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World History Semester 2 Study Guide Questions
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10th Grade
05/14/2011

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Machiavelli
Definition
"The Prince"
Tells political leaders how to rule
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Martin Luther
Definition
"95 Theses"
Began break w/Cathlic Church
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Dante
Definition
"The Divene Comedy"
Trip to heaven, hell and purgatory
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Baldassare Castiglione
Definition
"The Book of the Courtier"
A How To book to be a nobleman
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Founder of the Humanist Movement
Definition
Petrarch
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King who broke from the Catholic church so he could remarry
Definition
King Henry VII (8th)
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Ignatius of Loyola was known for founding what group?
Definition
Jesuits
Term
What was the first Protestant faith called?
Definition
Lutheranism (Lutherans)
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What did the Council of Trent do?
Definition
Reaffirmed Cathlic teachings in opposition to Protestants
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Mercantilists believe the prosperity of a nation depended on _________
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Gold and and Silver
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English leader of the Protestants defeated King Philip 2nd, the Spanish leader of the Cathlics
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Queen Elizabeth 1st
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Spanish aurthor of Don Quixote
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Miguel de Cervantes
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Leader of the English Parliament
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Oliver Cromwell
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Oliver Cromwell beheaded _______, the English King after winning the Civil War
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King CHarles 1st
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The Sun King who built Versailles palace
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Kink Louis 14th (XIV)
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Butile the Russian Versailles and modernized Russia
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Peter the Great
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The _______ fought the _________ in the civil wars in France
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Catholics, Huguenots
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Outcome of Spanish Armada's attack on England
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End of Spain's power/influence.
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Why did Henry of Navarre convert to Catholicism after becoming king of France
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He knew that that was the only way he'd be accepted
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How did the 30 yr war begin?
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Bar fight
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Divine Right Theory
Definition
Kings were chosen by God
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Definition
Into womens rights and stuff like that :)
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Galileo Galilei
Definition
Into stars and tellescopes
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John Locke
Definition
Had the idea that ppl were shaped by experiences. Blank Slate Theory
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Denis Diderot
Definition
Wrote the Encyclopdia
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Francis Bacon
Definition
Came up with the Scientific Methon
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Nicholas Copernicus
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Said the sun was the center of the universe
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Voltaire
Definition
philosophe... something with time... bad flash card. :(
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Ptolemy
Definition
Said Earth was the center of the universe
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Montesquieu
Definition
came up with checks and balances for govt
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philosophes
Definition
intellectuals of the Enlightenment
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Most famous Enlightenment thinker who was well known for his criticism of chrianity and his belief in religious toleration
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Voltair
Term
THe storming of this in Paris began the French Revolution
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Bastille
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Which French estate had to pay all the taxes?
Definition
Third Estate (peasants)
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Who was the brutal head of the Committee of Public Safety
Definition
Robespierre
Term
Napoleon overthrew which group to take power
Definition
Directory
Term
Which of the 7 legal codes is Napoleon most known for?
Definition
Civil Code
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In the early 1800s, Christain Methodist societies achieved the abolition of ______.
Definition
Slaver
Term
Who did John Locke influence our US Govt today?
Definition
get consent of the people, right to "protect our property"
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How did Montesquieu influence our US govt today?
Definition
we now have checks and balances and separation of powers
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Isacc Newton's Law of Gravitation
Definition
showed how one law could explain all the motion in the universe
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Rousseau's concept of social contract
Definition
and entire societyagrees to be governed by its general will. (we will all help)
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Adam Smith beleived in Laissez-faire. What is Laissez-faire?
Definition
the state should not interfere withthe economy
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meaning of th Tennis Court Oath
Definition
They (3rd Estate, poor ppl) wouldn't leave until they had drafted a constitution
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen did what for men? women?
Definition
equal rights for all men. nothing for women.
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what did the Reign of Terror do to the church?
