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World History II delves into the political, social, economic, and cultural transformations that have shaped the modern world from the 16th century to the present. The course examines significant global events such as the Age of Exploration, the rise of nation-states, revolutions, imperialism, world wars, decolonization, and the interconnectedness brought about by globalization. Through the study of diverse regions and perspectives, students gain a deeper understanding of how historical forces and global interactions continue to influence contemporary societies and international relations.
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Western Civilization Volume II Since 1500 9th Edition by Jackson J. Spielvogel
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Chapter 1: Reformation and Religious Warfare in the
Sixteenth Century
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Q1) Zwingli sought an alliance with A)Pope Paul III.
B)Ignatius Loyola.
C)Henry VIII.
D)John Calvin.
E)Martin Luther.
Answer: E
Q2) How did Luther respond to the German Peasants' War?
A)Luther called on the pope to intervene.
B)Luther offered to serve as a mediator.
C)Luther refused to take a side.
D)Luther supported the peasants against the lords.
E)Luther supported the lords against the peasants.
Answer: E
Q3) The fifteenth century saw a marked decline in religious piety among the laity. A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Europe and the World: New Encounters
1500-1800
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Q1) How many Africans slaves were shipped to the New World between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries?
A)One million
B)Two million
C)Five million
D)Ten million
E)Twenty-five million
Answer: D
Q2) When Moctezuma first encountered the Spanish, he believed they were
A)Aztecs in disguise.
B)foreign spies.
C)representatives of a god.
D)Mayans.
E)punishment sent by the devil.
Answer: C
Q3) By 1750, the population of British North America had reached about 1.5 million.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: State Building and the Search for Order in the
Seventeenth Century
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Q1) After conquering Constantinople in 1453, the ____ tried to complete the conquest of the Balkans.
A)Russia
B)Austria
C)Poland
D)Greece
E)the Ottomans
Answer: E
Q2) Which Baroque painter used violent motion, heavily fleshed nudes, dramatic use of light and shadow, and rich sensuous pigments in his paintings?
A)Rembrandt van Rijn
B)Gian Lorenzo Bernini
C)El Greco
D)Artemisia Gentileschi
E)Peter Paul Rubens
Answer: E
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Chapter 4: The Eighteenth Century: an Age of Enlightenment
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Q1) What was Diderot's most famous contribution to the Enlightenment's battle against religious fanaticism, intolerance, and prudery?
A)The great play "Is Rome Burning?"
B)A 28-volume Encyclopedia compiling articles by many influential philosophes
C)An autobiography published in French
D)A biography of Newton, "the greatest European"
E)An unconditional support for enlightened despotism
Q2) What was the "general will" according to Rousseau?
A)A meaningless abstraction and impediment to reason
B)A result derived from the law of supply and demand
C)A license to do as one pleased
D)A social consensus to which the individual must bow
E)A relationship that was identical to Locke's social contract
Q3) To what extent did "high culture" and "popular culture" influence one another?
Q4) What did Jean-Jacques Rousseau mean by the "general will"? What kind of government did he advocate?
Q5) The reputation of a salon depended on the stature of the men it was able to attract.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: The Eighteenth Century: European States
International Wars and Social Change
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Q1) Which statements best describes eighteenth-century European cities?
A)They were remarkably cleaner than the medieval city.
B)They were decreasing dramatically in population.
C)They were still filthy and lacked proper sanitation.
D)They were becoming more democratic in their government.
E)They were becoming politically and legally independent of monarchial control.
Q2) Rentiers supported themselves by relying on
A)warfare.
B)the state.
C)their investments.
D)begging.
E)the land.
Q3) What role did the nobility play in European politics in the eighteenth century?
Q4) What statement best describes the Dutch Republic by the eighteenth century?
A)It established a system of male democracy.
B)It saw the power of the oligarchy considerably reduced.
C)It continued its great economic prosperity of the sixteenth century.
D)It suffered a decline in economic prosperity.
E)It permanently expelled the House of Orange.
Q5) How did European family structure and life change in the eighteenth century?
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Chapter 6: A Revolution in Politics: the Era of the French
Revolution and Napoleon
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Q1) What did the National Convention do with regard to religion?
A)It took measures to strengthen the Roman Catholic Church.
B)It issued an edict allowing for total religious freedom.
C)It took measures to de-Christianize the republic.
D)It made the republic completely atheistic.
E)It expelled the Jews from France.
