Modern European and World History
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Course Introduction
This course provides a comprehensive overview of key developments in European and world history from the late eighteenth century to the present. Students will examine major political, social, economic, and cultural transformations, including the French and Industrial Revolutions, the rise and fall of empires, the World Wars, the Cold War, decolonization, and globalization. Emphasis is placed on analyzing the interplay between European and global events, understanding how historical movements have shaped contemporary society, and critically examining primary and secondary sources to develop historical thinking skills.
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The Essential World History Volume II Since 1500 7th Edition by William J. Duiker
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Chapter 14: New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market
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Q1) Discuss the European impact,positive and negative,on the native populations of Southeast Asia.
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Treaty of Tordesillas
Q3) What factors made control of the Indian Ocean difficult for the Portuguese during the 16<sup>th</sup> and 17<sup>th</sup> centuries?
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). the Slave Coast
Q5) Under the encomienda system,New World natives were A)forced to accept Islam.
B)permitted to retain control over their local lands.
C)subjected to exploitation and harsh treatment by the Dutch.
D)supposed to be protected by the Spanish.
E)taken to Spain to be used as laborers.
Q6) All of the following were part of the Columbian Exchange except
A)cows and horses were introduced into the Western hemisphere.
B)potatoes and corn were introduced into Europe from the Americas.
C)potatoes and corn were introduced into the Americas from Europe.
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D)smallpox arrived in the Americas from Europe.
E)gunpowder and guns were introduced into the Americas from Europe.
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Chapter 15: Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building
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Q1) What were the most significant aspects of the witchcraft craze of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Why was it so widespread? Why did it decline?
Q2) The 16<sup>th</sup> and 17<sup>th</sup> centuries were when most European witch trials were conducted.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). mercantilism and Jean Baptiste Colbert
Q4) Queen Elizabeth I
A)was the first female ruler of France.
B)became hated because of her attempt to restore Roman Catholicism in England.
C)slapped Paul III in the face after a lengthy,and heated,theological debate.
D)successfully survived the Spanish armada.
E)engineered the brilliant English-Swedish naval success at the Battle of Lepanto.
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). the Catholic Reformation
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). the Glorious Revolution,William and Mary and the Bill of Rights
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Chapter 16: The Muslim Empires
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Q1) The Ottoman Turks preceded the Seljuk Turks.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The son of Shah Jahan,who killed his brother,imprisoned his father,and then assumed the throne himself,was A)Aurangzeb.
B)Shivaji.
C)Dara Shikoh.
D)Jahangir.
E)Lothair.
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). vezier/wazir
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Safi al-Din and Shah Ismail
Q5) All of the following are correct about the Janissaries except A)they were recruited from the Christian population of the Balkans. B)they fought as on horseback as cavalry warriors.
C)they were converted to Islam. D)they were infantry troops.
E)they used muskets.
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Chapter 17: The East Asian World
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Q1) The Japanese who seized Kyoto and spent his last years trying to consolidate his rule was
A)Yamato Ryutu.
B)Iza Shotoku.
C)Oda Nobunaga.
D)Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
E)Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Q2) The purpose of the Qing system known as "dyarchy" was
A)to maintain the Chinese exclusion from Manchu rule in China.
B)to assure the isolation of the Chinese from the Manchus in China.
C)a mechanism for the sharing of administrative positions by Manchus and Chinese.
D)to assure the Manchu administrative dictatorship of China.
E)to keep northern and southern China balanced politically.
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). joint family
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). "bannermen"
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Saikaku's Five Women Who Loved Love
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Chapter 18: The West on the Eve of a New World Order
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Maria Theresa and Joseph II
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Declaration of Independence
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Continental System
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Kepler
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws
Q6) Napoleon gained control of the executive authority of the French government by A)becoming President of the Committee of Public Safety.
B)being elected as first director of the Directory.
C)seizing power in a coup d'etat.
D)capitalizing on his military victories to become a popularly elected president.
E)his appointment to the post by a newly restored monarch,Louis XVII.
Q7) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Quebec's the Plains of Abraham
Q8) How "revolutionary" was the French Revolution? Give specific examples.
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Chapter 19: The Beginnings of Modernization:
Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century
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Q1) The principle that guided the victors at the Congress of Vienna was the principle of A)nationalism
B)legitimacy.
C)liberalism.
D)realism.
E)romanticism.
Q2) Karl Marx believed that all of human history was the story of A)the survival of the fittest.
