World history final quiz

Mesopotamia

The first civilization arose in what land?

Lee Teng-hui

first democratically elected leader in Chinese history

Treaty of Verdun

what treaty laid the foundations for the nations of France and Germany?

China

world's oldest living civilization

writing

Sumer's greatest contribution to civilization

England

what country is NOT a member of NAFTA?

(Canada, England, United States, Mexico)

John Knox

great leader of the Scottish Reformation

Isaac Newton

greatest scientist of all time

South Africa

Nelson Mandela was the first black president where?

Desiderius Erasmus

greatest scholar of the Northern Renaissance

500 A.D.

when did the period of ancient history end?

Russia

what was NOT an axis power of WWII?

(Russia, Japan, Italy, Germany)

July 28, 1914

when did WWI begin?

Albania

Mussolini's first act of aggression

John Dewey

liberal educator that promoted "progressive education"

Margaret Thatcher

conservative that was first women prime minister of Great Britain

William Carey

"Father of Modern Missions"

Dwight D. Eisenhower

supreme Allied commander during WWII

Marshall Plan

program designed to give massive financial aid to help rebuild war-torn Europe

New York

in what city is the United Nations headquartered?

John Wycliffe

"Morning Star of the Reformation"

Hiroshima

first city destroyed by an atomic weapon

Kuwait

what nation did Saddam Hussein invade, prompting Operation Desert Storm?

Eli Whitney

invented the cotton gin

Cold War

type of war fought with words and diplomacy rather than weapons

1945

WWII ended

1776

Declaration of Independence

1517

Protestant Reformation

1991

Persian Gulf War

1066

Battle of Hastings

1440

moveable-type printing press invented

1975

Vietnam war ended

1815

defeat of Napoleon

1215

Magna Carta signed

1789

French Revolution began

Midway

turning point of the war in the Pacific

law

Rome's greatest contribution to civilization

Vietnam

Tet Offensive took place during what war?

Edward Teller

"Father of the Hydrogen Bomb"

Pacific Ocean

what did Vasco de Balboa discover?

Justinian

Byzantium's greatest ruler

Douglas MacArthur

who said of war, "there is no substitute for victory"?

NATO

formed as a defensive alliance against the spread of Communism

Persian

empire ruled by Cyrus the Great

Waterloo

Napoleon's final defeat

cuneiform

NOT associated with Egyptian history

(pyramids, cuneiform, sphinxes, hieroglyphics)

Oliver Cromwell

Lord Protector after the English Civil War

John Dewey

all of the following were Christian apologists EXCEPT who? (R. A. Torrey, J. Gresham Machen, John Dewey, G. Campbell Morgan)

stem cell research

most controversial topic of bioethics

China

where did the "Great Leap Forward" and the Cultural Revolution occur?

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T/F in WWII, the Anschluss referred to the forced union of Germany and Austria

T

T/F Tertullian was a great Christian martyred for the faith

F

T/F President Roosevelt made the difficult decision to use the atomic bomb

F

T/F Daniel Ortega was a Sandinistan dictator in Panama

F

T/F Pericles was a great statesman for Rome

F

T/F the Great Depression served to demonstrate the failure of capitalism and the free market

T

T/F D-Day was the name given to the invasion of Normandy in northern France

T

T/F John J. Pershing commanded American troops in WWI

T

T/F the child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote "The Magic Flute"

F

T/F Alexander the Great was the first Persian king to conquer all of Greece

T

T/F Nimrod was the world's first empire builder

T

T/F William the Silent is known as the "Father of Dutch Liberties"

F

T/F perhaps the greatest writer in the English language is Dante

F

T/F the Argentine army was successful in taking over the Falkland Islands

T

T/F Horatio Nelson was the great naval hero of the Battle of Trafalgar

F

T/F Charles Martel was defeated by Saladin in the Battle of Tours

T

T/F the religion of Islam was founded by Mohammed

T

T/F Michelangelo was a great artist of the Italian Renaissance

F

T/F Yitzhak Rabin was the terrorist leader of the PLO

F

T/F Hong Kong is a former British possession that was given back to the free Chinese of Taiwan

T

T/F John Wesley founded the Methodist church

T

T/F Martin Luther wrote "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God"

T

T/F Hernando Cortés conquered the Aztec Indians of Mexico

F

T/F England won the Hundred Years' War

F

T/F Hugh Capet is remembered as the first great king of England

Friedrich Nietzsche

existentialist philosopher

Charles Wesley

English hymn writer

Jonathan Edwards

began America's Great Awakening

Peter the Great

ruler of Russia

Benjamin Disraeli

prime minister of Great Britain

Karl Marx

"Father of Communism"

Leonardo da Vinci

painted the "Mona Lisa"

James Watt

invented the first practical steam engine

Ludwig van Beethoven

wrote the "Fifth Symphony"

Otto von Bismarck

united Germany

Salvador Allende

Communist president of Chile

Tony Blair

prime minister of Great Britain

Fidel Castro

Communist dictator of Cuba

Nickolas Sarkozy

French president

Boris Yeltsin

Russian president

Chiang Kai-shek

Nationalist Chinese leader

John F. Kennedy

US president during the Bay of Pigs failure

Lech Walesa

led the Solidarity movement in Poland

Helmut Kohl

conservative leader in Germany

Ronald Reagan

restored America's military strength

Colin Powell

American general

Alger Hiss

spied for the Communists