Miss Durney History Exam
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AHC 2012 SPRING SEMST. EXAM QUIZLETS
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abolition movement | the campaign against slavery and the slave trade |
| absentee landlord | one who owns a large estate but does not live there |
| absolute power of the emperor | What was a feature of the New Japanese political system created by Meiji? |
| accepting unequal treaties and modernizing | Siam avoided becoming a European colony by...? |
| Aggressive nationalism, Economic and Imperial rivalries, militarism, and Alliances | What are the Four Main causes of WWI? |
| ahimsa | doctrine that Gandhi preached |
| aligned with Dardanelles | Why was the Ottoman Empire considered such a valuable ally to the Central Power? |
| armritsar massacre | an incident in which British troops fired on an unarmed group of Indians in 1919. |
| Anschluss | Hitler's plan for the union of Germany and Austria |
| apartheid | a policy of rigid segregation practiced in South Africa |
| appeasement | Truman doctrine was rooted in the idea of..? |
| armritsar | What key event convinced many Indians that India needed to govern itself |
| armritsar | Name a turning point in the Indian dependence movement in 1919. |
| Surrealism | Artistic movement that portrayed the workings of the unconscious |
| organized crime increased | As a result of prohibition what increased? |
| attack of the luftwaffe | What was the first stage of his blitzkrieg tactic? |
| Australia | British penal colony during the 1700s. |
| balance of trade | The difference between how much a country imports and exports |
| Balfour declaration | advocated the establishment of a national home for Jewish people in Palestine |
| Benito Juarez | Helped open an era of liberal reform in Mexico known as La Reforma |
| Benjamin Disraeli | Who forged the Tories into the modern Conservative party? |
| Berlin Conference | At what conference did European powers agree that in order to claim part of Africa, a European power would have to set up a government office there? |
| Black Shirts | Party militants, rejected the democratic process in favor of violent action |
| Blitzkreig | "lightning war" |
| Bolsheviks | Which political group seized complete control of Russia |
| boycott British goods | As part of the struggle for Indian independence, Mohandas Gandhi urged Indians to... |
| Britain, France, Russia | Who was in the Triple Entente? |
| Canada gained self-rule | What was the result of the British North American Act of 1867? |
| capital offense | crime punishable by death |
| Carranza | Mexican president who approved the Constitution |
| Catholic Armenians | In the Ottoman Empire, tensions between Turkish nationalists and ethnic groups seeking independence sparked genocide against the..? |
| caudillos | strong local leaders in Latin America who challenged central government for power |
| Chancellor | prime minister |
| civil disobedience | the refusal to obey unjust laws |
| civil disobedience and economic policy | Thoreau influenced Gandhi through his ideas on..? |
| Clemenceau | who wanted to punish Germany |
| coalition | temporary alliance of various political parties |
| collectives | large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group |
| Command economy | system in which government officials make all the basic economic decisions |
| got jobs | How did the women benefit from WWI? They... |
| government survived but had to share power | What was a result of Taipang rebellion? |
| Great Depression | A painful time of global economic collapse |
| gulag | A system of forced labor camps |
| haciendas | large plantation controlled by the Mexican elite |
| Harlem Renaissance | An African movement in the 1920s-1930s |
| He replaced Islamic law with secular law | Why did many Muslim religious leaders in Persia disapprove of the reforms introduced by Reza Khan? |
| He wanted their natural resources | WHy did Hitler Invade the Soviet Union? |
| Henry Stanley | Who did King Leopold II hire to explore the Congo River Basin and arrange trade treaties with African leaders? |
| "Mein Kampf" | Hitler wrote... |
| control the minds of german youth | Hitlers Plan was to... |
| Hitlers plan to bomb and take over London and British cities | What was Operation Sea lion? |
| home rule | local self-government |
| Hong Kong | In the Treaty of Nanjing, Britain gained control of? |
| Penicillin | In 1920 Alexander Flemming discovered.... |
| Socialism | In Britain during the 1920s the labor party moved toward what type of government? |
| Citizenship | In Germany the Nuremburg Laws deprived Jews of? |
