Midterm Flashcards
(137 cards)
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Setting off the Mexican Revolution was Francisco Madero demanding free elections. This demand led to ___, and soon a bloody complex struggle.
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the resignation of Porfirio Diaz
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Englishman John Dalton made an important breakthrough in chemistry by showing that…
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elements can be grouped according to their atomic weights
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Which statement is true about Japanese politics in the 1920s?
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Japan moved toward more widespread democracy
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Which of the following was NOT a change made by Lenin?
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government control the means of production
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The rise to power of the Tokugawa family resulted in…
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Japanese isolation
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Which countries were members of the Triple Alliance?
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Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary
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A result of the Franco-Prussian War was…
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a totally unified Italy
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Which was NOT a way the European powers divided up the Ottoman Empire?
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Serbia wanted to control the area of Constantinople
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William II asked Bismarck to resign because..
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William II wanted no rivals
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In 1922, Japan agreed to limit the size of its navy…
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to protect its relations with the West
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Person who unified Sicily and Southern Italy (Naples)
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Person who was able to unite northern Italy
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Camillo Cavour
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What was one result of the Boer War?
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The formation of the Union of South Africa
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How did the Boxer Uprising bring about change in China?
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Its failure forced, even conservatives, to agree to institute social and economic reforms
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Japan lacked many basic resources, yet it industrialized rapidly after 1868 because…
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Japanese political leaders placed a high priority on modernization
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While Mao’s army marched, he made sure they treated the people fairly and he also discussed his plans for the future of China. Because of the treatment of the ___, they were always welcome.
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peasants
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Which statement correctly describes the Japanese economy after World War I?
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Japan became a true industrial power
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How did British rule lead to growing Indian nationalism?
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Indians educated in the West learned ideas like democracy
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Emancipation of the serfs benefited the Russian economy because many former serfs…
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took jobs in factories
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Indigenous people of New Zealand
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Maori
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The US claimed the right to be police the Western Hemisphere
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Roosevelt Corollary
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A self-governing nation
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dominion
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People of mixed Native American and French Canadian descent
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mtis
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The purpose of the Open Door Policy was to…
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protect U.S. trading rights in China
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What industry grew because the settlers found the climate and land suited for herding?
wool
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After the defeat of Napoleon I, the Congress of Vienna created the German Confederation headed by...
Austria
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What was the result of the British North America Act of 1867?
Canada gained self-rule
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Germany’s hopes for a quick victory on the Western Front were ended at the...
Battle of the Marne
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In the government Bismarck set up for the German empire, membership in the Reichstag was determined by...
a vote of all male citizens
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advocated the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine
Balfour Declaration
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Mexican president who approved the Constitution of 1917
Venustiano Carranza
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doctrine that Gandhi preached
ahimsa
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rejected Confucian traditions and learning from the West
May Fourth Movement
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shah who modernized Persia
Reza Khan
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The Mexican Constitution of 1917....
made Church land “the property of the nation.”
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Which of the following were writers of the realism movement?
Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo
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In the 1930s, what effect did the Great Depression have in Latin America?
People lost faith in the ideas of liberal government
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What is a sphere of influence?
an area in which an outside power claimed exclusive investment or trading privileges
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Conservative leaders in Latin America in the 1800s believed in...
the traditional social order
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When it was founded in 1900, the British Labour Party was primarily made up of...
socialists and union members
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Which of the following did NOT cause almost a million people to die of starvation and disease during the “Great Hunger’?
social welfare laws did not protect the workers with insurance
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Which one of the following is NOT a basic principle of Socialism?
Workers could negotiate wages as one organized group
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When the plea by Nicholas II to William II failed, what was the immediate result?
Russia began to prepare its military forces for war
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Seen as a conservative force that opposed progressive policies, the French tried to...
repress Church involvement in government
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American philosopher Henry David Thoreau influenced Mohandas Gandhi through his ideas on...
civil disobedience
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Russia did not industrialize as soon as other countries because it lacked...
political stability
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In the 1830s, Prussia created a union called the Zollverein, which promoted German unity by...
removing tariff barriers between German state
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The purpose of Normal Schools was to train students to be...
teachers
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What war brought an end to France’s Second Empire?
