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European History explores the major political, social, economic, and cultural

developments that have shaped Europe from antiquity to the present day. The course

examines key events and movements such as the fall of the Roman Empire, the Middle

Ages, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, revolutions, the world wars,

and the formation of the European Union. Students will analyze primary and secondary

sources, engage with diverse perspectives, and gain a deeper understanding of Europe’s

evolving role in global history.

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Chapter 1: The Origins of Western Civilization in the Ancient

Near East,3000-1200 BCE

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Q1) Sumerians developed a very optimistic view of their civilization because of
geographic stability and wealth of resources.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False

Q2) Which term best describes Sumerian social organization?

A) hierarchical
B) matriarchal
C) patriarchal
D) oligarchical
E) monarchical
Answer: A

Q3) The presence of monoliths such as Stonehenge demonstrate all of the following in
Neolithic society except
A) divisions of labor.
B) defined religious ritual space.
C) elementary knowledge of astronomy.
D) social hierarchy.
E) mobilization of manpower.
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 Chapter 2: Iron Age Civilizations,1200-500 BCE
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Q1) Compare and contrast the differences and similarities between Mesopotamian and
early Hebrew civilizations.
Answer: Students should be able to list a number of similarities,starting with the carrying
of Mesopotamian traditions by Abraham,as the patriarch of the Hebrew religion,following
the formation of a monotheistic [Link] similarities of Hammurabi's laws with
many found in Hebrew Scripture can be explained with the example of "an eye for an
eye." Conversely,while women had a number of civil and legal rights within
Mesopotamian society,they had few within the patriarchal Hebrew [Link]
stories about the flood exist in the Noah epic of Hebrew tradition,as well as the
Gilgamesh epic in [Link] of Mesopotamian zigurrats are in accord
with the biblical descriptions of the Tower of Babel,itself a reference to Babylon.

Q2) The destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem was accomplished by

A) Halofernes.
B) Cyrus the Great.
C) Nebuchadnezzar.
D) Ashurbanipal.
E) Hammurabi.
Answer: C

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 Chapter 3: The Rise of Greek Civilization,1100-387 BCE
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Q1) Who was the interested third party who provided financial assistance to the Spartan
side during the Peloponnesian War?
A) the Sicilians
B) the Persians
C) the Corinthians
D) the Romans
E) the Ionians
Answer: B

Q2) What was the Socratic method?

A) A method of scientific discovery by analysis
B) A rhetorical form that used questions and answers to come to a conclusion
C) Terms dictated by Socrates of his philosophy, which were universally accepted as
true
D) The argument that there was an ideal metaphysical form that was beyond the
understanding of most people
E) A rigorous solution of geometric proofs
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 Chapter 4: From Polis To Cosmopolis: The Hellenistic

World,387-30 BCE
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Q1) Aristotle's opinion on change was that
A) the gods willed change to happen when they so desired.
B) the world was defined by the manner in which change happened.
C) change was the misperception by unenlightened thinkers, and that perfect forms
existed in unchanging form.
D) change was the result of imperfections dying out.
E) the world changed on a regular basis and we could only study it.

Q2) Which of the following did Hippocrates,a scientist of medicine,believe?

A) illness was caused by diet or environment.
B) rest was important.
C) the body would generally heal itself.
D) the important point of an illness was crisis, after which the patient would either live or
die.
E) All of these.

Q3) The first practical philosopher was

A) Pythagoras.
B) Plato.
C) Socrates.
D) Thales.
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 Chapter 5: The Rise of Rome,753-27 BCE
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Q1) What role did the Etruscans play in civilizing the Romans? To what extent could you
argue that the Romans created their own civilization?

Q2) After the second Punic war,the standard currency of the Mediterranean was the
A) drachma.
B) lira.
C) shekel.
D) denarius.
E) doubloon.

Q3) What was the primary duty of the consuls in the Senate?
A) to oversee the census
B) to appoint new senators
C) to introduce laws to the Senate
D) to lead the legion in war
E) to oversee the administration of justice

Q4) Who were the Celts?

