FINAL, I also added Holocaust since there's 10 holocaust questions

Question 1

Explain the 2 most important provisions of the Magna Carta

Answer 1

-Protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment
-New taxation only with baronial consent and limitations on scutage

Question 2

By 1215, the Mongols had conquered most of China under their powerful leader…

Answer 2

Genghis Kahn

Question 3

Who was the most famous of all the Venetian merchants

Answer 3

Marco Polo

Question 4

Name the great plague that ends in 1352 with the deaths of 1.3 to 3/5’s of the European population

Answer 4

The Black Death/The Bubonic Plague

Question 5

What French peasant girl turned the longstanding Anglo-French conflict into a religious war

Answer 5

Joan d’Arc

Question 6

The Renaissance originated in which Italian city

Answer 6

Florence

Question 7

Define the Colombian Exchange

Answer 7

The movement of peoples, animals, plants, manufactured goods, precious metals, and diseases between Europe, the Americas, and Africa

Question 8

What were Martin Luther’s 2 major issues with the church

Answer 8

Salvation and indulgences

Question 9

Pope Paul III created a new priest order to combat the Protestants and to convert the heathens to Christianity/. What was this new order of priests called

Answer 9

Jesuits/ Jesuit Society

Question 10

What was the name of one of the most influential royal houses of Europe. The House of Charles V of Spain

Answer 10

Habsburg

Question 11

What were French Calvinists called

Answer 11

Huguenots

Question 12

In response to the execution of the Catholic Monarch, Mary Queen of Scots, Philip II of Spain…

Answer 12

Sent the Spanish Armada to England

Question 13

Name the King who was an ardent believer in the divine right of kings and will create a system of absolute monarchial rule

Answer 13

Louis XIV

Question 14

Define absolutism

Answer 14

A system of government in which the ruler contains sole and uncontestable power

Question 15

Define Mercantilism

Answer 15

Government must intervene to increase national wealth by whatever means possible

Question 16

Name given to those who fought for Parliament

Answer 16

Roundheads

Question 17

Name given to those who fought for the King

Answer 17

Cavaliers

Question 18

The Cromwellian Rump Parliament then abolished the monarchy and the House of Lords and set upo a Puritan Republic known as the

Answer 18

The Commonwealth of England

Question 19

John Locke argued that governments only purpose was to protect what

Answer 19

Protect life, liberty, and property

Question 20

Define the following. A. Mestizo, B. Peninsular, C. Creoles

Answer 20

A. Person born to a Spanish father and a native mother

B. Those born in Spain

C. Born in America of Spanish parents

Question 21

Explain the strategic importance of the creation of the Bank of England

Answer 21

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

Question 22

What city symbolized Russia’s opening to the west

Answer 22

St. Petersburg

Question 23

What were the 2 central doctrines of the Enlightenment philosophers

Answer 23

Individual liberty, religious tolerance

Question 24

What were the 3 main reasons for immigration to the New World

Answer 24

Political Freedom
Economic Freedom
Religious Freedom

Question 25

Who were the executive authority in the colonies, tasked with carrying out the King's instructions

Answer 25

Royal Governors

Question 26

List the 4 Coercive Acts

Answer 26

-Boston Port Act -Massachusetts Government Act -Impartial Administration of Justice Act -Quartering Act

Question 27

The Second Continental Congress issues a Declaration of Independence on what day

Answer 27

July 4th, 1776

Question 28

A body of deputies from the three estates or orders (France)

Answer 28

Estates General

Question 29

Know what the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen proclaimed

Answer 29

"Men are born and remain free and equal in rights"

Question 30

Know what the slogans and values that will define the French revolution are

Answer 30

Liberty Fraternity Equality

Question 31

2nd century B.C. artifact that will unlocked the lost ancient Egyptian culture

Answer 31

Rosetta Stone

Question 32

Objective was to provide a long-term peace plan for Europe by settling critical issues arising from the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Answer 32

Congress of Vienna

Question 33

Know what America's reaction to the political instability in South America during the 1820's was

