These cards are pulled straight from the Norton Western Civ. chapter quizzes.
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| 158738475 | The building of the Suez Canal in Egypt resulted from the economic and political involvement of | Britain and France | |
| 158738476 | British aspirations in Africa were fashioned primarily by | Cecil Rhodes | |
| 158738477 | The London Pan-African Congress of 1900 | grew out of an international tradition of antislavery movements | |
| 158738478 | By 1902, what percentage of Africa had succumbed to the European Scramble for Africa? | 90 percent | |
| 158738479 | According to Arthur Gobineau, what was the key to understanding the problems of the modern world? | race | |
| 158738480 | In the early nineteenth century, the subcontinent of India was under the control of | the British East India Company | |
| 158738481 | Which European nation sent an army to conquer Ethiopia? | Italy | |
| 158738482 | During the Boer War, the British first instituted | concentration camps | |
| 158738483 | Which of the following did not embrace "scientific racism"? | John Stuart Mill | |
| 158738484 | The conflict in which radical Christian rebels challenged the authority of the Chinese emperor was called the | Taiping Rebellion | |
| 158738485 | The "white man's burden" was a notorious concept popularized by | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 158738486 | In general, late-ninteenth-century imperialism | was more focused on settlement and discipline | |
| 158738487 | One of the richest opium-growing areas of the world is located in | India | |
| 158738488 | Cecil Rhodes made his fortune | from South African diamond mines | |
| 158738489 | Under Bismarck, Germany entered the Scramble for Africa for what reason? | to maintain Germany's position as a great power | |
| 158738490 | In general, the "new unionism" | stressed organization across entire industries | |
| 158738491 | Bismarck instituted a Catholic campaign | because he wished to unleash an anti-Catholic movement in Prussia | |
| 158738492 | Social Darwinism was used to justify all of the following except | socialism and communism | |
| 158738493 | "The sick man of Europe" refers to | the Ottoman Empire | |
| 158738494 | The most important radical political group in late-nineteenth-century Russia was the | Populists | |
| 158738495 | Who was the author of Das Capital? | Karl Marx | |
| 158738496 | The Women's Social and Political Union was founded in 1903 | and adopted tactics of militancy and civil disobedience | |
| 158738497 | Which nation became a leader in the chemical industry during the early stages of the second industrial revolution? | Britain and Germany | |
| 158738498 | The Dreyfus Affair | polarized French public opinion | |
| 158738499 | Which nation had the greatest extent of "invisible exports" before 1914? | Britain | |
| 158738500 | Charles Darwin's Origin of Species (1859) was written in order to | show that the world was governed not by order and divine will but by random chance and struggle | |
| 158738501 | The Russian Mensheviks | were reluctant to depart from Marxist orthodoxy | |
| 158738502 | Bismarck's program of social legislation included all but which of the following? | unemployment insurance | |
| 158738503 | Which industry did not undergo major technological innovation during the second industrial revolution? | iron | |
| 158738504 | Which of the following was not one of the "Big Four" who dictated the peace settlement in 1918 and 1919? | Winston Churchill | |
| 158738505 | The "Fourteen Point Plan" specified all of the following provisions except | German reparations to be paid to all the Allies | |
| 158738506 | On Easter Sunday, 1916 | a group of nationalists revolted in Dublin | |
| 158738507 | After they dispersed the Constituent Assembly, Lenin, and the Bolsheviks ruled Russia as a | one-party dictatorship | |
| 158738508 | The Schlieffen Plan | committed Germany to attack France first, though the real target was Russia | |
| 158738509 | Following the February Revolution in Russia, the Provisional Government | became a transitional government created to establish a democratic system | |
| 158738510 | The first nation(s) to grant the right to vote to all men and women over the age of thirty was | Britain | |
| 158738511 | Before 1914, the membership of the Triple Alliance included Germany, Austro-Hungary, and | Italy | |
| 158738512 | The immediate cause of World War I was | the assassination of Franz Ferdinand | |
| 158738513 | The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | immediately took Russia out of the war | |
| 158738514 | The Allied assault on Gallipoli | was founded on Churchill's naval offensive in the Dardanelles | |
| 158738515 | On November 11, 1918 | German delegates met with the Allies and officially ended the war | |
| 158738516 | The opponents of the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War were called | Whites | |
| 158738517 | In January 1933, Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany by | Hindenburg | |
| 158738518 | During the period of the New Economic Policy (NEP) | the Soviet state would own all industry | |
| 158738519 | The Freikorps were | anti-Marxist, anti-liberal, and anti-Semitic | |
| 158738520 | During the Great Terror, Stalin | implemented a policy of mass repression against anyone who defied him | |
| 158738521 | The Civil War in Russia pushed the Bolsheviks to a more radical economic stance called | war communism | |
| 158738522 | Throughout the 1920s, the Nazis could never obtain total voting support from the | industrial workers | |
| 158738523 | The success of the Italian fascist movement depended on the leadership of | Benito Mussolini | |
| 158738524 | On October 28, 1922, Mussolini's Black Shirts | marched on Rome | |
| 158738525 | The Great Depression | was triggered by the U.S. stock market crash | |
| 158738526 | Thomas Hart Benton and Diego Rivera were similar in that they | used their art to detail the hopes and struggles of ordinary people | |
| 158738527 | Which of the following artists was not a dadist? | Hans Arp | |
| 158738528 | The Soviet collectivization of agriculture in the late 1920s | resulted in the near liquidation of the kulaks | |
| 158738529 | The man widely assumed to be Lenin's successor was | Leon Trotsky |
