Final

Question 1

who dominated long distance trade routes during medieval times?

Answer 1

The Italians

Question 2

what was the most significant conflict between church and state in medieval europe

Answer 2

the appointment of religous leaders by secular rulers, investite conflict

Question 3

what will become the rallying cry for the crusaders throughout crusades

Answer 3

God wills it

Question 4

Legends of this orders secret rituals, huge wealth and lost treasures have long fascinated conspiracy theorists for centuries

Answer 4

The Knights Templar

Question 5

Signifance of the battle of hastins

Answer 5

1. England political shift from the scandinavian world to continental europe
2. The doomsday book
3. The birth of modern english language

Question 6

explain the 2 important provisions within the magna carta

Answer 6

-protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment (Habeas Corpus)
-new taxation only with barional consent and limitations on scutage

Question 7

By 1215 the mongols had conqurened most of china under their powerful leader

Answer 7

genghis khan

Question 8

who was the most famous of all venetian merchants?

Answer 8

Marco polo

Question 9

name the great plague that ends in 1352 with the deaths of 1/3 of 3/5 of the european population

Answer 9

the black death

Question 10

what french peasant girl turned the longstanding anglo-french conflict into a religious war

Answer 10

Joan of Arc

Question 11

the renaissance originated in what italian city

Answer 11

Florence

Question 12

define the columbian exchange

Answer 12

the movement of people, animals, plants, manufactured goods, precious metals, and diseases between europe, america and africa

Question 13

what were martin luther’s 2 major issues with the church

Answer 13

salvation and indulgences

Question 14

pope paul created a new order of priests. what was this new order of priests called

Answer 14

The Jesuits

Question 15

what was the name of the most influential royal houses of europe?

Answer 15

the house of habsburg

Question 16

what were french calvinists called

Answer 16

hugeonuts

Question 17

in response to the execution of the catholic monarch, mary queen of scots, phillip II of spain

Answer 17

sent the famous spanish armada to crush england

Question 18

name the king who was an ardent believer in the divine right of kings and will create a system of absolute monarchical rule?

Answer 18

Louis XIV

Question 19

define absolutism

Answer 19

a system of government in which the ruler claims sole and uncontestable power

Question 20

define mercantilism

Answer 20

governments must intervene to increase national wealth by whatever means possible

Question 21

name given to those who fought for parliament

Answer 21

round heads

Question 22

name given to those who fought for the king

Answer 22

cavaliers

Question 23

the cromwellian rump parliament then abolished the monarchy and the house of lords and set up a puritan republic known as the

Answer 23

common wealth of england

Question 24

john locke argues that governments only purpose was to protect what

Answer 24

life, liberty, and property

Question 25

define the following: a mestizo b. peninsular c. creoles

Answer 25

a. a person born to a spanish father and a native mother b. those born in spain c. born in america of spanish parents

Question 26

explain the strategic importance of the creation of the bank of england

Answer 26

enabled the government to raise money at low interest for the foreign wars

Question 27

what city symbolized russia's opening to the west

Answer 27

st petersburg

Question 28

what were 2 central doctrines of the enlightenment philsophers

Answer 28

individual liberty, religious tolerance

Question 29

what were 3 main reasons for immigration to the new world

Answer 29

economic, political, religious freedom

Question 30

who were the executive authority in the colonies, tasked with carrying out the kings instructions

Answer 30

royal governors

Question 31

list the 4 coercive acts

Answer 31

boston port at massachusetts government act impartial administration of justice act quartering act

Question 32

the 2nd continental congress issues a declaration of independence on what day

Answer 32

july 4, 1776

Question 33

know what the estates general is

Answer 33

3 classes called estates, or the orders of france 1. clergy 2. nobility 3. everyone else

