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By the time he died, at the age of 32, Alexander had conquered all expect

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Northern India as Far East as modern Pakistan

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Which of the following statements is not a correct observation of Greek-Macedonian affairs

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Philip II's assassination ended all Greek involvement in a Macedonian led invasion of the Persian Empire

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Which of the following statements is an accurate depiction of life in classical Athens

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It was a male dominated environment that used slaves, was predominantly agricultural, employed a limited number of craftsmen, gave a major role to the family

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Greek religion was characterized by

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Polytheism, rituals, sacrifice, and festivals

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Which of the following best summarizes Aristotle's fears the deterioration of forms of government

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Monarchy to tyranny, aristocracy to oligarchy, and constitutional government to anarchy

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In the republic, Plato

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Created a utopian, ideal state composed of three social classes

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Socrates

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Employed a question and answer method by which students reasoning helped them to learn

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Thucydides believed that

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Historical writing should be objective, accurate, factual

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The Greek historian who wrote the history of the Persian wars was

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Herodotus

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The ultimate results of the formation of the Delian League was to

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Make Athens the dominant city-state in the region

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Foreign influences on early Greek culture included all of the following except

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The importance of middle eastern monotheism

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Spartan society

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Was organized as a military state

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Greek colonization

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Resulted from overpopulation, an increase in trade,and a widening gap between rich and poor

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The earliest Aegean civilization was located

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On Crete

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The Athenian leader whose funeral oration lauded Athenian democracy was

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Pericles

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All of the following are true about the Assembly under Pericles except

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It would propose and pass laws

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During his conquest, Alexander reached as far as the ____ river

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Indus

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All of the following are true about the Delian League except

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Athens began to resent the spartan power

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During the Peloponnesus war

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The Athenian influence was destroyed, the athenians burned the fields of the attic peninsula, and a plague claimed one third of the spartan population

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Through the studying of the Minoans, Greek and ____ influences are found on the island of Crete

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Egyptian

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Greek aristocrats began to lose power when

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Hoplite armies could defeat the aristocratic cavalrymen

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Which battle was the turning point of the Persian war

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Salamis

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Which of the following statements is not an accurate characterization of a Greek polis

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It played a significant role in unifying all Greeks under one single government

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Homers legacy to the Greeks was

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Important in the education of the young Greek males

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Greek geography

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Contained mountainous areas that impeded Greek unity

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In Oedipus Rex, ____ focused on portraying the message of a story instead o the action

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Sophocles

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_____ encouraged individuals to gain more knowledge by asking "how"

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Plato

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The Athenian ruler who ended the dispute of debt was _____

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Solon

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____ ended the political instability by conquering the Greek mainland

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Phillip II

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_____ moved away from Homer by arguing that the gods do not explain history

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Thucydides

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The mathematician who calculated the value of pi was

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Pisistratus

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____ watched as his navy was destroyed at the battle of salamis

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Xerxes

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_____ believed that all things can be explained through investigation and research

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Aristotle

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The first tyrant, _______, focused on building the industrial and merchant economy

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Pisistratus

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Through the writings of _______, men and women were provided their ideal role in the Greek society

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Homer

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The fourth crusade resulted in the

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Fall of Constantinople

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All of the following were participants in the Third crusade expect

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Conrad II

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The major threat to the Byzantine empire in the eleventh century came from the

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Seljuk Turks

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T/F: The Byzantine emperor Basil II was infamous for blinding over 14,000 Turkish troops before allowing them to return home

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True

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T/F: As a result of the fourth crusade, the west established a permanent political presence in the Byzantine empire

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False

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The crusaders fought for spiritual and material reasons

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The crusades fought for both spiritual and material things. Something that the crusaders fought for was spiritual was that they would go to heaven if they died while they were fighting. A material thing that the crusaders fought for was wealth from pillaging conquered villages

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Which of the following religions views Jerusalem as a center of worship

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Judaism, Christianity, Islam

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What was not one of Basil I policies

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Focusing on military expansion in the Balkans

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Which choice places the following Emperors in chronological order? Basil II, Basil I, Michael III, Leo VI, Constantine VII

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Michael III, Basil I, Leo VI, Constantine VII, Basil II

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In the Corpus Iuris Civillis, which part is a compiling of writings of Roman jurists

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Digest

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Belisarius have conquered many former Roman territories. How did this hurt the Byzantine empire

