History part 3 Flashcards
What New Deal program was directed by Harry Hopkins
WPA
What war failed to end despite the Act of Accord because it disadvantaged the descendants of Margaret of Anjou
War of the Roses
What ruler brought the minting of gold and silver coins under his personal control
Augustus Caesar
What country’s city of Cienfuegos is known as the Pearl of the South
Cuba
In what revolution was James II of England overthrown by William and Mary
Glorious Revolution
In what 1812 battle did the French Army fight Russian troops which resulted in over 100,000 casualties
Battle of Borodino
What is the burial place for most French kings
Basillica of St. Denis
What city has a cathedral which is said to house the tunic of the Virgin Mary and is famed for statues on its royal port
Shart
What organization was founded in Ripon, Wisconsin
Republican Party
What river forms New Hampshire’s western border
Connecticut River
What man gave the name Mauritius to a waterway that had already been discovered by Giovanni da Verrazzano
Henry Hudson
What country’s city of Coro is at the base of the Paraguana Peninsula
Venezuela
What event was caused by an attempt to repeal the Test Act
Glorious Revolution
What rebellion was put down by Benjamin Lincoln
Shays rebellion
What city was the place of a convention called by Alexander Hamilton to discuss the economic problems of the articles of confederation
Annapolis
What country controls the southern portion of the Darien Gap
Colombia
What empire agreed to its own dissolution by signing the treaty of sevruh but was later negated by the treaty of Lausanne
Ottoman Empire
One type of what particle would create long range fluctuations with little energy cost according to the Mermin-Wagner theorem
Boson
What country signed the Gastein Convention with Austria
Prussia
What country’s Jasmine revolution started the Arab Spring
Tunisia
What country’s north contains the Sabana-Camaguey archipelago
Cuba
What portugese explorer arrived in India after sailing around the cape of good hope
Vasco De Gama
What place did Colonel Thomas Blood try to steal the crown jewels in 1671
Tower of London
What future English monarch was imprisoned in the Tower of London on the orders of Mary Tudor
Elizabeth I
Who opened the first birth control center in America and wrote What Every Girl Should Know
Margaret Sanger
What 1873 US law banned sending obscene material through the mail
Comstock Law
What man declared that Habeus Corpus can only be suspended by Congress in Ex parte Merryman
Roger Taney
What ruler introduced the Table of Ranks and replaced the Boyar Duma with the Governing Senate
Peter the Great
What man fell into debt after marrying Margaret Shippen in 1779
Benedict Arnold
What was the second of the four major Islamic Caliphates that ruled from 661-750
Umayyad
What man established the clear and present danger doctrine in Schenk v US
Oliver Holmes
What advisor and tutor to Nero was forced to commit suicide along with Petronius and Lucan after the Pisonian conspiracy
Seneca
Who was the first leader of the Gestapo
Hermann Goring
Who was the first Nazi to be executed following the Nuremberg Trials
Joachim von Ribbentrop
What city was the capital of Yaroslav the Wise and his father Vladimir the Great
Kiev
What man’s wife was involved in the Diamond Necklace Affair
Louis the 16th
What man was chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the Billion Dollar Congress
William Mckinley
What poem’s speaker anticipates the question why brought he us from bondage, our loved Egyptian night
White Man’s Burden
What man came up with the Anaconda plan during the civil war and lost to Franklin Pierce for president in 1852
Winfield Scott
What man led the Maytee during the Red River Rebellion
Louis Riel
What war’s highway of death refers to the mass bombing of the Republican Guard
Gulf War
What man instituted the Kosygin Reform and presided over a namesake Era of Stagnation
Brezhnev
What person asserted in a speech at a cotton exposition that we can be as separate as the fingers but as one as the hand
Booker T Washington
What ruler ordered the construction of the Palazzo a Mare and negotiated with Phraates the 4th for the return of lost battle standards
Augustus Caesar
What action did the 2 plus 4 agreement allow
German Reunification
In what election did the first Black woman run
Election of 1972
What movement’s advocates founded the Kensington Society
Women’s Suffrage (in the UK)
What man won his senate seat against incumbent Kenneth Keating despite not living in New York
Robert Kennedy
