Multiple Choice:History: 1) After a series of religious wars, including the Thirty

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Years' War (1618-1648) andr? 1) After a series of religious wars, including the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) and agreements at Augsburg and Westphalia that each ruler would determine the religion of his own territory, it was generally set that Northern Europe would be _____________ and Southern Europe would be ______________.

-Roman Catholic...Protestant
-Protestant...Orthodox
-Protestant...Roman Catholic

2) The 1700s were dominated by _____________, which emphasized reason, liberty, and absolutism. The 1800's saw a rise in ______________ (belief that each ethnic group should have its own government that reflected it's language, ethnic heritage, culture and religion), ______________ (a political philosophy articulated by Karl Marx) and ______________ (a cultural movement that emphasized folk culture, self-expression and emotion.)

-feudalism..nationalism...capitalism..…
-the Enlightenment...nationalism...socialism.…
-Deism...feudalism...conservatism...ex…

3) This war was the first to use modern weapons such as tanks, airplanes, machine guns and poison gas in combat, and it resulted in the fall of four world empires (Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire)

-The Hundred Years' War
-The Thirty Year's War
-World War I
-World War II

4) Czars and Czarinas from this dynasty ruled Russia from 1613 until 1917 and included such rulers as Peter the Great, Catherine the Great and Nicholas II.

-the Windsors
-the Godunovs
-the Gorbachevs
-the Romanovs

5) Among the factors that contributed to Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany were all of the following EXCEPT:

-massive inflation and unemployment
-flaws in the Constitution of the Weimar Republic which gave too much power to one person
-the power vaccum that existed after British colonial forces pulled out
-the abundance and chaotic nature of extreme political parties
-national pride wounded by the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles

6) The first leader of the Soviet Union was ______________; his successor, _________________, is remembered as one of the modern world's most brutal dictators.

-Vladimir Ilyich Lenin...Joseph Stalin
-Vladimir Ilyich Lenin...Leon Trotsky
-Karl Marx... Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
 
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