A) inhabitants of Britain
B) inhabitants of Gaul (France)
C) inhabitants of Ireland
D) inhabitants of the Germanic lands
E) All of these.

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Q1) How did the rule of Severus change from previous emperors?
A) He eliminated rivals for power and exiled them to far-flung provinces.
B) He appointed military commanders as proconsuls to ensure loyalty of both
administrators and military.
C) He granted citizenship to the areas he conquered to quell violence.
D) He launched a war against the Celtic tribes in the north.
E) He abandoned the pretense of sharing power with the Senate.

Q2) What was the motivation to push for education in the later Roman Empire?
A) The desire to counteract Christianity's teachings.
B) The thirst for Graeco-Roman cultural assimilation.
C) The vastly cosmopolitan world with its many different intellectual possibilities.
D) The need for educated civil servants.
E) Augustus Caesar's mass demobilization of the army.

Q3) Why did Hadrian build a wall across Great Britain?

A) To put the army to work to strengthen Roman defenses.
B) As a monument to his reign.
C) To inscribe Roman law for public viewing.
D) To divert their attention from the economic and political crises.
E) An oracle had foretold his death if he did not.

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 Chapter 7: Late Antiquity,284-527
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Q1) What were the major reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire?

Q2) Within Constantine's succession plans,women

A) were not permitted to rule under any circumstances.
B) could rule if they were crowned as Augusta.
C) were not excluded from rule.
D) could rule only as regents for their sons.
E) were only to be consorts to their husbands.

Q3) Clovis was accepted by the Romans because

A) he was baptized under the Nicene Creed.
B) he continued the use of the Roman law code.
C) he fought against the Vandals.
D) they were afraid of his conquests.
E) None of these.

Q4) The Council of Chalcedon granted the Byzantine Patriarch the same status as the
Pope.
A)True
B)False

Q5) What role did Christianity offer women? How did this contrast with opportunities in
the Roman Empire?

Q6) How did Christianity and its culture transform

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 Chapter 8: The Eastern Mediterranean,500-1000
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Q1) The primary language in Islamic intellectual pursuits was
A) Aramaic.
B) Spanish.
C) Latin.
D) Arabic.
E) Persian.

Q2) What was the purpose of bride shows?

A) To solicit a suitable wife for Emperor Constantine VI.
B) To create political alliances with non-Islamic countries through marriage.
C) To demonstrate the strength of Byzantine trade by showing luxurious bridal
accessories.
D) To create a pool of socially suitable women for marriage within the civil aristocracy.
E) To stage massive marriage ceremonies and enhance the power of the patriarch.

Q3) Mohammad's journey from Mecca to Medina in 622 is known as the

A) Hajj.
B) Hejira.
C) Zakat.
D) Ramadan.
E) Kabaa.

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 Chapter 9: The Kingdoms of Western Europe,500-1000
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Q1) All of the following made it possible for Charlemagne to create himself as an
emperor except
A) taking over the Kingdom of the Lombards.
B) launching an assault to overthrow the Empress Irene in Constantinople.
C) the Carolingian dynasty transformed the idea of kingship in the West.
D) styling the Carolingian king as defender of the Church.
E) the diminished splendor and military.

Q2) The Divine Office was a term for the religious aspirations held by a person entering a
monastery.
A)True
B)False

Q3) The highest ranked person in the peasant hierarchy was the
A) miller.
B) blacksmith.
C) serf.
D) plowman.
E) bailiff.

Q4) Why were the Vikings so problematic for western Europe?

Q5) How was trade and commerce different in the Early Middle Ages than during the
Roman Empire?
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 Chapter 10: The High Middle Ages,1000-1300
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Q1) Scholasticism was
A) the course of study in cathedral schools.
B) the process of understanding the universe through applied logic.
C) a rank achieved when one had completed the seven courses of study.
D) a secular-sponsored growth of universities.
E) a charter granted to students who were in cathedral schools but were not clergy
members.

