TBQ E

Question 1

With what characteristic was every person born, according to John Locke?

Answer 1

A blank mind

Question 2

By far the biggest conflicts of the Seven Years’ War took place in

Answer 2

North America.

Question 3

Which document summarized the Enlightenment concept of rights in its opening paragraph?

Answer 3

American Declaration of Independence

Question 4

Which measure was NOT part of the French revolutionary process of de-Christianization?
The elimination of Sundays as Sabbath days

b.
Making France a Protestant nation

c.
The encouragement to priests to marry

d.
The looting and closing down of churches

e.
The removal of the word “saint” from street names

Answer 4

b.
Making France a Protestant nation

Question 5

How did Louis XVI respond to the formation of the National Assembly?

Answer 5

He threatened to dissolve the Estates-General.

Question 6

Which of the following were major themes/subjects of Romantic artists?

Answer 6

landscapes and depictions of nature

Question 7

What most accurately describes the Russian army between 1914 and 1917?

Answer 7

It was poorly led.

Question 8

What was a consequence of the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 8

It forced Germany to acknowledge “war guilt” and to pay reparations for its alleged wartime aggression.

Question 9

What was true of the Nazi policy toward women?

Answer 9

Nazi policy encouraged women to focus on having children and on domestic life.

Question 10

How many peasants died in the artificially created Soviet famines of 1932 and 1933?

Answer 10

10 million

Question 11

In 1926 Mussolini’s government

Answer 11

outlawed all anti-Fascist parties.

Question 12

Much of Europe’s prosperity in the 1920s was built on ____.

Answer 12

loans from the United States

Question 13

The United States destroyed four Japanese aircraft carriers at the Battle of

Answer 13

Midway

Question 14

Which nation experienced the greatest loss of life in World War II?

Answer 14

Soviet Union

Question 15

In which area was the Nazi rule of Europe most ruthless?

Answer 15

Eastern Europe, because the Slavs were considered racially inferior

Question 16

The Marshall Plan provided $13 billion for ____ in Europe.`

Answer 16

economic recovery

Question 17

Who championed the landmark civil rights legislation of the 1960s?

Answer 17

Lyndon Johnson

Question 18

Under the policy established by President Eisenhower, how would the U.S. respond to a Soviet ground assault on western Europe?

Answer 18

With a full-scale nuclear attack

Question 19

In Islam, the term ____ typically means a return to traditional values and can also be a label for more radical movements.

Answer 19

fundamentalism

Question 20

The Zionists opposed the creation of the state of Israel in Palestine.

True or False

Answer 20

False

Question 21

Where did the United States initially wage war in the immediate aftermath of 9/11?

Answer 21

Afghanistan

Question 22

Which of these groups serves as an example of nationalist terrorism?

Answer 22

IRA in Northern Ireland

Question 23

The winner of the 2000 U.S. presidential election was ultimately decided by

Answer 23

the United States Supreme Court