ap world history review Flashcards

4450223478	The first factories developed in what industry?	B) textiles	0
4450229573	Bloody Sunday served as a turning point in Russia because...	B) it caused the people to lose faith in the tsar	1
4450241460	How did the Renaissance contribute to the Age of Exploration?	B) by awakening a spirit of discovery and innovation in Europe	2
4450298950	In 1942, what priority did Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin set in the war?	B) to achieve victory in Europe before trying to achieve it in Asia	3
4450306682	In recent years, Latin American governments have been trying to promote agriculture by...	B) backing efforts to open more land to farming	4
4450325120	What was the goal of the Yalta Conference?	A) to reach an agreement on what to do with postwar Europe	5
4450393091	In the 1830s, Prussia created a union called the Zollverein, which promoted German unity by...	B) removing tariff barriers between German states	6
4450398638	Who were the Boers?	D) Dutch farmers who settled around Cape Town	7
4450460320	The Cold War ended when...	B) the Soviet Union collapsed.	8
4450463999	Many older members of the European Union (EU) think that the expansion of the EU into Eastern Europe will...	C) weaken the EU's overall economy	9
4450482091	The interest of Europeans in Iran intensified with what discovery in the region?	A) oil	10
4450501079	. What was a result of Gorbachev's perestroika?	C) Polish nationalists demanded more Soviet control.	11
4450579796	Who was the first leader of an independent Brazil?	D) Pedro I	12
4450584901	Why did Japanese forces attack Manchuria?	B) to gain control of its rich natural resources	13
4450596152	Before the rise of the Ottoman Empire, Anatolia was a...	B) region consisting of a number of small, independent Turkish states.	14
4450603341	U.S.-led forces attacked Iraq in 2003 after Iraq	B) invaded Kuwait.	15
4450633159	Which revolutionary leader helped Argentina win freedom from Spain?	A) José de San Martín	16
4450643370	Which of the following revolutionaries wanted to unite all of South America into the Federation of the Andes?	D) Simón Bolívar	17
4450647807	What was a goal of revolutionaries in the Italian states in 1848?	B) to end Hapsburg domination and set up constitutional governments	18
4450663256	Which group consisted of dissenters who sought to change Catholic practices in the Church of England?	D) Puritans	19
4450673761	"The greatest happiness for the greatest number" was a goal of...	D) utilitarianism	20
4467663189	Conflict between the Tutsis and Hutus led to civil war in the nations of Rwanda and...	B) Burundi.	21
4467665240	Which of the following was a long-term result of the Industrial Revolution?	D) a general decline in the standard of living	22
4467668660	The rise to power of the Tokugawa family resulted in...	D) Japanese isolation.	23
4467671527	Robespierre believed that France could achieve a "republic of virtue" only through...	A) the use of terror.	24
4467673107	In Spanish colonial society, creoles were...	C) people of African and European descent.	25
4467676211	What was one result of the Sepoy Rebellion?	A) Parliament ended the rule of the East India Company.	26
4467678439	Which of the following revolutionary leaders came to oppose the violent excesses of the Revolution?	B) George-Jacques Danton	27
4467680891	Meiji reformers chose to model the new Japanese government after the government of...	B) Germany.	28
4467682001	Part of the legacy of the French Revolution is that...	D) it has inspired people to fight for their rights in other parts of the world.	29
4467683393	The Dual Monarchy was a combination of...	A) Austria and Hungary.	30
4467687594	What Egyptian leader nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956?	D) Gamal Abdel Nasser	31
4467689169	What was the eventual result of Sun Yixian's efforts to rebuild China based on the Three Principles of the People?	B) China fell into chaos and Sun stepped down.	32
4467690255	What did the Soviet Union do during Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939?	B) It attacked Poland from the east as part of the Nazi-Soviet Pact.	33
4467691934	China's Great Leap Forward resulted in...	C) sharp drops in agricultural production and widespread famine.	34
4467693682	Portugal refused to comply with the Continental System because...	C) it depended on its trade with Great Britain.	35
