AP European History › Domestic and Foreign Policies
Which ruler of Prussia changed the nation from a Duchy to a Kingdom?
Frederick I
Frederick William I
William I
Albert I
Frederick I was the last Duke of Prussia and the first King of Prussia. Due to the ever-expanding size and power of Prussia he felt simply being a Duchy no longer reflected the importance of Prussia. As such an upgrade to a Kingdom was ordered.
Which answer best describes the primary result of the 1598 Edict of Nantes?
The lessening of the persecution of the Huguenots.
The lessening of the persecution of the French Catholics.
Increased persecution of the Huguenots.
Increased persecution of the French Catholics.
None of these
The Edict of Nantes, decreed in 1598 by Henry IV of France, gave French Protestants (Huguenots) many rights in French society, despite the nation's majority Catholic population. This had the effect of diminishing the persecution of French Protestants in France.
Perestroika and glasnost were two political reforms initiated in the Soviet Union during the administration of __________.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Leonid Brezhnev
Nikita Khrushchev
Josef Stalin
Vladimir Lenin
Perestroika and glasnost were two reform movements initiated during the last communist administration to govern the Soviet Union, led by Mikhail Gorbachev. Perestroika was the name given to the policy of economic reform that allowed for the development of rudimentary capitalism, and glasnost was the policy of political reform designed to provide openness and governmental transparency.
Henry IV of France granted religious freedom to his subjects in 1598. What was the name of this proclamation?
Edict of Nantes
Edict of Amboise
Edict of Fontainebleau
Declaration of Sentiments
The Edict of Nantes was signed by Henry IV of France in 1598. This consolation to the French Protestants was meant to give them religious freedom and thus put an end to the French Wars of Religion.
Following the death of Sigismund II, what form of government did Poland and Lithuania change to?
Elected Monarchy
Parliamentarian Rule
Military Dictatorship
Confederacy
Following the death of Sigismund II Poland and Lithuania changed to become an elected monarchy. This meant that a king would be elected by the Polish noble families to rule for life.
The Paris Charter of 1990 attempted to __________.
integrate the nations of Eastern Europe into the ideological framework of Western Europe
reinvigorate the conflict of the Cold War to ensure the demise of communism in Europe and the Soviet Union
create a unified European currency and provide open borders across the continent
reform the European Economic Commission and exclude those countries that had recently gained independence from the Soviet Union
repudiate the authority of the Catholic church in the affairs of modern European states
The Paris Charter of 1990 was an attempt by the governments of Western Europe, the United States, and Canada to seize upon the demise of the Soviet Union and ensure the transition of Eastern European countries into the new world order. The nations of Western Europe wanted to integrate the newly-independent nations of Eastern Europe into their ideological framework of capitalism, democracy, and individual liberty.
The so-called "Auld Alliance" against the Kingdom of England in the early modern period refers to the formal and informal friendly relations between __________.
France and Scotland
France and Ireland
Ireland and Scotland
France and Spain
Scotland and Denmark
The "Auld Alliance" was a later term to denote the era between 1295, when John Balliol of Scotland and Philip IV of France formed an alliance against Edward I of England, and 1603, when James VI of Scotland united the crowns of Scotland and England as James I of England. The alliance was based on each country's long-standing issues with England, which often drew one country into the other's conflicts with the English monarchy.
The Soviet Union policy of glasnost was designed to __________.
provide transparency of government actions by loosening restrictions on freedom of press
restructure the Soviet economy by allowing some capitalist reforms
allow greater autonomy for the Soviet satellite states in Eastern Europe
reduce the number of nuclear weapons held in the Soviet Union
reach a detente with the United States and the governments of Western Europe
The Soviet policy of glasnost was initiated in 1985 during the administration of Mikhail Gorbachev. It was designed to provide openness and transparency in government by loosening the previously tight restrictions on freedom of the press. It was accompanied by perestroika, a restructuring of the Soviet economy to provide rudimentary capitalism.
In the wake of the French Wars of Religion, what did King Henry IV seek to change about the French government?
Centralize power by reducing the power of nobles
Disperse power by granting nobles more power
Decentralize the government by allowing regional lords more influence
Show French power by building up its military
Following the Wars of Religion Henry wanted to avoid further internal strife like France had just seen. He believed the best way was to centralize power with one monarch that had complete and total control over all of France. He achieved this by largely stripping the French nobility of its powers.
Which of the following best describes mercantilism?
Heavy regulation of the economy by a government in order to strengthen its own country at the expense of others
The redistribution of wealth equally among all social classes
An economic approach in which the government does not intervene in the market
An isolationist policy in which a government bars all trade with foreign powers
An economic philosophy in which the government delegates all economic regulation to the merchant class
Mercantilism was the dominant economic philosophy of Europe during the eras of global colonization. The colonizing powers sought to strengthen their own country and colonies at the expense of their rivals through methods such as high tariffs on imports, government subsidies for domestic products, forbidding trade with certain countries, and government-mandated monopolies.