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His military conquests drained Constantine treasury

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How did the Nika Revolt effect the Byzantine empire

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Justinian established his absolute rule and began to rebuild the city

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The city that benefited the most from the fourth crusade was

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Venice

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At the battle of manzikert in 1071, the

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Seljuk Turks defeated the Byzantines

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The Byzantine theme

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Combined military and civil authority in one person

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Justinians most lasting accomplishment was

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The Corpus Iuris Civilis

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Charlemagne sent his troops to protect the Papal States from invaders. Who was invading

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Lombards

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Which of the following was accomplished by medieval Christian monasteries

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They served as centers of learning

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T/F: The shift from a two-field to a three-field system contributed to the increase in food production in the Middle Ages

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True

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Aristocratic medieval women

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In usual circumstances, could play a major role, as did Eleanor of Aquataine

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What is not a factor of population double in Europe by the high Middle Ages

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A cessation of Viking invasions

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T/F: Under Charlemagne, the missi Dominici were the governors of a providence

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False

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In an effort to avoid the potential mayhem of the Germanic system of personal revenge for the punishment of crimes, an alternative system arose that made use of a fine called

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Wergeld

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The representative of the Merovingian dynasty who founded a Frankish Kingdom was

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Clovis

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T/F: The demense was the land on the manor retained by the lord and worked by peasants and serfs

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True

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Which kingdom kept the same Roman structure for the Roman citizens but had separate laws for each ethnic group

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Ostrogoths

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A lord would grant a ______ to a vassal in exchange for military services

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Fief

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The lowest class of a medieval society was ____

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Serfs

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In order to limit the power of the monarch, _____ was forced on the English king

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Magna Carta

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_____ was established as they first French parliament

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Estates- General

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A knight who fights for a lord would be a _____ of the lord

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Vassal

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____ was the knights code of ethics based on good morals influenced by the church

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Chivalry

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The treaty of _____ split Charlemagne's empire into three kingdoms ruled by his grandsons

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Verdun

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The _____ is the compensation a victims family would demand of the wrongdoer

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Wergeld

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The use of _____ calls for all of the people of England to follow

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Common Law

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A _____ is an association of townspeople bound together by a sworn oath for the purpose of obtaining basic liberties from the lord of the territory

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Commune

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The French selected ____ as the king of France after the death of the last Carolingian monarch

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Hugh Capet

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______ said "Who will rid me of this priest?"

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Henry II of England

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_____ brought the division amongst the Franks to end

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Pepin

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King _____ lost the battle of Hastings

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Harold of Wessex

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The pope crowned ____ the emperor of the romans in 800 AD

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Charlemagne

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By winning the battle of tours, _____ prevented the Moors from conquering France

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Charles Martel

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_____ promised god that he would convert to Christianity if he won a battle

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Clovis

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______ focused his reign on regaining the French territory controlled by the English monarch

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Philip II Augustus

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_______ raised an army to invade Rome and overthrow pope Gregory

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Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV

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_____ established the French parliament

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Philip IV the Fair

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Since he was the Duke of Normandy, king _____ of England was a vassal to the French king

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William I

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_____ signed the Magna Carta in 1215

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John I of England

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What did not provide agricultural improvement during the Middle Ages

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The introduction of serfs into the work force

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T/F: The Visigoths established a social structure that placed Roman citizens in the middle clas

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False

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T/F: The fundamental concept of a trail of ordeal is that any god would not allow an innocent man to be hurt

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True

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Economic and social crisis that arose in response to the Black Death in Europe did not include

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Peasant rebellions took place in Europe over exclusion from artisanal guilds

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As anti-Semitism spread through Europe in response to the plague, many Jews fled to

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Poland

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What is not an effect of the Becket/Henry II controversy

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The creation of the Magna Carta

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What was not an effect of the coronation of Charlemagne

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The Franks increasing their power over the romans

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Under the reign of Theodoric, the _____ took control of the declining Italian peninsula

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Ostrogoths

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The territory controlled by the Capetian Dynasty was

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Ille-de-France

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The city which held trade fairs connecting European and Asian trade was

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Champagne

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Which of the following statements is not true about the Black Death

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People turned towards god to provide themselves hope

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As a result of the Black Death

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There was an increase in anti-Semitism

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T/F: The spread of good and people along the Silk Road helped facilitate the spread of the plague

