History Final Flashcards
(125 cards)
1
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Was Britain the first to restrain the development of scientific agriculture?
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False
2
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What does the term ‘industrial revolution’ suggest?
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Massive socio-economic changes.
3
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What decade is considered the turning point between the first and second industrial revolutions?
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The 1860s.
4
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What was considered the most practical vehicle to social upward mobility in the 19th century?
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Education.
5
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Who described the humanitarian tendencies of the 19th century as modernism?
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Catholic publicist Perin.
6
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Who argued that there was a link between the ‘Protestant work ethic’ and prosperity in business?
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Max Weber.
7
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Which British legislation limited the employment of children?
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The Factory Act of 1833.
8
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Who came up with social Darwinism?
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Herbert Spencer.
9
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Who issued the Syllabus of Errors?
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Pope Pius IX.
10
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Which of the following is not an invention of the 19th century?
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Horse harness.
11
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Who claimed that dialectical materialism determined the course of history?
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Karl Marx.
12
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A racialized mind leads to ________?
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Racist!
13
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What political principle came out of the Paris Peace Conference?
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It was the principle of national self-determination.
14
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Who issued Order No. 1?
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The Petrograd Soviet.
15
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Who issued the ‘April Theses’?
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Lenin.
16
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Which nation-state was not invited to the Paris Peace Conference?
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Russia.
17
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Which military alliance lasted the longest before the Great War?
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The Dual Alliance.
18
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What did the Treaty of Berlin (1878) grant the Austro-Hungarian Empire?
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To administer the two provinces indefinitely.
19
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What was the Dual Alliance (1879) between?
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Germany and Austria.
20
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What was the Triple Alliance (1882)?
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Italy joined Germany and Austria.
21
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What was the Reinsurance Treaty (1887) between?
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Russia and Germany.
22
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What did the Franco-Russian Military Alliance (1894) do?
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It effectively divided Europe into two military camps.
23
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What was the Entente Cordiale?
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“Friendly understanding” and the Triple Entente.
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When was Archduke Francis Ferdinand assassinated?
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June 28, 1914.
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When was the Treaty of London signed?
April 1915.
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Who called the public's attention to a crisis overtaking the European mind after 1920?
Valery.
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When did the Russian Revolution break out?
February 1917.
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When did the armistice take place?
At noon on November 11, 1918.
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Who said, 'History will not forgive us if we do not take power now' in 1917?
Lenin.
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Which European major power deliberately started the war in 1914?
Austria.
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Who crafted the Fourteen Points?
Wilson.
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When did the armistice on the western front take place?
November 11, 1918.
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Which country was left to carry the burden of maintaining peace in Europe during the 1920s and 1930s?
France.
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What is the first point of the Totalitarian Regime?
The end justifies the means.
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What is the second point of the Totalitarian Regime?
One single political party controls politics and society.
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What is the third point of the Totalitarian Regime?
One official ideology is employed.
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What is the fourth point of the Totalitarian Regime?
Complete ideological control of the judicial system.
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What is the fifth point of the Totalitarian Regime?
Everyone is under suspicion.
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What is the sixth point of the Totalitarian Regime?
State police maintain order.
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What is the seventh point of the Totalitarian Regime?
Monopoly over education.
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What is the eighth point of the Totalitarian Regime?
Monopoly over the communications system.
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What is the ninth point of the Totalitarian Regime?
Monopoly over arms and weapons.
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What is the tenth point of the Totalitarian Regime?
Monopoly over the economy.
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What is the eleventh point of the Totalitarian Regime?
Individual's rights are subordinated to the needs of the state.
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What is the twelfth point of the Totalitarian Regime?
Social and private issues are simplified.
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What is the thirteenth point of the Totalitarian Regime?
Social and private issues are politicized.
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Who were the Axis powers?
Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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Who were the Allies?
The Soviet Union, the United States, Great Britain, and their allies.
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What were the two war theaters in WWII?
The European theater and the Pacific theater.
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Who defeated the German forces in the European theater?
The Soviets.
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When did the United States drop A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
August 6 and 9, 1945.
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When did Japan sign unconditional surrender to the United States?
August 15, 1945.
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When did the Second World War end?
September 9, 1945.
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What were the three major totalitarian regimes after the Great War?
Italian Fascism, German Nazism, and Soviet Leninism-Stalinism.
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What was Fascism?
An anti-liberal and anti-communist movement.
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Did Hitler flunk school?
True.
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What did Benito Mussolini say about liberty?
The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
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Which country was hit the hardest by the Great Depression?
Germany.
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Who believed Hitler could be controlled if appointed Chancellor?
Von Papen.
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What happened at the Munich Conference in September 1938?
Chamberlain caved in.
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When did the German armies start the Second World War?
September 1, 1939.
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What did Operation Sea Lion pertain to?
Great Britain.
