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Western Civ 3 Final exam
Hawkeye and Padget's questions in one big set. Some of them are not with questions or anything comprehensible, but it makes sense to me.
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History
Undergraduate 1
05/19/2012

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Underlying cause of the French Revolution?
Definition

Social inequality & injustice 

(3rd estate and petty bourgeiosie)

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Most immediate cause of the French Revolution?
Definition
Failure to deal with crippling debt & other economic problems
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In 1789, what were the Estates-General?
Definition

Basically she said remember the voting strife; How will vote be counted?

1st and 2nd estates wanted vote by order

3rd wanted vote by head

Term
Controversy over how to vote led to....
Definition
Formation of National Assembly by the 3rd estate
Term

Reign of Terror:

majority of victims?

Definition
peasants and laboring class
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Factors in the defeat of Napoleon?
Definition

1- developed the neval blockade of Britain (continental system)

2- battle of Trafalgar - Napoleon loses all hope of crushing the English

3- Nationalism

4- Alliance against Napoleon

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Final defeat of Napoleon was..?
Definition
The Battle of Waterloo
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order of the 3 revolutions?
Definition
American, Frunch, Russian
Term
Industrial Revolution began..
Definition
In Great Britain
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The 4 factors that allowed the IR to begin in GB?
Definition

1- Populations growth & surplus labor

2- Agricultural revolution

3- Markets (domestic and colonial)

4- Financial system (banks and such)

Term
Industry 1st to see industrialization?
Definition
Textiles
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Where did the railroad develop?
Definition
Great Britain
Term
What was the effect of the Industrial Revolution on the workers?
Definition

1- Workers no longer owned the means of production

2- The workers lost power

3- Forced to sell their labor

Term
How to respond to problems of urbanization?
Definition

(problems: filthy sanitary conditions)

Responses were slow and ineffective

Term
What was the goal of the Congress of Vienna?
Definition
Go back to legitimate monarchy
Term
What did conservativism try to do, and at the expense of what?
Definition
tried to supress nationalism at the cost of liberalism
Term
What was the iron law of wages?
Definition
Wages increase = population increase and vice versa
Term

What was central to liberalism?

 

Definition
Personal liberty
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What was the goal behind the creation of the police force?
Definition
To reduce crime
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Napoleon III's economic goals for France?
Definition
the Industrial development of France
Term
Overall result of the Crimean war?
Definition

Destruction of the Concert of Europe:

Unification of Germand and Italy

Term
Basis of Bismarck's political policy?
Definition
realpolitik
Term
Prussian leadership meant the triumph of _____ over _____?
Definition
authoritarianism (mitilarism) over constitutionalism (libaralism)
Term

Darwin's survival of the fittest?

 

Definition
Adaptations allow the rich to be successful, etc etc
Term
Marx's view of history?
Definition

1- All a class conflict

2- based on economic forces

3- the end result = classless society

Term
Last country to abolish slavery?
Definition
USA
Term
New energy source for the 2nd Industrial Revolution?
Definition
Electricity
Term
Focus on urban reform movements?
Definition
What didnt they do? clean lakes and rivers
Term
Values of the middle class?
Definition
value of hard work & christian morality
Term
Public education by 1900..?
Definition
Free and compulsory through primary school
Term
Not solved in A-H becore WWI?
Definition
nationalism
Term
Evolutionary socialism stresses?
Definition
gradual changes through reform
Term
Scramble for Africa meant?
Definition
The colonization of Africa
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How much was the map of Europe chanced after WWI?
Definition
It was completely redrawn
Term
What were the three factors of Stalin's modernization?
Definition

1- Collectivism of agriculture

2- catch up in industrialiization

3- 5 year plans

Term

Nazism is a form of..?

 

Definition
Fascism
Term
D-Day was the...?
Definition
Invasion of France
Term
What country has used Nukes?
Definition
USA
Term
From whom did India gain independence?
Definition
Great Britain
Term
Country created in 1948 in the Middle East?
Definition
Israel
Term
Which country remained communist?
Definition
Vietnam
Term

(Hawkeye question)

What do the following have in common...? (bank stuff)

 

Definition
Globalization
Term
Terrorist group that attacked the US on 9/11?
Definition
Al-qaeda
Term
What did Nietzche think about Christianity?
Definition

"Enfeebled"

Root of all evil

Term
Social darwinism?
Definition
The best adapted survive
Term
Naturalism differs from Realism..?
Definition
More gross and pessimistic
Term
1st professional occupation opened to women?
Definition
teaching
Term
Theordore Herzl advocated for...?
Definition
A Jewish state in Palestine
Term
Self-determination implies that countries have the right to..?
Definition
Own state government
Term
The most important consequence of the first year of WWI was?
Definition
Trench warfare reached a stalemate
Term
What was daily life like for the soldier?
Definition
Hell; miserable; rat infested trenches, etc etc
Term
What was the reward for women war workers?
Definition
suffrage rights
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What group benefited from WWI?
Definition
munitions factory owners, industrialists (think conspiracy movie)
Term
What did Lenin promise?
Definition
Peace, land, and bread!
Term
What caused the Great Depression in Europe?
Definition
the US stopped giving loans
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What was a significant effect in Europe?
Definition
Militarism & dictatorship (authoritarian governments)
Term
What did totalitarian regimes hope to control?
Definition
Birth control, etc etc; Every aspect of the people's life
Term
To whom were the Nazis able to appeal?
Definition
Everyone
Term
What happened to millions of ordinary citizens under Stalin?
Definition
sent to labor camps, jailed, killed, etc etc
Term
What made WWII possible?
Definition
appeasing Hitler and not making him follow the Treaty of Versailles
Term
After Dunkirk, what was France forced to do?
Definition
France surrenders (because the British troops escaped to Britain)
Term
How did the war between Germany and the Soviet Union begin?
Definition
German surprise attack
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What was Hitler's "Final solution"?
Definition
Eradication of the Jews
Term
What were the Einsatzgruppen?
Definition
commandos that killed/kidnapped Jews
Term
(I have no idea what the question is; possible "What are the differences between the development of the IR in Britain and on the continent?")
Definition
English = No government involvement in the IR
Continent = Total government involvement in the IR
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