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What did Luther condemn in his 95 thesis?

The selling of indulgences.

100

First Soviet secret police.

Cheka

100

This “reaction” ended the Reign of Terror by overthrowing the Committee of Public Safety and establishing the Directory.

Thermidorian Reaction (1794).

100
In what century did the Renaissance begin? Where did it begin?
14th Century in Italy
100
What year did the WW2 start and end?
1939-1945
200
Why did Henry VIII turned from being a Catholic ruler to being the head of the Church in England?
His desire to annul his marriage with Catherine of Aragon and wed Anne Boleyn.
200
What was the Line of latitude that separated North and South Korea?
38th parallel
200
Name at least two problems of the French monarchy in the late 18th century.
Inability to tax the nobility (tap the wealth of the nation), popular hostility toward the Queen, lack of consistent policy on part of the King.
200
Name of the scholarly interests in the study of the classical culture of Greece and Rome.
Humanism
200
Germany, Italy, and Japan were what power?
Axis
300
Where was the Counter-Reformation?– steps were taken to reform the Catholic Church.
Council of Trent? (1545-1563)
300
A period of relaxed tensions and increased cooperation between opponents, or adversaries.
Detente
300
The ideals of the French Revolution were encapsulated in the phrase _____.
liberty, equality, fraternity.
300
This was the cultural center of the Italian Renaissance.
Florence
300
Who was the President of the United States when World War II began? Who was president when WWII ended?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt.- Harry S. Truman.
400
He (big hint) Opposed religious superstition, anything that lacked literal support in Scripture was not to be believed, end to clerical celibacy.
Ulrich Zwingli
400
A security policy which holds that if two sides in a political conflict have huge arsenals of nuclear weapons, war can be prevented?
Deterrence
400
What year did the French Revolution start?
1789
400
The phase of European discovery and exploration that occurred during the Renaissance was prompted mainly be the quest for what materials? _____.
gold and spices
400
During WWII, Who was the Prime Minister of England?
Sir Winston Churchill
500
Whose idea of Predestination (“elect” will go to heaven), society required a complete moral transformation.
John Calvin
500
The practice of taking a dispute to the verge of conflict hoping that the opposition will give in first; an international game of "chicken."
Brinkmanship
500
What were the exact dates for Storming of the Bastille?
July 13, and 14 1789
500
Name of the pope who commissioned the Sistine chapel?
Julius II
500
What was Germany's battle technique when invading Poland, Great Britain, Netherlands, and Russia?
Blitzkrieg