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A central doctrine of Calvin's Protestantism was his belief in

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Predestination to heaven or hell

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What new field of mathematics did Newton and Leibniz simultaneously develop?

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Calculus

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The Indian Ocean trade wars between the Ottomans and the Portuguese exhausted both empires, which by the early seventeenth century allowed the Netherlands (Dutch Republic) to take over the spice trade.

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True

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Charles I of England was forced to summon Parliament in 1642 when he needed permission to marry his daughter to the King of Spain..

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False

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Luther proposed several reforms, including putting __________ above tradition and canon law.

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the New Testament

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Shortly after Columbus arrived in the Caribbean Islands the native Tainos and Caribs population was decimated by

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Smallpox

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European gunpowder weapons were the single most important factor in the speed with which the Spanish were able to conquer the Aztec and the Inca.

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False

question

Approximately 10 percent of France's population in the mid-1500s was Huguenot, who were

answer

Calvinist

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In 1632 Galileo was sentenced to house arrest for his support of Copernicus's heliocentric theory.

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True

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The British won the overseas portion of the Seven Years' War, and won control of most of the French holdings in India, Caribbean, and North America.

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True

question

The Thirty Years' War began with religious tensions in the Dutch Republic.

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False

question

Although Constantinople is often thought of as a trade hub on the Silk Road, in the thirteenth century it was as important for its role as a trade up linking the Mediterranean with the

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Russians

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What did the Edict of Nantes in 1598, issued by King Henry IV, promise?

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Freedom of religion for French Calvinism (Huguenots).

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As his father Charles V had before him, Philip II of Spain found his attention diverted from the Ottomans by a lack of financial resources in Spain.

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False

question

According to Safavid claims in 1501, their fourteen-year-old leader Ismail was the Hidden Twelfth Imam.

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True

question

In 1517, which of the following was NOT ruled by Charles V?

answer

Portugal

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The Portuguese began exporting what to Brazil to replace Native American labor lost to epidemics?

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African Slaves

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Timur the Great saw his empire as a continuation of the empire of the

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Mongols

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Initially, the Europeans who settled in North America acquired land by

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Purchase

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The caravel was developed in __________ to make travel on the Atlantic easier.

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Portugal

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In order to strengthen their religious reforms of Spain, in 1492 Ferdinand and Isabella expelled ________ who refused to convert to Christianity.

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Jews

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One sign of the rise of the Fiscal-Military state is that by 1750, most armies

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Were paid with tax money

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In the eighteenth century the New England colonies developed an agricultural export in

answer

Timber

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By the end of the eighteenth century, England had a larger navy than France and dominated the world's oceans.

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True

question

The Puritans were radical Protestants in England who wanted to get rid of the Anglican hierarchy.

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True

question

The Incan nobility regrouped after the loss of Cuzco and managed to rebuild an empire that lasted for almost forty more years by using guerilla warfare tactics.

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True

question

Janissaries were soldiers taken as children from Christian families by the Mughal Empire and converted to Islam.

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False

question

Unlike the Spanish and Portuguese colonies, immigrants to the New England colonies included large numbers of families.

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True

question

By the early fifteenth century, Venetians colonized the Canary Islands and forced the native Guanches to work on

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sugar plantations

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The upper class of creoles in the Spanish American colonies came from landowning families and the

answer

church

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Why did the Portuguese have the first treaty line demarcating the Atlantic Ocean between themselves and Spain redrawn in the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494?

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They wanted to make sure that Brazil fell on their side of the line.

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One of Mehmet II's first acts as the new ruler of Constantinople in 1453 was to banish all Eastern Christians from the city and to loot the churches.

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False

question

Because the Portuguese did not at first find gold or silver in Brazil, they turned to tobacco plantations for profit.

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False

question

Native American acquired guns from the Europeans because the Europeans wanted to show off their technology to impress the chieftains.

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False

question

German Lutherans fighting in the Thirty Years' War were aided in 1630 by the intervention of__________against the Habsburgs.

answer

Louis XIII of France

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The king and royal family of Kongo adopted the language, religion, and many aspects of culture from

answer

Portugal

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In the Sino-Manchu Dyarchy, how did the Manchus ensure their representation in the Chinese bureaucracy?

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Set quotas so that a certain number of Manchus were guaranteed to pass.

