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Study Guide Answers
1. The Cold War boundary between eastern and western Europe was called the _________________________________ .
Iron Curtain
2. What institution replaced the Roman Empire as the most cohesive force in Western European culture?
Roman Catholic Church
3. Charlemagne's Carolingian Empire survived as what ineffectual political body?
Holy Roman Empire
4. What religious system threatened Christian Europe in the late first millennium A.D.?
Islam
5. The 17th Century's religious wars were followed by the 18th Century's intellectual search for universal truths, a period known as the "______________________________ ."
Enlightenment
6. The traditional rivalry among European monarchs was replaced in the 19th Century by the equally antagonistic concept of ___________________________ .
Nationalism
7. Name one of the leading Socialist thinkers of the 19th Century.
Marx, Engels, or Prudhomme
8. Name the three dominant members of the Triple Entente, who later became allies in World War I.
England, France, Russia
9. The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire led to a nationalistic uprising on what European peninsula still known for its volatility?
The Balkans
10. The heir to which empire was assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1914?
Austria-Hungary
11. The forum to settle political disputes among countries that was created by the Treaty of Versailles was called the ________________ ________ ______________________ .
League of Nations
12. Hitler's invasion of ___________________________ in 1939 triggered World War II.
Poland
13. What was the alliance that was created by the United States and its allies to contain the spread of Communism in Europe?
NATO
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