Chapter 25

Question 0

Which statement below best characterizes Napoleon III’s economic policies?

Answer 0

E) They used government action to stimulate railroad building and investment.

Question 1

The first state to enact social welfare legislation was

Answer 1

B) Germany.

Question 2

The first and most important of the Great Reforms in Russia was the

Answer 2

A) abolition of serfdom

Question 3

The Russian Revolution of 1905 resulted from all of the following causes except

Answer 3

E) the assassination of Alexander III.

Question 4

Which of the following events occurred first?

Answer 4

napoleon III claimed the throne in France.

Question 5

The Russian zemstvo was the

Answer 5

C) institution for local government established by the Great Reform.

Question 6

In the decades before 1848, ____________ pushed for a centralized democratic Italian republic.

Answer 6

A) Mazzini

Question 7

Karl Lueger, the popular mayor of Vienna, espoused

Answer 7

E) anti-Semitism.

Question 8

Bismarck’s Kulturkampf refers to

Answer 8

B) his attack on the Catholic church in the German Empire.

Question 9

Which of the following events prompted liberals in the Prussian parliament to reconcile with Bismarck?

Answer 9

B) The 1866 defeat of Austria and formation of the North German Confederation.

Question 10

In which episode in the unification of Italy did Guiseppe Garibaldi play a key role?

Answer 10

D) The conquest and annexation of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies.

Question 11

Louis Napoleon’s election as a president of the Second Republic and then hereditary emperor was a product of all of the following except his

Answer 11

C) antiCatholic beliefs.

Question 12

The event that directly prompted the Great Reforms in Russia, including the emancipation of the serfs, was

Answer 12

A) defeat in the Crimean War of 1853-1856.

Question 13

The success of Napoleon III’s system was based on all of the following except

Answer 13

E) a successful foreign policy.

Question 14

Garibaldi was the leader of the

Answer 14

B) Red Shirts.

Question 15

Sardinia Piedmont became the leader of the Italian unification as a result of all of the following factores except

Answer 15

C) Austrian suport.

Question 16

In order to force Austria to give up its territory in Italy, Cavour secured an alliance with

Answer 16

D) France.

Question 17

All of the following were part of Prussia before 1866 except

Answer 17

A) Schleswig-Holstein.

Question 18

The long-established customs union among the German states was known as the

Answer 18

B) Zollverein.

Question 19

The cash crop that revitalized the slave economy of the southern United States in the nineteenth century was

Answer 19

cotton

Question 20

Bismarck’s constitution for the North German Confederation featured all of the following except

Answer 20

an elected president.

Question 21

Theodore Herzel was

Answer 21

the founder of the Zionist Jewish national movement.

Question 22

After the Franco-Prussian War, Prussia

Answer 22

A) imposed a harsh peace on France.

Question 23

All of the following are consequences of the FrancoPrussian War except

Answer 23

D) a wave of social reform in Germany

Question 24

The Great Reforms in Russia included all of the following except

Answer 24

A) a national parliament.

Question 25

Serge Witte was

Answer 25

A) the Minister of Finance who led Russian industrialization in the 1890s.

Question 26

Witte’s approach to industrialization was inspired by

Answer 26

E) the German economist Friedrich List.

Question 27

In 1881, __________ was assassinated by a small group of terrorists.

Answer 27

B) Alexander II

Question 28

Bismarck’s social reforms were motivated primarily by

Answer 28

E) his fear and distrust of socialism.

Question 29

According to the text, German Social Democrats recovered their losses of the 1907 election and became the largest party in the Reichstag in 1912 in part because

Answer 29

C) they took on a more patriotic tone and broadened their base.

Question 30

The Dreyfus Affair

Answer 30

C) revived republican distrust of CAtholicism.

Question 31

Between 1906 and 1914, the Liberal party in Britain was able to accomplish all of the following except

Answer 31

D) resolve the violent problems of Ireland.

Question 32

In 1912, the ____________ party was the largest party in the Reichstag.

Answer 32

A) German Social Democratic

Question 33

In 1846, Marx played a key role in establishing the

Answer 33

B) the First International of socialists.

Question 34

The Second International declared ___________ an annual international one-day strike.

Answer 34

May 1

Question 35

In his Evolutionary Socialism, ____________ suggested that socialists should reform their doctrines and tactics.

Answer 35

E) Edward Bernstein