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Many of the new crops introduced into China from the Columbian Exchange were acquired from the Spanish through ports in ___________, reflected in the names for those items.

answer

the Philippines

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The Navigation Acts of 1651 and 1660 required all goods transported from England to American colonies to be

answer

transported on English ships

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During the reign of Aurangzeb, the British East India Company and other European interests expanded their ___________ in India.

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fortified outposts

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The Songhay, Kanem-Bornu, and Hausa kingdoms were all ___________ regimes, at least among the elites.

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Islamic

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How did upper caste Hindus view Muslims, including the Mughals?

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ritually unclean

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Prior to 1800, most interregional trade was for

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luxury goods

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The jiziya was so unpopular that in addition to popular protests, some people converted to Islam to escape it.

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True

question

The native populations of the Caribbean, the Tainos and Caribs, were wiped out soon after the arrival of Europeans, who brought with them

answer

smallpox

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After Vasco da Gama circumnavigated the continent of Africa in 1498, Portugal was able to open up direct trade relations with what Asian nation?

answer

India

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Shah Jahan spent much of his reign trying to recapture Kandahar, Afghanistan, which had been taken from Mughal control by Safavids.

answer

True

question

From 1483 to 1486, the Portuguese explored from the Bight of Benin to the Congo River, hoping to discover

answer

Prester John

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In 1727, what border area became a protectorate of Qing China, and its traditional Buddhist leader allowed to remain in power as an approved leader?

answer

Tibet

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When Hindus converted to Islam in Mughal India, they often continued to observe the rules of the caste system.

answer

True

question

What English port benefitted the most from the Atlantic System?

answer

Liverpool

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To promote the Islamification of India, Aurangzeb brought back the jiziya, a head-tax on

answer

non-Muslims

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In the fourteenth and fifteenth century, China's population dropped from 100 to 60 million, largely due to

answer

Black death

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Although Benin traded fewer slaves to Europe than other West African states, Benin did increase its trade of slaves for

answer

guns

question

The Songhay emperors were able to dominate vassal states because the Songhay taxed what trade?

answer

gold

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The French dominated trade in silk products in Europe because they had access to what region's silk?

answer

Bengali

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Eighty percent of all African slaves transported to the Americas work on ________ plantations.

answer

sugar

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What was the first, and longest-lived, European colony in China?

answer

Macao

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Why were Europeans pleased that Indian shipping used saltpeter as ballast?

answer

saltpeter was used in gunpowder

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One reason why China took the lead in producing and exporting luxury goods such as porcelain, tea, and silk was that the policy of Japan and Korea until 1800 was to

answer

be secluded from trade

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Although he limited their powers in many ways, how did Tokugawa Ieyasu increase the power of the daimyo and samurai?

answer

allowed them power over all commoners

question

What city did Timur-i lang use as a capital, and as a base for Silk Road trade?

answer

Samarqand (Samarkand)

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What religious group uses the Golden Temple at Amritsar?

answer

Sikahs

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Beginning in the sixteenth century, the Luo peoples moved into the Great Lakes region and displaced the local social structures with their wealth based on

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cattle herding

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In 1699 the Qing created the Canton System, which limited foreign traders to the port of Guangzhou (Canton), and restricted them from bringing what with them to China?

answer

their wives and families

question

When African slaves were "danced" during the Middle Passage, what was being done to them?

answer

They were being exercised to keep them healthy.

question

The Kerala School, active from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, determined that planets had

answer

elliptical orbits.

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The first European traders to reach China in the sixteenth century were viewed with disdain by the Chinese officials, because

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Confucianists had always looked down upon merchants.

question

The Kingdom of Kongo was created by the Portuguese to facilitate their trade in African slaves.

answer

False

question

The few Dutch who were allowed to remain in Japan following the official move to seclusion had to live where?

answer

Nagasaki harbor

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In the "single-whip" tax system of Ming China, land taxes had to be paid in

answer

silver coins

question

What became the largest slave state in the world, and the destination of over half of all African slaves?

answer

Brazil

question

Although Babur's forces at the battle of Panipat were outnumbered, he had what technological advantage?

answer

muskets

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How did the Funj differ from the Hausa?

answer

the Funj converted to Islam across all class lines, not just the elites.

question

Unlike the neo-Confucian cultures of China and Japan, the Islamic and Hindu cultures of Mughal India regarded trade as

answer

an honored profession

question

Slaves had many ways of subtly rebelling against the slave system, such as work stoppages or sabotaging equipment.

