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4th QUARTER TEST STUDY GUIDE
Renaissance and Reformation
Define the following terms and people:
1. Renaissance
2. Humanism
3. Secular
4. Reformation
5. Indulgence
6. 95 Theses
7. Martin Luther
8. Pope Paul III
9. Council of Trent
10. Counter-Reformation
11. Inquisition
Answer the following questions:
1. What factors contributed to the rise of the Renaissance?
2. How did the Renaissance encourage changes in society?
3. What were Martin Luther’s main problems with the Catholic Church?
Asia & the 1500s
Define the following terms and people:
1. Suleiman
2. Akbar
3. Shah Jahan
4. Taj Mahal
5. Ottoman Empire
6. Mughal Empire
Answer the following questions:
1. What was the name of the original capital of the Ottoman Empire? What was it changed to?
2. What caused both the Ottoman and Mughal Empires to fail?
Scientific Revolution
Define the following terms and people:
1. Copernicus
2. Galileo
3. Newton
4. Vesalius
5. Harvey
6. Geocentric Theory
7. Heliocentric Theory
Age of Exploration
Define the following terms and people:
1. Columbus
2. Dias
3. Da Gama
4. Magellan
5. Cortez
6. Pizarro
7. Drake
8. Columbian Exchange
Answer the following question:
1. Resulting from the Columbian Exchange, name the two goods that had the greatest impact on the Americas.
Age of Absolutism and Enlightenment
Define the following terms and people:
1. Divine right
2. Absolute Monarchy
3. Louis XIV (14th)
4. John Locke
5. Voltaire
6. Baron de Montesquieu
7. Palace of Versailles
French Revolution
Define the following terms and people:
1. Storming of the Bastille
2. Tennis Court Oath
3. Reign of Terror
4. Louis XVI (16th)
5. Napoleon
Answer the following question:
1. What were the events that led to Napoleon’s demise?
Industrial Revolution
Define the following terms and people:
1. Adam Smith
2. Karl Marx
3. Factory
4. Interchangeable parts
5. Assembly lines
5. James Watt
6. Henry Bessemer
7. Eli Whitney
8. “Laissez-faire” economics
9. Railroads and industrial growth
Imperialism
Define the following terms and people:
1. Imperialism
2. Berlin Conference
3. Sepoy Mutiny
Answer the following question:
1. What were the main factors that caused Imperialism?
Nationalism and World War I
Define the following terms and people:
1. Giuseppe Garibaldi
2. Otto von Bismarck
3. Realpolitik
4. Serbia vs. Austria-Hungary
5. Mechanized war
6. Trench warfare
7. Allies vs. Central Powers
8. Militarism
9. Nationalism
10. League of Nations
11. Treaty of Versailles 1919
12. “War-guilt clause”
Answer the following question:
1. Name some of the results of World War I.
Russian Revolution
Define the following terms and people:
1. Capitalism
2. Communism
3. Lenin
4. Bolsheviks
5. Czar Nicholas II
6. Duma
Interwar Years and World War II
Define the following terms and people:
1. New Deal
2. Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. Harry Truman
4. Joseph Stalin
5. Winston Churchill
5. Benito Mussolini
6. Adolf Hitler
7. Hideki Tojo
8. Hirohito
9. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
10. Blitzkrieg
11. “Island hopping”
12. Pearl Harbor
13. Operation Overlord (D-Day)
14. Operation Sea Lion
15. Operation Barbarossa
16. Operation Torch
17. Battle of Stalingrad
18. Anti-Semitism
19. Holocaust
20. Non-aggression pact
21. Allied vs. Axis Powers
Cold War
Define the following terms and people:
1. Cold War
2. “Satellite nations”
3. Containment
4. Truman Doctrine
5. Marshall Plan
6. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
7. Warsaw Pact
8. Brinkmanship
9. Détente
10. Berlin Wall
11. United Nations
12. Korean War
13. Vietnam War
14. Fidel Castro
15. Ho Chi Minh/Ngo Dinh Diem
16. Mao Zedong/Chiang Kai Shek
17. Nikita Khrushchev
18. Mikhail Gorbachev
African & Asian Decolonization
Define the following terms and people:
1. Mau Mau Rebellion
2. Jomo Kenyatta
3. Apartheid
4. Nelson Mandela
5. Gamal Nasser and Suez Canal
6. Golda Meir and Israel
7. Israel and Palestine
8. Partition of India and Pakistan
9. Gandhi