Fact Test 8

Question 1

What was the blue water strategy?

Answer 1

When pitt promoted the navy during French Wars

Question 2

What did Pitt’s quota acts do?

Answer 2

Increased the size of the British navy and recruited extra soldiers

Question 3

How many naval vessels did France have compared to Britain in 1793?

Answer 3

1793-
GB-661
FR- 291

Question 4

Who led troops in the Peninsular War against Napoleon?

Answer 4

Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington)

Question 5

Who was Castlereagh

Answer 5

British Foreign secretary at the end of the napoleonic wars

Question 6

Where did Castlereagh represent GB following the defeat of Napoleon?

Answer 6

At the Congress of Vienna

Question 7

When did Castlereagh commit suicide?

Answer 7

1822

Question 8

Who replaced Castlereagh in 1822

Answer 8

1822- Canning who was supposedly more liberal

Question 9

What acts were repealed in 1828?

Answer 9

The Test and corporations act, paving the way for Catholic emancipation

Question 10

Which election did Daniel O’conell win?

Answer 10

County Clare bi-election 1828, forcing catholic emancipation

Question 11

When was the catholic association banned?

Answer 11

When catholic emancipation was passed, despite not yet gaining freedom

Question 12

Who did Peel support in opposition?

Answer 12

The Whigs in order to secure a stable government

Question 13

Why did peel refuse offer to be PM in 1839?

Answer 13

1839- bedchamber crisis

Question 14

When did Peel become PM and where did his support come from?

Answer 14

1841- main support from rural south and old cities

Question 15

Why did the working class hate the Corn Laws

Answer 15

Because of its impact on the price of bread

Question 16

Why did manufacturers hate the corn laws?

Answer 16

It impacted on their ability to trade abroad

Question 17

What did many see the Corn Laws as?

Answer 17

A piece of class legislation and aimed to end the power of the aristocracy

Question 18

Who were the leaders of the ACLL?

Answer 18

Cobden and Bright

Question 19

What did the 1833 factory act do?

Answer 19

1833- restricted 9-13 year olds to a 9 hour working day

Question 20

What did the 1844 factory acts do?

Answer 20

Restricted 8-13 year olds to a 6.5 hour working day

Question 21

What did the 1844 factory act NOT do?

Answer 21

Impose a 10 hour day for 13+ children despite calls for reform

Question 22

What plan was costly and led to a need for detente?

Answer 22

Johnson’s Plan to build a great society

Question 23

What did SALT I do?

Answer 23

Limited nuclear weapons for both sides, but did not cover the development of new ones

Question 24

What did the ABM treaty do?

Answer 24

Allowed both sides to have just two missile defence systems, to ensure MAD

Question 25

What did basket three of the Helsinki Accords cover?

Answer 25

Human rights- the USSR signed this

Question 26

What did Willy Brandt pursue during detente?

Answer 26

Ostpolitik- Willy Brandt leader of west Germany

Question 27

What did Willy Brandt do?

Answer 27

Accepted Germany’s new borders and abandoned the Hallstein Doctrine

Question 28

What was the basic treaty 1972?

Answer 28

1972- agreed trade and travel links between east and west Germany

Question 29

How was US china relationships improved?

Answer 29

Nixon visited china in 1972- pandas and table tennis

Question 30

What was the secret police in the GDR and Romania?

Answer 30

GDR- Stasi

Romania- Securitate

Question 31

Who was Honecker replaced by in 1989?

Answer 31

Krenz in 1989- but could not stop GDR and Berlin Wall falling

Question 32

What was Sovnarkom?

Answer 32

The soviet government that had powers to decide and enact all laws

Question 33

Who was the leader of the Cheka

Answer 33

Dzerzhinsky- he led the red terror during the civil war

Question 34

How many people died in the Civil War?

Answer 34

9 million- due to war its self or famine

Question 35

When was the Russian economy bad?

Answer 35

1921- in a far worse state than in any time under the Tsars

Question 36

How many troops were sent to crush the Kronstadt rebellion

Answer 36

Trotsky sent 50,000 in 1921

Question 37

Why was the Kronstadt rebellion a shock?

Answer 37

1921- because Kronstadt troops were regarded as the most loyal Bolsheviks

Question 38

What other uprising happened in 1921?

Answer 38

Tambov peasant uprising 1921- this took years to repress

Question 39

When did Lenin change from War Communism to NEP?

Answer 39

1921- this was controversial

Question 40

What did Trotsky say about war?

Answer 40

Trotsky- “War was the locomotive of history”

Question 41

What was the size of the army in the Crimean war?

Answer 41

700,000 but they still failed to win victories in the Crimean war!