answer

True

question

The flying shuttle, spinning jenny, and water frame were all examples of inventions in what industry?

answer

textiles

question

Why did Metternich resign as the Prime Minister of Austria in 1848?

answer

Pressure from uprisings in multiple cities and by many different people

question

How did the British East India Company come to be in possession of opium to sell to the Chinese?

answer

-sold it to the company

question

The Confederation of 39 German States created by the Congress of Vienna became a power struggle between Prussia and

answer

Austria

question

Austria threatened to declare war on France in 1791 because it feared the revolution would spread there and because of what direct link between the two countries?

answer

Queen Maria Antoinette was Austrian.

question

Count Cavour, who led Italian unification, served as prime minister of what Italian state?

answer

Piedmont-Sardinia

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Meiji means

answer

Enlightened rule

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Steamship cut the travel time from Britain to the United States

answer

by one-half

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By 1894, China and Japan were at war with one another over

answer

Korea

question

In addition to hating foreigners and being anti-Qing, the Boxers attacked

answer

Christians

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Why did Commodore Perry bring a telegraph set and a model railroad on his trip to Japan to open the country up to trade?

answer

To impress the Japanese with examples of American technology.

question

The French state prior to 1788 had various ways to finance itself, from taxes to collecting money by selling

answer

titles and offices to the nobility

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In addition to encouraging the adoption of Western technology, Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan finally led the Qing to victory over

answer

the Taiping Rebellion

question

Who was overthrown in the Thermidorean Reaction of 1794?

answer

Robespierre ; the Radicals

question

Louis Blanc criticized capitalism and promoted urban workers to protest their lack of voting rights.

answer

True

question

Opening up a treaty port in Shanghai gave the British and other European powers access to what crucial waterway?

answer

Yangzi

question

Japan industrialized so rapidly in the late nineteenth century that she had to import most of the raw materials she needed to keep the factories running.

answer

True

question

In the Treaty of Nanjing (1842), Britain acquired what crucial island and deepwater harbor, which they retained control of until 1997?

answer

Hong Kong

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Who prevented a complete takeover of China by any one foreign power in 1899, by proposing the "open door" policy?

answer

the United States

question

To encourage the development of their own industries, how did the United States protect its businesses?

answer

instituted high tariffs

question

The economic causes of the French Revolution are tied to bad harvests in 1786-1787 and to crippling debt from loaning money to

answer

American Revolutionaries

question

The Great Reform Bill of 1832 reformed the British Parliamentary system .

answer

True

question

Japan's interest in Korea and Manchuria brought it into conflict with

answer

Russia

question

What method allowed Britain and the United States faster communication by 1866?

answer

telegraph

question

According to the extraterritoriality policy of the Treaty of Nanjing, British subjects in China were to be tried by the Chinese, but faced more lenient punishments.

answer

False

question

At the Congress of Vienna 1815, what was von Metternich's goal for the republican ambitions of the burgeoning middle class?

answer

To prevent them from coming to power.

question

Belgium, France, and the German states began to industrialize in the 1830s once their populations recovered following

answer

the Napoleonic war

question

The American Constitution created an effective federal system, and provided amendments to address Enlightenment ideals, but avoided any definitive statements on what divisive issue?

answer

slavery

question

What did Lin Zezu do with the 20,000 chests of opium that were surrendered at Canton in 1839?

answer

burned it

question

The French joined the British in the Second Opium War in order to

answer

protect catholic missionaries

question

The Calico Acts of 1700 and 1720, enacted by the British Parliament, were designed to

answer

prohibit the importation of calico to Britain.

question

Who was killed in the Boston in 1770 during the Boston Massacre?

answer

American colonists

question

According to the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, all human history was a history of

answer

class struggle

question

According to Adam Smith, the market should be left free of restrictions and allowed to regulate itself by the forces of

answer

supply and demand

question

Why did Qing officials call the Taiping rebels the "long-haired rebels"?

answer

The rebels grew out the hair on their forehead to signal their break with the Qing.

question

Female suffragettes wanted to gain the right to vote for women but refused to use violent means of protest.

answer

false

question

In 1789 the Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath, promising to meet until they had

answer

? -not French catholic church

question

Which industrialist critic tried to organize a national workers strike of trade unions in England?

