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World History from 1500
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Terms and Concepts
1. What was NOT the direct cause of the revolutions for independence in Latin America?
2. Which description of Simón Bolívar is INCORRECT?
3. Who DID NOT get involved in the Mexico Revolution from 1810 to 1823?
4. What major political challenges did Western Hemisphere nations face in the ninetieth century?
5. By the end of the nineteenth century, which nation did not wage a war against their neighbors and establishitself as regional powers?
6. Which description of immigrants from Europe and Asia after the abolition of slavery is INCORRECT?
7. Which country among Latin American nations could match the levels of averagewealth found in the United States and Canada by 1900?
8. Which factor DID NOTslow Latin American development from 1800 to 1900?
9. Which technologies and industries DID NOT appear between 1850 and 1900?
10.________, who developed an incandescent lamp well suited to lighting small rooms in 1879 and created the world's first electrical distribution network in 1882.
11. Which description of the increase in European population is INCORRECT?
12. Which itemDID NOTbelong to the reasons of the urban growth by 1900?
13.Which description of "Separate Spheres" is INCORRECT?
14.________, who, along with Friedrich Engles wrote the Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867).
15.Who did arrive in Japan with a fleet of steam-powered warships and demand the Japanese open their ports to trade and American ships in 1853?
16.Who did oppose railways as well as other technologies that would carry foreign influences into the interior during "self-strengthening movement" in China?
17.What did lead to the outbreak of the First World War?
18.Which country DID NOT belong to the Triple Entente?
19.When ________ entered the war in 1917, businesses engaged in war production made tremendous profits.
20.Which country DID NOT fall apart of the WW I?
21. Which description of the WW I is INCORRECT?
22. Who did lead the Revolutionary Alliance in China, and his ideas were a mixture of nationalism, socialism, and Confucian philosophy?
23.Who did expel the Greek minority from Anatolia and founded the Turkish Republic, then pushed it toward secular reform?
24. Colonial rulers would administer the territories but would be accountable to the League of Nations after the WWI, which is called __________.
25.Why was Japan prospered during the WW I and quickly modernized?