semester 2 world history exam prep

President Truman's doctrine focused on keeping communism from spreading.

True

Truman's doctrine was also called a policy of containment.

True

Gorbachev set in motion forces that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

True

Lech Walesa was the first freely elected president of Poland.

True

Bill Clinton was the 2nd president to be impeached.

True

The Great Society was an attempt to get rid of poverty.

True

What was Martin Luther famous for?

95 Theses

Who was John Eck?

Catholic debater

What were the Diet of Augsburg and Worms?

Meetings in which Luther debated

Oliver Cromwell took the title of

Lord Protector

Which war was also called the Seven Years' War?

French and Indian War

The Romanov family was in charge of which country?

Russia

The 17th- and 18th-century exaltation of reason is known as the

Age of Reason

Who proposed the heliocentric theory?

Copernicus

Which Greek geographer emphasized the geocentric theory?

Ptolemy

Which scientist determined that white light is composed of many different colors?

Newton

Dualism means that there are 2 kinds of reality

Mind and Matter

Name the French legislative body

Estates General

Where did the French swear to meet until they made a new constitution?

Tennis Court

How many people were executed in the Reign of Terror?

40,000

Which dictator took over France?

Napoleon

Name his (the French dictator's) new set of laws.

Code Napoleon

The French dictator tried to invade which country? And how many of his men froze to death?

Russia and 300,000

What was the Monroe Doctrine?

America's promise to protect the freedom of former colonies in the Americas

The idea that a people with a common background, ethnicity, language, and religion should come together to form a country is called what?

Nationalism

What is a coup d'etat?

Overthrow of the government

Who helped unite all of Germany?

Otto von Bismarck

How was Germany united?

Through war

Who was the author of Origin of Species and The Descent of Man?

Charles Darwin

This American was a writer that wrote in the realist style.

Mark Twain

Who invented the cotton gin?

Eli Whitney

Who developed an efficient process for making steel?

Henry Bessemer

Socialists believe that man is basically

good

The slave trade was abolished in England in

1807

Marxism was started by

Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

Who was a French impressionist painter?

Claude Monet

Which postimpressionist painter distorted figures?

Vincent van Gogh

When did WWI start?

June 28th 1914

What is another name for a German submarine?

U-boat

The U.S. troops were called

Doughboys

Who was the German Ace?

Red Baron

Who was the American Ace?

Eddie Rickenbacker

An ideological war over worldviews

Cold War

A military alliance between the nations near the Atlantic to protect Europe against Soviet communism

NATO

The Soviet response to NATO

Warsaw Pact

American spy plane that was shot down by the Soviet Union

U-2

The man who was shot down in the spy plane

Francis Gary Powers

The wall that kept people under communism and outside of an area that was free

The Berlin Wall

The first moon landing was done by this mission

Apollo 11

Margaret Thatcher protected this place (as mentioned in class)

Falkland Islands

Which presidential candidate won over John McCain in the 2008 election?

Obama

Who developed smallpox vaccinations by using fluid from cowpox sores?

Edward Jenner

Which of these presidents was America's first African American president?

Barack Obama

D-Day was….

The amphibious invasion of France

Which term means minority, even though this group was a majority?

Menshevik

The idea that it's God's will for a king to be in charge is called

Divine Right

What was the miracle that appeared at Dunkirk?

unexpected fog helped soldiers escape

Gustavus Adolphus was the Protestant king who saved the Protestant cause in the 30 Years War.

True

Which nation came out of the Thirty Years' War the strongest?

France

The revocation (removal) of the Edict of Nantes resulted in the

End of religious freedom for Huguenots

In which country was absolutism defeated?

England

Which of the following was a goal of Peter the Great?

Westernization

English Kings were limited in power by the

Parliament

Your worldview is like a pair of….

glasses

Which war was also called the French and Indian War?

Seven Years' War

The Law of inverse gas pressure is also called

Boyle's Law

Much like the League of Nations, the United Nations lacked

Authority

What was the German variety of fascism called?

Nazism

What position did Hitler attain in 1933?

Chancellor

Which of these presidents was impeached?

Bill Clinton

What was the name of Hitler's book in English

My Struggle

When was D-day?

June 6th 1944

Japan invaded which Chinese Province?

Manchuria

Who was the Communist leader of China and started the Long March?

Mao Zedong

Which African country did Mussolini invade?

Ethiopia

Hitler marched into the "demilitarized zone" called the

Rhineland

The German, Italian, and Japanese alliance was called

Axis

Who was the leader of Fascist Spain?

Francisco Franco

Sudetenland belonged to this country before the Nazis stole it.

Czechoslovakia

To buy off an opponent by giving them what they want is called….

Appeasement

Which Prime Minister thought that he brought "Peace in our time" by appeasing Hitler and giving away the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia?

Chamberlain

Emperor of Japan during WWII

Hirohito

Supreme commander of the Pacific

MacArthur

What group of people did Hitler blame for Germany's problems?

Jews

WWII began September 1, 1939 with the invasion of

Poland

Luther promoted popular education for all.

True

John Wycliffe translated the Bible into English.

True

Henry VIII started the Anglican church and became his own "pope".

True

Luther believed in the priesthood of the believer

True

William and Mary had to accept the Bill of Rights in order to take the English throne.

True

The Stuart family was in charge of England.

True

Robert Fulton invented the steamboat.

True

Henry Ford made automobiles affordable.

True

Gavrilo Princip was the man who killed the archduke and his wife.

True

WWI ended 11/11/1918 at 11:00 am

True

WWII began with the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939

True

V-E or Victory in Europe Day was May 8, 1945

True

Hitler believed he could use evolution to improve mankind.

True

The limited wars of the Cold War were

conflicts between two small powers each backed by either the Soviet Union or the United States

The Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City was destroyed in 1995.

True