Second Semester Exam Review—AP World History 2013

  1. What were Europeans’ main motives for making voyages of exploration?
  2. How did Prince Henry of Portugal influence exploration?
  3. What was the purpose of the Treaty of Tordesillas?
  4. Which European country was the leader in developing and applying 15th century sailing innovations?
  5. Why was the caravel an important development in navigation?
  6. Who captained the first European ship to sail around the tip of Africa, now known as the Cape of Good Hope?
  7. Which of the following did NOT aid the Spanish in conquering the Aztecs?
  8. What was one result of the loss of native lives to disease?
  9. How was Africa affected by the Atlantic slave trade?
  10. Who contradicted the ideas of the U.S. Constitution?
  11. In the 1700s, which of the following showed the influence of Enlightenment ideas?
  12. Which of the following did the censors of the Catholic Church ban ?
  13. How did the Declaration of Independence embody Enlightenment ideas?
  14. The heliocentric, or sun-centered, theory was proposed by whom?
  15. Francis Bacon helped to develop what?
  16. The Bill of Rights was influenced by what?
  17. What did Isaac Newton explain?
  18. What accurately describes the tax system in France in the years preceding the French Revolution?
  19. What strategy did Czar Alexander I use to defeat Napoleon?
  20. What did Metternich NOT want to accomplish at the Congress of Vienna?
  21. What was one important effect resulting from the political changes made at the Congress of Vienna?
  22. What happened on July 14, Bastille Day?
  23. What was Napoleon able to accomplish during peacetime?
  24. Which of the following was an important goal of the Congress of Vienna?
  25. Nationalism was a force that ,. . .
  26. What impact did technological advances have on industry?
  27. Which of the following was NOT a positive aspect of industrialization?
  28. How did the impact of worldwide industrialization effect the relationships between industrialized nations and non-industrialized nations?
  29. What was the Industrial Revolution?
  30. What were the three factors of production required to drive the industrial revolution?
  31. What was the main cause of the process of urbanization that occurred in 19th century Britain and elsewhere in western Europe?
  32. Why did the Western nations desire lands in the Pacific Rim?
  33. What is the most probable link between militarism and imperialism?
  34. What event in Sarajevo ignited the Great War?
  35. What gamble did Germany make before the United States entered the war?
  36. How did the Allies respond to Wilson’s vision for peace?
  37. What is the policy of glorifying power and keeping an army prepared for war?
  38. What did the war become once the participating countries began devoting all of their resources to the war effort?
  39. What action on November 11, 1918, brought World War I to an end?
  40. What were the Fourteen Points?
  41. Who was forced to assume sole responsibility for the war under the Treaty of Versailles?
  42. Why did coalition governments usually prove unstable?
  43. Why did millions of Germans turn against the leaders of the Weimar Republic?
  44. What fear added to the appeal of fascism in Italy and Germany?
  45. Why did Hitler target the Jewish population?
  46. In what way was Japan different from its allies Germany and Italy?
  47. What was Roosevelt’s New Deal program?
  48. Whose title was Il Duce?
  49. Which German political party sought to overturn the Treaty of Versailles and combat communism?
  50. What term was used to identify the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan?
  51. What was the U.S. response to Japanese aggression in Southeast Asia in mid-1941?
  52. How did civilians join in the war effort?
  53. What was the Allies’ plan for victory over the Nazis?
  54. Why were thousands of U.S. citizens put in internment camps during the war?
  55. Why did Truman agree to use the atomic bomb?
  56. The German blitzkrieg was a military strategy that depended on what advantage?
  57. What crucial lesson was learned in the Battle of Britain?
  58. What event occurred on the day described as “a date which will live in infamy”?
  59. What was significant about the Battle of Midway?
  60. Which of the following was the location of a Nazi extermination camp?
  61. Which of the following battles marked the final German offensive?
  62. Where were atomic bombs dropped?
  63. What was the purpose of the Nuremburg Trials?
  64. What prompted Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany?
  65. In the 1940s and 1950s, what did the region described as being “behind the iron curtain” include?
  66. What was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine?
  67. What was the name of the alliance established by European Communist nations In response to NATO?
  68. Which two groups fought a civil war in China both before and after WWII?
  69. When did Chinese troops enter the war in Korea?
  70. What were Third World countries?
  71. Which European countries could receive aid through the Marshall Plan?
  72. What led the Soviets to blockade West Berlin?
  73. What event increased U.S. spending on education and technology?
  74. Which leader won China’s civil war?
  75. Who were most of the Vietcong?
  76. In what year did Saigon fall to the North Vietnamese?
  77. Saigon was renamed what?
  78. Where did the USSR place missiles, setting off a crisis with the U.S.?
  79. What was the name of the first satellite?
  80. Which three men are credited with ending the Cold War?
  81. What Indochinese country had one-third of its population die at the hands of the Khmer Rouge?
  82. Why was the Berlin Wall built?
  83. What group was behind the 9/11 attacks?
  84. What was NOT invented in the 19th century?
  85. What were Japan’s goals in the Pacific?
  86. What does “mutually assured destruction” mean?
  87. What is King Leopold famous for?
  88. Why is the 20th century called “America’s century”?
  89. What is Ms. Burlage’s favorite period of history?
  90. What were two major results of the Black Death (in addition to dying)?
  91. How did the Black Death spread?
  92. Where did the Renaissance begin? What was the “spark” that started it?
  93. Name four Renaissance artists.
  94. What were three of DaVinci’s accomplishments?
  95. What is the heliocentric theory, and who is its creator?
  96. John Locke believed that people were entitled to (three things)?
  97. What are “inalienable rights”?
  98. Define “Age of Enlightenment.”
  99. What is cultural imperialism?
  100. What are examples of genocide\?

Short answers/listings:

  1. How did each of these contribute to the end of the Middle Ages?
  2. Crusades
  3. Black Death
  4. Great Schism
  5. Hundred Years’ War
  6. How did the Renaissance ideas lead to the Reformation?
  7. List four results of the Age of Exploration.
  8. Compare socialism, communism, and capitalism.
  9. What were the four causes of World War I?
  10. How did World War I lead to World War II?
  11. What caused the Cold War? Name three big conflicts during this time.
  12. Explain globalization.