Definition
shut them down, Christianity was attacked
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Albert Einstein
Definition
Developed the theory of relativity
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Pablo Picasso
Definition
Created the painting style called cubism
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Sigmund Freud
Definition
Developed psychoanalysis/ believed behavior was determined by past experiences
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Klemens von Metternich
Definition
Austrian foreign minister who dominated the Congress of Vienna
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Otto Von Bismarck
Definition
Prussian prime minister who successfully united Germany in 1871
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Gustave Courbet
Definition
Realist artist who painted The Stonebreakers
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Louis Pasteur
Definition
Proposed the germ theory of disease
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Charles Dickens
Definition
British novelist who wrote about lower and middle class
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Charles Darwin
Definition
"survival of the fittist"
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Conservatism
Definition
-more likely to keep things as they are
-based on tradition and social stability
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Nationalism
Definition
-belief taht people owe loyalty to a nation
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Liberalism
Definition
-belief that people should be as free as possible from government control
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Socialism
Definition
-society owns and controls the means of production
-terrible conditions of the Industrial Revolution gave rise to this
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meeting in 1814-1815 of the great powers of Europe
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Congress of Vienna
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Hay's proposal to ensure equal access to Chinese markets
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Open Door Policy
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syle of painting emphasized emotions and the importance of nature
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romanticism
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in what country did the industrial revolution begin
Definition
England
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Accourding to Marx, the _________, or working class, was oppressed by the middle class
Definition
Proletariat
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Liberia and Ethiopia were the only free states remaining in _________ by 1914 due to Imperialism
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Africa
Term
this movement desire a nation for the Jewish people
Definition
Zionism
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Social Darwinism applies Darwin's theory of natural selection to _________
Definition
Human Societies
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What did the Dreyfus affair demonstrate about attitudes towards jewish ppl? Anti- Semitism was....
Definition
All over Europe
Term
What controversial act did Czar Alexander II take in 1861?
Definition
Ended Surfdom
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What was the "white man's burdon"?
Definition
Eruopeans had a moral responsibility to civilize primitive people
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In 1857, a growing Indian distrust of the British led to...
Definition
The Sepoy Mutiny
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Romanticism was a reaction againts....
Definition
Enlightenment and the Revolution
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In an attempt to adjust the trade imbalance with China, Britain began...
Definition
Shipping Opium grown in India directly to China
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According tothe principle of intervention, the great powers of Europe had the right to ....
Definition
send armies to restore legitimate monarchs
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Axis Powers
Definition
WWII: Germany, Italy and Japan
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Allied Powers
Definition
WWII: Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the US
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Reparations
Definition
Payments to cover the costs of war
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Schlieffen
Definition
Germany's plan to take out France first, the Russia in WWI
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Propaganda
Definition
Ideas spread to influence public opinion
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Central Powers
Definition
WWI: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
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Triple Entente
Definition
WWI: Great Britain, France, and Russia
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Weimar Republic
Definition
Unpopular democratic government of Germany after WWI
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Mobilization
Definition
Process of assembling troops and supplies for war
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Franz Ferdinand
Definition
King of Austria: his assassination started WWI
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Definition
U.S. President during Grat Depression and WWII
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Joseph Stalin
Definition
Dictator of the Soviet Union
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Vladimir Lenin
Definition
Leader of the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution
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Woodrow Wilson
Definition
U.S. President during WWI who proposed a League of Nations
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Heinrich Himmler
Definition
Head of the SS in Nazi Germany during WWII
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In the Soviet Union, the process of eliminating private farms was called:
Definition
Collectivization
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The Treaty of Versailles was...
Definition
traty signed which many Germans thought was too tough
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WWI changed from free-moving Napoleonic style to what type of warefare?
Definition
Trench Warfare
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Strong central covernment that is lefd by a dictator is called:
Definition
Fascism
Term
an act that allowed Hitler to ignore Germany's constitiution for four years while passing new laws was called:
Definition
the Enabling Act
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What factor led Germans to follow Hitler?
Definition
Ended Germany's economic problems
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What were the Nuremberg Laws?
Definition
Jews couldn't be German citizens and Germans couldn't marry Jews
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During WWII, the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944 was known as:
Definition
D-Day
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Mao Zedong is realted to...
Definition
China
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Nikita Khruschev is related to...
Definition
the Berlin Wall
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Ayatolla Khomeini is related to...
Definition
Iran
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Ho Chi Minh is related to...
Definition
Vietnam
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Saddam Hussein is related to...
Definition
Iraq
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Osama Bin Laden is related to...
Definition
9/11, twin towers
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Monandas Gandhi is related to...
Definition
India
Term
Mikhail Gorbachev is related to...
Definition
Soviet Union
Term
Designed to restore the economic stability of European countries after WWII
Definition
Marshall Plan
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1947 resolution declared tha Palestine should be divided into a ________ and _________ state, but the issue has remained volatile ever since then.
Definition
Jewish, Arabic
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The idea of ____________ can best be summarized as supporting individula nations' right to for their own govt.
Definition
Self-determination
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