Franco-Prussian War
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Relations improved between Latin America and the United States because the US withdrew troops stationed in Haiti and Nicaragua and also lifted the Platt Amendment. This was part of the ___.
Good Neighbor Policy
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What postimpressionist painter used a style that looked like “primitive” folk art?
Paul Gauguin
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One result of the October Manifesto was...
the establishment of the Duma
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This was discovered by Robert Townshend and made farmland more productive and profitable...
crop rotation
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What happened after the French helped Italian nationalists defeat Austria in the mid-1800s?
A united Italy became a rival on France’s border
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Japan gained control of Taiwan as a result of the...
First Sino-Japanese War
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Which Allied leader wanted to weaken Germany at the Paris Peace Conference so that it could never again threaten France?
Georges Clemenceau
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As a result of the Treaty of Sèvres, the Ottoman empire...
lost its Arab and North African lands
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After the war, European colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific...
felt betrayed by the outcome of the Paris Peace Conference
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Bedford College in England and Mount Holyoke in the United States were among the first colleges for...
women
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How did Kaiser William II continue Bismarck's policies?
He continued to provide social welfare programs and build up the military
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An important factor that characterized the Industrial Revolution was that it...
was unplanned and was not organized by any government or group
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What did realists often focus their work on?
the harsh side of life in cities or villages
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A student protest against the Paris Peace Conference, the ___ set off a cultural and intellectual protest.
May 4 Movement
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After the resignation of Bismarck, Germany was a powerful nation with a strong industrial base and army. What was the problem?
politically it was weak, the emperor had unchecked power
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Which of the following was an obstacle to progress in Russia in the 1800s?
a rigid social structure
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In the Kulturkampf, Bismarck’s goal was to..
reduce the power of the Catholic Church
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By the end of the 1800s, Britain transformed itself from a...
constitutional monarchy to a parliamentary democracy
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In 1859, Camillo Cavour provoked a war between Sardinia and Austria because...
he wanted to end Austrian power in Italy
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In 1832, large towns and cities in Britain received greater representation in Parliament as a result of...
the Great Reform Act
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What “Hermit Kingdom” was forced to open its ports to Japanese trade in 1876?
Korea
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The Twenty-One Demands...
sought to make China a Japanese protectorate
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In Bismarck’s practice of Realpolitik, his political actions were guided by...
the needs of the state
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What was a result of the Taiping Rebellion that began in China in 1850?
The Qing government survived but had to share power
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What contribution to medical science did German doctor Robert Koch make in the 1880s?
He identified the bacteria that causes tuberculosis
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Britain created the provinces of Upper Canada and Lower Canada when it passed the...
Constitutional Act of 1791
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When the nationalists retreated to the interior of China Japan marched in to the cultural city of Nanjing. The city surrendered but the Japanese...
killed hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians and brutalized still more
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The “self-strengthening movement” did not succeed in China because...
the Qing government did not support it
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During the struggle for Italian unification, the “Red Shirts” were forces made up of...
nationalists
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The United States gained control of Texas after armed conflict with the forces of...
Antonio López de Santa Anna
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As the Ottoman empire crumbled, Russia plotted to seize the Bosporus and Dardanelles in order to...
gain access to the Mediterranean Sea
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The Platt Amendment gave the United States the right to intervene in the affairs of...
Cuba
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Why was the Ottoman empire considered such a valuable ally?
It controlled Russian supply routes
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Ethiopia was able to remain independent because....
Ethiopia modernized and imported European weapons
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Why did missionaries land in New Zealand in 1814?
to convert the Maori to Christianity
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The Shona of Zimbabwe organized to resist European imperialism under the leadership of...
Yaa Asantewaa
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What was the result when Cavour stopped Garibaldi from attacking Rome and first unite Northern and Southern Italy into one country?
Rome was outside of the country of Italy and under the control of the Pope
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This group was formed by the late 1870s and called for parliamentary democracy and laws to improve conditions for the working class?
Social Democratic Party
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What ruler is sometimes called the “father of modern Egypt” due to the reforms he made?
