HISTORY 110B
WORLD CIVILIZATIONS SINCE THE 16TH CENTURY
DR. NANCY FITCH
SUMMER 2012
One of the following questions will be on the final examination: (worth 80 points each)
1. Compare and contrast the Japanese and Chinese response to industrialization and imperialism. What do you think accounts for the differences between these two societies?
2. It has been argued that the roots of many of the current tensions in the Middle East and the Arab world can be traced to the events during and after World War I (including the treaties that ended the war). Discuss this issue in an essay that uses material from the text and class.
3. What is fascism? Both the Germans and the Japanese developed politics in the 1930s that deeply challenged the parliamentary and democratic traditions that developed in England, France, and the United States. Some historians have called the kind of political organization in these countries Totalitarianism and have linked them to Stalin’s policies in the 1930s as well. What do you believe these historians meant by totalitarianism? What are the similarities between what the Japanese, Germans, and Soviets believed? What are the differences? How did these various societies use spectacle to achieve their ends?
4. How did the strategies to end World War II lead to the outbreak of the Cold War? How did it shape developments in Europe, China, Viet Nam, and Korea? In looking at the policies of the United States and the Soviet Union, were they different from one another, or essentially similar in their respective goals and methods?
5. Many politicians and intellectuals have noted that “globalization evokes passionate responses, both pro and con.” Based on the materials covered in class and in the book, do you believe that its effects have been on the whole positive or negative? Give specific examples in your answer and be sure to include a discussion of how globalization has facilitated the development of an international criminal economy (drugs)
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Ten of the following IDs will be on the Final. You should explain what/who they are and what is their significance. (Worth 2 points each)
“Whites” / Taiping Rebellion / perestroika / Lusitania / Liberation theology / “Yellow Journalism”
World Trade Organization / Leni Riefenstahl / Social Darwinism / Tojo / Thomas Edison / Ho Chi Minh
apartheid / “Moral Majority” / Zimmerman Telegram / Meiji Reforms / zaibatsu / nationalism
u-boats / Shi’ism / “Cold War” / International Monetary Fund (IMF) / OPEC / appeasement
Winston Churchill / Boxers / trenches / totalitarianism / Self-strengthening movement / Samurai
imperialism / Woodrow Wilson / fascism / Nonaligned nations / Vladimir Lenin / Human Rights
Chiang Kai Shek / Balfour Declaration / “The Holocaust” / Nicolas II / “The White Man’s Burden” / Treaty of Versailles
Cixi / Al-Qaeda / collectivization / Bandung Conference / “Gendercide” / glastnost
Rhee Syngman / Mikhail Gorbachev / “One China Policy” / 38th Parallel / Gandhi / Taiwan
Al Queda / European Union (EU) / Persian Gulf War / Truman Doctrine / Vladimir Putin / Nelson Mandela
“Iron Curtain” / Yalta / “Little Tigers” / James Watt / Deng Xioping / NGOs
The “Gulag” / Manchuko / Iraq / Sputnik / Tripartite Pact / Marshall Plan
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