Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Practice Test 1

30/80


Topics to Study:

  • Artistic movements of Pablo Picasso
  • Policies of both Napoleon I and Peter the Great
  • Why the English explorers of the coast of North America were searching for a "northwest passage"
  • Biggest medical advancement of the 18th century
  • Napoleon's Continental System
  • War of Austrian Succession and Maria Theresa
  • Principles of laissez-faire
  • Differences between Yugoslavia in the 1980s and in the 1960s
  • English Corn Laws
  • The art movement that reflected a world that no longer "made sense"
  • The Warsaw Pact
  • Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan
  • Differences between Mussolini and Hitler
  • Naturalism
  • Time periods that royal families came to power
  • How Frederick II of Prussia was an enlightened leader
  • Gains of the Seven Years War
  • Neo-Nazis and neo-fascists
  • European colonies in Africa
  • Zwingli
  • William Harvey
  • Definition of the scientific method
  • British Navigation Acts
  • Late 20th century ecumenical movement
  • Postwar similarities of WWI and WWII
  • The Pretender
  • Thermidorean Reaction
  • Reasons Parliament could strengthen its power over the monarchy in England during the 18th century
  • Where Calvinism spread
  • Attitude of Russian civilians after WWII
  • First Russian leader to discuss Stalin's crimes
  • The Schlieffen Plan
  • Beliefs of the Society of Friends
  • Least important British gain by the settling of the War of Spanish Succession
  • Tycho Brahe's biggest contribution to astronomy
  • Reasons that the Frankfurt Assembly failed to unite Germany
  • Realpolitik