WORLD HISTORY 2nd SEMESTER FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

  1. What were the primary motivations for European exploration?
  2. What were the groups in Japanese feudalism?
  3. What was Thomas Hobbes’ social contract theory?
  4. What is “divine right theory”?
  5. What is absolutism?
  6. What was the Glorious Revolution?
  7. What was Ptolemy’s theory of the universe?
  8. What was Copernicus’ theory of the universe?
  9. Define John Locke’s idea of tabula rasa.
  10. Deists believed the universe was like a ______.
  11. What is laissez-faire?
  12. What is Montesquieu known for in regards to political philosophy?
  13. What is the importance of the Battle of Waterloo?
  14. What were the Parisian Bread Riots?
  15. Who was Robespierre?
  16. What was the Russian strategy in fighting Napoleon?
  17. How did the labor system change during the Industrial Revolution?
  18. What were Karl Marx’s ideas about the proletariat and bourgeoisie?
  19. The Russian legislative assembly was called the______.
  20. Define the Principle of Intervention.
  21. What was the “white man’s burden”?
  22. ______proposed the Open Door Policy. What was it?
  23. Explain the Meiji Restoration in Japan.
  24. What is Commodore Matthew Perry known for?
  25. Explain the importance of the Black Hand and GavriloPrincip.
  26. What was the Schlieffen Plan?
  27. What was the difference between warfare on the Western and Eastern fronts during WWI?
  28. Who were the countries involved in the Triple Entente, Triple Alliance, Allied Powers, and Central Powers during WWI?
  29. Who were the important Axis and Allied powers during WWII?
  30. Explain the Treaty of Versailles.
  31. Define total war.
  32. What caused WWI?
  33. Why did the US enter WWI?
  34. What were Soviets?
  35. Who was Lenin?
  36. Define totalitarian.
  37. Define appeasement.
  38. What was Kristallnacht?
  39. Explain the Dawes Plan.
  40. Define Depression in the economic sense.
  41. Explain Fascism.
  42. Who were: Mussolini, Franco, Hitler, and Stalin.
  43. What were the Nuremberg laws?
  44. Explain the Marshall Plan, Containment, Truman Doctrine, Domino Theory, brinkmanship, and MAD as Cold War concepts.
  45. Why was Sputnik a big deal?
  46. What was the Bay of Pigs incident?
  47. Who was Joseph McCarthy?
  48. NATO and Warsaw Pact. Explain.
  49. Why was the Berlin Wall built?
  50. Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev. Who were they?
  51. Who was Mao Zedong?
  52. Why did Truman say he dropped the bomb on Japan?
  53. What was the Baby Boom?
  54. Who was Fidel Castro?
  55. What is Social Darwinism?
  56. What was Versailles?
  57. Describe the Russian Civil War.
  58. What does USSR stand for?
  59. What was the Holocaust?
  60. What was Blitzkreig?