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True

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Which two cities of Flanders dominated the wollen cloth trade

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Ghent and Bruges

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T/F: The shift from a two-field to a three field system contributed to the increase in food production in the Middle Ages

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True

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All of the following facilitated the gradual rival of trade in Europe except

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The disintegration of the Carolingian empire

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The basis of feudalism in Europe was

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A contract sworn between a lord and his vassal

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What factor most contributed to the Vikings becoming part of European civilization

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Conversion to Christianity

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Which of the following in not a true statement about Charlemagne

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He attended a university in Rome

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All of the following were true of the medieval peasants life except

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They were members of agricultural craft guilds

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By the end of the thirteenth century, the institutionalization of the English parliament

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Was a system of power sharing between the monarch and groups within the society

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The English king most responsible for establishing the "common law" was

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Henry II

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The piece of land that provided the feudal vassals economic support was the

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Fief

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The incursions of the Scandinavian Vikings into other parts of Europe

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Were successful because their ships had a shallow draft, allowing them to sail far up rivers

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Who were the Asian people, defeated at the battle of Lechfeld, who became Christians and went on to establish the kingdom of Hungary

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Magyars

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Charlemagne sent his troops to protect the Papal States from invaders. Who was invading

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Lombards

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T/F: The demesne was the land on the manor retained by the lord and worked by peasants and serfs

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True

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What were the main objectives of Prince Henry the Navigator

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Weakening the Muslim states in Spain and west Africa, advancing Christianity, expanding trade opportunities for Portugal

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Portuguese control of the spice trade was ended by

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The establishment of British and Dutch East India Companies

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T/F: The joint-stock English East India Company was founded in 1600 with the aim of developing trade in the Americas

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False

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T/F: The first European nation to gain control of Southeast Asias spice trade was the Netherlands

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False

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The peasants revolt

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Ended with the English peasants being pardoned for their crimes

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_____ had the ability to travel against the strong winds of the ocean

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Caravels

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______ received the territory west of the line drawn in the Treaty of Tordesillas

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Spain

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The first island Christopher Columbus landed on was ______

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Hispaniola

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The most southern tip of South America is called ______

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Cape Horn

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In Southeast Asia, ______ was the largest supplier of spices to the Europeans

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Malacca

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The first country to invest in exploration was ______

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Portugal

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In 1608, ______ East India Company land in Surat

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English

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______ was sold to Portugal after Magellans voyage

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Tidor

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The English and the ______ established joint-stock companies to increase their country's exploration

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Dutch

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_______ is the southern tip of South Africa

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Cape of Good Hope

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Which of the following was not an advantage held by the Spanish in conquering the "New World"

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Competition with the Dutch

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Portuguese control of the spice trade was ended by

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Establishment of the British and Dutch east India

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The Spanish base of operation in Southeast Asia was established in

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The Philippines

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Which of the following accurately pairs Spanish conquistadors with the new world empire they destroy

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Cortés and the Aztecs; Pizarro and the Inka

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An influential cargo brought back to Portugal from the west African coastal voyages in 1441 was

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Gold

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The Portuguese leaders who first landed at Calicut and seized the port of Malacca were, respectively

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Da Gama and Albuquerque

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Prince Henry

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Established a naval school in Portugal

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Europeans embarked on expansionist voyages for all of the following expect

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Fear that Islam would occupy the rest of the world if Christendom did not

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Which of the following is not true concerning European forays into the new world

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Pedro Cabral explored along the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula

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The Treaty of Tordesillas

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Divided the "new" areas discovered by Europeans between Spain and Portugal

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Following explorers in chronological order

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Marco Polo, Dias, Columbus, Cabot, Cabral, Magellan

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______ said "It is better to be feared than loved"

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Niccolò Machiavelli

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______ ordered Martin Luther to red at the heresies he had exposed

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Charles V

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After being declared victorious at a city council in Zurich, _____ was free to preach his evangelical reforms

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Ulrich Zwingli

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Through ______'s invention of the movable printing press, literacy in Europe increased

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Johannes Gutenberg

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Predestination was the principle theological concept of ______

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John Calvin

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T/F: The peace of Augsburg forced all German Princes to convert to Lutheranism

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False

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T/F: The Protestant Reformation was aided by the creation of the moveable printing press

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True

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T/F: According to Machiavelli, political leaders should use their morals while making political decisions

