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HIS 1102
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History
Undergraduate 3
12/03/2015

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The term "White Man's Burden" was coined by:
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Rudyard Kipling
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Louis Pasteur discovered gunpower
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false
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Who patented the first automobile?
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Karl Friedrich Benz
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The founder of modern management techniques called it:
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Scientific Management
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One of the chief problems with improved industrial capacity was overproduction
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true
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The American Civil War interrupted the flow of which commodity to the world market?
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cotton
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The Conference of Berlin was summoned to set ground rules for the division of:
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Africa
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Only Japan managed to retain independence by becoming an isolationist nation
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False
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The Boxer Rebellion was:
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a rebellion in China against Europeans
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King Leopold treated the Congolese as family and uplifted them with his benevolence
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false
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Who discovered the quantum
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max planck
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Time and space are elastic and should be conceived as different aspects of the same dimension called spacetime
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true
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Einstein called the relationship of motion to gravity the equivalence prinicple
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true
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Nietzsche was a Nihilist
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false
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Nietzsche argued which of the following would do a better job ruling the general masses
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superman
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Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein are examples of
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Analytic philosophers
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Existentialism was
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a call to action to make something of the world
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European medicine identified men as vulnerable to hysteria
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false
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Freud argued that the cure to societies illness was in greater levels of civilization
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false
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The main break with the novel's past began with the war in 1914
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true
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The gap between rich and poor led to the rise of political parties in Britain
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false
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The Ottoman Empire tooks sides with the Allies
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false
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The war in northern Italy was fought between Italy and
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austria
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The Arab Revolt was organized by the Axis Powers
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false
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The only pitched naval battle was at
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jutland
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Who suggested that the British army shoot its officers for incompetence
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George Bernard Shaw
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What led to the Russian Revolution
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WWI
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The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was widely hailed as successful treaty that would lead to an enduring peace
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false
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The warfare on the western front of World War I was characterized by
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trench warfare
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The Bolsheviks supported which theory
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communism
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Woodrow Wilson's plan was known as the Fourteen Points
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true
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The not-quite independent states governed by Britain and France were known as
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mandates
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Who invaded the Ruhr Valley in 1923
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france
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The Balfour Declaration permitted Jewish Settlement in Palestine
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true
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Black Tuesday refers to
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the stock market crashed
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What did the pressure of the Great Depression lead most western countries to abandon
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the gold standard
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Who said: "The Jew...Living under legal disabilities in almost every land has become the power behind many a throne."
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henry ford
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The period between the World Wars was one of peace, prosperity, and self-confidence in Europe
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false
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Many consider James Joyce's novel Ulysses to be the best of a
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modernist novel
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Appeasement refers to
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The concession made to Hitler
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The people of Europe greeted the outbreak of war with excited anticipation just as they had the outbreak of World War I
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false
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Blitzkrieg refers to
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concentrated heavy, mobile firepower and quick troop movement in small areas
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The war in the Pacific ended with Americans using nuclear weapons against Japan
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true
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The Final Solution was decided upon years before the start of World War II
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false
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The Nuremberg Trials were important because
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they marked the establishment of fundamental standars of international justice
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Comfort women were women who served as paid maids for Japanese officers to care for their personal affairs
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false
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was largely the work of Eleanor Roosevelt
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true
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World War II had little impact on the lives of women
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false
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The Ba'ath Party was founded
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as a secular Pan-Arab movement with socialist ideals
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The Marshall Plan extended into Eastern Europe
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false
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Who wrote the Stranger in 1942
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Albert Camus
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Decolonization refers to
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Europe giving up the bulk of its overseas territories
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To keep an eye on Soviet attempts to spread influence the United States developed the
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CIA
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Konrad Adenaur led the German
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Christian Democratic Party
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The Prague Spring refers to reforms instituted in Czechoslovakia that were ultimately crushed by Soviet troops and intervention
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true
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Second wave feminism refers to
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a broad movementĀ  for equality for women in the 1960s and 1970s
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The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights said that human rights are fundamental to human reason
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False
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The Six-Day War refers to
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the Israeli war against its Arab neighbors

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By the end of the century, most Europeans identified themselves as observant Christians
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false
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The World Wide Web was invented in
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1990
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The German Evangelical Church opposed Hitler
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false
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Fundamentalism rose to the forefront of several Protestant denominations in the 1980s
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true
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More than 90% of Jews living in which country migrated to Israel following the Six Day War?
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Morocco
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By 2010 Arabs comprisedĀ half of the Israeli population
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false
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Ba'athism is a form of Islamic socialism
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false
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Hamas began as an offshoot of the PLO
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false
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There is a general conformity among Israeli Jews in seeing the formation of Isreal as a largely peaceful undertaking
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false
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The Second Vatican Council was an attempt to
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modernize the church
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The Red Cross estiamted that 5,000 people were killed in tiananmen Square
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true
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The idea of uniting Europe in a super-state can be traced back to
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Charlemagne
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In 1992 the Treaty of Maastricht created the European Union
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true
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The Assad family controlled
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syria
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NATO was set up to liberalize trade between nations
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false
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Third Wave Feminism tends to see
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a gendered nature in everything that makes the masculine the norm
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in 1995, Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a famous and important speech at the UN Women's Conference in which
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she stated that women's rights are human rights
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The Good Friday Accord was meant to bring peace to Palestine
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False
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The "Battle of Seattle" was over
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economic globalization
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The group behind the September 11, 2001 attack was
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al-qaeda
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