answer

Robert Owen

question

American colonists objected to paying the tax on tea because they knew the tax was really a subsidy for

answer

the British East India Company

question

Bismarck's plan for unification of Germany involved ultimately creating a war with

answer

France

question

During the second industrial revolution, what profession began to be dominated by women?

answer

secretarial

question

According to the principle of kokutai, Japan's leadership is unique because

answer

the line of emperors is unbroken

question

Although slavery was abolished in the U.S. following the Civil War, freed African Americans in the South lost what kinds of rights between 1877 and 1914?

answer

voting rights

question

By the mid-nineteenth century, regional economic differences had appeared in the United States, as the South developed an industrial economy.

answer

false

question

Hiram Maxim invented what new weapon technology in 1884?

answer

machine gun

question

In the United States, steamships were used to open up several river systems to trade, as well as the Great Lakes.

answer

true

question

What medical advances in the second industrial revolution contributed to the rapid population growth experienced by Europe in the late nineteenth century?

answer

vaccinations

question

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were both from wealthy planter families located in what colony?

answer

Virginia

question

The 1833 Factory Act restricted child labor introducing what as the minimum age for child labor?

answer

9

question

What did George Stephenson construct at Manchester-Liverpool in 1829-1830?

answer

the first passenger railway line in Britain

question

José de San Martin incorporated what peoples into his Army of the Andes?

answer

black volunteers

question

With whom did Britain fight a "Great Game" for control of Afghanistan in the 1830s?

answer

Russia

question

In the 1908 Sultan Abdülhamit formed a secret alliance of soldiers, religious students and religious brotherhoods to oppose

answer

the Young Turks

question

Many of the Young Ottomans who advocated for a constitution worked in what profession?

answer

journalism

question

Brazil was the last nation in the Western Hemisphere to outlaw slavery.

answer

true

question

Why did Witte believe that Russia needed faster access to Siberia?

answer

mineral reserves

question

Throughout most newly formed Latin American states, liberals wanted to extend what right?

answer

voting

question

The Great Mutiny of 1857 began because of rumors among the Hindu and Muslim Sepoy troops about

answer

use of pig and beef fat on ammunition cartridges.

question

What office did Sergei Witte hold that allowed him to encourage industrialization in Russia in the 1890s?

answer

finance minister

question

The United States issued its Monroe Doctrine in 1823, which was aimed at limiting what influence in the Western Hemisphere?

answer

Europe

question

After mercantilism was ended in post-independent Latin America, what European nation benefitted the most from access to the region's trade?

answer

Great Britain

question

One of the electoral reforms introduced into Argentina in 1912 was the right to voting by

answer

secret ballot

question

The Haitian Revolution was more radical than the American or French Revolutions that proceeded it because of what factor?

answer

Slaves led the revolution and liberated themselves.

question

In 1914, the United States completed construction on a canal crossing what newly formed state in Latin America?

answer

Panama

question

The beys of Tunisia modernized their military and were the first Muslim state in North Africa to

answer

- not declare their independence - not invade an European country

question

Why did Britain not get involved in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904?

answer

They had a "benign neutrality" agreement with Japan.

question

What was the first country in Europe to create a state based on ethnic nationalism, in 1832?

answer

Greece

question

According to the Fortunate Edict, Christians and Jews were also required to

answer

do military service

question

The American settlers in the Mexican province of Texas came into conflict with the Mexican government when they refused to abide by what law?

answer

abolition of slavery

question

Muhammad Ali transformed Egypt's traditional farming culture into large estates producing commercially profitable

answer

cotton

question

At the time of the French Revolution in the eighteenth century, the French colony on Hispaniola produced half of the world's supply of what commodity?

answer

sugar

question

The Pan-Slavic movement gave Russia the special charge of defending Slavic peoples in the Balkans against

answer

the Ottomans

question

Although located in different regions, and having different methods, both Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa wanted what to happen in Mexico?

answer

-not renewed war with the U.S. -not more investment

question

Why did Napoleon revoke the abolition of slavery and send troops to fight Haitian revolutionaries?

answer

-not he wanted Haiti to be an ally of France

question

After liberating Gran Columbia from Spanish rule, Simón Bolivar joined forces with San Martin to free what other territory from Spain?

answer

Peru

question

The British encouraged the Muslims to think that they were protected, at a time when the Muslims were concerned that an independent India would be dominated by

answer

Hindus

question

Catherine the Great of Russia began her reign by following the "royal thesis" of the Enlightenment, which stated that she had to institute reforms but could still

answer

be an autocratic ruler.

