WORLD HISTORY FINAL STUDY GUIDE – Flashcards
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During the industrial revolution, life changed in what basic way?
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People migrated from rural areas to cities
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Steam became an efficient power source because of improvements made by
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James Watt
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Which revolutionary leader helped Argentina win freedom from Spain?
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Jose de San Martin
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Today's electric generators work on the same principle as the dynamo invented by
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Michael Faraday
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A production method in which workers repeatedly preform one task in the manufacturing process is called
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The assembly line
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An artist of the mid 1800's who portrayed the harsh lives of slum dwellers was probably using what artistic style?
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Realism
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Russia did not industrialize as soon as other countries because it lacked
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Political stability
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What invention did the internal combustion engine make possible?
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the Wright Brothers' flying machine
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What contribution to medical science did German doctor Robert Koch make in the 1880s?
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He identified the bacteria that causes tuberculosis
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Which of the following were writers of the realism movement?
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Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo
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African Americans were allowed to vote in the United States when
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Congress passed the fifteenth amendment
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Which issue in the platform of the populist party eventually became law in the US?
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The eight hour workday
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Which of the following was an effect of Nationalism in Europe in the early 1900s?
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Austria feared increasing rebellion among its subjects.
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Which of the following events cause Britain to fight in World War I?
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Germany invaded Belgium
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A stalemate formed along the western front early in the war because
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Trench warfare made it difficult for either side to win an advantage
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Why was the Ottoman Empire considered such a valuable ally?
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It controlled Russian supply routes
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Which countries were members of the Triple Alliance?
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Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary
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How was fighting on the Eastern front different than fighting on the Western front?
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Trench warfare was not as widely spread on the Eastern front
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Why did many Irish Americans oppose the US' decision World War I on the side of the allies?
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They resented the British rule of Ireland.
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What party dominated Mexican politics from the 1930s through the free election of 2000?
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the Industrial Revolutionary party
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American philosopher Henry David Thoreau influenced Mohandas Gandhi through his ideas on
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Civil disobedience
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What key event convinced many Indians that India needed to govern itself?
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The Amristar Massacre
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Chinese who turned to the revolutionary ideas of Marx and Lenin got strong support from
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The Soviet Union
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What statement properly describes the economy of Japan after World War I?
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Japan became a true industrial power
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In 1928, Scottish scientist Andrew Fleming discovered
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Penicillin
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In 1935, the Nazis passed the Nuremberg Laws which
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Deprived Jews on German citizenship
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Which statement is correct about the economy of the US in the 1920s?
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The US became the worlds leading economic power.
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What was the appeal of Mussolini's fascist government to Italians?
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The fascists ended political feuding in government
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What was a cause of Stalin's Great Purge?
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Stalin feared rival party leaders
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What measure did the Nazis take that was a rejection of the Versallies treaty?
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They rearmed Germany
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The eastern european nations that were carved out of old European empires after World War I
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Lacked capital to develop industry
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What did the Nazi-Soviet pact accomplish for Germany?
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It gave Germany a free hand in Poland.
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Hitler decided to invade the Soviet Union because
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He wanted the soviet union's vast natural resources.
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Which of these was official Nazi policy towards the Jews of Germany and occupied territories?
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Relocated to ghettos
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In which French city did German forces set up a "puppet" state capital after conquering France?
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Vichy
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The US strategy of "island hopping" in the pacific
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Allowed the US to gradually move north towards Japan
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The Truman Doctrine was rooted in the idea of
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Containment
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What was usually the first stage of Hitler's blitzkrieg strategy?
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The Luftwaffe attacked ground targets from the air.
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What action did the Western Allies take after World War II that caused Soviets to strengthen their hold on Eastern Germany?
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They helped western Germany strengthen its economy
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What did the Soviet Union do during Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939?
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It attacked Poland from the east as part of the Nazi-Soviet pact
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How did the allies commitment to total war against the Axis powers limit the freedom of citizens of Japanese descent in the US and Canada?
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The governments of these countries interned citizens of Japanese descent into camps because they were perceived as a security threat
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What was a change that took place during the Cuban Revolution?
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Political freedom was restricted.
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A "red scare" was then fear of
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communists in the US
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During the Korean War, which country provided hundreds of thousands of troops to help North Korea?
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China
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The american strategy under detente was to
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restrain the soviets through diplomatic agreements
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What agency helped spur economic growth across Western Europe by eliminating Tariffs?
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European Coal and Steam community
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What kind of government did Japan adopt after WWII?
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A parliamentary democracy
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When the North Koreans overran south Korea in the summer of 1950, United Nations stopped their advance at
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The pusan perimeter
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Mikhail Gorbachev established a policy of glasnot, which was a reform that called for
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The end of censorship
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__________ was one factor that led to the fall of communism in the soviet union and eastern Europe
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The launching of a new round of missile development by US President Reagan.
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What resulted from the US dropping the atomic bomb over Hiroshima?
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Four square miles of the city were destroyed.
