Final Study Guide

Question 0

Who led the first crew to sail around the world?

Answer 0

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 1

Which military hero crowned himself emperor of France?

Answer 1

Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 2

Which form of government involves leaders who keep their power through force and censorship

Answer 2

Fascism

Question 3

Which war began with peasants storming the Bastille to arm themselves?

Answer 3

French Revolution

Question 4

Who was the heir to the Austrian throne who was assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914?

Answer 4

Archduke Francis Ferdinand

Question 5

When Great Britain did not declare war after Hitler took Czechoslovakia, it followed a policy of _____________?

Answer 5

Appeasement

Question 6

Which European city was divided by a wall from 1960-1989 due to tensions between communist and democratic countries?

Answer 6

Berlin

Question 7

Which English philosopher believed in the idea of the “natural rights of man?”

Answer 7

John Locke

Question 8

Is Japan a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council?

Answer 8

NO

Question 9

The government of Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini were _________.

Answer 9

Dictatorships

Question 10

To rule by “divine right” means a monarch was chosen by ________.

Answer 10

God

Question 11

What Christian religion split away from Catholicism first?

Answer 11

Eastern Orthodox

Question 12

What is the most important text of Judaism?

Answer 12

Torah

Question 13

What was the organization that came out of the Treaty of Versailles at the end of WWI?

Answer 13

League of Nations

Question 14

Which revolution involved a King Charles I losing his head after a war with Oliver Cromwell & parliament?

Answer 14

English Civil War

Question 15

Which religious followers believe in BOTH reincarnation and karma?

Answer 15

Hinduism

Question 16

Which two European nations were the last to unify in the mid-1860’s?

Answer 16

Italy and Germany

Question 17

Who wrote “Romeo and Juliet” and “Hamlet?”

Answer 17

William Shakespeare

Question 18

What two organizations were created during the Cold War as mutual defense treaties to discourage aggression?

Answer 18

NATO and the Warsaw Pact.

Question 19

What did Johannes Gutenburg invent in 1450?

Answer 19

Printing press

Question 20

What was the original Christian church?

Answer 20

Roman Catholic.

Question 21

Who painted both the Mona Lisa and the last supper?

Answer 21

Leonardo Da Vinci

Question 22

What practice involved European nations taking over and controlling other lands for profit?

Answer 22

Imperialism

Question 23

What is the holiest city of Islam?

Answer 23

Mecca

Question 24

Which revolution it erupted a world war to overthrow a czar?

Answer 24

Russian revolution

Question 25

What was Buddha's original name?

Answer 25

Siddhārtha Gautama

Question 26

The holocaust involved the extermination of what group of innocent people?

Answer 26

Jews

Question 27

What was Martin Luther protesting the church's sale of in his "95 theses"?

Answer 27

Indulgences

Question 28

Where did the industrial revolution begin?

Answer 28

Great Britain

Question 29

What Christian religion started because of an effort to reform Roman Catholicism?

Answer 29

Protestant

Question 30

At the end of WWI, the countries announced a cease-fire, also known as an ________?

Answer 30

Armistice

Question 31

What region was nicknamed the "powder keg" of Europe?

Answer 31

Balkans