PacificaHigh SchoolCST Review Questions 2008

  1. Which ancient Greek philosopher believed an ideal society’s government should be ruled by a class of “philosopher kings”?
  2. Aristotle stated in his work Politics “law is reason without desire….” This idea would apply to modern Western democratic governments how?
  3. Individual achievement, dignity and worth are of great importance to a societies well being. This idea can be traced back to what society in ancient Greece?
  4. What idea from Charles Louis Montesquieu is used in a government to create separate branches?
  5. John Locke’s argued life, liberty and property, are referred to as what?
  6. What do U.S.A.’s Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of Rights of Man both emphasized a government must do what for its citizens?
  7. During the 19th century, What South American revolutionary leader help liberate viceroys from Spanish control?
  8. The American Revolution and the French Revolution both altered there existing governments but what document from the American Revolution still exist?
  9. What was the purpose of the Third Estates meeting the Tennis Court Oath in 1789?
  10. How did England’s agricultural revolution lead to their industrial revolution?
  11. Why was Louis Pasteur work on germ theory in the 19th century important?
  12. In the 19th century, why did labor unions start to become more abundant?
  13. During the Industrial Revolution, businesses primarily invested in what resource?
  14. Charles Dickens literature was a result from what movement in the 19th century?
  15. What late 18th century European movement arose as a reaction against Classicism?
  16. Economically, what allowed Japan to become a colonial power after 1894?
  17. What was the Sepoy Rebellion in India?
  18. Why did the Chinese Imperial government collapse in 1912?
  19. Mohandas Gandhi used his philosophy of nonviolent noncooperation inan effort to do what?
  20. In 1900, anti-foreign sentiment in China led to what uprising within China?
  21. What two countries in Africa did not become colonized by 1914?
  22. Why did the Triple Entente form (1907)?
  23. How did alliances prior to WWI lead to the breakout of war?
  24. Why did combat on the Western Front take place in a relatively small area?
  25. What was the Schlieffen Plan?
  26. How did American involvement affect the outcome of WW I?
  27. How did Czarist Russia’s participation in WWI lead to Russian Revolution?
  28. Name a contribution by the Allies colonies which assisted the Allied effort during WWI?
  29. Discuss how some of Wilson’s points could help prevent another world war and how they were causes of this world war.
  30. What were the goals of the British negotiator Prime Minister Lloyd George, French foreign minister Georges Clemanceau, Italy’s Vittorio Orlando, and American President Wilson at the Versailles meeting in France?
  31. How was the old Ottoman Empire reorganized in the Balkans, Middle East and Africa?
  32. Define Totalitarian gov’t and how it spread to Russia, Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland, and Austria after WWI?
  33. The author of All Quiet on the Western Front, and the artist who created works during the Cubist movement belonged to what group post WWI?
  34. How did the communists control the people?
  35. Describe the formation of the Soviets and Trotsky leading the new Red Army against the White Army in the Russian Civil War of 1919-1921.
  36. Describe how Stalin used purges in the communist party, army/navy to take and keep power.
  37. Describe Mussolini’s Black Shirt March and the rise of Italian Fascism
  38. Why did Italy want Albania, Ethiopia, and want to join the Axis powers with Hitler?
  39. How is Communism different from Fascism, role of gov’t in the economy (Marxism)?
  40. France and Great Britain declared war on Germany as a direct result of Germany invading what country in 1939?
  41. Name the country which sought to establish the Greater East Asia Co.-Prosperity Sphere between 1931 and 1945?
  42. Why did Germany agree to sign the Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact (Nazi/Soviet Nonaggression Pact 1939) with the U.S.S.R.?
  43. Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1938 – Neville Chamberlain – made a statement to the British public following the Munich Conference of 1938. “My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is a peace for our time…Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.” This statement is reflective of what policy the western powers of Europe were practicing leading up to the break out of World War II?
  44. After the United States of America entered World War II, Great Britain and the U.S.A. decided what would be a priority for the Allied forces in Europe?
  45. What was the Holocaust?
  46. Kristallnacht or “Night of Broken Glass” was what event in the leading up to the Holocaust?
  47. Which country suffered the highest military casualties by Germany’s invasion and partial conquest?
  48. Explain one of the main reasons for Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt to meet at Yalta in 1945 (Yalta Conference 1939).
  49. Name a main focus of economic recovery for Japan post World War II.
  50. Why did Eastern Europe (specifically Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania) come under Soviet control post WWII?
  51. What was one of the primary causes of the Cold War between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R.?
  52. U.S.A.’s intervention in Vietnam came as a result of what Cold War policy?
  53. This excerpt from a speech delivered in 1947 “One way of life is based upon the will of the people, and is distinguished by . . freedom from political oppression. The second way of life is based on the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the will of the majority. It relies upon . . the suppression of personal freedoms.” is part of the rational for what policy during the Cold War?
  54. What policy practiced by U.S.A. is exemplified by the U.S.A. sending troops to African governments to help them resist communism?
  55. Explain the reasons or describe a reason why NATO was created?
  56. What was the U.S.A. supporting in the Middle East in 1973, which caused an Arab oil embargo?
  57. What religions are intertwined in regional conflict between modern day India and Pakistan?

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