WH final Flashcards
Why were the Latin American revolutions not revolutionary?
All of the above
Skepticism argues that
only observation and reason can reveal truth.
The revolutions at the turn of the 19th century are called liberal because
they sought to overthrow governments, not to preserve them.
Although James Oglethorpe’s vision for Georgia called for alcohol and slavery to banned in the colony, those who relocated to Georgia from this colony in particular disregarded these prohibitions.
South Carolina
During the Enlightenment, women such as Olympe de Gouges and Mary Wollstonecraft advocated
for women’s and men’s rights.
William Harvey observed and studied the
circulatory system.
Voltaire criticized
the Catholic Church and its corruption.
Natural laws
could be tested and observed empirically.
The Enlightenment developed from all of the following except
the Hundred Years’ War.
The Enlightenment was a period
of new ideas and ways of thinking that began in Europe.
Which Pacific coast state rapidly urbanized as a result of the Industrial Revolution in the United States?
California
In the early years of the Industrial Revolution, factory work was characterized by
long hours, no breaks, and no food.
Japan used the political and industrial model of which nation to avoid the fate that had befallen China?
Germany
This modern nation was born in 1871 with the unification of a number of previously confederated states.
Germany
The second country to experience the Industrial Revolution and the first in continental Europe to industrialize was
Belgium.
Which of the following statements about the development of the germ theory of medicine is correct?
John Snow’s efforts to fight cholera in London challenged the miasma theory of medicine and suggested germs caused illness.
With the Meiji Restoration, oligarchs came to power in this nation who were determined to compete with Europe and the United States.
Japan
As expressed by Adam Smith, capitalism
argued that consumption was an important part of a healthy economy.
The use of cottage industry in Great Britain influenced
early industrialization.
The second stage of industrialization
included advancements in chemicals, steel making, petroleum, and communications.
President William McKinley’s attitude towards the Philippines demonstrates that the United States’ decision to acquire the Philippines
was based on the desire to civilize the Philippines and imperialist motivations.
How did ideas of imperialism and state superiority change during the 19th century?
They enhanced European governments’ senses of superiority over non-Europeans.
In the nineteenth century, the French conquered Algeria, which previously was ruled by
The Ottoman Empire
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 resulted in
the British government taking over areas that had been under the control of the British East India Company.
All of the following statements about the British rule of India were true except
The British ruled India with the consent of the Indian people.
The Opium Wars were
fought to force China to open to trade with Europe and the United States.
Napoleon Bonaparte’s invasion of this nation was a great shock to the Ottoman Empire.
Egypt
After the completion of the Panama Canal,
the canal became the property of the United States and was an important strategic asset.
Which of the following territories did the United States not acquire as a result of the Spanish-American War?
Panama.
Prior to the Indian Rebellion of 1857,
the British East India Company ran India as a private, for-profit venture.
Why did the United States open diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1972?
Tensions between the PRC and the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin made a new PRC-United States relationship possible.
The Solidarity movement in Poland
was extremely popular and was closely associated with trade unions and the Roman Catholic Church, including Pope John Paul II.
The communist government of this Latin American nation was a major thorn in the side of the United States during the Cold War.
Cuba
German civil servants and Nazi officials put into motion the “Final Solution” to the Jewish question at the
Wannsee Conference
During the First World War,
the Western Front was characterized by trench warfare, bloody battles, and stalemate, with little ground gained throughout the war.
Which of the following statements best describes the establishment of communist rule in China and Vietnam?
It was a decades-long violent struggle.
What were the goals of the Dawes Plan and the Young Plan?
To provide United States with loans to Germany to help pay Germany’s debts and war reparations.
Under the concept of Lebensraum, the Nazis aspired to
conquer Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and settle these lands with Germans.
Which factor caused the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 to become a global pandemic?
Travel towards the end of the World War I, the lack of a vaccine, and immune systems weakened by years of war.
Membership in which organization committed the United States to the defense of Europe during the Cold War?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
The Algerian War ended with
Algerian independence and the departure of one million Europeans from Algeria to France.
In 1992, participating nations set standards to reduce their impact on the environment by reducing their greenhouse emissions by signing the
Kyoto Protocol.
Which event precipitated the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the division of its territories among Great Britain and France?
World War I
What does the word apartheid mean?
The separation of races in South Africa.
The state of Georgia is connected to globalization in all of the following ways except
football teams such as the University of Georgia Bulldogs and Atlanta Falcons
Since 1991, globalization has included all of the following except
the dissolution of international organizations such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the European Union.
Such Arab nationalist leaders as Hafez al-Assad of Syria and Saddam Hussein of Iraq
detested radical Islamic movements, which they saw as rivals and used brutal violence to suppress them.
In 1947, British India was partitioned into India and
Pakistan.
In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the United States
invaded Afghanistan and Iraq.
The People’s Republic of China has acquired territory in Tibet and Xinjiang while claiming that this land belongs to it as well.
Taiwan
In 1772, Granville Sharp succeeded in passing a law stating that
West Indian planters could not hold slaves in Britain since slavery was contrary to English law.
Montesquieu argued that the division (separation) of powers in government was good because
it balanced power in government.
The French Revolution was less about Enlightenment ideals and more about
a lack of food and a political system that oppressed the poor.
The American Revolution had its roots in what conflict?
Seven Years’ War
The Reign of Terror in France was sensational due to
the number of people killed.
John Green suggests that the process of creating an independent identity in the American colonies was completed prior to the War of Independence for all of the following reasons except
the colonies had a single flag.
Why was Saint-Domingue valuable to France?
It produced important commodities such as sugar.
The Haitian Revolution was important due to all of the following except
it showed the ease with which slave revolts could be put down.
The French Revolution was different from the American Revolution due to all of the following except
The French Revolution successfully abolished the monarchy in France.
John Locke’s social contract
suggested that government and citizens had specific duties.
Which of the following statements is correct about nineteenth century anarchists?
The anarchist movement was an international movement that criticized both strong state power and industrial capitalism, occasionally using violence to oppose them.
Industrialization included a revolution in all of the following except
folklore.
Socialism is a
social and economic theory based on class struggle.
France’s industrial development was spurred by raw materials from its colony of Indochina, which included all of the following except
Thailand.
In many ways, the industrialization of this empire differed from that of any other nation as described in Unit 5.
Russian
During the nineteenth century, railroads in industrialized nations
experienced tremendous expansion and attracted a great deal of investments.
Karl Marx faced fierce criticism and debate during his lifetime from
Mikhail Bakunin, an anarchists who predicted that Marx’s ideas would result in an oppressive, centralized state.
Which new device during the nineteenth century originally used a system of communication known as Morse code?
telegraph
Nationalism traced its origins to
the liberal political revolutions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
