WHG Fall Exam Review

Age of Revolutions

100

This document from 1215 limited the power of the English monarchy for the first time: 

Magna Carta

200

These gatherings in Paris led to a spread of Enlightenment ideas: 

salons

300

Napoleon's final battlefield defeat: 

Waterloo

400

This pre-Revolution French social class was made up of the nobility: 

Second Estate

500

This organization was led by Maximilien Robespierre and was focused on preventing a counterrevolution: 

Committee of Public Safety

Industrial Revolution

100

This art style focused on emotion, love of nature, and mystery:

Romanticism

200

This man created the modern, efficient steam engine: 

James Watt

300

This agricultural device planted crops in neat rows and led to an increase in food production: 

seed drill

400

These dirty, overcrowded working-class apartments were often located near factories:

tenements

500

This is the name Karl Marx used to describe the working class that would one day overthrow capitalism: 

proletariat

Nationalism

100

This "Sick Man of Europe" struggled with nationalism: 

Ottoman Empire

200

This man and his nationalist Red Shirts unified southern Italy: 

Garibaldi

300

This man was the "Iron Chancellor" of Germany after its unification:

Otto von Bismarck

400

This region of Southeast Europe struggled with nationalism and ethnic rivalries: 

the Balkans

500

This scandal divided French society in the late 1800s and was based on Anti-Semitism: 

Dreyfus Affair

Imperialism

100

This weapon allowed the British to dominate less technologically advanced foes:

Maxim gun

200

This Eastern African country modernized and maintained its independence:

Ethiopia

300

This country set off the "Scramble for Africa": 

Belgium

400

These Chinese nationalists violently opposed foreign influence on China: 

Boxers

500

This event led to Japan's modernization and domination of Southeast Asia: 

Meiji Restoration

World War I

100

Germany's strategy of attacking France first and then facing down the Russians:

Schlieffen Plan

200

This line of trenches divided Germany from its British and French enemies:

Western Front

300

This British passenger liner was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915--angering America:

Lusitania

400

This German message to Mexico encouraged Mexico to go to war with the US:

Zimmerman Telegram

500

This 1914 battle stopped the Germans short of Paris and caused the beginning of trench warfare.

First Battle of the Marne