Answer 33

Monroe Doctrine

Question 34

Know the key industry that drove the development of the Industrial Revolution

Answer 34

Textile

Question 35

Scottish engineer: Development of an efficient steam engine

Answer 35

James Watt

Question 36

Urbanization

Answer 36

The growth of towns and cities due to the movement of people from rural to urban areas

Question 37

Nationalism

Answer 37

People derive their identities from their nations, the most potent of all the new ideologies

Question 38

Socialism

Answer 38

Social, political, and economic Doctrine that calls for public, rather than private ownership or control of property and natural resources essential to society

Question 39

Communism

Answer 39

Ideology that advocates for the elimination/abolition of private property in favor of communal ownership

Question 40

Causes of WWI

Answer 40

Imperialism: Imperial rivalries, Nationalism, Militarism: Germany's rise as a world power, Entangling Alliances

Question 41

Reasons for American involvement in WWI

Answer 41

Economic, Anti-German propaganda, Unrestricted submarine warfare

Question 42

This clause forced Germany to accept responsibility for the war

Answer 42

War Guilt Clause

Question 43

Point 14: General Association of Nations to guarantee the security of great and small nations alike

Answer 43

League of Nations

Question 44

What NAZI stands for, results of the failed Putsch

Answer 44

National Socialist German Workers Party -Hitler finds time to write Mein Kampf -The publicity of the trial makes Hitler a national figure -Hitler decides to take power legally

Question 45

Appeasement and September 1, 1939

Answer 45

-Western Deomcracies policy of accepting Hitler's demands to avoid conflict -Invasion of Poland

Question 46

Erwin Rommel

Answer 46

The Desert Fox

Question 47

Reasons Hitler invades Russia

Answer 47

-It's where the promised Lebensraum is located -Home to the largest Jewish population in the world -It's the heart of Communism

Question 48

Lend Lease

Answer 48

The U.S. will grant $46 billion in aid

Question 49

Axis and Allies Countries and Leaders

Answer 49

Axis: Germany - Adolf Hitler Italy - Benito Mussolini Japan - Hideki Tojo Allies: United States - Delano Roosevelt, later Truman UK - Churchill U.S.S.R - Stalin

Question 50

D-Day

Answer 50

Invasion of Normandy, France. June 6th, 1944

Question 51

Conference considered a sellout by FDR

Answer 51

Yalta

Question 52

Supreme Allied Commander in Europe

Answer 52

Dwight David Eisenhower

Question 53

Father of Communism (Jewish)

Answer 53

Karl Marx

Question 54

Leader of the Soviet Revolution and ruler of Russia (Jewish)

Answer 54

Vladimir Lenin

Question 55

Schutzstaffen (SS)

Answer 55

Protection squad

Question 56

Geheime StatsPolezei

Answer 56

Gestapo

Question 57

Elite Army Units

Answer 57

Waffen SS

Question 58

Execution squads that followed the 3 German armies into Russia

Answer 58

Einstatzgruppen

Question 59

Laws that denied Jews the rights to citizenship, etc.

Answer 59

Nurembourg Laws

Question 60

Kristalnoct

Answer 60

Night of Broken Glass

Question 61

Jews were forced to wear

Answer 61

A star of David

Question 62

1942: At this conference the Nazi's came up with the Endlosung or "final solution" to the Jewish question

Answer 62

Wannsee Conference

Question 63

Death camps

Answer 63

Auschwitz Chelmo Belzec Sobibor Majdenek Triblinka Dachau Mauthausen

Question 64

Nurembourg Trials 1946

Answer 64

International Military Tribunals

Question 65

Lead Prosecutor for the Allies was U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Answer 65

Robert Jackson

Question 66

Charges leveled against defendants

Answer 66

-Waging aggressive war -Crimes against humanity -War crimes -Conspiracy to commit acts 1-3

Question 67

Simon Wiesenthal

Answer 67

Nazi Hunter

Question 68

Post Holocaust Genocides

Answer 68

Kampuchea/Cambodia Rwanda Bosnia

Question 69

1947 Creates the state of Israel as a homeland for Jews

Answer 69

United Nations