Q2) How did the Capetian dynasty in particular engage in the centralization of authority?

Q3) What was one reason for the rise of legal documents in the thirteenth century?
A) Merchant contracts were written by a notary
B) Trials of disputed wills among displaced noblemen.
C) Peace treaties between the city-states made between diplomats
D) Separation of secular from canon law.
E) Expansion of French parlements.

Q4) Discuss the restrictions placed on Jews after the Fourth Lateran Council.

Q5) What was accomplished by the Crusades? Would you rate them as successful or
not?

Q6) How was Thomas Beckett's murder emblematic of the larger problems between
church and state in the High Middle Ages?

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Q7) What were the effects of the agricultural transformation in the Middle Ages?

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 Chapter 11: Reversals and Disasters,1300-1450
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Q1) What were the economic effects of the Black Death on western Europe at this time?

Q2) Because they were targeted as responsible for the plague,many Jews left Europe
and went to
A) Constantinople.
B) Poland and Russia.
C) Ireland.
D) Iceland and Norway.
E) America.

Q3) The Hanseatic League was a collection of Italian merchant guilds which controlled
trade through Western Europe.
A)True
B)False

Q4) The Byzantine Empire fell in 1453 to the forces of

A) Mehmed, ruler of the Ottomans.
B) Timur, ruler of the Persians.
C) Genghis, ruler of the Mongols.
D) Bayzid, the sultan.
E) the Abbasid caliphate.

Q5) Why was the Ottoman Empire considered in a positive sense to be multiethnic?

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 Chapter 12: The Renaissance in Italy and Northern

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Q1) Desiderius Erasmus translated the bible into Greek and Latin
A)True
B)False

Q2) What contributed most significantly to the growth of humanist culture in the
Renaissance?
A) The waning power of the church
B) The decline of the Byzantine Empire
C) The invention of the printing press
D) The growth of private tutorials for secular education
E) The patronage by wealthy Florentine families of the artists and writers surrounding
them

Q3) The ruling family of Milan in the mid-fifteenth century was

A) the Sforza.
B) the Visconti.
C) the Medici.
D) the Borgias.
E) None of these.

Q4) How did the War of Chioggia determine the balance of trade within the Italian
city-states?
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Q5) What was the political structure of the Italian states during the Renaissance?

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 Chapter 13: Europe’s Age of Expansion, 1450–1550
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Q1) How did European identification with Christianity affect European explorations and
settlements in the Age of Discovery?

Q2) The Reconquista in Spain was completed with the capture of which city?
A) Toledo
B) Aragon
C) Granada
D) Seville
E) Barcelona

Q3) How did Francis I create a unified and centralized kingdom of France in the sixteenth
century?

Q4) Which of the following was not a reason for fragmentation within the Holy Roman
Empire in the sixteenth century?
A) political independence of the electors
B) over three thousand independent territories within the empire
C) the Protestant Reformation
D) dissent between the Habsburgs and Spanish
E) Regionalism.

Q5) Explain the emergence of Spain as a unified and strong kingdom focused on
Christianity under the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella.

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 Chapter 14: Reform in the Western Church,1490-1570
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Q1) Girolamo Savonarola of Florence attempted to initiate reform there by
A) arresting and deposing the Medici clan.
B) initiating the Inquisition against heretics.
C) holding public trials of corrupt clergy.
D) holding large public burnings of luxury items.
E) forming a lay society to hold their own church services.

Q2) To invoke the pure gospel,German peasants invoked all of the following demands
except
A) lowered rent payments.
B) abolition of serfdom
C) greater access to common lands.
D) religious freedom of choice.
E) All of these.

Q3) Explain the way Christianity dealt with taking care of the poor.

Q4) Why was the missionary work by Jesuits working in Asia considered a mixed
success?

Q5) How was Protestantism seen as having a more equal approach in its treatment of
women?