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False

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T/F: The churches treasury was depleted when pope Leo X rebuilt St. Peter's Basilica

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True

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T/F: The Protestant Reformation was the event that led to the decline of the political power of the church

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True

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The Bourbons of _____ wanted to remove the Habsburg Dynasty surrounding their borders

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France

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The Spanish Armada was sent to rid _______ of Protestantism

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England

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After the Thirty Years War, _______ was broken up and established 200 years of disunity in Central Europe

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Holy Roman Empire

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_______ was the only remaining territory for the emperor

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Austria

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The monarch of _______ believed god chose the country as the defender of the Catholic faith

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Spain

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The Thirty Years War began in the ______

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Holy Roman Empire

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King Adolphus of ________ brought major military reforms to Europe

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Sweden

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Sweden and ________ enter the Thirty Years War to take advantage of the disunity of Northern Germany

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Denmark

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_______ was connected with France through the marriage of their queen and king Francis II of France

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Scotland

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_______ planned to use the soldiers from the Netherlands to invade England

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Spain

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After the Thirty Years War, _________ power was reduced to the Austrian Territory

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Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II

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After claiming the English throne, _______ repassed the act of Supremacy

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Queen Elizabeth I of England

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______ said, "Paris is worth a mass."

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King Henry IV of France

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______ married King Philip II of Spain to connect two catholic monarchy's

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Queen Mary I of England

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Queen Mary I of England married ______ to connect two catholic monarchy's

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King Philip II of Spain

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The country that Napoleons brother became the monarch of

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Spain

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The city that became the major target during the "reign of terror"

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Lyon

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At _______, the French navy suffered major defeat at the hands of the British navy

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Trafalgar

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_____ is the island off the coast of Italy that Napoleon was exiled to

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Elba

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Napoleons Continental System was created to destroy the economic state of _____

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Great Britain

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The island were Napoleon was born

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Corsica

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Napoleons troops enter _____ to find it vacant and burnt down

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Moscow

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The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved and reorganized into the ______

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Confederation of the Rhine

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Napoleon invaded ______ for disobeying the Continental System

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Russia

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Napoleon was exiled to _____ until his death in 1821

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St. Helena

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_______ owned 10% of the French land

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First estate

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_____ made up 2% of the French society

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Second estate

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Parish priests were in the ______

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First estate

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After being shut out from the Estates General, the _____ took the Tennis Court Oath as one of the first revolutionary acts

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Third estate

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______ was the only estate responsible for paying taxes

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Third estate

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______ made up 1% of the French society

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First estate

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Napoleon First gained control of the executive power of the French government by

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A coup d'état

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The last remnants of feudalism were given by the

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National convention

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The French Revolution began with the storming of

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Bastille

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The Estates-General was held in order to deal with

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The French financial crisis

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What was not a direct result of the Seven Years War

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France ceded Mexico to British control

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Enlightened despotism

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Was limited by the social and political reality of the hereditary aristocracy

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The Russian monarch whose policies favored the landed nobility, at the expense of the serfs, was

answer

Catherine the Great

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The Austrian ruler whose reform program abolished serfdom, eliminated internal trade barriers, and instituted a new penal code, among other things, was

answer

Joseph II

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Enlightened absolutism

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Was based more on practical measures to strengthen the power of the state than to "reform" and free their populations

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Who should not be considered an "enlightened despot"

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Maria Theresa

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Argued that, in accord with the "General will" people could be "forced to be free"

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The intellectuals of the Enlightenment advocated the

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Use of the scientific method to foster progress toward a "better" society

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The theory that planets travelled in ellipses instead of circles was proven by

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Kepler

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According to Montesquieu, the almost perfect government is

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Great Britain

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The governmental principle based on just laws and on a government created by the will of the people is

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Popular Sovereignty

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Rene Descartes

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Claimed that "I think, therefore I am"

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The Catholic Church condemned the theories of Copernicus and Galileo because they

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Threatened the scriptures, as the heavens were no longer a spiritual world but a world of matter

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The person viewed as one of the founders of modern economics and known for the doctrine of Laisser-faire was

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Smith

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Which of the following statements would John Locke find acceptable

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A positive environment will create positive results

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Metternich used the Carlsbad Decrees to monitor the actions of _____ students

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German

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Who was not in the Quadruple alliance

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France

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All of the following were principles of the congress of Vienna except

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France would be punished for their role in the Napoleonic Wars