Q2) Which group comprised the largest segment of the Third Estate?
A)Skilled artisans
B)Merchants
C)Peasants
D)Professionals
E)Soldiers
Q3) Napoleon abolished all forms of government censorship and surveillance.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Estates-General had met every five years since 1555.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) How did the Committee of Public Safety respond to the threat of foreign invasion?
Chapter 7: The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society
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Q1) James Watt and the steam engine
Q2) How did the process of industrialization on the continent differ from the process of industrialization in Britain?
Q3) industrial factory
Q4) bourgeoisie
Q5) Edwin Chadwick championed universal suffrage for all adult males.
A)True
B)False
Q6) the workhouse
Q7) What was true of Britain's cotton industry in the late eighteenth century?
A)It could not keep up with French textile production.
B)It was inspired by the textile industry found in the United States.
C)It declined due to the lack of technical innovation.
D)It immediately declined with the success of the Industrial Revolution.
E)It was responsible for the creation of the first modern factories.
Q8) Ten Hours Act of 1847
Q9) George Stephenson's Rocket
Q10) capital Page 9
Q12) factory regulations
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Chapter 8: Reaction Revolution and Romanticism 1815-1850
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Q1) Whose presidency opened up a new age of democratic politics?
A)Thomas Jefferson
B)Andrew Jackson
C)James Monroe
D)James Madison
E)Abraham Lincoln
Q2) Most conservatives believed that
A)the French Revolution was a good thing.
B)militarism was the source of all evil.
C)nationalism was a force for good.
D)people should be obedient to political authority.
E)organized religion was unimportant.
Q3) The split between radical and moderate republicans during the Revolution of 1848 in France was created, in part, by differences over the fate of the national workshops.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What were the chief ideas of nationalism and utopian socialism? How did they seek to change society?
Q5) What ideas and beliefs united the early socialists?
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Chapter 9: An Age of Nationalism and Realism 1850-1871
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Q1) For whom did the Red Shirts fight?
A)Bismarck
B)Cavour
C)Garibaldi
D)Mazzini
E)Marx
Q2) The zemstvos system was designed to enhance the power of the Russian central government.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In Madame Bovary, ____ told the story of a woman trapped in loveless marriage.
A)Jean-Francois Millet
B)Gustave Courbet
C)Gustave Flaubert
D)Charles Dickens
E)William Thackeray
Q4) Michael Faraday worked out the theoretical foundations of the steam engine.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What were the causes and consequences of the Crimean War?
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Chapter 10: Mass Society in an Age of Progress 1871-1894
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Q1) In 1912, the Social Democratic Party was the largest single party in Britain.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Urban populations grew faster than the general population primarily because of higher birthrates in the cities than in the countryside.
A)True
B)False
Q3) White-collar jobs remained closed to women after 1870.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which statement best applies to Austria-Hungary before World War I?
A)Both Austria and Hungary had working parliamentary systems.
B)Emperor Joseph was weak and ineffective.
C)The nationality problem remained unresolved.
D)Emperor Francis Joseph had a harmonious relationship with Parliament.
E)The Catholic Church struggled to maintain the loyalty of followers.
Q5) Compare and contrast middle-class and working-class families. How do you explain the similarities and the differences?
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Chapter 11: An Age of Modernity Anxiety and Imperialism
1894-1914
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Q1) What led to the conflict between modernization and traditionalism in William's Germany?
Q2) Bismarck feared an anti-German alliance between
A)Britain and Austria.
B)Russia and France.
C)Austria and Italy.
D)The United States and Britain.
E)Austria and Spain.
Q3) What led to the scramble for Africa? How did the colonization of Africa affect relations between the European powers?
Q4) Artists embracing ____ used geometric designs as visual stimuli to re-create reality in the viewer's mind.
A)Surrealism
B)Cubism
C)Impressionism
D)Neo-Romanticism
E)Post-Impressionism
Q5) Amalie Sieveking was a pioneer in the field of nursing.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis:
War and Revolution
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Q1) Governments took considerable control over their economies during the war. A)True
B)False
Q2) In your opinion, was the peace settlement at the end World War I a just and fair one? Why or why not?
Q3) In 1916, compulsory military service was introduced in ____ for the first time.
A)France
B)Austria
C)Germany
D)Russia
E)Britain
Q4) What was the most important thing for Woodrow Wilson after the war?
