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One 19th century historian labeled the Baroque period the end of the

Renaissance

Jan Vermeer painted all of the following except

Woman Weighing Pearls, Girl Interrupted at Her Music, Girl with the Red Hat, The Glass of Wine, Girl Asleep at Table, Soldier and a Laughing Girl, Woman with a Jug, The Milkmaid, Girl with a Pearl Earing

This king founded the Anglican Church in 1534

Henry 8 (VIII)

The Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 divided the new world between which two European powers?

Spain and Portugal

The following it was not a Spanish conquistador

Chabotto

Which of the following was not a Baroque artist

Hans Holbein

Which of Henry VIII's wives was responsible for helping bring about the protestant reformation in England?

Catherine of Aragon

What explorer led the 1st successful attempt to circumnavigate the globe in 1519

Ferdinand Magellan

Who composed Canon in D?

Johann Pachelbel

Who painted the Jewish Bride, Bathsheba, and The Syndics of the Cloth Guild?

Rembrandt

Who painted The Judgment of Paris, The Three Graces, and Venus at the Mirror?

Rubens

Claimed the Isthmus of Panama for the Spanish

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Claimed and named Florida for the Spanish

Juan Ponce de Leon

First European to cross the Mississippi

Hernando De Soto

Personally financed an attempt to settle Virgina in the 16th century for English

Sir Walter Raleigh

All of these women were influential in France during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries except?

Catherine de Medici

Marie de Medici (probs)

Plessis de Richelieu (man)

Concino Concini (man)

Cardinal Richelieu was important because he helped

laid the foundation for France to become an absolute monarchy

They king of England from 1485 to 1509, 1st of the Tudor dynasty

Henry 7

King of England from 1660 to 1685, Called the merry monarch

Charles 2

King of France from 1589 to 1610, 1st of the bourbon dynasty

Henry 4

King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor from 1516 to 1556

Charles 5

King of Spain from 1556 to 1598

Phillip 2

Ruled England as Lord protector from 1653 to 1658

Oliver Cromwell

The gunpowder plot of 1605

A failed assassination attempt against King James; headed by Guy Fawks

Which of the following Henry's was not involved in the war of the 3 henries

Valois, Guise, Navarre

Which of the following was NOT a stage in the 30 years war?

Bohemian, Danish, Swedish, Swedish-French

Who ruled Sweden during the 30 years war?

Gustavus Aldolphus

The French became involved in the 30 years war because

they wanted to check the power of the Hapsburgs in Europe

The peace if Westphalia marked the end to the

30 years war

Called the Great elector of Prussia

Fredrick Willam

French philosopher famous for the phrase, I think, therefore I am

Rene Descartes

English philosopher who wrote Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes

Englishman famous for his theory of gravity

Issac Newton

French philosopher who argued that republics cannot exist over a large territory

Charles Lous de Montesquieu

French philosopher who wrote on the social contract; loved during the french revolution

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Frenchman who published and contributed to the encyclopedia

Montesquieu

personal physician to James 1 and Charles 1

William Harvey

Scottish economist often called the father of capitalism

Adam Smith

who wrote the hymn Amazing grace?

John Newton

who was not an enlightened monarch?

Louis XVI

Who defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo?

Duke of Wellington

The French and Indian War is also known as the ____________ in Europe.

Seven Year's War

Napoleon s system of laws designed to keep the government stable and maintain order were called

Napoleonic Code

"On July 14, 1789, violence erupted in Paris, and ended with the storming of"

Bastille

Who was King of Great Britain during the American War for Independence?

George 3

Which French king was called Louis the Beloved ?

Louis XV (15)

Which Frenchman was called the Hero of Two Worlds ?

Layayette

Holy Roman Emperor from 1658-1705; called the Hogmouth.

Leopold 1

Czech composer who wrote the Brave New World symphony.

Antonin Dvorak

British intellectual who wrote On Liberty.

John Stuart Mill

Which industrialist is credited with inventing the first modern steam locomotive?

James Watt ( or Richard Trevithick)

British intellectual who coined the phrase survival of the fittest.

Herbert Spencer

Feminist leader who wrote Vindication of the Rights of Women.

Mary Wollstoncraft

American painter famous for the Voyage of Life series.

Thomas Cole

Feminist leader who wrote Herland.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

French painter famous for Liberty Leading the People.

Eugene Delacroix

Which industrialist is responsible for the production of alternating current delivery systems?

George Westinghouse

Who was called the Beating Heart of Italy?

Giuseppe Mazzini

Which French king was known as the Citizen King ?

Louis Philippe I

American painter famous for The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.

Thomas Moran

Which German said that German unification had to be accomplished with blood and iron ?

Otto von Bismarck

French painter famous for the Raft of Medusa.

Theodore Gericault

Which of the following paintings was NOT painted by Albert Bierstadt?

The Teton Range

Totalitarian communist leader of Russia.

Stalin

This treaty brought an end to WWI in 1919.

Treaty of Versailles

Which of the following was NOT part of the Dreikaiserbund?

France

Who was considered the head of the Bolshevik Party in Russia?

Lenin

What was the name of the Soviet Protection Pact developed in 1955?

Warsaw Pact

Adolf Hitler s autobiography is titled

Mein Kampf

"On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded this country, thus beginning World War II."

Poland

Fascist leader of Italy

Benito Mussolini

The Axis powers during World War II were

Germany, Italy, Japan

Last Tsar of Russia

Nicholas II

Last Emperor of Germany

Wilhelm II

Creation of the Third Reich

"Third Reich" was often used to describe the Nazi regime in Germany

Annexation of Austria

March 1938

Munich Conference

1938 conference at which European leaders attempted to appease Hitler by turning over the Sudetenland to him in exchange for promise that Germany would not expand Germany's territory any further.

England and France chose appeasement rather than action at the Munich Conference of 1938

Pact of Steel

May 1939 - Italy and Germany; turned the Rome-Beline axis into a full scale military and political alliance, an aggressive agreement

Invasion of Czechoslovakia

when Germany took over the Sudetenland (western part of Czechoslovakia) after annexing Austria because of claims that many Germans still lived there

Blitzkrieg

"Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939

Battle of Britain

Battle of British and German air forces fought over Britain during 1940-1941

Winston Churchill

Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII

Holocaust

A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled.

Operation Barbarossa

Codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.

Lend-Lease Act (1941)

The program under which the US supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material between 1941 and 1945.

Pearl Harbor

United States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan, bringing the United States into World War II. Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941.

Tripartite Pact (Axis Powers)

Signed between the Axis powers in 1940 (Italy, Germany and Japan) where they pledged to help the others in the event of an attack by the US

Allied Powers (WWII)

Great Britain, Russia, France, US

Siege of Stalingrad

Turning point in Germany's assault on Soviet Union in 1942; despite massive losses, Russians successfully defended the city; over one-third of German army surrendered.

Bataan Death March

Japanese forced about 60,000 of Americans and Philippines to march 100 miles with little food and water, most died or were killed on the way

Operation Overlord

the code name for the Allied invasion of Europe at Normandy on June 6, 1944; also known as D-Day

Operation Market Garden

plan to use paratroopers and tanks to capture bridges leading to Germany

Battle of the Bulge

A 1944-1945 battle in which Allied forces turned back the last major German offensive of World War II.

Manhattan Project

A secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Assumes power in the Soviet Union in 1985