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The congress of Vienna in 1815

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Agreed to meet periodically to take steps to maintain Europe's peace and stability

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T/F: 19th century liberalism called for the limiting the power of the governmental authority

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True

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Cartwright invented

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The loom

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James Watt invented

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The steam engine

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Kay invented

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The flying shuttle

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George Stephenson invented

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The rocket

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Alexander Graham Bell invented

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The Telephone

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Hargreaves invented

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The spinny Jenny

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T/F: The first failure of the Metternich System was in the Greek rebellion

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True

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The assembly line was invented by

answer

Henry Ford

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Puddling was invented by

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Henry Cort

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The steam powered locomotive was invented by

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Richard Trevithick

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The light bulb was invented by

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Thomas Edison

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The first in flight with the airplane

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Weight Brothers

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After the Austrian-Prussian War, which territory was not unified in Italy

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Rome

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The Red Shirt army of Italy was led by

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Giuseppi Garibaldi

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Which of the following European countries did not benefit from an advanced industrialized core

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Spain

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What was not an advantage of using children as labor

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Children were more educated after the requirement of mandatory education

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By 1871, what was not correct about Great Britain

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The largest political party was the Labour Party

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Which of the following was not a result of the brief 1866 war between Austria and Prussia

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A Russian and Austrian defensive alliance defeated the French and British in The Balkans

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The policies of Otto von Bismarck before 1871

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Ignored domestic opposition and concentrated on foreign affairs

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The Crimean War

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Ended with the neutrality of the Black Sea

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The new Italian kingdom established in 1861

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Was, to a significant degree, the result of the diplomatic and political work of Cavour and the military actions of Garibaldi

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The most multinational state in Europe in the 19th century, and thus the most threatened by the new ideology of nationalism was

answer

Austria

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Which of the following statements is not true about the Revolution of 1848 in Europe

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The overthrow of the tsar in Moscow initiated the series of upheavals

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The congress of Vienna in 1815

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Agreed to meet periodically to take steps to maintain Europes peace and stability

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Karl Marx believed that all of human history was the story of

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The class struggle

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The British cotton manufacturer Robert Owens sought to

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Establish a socialist utopian working environment

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The basic purpose of the concert of Europe was to

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Maintain conservative political control over Europe

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By aiming at establishing legitimacy and a traditional balance of power in European political affairs, Metternich and his associates at the congress of Vienna were advocates of the ideology known as

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Conservatism

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This act brought an end to the employment of children under 9 years of age in Great Britain

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The Factory Act of 1833

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Continental European industrialization

answer

Began in Europe after ideas spread from Britain

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By the middle of the 19th century, Henry Corts system of puddling had resulted in

answer

Britain becoming by far the worlds leading iron produced

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The ability to make yarn at a much faster pace

answer

Became possible after the development of the flying shuttle

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T/F: The industrial revolution required large movements of people to urban areas

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True

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T/F: The unification of Germany in 1871 was the triumph of authoritarian and militaristic values over liberal constitutionalism

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True

question

T/F: Children were discouraged from working in cotton mills because their smaller size did not allow them to move among the machines and they were too difficult to train to do complex factory work

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False

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T/F: Great Britain depended almost entirely upon foreign investments to support its industrial revolution at the beginning

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False

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In the French Revolution of 1848, ______ fled to Greta Britain to avoid execution

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Louis- Philippe

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The leader of the Red Shirt Army was ______

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Giuseppe Garibaldi

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______ used the theory of intervention to prevent liberal revolutions in foreign countries

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Klemens von Metternich

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_____ uses wars with Austria and France to unify Germany

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Otto von Bismarck

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After the Revolution of 1848, the French citizens elected _______ president

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Charles Louis Napoleon

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________ tried to United the German States by creating a constitution through the Frankfurt Assembly

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Frederick William IV

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The Russian conservative believed _____ was destroying the Russian traditions but the liberals did not believe he instituted enough change

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Alexander II

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_______ was the first king of the United Italy

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Victor Emmanuel

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_____ declared a new German state in the hall of mirrors

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William I

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_______ was the prime minister under Emmanuel II

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Camillo Di Cavour

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The country that withdrew from the Quadruple alliance because they did not want to participate in stopping liberal movements was

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Great Britain

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Russia partitioned the Grand Duchy of Warsaw with

