Final

Question 1

What led to the French Revolution?

Answer 1

Bad harvests and a slowdown in manufacture

Question 2

Who were the middle class in the French Revolution?

Answer 2

The middle class was called the bourgeoisie and included professionals

Question 3

What led to the peasant rebellions in 1789?

Answer 3

High taxes, high cost of bread, and political inequality

Question 4

How did Napoleons great empire collapse?

Answer 4

It collapsed from the strain of Napoleons many wars

Question 5

What opened up new frontiers in the Second Industrial Revolution?

Answer 5

Textiles, railroads, iron, and coal

Question 6

How did industrialization change people’s lives?

Answer 6

People’s lives became more divided between work and leisure

Question 7

What did Sigmund Freud claim?

Answer 7

He claimed that human behavior was ruled by repressed childhood experiences

Question 8

In the United States how limited was the wealth produced by the Second Industrial Revolution?

Answer 8

It was very limited

Question 9

What problems were accompanied with rapid urbanization?

Answer 9

Poor sanitation and bad living conditions

Question 10

Why did European nations begin to search for colonies overseas?

Answer 10

To help gain raw materials to feed their industries and open new markets for their products

Question 11

What is dollar diplomacy?

Answer 11

It is the policy of joining a country’s economic and foreign policy interests

Question 12

Why did Europeans want to colonize West Africa?

Answer 12

For the valuable raw materials

Question 13

What was the rivalry between France and Britain over?

Answer 13

The colonial takeover of Southeast Asia

Question 14

Why did tensions rise across Europe in WW1?

Answer 14

Countries began mobilizing for war after 1900

Question 15

What was the Fourteen Points document?

Answer 15

Was proposed by Woodrow Wilson for peace across Europe

Question 16

How was the war effect defined on the Western Front in WW1?

Answer 16

By trench warfare which place the war in a stalemate

Question 17

What did the Treaty of Versailles do to Germany?

Answer 17

It blamed them for the war and required reparations from them

Question 18

What led to the Bolshevik Revolution?

Answer 18

Czar Nickolas’s failed military and economic policies

Question 19

What led to a civil war in Russia?

Answer 19

Opposition of the Bolshevik government

Question 20

Who were the Allied Powers?

Answer 20

United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union

Question 21

Who were the Axis Powers?

Answer 21

Germany, Italy, and Japan

Question 22

What ended WW2 in the Pacific?

Answer 22

The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 23

During WW2 Japan was in such need of workers what did they do?

Answer 23

They brought in Korean and Chinese laborers to address the shortages

Question 24

Why was bombing used in WW2?

Answer 24

To weaken moral and intimidate civilians

Question 25

What forced the United States to enter WW2?

Answer 25

The bombing of Pearl Harbor

Question 26

What did the use of forced labor in Germany cause?

Answer 26

Industrial disruptions in areas that could have helped Germany

Question 27

Who was the Chinese Communist Leader?

Answer 27

Mao Zedong

Question 28

When was the closest a nuclear war ever came to actually happening?

Answer 28

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 29

What happened when China fell to communism?

Answer 29

The US fear of communism spreading only grew

Question 30

What was the Marshall Plan?

Answer 30

It was used to restore the economies of Europe after WW2

Question 31

What was the Truman Doctrine?

Answer 31

It promised financial assistance to countries threatened by communism

Question 32

What was the Warsaw Pact?

Answer 32

It was an alliance between the Soviet Union and other communist countries in Eastern Europe

Question 33

Why did the Soviet Union ally with North Korea?

Answer 33

It was an effort to takeover South Korea