World History
Second Semester Study Guide
Key Terms
Industrial Revolution
Agricultural Revolution
Enclosures
Crop Rotation
Seed Drill
Jethro Tull
Factors of Production (Industrialization)
Spinning Jenny
Cotton Gin
Power Loom
Water/Steam Power
James Watt
Railroads
Canals
Urbanization
Manchester
Wages
Coal Mines
Middle Class
Working Class
Strikes
Boycotts
Corporations
Stocks
Monopolies
Laissez-Faire
Adam Smith
Capitalism
Utilitarianism
Robert Owen
Socialism
Karl Marx
Communist Manifesto
Bourgeoisie
Proletariat
Communism
Labor Unions
Collective Bargaining
Reform Laws
Imperialism
Industrial Revolution
Ethnic/Linguistic Groups
Social Darwinism
Belgian Congo
Raw Materials
Zulus
Boers
Boer War
Colony
Protectorate
Sphere of influence
Economic Imperialism
Indirect Control
Direct Control
Paternalism
Assimilation
Nigeria
African Resistance
Ethiopia/Melenik II
Ottoman Empire
Geopolitics
Crimean War
Muhammad Ali
Suez Canal
Persia
India
Jewel in the Crown
East India Company
Sepoys
Sepoy Rebellion
Raj
Nationalism
Militarism
Nationalism
Imperialism
Alliances
Otto Von Bismarck
Triple Alliance
Triple Entente
Balkans
Slavic
Gavrilo Princip
Central Powers
Allied Powers
Stalemate
Schlieffen Plan
Trench Warfare
No Man’s Land
Western Front
Eastern Front
Battle of Somme
Battle of Verdun
Gallipoli Campaign
Lusitania
Zimmermann Telegram
Total War
Rationing
Unemployment
Russian Revolution
Treaty of Brest-Litvosk
Big Four
Fourteen Point
Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
Armistice
Suffrage
Alexander III
Nicholas II
Secret Police
Censorship
Communism
Bolsheviks
Vladimir Lenin
Russo-Japanese War
Bloody Sunday
Duma
World War I
Rasputin
March Revolution
Provisional Government
Soviets
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Red Army
Leon Trotsky
NEP
USSR
Communist Party
Josef Stalin
Totalitarianism
Police Terror
Indoctrination
Propaganda
Great Purge
Five-Year Plans
Collective Farms
Great Depression
Benito Mussolini
Il Duce
Adolf Hitler
Nazi Party
Mein Kampf
Lebensraum
Anti-Semitism
SS
Treaty of Versailles
Adolf Hitler
Nazis
Lebensraum
Aryans
Emperor Hirohito
Manchuria
League of Nations
Ethiopia
Appeasement
Axis Powers
Rhineland
Nonaggression Pact
Munich Agreement
Blitzkrieg
Phony War
Operation Barbarossa
Battle of Britain
Allied Powers
Pearl Harbor
Island Hopping
Bataan Death March
Operation Overlord
D-Day
Atomic Bombs
Final Solution
Holocaust
Ghettos
Kristallnacht
Concentration Camps
Nuremberg Trials
Occupied Japan
Yalta Conference
United Nations
Cold War
Capitalism
Communism
Iron Curtain
Containment
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Nuclear War
Chinese Civil War
Mao Zedong
Chang Hai-Shek
People’s Republic of China
Taiwan
Great Leap Forward
Red Guards
Sino-Soviet Split
Chinese Cultural Revolution
First World
Second World
Third World
Cuban Missile Crisis
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Khrushchev/Destalinization
Brezhnev
Brinksmanship
Détente
SALT
Mikhail Gorbachev
Glasnost
Perestroika
Democratization
Ronald Reagan
CIS
Boris Yeltsin
Vladimir Putin
Berlin Wall
Reunification of Germany
Deng Xiaoping
Short Answers/Essay Concepts
- What were the four factors of production during the Industrial Revolution and describe each and its contribution/importance for the Industrial Revolution.
- Compare and contrast the major economic systems of capitalism, communism, and socialism. Include the main ideas of the system as well as strengths and weaknesses of the systems.
- (mini-essay) What were three positives of the Industrial Revolution? What were three negatives of the Industrial Revolution? Based on both, to what extent was the Industrial Revolution in Britain/Europe a success?
- What is imperialism? What were three reasons why Europeans looked to imperialize?
- Give three specific (and from different areas) instances of resistance to imperialism (ie one from Africa, one from Middle East, one from India). Why did locals rebel and why/why not were they successful in their resistance?
- Using all case examples, give three major positives of imperialism and three major negatives of imperialism.
- What were the causes of World War I?
- How did the situation in the Balkans contribute to World War I?
- What was the fighting that took place during World War I? What were the major results of this type of fighting?
- What is meant by “total war?” What are three ways in which World War I was a total war?
- What were some of the major reasons why the Central Powers lost World War I and the Allied Powers won?
- What were the major terms of the Treaty of Versailles? Why did this peace lead to a “peace on quicksand?”
- What were the general reactions of the major powers to the Treaty of Versailles?
- Trace the steps of the Russian Revolution. What were some of the major reasons why the people of Russia revolted against the government and the Bolsheviks took over?
- What are the major features of a totalitarian state? How did Stalin create a totalitarian state in Russia? (be specific)
- What is fascism? Why did fascism become popular throughout Europe? How did Hitler/Mussolini impose fascist measures to maintain and keep control?
- What were the major causes of WWII? How did the major terms of the Treaty of Versailles help cause WWII?
- What was the fighting like in WWII and what was it called? How did this fighting look different from the fighting in World War I?
- How did the Japanese perform in the war in the Pacific? How did the US combat them and with what success? What finally ended the war with the Japanese?
- What were the major reasons behind Germany’s success and Allied failures in WWII?
- What was the Holocaust and how does this fit into Hitler’s major beliefs? How did Hitler plan to solve the “problem” and what were its results?
- What is the Cold War and why is it referred to as such? Why did the Cold War develop and why are the US and USSR both to blame? (use your primary sources to assist you)
- Why did Communism takeover in China? How did Mao attempt to fix China and what happened as a result? How has China made reforms? Where are reforms still needed/lacking?
- What were the major reforms of Gorbachev that led to the end of the USSR? What happened as a result of these reforms to the 15 republics of the USSR as well as countries of Central and Eastern Europe.