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Austria

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The Reform Bill of ________ allowed British citizens who owned property to vote

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1832

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Four causes of World War I

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Militarism, imperialism, alliances, nationalism

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Using the Schlieffen Plan

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Germany invaded France by going through Belgium

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On June 28, 1914, the archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, was assassinated in the Bosnian city of

answer

Sarajevo

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The battle of Somme

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Killed more than 21,000 British soldiers in a single day

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T/F: In ten months at Verdun, 700,000 men lost their lives for only a few miles of terrain

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True

question

The most visible social impact of total war was

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Incorporation of women into professional positions

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The significant disadvantage of Germany's Zeppelins was

answer

They were extremely flammable when hit with anti-aircraft guns

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War on the western front was marked by

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Little movement by troops bogged down in trenches

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The radical Serbian group that assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand was the

answer

Black hand

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As a result of the Great Depression

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Marxism and fascism gained in popularity

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Under Lenin's new economic policy

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Individuals were permitted to own small retain stores and peasants to sell their produce

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Tsar Nicholas II abdicated his throne as a result of strikes that broke out

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After working class women staged a massive food march in Petrograd

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The final German offensive was stopped on July 18, at the battle of

answer

Marne (second)

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The general attitude toward prospect of a Europe-wide war among the people of Europe in the summer of 1914 was one of

answer

Romantic enthusiasm for the adventure of war

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T/F: Among the other civilian casualties in World War I were the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, the victims of genocide

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True

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T/F: Because of post-war economic growth, the Great majority of women retained their jobs after World War I

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False

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T/F: It was the decision of the German government to return to unrestricted submarine warfare that brought the United States into World War I in 1917

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True

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______ left the Paris Peace Conference disappointed that his country did not receive more territory

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Vittorio Orlando

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While his country was failing in World War I, ______ went to the front lines to become the leader of his army

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Nicholas II

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The wife of Nicholas II believed that ______ had the ability to cure her son

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Rasputin

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________ assassination was the "spark" that began World War I

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Archduke Francis Ferdinand

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_______ was the leader of the Petrograd Soviet and red army

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Leon Trotsky

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During the Paris Peace Conference, ______ focused on providing more security for his country

answer

Georges Clemenceau

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_______ was a hero of World War I and became the president of Germany

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Paul von Hindenburg

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During the Paris Peace Conference, ______ paved the way for they creation of the League of Nations

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Woodrow Wilson

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After the death of Lenin, ______ rose to power by promoting the continuation of the NEP

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Joseph Stalin

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_______ was the leader of the the Russian Provisional Government after the March revolution

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Alexander Kerensky

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After winning the election or Prime Minister, _______ completed his goal of asking Germany pay for World War I

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David Lloyd George/ Georges Clemenceau

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"Peace, land, bread" was the famous quote of _______

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Vladimir Lenin

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When the allies refused to make peace with an imperial government, _____ began to make liberal reforms in Germany

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William II

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Hitler conquered Eastern Europe in what order

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Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Soviet Union

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T/F: Hitler's military officers wanted the German troops to attack the oil fields instead of the city of Stalingrad

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True

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Radar was an important factor in the success of the Royal Air Force of

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Great Britain

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The lend-lease policy was provided to the allies by

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United States

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T/F: Hitler never achieved the size of the empire that napoleon ruled over

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False

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In March 1936, Hitler violated the Treaty of Versailles by ignoring the demilitarization zone placing troops in the region. Why did the allies fail to respond to a weak German military

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Great Britain denied to help France because they were unwilling to risk war over German territory

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Hitler came into power in 1933 for all of the following reasons except

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The Nazi party overthrew the German president

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Mussolini and the fascists came into power in 1922 for all of the following reasons except

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Victory in 1920's elections

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_______ is the grand German empire of hitler

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Third Reich

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Through the use of _______, hitler stunned Europe with the speed and efficiency of the German attacks

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Blitzkrieg

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Hitler believed the Germans were entitled to _____ or "living space"

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Lebensraum

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________ could not return the favor to the fascist regimes by entering the war n the axis side

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Francisco Franco

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________ was the British prime minister at the end of World War II

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Winston Churchill

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________ is the name for the German annexation of Austria

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Anschluss

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_______ was the code name for the allied invasion of Normandy

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Operation Overlord

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________ was the policy of the allies during the Munich conference. They agreed to allow hitler to take one more region

