The largest city in Europe in the mid-19th century was...
What is London.
100
An effect of the Crimean War on the Ottoman Empire was it strengthened its control over the Balkans. True or False.
What is FALSE. Although the Ottoman Empire won the war (with the help of Britain and France who didn't want Russia to dismantle the Ottoman Empire), it lost control of the Balkan region
100
To which country did China lose the Opium War to?
What is Britain.
100
Who came up with the motto of self-determination?
What is Woodrow Wilson
100
Lenin promised these three things to the Russian people
What is Peace, Land, and Bread
200
List three members of the middle class by profession.
What is factory owners, lawyers, doctors, shopkeepers, bookkeepers, telephone operators, teachers
200
Why was the population of Ireland cut by a quarter during the middle of the 19th century?
What is because of the Irish Potato Famine
200
According to this founder of psychoanalysis, human actions are primarily shaped by the unconscious.
What is Sigmund Freud.
200
Most of WWI was fought in this European country
What is France.
200
Define the Great Purges.
What is the imprisonment and execution of millions of Soviet citizens by Stalin between 1934-1939
300
Why were prison systems and police forces established in the mid-19th century?
What is due to a response to industrialization, urbanization, and radicalism
300
Why did Bismarck extend the vote to most adult male Germans?
What is he hoped the peasants (who were conservative like him) would outvote the middle class liberals
300
Charles Dickens, a 19th century novelist wrote about moral values, contrasts between social classes, miseries caused by industrialization, and inequality and inefficiency of the law. True or False?
What is TRUE.
300
Why was the Schlieffen Plan developed by Germany?
What is to resolve the problem of a two front war with France and Russia.
300
Why was the Provisional Government so unpopular with the people?
What is because they kept Russia in the war
400
Why was the Crystal Palace built in 1851 for the Great Exhibition in London?
What is it was built to exhibit the success of the British industrial revolution
400
William Gladstone, Liberal Prime Minister of Britain supported all of the following policies except:
What is 1) extension of the franchise
2) spread of public education
3) Home Rule for Ireland
4) Merit exams in the military and civil services
5) abolition of the monarchy
400
List four motivations for European imperialism
What is 1) economic profits
2) White Man's Burden
3) Social Darwinism
4) raw materials
5) to shift focus away from problems at home
400
List the Big Four during WWI.
What is 1) Georges Clemenceau of France
2) David Lloyd George of Britain
3) Woodrow Wilson of US
4) Vittorio Orlando of Italy
5) Paul von Hindenburg of Germany
400
How was Lenin's NEP different than Stalin's Five-Year Plan?
What is Stalin made the Soviet economy into a command economy getting rid of any type of capitalist economy
500
List three possible jobs a working woman was most likely to have in the second half of the 19th century.
What is secretary, teacher, or telephone operator
500
The Communist Manifesto advocated for... (list three things)
What is 1) classless society
2) confiscation of property
3)free education for all
4) women equality
5) no unemployment
6) abolition of inheritance
500
List five newly independent countries after WWI
What is Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary
500
Communist uprisings occurred in all of the following places: Munich, Berlin, St. Petersburg, and Paris. True or False.