question

Although Russian serfdom was abolished in 1861, serfs were not entirely free, as they had to do what to achieve their freedom?

answer

pay an annual fee for their land

question

Although secular schools were introduced into the Ottoman world in the late nineteenth century, why did they lag in popularity behind religious schools?

answer

the secular schools were unfunded

question

How did the Ottoman Empire deal with the ethnic nationalist movement among the Armenians from 1894 to 1896?

answer

suppressed it with massacres

question

Pedro I of Brazil favored created a constitutional monarchy with broad voting rights.

answer

false

question

In its ongoing struggle with the Ottoman Empire, the Russians took advantage of the Young Ottoman uprising and nationalist movements in

answer

Balkans

question

Mustafa Kemal was a radical religious reformer intent on enforcing the Sharia.

answer

False

question

Douglas MacArthur was widely criticized for his

answer

arrogance

question

The United States had a vested financial interest in Germany's payment of reparations.

answer

true

question

The members of the Triple Alliance, compared to the Triple Entente, were

answer

less industrialized

question

The bombing of Pearl Harbor would have been even more devastating if several American vessels had not been on routine training missions.

answer

true

question

Woodrow Wilson was the American president in World War I.

answer

true

question

After the death of Lenin, Trotsky agreed to allow Stalin to assume leadership of Russia.

answer

false

question

Taxi cab drivers brought soldiers to the front lines as the Germans neared the Marne River near Paris.

answer

true

question

Rommel encouraged Hitler to go straight to Moscow, avoiding the push to join up with the Japanese.

answer

false

question

The German government responded to its fiscal crisis by printing more paper money.

answer

true

question

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk took Russia out of the war.

answer

true

question

Which of these was NOT an intellectual of the 1800s that contributed to the move towards relativism?

answer

Albert Einstein?

question

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

answer

was concluded between Russia and Germany.

question

Serbia's response to Austria was so conciliatory that it surprised even the Germans.

answer

true

question

Which of the following countries was the least affected by the Great Depression?

answer

Sweden

question

When fire burned down the Reichstag, Hitler blamed

answer

communists

question

Germany's use of Blitzkrieg was successful in Poland and France.

answer

true

question

The Fourteen Points the treaty written to end World War I.

answer

false

question

The Nazis viewed the Russians as "subhuman."

answer

true

question

Britain received the mandate for the region commonly referred to as Palestine.

answer

true

question

Russia defended Serbia in the Bosnian Crisis because

answer

Russia claimed leadership of all Slavs.

question

Who was France's prime minister during WWI?

answer

Georges Clemenceau

question

The world's first nation to adopt fascism was

answer

Italy

question

Why were the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa significant American victories in the East Asian theater?

answer

because of their proximity to mainland Japan

question

Germany's battle strategy hinged on defeating Russia in the first weeks of the war.

answer

false

question

Britain and France were able to take control of the Suez Canal because

answer

Egypt was unable to repay its debts from construction.

question

The Decembrist revolt in Russia, 1825, was a

answer

military officer revolt

question

The southern part of Brazil in the nineteenth century was dominated by what kind of plantations?

answer

-not coffee -not sugar

question

From 1772-1795, Catherine the Great conspired with Prussia and ___________, to take apart Poland.

answer

Austria

question

It is possible that Napoleon's venture into Egypt was as much about limiting the power of what other European nation as it was about limiting the power of the Ottomans?

answer

Britain

question

Why was the "gin and tonic" drink so popular among the British in India?

answer

The tonic contained quinine to treat malaria.

question

Emperor Napoleon III was determined to rebuild France's overseas empire and intervened in Mexican politics after who had been deposed?

answer

santa anna

question

Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab became very influential in Arabia, by using his role as a ___________ to ally himself with the ibn Saud family.

answer

sunni cleric

question

The Great Mutiny also involved a civil war among those Indians who supported British interests in India and those who opposed the British altogether.

answer

true

question

The "War of the Caudillos" in Venezuela was fought between political factions who disagreed with how much authority what group should have?

answer

central government

question

What was the only African state to successfully hold off European colonization?

answer

Ethiopia

question

By 1800, British trade in India shifted its focus from the spice trade to what more lucrative commodity?

