WC History Test 3 – Flashcards
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Two central and southern European states that suffered from potential disintegration because of the problems of nationalism were
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Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire
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Tennyson's poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade, chronicled the horrors of which war?
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Crimean War
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Canada gained its independence from which nation in 1867?
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Great Britain
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As part of his effort to unify Germany, Bismarck
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Waged popular and successful wars against Austria and France
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Camillo di Cavour was
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The nineteenth century statesman who united Italy
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The major effect of nationalism during the nineteenth century was
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To create new unified states where none had existed, such as Germany and Italy, to tear apart long-established multi-ethnic states such as Austria and the Ottoman Empire, to create greater internal support for established states, such as France, All of these options are correct
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Japan in the nineteenth century
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Changed its government and made itself into a modern, industrialized country
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The immediate occasion for Bismarck becoming prime minister was
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A major political deadlock between William I of Prussia and the Prussian legislature
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Florence Nightingale gained fame
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For her success nursing British wounded in the Crimean War
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Tsar Alexander II of Russia freed Russian serfs because
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He was afraid that if he did not, there might be a massive uprising of peasants seeking freedom from serfdom
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British imperialism in India
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Used Indian elites to enforce British rule, but would not give those elites a voice in running the country
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An important factor that enabled Europeans to undertake imperial expansion in the nineteenth century was
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Transportation: steamships and the Suez Canal, Force: breech-loading rifles and machine guns, Medicine: the conquest of diseases such as malaria that otherwise might have killed many European soldiers and officials, all are correct
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The most dramatic expression of late nineteenth century imperialism was
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The scramble for Africa
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The British in India
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Lived apart from the native Indians and expected the latter to adjust to British ways
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In Germany the conservative Chancellor Bismarck believed that the best way to combat the liberalism of the bourgeoisie was
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To support universal male suffrage in the belief that the worker and peasant votes would outnumber the votes of the liberal bourgeoisie
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Chinese government
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Was convinced that China did not need foreign trade because it produced an abundance of goods for its own markets
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The international scramble for Africa
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Started with the British takeover of Egypt and the Suez Canal
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Pick out the statement that best describes the legacy of European imperialism.
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Although producing benefits such as preventing local wars and abolishing slavery in Africa, imperialism promoted a condescending and often racist outlook among westerners
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During the second half of the nineteenth century
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Europeans living in less prosperous countries often left for a better life in the Americas, Australia and New Zealand
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Late nineteenth century Europe was characterized by
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Mass politics and imperialism
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Numerous advances in medicine occurred during the nineteenth century. The basic discovery that permitted those advances was
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Pasteur's discovery of bacteria
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The discoverer of relativity was
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Einstein
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Charles Darwin
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Argued that evolution proceeds by means of natural selection
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The father of psychoanalysis was
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Freud
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The word that is most often used to describe late nineteenth century European literature is
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Realism
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A new intellectual discipline, founded by Auguste Comte in the nineteenth century, was
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Sociology
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The popularity of such late nineteenth and early twentieth century thinkers such as Nietzsche and Bergson indicated
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That there was growing disenchantment with the optimistic bourgeois society of the time
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The major cities of Europe in the late nineteenth century
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Underwent major transformations, with new boulevards, parks, subways and government buildings
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The ideas of Herbert Spencer and others to apply Darwin's thesis to human behavior is known as
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Social Darwinism
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The "Second Industrial Revolution" occurred primarily in
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Britain, Germany, France and the United States
