World History Final Exam Flashcards
George W. Bush’s wartime adversary
Osama Bin Laden
Abraham Lincoln’s wartime adversary
Jefferson Davis
Woodrow Wilson’s wartime adversary
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Franklin Roosevelt’s wartime adversary
Adolf Hitler
Harry Truman’s Soviet counterpart
Joseph Stalin
John Kennedy’s Soviet counterpart
Nikita Khrushchev
Richard Nixon’s Soviet counterpart
Leonid Brezhnev
Ronald Raegan’s Soviet counterpart
Mikhail Gorbachev
First territory occupied by Germany in its search for Lebensraum
Sudetenland
What war was the Battle of the Bulge fought?
World War II
What war was the Battle of the Marne fought?
World War I
What war was the Bull Run?
Civil War
What was was Battle of Gettysburg
Civil War
What war was the Guadalcanal
Pacific war
What war was Saratoga
American Revolutionary War
What war was Waterloo
Napoleonic wars
What war was Yorktown
American Revolutionary War
Name 3 accomplishments of Napoleon
Established bank of France, revised napoleonic code and set up a public education system
Who seized power in Russia after Russian revolution
Bolsheviks
What European countries unified after late 19th century
Germany and Italy
Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
Who invented the steam engine?
James watt
Who invented the assembly line?
Henry ford
Who invented the locomotive
George Stephenson
Who was the author of the wealth of nations and founded modern economics
Adam smith
What countries were created after World War I
Yugoslavia, Czech, Poland, Hungary
The ________ dynasty imposed the ______ form of island on Persia.
Safavid/Shi’a
What terrorist origination was responsible for the World Trade Center attack?
Al Qaeda
The industrial revolution began in…
United Kingdom
First country invaded by the US in the War of Terror
Afghanistan
What trade goods did Europeans wish to acquire from China during the age of imperialism?
Silk, tea and porcelain
Alliance of US, Canada and Western Europe
NATO
Alliance of USSR, and Eastern Europe during the Cold War
Warsaw Pact
American naval commander that opened Japan to trade in 1854
Matthew Perry
Diplomatic offices headed by consuls
Consulates
During the Great Depression unemployment in the US rose as high as…
32%
During the US policy of containment, the US became involved in what affairs?
Berlin airline, Cuban missile crisis, Korean conflict/war, Vietnam conflict/war
Exemption of foreigners from the laws of the country where they love or do business
Extraterritoriality
First shah ruler of the Safavid dynasty in Persia, who made the country prosperous
Shah Abbas I
Germany’s invasion of _____ brought the UK into World War I
Belgium
Local troops in India trained and led by British officers
Sepoys
Which countries are permanent members of the U.N Security Council
US, UK, France, China, Russia
Practice based on the belief that government should not restrict or interfere with international trade
Free trade (laissez-faire)
The attempt to seize the Suez Canal by France, Great Britain, and Israel failed when…
The United States failed to support them
Elite slave troops of the Ottoman Empire
Janissaries
The invasion of this country led to the first gulf war
Kuwait
The PLO wants to…
Establish a Palestinian state
Title of the emperor of the Ottoman Empire
Sultan
Title of the military overlord of Japan from 1192 to 1868
Shogun
Title of the prime minister of the Ottoman Empire
Vizier
Which countries were founding member of OPEC
Venezuela, Saudia Arabia, Iran
Which country attempted to be the 3rd superpower during the 1960s?
France
Name a country that’s a sponsor of terrorism
North Korea, Iran
What did the Berlin Conference do?
Divided Africa among Europeans
What did the Camp David Accord do?
Peace agreement between Israel and Egypt
What did the congress of Vienna do?
Ended napoleonic wars
What did the Maastricht treaty do?
Created the European Union
What did the SALT I treaty do?
Limited nuclear weapons between the US and USSR
What did the treaty of Paris do? 1763
Ended 7 year war
What did the treaty of Paris- 1783 do?
Ended American revolution
Watt did the treaty of Versailles do?
Ended WWII
In a communist state who owns the means of production?
Government
The UK entered WWII after Germany invaded…
Poland
What country was most alarmed about Russia gaining access to the Mediterranean?
UK
What are the components of mass production?
Interchangeable parts, assembly line, division of labor
Conflict over the Sudan nearly brought which two countries to war?
UK and France
What event ended dètente between US and USSR?
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Who promoted separation of powers?
Montesquieu
Who promoted the idea of government being a social contract?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Who prompted popular soverignty?
John Locke
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence and when was it published?
Thomas Jefferson/7-4-1776
The US was involved in trying to build a democracy in _____ after deposing ______ in 2003
Iraq/sadam Hussein
US policy of opposing communist expansion through alliances, deterrence, and confrontation when needed
Containment
The UK ended its negative balance of trade with China in the 18th century by selling…
Opium
Uprising by Chinese upset at foreign influence in their country…
Boxer rebellion
Which countries carved spheres in china in the late 19th century?
US, UK, France, Germany, Japan, Russia
Name given to the massive industrialization and modernization program in Japan in the late 19th century
Meiji restoration
What treaty forced China to legalize the opium trade?
Treaty if tianjing
After the overthrow of the Qing dynasty who tried to establish a republic in china?
Sun Yat-Sen
Chinese emperor that tried to bring modern reforms to china in the late 19th century-early 20th century
Guang Xu
How was Japan unique in the age of imperialism?
Japan was the only non-western country to industialize and acquire colonies