What event’s target opposed The Week of Long Knives
Mahatma Gahndi
What profession had members employed by Jack Rodham
Pirates
What city had a revolution that involved protestors gathering around a statue of Jozef Bem
Budapest
What prime minister was criticized for not sending support for Charles Gordon during the Siege of Khartoum
William Gladstone
What knightly order protected European travelers to the Holy Land
Knights Templar
What king executed Roger Mortimer
Edward III
What conflict saw the use of sharp rifles nicknamed Beecher Bibles
Bleeding Kansas
What architect was inspired by Anasazi cliff dwellings
IM Pei
What man used his newspaper L’Aurore to publish J’Accuse during the Dreyfus affair
Georges Clemenceau
What war featured the battle of Mortimer’s Cross
War of the Roses
What ruler’s arrival is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry
William the Conquerer
What battle’s site contains the Lion’s Mound which marks where William II was knocked off his horse
Waterloo
What man served as secretary of war and secretary of the treasury before becoming chief justice
Roger Taney
Who was the first premier of the People’s republic of China
Zhou Enlai
What leader was exiled to Jamaica
Simon Bolivar
What country’s Statspolitiet was reestablished after a milk strike occurred during the reign of Joseph Terboven
Norway
What battle’s fighting took place on Reno Hill
Little Bighorn
What WW2 battle was fought in the Solomon Islands
Battle of Guadalcanal
What good did the Medici’s build their banking empire from due to the Arte Della Lana guild
Wool
What battle saw one side use bundles of sugar cane to cross Rodriguez Canal
Battle of New Orleans
What war led to the collapse of the Aberdeen government
Crimean war
What battle included the charge of the light brigade
Balaclava
What island did the US invade in operation Urgent Fury
Grenada
What island’s highest point is Maunga Terevaka
Easter island
What chinese dynasty was founded by emperor Gaozu and featured poets like Du Fu and Li Po
Tang
What nation is connected to it’s northern neighbor’s Rameswaram Island by Adam’s Bridge
Sri Lanka
What Prussian officer trained soldiers at Valley Forge and outlined his procedures in the official American Revolution Drill Manual
Friedrich von Steuben
What prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia was the first prime minister of a unified Italy
Cavour
What French ruler helped unify Italy
Napoleon III
What chant was used by Italians who wanted Victor Emmanuel to become king
VERDI
What empire was the target of the Arab revolt during WW1 and was partitioned under the treaty of Sevres
Ottoman Empire
What battle’s losing commander exclaimed “My men have bceome women, and my women men”
Battle of Salamis
Who was the winning commander at the Battle of Salamis
Themistocles
What desert covers a large amount of the southwest before entering it’s namesake Mexican province
Sonoran Desert
What valley is located on Navajo land and contains Mitten Buttes
Monument Valley
What state is Monument Valley and most of Sonoran Desert in
Arizona
What advisor and lover of Catherine the Great organized the coup that overthrew Paul II and put Catherine on the throne
Grigory Orlav
What politician won a presidential nomination at Chicago’s Wigwam
Abraham Lincoln
What largest home in the US is in Asheville NC
Biltmore House
What son of Marcus Aurelius scandalized his subjects by performing as a gladiator and battling wild animals in the arena
Commodus
A novel from what country features a rake-wielding glutton with a pig’s face
China
What man ordered the execution of British captain Charles Asgill in 1782
George Washington
What country’s monarch sent a gunboat to Morocco to spark the Agadir Crisis, part of an effort to achieve the country’s place in the sun
Germany
What British PM returned to power just before the 1929 stock market crash and great depression
Ramsay Macdonald
What party was Ramsay Macdonald a part of
Labour
What king did Macdonald serve under
George V
What country’s Carnation Revolution ended Marcel Caetano’s rule of this country
Portugal
What man was the chairman of the Council of Parks from 1924 to 1963 and dominated urban planning in NYC
Robert Moses
What man ruled against state granted monopolies in the Charles River Bridge case
Roger Taney
What landmark was the site of the largest protests against Japan’s seizure of territory in Shandong
Tiananmen Square
What empire began around 1438 and used knotted strings to keep records in the quipu
Inca
What man did Athhualpa defeat, who was also his brother
Huascar