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Appeasement

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After the Munich conference, _______ believed he achieved "peace in our time". He lost his next election after the break out of World War II

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Neville Chamberlain

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______ was the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union

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Operation Barbarossa

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_______ was the German Air Force

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Luftwaffe

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________ was the French prime minister at the beginning of World War II

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Eduard Daladier

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A more violent phase of anti-Jewish activity, _______ or "night of broken glass" was initiated

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Kristallnacht

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______ or "desert fox" was the German general in Northern Africa and France

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Erwin Rommel

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Originally created as Hitler's personal bodyguard, the SS, under the direction of ______, came to control all of the regular and secret police forces

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Heinrich Himmler

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Chronology

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Mussolini become prime minister of Italy, Beer Hall Putsch, Nuremberg Laws, Stalins purges

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What was the main action that sparked the US declaration of the Truman doctrine

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Civil war in Greece

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"Peaceful coexistence"

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Was treated with suspicion by the United States leaders, especially after the Soviet crushing of the unrest in Hungary in 1956

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What is not true about the Berlin Airlift

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It was accompanied by a publicly stated American threat to use atomic weapons on Moscow if soviet planes attacked allied aircraft

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Which events made Stalin uneasy about the US intentions between 1945-1950

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Plans to merge the American, British and French occupation zones in Germany into a west German republic

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Soviet reactions to the Marshall plan

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The view that the plan was an effort by the United States at imperialist domination of Europe

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The European recovery program was better known as

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Marshall plan

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The Truman Doctrine

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States that the US would provide aid for any nation that was being threatened by communist subversion

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Which of the following countries denied stalins attempt to occupy it after the war

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Yugoslavia

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Which development did not occurred at the Yalta Conference held in 1945

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The leaders of the three allied nations were deeply divided over the future of Japan

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T/F: Nikita Khrushchev promoted a policy of "roll back communism" in 1955

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True

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The term "iron curtain" was coined by former British prime minister Winston Churchill in 1946

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True

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The Marshall plan was a military alliance directed against the Soviet aggression

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False

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Stalin's desire for sole control of the decision making led to his first purges of

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Old Bolsheviks

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Among the major results of World War II was

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The beginning of a major and world wide decolonization movement

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At the Yalta conference

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Stalin agreed to "free elections" in Eastern Europe, but did not follow through

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At the meeting of the Big Three at Tehran

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The allies decided to partition postwar Germany

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The Cold War

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Was a major factor in world affairs for several decades after World War II

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What is not true about conventional aerial bombing during World War II

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Britain was the only belligerent nation whose citizens were not exposed to significant bomb attacks

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The holocaust included all of the following except

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The elimination of gypsies and many others from groups deemed undesirable by the Nazis

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After World War II, ______ was an American plan to provide economic assistance to any European country

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Marshal Plan

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_______ was the American policy in order to prevent the spread of communism

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Containment

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_______ was created in 1955 in reaction to the western powers forming an alliance

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Warsaw Pact

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_______ ousted Malenkov out of power and immediately denounced the brutal tactics of Stalin

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Nikita Khrushchev

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_________'s five year Plans allowed the Soviet Union to restore its industrial society to a pre WWII level

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Joseph Stalin

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_______ came to power in Yugoslavia after WWII

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Tito

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______ was the economic alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite countries

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COMECON

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Canada, the US, and the rest of Western Europe signed an alliance against the spread of communism called

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NATO

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The _______ was established to provide any country military and economic assistance to prevent communism from conquering their country

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Truman Doctrine

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_______ was the Hungarian leader who was executed for promising open elections with secret ballots to his citizens

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Imre Nagy

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____ was the Hungarian leader who was summoned to Moscow to resign his position for being to similar to Stalin

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Matyas Rakosi

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Even though it was a short reign, _______ was the communist leader who succeeded Joseph Stalin

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Georgy Malenkov

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_______ was the term used by Churchill to illustrate the Soviet dominance in Eastern Europe

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Iron curtain

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After he was executed the previous ruler, _______ returned Hungary to a pro-Moscow country

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Janos Kadar

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________ was grand alliances plan for Germany after defeating Hitler

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Denazification

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____ was attended by Stalin, Churchill and Truman

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Potsdam conference

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The results of _______ conference was operations overlord and anvil

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Tehran

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After discussing it at Tehran, the _______ conference confirmed that the allies were to split Germany into four occupation zones