| Institutional Revolution Party | What party dominated Mexican politics from the 1930s through the free elation of 2000? |
| Iran (Persia) | The interest of Europeans in which country intensified after the discovery of oil? |
| Irish catholics were allowed to vote and hold office | What did the Catholic Emancipation Act accomplish in Ireland in 1829? |
| It allowed Germany and the Soviet Union to invade Poland | What was the significance of the Nazi-Soviet Pact? |
| It allowed the US to gradually move north to Japan | What did "island hopping" in the Pacific accomplish? |
| It made church land the property of the nation | What did the Mexican Constitution of 1917 do? |
| It made the US join the war | What was the significance of the Zimmerman note? |
| It prevented a quick victory over France by Germany | Why was the Battle of Marne significant? |
| Italy | Which European nation invaded Ethiopia in 1935? |
| Japan gained control of Korea | What was a result of the Russo-Japanese War? |
| Japanese isolation | the rise to power of the Tokugawa family resulted in? |
| kamikazes | pilots who crashed planes into the Allied warhships |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | An international agreement to stop using war as a method of national policy |
| Kulak | Wealthy peasants |
| Labour Party | What party surpassed the Liberal party and became one of Britain's major parties? |
| legally separate, ensure white economic political supremacy | The purpose of apartheid in South Africa was to..... |
| Lend-Lease Act | This allows the U.S. to aid American Allies |
| Lenin | Who was the Bolshevik leader? |
| Libel | knowing publication of false and damaging statements |
| Liberal Party | What did the Whig party turn into? |
| Liliuokalani | Ruler of Hawaiian islands who was overthrown by planters from the U.S. |
| lost its Arab and North African lands | As a result of the Treaty of Sevres, the Ottoman Empire.... |
| Louisiana Purchase | Territory purchased by Thomas Jefferson from France in 1803 |
| Maginot Line | Massive fortifications built by the French along the French border with Germany in the 1930s to protect future invasions |
| Manhattan Project | project to harness the power of the atom |
| Maori | indigenous people of New Zealand |
| Marxism gained only limited support among the British working class | One result of social welfare reforms passed in great britain in the early 1900s was that...? |
| Metis | People of mixed naive american and French Canadian descent |
| middle-class | Who did the Whig party consist of? |
| militarism | glorification of the military |
| Black Shirts | Military supporters of Mussolini |
| Mongkut | set siam on the road to modernization |
| Muhammad Ali | What ruler is sometimes called "the father of Modern Egypt" due to the reforms he made? |
| murals | an example of the rise of cultural nationalism in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s |
| Napoleon III | Nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, who rose to power and set up the Second Empire |
| Natives were seen as children in need to guidance | How did Catholic missionaries interact with African natives |
| negrutude | movement in which writers expressed their pride in their African roots |
| neutrality acts | this was passed to prevent the US involvement in European War |
| New Deal | A massive package of economic and social programs |
| nobles, landowners, and others whose interest and income are rotted in agriculture | Who did the Tory Party speak for? |
| Nuremburg | German city in which Allies held war crime trials |
| re-armed military | One of the first things the Nazi's did that rejected the Treaty of Versailles |
| overthrew Ottoman sultan and declared Turkey as a republic | Turkish nationalists, led by Ataturk.... |
| pacifism | opposition to all war |
| Paris Commune | What was set up in 1871 during the Third Republic to save the Republic from the Royalists |
| Parliament ended the rule of the East India COmpany | What was one result of the Sepoy Rebellion |
| Parliamentary Democracy | Through reforms that took place during the late 1800s, Britain transformed itself into a.... |
| Parliamentary Democracy | Britain started out being a constitutional monarchy but ended up being a _______________. |
| penal colony | place were people convicted of crimes were sent |
| people lost faith in the ideas of liberal government | in the 1930s what effect id the Great Depression have in Latin America |
| People's Charter | What charter demanded universal male suffrage, annual parliamentary elections, and salaries for members of Parliament? |
| Persuaded czechs to surrender the Sudetenland | What did British and french do at the Munich Conference to avoid war? |
| Premier | france prime minister |
