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Section 1: Multiple Choices

Choose the correct answer for each of the questions below - Questions 1 to 40

1. The ______________ was the name of the compromise between the French government and the trade unions that led to an increase of 35% in the minimum wage.

Treaty of ParisEdict of NantesGenelle AgreementsSorbonne Accords

2. On May 29, 1968, Prime Minister Pompidou fled France for Germany.

TrueFalse

3. Protesters in Paris called for the resignation of which president of France?

Georges PompidouCharles de GaulleFrançois MitterrandPierre Mendès France

4. De Gaulle's party suffered the largest loses of French history in the election of June 1968.

TrueFalse

5. Which king came to power after the fall of Napoleon in 1814?

Louis XIVLouis XVILouis XVIIICharles X

6. The Bourbon Restoration lasted from 1814 until ___________

1824183018331848

7. What was the name of the meetings of England, Austria, Russia, Prussia, and France to determine France's future after Napoleon?

Berlin ConferenceTreaty of GhentCongress of ViennaSixth Coalition

8. Who represented France at the Congress of Vienna?

BismarckTallyrandMetternichLouis Napoleon

9. After Louis XVIII's death, ______________ became the king of France.

Louis PhillipeLouis XIXCharles XWilhelm I

10. Charles X was forced out of the throne during what event?

Thermidorian ReactionCoup of 18 BrumaireJune RebellionJuly Revolution

11. Darfur is a region in what country?

EgyptSudanRwandaDemocratic Republic of Congo

12. Who was the Sudanese president at the beginning of the genocide?

Omar al-BashirIdi AminSalva Kiir MayarditAbdelaziz Bouteflika'

13. The Weimar Republic was the name of the government of which country after World War II?

ItalyRussiaGermanyFrance

14. After World War I French troops occupied which German region?

SaxonyBavariaRhinelandBrandenburg

15. The Treaty of Rapallo was between Germany and

ItalyFrancePolandSoviet Union

16. Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for an attempted coup in what city?

BerlinMunichFrankfortHamburg

17. What event in 1933 was used by the Nazi party to clamp down on the Communist party and increase its power by suspending many civil liberties?

An assassination attempt on President HindenburgThe occupation of the RhinelandA nationwide strikeThe Reichstag fire

18. The Cold War was a ______________________________

period of cooperation and agreement among the United States and the U.S.S.Rperiod of confrontation and competition between the United States and France.period of confrontation and competition between the United States and the U.S.S.Rnone of the above.

19. How long did the Cuban Missile Crisis last?

17 days13 days10 days15 days

20.How did the United States find out about missiles in Cuba?

A U2 spy plane took photographs.U.S. was tipped off by Turkey.The U.S. recorded a seismic blast.The Soviet Union threatened they would place them there if the missiles in Turkey were not removed.

21. What did President Kennedy decide to do during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Initiate a land invasion of Cuba.Create a naval blockade around Cuba.Put more missiles in Turkey facing the Soviet Union.Use a nuclear weapon on Cuba.

22. What nation controlled Vietnam before World War II?

GermanyEnglandSouth AfricaFrance

23. The reason that the period between the collapse of the Roman empire and the time of Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance,is called the Dark Ages because

Spain and Persia were IslamicThe lack of intellectual record or pursuitthe abundance of written materialthe Gothic kingdoms were peaceful

24. Which of the following documents spells out Enlightenment ideas as they were applied to revolutionary France?

The Declaration of IndependenceDeclaration of the Rights of Man and Citizenthe abundance of written materialthe Gothic kingdoms were peaceful

25. As kings or other landed nobility could not support the large numbers of Vassals necessary to defend their kingdom, they would grant vassals _______ so they could support themselves.

manorfieldfiefinvestiture

26. After Charlemagne's death, the lack of a strong central authority or government made it necessary for local self-sufficiency. The institution that appeared in this time of a collapsing central authority was called

MonarchyWarriorismFeudalismCarolingian Imperialism

27. In towns of Europe, people with the same occupation formed groups called ___________ that controlled the quantity and quality of production.

GuildsUnionsClansSocieties

28. During Feudal times most people lived in one of these two places ____________________

church or acropolispark or plantationmanor or castleNone of the above.

29. The Pope who with the Proclamation at Clermont, 1095, launched the First Crusades __________

Pope John IIPope DominicusPope GregoryPope Urban II

30. The purpose of the First Crusade was to ______________________________

retrieve the Nile River from Egypt.recapture the Holy Land.Help Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus.To help the Turks take Byzantine territory.

31. The Muslim who was vizier of Egypt, and became the greatest Muslim leader during the period of the Crusades was ________________

SaracenAlexius IISaladinSyrian

32. What event is said to have started World War I?

The invasion of Russia.The bombing of the Lusitania.The shooting of Archduke Ferdinand.

33. At the beginning of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson followed a traditional United States foreign policy by _______________

sending troops to aid Great Britaindeclaring American neutralityrequesting an immediate declaration of war against the aggressors

34. A major reason for the isolationist trend in the United States following World War I was _____________________

the public's desire to end most trade with other nationsthe failure of the United States to gain new territorya disillusionment over the outcomes of the war

35. President Woodrow Wilson's statement "The world must be made safe for democracy" was made to justify his decision to ___________________

end United States imperialism in Latin Americaask Congress to declare war against Germanysupport tariff reform

36. During World War I, many American women helped gain support for the suffrage movement by ____________

protesting against the warjoining the military serviceworking in wartime industries

37. After World War I, the opposition of some Members of Congress to the Versailles Treaty was based largely on the idea that the Treaty ___________________________

would require the United States to join the League of Nations and might result in a loss of United States sovereigntydid not punish the Central Powers harshly enoughdid not give the United States an important role in world affairs

38. During the Cold War, the U.S. and the Soviet Union battled each other ____________________________

militarily and politicallytechnologically and politicallyeconomically and technologicallymilitarily and economically

39. The Cold War originated immediately after ________________

The Civil WarWorld War IIWorld War IKorean War

40.A Cold War event that took place in 1961 was _____________________

Operation Vittlesthe process of detentethe building of the Berlin Wallthe intensification of the nuclear arms race

Section 2: Writing

Questions 41

41. How did colonisation transform the economies of European empires? Write at least a 150 words on the topic.
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