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Yalta

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The collapse of the grand alliance occurred during the ______ conference

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Potsdam

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Stalin begged for a new front at the ______ conference

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Tehran

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At the _____ conference, Stalin refused to allow free elections in Eastern Europe

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Potsdam

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The "big three" attended ______ and ______

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Tehran and Yalta

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____ was known as the angel of death because of his experiments on prisoners

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Josef Mengele

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______ is the Nazi attempt to physically exterminate the Jews

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Final solution

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______ the term for the every country providing their colonies with independence

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Decolonization

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_______ used two guiding principles of terror and ideology as the leader of the secret police

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Heinrich Himmler

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______ was the foreign minister of the Soviet Union

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Vyacheslav Molotov

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________ established the final solution

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Reinhard Heydrich

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Hitler's architect, ________ was made minster for armaments and munitions that year

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Albert Speer

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_______ was commandant at Auschwitz

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Albert Speer

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Which of the following would best describe the economy under Brezhnev

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A stagnant economy with a decreasing quality of goods

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What country did not lose territory or collapse after the Cold War

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France

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Which of Gorbachevs reforms caused a major change to the media and the state of the government information in the Soviet Union

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Glasnost

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T/F: The famous "evil empire" speech was given by president Reagan

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True

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The carter doctrine stated that the Americans would

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Use military force to protect the American oil interests in the Middle East

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T/F: The significance of the Helsinki Accords was the United States demanded that the Soviet Union allow east and west Germany to unite

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False

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The Cuban Missile Crisis

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brought the world to the brink of nuclear war, but eventually produced a lessening of Cold War tension between the superpowers

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The Brezhnev doctrine

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Was a warning to other communist states to follow the leadership of Moscow

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"Star Wars" was Kennedys plan to send men to the moon by 1960

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False

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T/F: By aiding the Afghanistan resistance to the Soviet Union, the United States helped maintain a Vietnam-like war that successfully hurt the power of the Soviet Union

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True

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In its struggle to free itself from Communist rule and reestablish an independent political structure, Czechoslovakia experienced

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The crushing of reform by Soviet troops in 1968

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As an instrument to perestroika, glasnost allowed

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Criticism of the government and Soviet society generally

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Leonid Brezhnev

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Valued stability above all, blocking significant attempts to deal with economic and social problems

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T/F: Chernobyl was the Russian word for openness

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False

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A major focus of Thatcherism was

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To privatize national industries

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T/F: The Flat tax system would benefit the wealthier citizens over the poorer ones

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True

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Why are the British leaving the EU

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The British disagree with the immigration and open border policies

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Why did the US refuse to ratify SALT II

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The Soviet aggression did not stop

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The third world refers to

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Non-aligned countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America

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The term "ethnic cleansing" is associated with the tragedy which occurred in

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Bosnia, during the breakup of Yugoslavia

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_____ was Gorbachev's economic, political, and social policy to restructure the Soviet Union

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Perestroika

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_____ was elected president of the Russian Republic in June 1991

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Boris Yeltsin

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______ vowed to return the breakaway state of Chechnya to Russian authority and to adopt a more assertive role in international affairs

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Vladimir Putin

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Through the policy of _____, the Soviet Union citizens were encouraged to criticize the government

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Glasnost

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After the Algerian Crisis, the French government turned to _____ to reform the constitution and government

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Charles de Gaulle

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In 1981, the socialist party of France became the dominant party when ______ was elected president of France

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Francois Mitterrand

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______ demanded that the communist government of Czechoslovakia recognize the same basic human rights

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Charter 77

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In 1977, the Labour Party in Great Britain regained power with the election of _____

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Tony Blair

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In the 1990's, _______ used the policy of ethic cleansing against the Bosnian Muslims

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Slobodan Milosevic

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______ believed that the Soviet Union could have survived as a group of sovereign states

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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The economic policies of ______ are considered a major victory in southern England but not in the north

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Margaret Thatcher

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_____ was the East German secret police that were responsible for spying on their own citizens

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Stasi

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In 2010, conservative ______ was elected prime minister of Great Britain

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David Cameron

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Led by _____ solidarity rapidly became an Influential force for change and a threat to the polish governments monopoly of power

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Lech Walesa

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______, elected as the chancellor of Germany in 2005, took a leading role in the affairs of the European Union

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Angela Merkel

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