Final Exam Important Topics

Enlightenment

1.  Philosophes

  1. Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Wollstonecraft, Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau, Adam Smith
  2. What they believe?
  3. Most famous piece of writing.

2.  Terms:

  1. Popular Sovereignty, natural rights, Laissez-faire, idealism, liberalism, reason, universal manhood suffrage, republicanism

3.  Causes of the Enlightenment

4.  Effects of the Enlightenment

French Revolution

1.  Causes

2.  Terms:

  1. Old Regime, Estates, Jacobins, sans-culottes, Declaration of Rights of Man, consulate, coup d’état

3.  Estates General

4.  Tennis Court Oath

5.  Break down of each estate

6.  Great Fear

7.  Reign of Terror

8.  Robespierre

9.  Louis XVI

10.  Marie Antoinette

11.  Napoleon

12.  Directory

13.  Continental System

14.  Napoleon’s successes

15.  Napoleon’s failures

16.  Napoleon’s 100 Days

17.  Battle of Waterloo

19th Century

1.  Terms:

  1. liberalism, conservatism, legitimacy, Entrepreneurs, socialism, Junker, old regime

2.  Congress of Vienna

  1. Why it occurred?
  2. What are the major effects?
  3. Guiding principles

3.  Metternich

4.  Otto von Bismarck

5.  Camillo Cavour

6.  Giuseppe Garibaldi

7.  King William I

8.  King Victor Emmanuel

9.  Giuseppe Mazzini

10.  Industrial Revolution

  1. Why it starts in Britain?
  2. Major effects/changes.

11.  Revolutions of 1830

12.  Revolutions of 1848

  1. Major ideas

13.  Unification of Italy

  1. General story of how they unified.
  2. Which countries they had to defeat

14.  Unification of Germany

  1. General story of how they unified.
  2. Which countries they had to defeat

WWI

1.  Indirect causes (long term)

2.  Direct causes (short term)

3.  Schlieffen Plan

4.  Terms:

  1. Self-determination, 2 front war, total war, armistice

5.  New technology and its effects

6.  Invasion of Gallipoli

7.  Zimmerman Telegram

8.  Treaty of Versailles

  1. Major ideas/points

9.  14 Points

10.  Effects of WWI

11.  League of Nations

Inter-war Period

1.  Russian Revolutions

  1. Causes
  2. Effects
  3. Leaders

2.  Comparison between France and Russian Revolutions

3.  Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

4.  New Economic Policy

5.  Five Year Plan

6.  Terms:

  1. Bolsheviks, communism, socialism, fascism, Nazism

7.  Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin

8.  Spanish Civil War

9.  Dictators rise to power

10.  Munich Pact (Agreement)

11.  Global Depression

WWII

1.  Events from the annotated timeline

2.  New technology

3.  Chamberlin

4.  Eisenhower

5.  Churchill

6.  Wannsee Conference

7.  Terms:

  1. Blitz, Blitzkrieg, Weimer Republic, Third Reich, appeasement, non-aggression, Axis, Allies, Vichy, Rhineland