4467697218	In 1931, Japanese ultranationalists seized the Chinese province of...	B) Manchuria.	36
4467699261	What event led to a decisive shift away from isolationism in the United States?	A) the attack on Pearl Harbor	37
4467701034	According to laissez-faire economists, the cure for poverty was...	D) an unrestricted free market.	38
4467704404	The National Assembly voted to pay off the huge government debt by...	B) selling Church lands.	39
4467706141	Mercantilists would advocate that a nation do which of the following?	D) Sell more goods than it buys from foreign countries.	40
4467707570	What triggered the events that resulted in the formation of the Church of England?	A) Henry VIII wanted a divorce.	41
4467712822	The United States helped to end apartheid in South Africa by...	B) imposing economic sanctions on South Africa.	42
4467715546	Joint stock companies allowed early European capitalists to...	A) raise large amounts of capital.	43
4467717007	What goal did Giuseppe Mazzini, Camillo di Cavour, and Giuseppe Garibaldi all have in common?	D) the unification of Italy	44
4467720574	What happened to the defeated Chinese Nationalists?	D) They fled to the island of Taiwan.	45
4467721849	What contributed to the start of the English Civil War?	A) Charles I refused to sign the English Bill of Rights.	46
4467723218	The militarists who came to power in Japan in the 1930s...	B) used schools to teach students absolute obedience to the emperor.	47
4467731791	The United States gained control of the land for the Panama Canal by...	C) helping the Panamanian revolt against Colombia in exchange for the land.	48
4467733880	What pushed the British to help create the independent nations of Pakistan and India in 1947?	B) Minority Tamils demanded a separate nation.	49
4467735020	French Indochina was made up of...	B) Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.	50
4467750349	What was a reason why Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990?	D) to gain greater access to the Persian Gulf	51
4467754208	How did the Chinese economy fare under the Qing dynasty?	A) Farm output increased and Chinese industry expanded.	52
4467755139	How did the League of Nations respond when Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931?	B) It condemned Japan's action but did nothing to stop it.	53
4467756532	The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution were social reform programs led by which leader?	C) Mao Zedong	54
4467759607	Humanist scholars differed from medieval thinkers in that humanists...	D) tended to focus more on worldly subjects.	55
4467760921	Bolshevik opponents came to be called...	C) the White Army.	56
4467769851	The Line of Demarcation divided world trade and exploration rights between the...	C) Spanish and Portuguese.	57
4467771197	The Nuremberg Laws...	D) aimed at including Jews in mainstream life in Germany.	58
4467777420	People who advocated social democracy wanted to...	B) move from capitalism to socialism by democratic means.	59
4467783740	Which countries were members of the Triple Alliance?	B) Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary	60
4467788411	In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft argued that women and men should have equal....	B) education.	61
4467795058	What helped drive the tremendous growth of the U.S. economy after World War II?	B) consumer spending	62
4467800202	When the Soviet Union collapsed, what happened to its stockpiles of nuclear materials?	A) They became difficult to maintain and secure.	63
4467846815	Which of the following is considered to be a benefit of global trade?	C) It exposes people to new ideas and technology.	64
4467849937	What caused the War of Austrian Succession?	A) the rivalry between the Hapsburgs and the Hohenzollerns	65
4467887723	One way that Renaissance artists reflected the new ideas of humanism was by painting...	A) well-known people of the day.	66
4467896097	According to socialists, the solution to poverty and injustice was...	A) shared ownership by the people of the means of production.	67
4467907674	The October Manifesto was issued in response to...	D) the Russian Revolution of 1905.	68
4467933297	Which of the following was one of Sun Yixian's "Three Principles of the People?"	C) economic security for all Chinese	69
4467934395	During the Industrial Revolution, life changed in what basic way?	C) People migrated from rural areas to cities.	70