| prisoners | the first british colonists to settle in AUstralia in large numbers were.... |
| Prohibition | the ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages |
| proletariat | growing class of factory and railroad workers, miners, and urban workers |
| propaganda | spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause |
| Protect the U.S. trading rights in China | the purpose of the Open Door policy was to.... |
| protectorate | colony administered by local rulers with european advisors |
| provisional | temporary |
| Psychoanalysis | a method of studying how the mind works and treating mental disorders |
| conservative party | what party did the tories turn into> |
| Constitutional Act of 1791 | Britain created the provinces of Upper Canada and Lower Canada when it passed the.... |
| Convert Maories to Christianity | Why did missionaries land in New Zealand in 1814? |
| Cuba | Platt Amendment gave the US the right to intervene in the affairs of...... |
| Dada | artistic movement in which artists reject tradition and produce works that often shocked their viewers |
| Dardanelles | straight connecting the Black sea |
| David Livingstone | who believed that opening the interior of Africa to Christianity and trade would end the slave trade? |
| defeat in the Sino-Japanese War | 100 days of Reform was kind of brought about by China's...... |
| diet | Japanese legislature |
| disarmament | reduction of armed forces and weapons |
| dominion | self-governing nation |
| dreyfus affair | a political scandal that caused deep divisions in France between Royalists and liberals and republicans; centered on the 1894 wrongful conviction of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the army |
| Raised Tariffs | During the Great Depression in 1930, what did the government do that contributed to the cause of it? |
| Electorate | body of people allowed to vote |
| Emancipation Proclamation | What freed the African Americans during the civil war? |
| Ethiopia | Which country was able to preserve its independence by defeating Italian invaders in 1896? |
| It modernized and imported European weapons | Ethiopia was able to remain independent because... |
| Finland and Czech | Eventually right when dictatorship emerged in the Eastern Europ which did not have it? |
| Expansionism | policy of increasing the amount of territory a government holds |
| Fabian society | socialist organization founded in 1883 who promoted gradual change through legal means rather than by violence |
| farmers and landowners | who supported the corn laws |
| farmers and wealthy landowners (because they kept grain prices high) | The British corn laws were supported by..? |
| Fascism | any centralized authoritarian government system that is not communist whose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights |
| First Sino-Japanese War | Japan gained control of Taiwan as a result of the ....? |
| Fourteen Points | Woodrow Wilson's term used to prevent future wars |
| Franco-Prussian War | What brought an end to France's 2nd empire? |
| frank Lloyd Wright | "Falling Water" architect |
| free trade | trade between countries without quotas, tariffs, or other restrictions |
| gain access to the mediterranean Sea | as the ottoman empire crumbled, Russia plotted to seize the Bosporus and Dardaneles in order too..? |
| General strike | strike by workers in many different industries at the same time |
| German attack on North Africa stopped | Why was the Battle of El Alamein significant? |
| Germany | Meiji reformers chase to model the new Japanese government after the government of...? |
| Germany declared war on France and invaded Belgium | What event made Britain decide to enter WWI? |
| Germany, Italy, Australia | Which nations are in the Triple Alliance |
| Gestapo | Secret police in Nazi germany |
| Good Neighbor Policy | pledge by the US to lessen its involvement in Latin American affiars |
| punishing Germany | the treaty of versailles ended WWI and focused on? |
| purdah | indian tradition of isolating women in separate quarters |
| push for Indian self rule | Indian National congress was formed to..? |
| Red Scare | Fear of Radicals "communists" |
| Reform act of 1832 | what act redistributed seats in the House of Commons, giving representation to large towns and cities and eliminating rotten boroughs and granted suffrage to more men? |
| reject religion in laws and government | one of ataturks reforms in turkey was to |
| repeal | cancel |
| Reza Khan | shah who modernized Persia |
| Ruhr Valley | coal-rich industrial region in Germany |
| Russia mobilized quicker than Germany thought | Why did the Schlieffen plan Fail? |
