World History Rice

Question 1

what triggered the economic crisis which led to the French Revolution?

Answer 1

Bad harvests and a slowdown in manufacturing

Question 2

what was the middle class ?

Answer 2

the bourgeoisie, which included professionals

Question 3

What caused Napoleons great empire to collapse ?

Answer 3

from the strain of Napoleon’s many wars

Question 4

Industrialization and Nationalism:

what opened up new frontiers in the Second Revolution?

Answer 4

Textiles, railroads, iron, and coal

Question 5

what was a result of industrialization?

Answer 5

peoples lives became more divided between work and leisure

Question 6

Sigmund Freud claimed that ______ ?

Answer 6

human behavior was ruled by repressed childhood experiences

Question 7

In the US, wealth produced by the _______ was limited _____ ?

Answer 7

Second Industrial Revolution, to very few

Question 8

what were just a few of the many problems that accompanied with rapid urbanization?

Answer 8

poor sanitation and bad living conditions

Question 9

Imperialism:

European nations began to search for colonies overseas to _______ ?

Answer 9

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

Question 10

what is dollar diplomacy ?

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Why did the Europeans want to colonize West Africa?

Answer 11

for the valuable raw materials there

Question 12

why did a rivalry begin between France and Britain ?

Answer 12

over the colonial takeover of southeast asia

Question 13

World War 1:

When did tensions start to rise across europe ?

Answer 13

as countries began mobilizing for war after 1900

Question 14

Who proposed the Fourteen Points document and why ?

Answer 14

Woodrow Wilson for peace across europe

Question 15

the war effort on the Western Front was defined by ______ ?

Answer 15

trench warfare, which placed the war in a stalemate

Question 16

What did the Treaty of Versailles do ?

Answer 16

how’d Germany responsible for the war, and required reparations from them

Question 17

what led to the Bolshevik Revolution?

Answer 17

Czar Nicholas’s failed military and economic policies

Question 18

what led to the Civil War in Russia ?

Answer 18

Opposition of the Bolshevik government

Question 19

World War 2:

what was the Allied Powers?

Answer 19

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

Question 20

what was the Axis Powers ?

Answer 20

Germany, Italy, Japan

Question 21

what ended the War in the Pacific?

Answer 21

bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 22

what did Japan do because it was in need of workers during WW2 ?

Answer 22

they brought Korean and Chinese laborers to address labor shortages

Question 23

what was bombing used for during WW2 ?

Answer 23

to weaken morale and intimidate civilians

Question 24

what forced the US to enter war ?

Answer 24

the bombing of Pearl Harbor

Question 25

what caused industrial disruptions in areas that could have helped Germany ?

Answer 25

the use of forced labor in Germany

Question 26

Cold War:

Who was the Chinese Communist Leader ?

Answer 26

Mao Zedong

Question 27

what was the closest nuclear war ever came to actually happening ?

Answer 27

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 28

As China fell to Communism ____?

Answer 28

the US fear of its spread only grew

Question 29

what was used to restore the economies of Europe after WW2 ?

Answer 29

The Marshall Plan

Question 30

what did the Truman Doctrine do ?

Answer 30

promised financial assistance to countries threatened by communism

Question 31

what was the Warsaw Pact ?

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Who was the Soviet Union allied with and why ?

Answer 32

North Korea, in efforts to take over South Korea

Question 33

what led to the peasant rebellions in 1789

Answer 33

high taxes, high cost of bread, and political inequality