Q6) What preconditions in western Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
contributed to the call for the Reformation?
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 Chapter 15: A Century of Crisis,1550-1650
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Q1) The "defenestration of Prague" launched the Thirty Years' War.
A)True
B)False

Q2) After the split of the Habsburg lands,Ferdinand's holdings in the east were
threatened by the Ottoman presence in
A) Bohemia.
B) Hungary.
C) Moravia.
D) Romania.
E) Greece.

Q3) New Jewish settlements in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were found in all
of the following areas except
A) Bohemia.
B) Spain.
C) the Dutch Republic.
D) England.
E) France.

Q4) Analyze the causes of the English civil [Link] was it ultimately resolved with the
restoration?

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 Chapter 16: State-Building and the European State

System,1648-1789
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Q1) The most radical reform initiated by Peter the Great was
A) abolishing the patriarch of the church.
B) requiring military service of the nobility.
C) creating an Academy of Science.
D) requiring his service personnel to pass literacy tests.
E) abolishing serfdom.

Q2) What was Peter the Great's motive for the Great Northern War?
A) To defeat his avowed enemy in Sweden.
B) To utilize his newly developed navy.
C) To gain access to the Baltic sea.
D) To capture Finland.
E) To suppress the Cossacks who had allied with Poland.

Q3) Sir Robert Walpole declined the offer to a seat in the House of Lords.
A)True
B)False

Q4) How did the idea of "balance of power" fuel the European wars of the seventeenth
and eighteenth century?

Q5) Why did the Austrian Habsburgs fail to implement absolutism as the French had
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 Chapter 17: The Scientific Revolution and the

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Q1) The idea of cameralism argued that Kings were not divine beings,but supreme
political managers.
A)True
B)False

Q2) The scientist given credit for a complete theory of the universe was
A) René Descartes.
B) Ptolemy.
C) Galileo.
D) Isaac Newton.
E) Sir Francis Bacon.

Q3) Cartesian dualism argued that

A) the body and mind were inextricably linked.
B) the body was material and the mind was not.
C) an intertwined relationship existed between reason and emotion.
D) men and women were not equal by virtue of physical differences.
E) none of these were true.

Q4) Sir Isaac Newton embraced Baconian methodology as the standard for scientific
empiricism.
A)True
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 Chapter 18: Trade and Empire,1700-1800
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Q1) What factors led to Britain's emergence as the leader of the Industrial Revolution?

Q2) Which was the single most productive European imperial colony in the eighteenth
century?
A) New England.
B) French Canada
C) Saint-Domingue
D) Hispaniola
E) Mexico

Q3) Josiah Wedgewood was instrumental in the mass production of

A) porcelain goods.
B) clothing.
C) shoes.
D) farming implements.
E) furniture.

Q4) The perpetuation of the wars in Europe decreased agricultural productivity in this
time period.
A)True
B)False

Q5) How did the putting-out system transform commercial manufacturing?

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 Chapter 19: Revolutionary France and Napoleonic

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Q1) All of the following were accomplished by the Constitution of 1791 except
A) slavery was outlawed.
B) all titles of the nobility were abolished.
C) sovereignty rested in the nation rather than the king.
D) women had the right to vote.
E) ability, not birth, determined status.

Q2) The Continental System implemented by Napoleon was the attempt to initiate
industrialization along the British model.
A)True
B)False

Q3) Which of the following was not a symbol of new politicization in everyday life?
A) Wearing long trousers
B) Wearing powdered wigs
C) Addressing other people as "citizen"
D) Addressing other people with the personal pronoun of you (in French,"tu")
E) Singing the Marseillaise

Q4) Why did the French National Assembly reconsider the issue of slavery?

Q5) What preconditions existed in France that provoked revolution in 1789?

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Q6) What effect did the unification of European alliances against Napoleon and France
have in the wars between 1805-1814?

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 Chapter 20: Restoration and Reform: Conservative and

Liberal Europe,1814-1847
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Q1) Utilitarianism places the main emphasis on
A) practical reforms.
B) social programs for alleviation of poverty.
C) morality.
D) democratic reforms.
E) traditional family values.

