and Greece
Q5) The era of reparations was effectively ended by _________.
A)the Kreditanstalt in Vienna
B)the Young Plan
C)the Lausanne Conference
D)Hoover's moratorium
Q6) The Great Depression began in the year ________.
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Q7) The replacement of private peasant farms with huge state-run and state-owned farms was called ________.
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Chapter 28: World War Ii
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Q2) What proved that the appeasement of Hitler during the Munich Settlement was a failure?
A)Hitler occupied Prague,putting an end to the Czech state.
B)Riots broke out between the Germans of Sudetenland and the Czechoslovakians.
C)The Germans of Sudetenland rebelled against annexation by Czechoslovakia and demanded independence.
D)The economic sanctions imposed by the League of Nations weakened Hitler's military strength.
Q3) Hitler planned to bring the entire German ________,understood as a racial group,together in a single nation.
Q4) Germany's plan to expand met its first significant success with the ________. A)Anschluss
B)invasion of Ethiopia
C)occupation of Poland
D)remilitarization of the Rhineland
Q5) Hitler's vision for a new Germany included more living space,known as ________,which would be taken from the Slavs.
Q6) The ________ French government collaborated with the Nazis.
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Chapter 29: The Cold War Era, decolonization, and the
Emergence of a New Europe
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Q1) What was Putin's relationship with NATO during his presidency?
A)Putin sought to expand NATO's involvement in Eastern Europe.
B)Putin opposed the expansion of NATO in Eastern Europe.
C)Putin condemned NATO after it sanctioned Russia for its interference with the governments of former Soviet republics.
D)Putin criticized NATO after it refused to accept Russia as a member.
Q2) Which of these post-war trends was stalled or reversed by the invasion of Iraq?
A)U.S.-European cooperation
B)the spread of Muslim reformism
C)the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire
D)unilateralism
Q3) Brezhnev's two immediate successors were Yuri Andropov and ________.
Q4) How was the collapse of the Soviet Union different from that experienced by Austria after World War I or by Germany after World War II?
Q5) Revolution in Czechoslovakia was led by ________.
A)Nicolae Ceausescu
B)Václav Havel
C)Gustav Husak
D)Janos Kadar
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Chapter 30: Social, cultural, and Economic Challenges in the West Through the Present
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Q1) The Arab oil embargo of 1973-1974 pressed home the message to the industrialized West that ________.
A)natural resources are limited
B)oil production was not meeting consumer demands
C)dependence on oil must end
D)coal mining would have to be expanded
Q2) Margaret Thatcher supported ________.
A)higher taxes
B)more government intervention in the economy
C)expanding the social-welfare state
D)privatizing industries that had been nationalized
Q3) The first major European nation to begin to create a welfare state was ________.
A)Spain
B)France
C)Germany
D)Great Britain
Q4) What were the advantages of the European Union's adoption of a common currency? Are all member countries to benefit equally? Consider the exchange of foreign currency in your answer.
Q5) Albert Camus was a French ________ writer.
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