| Russification | making a nationality's culture more ethnically russian |
| same legal status as minors | in japanese society under the meiji, women had......(what status in society) |
| secede | withdraw |
| Scopes Trial | When a teacher tried teaching evolution (its a trial) |
| segregation | forced separation by race, sex, religion, or ethnicity |
| sent troops to Rhineland | Through what action did Hitler violate the treaty of Versailles |
| Serbian Alliance | why did russia enter WWI? Because of the..... |
| Suez Canal | a canal linking the Red Sea and Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea, which also links Europe to Asia and East africa |
| Speakeasies | illegal bars |
| promoting russification | stalin attempted to make the culture life of Russia more Russian by...? |
| Stalin's 5 year plan | this plan led to Building heavy industries, improving transportation, increase farm output |
| Stalingrad | What was the site of Major Soviet victory over Germans. |
| Surrealism | artistic movement that attempts to portray the workings of the unconscious mind |
| symbol of women who worked in manufacturing in WWII | Who was rosie the riveter |
| T.E. Lawrence | British colonel who helped arab nationalists free nations from the Ottoman Empire |
| terrible winter | what stopped german advance in the Soviet Union |
| test weapons | Why was the Spanish Civil war a dress rehearsal for WWII? |
| the assassination of archduke francis Ferdinand by a serbian nationalist | what is the Immediate cause of WWI? |
| the discovery of gold and diamonds in Boer-held lands | the boer war was sparked by...? |
| Kulaks | the farmers who were killed by Stalin |
| the power of love could change wrongdoers | What did Indian leader Gandhi preach? |
| The U.s. stopped selling iron, steel, and oil to them | why did Japan decide to attack the US |
| The western front had a stalemate and trenches. the eastern front had higher casualty rates | What was the main difference between the fighting on the Western and Eastern Fronts |
| Theodor Herzl helped to launch modern Zionism | What was a result of widespread Anti-Semitism in Eruope in the 1800s |
| They had little fuel due to the Allied bombings | Why was the German air force almost grounded before D-Day |
| They thought it would lead to a democratic government | During Russia's revolutionary period, why did the allies support overthrowing the tsar |
| the wanted independence | why were some colonists of european nations eager to enter the war? |
| those loyal to the tsar | who composed the "white" armies of Russia during its 3 year long civil war |
| to achieve victory in Europe before victory in Asia | in 1942 what priority did the Big three set at the Yalta Conference |
| To prevent attack by u-boats | allies organized their merchant ships into convoys to prevent what? |
| tories | what party came up with the Reform Bill of 1867 which gave the voting right to many working class men |
| total war | putting all of a nation's resources in war effort |
| Totalitarian State | government in which a one party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens lives |
| trade deficit | economic situation that occurs when a nation imports more than it exports |
| traditional social order | conservative leaders in Latin america in the 1880s believed in? |
| trench warfare | why did stalemate occur in Western Front |
| US gained control of the philippines | what was a result of the treaty that ended the Spanish American War |
| Dictatorship | under mussolinis rule in italy what type of government was it |
| united states | who entered WWI due to cultural ties with france and Brtain? the... |
| Urban middle class wanted democracy | what was an important factor in bringing about the mexican revolution |
| conservatives | what group sharply criticized the Wiemar Republic "as too weak" |
| Supremacy | what is the key characteristic of facism |
| Dawes Plan | What is the agreement called that reduced German reparations and provided the US loans to Germany |
| seeds, tractors, and fertilizers | What is the government responsible for putting on collectives |
| kristallnacht | what is the night of broken glass called |
| Atomic Fission | what was a result of Marie Curie and Einstein works together |
| Flappers | who were the liberated young women of the jazz age? |
| germany fell behind in the reparations | Why did the French occupy the Ruhr Valley |
| William Gladstone | who led the whigs |
| zaibatsu | powerful japanese business families who ruled over industrial empires |
| zeppelin | gas-filled balloons used as bombs |
| Zionism | a movement devoted to rebuilding the Jewish state in Palestine |
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