answer

cotton

question

Several times in the nineteenth century Britain intervened in situations involving the Ottomans and Europe, due to Britain's determination to keep

answer

a balance of power in Europe

question

Although born in what is now Venezuela, where did Simón Bolivar first conceive of the idea of a constitutional republic in New Granada (South America)?

answer

France

question

One of the causes of the Crimean War was the claim of Napoleon III of France to be the special protector of

answer

-not Slavic nationalism -not ancient greek temples

question

When the British banned the slave trade in 1807, the Ashante of Ghana changed to trading what agricultural commodity?

answer

palm oil

question

What was Eichmann's role in the planning of the Final Solution?

answer

He was an expert in train scheduling.

question

Simon Kimbangu believed that God would liberate the Congo from Belgium, and in the meantime they need not pay taxes.

answer

true

question

Hitler attempted to rebuild postwar Germany without violating the terms of the Versailles Treaty.

answer

false

question

Britain, France, Russia, and Germany made most of the decisions at the Paris Peace Conference.

answer

false

question

Trench warfare became commonplace on the war's eastern front.

answer

false

question

Who worked to reverse Bismarck's international policies?

answer

Kaiser William II

question

What made the fall of France so shocking?

answer

Hitler appeared now as a threat greater than Germany in World War I.

question

Japan's primary goal in invading Manchuria was the region's

answer

rich natural resources

question

All Quiet on the Western Front, The Waste Land, and The Decline of the West all have in common

answer

a sense of disillusionment following World War I.

question

The United Nations was formed after the German surrender.

answer

true

question

Prior to the dropping of nuclear weapons, Japan

answer

wanted to surrender if they could keep their emperor.

question

Austria attempted to avoid war by offering a reasonable ultimatum to Serbia.

answer

false

question

Which of the following nations was NOT a part of the Triple Entente?

answer

italy

question

The term fascism was a reference to

answer

not socialism

question

Einstein asserted that measures of time, space, and motion vary with the movements of observers. This is known as the theory of

answer

relativity

question

Which of these describes the Diplomatic Revolution of 1890-1907?

answer

Six nations of Europe formed alliances in a fragile balance of power.

question

Who replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister of Britain?

answer

Winston churchill

question

Bismarck's diplomacy focused on maintaining the status quo in which of these?

answer

france and the balkans

question

Which of these country's leaders were angry because they did not received the lands they were promised after WWI?

answer

Italy

question

Wahhabism dominated the emerging Saudi Arabia.

answer

true

question

The man who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor was

answer

isoroku yamamoto

question

Which battle was considered to be the turning point of the war in East Asia?

answer

midway

question

Which of these sided with Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I?

answer

Bulgaria and the ottoman empire

question

According to Freud, absolute moral standards could not exist because

answer

people were driven by unconscious instincts.

question

Adolf Eichmann was the head of Hitler's SS.

answer

false

question

Pope Pius XII did NOT know of the Nazi atrocities being perpetrated on the Jews.

answer

false

question

Rommel's defeat in Africa was largely due to

answer

the lack of reinforcements

question

The Waste Land was written by

answer

T.S. Eliot

question

The Bolsheviks defeated the Mensheviks in the Russian Revolution.

answer

true

question

The Tripartite Pact was an alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan.

answer

true

question

Russia borrowed heavily from France to support new enterprises and build railways.

answer

true

question

In 1918, Germany was ravaged by

answer

influenza

question

Which of the following nations remained neutral in WWI?

answer

spain

question

After Iraq received independence from Britain, it quickly set up a centralized government strengthened by the country's ethnic unity.

answer

false

question

Which nation switched sides in World War I because of territorial promises?

answer

not france

question

The Japanese, during World War II, claimed to be acting to

answer

rid Asia of Western imperialists.

question

What was Britain's response to the independence movement of Ian Smith in Rhodesia in 1965?

answer

expelled Rhodesia from the British Commonwealth

question

Gorbachev's perestroika, or restructuring, policy of 1985 failed in part because although some small private enterprise was developed, what happened with the goods produced?

answer

They were too expensive to buy

question

By 1994, Israel's relationship with Egypt and Jordan could best be described as

answer

peaceful

question

On September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda suicide bombers crashed four hijacked airplanes into the U.S. World Trade Towers, the Pentagon, and

answer

a field in Pennsylvania

question

In 1959 China took control of what territory, which eventually led to border disputes with India?

answer

Tibet

question

Johnson's "Great Society" plan was aimed at ending what in the United States?

