Exam 26: World History

Which of the following documents encouraged President Franklin Roosevelt to begin the Manhattan Project and develop the first atom bomb, which ultimately featured into the final acts of World War II?

Which European state still governs a portion of mainland South America?

Which activity is a topographic map best suited for?

Abraham Lincoln was born on the same exact day as which famed European intellectual?

The Ottoman Empire, which fell at the end of World War I after surviving more than six centuries, contained all or portions of how many present-day countries?

The Balfour Declaration of 1917 gave the United Kingdom a leading role in the conflict between which two states or regions?

Which of the following political leaders was not assassinated?

Which famous explorer co-patented the first underwater breathing equipment made available to the public?

In July 2011, Sudan, the largest country in Africa at the time, split into two nations. The majority of the country remained Sudan. What name did the seceding faction take?

Which bloc of states was never recognized by the international community as part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, even though the Soviet Union included them in all maps and government documents?

Emmeline Pankhurst was a notable member of which political movement?

This nation annually celebrates the anniversary of a failed, circa 1605 attempt to assassinate nearly every member of its government in an explosion:

Which of the following religions does not feature the figure known as Jesus or Jesus Christ of Nazareth in either its teaching or cultural history?

Martin Luther ignited the Protestant Reformation in 1517 when he posted which text on the doors of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany:

Johannes Gutenberg was pivotal in world history because:

The 1968 Summer Olympic Games is often best remembered for which act of political speech?

The majority of the existing Great Wall of China was constructed during which dynasty?

The Magna Carta, considered the first document in modern history to recognize inherent human rights that governments could not deny through absolute rule, was signed in:

Following World War II, the remaining officials of the Nazi regime were put on trial in:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's composition "Twelve Variations on 'Ah vous dirai-je Maman'," a French folk song dated to 1761, is better known in contemporary culture as which song?