Q2) What territorial dispute posed the greatest controversy at the Congress of Vienna?
A) England's possession of the Straits of Gibralter
B) The division of Poland and its relationship to Russia
C) The creation of the autonomous kingdoms in northern Italy
D) Who would maintain control of the throne of Spain
E) Whether Austria should be awarded complete control of Hungary

Q3) Slavophilism in nineteenth-century Russia advocated all of the following except

A) liberation of the serfs.
B) rejection of foreign cultural influences.
C) reverence for the Orthodox Church.
D) a conservative and paternalistic tsar.
E) unifying people under sobornost by widening representation in the parliament.

Q4) Analyze the causes for revolution and social unrest in the 1830s.
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Q1) The point at which industry becomes self-perpetuating is called
A) the industrial revolution.
B) the market revolution
C) supply and demand.
D) industrial take-off
E) free market economy.

Q2) Class consciousness can best be attributed to

A) the education of the middle classes.
B) the identification of the urban worker.
C) the privileges of the nobility.
D) the demand for universal male suffrage.
E) one's relationship to the economy.

Q3) Among the working classes,the occupation that was predominantly female was
A) weaving.
B) glass blowing.
C) spinning.
D) making china.
E) metalworking.

Q4) What role did women play in middle class society?

Q5) What was different about the ideas proposed by socialism and communism?
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Q1) Which of the following was not one of the new,working class political organizations?
A) Social Democratic Party of Germany
B) Socialist Revolutionaries
C) the Labour Party
D) Mensheviks
E) Whigs

Q2) The Frankfurt Assembly gathered to

A) promote German unification.
B) advocate for political rights for all.
C) create a constituent assembly.
D) write a constitution.
E) do all of these.

Q3) The first European nation to recognize workers' demands for unemployment and
retirement was
A) France.
B) Sweden.
C) Germany.
D) England.
E) Italy.

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 Chapter 23: The Culture of Industrial Europe,1850-1914
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Q1) Discuss the importance of the early petroleum industry and its effects on civilization.

Q2) Fyodor Dostoevsky broke ground in a new style of writing fiction when he
A) fused realism with social commentary.
B) mixed psychological depth with political and religious passion.
C) created wildly fantastical novels about the future.
D) imposed naturalist objectives in scathing essays.
E) satirized modern society and rejected technology.

Q3) Two of the newer sports that were deemed suitable for women to play were
A) bicycling and croquet.
B) golfing and tennis.
C) tennis and bicycling.
D) golfing and rugby.
E) none of these.

Q4) The European leader of the chemical industry was

A) France.
B) Poland.
C) Germany.
D) England.
E) Holland.

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 Chapter 24: The Age of Imperialism,1870-1914
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Q1) Why did the weakening of the Ottoman empire pose a diplomatic problem for
Europe?

Q2) What were the critical needs of Europe that pushed for imperialism in the late
nineteenth century?
A) Expanded territory for the excess population
B) Resources to support a largely urbanized European population
C) Raw materials to maintain and further the economy based on industrialization
D) Promoting European superiority
E) Spreading Christianity throughout the world

Q3) Jadidism meant what?

A) An artistic movement bringing exotic cultures to mass society.
B) A religious movement in Central Asia to convert Muslims to Russian Orthodoxy.
C) A social movement to reconcile Islam with modern society.
D) A sociocultural movement within Central Asia to reject foreign influences.
E) Teaching schools in Turkestan that emphasized Persian and Arabic.

Q4) Compare the arguments of Hobson and Lenin on the effects of capitalism and
imperialism.

Q5) Why was the Dutch example in Indonesia different than imperialism practiced by the
French or British in Asia?

