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World History — Intermediate

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  1. 1.What was the Boston Tea Party?

    • •Diplomatic dinner where colonists and Britain negotiated independence
    • •Colonial boycott of all British goods in 1770
    • •1773 colonial protest dumping British tea into Boston Harbor
    • •Battle in which colonists repelled a British attack on Boston

  2. 2.Which Greek philosopher was Alexander the Great's teacher?

    • •Socrates
    • •Aristotle
    • •Thales of Miletus
    • •Plato

  3. 3.What caused the Great Depression (1929)?

    • •Overproduction of industrial goods during World War I
    • •Stock market crash in 1929 triggering a broader global economic crisis
    • •Famine caused by a global drought in 1929
    • •Collapse of international trade after the Treaty of Versailles

  4. 4.Which revolution began in 1789 with the storming of the Bastille?

    • •American Revolution
    • •Industrial Revolution
    • •Russian Revolution
    • •French Revolution

  5. 5.Who was the civil rights leader who delivered 'I Have a Dream'?

    • •Rosa Parks
    • •Martin Luther King Jr.
    • •Nelson Mandela
    • •Malcolm X

  6. 6.Which treaty ended World War I?

    • •Treaty of Vienna
    • •Treaty of Westphalia
    • •Treaty of Versailles
    • •Treaty of Paris

  7. 7.What was the significance of the Congress of Vienna (1815)?

    • •Conference that established the League of Nations after World War I
    • •Conference that redistributed German colonies after World War I
    • •Meeting that launched the Concert of Europe after the Revolutions of 1848
    • •Conference that reorganized Europe after the Napoleonic Wars

  8. 8.What was the role of Winston Churchill in World War II?

    • •British secretary of state for war
    • •Supreme Allied commander of the Western Front
    • •British prime minister who rallied Britain against Nazi Germany
    • •Head of British intelligence during the war

  9. 9.What was the Space Race?

    • •Cold War competition between the USA and USSR in space exploration
    • •Arms race to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles
    • •Military competition between superpowers to develop space weapons
    • •International program led by NASA to establish a moon base

  10. 10.What was the Ottoman Empire?

    • •Byzantine empire succeeding the Eastern Roman Empire
    • •Chinese-descended empire that ruled Central Asia for six centuries
    • •Shia Muslim empire based in Persia
    • •Sunni Muslim empire ruling the Middle East, North Africa, and southeast Europe