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What did Operation Barbarossa pertain to?
The Soviet Union.
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When did Germany surrender?
May 8, 1945.
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When was Pearl Harbor attacked?
December 7, 1941.
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Which nation-state carried the greatest burden of war in terms of casualties?
USSR.
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Who said, 'We have liberated them, and they will never forgive us for that'?
Marshal Zhukov.
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In which region of Europe were Jews prohibited from delaying their baptisms in the early Middle Ages?
Spain.
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What happened to the Jewish people in 1096?
Massacre of the Jews.
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Who was the main target of the Spanish Inquisition?
The Marranos.
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How did the French clergy respond to the Dreyfus Affair?
They identified with the hostility toward the Jews.
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What two things made the Holocaust possible?
German government & antisemitism.
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Who created a 'Christian Bible' cleansed of Jewish ideas in the 2nd century?
Marcion.
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Which book contains recommendations on how to deal with the Jews?
On the Jews and Their Lies.
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Who emancipated the Jews and accepted them into citizenship?
The French National Assembly.
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Who was angry at Christians practicing Jewish ceremonies?
Chrysostom.
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Which code was in use in the region known today as Spain?
Visigothic Code.
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What does Ha-Shoah mean?
The catastrophe, referring to the Holocaust.
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What was the Exclusion Phase?
1933 to 1938.
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What was the Law Against Overcrowding German Schools?
April 5, 1933.
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What did the Nuremberg Laws do on September 15, 1935?
Stripped the Jews of German citizenship.
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What was the Expulsion Phase?
1938 to 1939.
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Which country accepted more refugees than its own national quota allowed?
Dominican Republic.
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What was the Concentration (Ghettoization) Phase?
1939 to 1945.
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What was the first sealed off ghetto?
Lodz with 160,000 Jews.
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Who coined the term 'cold war'?
George Orwell.
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Who was not present at the Yalta meeting in February 1945?
Truman.
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Who developed the policy of containment?
Kennan.
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Who said, 'Whether you like it or not, history is on our side'?
Nikita Khrushchev.
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What is a by-product of the Second World War?
Decolonization of Africa.
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What was the aim of the Helsinki Accords?
Territorial integrity of state borders.
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Who was a leader of the Polish Solidarity movement?
Lech Walesa.
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How did the Cuban Crisis end?
With a compromise: Soviet missiles withdrawn from Cuba; US missiles from Turkey.
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Who joined the World Trade Organization in December 2001?
China.
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What is the major reason behind the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula?
Because Russia cannot afford to let NATO control the Black Sea.
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What does perestroika mean?
Restructuring.
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Who founded the Society of Jesus?
Ignatius Loyola.
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Which of the following was not an event of the 1960s decade?
The Korean War.
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Who called for an ecumenical council in January 1959?
John XXIII.
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Who criticized the new theology school of thought in his encyclical Humani Generis?
Pope Pius XII.
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Who most advocated resourcement?
Yves Congar.
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Who developed the idea of development?
John Henry Newman.
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Who authored The Phenomenon of Man?
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
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Who envisioned the Church as a progressive society?
Teilhard.
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Who called for Christians of all denominations to unite?
Lloyd Morgan.
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What is specifically created to serve as a mantra for spiritual meditation?
Taizé songs.
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What are Sire's Seven Fundamental Questions of Life?
1. What is prime reality? 2. What is the nature of external reality? 3. What is a human being? 4. What happens to a person at death? 5. Why is it possible to know anything at all? 6. How do we know what is right and wrong? 7. What is the meaning of human history?
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Who coined the term weltanschauung?
Kant.
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Who was a major proponent of rationalism?
Locke.
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Who were the proponents of scholasticism?
Late middle ages philosophers.
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According to whom were there two kinds of knowledge?
David Hume.
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What is a priori knowledge?
Relations of ideas.
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What is posteriori knowledge?
Matters of fact.
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Who authored The Universe Next Door?
James Sire.
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What is the definition of worldview?
Worldview is an a priori, intuitive, innate and experiential knowledge and understanding of Reality that is best expressed as a story.
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Which of the following 'gods' is immanent?
Brahman.
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Who said 'Man is the measure of all things'?
Protagoras.
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What does atheism assert about matter?
Matter is all there is, ever was, and ever will be.
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What is a foundational principle of Adventism?
Elohim is apart from nature.
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Which religious system is based on the premise 'all is one'?
Hinduism.
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Who is the proponent of the naturalist atheist worldview?
Sagan.
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Who is the proponent of the monist pantheist worldview?
Chopra.
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Which primary worldview holds that Adam and Eve are historical figures?
Prophetic apostolic worldview.
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Which primary worldview holds that the earth is about 13.83 billion years old?
Material-natural worldview.
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To realize one's oneness with the one, what must a person pass?
Beyond time.
