General European History

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. The Pragmatic Sanction, drafted in 1713, allowed Charles VI of Austria to pass Hapsburg lands to which of these Austrian rulers? Charles VII Maria Theresa Leopold I Frederick William

2. What name is generally given to Otto von Bismarck's persecution of the Catholics? Kristallnacht Kulturkampf Perestroika Lebensraum

3. Which leading Russian Bolshevik was popular with the Russian people, making him dangerous to Stalin, who had him tortured to extract a confession to crimes amounting to treason? Leon Trotsky Nikolai Bukharin Rasputin Vladimir Lenin

4. Which of the following was not a leading reformer during the Reformation? Tycho Brahe Martin Luther John Calvin Huldrich Zwingli

5. Who emerged as the key leader of the armies of the Parliament during the English Civil War? Praise-God Barebones David Hume William of Orange Oliver Cromwell

6. What name was given to the Jacobin dominated institution that briefly ran France after the French Revolution? Weimar Republic Legislative Assembly Paris Commune Committee of Public Safety

7. Which of the following was *not* a humanist writer during the Renaisssance? Cesare Beccaria Petrarch Giovanni Boccaccio Baldassare Castiglione

8. Which of the following Enlightenment works did Adam Smith write? The Spirit of the Laws The Philisophical Dictionary On Crimes and Punishments The Wealth of Nations

9. What British prime minister is most closely associated with the policy of appeasement? Stanley Baldwin David Lloyd George John Major Neville Chamberlain

10. What Polish trade union, led by Lech Walesa, demanded basic rights for the Polish people under Russia's rule? START I Glasnost Solidarity Ostpolitik