Question 34

know what the declaration of the rights of man and citizen proclaimed

Answer 34

men are born equal and remain free and equal in rights

Question 35

know what the slogans and values that will define the french revolution are

Answer 35

liberty, equality, fraternity

Question 36

know the rosetta stone

Answer 36

2nd century b.c. artifact that will unlock the ancient egyptian culture

Question 37

know abt the congress of vienna

Answer 37

the objective was to provide a long term peace plan for europe by settling critical issues arising from the french revolutionary wars and the napoleonic wars

Question 38

america's reaction to the political instability in south america during the 1820s was

Answer 38

monroe doctrine

Question 39

causes of ww1

Answer 39

nationalism imperialism, imperial rivalries entangling alliances militarism, germany's rise as a world power

Question 40

reasons for american involvement

Answer 40

economic unrestricted submarine warfare anti-german propaganda

Question 41

war guilt clause

Answer 41

this forced germany to accept responsibility for the war

Question 42

league of nations

Answer 42

point 14, general association of nations to acquire the security of great and small nations alike

Question 43

NAZI

Answer 43

national socialist german workers party

Question 44

results of the failed putsch

Answer 44

the trial publicity makes hitler a national figure

Question 45

appeasement

Answer 45

western democracies policy, accepting hitler's demands in order to avoid conflict

Question 46

sept 1, 1939

Answer 46

hitler invades poland, ww2 begins

Question 47

rommel

Answer 47

field marshal erwin rommel, desert fox

Question 48

reasons hitler invades russia

Answer 48

temptation of invasion was too great. its the heart of communism, where lebensraum is to be found, has the largest jewish population in the world

Question 49

lend lease

Answer 49

the us will give $46 billion in aid

Question 50

axis countries and leaders

Answer 50

germany- adolf hitler italy- benito mussolini japan- hideki tojo

Question 51

allied countries and leaders

Answer 51

america- fdr russia- joseph stalin england- winston churchill china

Question 52

d-day

Answer 52

june 6, 1941 allies invade normandy in france

Question 53

conference considered sellout by fdr

Answer 53

the yalta conference

Question 54

supreme allied commander in europe

Answer 54

dwight d. eisenhower

Question 55

Japan sought to establish what they called the

Answer 55

greater east asia co. prosperity sphere

Question 56

for the military, the highest honor they could gain in battle what was a disgrace

Answer 56

die for their emperor, surrender

Question 57

is ordered by FDR to leave for australia where he issues his famous __________ declaration

Answer 57

general douglas macarthur, I shall return

Question 58

76,000 american and filipino troops surrender

Answer 58

the bataan death march

Question 59

japanese navy is stopped in the attempt to capture port moresby

Answer 59

battle of coral sea

Question 60

commander and chief of the US pacific theater during WW2

Answer 60

chester W nimite

Question 61

who was the emperor during WW2

Answer 61

Emperor Hirohito

Question 62

supreme allied commander of the pacific theater during WW2

Answer 62

douglas Mcauthor

Question 63

led the air raid on tokeyo

Answer 63

jimmy doolittle

Question 64

americans at home followed the war

Answer 64

Newstreets

Question 65

were placed in the windows of americans who lost loved ones during the war

Answer 65

gold stars

Question 66

it is the turning point of the war in the pacific

Answer 66

the battle of midway

Question 67

1st land victory for america in the pacific

Answer 67

battle of guadalcanal

Question 68

most famous image of ww2, classic flag rasing

Answer 68

battle of iwo jima

Question 69

1sr assault on the japanese home lands

Answer 69

battle of Okinawa

Question 70

kamikazes

Answer 70

divine wind

Question 71

code name for the atomic bomb project

Answer 71

the manhattan project

Question 72

1st nuclear explosion was on US soil, july 16 1945

Answer 72

trinity

Question 73

on august 15, 1945 japan surrenders

Answer 73

VJ day

Question 74

will be the military governor of occupied japan

Answer 74

general douglas mcauthor

Question 75

the internment of japanese americans

Answer 75

japanese americans were targeted as a potentially disloyal.they were viewed as potential spies for the japanese government

Question 76

offered the benefits of free college education to returning veterans

Answer 76

the G.I. bill of rights