2nd+semster+Quarter+Final+Review

__**2nd semster Quarter Final Review**__ 1. What ended the war between France and Spain for control of Italy? 2. Why was Leonardo da Vinci an excellant example of Renaissance Italy's social Ideal? 3. What is Christine de Pizan best Known for? 4. What did Christain Humanists Believe? 5. What did the Peace of Augsburg formally do? 6. What did Calvin's reformation of the city Geneva include? 7. Despite their importance in developing a new view of the family, protestants did what? 8. In 1528, Baldassare Castiglione wrote //The Book of the Courtier//, which describes what? 9. Parents in renaissance Italy carefully arranged marriages, often to do what? 10. Why is Chcer's //The Canterbury Tales// such an important work? 11. Name 3 artist that was associated with the High Renaissance in Italy? 12. The publication of Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses did what? 13. What was the agreement between Calvin and Luther? 14. The Final decrees of the Council of Trent did what? 15. Vasco da Gama's discovery of a route to India by sea proved to be what? 16. In Southeast Asia, European influence did what? 17. How did the Dutch try to dominate the clove trade? 18. What did the treaty of Tordesillas do, after it was signed in 1494? 19. According to mercantilists, the prosperity of a nation depended on what? 20. Aggressive Dutch traders were able to do what/ 21. Why were European rulers and merchants determined to gain control of the islands of Southeast Asia? 22. Why did Europeans have less impact on the mainland states of Southeast Asia? 23. Philip II of spain was known as what? 24. Oliver Cromwell's defeat of the kings forces allowed him to do what? 25. The foundation for a constitutional monarchy in England was laid by what? 26. What is abolutism? 27. How did Louis XIV maintain complete authority as a monarch? 28. The Edict of Nantes recongized Catholicism as the offical religion of France, and also what? 29. What was the Rump Parliament? 30. What was the "Glorious Revolution"? 31. How did Cardinal Richelieu strengthened the power of the monarchy? 32. What was Isaac Newton's universal law of gravitation/ 33. What did John Locke's ideas suggust? 34. What did Jean-jacques Rousseau's conquest of social contract, conduct? 35. what was the result of the treaty of Paris of 1763? 36. What did the Constitutional Convention began as? 37. What was the Tennis Court Oath? 38. Why was Louis XVI forced to accept the National Assembly's decrees? 39. The Civil Constitution of the Clergy believed what? 40. The term //sans-culottes// was implied to what? 41. What was the Committee of Public Saftey given board powers to do? 42. In its attempts to create a new order that reflected its belief in reason, The National Convention did what? 43. What were the three main parts of Napoleon's Grand empire? 44. What were the two major reasons that Napoleon's Grand empuire Collasped? 45. In his final battle, Napoleon was defeated by what? 46. The Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen proclaimed what? 47. What was the difference between the Girondins and the Mountain? 48. What was the Promotion withion Napoleon's bureaucracy? 49. How did the Russians defeat Napoleon's superior Grand army? 50. By 1830, two-thrirds of the British cotton industry's workforce were what? 51. What does the princip[al of legitimacy mean? 52. Otto von Bismarch practiced //realpolitik//, which was what? 53. The formation of the Confederate states of America was sparked by what? 54. The British novelist Charles Dickensn became very Successful with what? 55. The social change that was brought about the Industrial revolution was what? 56. The pitiful conditions created by the Industrial Revolution gave rise to what? 57. According to the principle of intervention, the great powers of Europe had the right to do what? 58. What was the effect of the Crimean war? 59. Why did Lord Macaulay design a new school system in India? 60. In the Latin American colonial system, who were the mestizos? 61. By seizing control of Mexico from Porfirio Diaz, Francisco Madero did what? 62. As a result of the prosperity that came from increased exports, Latin America did what? 63. What was the "white man's burden"? 64. The Boers were descendants of what? 65. In 1857, a growing Indian distrust of the British led to what? 66. What was the goal of the Indian National Congress? 67. What did Benito Juarez do? 68. What was the name of the group that Conspired to assassinate Archduke francis Ferdinand? 69. What was the Western Front Characterized by? 70. what countires were involved in the central powers? 71. Why did Amiral Holtzendorff promise Emperor William II' not one Americans will land on the Contient? 72. The red serect police, known as the Cheka, began what? 73. What was the Treaty of Versailles? 74. France's approach to peace was guided in large part by what? 75. What was the Schliffen Plan? 76. Where was the German advance toward paris was halted at? 77. What was the result of Italy attacking Austria in May 1915? 78. What caused the United States to join the Allies in fighting WWI? 79. In an attempt to end Russia's involvment in the WWI, lenin did what? 80. Why was Germany especially unhappy with Article 231 of the treaty of Versailles? 81. After the war, Britain ruled Iraq and Palestine as what? 82. What did the trety of Locarno guarantee? 83. What problem did John Maynard Keynes have about unemployment? 84. How did Benito Mussolini gain the support of the catholic Church? 85. What was the purpose of stalin's five year Plans? 86. How ddid the Enabling Act allow Hitler to establish a totalitarian state? 87. What was the Kristallnacht? 88. What was the dawnes Plan? 89. fascism glorifies the state above the indivividual by emphasizing the nedd for what? 90. What was a factor that lead many Germans to accept Hitler and the Nazis? 91. What were the "Nuremberg Laws" 92. James Joyce's novel Ulysses is the most famous example of what? 93. what was the //Triumph of the Will?// 94. What was Hitler's Blitzkrieg, or "lightening war"? 95. What did the Japanese do on December 7, 1941? 96. What was the turning point of WWII in the Pacific? 97. When the Einsatzgruppen proved to be too slow for the Nazis, they then did what? 98. In order to address labor shortages during the WWII, Japan did whjat? 99. At the Tehran Conference, Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill all agreed what? 100. Neville Chamberlain boated that the Munich Conference meant what? 101. The "Mukden incident", which Japan used as an excuse to seize Manchuria. was what? 102. Why was the battle of Stalingard a crushing defeat for Germany? 103. At the Yalta Conference, The Allies agreed to do what?