western civ II FINAL GUIDE

What did the failures of the 1848 revolutions teach Italian and German nationalists?

That unification needed to happen through an already existing state and its army

The 1848 Revolution in France was guided by nationalism

false

What was the Monroe Doctrine?

An American foreign policy statement regarding European intervention in the Western hemisphere

Who were the Decembrists?

Russian revolutionaries

Utilitarianism: "The Greatest __________ for the Greatest Amount of People"

good

What did Romantics think of the Enlightenment?

They were critical of the Enlightenment, but accepted some of it

According to Burke, political ideas were dangerous when they became

abstract

How did Romantics view nature?

They were in awe of its power

According to Edmund Burke, societies need these two things to be healthy.

Myths and Illusions

The Congress of Vienna did not restore this.

The Holy Roman Empire 

The Republic of Venice

The First Vatican Council asserted this doctrine.

Papal Infallibility

Why did the Hungarian revolutionary Lajos Kossuth admire America?

A political culture focused on liberty

He argued for women to get the vote.

John Stuart Mill

Bismarck and Prussia fought a war against these nations to unify Germany.

Denmark, Austria, France

The __________ of Errors.  (Pope Pius IX)

Syllabus

Nationalism is often associated with this cultural movement.

Romanticism

This form of nationalism was ethnic based.

Exclusive

Inclusive

King Victor Emanuel II

Kingdom of Sardinia

Napoleon III

Helped with Unification of Italy

Bismarck

Blood and Iron

Mazzini

The Nation State

Both Karl Marx and Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about this event.

The June Days

German political unification preceded economic unification.

false

Who were the Boers?

Dutch settlers in South Africa

France and Great Britain nearly went to war over this African nation.France and Great Britain nearly went to war over this African nation.

Sudan

Why did Bismarck organized the Congress of Berlin in 1885?

To draw up rules for the partitioning of Africa

To prevent war between European countries over colonialism

There were no independent countries left in Africa after the Scramble.

 

False

Leopold II

The Congo Free State

Dr. Livingstone

lost in africa

Kipling

white man’s burden

He helped organize the Pan-African Conference in 1900

W.E.B. DuBois

Paul Gauguin was inspired by this culture in his paintings.

Polynesian

Mark Twain called him the "Czar" for his atrocities in Africa.

King Leopold II

He has a scholarship named after him...as well as a country.

Rhodes

What inspired Claude Debussy at the 1889 Worlds Fair?

The Javanese Gamelan

Impressionist painters were more interested in how one looked at an object rather than the object itself.

True

What was Edvard Munch attempting to capture in some of his Post-Impressionistic paintings like the Scream?

The fear and anxiety beneath bourgeois life

The Impressionist painters saw modern life as ___________

dynamic

picasso

cubism

van gogh

Post-Impressionism

monet

impressionism

Picasso used African Masks to depict middle-class women

false

The Dreyfus Affair inspired this movement.

zionism

Bloody Sunday was part of this event.

The 1905 Russian Revolution

Social Democracy and Communism are the same thing.

false

What changes did antisemitism go through in the late nineteenth century?

It became more focused on race

Post-Impression differed from Impression in the following way:

It used skewed perspectives

Despite British claims, Robert Graves noted these actions among British troops.

 

shooting of prisoners

Many, but not all, people celebrated the outbreak of war in 1914.

true

What accounted for the stalemate in World War I?

New weapons

Outdated military thinking

World War I is know for being a war of ___________.

Attrition

How did Lenin's version of Marxism differ from the original?

He argued that Russia could not wait to become an industrialized nation and therefore Communists needed to seize power immediately.

John Maynard Keynes believed this to be a mistake.

The harsh reparations imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles

The purpose of this battle was to kill as many French troops as possible

verdun

The Triple Alliance included these three countries in 1914.

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy

Russia had one revolution in 1917

False

Why were most of Wilson's 14 Points rejected by the Paris Peace Conference?

Because France and Great Britain wanted revenge on Germany

Mussolini idolized Hitler.

false

Henry Ford built cars but he was also one of these.

Antisemite

What was Lebensraum?

The German need for living space

Oswald Spengler

He argued that Western Civilization was on decline

Benito Mussolini

creator of fascism

Marcel Duchamps

he entered a urinal in an art coemption

This art movement was made up of antiwar exiles in Switzerland.

Dadaism

This was Stalin's removal of rivals in the Soviet Union.

The Great Purges

Fascism includes these characteristics.

Cult of the Leader

Ultranationalism

Militarism

Himmler

Head of the SS

Mussolini

Invaded Ethiopia in 1935

Franco

leader of the Nationalist forces in the Spanish civil war

stalin

Leader of the Soviet Union,

What was Squadrismo?

Military-style groups who fought against socialists

German Expressionist films included these.

Horror stories
Angular and distorted sets

Political and social commentary on postwar life

This is where the "Big Three" made the decision to partition Europe into occupation zones.

Yalta Conference

This happened after the end of the Cold War.

The European Union

This group of intellectuals and artists argued that meaning does not exist beyond one's own life choices.

Existentialists

This Pope initiated the Second Vatican Council in 1962

Pope John XXIII

According to Franz Fanon, what lay at the heart of the colonial and anti-colonial movements after WWII?

Violence

This was Himmler's main advice to the leaders of the SS in 1943.

To not be concerned with the death of non-Germans

Auschwitz was an example of this.

A concentration and extermination camp

How many Jews were killed in the Holocaust?

6 million

1945 is often referred to this way

Year Zero

Before the Nazis decided on the mass murder of the Jews, they did this.

Put them in ghettos