WH Semester 2 Final

Question 1

Feudalism

Answer 1

Rich people “own” the kings land in return for military service to the king

Question 2

Middle Ages

Answer 2

The time period between 500-1500

Question 3

Feudal system

Answer 3

Was based on mutual obligations

Question 4

Manor

Answer 4

Lords estate

Question 5

Tithes

Answer 5

Church tax

Question 6

Serf

Answer 6

Landless people who worked the land they lived on

Question 7

Canon law

Answer 7

Church law

Question 8

Concordat of worms

Answer 8

Compromise between the nobles and the church

Question 9

Simony

Answer 9

Positions in the church were sold by bishops

Question 10

Richard the lion-hearted

Answer 10

English king who fought against Saladin

Question 11

Inquisition

Answer 11

Was a tribunal held by the church to help suppress heresy

Question 12

Reconquista

Answer 12

Was an effort to drive the Muslims out of Spain

Question 13

Vernacular

Answer 13

Native language

Question 14

Guild

Answer 14

An association of people who worked the same job

Question 15

Magna Carta

Answer 15

King John is forced to sign it, gave certain political rights

Question 16

Crusade

Answer 16

Holy war on the holy land

Question 17

Holy Roman Empire

Answer 17

The strongest of the three empires created after Charlemagne’s death

Question 18

Muslim

Answer 18

Followers of Islam

Question 19

95 theses

Answer 19

Written by Martin Luther - provoked the Protestant reform

Question 20

Great Schism

Answer 20

Division in the Roman Catholic Church

Question 21

Bubonic plague

Answer 21

Kills 1/3 of Europes population

Question 22

Hundred Years’ War

Answer 22

A war fought between France and England in 1337 - 1453

Question 23

Joan of Arc

Answer 23

A French peasant teenage girl who felt by god to rescue France from its English control

Question 24

Renaissance

Answer 24

Means rebirth 1300 - 1600

Question 25

Leonardo Da Vinci

Answer 25

Painter, sculptor, mentor, and scientist. Painted the ‘Mona Lisa’ and ‘The Last Supper’

Question 26

Michelangelo

Answer 26

Glorified the human body was a sculptor and a painter Painted the Sistine chapel and sculpted the Statue of David

Question 27

Reformation

Answer 27

A movement for religious reform

Question 28

Henry the VIII

Answer 28

British king who created the Church of England so he could divorce his wife.

Question 29

Elizabeth I

Answer 29

1558 - 1603 Restored the Protestant church to England

Question 30

What was enlightenment?

Answer 30

New ideas about power and government spread through Europe (people became more aware)

Question 31

Nationalism

Answer 31

Strong feelings and loyalty to one’s country

Question 32

Divine right

Answer 32

The right given to Kings/ Queens by God to rule

Question 33

Charles the second

Answer 33

King of Great Britain and Ireland 1660 - 1685

Question 34

Absolute Monarch

Answer 34

Where one specific person holds ALL the power

Question 35

James 1

Answer 35

Cemented the Church of England as Englands official religion

Question 36

English common law

Answer 36

A court trial with a jury (wasn’t always very fair)

Question 37

Siege of Orleans

Answer 37

Won by Joan of Arc, turning point in the 100 years war.

Question 38

Karl Marx

Answer 38

German philosopher Cowrote the Communist Manifesto

Question 39

Imperialism

Answer 39

Extending power/ land through military power and wars

Question 40

English bill of rights

Answer 40

Limit the power of the monarchy, gave citizens more rights

Question 41

Reasons for WWI

Answer 41

Nationalism Imperialism Militarism Alliances

Question 42

Militarism

Answer 42

Begin to build up armies — arms race

Question 43

The powder keg of Europe

Answer 43

Crisis in the balkans, ethnic groups wanted their own country

Question 44

Zimmermann note

Answer 44

Telegram sent to Mexico to get them to join the triple alliance and distract the US

Question 45

Armistice

Answer 45

An agreement to stop fighting

Question 46

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 46

The 28th president of the US, in office during WW1 he wrote the “Fourteen Points”

Question 47

Fourteen points

Answer 47

New rules to avoid anymore world wars and revolutions

Question 48

Great Depression

Answer 48

(1929 - 1941) Is a long business slump

Question 49

Munich conference

Answer 49

Was help on September 29, 1938. It was a conference between England and Germany

Question 50

Herbert Hoover

Answer 50

US president blamed for the depression

Question 51

FDR

Answer 51

(Franklin Roosevelt) Next president, implemented his ‘New Deal program’.

Question 52

Mussolini

Answer 52

Become the dictator of Italy, starts a fascist government

Question 53

Adolf Hitler

Answer 53

Become the dictator of Germany and starts the Nazi party there

Question 54

Japan

Answer 54

Multiple islands of the cost of China and Korea. At the time they were a democracy.

Question 55

Hirohoto

Answer 55

Emperor of Japan during WW1

Question 56

Hideki Tojo

Answer 56

Military leader of Japan

Question 57

Haile Selassie

Answer 57

Was emperors of Ethiopia during WW1

Question 58

Appeasement

Answer 58

Giving in to the aggressor

Question 59

Rhineland

Answer 59

France and England let Hitler have the land as long as he agrees to not take any more

Question 60

Axis powers

Answer 60

An alliance between Japan, Germany, and Italy.

Question 61

Francisco Franco

Answer 61

Started a fascist government in Spain

Question 62

Neville Chamberlain

Answer 62

Prime minister of Great Britain and responsible for the Munich conference

Question 63

Winston Churchill

Answer 63

Disagreed with Chamberlain, will later become prime minister of England.

Question 64

Nonaggression pact

Answer 64

And agreement between the USSR and Germany to not fight each other