A)Punishing Germany by requiring economic sanctions
B)Assuring a peace based on justice and reconciliation
C)Deepening America's isolationism from European affairs
D)Bringing about the disintegration of the Soviet Union
E)Returning the defeated German Empire back to its pre-1866 borders
Q5) At the end of World War I, Britain took control of Iraq and Palestine.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between
the Wars 1919-1939
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Q1) What was the original purpose of the SS?
A)The SS was used to raise funds for party activities.
B)The SS was used to defend the party in meeting halls.
C)The SS was used as Hitler's personal body guard.
D)The SS distributed Nazi propaganda.
E)The SS was the "respectable" face of the Nazis.
Q2) No nation was hit harder by the Great Depression than Britain.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What was a positive achievement of the Stalinist era in the Soviet Union?
A)Increased consumer goods
B)More educational opportunities
C)Greater individual employment choices in both agriculture and industry
D)More economic freedom under Stalin's New Economic Policy
E)Greater tolerance of political and intellectual diversity
Q4) Why were relations between France and Germany so difficult in the years immediately following World War I?
Q5) Compare and contrast the ideas of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. How did each man understand the "unconscious"?
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Q6) How did radio and movies contribute to the development of mass culture?
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Chapter 14: The Deepening of the European Crisis: World
War 2
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Q1) How did the British respond to Hitler's demands with respect to Czechoslovakia? Why did they make the choices they did?
Q2) What was the only country to use women as combatants in World War II?
A)Germany
B)Soviet Union
C)Japan
D)Britain
E)Italy
Q3) What did Japanese expansionists hope to achieve in the 1930s?
A)They wanted to create trade relationship with Western powers.
B)They wanted to create a military alliance with China.
C)They wanted to create a new power structure in Asia with Japan guiding its neighbors.
D)They wanted to align with the powerful Soviet Union.
E)They wanted create a military and economic alliance with the United States.
Q4) After Germany invaded Poland, the British sent a delegation to negotiate a settlement with Hitler.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) How did the Battles of Stalingrad and Midway change the course of World War II?
Chapter 15: Cold War and a New Western World 1945-1965
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Q1) In addition to the devastation of the countries, cities, peoples, and cultures of Europe, what did World War II destroy?
A)American commitment to globalism in foreign policy
B)European supremacy in world affairs
C)Any commitment of old and new nations around the globe to supranational bodies of diplomacy and conflict resolution
D)The capacity of western European nations to forge lasting economic and cultural ties in the post-war world
E)The trans-Atlantic partnership
Q2) What policy did George Kennan propose the U.S. adopt towards communism?
A)Massive retaliation
B)Containment
C)Appeasement
D)Curtailment
E)Mutually assured destruction (MAD)
Q3) Kwame Nkrumah formed the first African political party in sub-Saharan Africa.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What was the Truman Doctrine? How did it shape U.S. foreign policy?
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Chapter 16: Protest and Stagnation: the Western World
1965-1985
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Q1) College and university students in the 1960s opposed all of these conditions in higher education EXCEPT
A)declining enrollments.
B)lack of relevant educational content.
C)crowded classrooms.
D)authoritarian administrators.
E)inattentive professors.
Q2) The American people increasingly divided over the war in Vietnam after Johnson's troop escalation in 1968.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Mitterrand improved conditions for workers in France by
A)increasing the minimum wage.
B)decreasing costly social benefits.
C)lowering taxes nationwide.
D)nationalizing the steel industry.
E)guaranteeing all workers four weeks of paid vacation.
Q4) The Reagan Revolution extended tax cuts to the rich to stimulate the economy.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: After the Fall: the Western World in a Global Age
Since 1985
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Q1) Was Mikhail Gorbachev responsible for the collapse of the Soviet Union? If not, who or what was? Explain.
Q2) "Think globally, act locally" is the slogan of the global environmental movement.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What did Mikhail Gorbachev intend to do under perestroika?
A)Frighten the United States with more military spending
B)Create a more free and open political culture in the U.S.S.R.
C)Turn all power over to the people
D)Restructure the economic and political systems
E)End communism and adopt western-style democracy
Q4) "Globalization is going to be the salvation of civilization." Do you agree or disagree? Explain, citing evidence to make your case.
Q5) The justifications that George W. Bush used for invading Iraq in 2003 were agreed upon by most members of the United Nations.
A)True
B)False
Q6) How and why did the Cold War end? Did anyone "win" this conflict? Who? Why?
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