Enlightenment

Thinker / Major Book/Work / Theories and Ideals
Thomas Hobbes
Montesquieu
Wollstonecraft
John Locke
Voltaire
Rousseau
Adam Smith
  1. What was the enlightenment all about?
  1. Why did the enlightenment begin?
  1. Define the following terms
  2. Laisseze-Faire
  1. Popular sovereignty
  1. Republicanism
  1. Universal Manhood Suffrage
  1. Philosophes

French Revolution

  1. List the major causes of the French Revolution?
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Phase / Leaders / Accomplishments / Failures / Strategies used
1-Moderate
2-Radical
3-Directory
4-Age of Napoleon
  1. What were some of the major effects of the French Revolution?
  1. Define the following terms
  2. Estates
  3. Consulate
  4. Old Regime
  1. Why did Louis XVI call the Estates General? Was it successful? What was the problem with it?
  1. What was the Tennis Court Oath?
  1. Who lead the Great Fear? What were they so upset about?
  1. What was the Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen?
  1. Explain the Napoleonic Code and list some of the specific changes it instituted.
  1. What was the goal of the Continental System? Was it successful?
  1. Why was Napoleon’s campaign in Russia a failure?
  1. When historians refer to the Hundred Days of Napoleon what are they referring to?
  1. What is the significance of the battle of Waterloo?
  1. What is the difference between a Sans-culotte and a Jacobin?

19th Century

  1. What were the major goals of the Congress of Vienna?
  1. What role did Metternich play in the Congress of Vienna?
  1. What changes did the make to ensure those goals were fulfilled?
  1. Was the Congress successful?
  1. What were some of the major effects of the Industrial Revolution?
  1. Why did the Industrial Revolution start in England?
  1. Explain the steps the lead to unification in Italy.
  1. Explain the steps that lead to unification in Germany.
  1. How did Cavour, Mazzini, Garibaldi, and Victor Emmanuel contribute to the unification of Italy?
  1. How did King William I and Otto von Bismarck contribute to the unification of Germany?
  1. Why did the Austrian-Hungarian Empire Fall?
  1. Define…
  2. Legitimacy
  3. Junkers
  4. Conservatism
  5. Liberalism
  6. Nationalism
  7. Autonomy

WWI

  1. List the long term(indirect) causes of WWI.
  1. List the direct causes of WWI.
  1. What was the Schlieffen Plan? Was it successful?

Country / Declared war on… / Reason(s)
Germany / France
Germany / Russia
Austria-Hungary / Serbia (Bosnia)
Great Britain / Germany
USA / Germany
  1. What was the goal of the Invasion of Gallipoli?
  1. What is a two front war? Why is it difficult?
  1. Explain the difference between the eastern front and the western front.
  1. Why did the US finally join WWI?
  1. What was the outcome of the first Battle of the Marne?
  1. Explain the role propaganda played in WWI?
  1. What new technology was used during WWI?
  1. What was the goal of the Treaty of Versailles? Was it achieved? What were some of the key points of the treaty?
  1. What was Woodrow Wilson’s goal for the Treaty? Which of his ideas were incorporated?
  1. Define…
  2. Armistice
  3. Total War
  4. War of Attrition
  5. Self-determination

Interwar Period

  1. In theory how are communism and fascism similar?
  1. In reality how are communism and fascism different?
  1. How are fascism and Nazism similar?
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Leader / Goals / Accomplishments / Failures
Mussolini
Hitler
Stalin
  1. How did Hitler rise to power?
  1. How did Stalin rise to power?
  1. How did Mussolini rise to power?
  1. Why were these totalitarian leaders able to gain positions of power so quickly?
  1. Who fought in the Spanish Civil War?
  1. What were they fighting over?
  1. Define…
  2. Appeasement
  3. Black Shirts
  4. Gestapo
  5. KGB
  6. Cheka
  7. Lebensraum

World War II

  1. Who was Chamberlain and what was his major policy?
  1. What was the non-aggression pact?
  1. Who was on the Allies side and who was on the Axis side?
  1. What was Vichy?
  1. What was the Battle of the Bulge? Why was it called that?
  1. What was the Invasion of Normandy? What is its significance?
  1. What was Hitler’s primary objective?
  1. What happens at the Wansee Conference?