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poverty and lack of jobs

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed by the U.S. government under the leadership of

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Lyndon Johnson

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The only violent overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe took place where?

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Romania

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In 2002, the U.S. military budget was larger than the military budget of the next eight countries combined.

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true

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What text was the foundation of Mao's Cultural Revolution and required reading for the Red Guard?

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Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong

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The nonproliferation treaties sponsored by the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1960s were aimed at doing what to nuclear weapons?

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Keeping nonnuclear nations from building them.

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The United States military began to bomb North Vietnam in 1964 in retaliation for what alleged event?

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attacks on U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin

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Osama Bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, had earned his military skill and reputation by fighting the Soviets in

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Afghanistan

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The Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954 decided that what had to happen to American schools?

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desegregation

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Among the critics of globalization, labor unions were concerned about what trend in the U.S. economy in the 1990s?

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loss of American high-tech industry

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The first recession of the 2000s was caused by excessive and unregulated economic investment in what kind of companies?

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the Internet

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When the Soviet Union agreed to pull its missile bases from Cuba, the United States agreed in turn to pull its missiles from

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turkey

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In the 1980s, during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, the United States began to develop technology that would allow them to put nuclear weapons in

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outer space

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The United States encouraged Asian states that were industrializing, such as Korea and Thailand, to export goods to America as a way of preventing what from spreading to those regions?

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communism

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Russia was able to recover from its GDP depreciation from 1999 to 2001 because of its large reserves of

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oil and gas

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Under the rule of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, what kind of government system has remained in place, in spite of middle-class protests?

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socialism

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Truman felt pressured to end segregation in the U.S. military in 1947 in part because the United States had objected to the Nazi policy of racial purity.

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true

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After defeating Iraq in 1992, the United States and the United Nation both kept what kind of inspectors in the country until 1998?

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weapons

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What technological breakthrough did China make in October 1964, in spite of her separation from the Soviet Union and its advisors in 1960?

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detonated its first nuclear weapon

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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba's GDP suffered because the country lost its main purchaser of what commodity?

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sugar

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The Brezhnev Doctrine of using military force to keep Soviet satellites in the Warsaw Pact was created in response to an uprising in

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Czechoslovakia

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Rapid urban and industrial expansion in India has led to a decrease in

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the caste system

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In 1992, U.S. President George H. Bush sent troops to invade Iraq, after that country invaded

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Kuwait

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What was Britain's response to the independence movement of Ian Smith in Rhodesia in 1965?

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expelled Rhodesia from the British Commonwealth

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The International Monetary Fund is an international bank with whom as the largest shareholder?

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united states

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In 1971 the United States took on a larger economic role in the world economy when President Nixon negotiated what deal with OPEC?

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to accept only U.S. dollars for oil

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How did the Muslim Brotherhood differ from other pan-Arab nationalist groups in the 1960s and 1970s?

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It based its policies on Islamic fundamentalism

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Gorbachev's perestroika, or restructuring, policy of 1985 failed in part because although some small private enterprise was developed, what happened with the goods produced?

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They were too expensive to buy

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Before he entered politics, what was Barack Obama's professional background?

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law professor

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What did the Soviets and OPEC boycott shipments of in the mid-1970s?

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oil

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The Tea Party movement in the United States was largely concerned with what it saw as the excessive power of

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the federal government

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Who supplied Hamas and Hezbollah with the rockets they used to attack Israel?

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Iran

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The anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States began

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on college campuses

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By importing so many goods from China, the United States helped that nation to do what in the 1990s?

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industrialize

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The Chinese middle class became increasingly socially liberal as it acquired more money and education.

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false

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What was the immediate political effect on the United States of the Tet Offensive?

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President Johnson announced he was not running for reelection

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What killed some 2.5 million people in North Korea in the 1990s?

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not a nuclear power plant

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Unlike the United States and Britain, what was France's policy toward the economic problems of the 1980s?

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nationalization of industries

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Of the three main ethnic groups that comprise Nigeria, which one attempted to create a breakaway state of Biafra in 1967?

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Igbo

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Although Solidarity became a political organization, it began as a

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labor union

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Although as many as 169 nations participated in the 2005 Kyoto Protocol, which region is the only one likely to reduce its emissions by the promised 5.2 percent?