4467937610	What did the Palestinians get in the 1993 Oslo Accord?	C) limited self-rule in Gaza and the West Bank	71
4467943700	Stalin attempted to make the cultural life of the Soviet Union more Russian by promoting a policy of...	D) Russification.	72
4467946479	Conservative leaders in Latin America in the 1800s believed in...	D) the traditional social order.	73
4467953986	Why did Britain begin exporting opium to China?	C) to change the balance of trade in favor of Britain	74
4467960676	How did India change its approach to developing its economy in the early 1980s?	A) It shifted to more of a free-market system.	75
4467965825	The ideas of liberals were sometimes called "bourgeois liberalism" because liberals spoke mostly for the...	C) middle class.	76
4467968575	Begun in the early 1980s in China, Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations program was designed to...	B) increase government control of the economy.	77
4467988057	Which of the following did Winston Churchill use as an image to describe the division of Europe?	D) an iron curtain	78
4467993236	How did Agustín de Iturbide become emperor of Mexico?	A) by cultivating the favor of the Roman Catholic Church and receiving the title from the pope	79
4468036272	One result of the October Manifesto was...	B) the establishment of the Duma.	80
4468045467	What did the British and French do at the Munich Conference in 1938 to avoid war?	B) They persuaded the Czechs to surrender the Sudetenland.	81
4468052982	As independence neared for British India, the Congress Party wanted to...	C) have a unified India that would include both Muslims and Hindus.	82
4468062809	What was the reaction in 1947 to the United Nations plan to divide Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states?	D) The Jews accepted the plan, but the Arabs rejected it.	83
4468067101	Nationalism remained a problem under the Dual Monarchy because...	B) ethnic minorities continued to seek self-government.	84
4468071860	Which of the following is the best explanation for Russia's entrance into World War I?	A) Russia wanted to defend the Slavic peoples in Serbia.	85
4468079805	Which series of events led to World War I?	An Austrian-Hungarian nobleman was assassinated, Germany moved to support Austria, and Great Britain declared war on Germany.	86
4468091307	Britain passed the Navigation Acts to...	C) regulate colonial trade and manufacturing.	87
4468119552	Which of the following groups seized complete control of Russia in 1917?	D) the Bolsheviks	88
4468122615	The Boer War was sparked by...	B) the discovery of gold and diamonds on Boer-held lands.	89
4468129615	What was a cause of Stalin's Great Purge?	D) Peasants did not want to give up their land to the state.	90
4468134173	To defend their merchant ships against attacks from German submarines, the Allies...	C) organized the merchant ships into convoys.	91
4468136383	What resulted from the Peace of Augsburg in 1555?	B) Each German prince could decide the religion for his lands.	92
4468148533	What was a major cause of conflict within the empire of King Charles V?	B) Charles suppressed Protestantism in the German states.	93
4468152495	Which of following was written by Denis Diderot in order to promote knowledge?	D) the Encyclopedia	94
4468175813	Which of the following was one of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points?	A) a statement of American neutrality in World War I	95
4468179593	Hitler decided to invade the Soviet Union because...	D) he wanted the Soviet Union's vast natural resources.	96
4468186092	In Ming China, why did European traders pay for Chinese silks and porcelains in gold or silver instead of exchanging trade goods?	B) The Chinese did not want inferior European trade goods.	97
4468191159	What was a key characteristic of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s?	D) pursuit of a classless society	98
4468192824	The rights outlined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen did not extend to...	D) women.	99
4468236474	In the 1991 Gulf War, the goal of the U.S.-led coalition was to...	D) drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.	100
4468260662	Which foods were first introduced to the Americas by Europeans through the Columbian Exchange?	A) wheat and grapes	101
4468264377	The Ming dynasty declined because...	B) competition among heirs to the throne led to a divided dynasty.	102
4468272157	Which of the following was a Social Darwinist argument in favor of Western imperialism?	C) Westerners thought they had a duty to bring their civilization to inferior races.	103