B)the class struggle.
C)the ends justifying the means.
D)peasant rebellions.
E)nationalism.
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Second German Empire
Q4) Children in early 19<sup>th</sup>-century factories were often beaten for committed offenses,instead of fined or dismissed.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What environmental and social factors tend to favor industrialization?
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Chapter 20: The Americas and Society and Culture in the West
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Q1) Was the United States Civil War both the force that ended slavery and,by aiding nationalism,the factor that led to the rise of its imperialism a generation later? Why and how,or why not and how not?
Q2) Compare and contrast the early nationalist movements in Europe and in Latin America.How were they similar and how different? Give specific examples.
Q3) The first real hero of Mexican independence was Miguel Hidalgo.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Napoleonic Wars served to engender Nationalism in Europe.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which of the following pairings is correct?
A)Berthe Marisot - Cubist
B)Émile Zola - Abstractionist
C)Vasily Kandinsky - Abstract
D)Gustav Flaubert - Romanticism
E)Charles Dickens - Surrealism
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Sir Walter Scott
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Chapter 21: The High Tide of Imperialism
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Indo-Chinese Union
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Union of South Africa
Q3) In the political realm,ultimate control of European colonies in Asia and Africa was
A)primarily relegated to local authorities.
B)maintained by force.
C)totally devoid of any democracy,except for urban groups.
D)provided for by educational opportunity enhancements.
E)dependent on religious support.
Q4) In order to avoid violence and to gain the popular support of colonial peoples,the Europeans generally quickly introduced democratic institutions in their colonies.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). "shanghaied"
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Basutoland,Bechuanaland,and Swaziland
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Chapter 22: Shadows Over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge
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Q1) Sun Yat-sen
A)was imprisoned for robbery in Burma when the 1911 Revolution broke out.
B)had been the secret leader of the Boxer Rebellion.
C)supported the Qing but demanded more representative government for China.
D)created the Tongmenghui/Revolutionary Alliance.
E)became the first president of the Chinese Republic after the 1911 rebellion.
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). the Macartney and Amherst missions
Q3) Sun's plan for revolution in China called for the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty,followed initially by the
A)expulsion of foreign missionaries and businessmen.
B)institutionalization of democratic republicanism in China.
C)takeover of China by the military.
D)execution of anyone opposing the revolution.
E)ouster of all foreigners from China.
Q4) How did contact with western cultures and norms affect the roles and position of women in China and Japan? Illustrate your argument with concrete examples.
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Qianlong
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Chapter 23: The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis:
War and Revolution
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Q1) The Germans disliked the Versailles Treaty because
A)it required them to give up Berlin and Bavaria.
B)they saw its "armistice clause" as an encroachment on their national sovereignty.
C)Article 231 said that Germany (and Austria)bore sole responsibility for starting the war.
D)they were forced to join the League of Nations.
E)it guaranteed no more war.
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). "Peace,Land,Bread" and "All Power to the Soviets"
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Hollywood studio system
Q5) The Battle of the Somme
A)was the first major battle of World War I.
B)killed more than 21,000 British soldiers in a single day.
C)was the first,quite unexpected,victory of the Austro-Hungarian army.
D)occurred in Belgium,and brought Britain and the Netherlands into the war.
E)was fought near the beaches of Gallipoli.
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Chapter 24: Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship:
the Middle East, and Latin America From 1919 to 1939
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Q1) To avoid eradication by Chiang's army,Mao led his PLA from South China to the North China town of Yan'an.This journey has come to be called the
A)Great Leap Forward.
B)Long March.
C)Northern March.
D)Northern Expedition.
E)Long Expedition.
Q2) Between 1911 and the early 1920s in China,
A)the Chinese Communist Party was established in 1921.
B)Yuan Shikai proved that he was a Napoleon as well as a George Washington.
C)Sun Yat-sen ruled through Yuan Shikai until Yuan's death in 1930.
D)the New Culture Movement succeeded in quickly changing the ideas of the peasants.
E)the "May Fourth Movement" advocated unification with Japan.
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Foot binding
Q4) What happened during the 1920s and 1930s to change the direction of both political and foreign policy in Japan? Were the changes that major,or did factors that had been there since the 1870s simply become more prominent?
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Chapter 25: The Crisis Deepens: World War II
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Q1) In order to avoid losing both its foreign sources of rubber,tin,rice,scrap iron and liquid fuel,Japan decided it must
A)seize much of Southeast Asia.
