WHG2 - Final Exam Review

CHAPTER 23

  1. Which estate made up 97% of the population?
  2. Which estate participated in the Tennis-Court Oath?
  3. The term “bourgeoisie” is French for what?
  4. Who was Marie Antoinette husband?
  5. What is the Bastille?
  6. Why did the women of Paris revolt in October 1789?
  7. Which document stated that “men are born and remain free and equal in rights?”
  8. What are the goals of the “slogan of the Revolution”?
  9. What did conservatives want from government? Radicals?
  10. Louis XVI was executed by what method?
  11. Whose period of rule in France was known as the Reign of Terror?
  12. What was one important consequence of the Battle of Trafalgar?
  13. Why did Napoleon create the Continental System?
  14. Which costly mistake involved Napoleon’s troops starving to death in subzero temperatures?
  15. What is the scorched earth policy?
  16. Explain the significance of the Hundred Days.
  17. What were the goals of the Congress of Vienna?
  18. Who was the most influential leader at the Congress of Vienna?

CHAPTER 25

  1. What was the increase in output of machine-made goods that began in England in the middle 1700s?
  2. What were the three factors of production required to drive the industrial revolution?
  3. Why were enclosures important?
  4. What industry was the first area to undergo major industrialization?
  5. By the late 1700s, where was the best place to find a water frame and a spinning mule?
  6. How did the railroad impact industry?
  7. How did the Industrial Revolution affect cities?
  8. Which European country was first to follow Britain’s lead in becoming industrialized?
  9. Who defended the free-market system of capitalism in the book, The Wealth of Nations?
  10. With which ideology is Karl Marx most closely associated?
  11. Economic system that believes businesses follow own self-interest by competition for profits
  12. What is the name for the voluntary associations of workers seeking labor reforms?

CHAPTER 27

  1. What was the main cause of inadequate food supplies in Africa during European colonization?
  2. Why did thousands of Boers move north in the Great Trek?
  3. What was the main purpose of the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885?
  4. How did Europeans use paternalism to govern people in colonies?
  5. How did Menelik II keep colonial interests out of Ethiopia?
  6. By 1914, how did the Ottoman Empire change?
  7. Why did Britain take control of the Suez Canal?
  8. What was the main reason for the Crimean War?
  9. Why was India called the "jewel in the crown"?
  10. What are sepoys?
  11. What happened as a result of the Sepoy Mutiny?
  12. Why did Western nations desire lands in the Pacific Rim?
  13. Queen Liliuokalani was the last monarch of what territory?
  14. Which U.S. business interest group pushed for the annexation of Hawaii?

CHAPTER 29

  1. What are the long-term causes of WWI?
  2. What event in Sarajevo ignited the Great War?
  3. What region was referred to as the "powder keg" of Europe?
  4. How did Germany intend to implement the Schlieffen Plan?
  5. What did the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare refer to?
  6. Which nation's actions caused the United States to fight in World War I?
  7. How did the Zimmermann note expose the Germans?
  8. What was the end of WWI?
  9. What were the Fourteen Points?
  10. Who was forced to assume sole responsibility for the war under the Treaty of Versailles?
  11. How did the Treaty of Versailles affect postwar Germany?
  12. What impact did the war have on the economy of Europe?

RUSSIA

  1. Who were the Bolsheviks?
  2. What is a totalitarian state?
  3. What was the purpose of the Soviet state's Five-Year Plans?
  4. What was Stalin’s campaign of terror?
  5. What are collective farms?
  6. What was the purpose of the United Nations?
  7. What was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine?
  8. Which European countries could receive aid through the Marshall Plan?
  9. Who began the reforms that led to democratization of the Soviet Union?
  10. What did the Members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, or CIS, formerly belong to?
  11. Who became the Russian Republic's first elected president?
  12. Which country experienced a workers’ movement called Solidarity?
  13. What effect did the end of Communist rule have on Yugoslavia?

MEYERS - 2015