4468277440	Why were William and Mary crowned king and queen of England?	D) to restore the English monarchy	104
4468308985	The mercantile system in Britain was replaced by...	A) laissez-faire economics.	105
4468304774	What theory applied the idea of natural selection to the development of business and society?	C) Social Darwinism	106
4468314702	What were the Young Turks fighting against in 1908?	D) the absolute power of the sultan	107
4468318638	The Spanish colonial economy was based largely on...	D) the mining of gold and silver.	108
4468326002	What type of government was created in England by the Glorious Revolution?	B) limited monarchy	109
4468331106	Desiderius Erasmus's works were censored in Paris and condemned by the Church because...	A) his works fanned the flames of discontent with the Church.	110
4468334560	The Truman Doctrine was rooted in the idea of...	C) containment.	111
4468344714	The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa were the work of the great artist...	A) Leonardo da Vinci.	112
4468348893	The U.S. strategy of "island-hopping" in the Pacific...	C) allowed the U.S. to gradually move north toward Japan.	113
4468352154	Which country was able to preserve its independence by defeating Italian invaders in 1896?	D) Ethiopia	114
4468357829	Which minority group has faced harsh discrimination in the countries of Turkey and Iraq?	C) Kurds	115
4468362973	What action did the Western Allies take after World War II that caused the Soviets to strengthen their hold on East Germany?	A) They helped western Germany rebuild its economy.	116
4468366744	Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi...	B) called for the violent overthrow of the British	117
4468377362	Which of the following resulted from the October Revolution in Russia?	D) The Soviet Union was formed.	118
4468385303	How did Hobbes and Rousseau differ?	C) Rousseau believed in the idea of a social contract; Hobbes did not.	119
4468407165	Who did King Leopold II hire to explore the Congo River basin and arrange trade treaties with African leaders?	C) Henry Stanley.	120
4468411965	The Reign of Terror resulted in...	A) increased foreign opposition to the French Revolution.	121
4469034574	The United Arab Republic was an example of...	D) Zionism.	122
4469040954	Which of the following events caused Britain to fight in World War I?	A) Germany invaded Belgium.	123
4469043025	What enabled the Ottomans to expand beyond Anatolia?	D) Christianity's decline in the Byzantine Empire	124
4469049517	Which best describes political motives driving the new European imperialism in Africa?	B) Population decline led European countries to look to Africa for workers to fuel industrialization in home countries.	125
4469053745	Bismarck introduced many social reforms in Germany because he wanted to...	A) avoid a socialist revolution.	126
4469057366	Islamic fundamentalism is a conservative reform movement whose goal is to...	B) install governments that strictly followed Sharia.	127
4469066354	The idea of separation of powers in the Constitution was borrowed from Enlightenment thinker...	B) Montesquieu.	128
4469070673	What caused the start of the Iran-Iraq war in 1980?	B) The Iranians oppressed Sunni Arabs in Iran.	129
4469169407	During the Vietnam War, the Tet Offensive...	C) turned American public opinion against the war.	130
4469173635	How did Joseph Stalin punish Ukrainians who resisted collectivization?	C) He withheld all food from the region.	131
4469185116	In the early 1930s, which of the following contributed to the spread of economic problems around the world?	B) Governments raised tariffs to protect their economies.	132
4469198445	Who was the leader of the Bolsheviks in 1917 during the November revolution?	B) V.I. Lenin.	133
4469204002	During the Tokugawa period the role of the samurai changed because...	D) peace put the samurai out of work.	134
4469245226	What Enlightenment thinker argued that the purpose of government is to safeguard the natural rights of the people?	D) John Locke	135
4469248365	According to anti-globalizers, what effect does globalization often have on developing nations?	C) It creates economic specialization.	136
4469255778	In Nicaragua's civil war that began in 1979, why did the United States support the contras against the Sandinistas?	B) The contras were anti-communist.	137