Q6) What fueled European ability to impose

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Q1) Russia was drawn out of World War I by what crisis?
A) The abdication of Tsar Nicholas II
B) The failure of the provisional government
C) The seizure of power by the Bolsheviks in 1917
D) The imminent eruption of civil war
E) All of these

Q2) Which of the following was not a factor in provoking World War I?
A) Nationalism
B) Resentment over territorial losses in the imperial competition among European states
C) Advances in military technology
D) Political alliances frayed by interfamilial marriage
E) The decline of the Ottoman Empire

Q3) In 1915,in an attempt to break the deadlock of trench warfare,Germany developed

what weapon?
A) artillery shells
B) poison gas
C) incendiary devices lobbed from planes
D) germ warfare
E) flame-throwers

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renewal,rather than traditional history?

Q2) What problems arose with negotiating the terms of the Treaty of Versailles?

Q3) Albert Einstein's dedication to pacifism was characteristic of the scientific

community.
A)True
B)False

Q4) As a result of the Irish Civil War,the Irish Free State received what status?
A) Independent Republic
B) Home Rule
C) Mandate
D) Protectorate
E) Dominion

Q5) What were the difficulties encountered by the League of Nations in the interwar
years?

Q6) What kind of revolutionary movements occurred after World War I?

Q7) How did the visual arts change in response to the effects of the war?
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Q8) Benito Mussolini was a member of the Socialist Party in Italy in his youth.
A)True
B)False
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A) Republicans
B) Fascists
C) Monarchists
D) Nationalists
E) Social Democrats

Q2) The first victims in the Great Purges were the leaders of the NKVD.
A)True
B)False

Q3) How did political responses vary to the Great Depression in Europe?

Q4) Within the first five years of being in power,the Nazi party eliminated unemployment
in Germany.
A)True
B)False

Q5) Why did Stalin initiate and sustain the Great Purges in the 1930s and what effects did
they have?

Q6) Hitler broke the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact first.

A)True
B)False

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Q7) Explain the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi Party.

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Q1) How were the state-controlled economies in eastern Europe held from growth
compared to the West?

Q2) What was the response of the United States to USSR's blockade of Berlin?
A) The U.S. built a wall and posted guards to contain communism to East Germany.
B) The U.S. established military outposts with nuclear weapons in Western Europe.
C) The U.S. imposed economic sanctions on the Soviet Union.
D) The U.S. airlifted supplies into Berlin.
E) The U.S. lodged a formal grievance with the United Nations.

Q3) Who was the Zionist leader instrumental in founding the state of Israel amidst
Palestine?
A) Moshe Diane
B) Golda Meir.
C) David Ben-Gurion
D) Amos Oz
E) Benjamin Disraeli.

Q4) The Postwar generation had significantly less access to college education than their
parents' generation.
A)True
B)False

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Q1) The use of terrorism in Ireland against the British presence was demonstrated by the
A) Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association.
B) Unionists.
C) Irish Republican Army.
D) Euskara Separatist Brigade.
E) Ulster League.

Q2) The Antiballistic Missile Treaty was intended to

A) check the growth of nuclear weapons.
B) restrict the ownership of nuclear weapons to members of the UN Security Council.
C) outlaw certain types of nuclear weapons.
D) promote disarmament of each side.
E) do all of these.

Q3) One of the results of the sexual revolution was

A) looser morals.
B) the advent of the AIDS epidemic.
C) earlier sexual activity and more partners.
D) less availability of contraception.
E) later age at marriage.

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Q1) Which was the first country in the EU to suffer during the late 2000s economic
collapse?
A) Greece
B) Portugal
C) Spain
D) Iceland
E) Ireland

Q2) Estonians had less tolerance of ethnic Russians than Latvia.

A)True
B)False

Q3) To create an effective EU,the member nations had to achieve

A) an economic confederation with free trade.
B) a single market economy.
C) a competitive infrastructure to foster growth.
D) an agreement to maintain regional specializations under a centrally controlled
economy.
E) removal of all impediments to international employment.

Q4) How did the Visegrád Four's integration in the EU differ from other areas?

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Q5) Analyze the political trends in postcommunist

Q6) What are some of the primary concerns of social activists since 1991?

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