World History Final Exam

Question 0

George W. Bush’s wartime adversary

Answer 0

Osama Bin Laden

Question 1

Abraham Lincoln’s wartime adversary

Answer 1

Jefferson Davis

Question 2

Woodrow Wilson’s wartime adversary

Answer 2

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Question 3

Franklin Roosevelt’s wartime adversary

Answer 3

Adolf Hitler

Question 4

Harry Truman’s Soviet counterpart

Answer 4

Joseph Stalin

Question 5

John Kennedy’s Soviet counterpart

Answer 5

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 6

Richard Nixon’s Soviet counterpart

Answer 6

Leonid Brezhnev

Question 7

Ronald Raegan’s Soviet counterpart

Answer 7

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 8

First territory occupied by Germany in its search for Lebensraum

Answer 8

Sudetenland

Question 9

What war was the Battle of the Bulge fought?

Answer 9

World War II

Question 10

What war was the Battle of the Marne fought?

Answer 10

World War I

Question 11

What war was the Bull Run?

Answer 11

Civil War

Question 12

What was was Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 12

Civil War

Question 13

What war was the Guadalcanal

Answer 13

Pacific war

Question 14

What war was Saratoga

Answer 14

American Revolutionary War

Question 15

What war was Waterloo

Answer 15

Napoleonic wars

Question 16

What war was Yorktown

Answer 16

American Revolutionary War

Question 17

Name 3 accomplishments of Napoleon

Answer 17

Established bank of France, revised napoleonic code and set up a public education system

Question 18

Who seized power in Russia after Russian revolution

Answer 18

Bolsheviks

Question 19

What European countries unified after late 19th century

Answer 19

Germany and Italy

Question 20

Who invented the telegraph?

Answer 20

Samuel Morse

Question 21

Who invented the steam engine?

Answer 21

James watt

Question 22

Who invented the assembly line?

Answer 22

Henry ford

Question 23

Who invented the locomotive

Answer 23

George Stephenson

Question 24

Who was the author of the wealth of nations and founded modern economics

Answer 24

Adam smith

Question 25

What countries were created after World War I

Answer 25

Yugoslavia, Czech, Poland, Hungary

Question 26

The ________ dynasty imposed the ______ form of island on Persia.

Answer 26

Safavid/Shi'a

Question 27

What terrorist origination was responsible for the World Trade Center attack?

Answer 27

Al Qaeda

Question 28

The industrial revolution began in...

Answer 28

United Kingdom

Question 29

First country invaded by the US in the War of Terror

Answer 29

Afghanistan

Question 30

What trade goods did Europeans wish to acquire from China during the age of imperialism?

Answer 30

Silk, tea and porcelain

Question 31

Alliance of US, Canada and Western Europe

Answer 31

NATO

Question 32

Alliance of USSR, and Eastern Europe during the Cold War

Answer 32

Warsaw Pact

Question 33

American naval commander that opened Japan to trade in 1854

Answer 33

Matthew Perry

Question 34

Diplomatic offices headed by consuls

Answer 34

Consulates

Question 35

During the Great Depression unemployment in the US rose as high as...

Answer 35

32%

Question 36

During the US policy of containment, the US became involved in what affairs?

Answer 36

Berlin airline, Cuban missile crisis, Korean conflict/war, Vietnam conflict/war

Question 37

Exemption of foreigners from the laws of the country where they love or do business

Answer 37

Extraterritoriality

Question 38

First shah ruler of the Safavid dynasty in Persia, who made the country prosperous

Answer 38

Shah Abbas I

Question 39

Germany's invasion of _____ brought the UK into World War I

Answer 39

Belgium

Question 40

Local troops in India trained and led by British officers

Answer 40

Sepoys

Question 41

Which countries are permanent members of the U.N Security Council

Answer 41

US, UK, France, China, Russia

Question 42

Practice based on the belief that government should not restrict or interfere with international trade

Answer 42

Free trade (laissez-faire)

Question 43

The attempt to seize the Suez Canal by France, Great Britain, and Israel failed when...

Answer 43

The United States failed to support them

Question 44

Elite slave troops of the Ottoman Empire

Answer 44

Janissaries

Question 45

The invasion of this country led to the first gulf war

Answer 45

Kuwait

Question 46

The PLO wants to...

Answer 46

Establish a Palestinian state

Question 47

Title of the emperor of the Ottoman Empire

Answer 47

Sultan

Question 48

Title of the military overlord of Japan from 1192 to 1868

Answer 48

Shogun

Question 49

Title of the prime minister of the Ottoman Empire

Answer 49

Vizier

Question 50

Which countries were founding member of OPEC

Answer 50

Venezuela, Saudia Arabia, Iran

Question 51

Which country attempted to be the 3rd superpower during the 1960s?

Answer 51

France

Question 52

Name a country that's a sponsor of terrorism

Answer 52

North Korea, Iran

Question 53

What did the Berlin Conference do?

Answer 53

Divided Africa among Europeans

Question 54

What did the Camp David Accord do?

Answer 54

Peace agreement between Israel and Egypt

Question 55

What did the congress of Vienna do?

Answer 55

Ended napoleonic wars

Question 56

What did the Maastricht treaty do?

Answer 56

Created the European Union

Question 57

What did the SALT I treaty do?

Answer 57

Limited nuclear weapons between the US and USSR

Question 58

What did the treaty of Paris do? 1763

Answer 58

Ended 7 year war

Question 59

What did the treaty of Paris- 1783 do?

Answer 59

Ended American revolution

Question 60

Watt did the treaty of Versailles do?

Answer 60

Ended WWII

Question 61

In a communist state who owns the means of production?

Answer 61

Government

Question 62

The UK entered WWII after Germany invaded...

Answer 62

Poland

Question 63

What country was most alarmed about Russia gaining access to the Mediterranean?

Answer 63

UK

Question 64

What are the components of mass production?

Answer 64

Interchangeable parts, assembly line, division of labor

Question 65

Conflict over the Sudan nearly brought which two countries to war?

Answer 65

UK and France

Question 66

What event ended dètente between US and USSR?

Answer 66

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

Question 67

Who promoted separation of powers?

Answer 67

Montesquieu

Question 68

Who promoted the idea of government being a social contract?

Answer 68

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Question 69

Who prompted popular soverignty?

Answer 69

John Locke

Question 70

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence and when was it published?

Answer 70

Thomas Jefferson/7-4-1776

Question 71

The US was involved in trying to build a democracy in _____ after deposing ______ in 2003

Answer 71

Iraq/sadam Hussein

Question 72

US policy of opposing communist expansion through alliances, deterrence, and confrontation when needed

Answer 72

Containment

Question 73

The UK ended its negative balance of trade with China in the 18th century by selling...

Answer 73

Opium

Question 74

Uprising by Chinese upset at foreign influence in their country...

Answer 74

Boxer rebellion

Question 75

Which countries carved spheres in china in the late 19th century?

Answer 75

US, UK, France, Germany, Japan, Russia

Question 76

Name given to the massive industrialization and modernization program in Japan in the late 19th century

Answer 76

Meiji restoration

Question 77

What treaty forced China to legalize the opium trade?

Answer 77

Treaty if tianjing

Question 78

After the overthrow of the Qing dynasty who tried to establish a republic in china?

Answer 78

Sun Yat-Sen

Question 79

Chinese emperor that tried to bring modern reforms to china in the late 19th century-early 20th century

Answer 79

Guang Xu

Question 80

How was Japan unique in the age of imperialism?

Answer 80

Japan was the only non-western country to industialize and acquire colonies