4469259694	The Indian National Congress was formed to...	A) push for Indian self-rule.	138
4469282016	The ultimate goal of the early Portuguese explorers was to...	B) find a water route around Africa to India.	139
4469289442	The population of Europe exploded between 1800 and 1900 in large part because...	D) medical advances reduced the death rate.	140
4469291246	One consequence of the Green Revolution was that...	D) crop prices dropped, forcing small farmers out of business.	141
4469296606	Before World War II, Hitler's Nazi government...	A) passed restrictive laws severely limiting the rights of Jews.	142
4469305562	In 1800, Austria was ruled by the oldest ruling house in Europe, called the...	C) Hapsburgs.	143
4469310958	For the Soviet Union, what was the turning point in the war in Europe?	B) their victory at Stalingrad	144
4469319608	When the Mughal empire weakened, British and French armies fought for power in India with the help of Indian troops known as...	D) sepoys.	145
4469322650	Which of the following statements most accurately describes the economy of Italy in the years after unification?	C) Rising industry led to rapid urbanization and a modern economy.	146
4469342924	The purpose of apartheid in South Africa was to...	D) ensure white economic, political, and social supremacy.	147
4469348241	According to Thomas Hobbes, the best form of government is...	C) an absolute monarchy.	148
4469354132	The Reign of Terror gave way to the Directory phase of the revolution in which the dominant political force was the...	D) bourgeoisie.	149
4469357357	Chinese who turned to the revolutionary ideas of Marx and Lenin gained strong support from...	D) the Soviet Union.	150
4469359862	What was the immediate cause of the Sepoy Mutiny?	A) the refusal of Hindu priests of Delhi to support Christian rule in India	151
4469374384	The ascension of William and Mary to the throne of England became known as the...	D) Glorious Revolution.	152
4469378842	Thomas Malthus discouraged vaccinations because...	D) disease was a natural means of population control.	153
4469385441	Why did Ming emperors decide to isolate China?	D) They disliked the influence of the Europeans and sought to preserve China's traditions.	154
4469390426	Ulrich Zwingli founded a church in Switzerland that had which of these at its base?	A) secularism	155
4469394187	What did the Nazi-Soviet Pact accomplish for Germany?	C) It allowed the union of Germany and Hungary.	156
4469398645	Which of the following were writers of the realism movement?	D) Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo	157
4469401059	Economist Adam Smith argued that, in a free market, business activity would be regulated by the forces of...	B) supply and demand.	158
4469402375	Which of the following was a result of the Russo-Japanese War?	B) Russia gained control of parts of Manchuria.	159
4469406674	The English colonies of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Maryland were mainly set up as...	A) havens for persecuted religious groups.	160
4469407807	Britain's colonial empire fueled the development of industry in that country because...	C) workers in the colonies earned far less than workers in Britain.	161
4469413201	One effect of the Thirty Years' War was...	D) the severe depopulation of Europe.	162
4469415889	David Livingstone believed that opening the interior of Africa to Christianity and trade would...	B) end the slave trade.	163
4469418286	Toussaint L'Ouverture led a revolt that eventually resulted in independence for....	A) Haiti	164
4469420832	In the 1700s, Latin American political and social life was dominated by the...	D) peninsulares.	165
4469422409	Following Islamic law, the Ottomans...	D) allowed religious freedom.	166
4469426111	In the Zimmermann note, Germany offered which of the following to Mexico if it joined the Central Powers?	D) the return of Mexican lands held by the United States	167
4469427374	Which of the following Mughal leaders came into conflict with the Sikhs?	A) Jahangir	168
4469433063	The establishment of the "putting-out system" would later lead to...	C) capitalist-owned factories of the Industrial Revolution.	169
4469441144	The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution because...	B) some people argued the Constitution did not protect the rights of citizens.	170
4469443540	The Congress of Vienna promoted the principle of legitimacy by...	C) restoring hereditary monarchies.	171