Muhammad Ali
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Menelik II
modernized Ethiopia
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What invention did the internal combustion engine make possible?
the Wright Brothers’ flying machine
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Under the Napoleonic Code, French married women...
had no right to their own earnings
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The British used a different type of rule than the French did. What did the British encourage the children of the locals to do?
get an education in Britain
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Which of the following was a feature of the new Japanese political system created by Meiji reformers?
absolute power of the emperor
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What was the eventual result of Sun Yixian’s efforts to rebuild China based on the Three Principles of the People?
China fell into chaos and Sun stepped down
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Which of the following was one of Sun Yixian’s “Three Principles of the People?”
economic security for all Chinese
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Which of the following is a true statement about the Dual Monarchy?
Austria and Hungary remained separate states
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Tsar Nicholas I was forced to announce reforms. In the October Manifesto he promised "freedom or person, conscience, speech, assembly, and union." Also he declared no law would go into effect...
without the approval of the Duma
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Which of the following was an effect of nationalism in Europe in the early 1900s?
Austria feared increasing rebellion among its subjects
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Which branch holds the power in a Parliamentary Democracy?
Legislative
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Who were descended from seafaring people that came from Polynesia?
Maori
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The Hundred Days of Reform in China was partly brought about by China’s...
defeat in the Sino-Japanese War
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The technology for America’s first textile factory came from...
Britain
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Which of the following was a result of the Russo-Japanese War?
Japan gained control of Korea
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What was one result of the Sepoy Rebellion?
Parliament ended the rule of the East India Company
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In 1936 Japan decided to ally itself with what countries?
Italy and Germany
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Through reforms that took place during the late 1800s, Britain transformed itself into...
a parliamentary democracy
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Tsar Alexander III launched a program of Russification, in which he...
suppressed non-Russian cultures within the empire
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Who did King Leopold II hire to explore the Congo River basin and arrange trade treaties with African leaders?
Henry Stanley
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When Italy unified, what form of government did it take?
a constitutional monarchy
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Who was the president of the new Chinese republic after the collapse of the Qing Dynasty?
Sun Xixian
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“The American continents are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.”
the Monroe Doctrine
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Turkish nationalists, led by Atatürk...
invaded Egypt to overthrow the British
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The Boer War was sparked by...
the discovery of gold and diamonds on Boer-held lands
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After the unification of Italy, what did many of the rural, poor southerners do?
immigrated to the United States
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In 1927, the second Sino-Japanese War...
united the Guomindang and Communists
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asked Bismarck to resign as Chancellor
Wilhelm II
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representatives of each German state - controlled by the Chancellor
Bundesrat
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members were popularly elected
Reichstag
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In the late 1800s, what did Charles Lyell accomplish?
He was a pioneer in the new science of geology
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What leader, backed by royalists and ultranationalists, was accused of plotting to overthrow the French republic?
Georges Boulanger
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In the Treaty of Nanjing, Britain gained control of...
Hong Kong
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What was a result of widespread anti-Semitism in Europe in the late 1800s?
Theodor Herzl helped to launch modern Zionism
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What is an example of the “realpolitik” concept?
they fought for and took only “German” territory
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A company that sells ownership shares to many investors is a...
corporation
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Charles Stewart Parnell was a leading figure in the....
Irish nationalist movement
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In 1800, Austria was ruled by the oldest ruling house in Europe, called the...
Hapsburgs
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On occasion, a group of corporations would join forces to fix prices, set production quotas, or control markets. They formed ___.
cartels
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local, elected assembly in Russia
zemstvo
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helped create the Dual Monarchy
Ferenc Dek
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Why did Prussia defeat the French in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870?
France was badly organized and poorly trained
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The militarists who came to power in Japan in the 1930s...
used schools to teach students absolute obedience to the emperor
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Bismarck became the king’s highest official when he assumed the title of...
kaiser
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In the late 1800s, the British began to profit from which important port in southern Malaya?
Singapore
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People that want to abolish all government, anarchists, were causing lots of problems in Italy. To distract the attention from the troubles in Italy, the government tried to establish an overseas empire in...
Egypt
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Which of the statements below is true about British social reforms of the mid-1800s?
New laws limited women and children to a 10-hour work day
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Which country was able to preserve its independence by defeating Italian invaders in 1896?
Ethiopia
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Romanticism can be described as a revolt against the Enlightenment’s emphasis on...
reason