B)attack United States Pacific bases in Hawaii and elsewhere.
C)make arrangements with France and the Soviet Union to get oil and steel.
D)both a and b
E)both b and c
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Three Paths to Modernization
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Militarism
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Beer Hall Putsch
Q5) War in China spread after Chinese and Japanese forces clashed at the Marco Polo Bridge,near Beijing,in 1937. A)True B)False
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Battles of Stalingrad and Kursk
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Q7) What was the crucial year in determining the outcome of World War II,and why?
Chapter 26: East and West in the Grip of the Cold War
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
German Federal and German Democratic republics/GFR and GDR
Q2) In assessing the end of the Cold War,who contributed the most to the fall of the Soviet Union,Ronald Reagan or Mikhail Gorbachev,and how?
Q3) The views of the United States government during the Korean War
A)remained contradictory,as the president wanted to attack China directly while General MacArthur urged extreme caution in order not inadvertently to start a nuclear war.
B)caused it to send over 1,500,000 troops to Korea,refusing to use Japanese troops.
C)changed dramatically,as it entered the war in a "police" role but,by 1952,was preparing to use tactical nuclear weapons.
D)came to the widely accepted conclusion that the United Nations did not have a legitimate role.
E)caused it to decide to isolate China from contact with other powers,forcing China to rely on the Soviet Union for support after 1950.
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War
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Chapter 27: Brave New World: Communism on Trial
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Q1) Areas in China where national minorities have exhibited unrest are
A)Tibet and Xinjiang.
B)Shanghai and Nanjing.
C)Shandung and Beijing.
D)Peking and Hunan.
E)Mongolia and Manchuria.
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Mikhail Gorbachev
Q3) Joseph Stalin
A)inaugurated a new,benevolent stage of governmental policy with his Stalingrad speech in January,1946.
B)continued his reliance on the terror apparatus,including the holding of about 9,000,000 Soviet citizens in Siberian concentration camps.
C)named his protégé,Andrei Zhdanov,as his successor.
D)denounced Lenin at the Thirtieth Party Congress.
E)pursued a policy of peaceful coexistence with the West in 1948.
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Falun Gong
Q5) "Mao Zedong was merely a traditional Chinese emperor." Discuss,pro and con.
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Chapter 28: Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Latin America debt crisis
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). 1972 Munich Olympic Games,the Irish Republican Army,Pan Am flight 103,Lockerbie,Scotland
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). war in Iraq and Afghanistan
Q4) Because of the growth of sexual permissiveness,there was a trend towards larger families beginning in the 1960s. A)True B)False
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Fidel Castro,Bay of Pigs,and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Marshal Tito and Yugoslavia
Q7) How well did France handle the changes brought by the results of World War II and the loss of its colonial empire? Were the ideas of Charles de Gaulle realistic or nostalgic? Why?
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Q8) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). September 11,2001 and the World Trade Center,Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda
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Chapter 29: Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Saddam Hussein and Kuwait
Q2) Fifty years after independence,what are the present responsibilities,if any,that the former imperialist European nations owe to Africa?
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Kenya and capitalism
Q4) All of the following contribute to turbulence and unrest in the Middle East except
A)the interference of outsiders attracted to massive oil deposits.
B)the struggle between nationalism and the desire to be part of a larger Muslim society.
C)the desire by a majority of people to separate religion from political and social society.
D)the role of religion in civil society.
E)the issue of Palestine.
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Islamic women and the veil and chador
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People's Party
Q7) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).F.W.de Klerk and Nelson Mandela
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Chapter 30: Toward the Pacific Century
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Q1) According to the agreement between Great Britain and the People's Republic of China
A)the British were to leave in 1997,regardless of the welfare of the Hong Kong population.
B)the Chinese agreed to permit a half-century of largely self-governing capitalism in Hong Kong,after British rule ended.
C)the true nature of Hong Kong autonomy after the British left was not discussed.
D)the People's Republican Government ended Hong Kong's capitalist system.
E)Hong Kong was recognized as an independent nation by the People's Republic of China.
Q2) Immediately after World War II,General MacArthur's responsibilities included the demilitarization of Japanese society and the
A)elimination of the Japanese emperor.
B)trial of American officials charged with war crimes.
C)laying of the foundations of postwar Philippines society.
D)supervision of the creation of labor unions and the breakup of the zaibatsu.
E)the rearmament of Japan but under American leadership.
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