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the European Union

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In the 1973 Arab-Israeli conflict known as the Yom Kippur War, who launched the first attack?

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Egypt

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Although there were several reasons why the Soviets and Chinese split in 1960, one of the primary reasons was

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China was critical of Khrushchev's softer approach to the United States

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When U.S. President John F. Kennedy said "Ich bin eine Berliner," he was protesting what Soviet action?

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building the Berlin Wall

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Where is Camp David, the site of the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace talks, located?

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the United states

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In 2001 the United States invaded Afghanistan, determined to destroy what pro-al-Qaeda group in power there?

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Taliban

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In 2000, Hezbollah successfully drove Israeli forces out of what region?

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Southern Lebanon

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In South African Apartheid, where did black Africans live?

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in Bantustans

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The "Zimmerman Note" from Germany to Mexico was a telegram promising to do what if the United States declared war on Germany?

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allow Mexico to enter the war on the side of Germany

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The Korean War was settled with a peace treaty in 1953 that permanently divided the region at the 38th Parallel, and granted sovereignty to both nationalists in the south and communists in the north.

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false

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During the 1920s, half of the British budgets were designated to pay what expenses?

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war debts, especially to the United States

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By 1763, the original thirteen colonies were expanding west into what valley?

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ohio

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Although silk remained important, Europeans in the eighteenth century became increasingly interested in importing what from China?

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tea

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What was Mahatma Gandhi's profession before he became an activist for Indian independence?

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-monk

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Britain was concerned with keeping authority or influence over the Suez Canal, which led the British to grant only partial independence to

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Egypt

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, both Germany and Britain were concerned with preventing what weakened empire from falling?

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-Austria -france

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The U.S. Manhattan Project of 1945 was responsible for developing

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-missle

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Of all the Arab countries that fought against the founding of Israel in 1947, which was the only group to successfully take territory away from Israel?

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-Lebanon

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The British "divide and rule" approach to India relied upon manipulating the divisions between Hindus and Christians.

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false

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The Bessemer Converter mechanized the production of steel.

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true

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One factor causing the Protestant Reformation was the raising of revenue by the church through indulgences.

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true

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At the start of World War I, which Allied and Central Power involved in the war was no longer a monarchy but a constitutional republic?

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-Austria

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Unlike Marx, Lenin believed that communism could work in Russia, even though the population of Russia was mostly

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-factory wokers

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Chiang K'ai-shek (Jiang Jishi), the successor to Sun Yat-sen in the Nationalist Party of China (GMD), studied in

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Moscow

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One of the authors of the "Rights of Man and of the Citizen" was the Marquis de Lafayette, who had previously fought in

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the American Revolution

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Mao was convinced that what was China's best and most reliable natural resource?

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-rivers and streams

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What facilitated France's ability to modernize and industrialize more successfully than Britain in the interwar period?

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-techniques from Germany

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Who provided passage for Lenin to return to Russia in 1917?

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-U.S.

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What Western power supported the 1966 coup that overthrew Nkrumah in Ghana?

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-Belgium

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Why were women and children favored as factory workers in the early 1800s?

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-machines faster

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Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798 but was driven back to France in 1801 by

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British fleet

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What political principles did the Sandinista National Liberation Front in Nicaragua follow?

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socialism

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In 1877 Queen Victoria added what title to her collection, to reflect the importance of India in the British Empire?

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empress of india

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The coup of 1943 that first gave Perón power was staged against what sector of Argentine society?

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landowners

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During the reeducation campaign of 1957, where was Deng Xiaoping, a longtime friend of Mao?

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-nuclear weapons

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The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance was designed by _______ to integrate its economy with its allies.

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soviet union

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Russia supported a pan-Slavic movement and encouraged what group to pursue nationalism, leading to the assassination of Franz Ferdinand?

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-Hungarians

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The United States expanded into the southeast in the 1820s as demand grew for what agricultural product?

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cotton

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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk favored which party in the First World War?

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-turkey

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World War II began in Europe when Germany invaded

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-france

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What was the Soviet Union's response to the United Nations Security Council declaration that South Korea was entitled to U.N. military aid in 1950?

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The Soviet Union boycotted the Security Council vote

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Japanese taxes had to be paid by the village as a unit and paid in what commodity?

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-silk

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The Nineteenth Amendment of 1920 gave whom the right to vote in the United States?

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women

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