World History (Honors) Final Review Sheet (2015-2016)
Your final exam will cover the entire second semester, from the era of Imperialism through the Modern World. Major topics of the second semester are provided below. This is not intended to be an exhaustive, comprehensive outline of all topics on the exam. It is your responsibility to fill in the gaps using your notes, textbook, handouts and information that you gathered from class activities.
Part One: There are 100 objective questions on the Final Exam. These questions consist of: multiple choice, true/false, map questions, political cartoon and picture interpretation, and primary source analysis.
Part Two: It consists of 7 parts including: Document Based Questions, Triplets, Political Cartoons, Identifications, Chronologies, Graphic Organizers and one Short Essay.
European colonizationChapter 25 (Sections 1, 2 3)
Imperialism
Motivation for colonization
Reasons for European success
Social Darwinism
Colony
India
Sepoy rebellion
Effect of British rule on India
Indian National Congress Party (INC)
Muslim League
China/Japan
Treaty of Nanjing
Meiji accomplishments/rule in Japan
Meiji Restoration
Opium War
Open Door Policy
Sino-Japanese War
Siam (Thailand) significance
Africa
Boer War/Zulus
Ethiopian independence
Role of religion during European colonization of Africa
Leopold II/Congo
Primary nations involved in European colonization
Berlin Conference
World War IChapter 26 (Sections 1, 2, 4)
Four MAIN Causes of WWI
Balkans
Gavrillo Princip
Franz Ferdinand
Blank check
Schlieffen Plan
Belgium’s role in start of war
Trench Warfare
Total War
New Weapons
United States Entry
Peace Conference at Versailles
Attending Countries/Leaders/Demands
League of Nations
Russian RevolutionChapter 26, Section 3
Nicolas II
February/March Revolution (Provisional Gov.’t)
October/November Revolution (Bolshevik Revolution)
Lenin
Civil War
Interwar/Dictators/World War IIChapter 27 (Sections 1, 3, 4) and Chapter 28 (Sections 1, 2, 3, 4)
May 4th Movement
Stalin
Totalitarianism
Hitler
Mussolini
Japanese Militarism
Kamikazes
Anti-Comintern Pact
Five Year Plans
Central Planning
Great Purge
Mein Kampf
Hitler’s rise to power
Appeasement
Anschluss
Munich Conference
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Nuremberg Laws
Axis Powers/Allied Powers
Blitzkrieg
Important WWII Battles
Dropping of Atomic Bombs
Winston Churchill
VichyFrance
Anti-Semitism
Nuremberg Trials
Holocaust
Final Solution
United States War Refugee Board
ChinaIndependence and Reform(Chapter 30 Section 3)
Chiang Kai Shek
Guomindang (Nationalist Party)
Mao Zedong
Communists
Mao’s Goals
Cultural Revolution
Little Red Book
Deng Xiaoping
Four Modernizations
Special economic zones
Tiananmen Square protests
Indian Independence and Reform (Chapter 30 Section 1)
Amritsar massacre
Rowlatt Acts
Homespun Movement
Salt March
Gandhi
Gandhi’s goal
Satyagraha
Ahimsa
Caste System
Untouchability
Separation of India and Pakistan
Jawaharlal Nehru
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Kashmir
Sikh separatism
Indira Gandhi
Cold WarChapter 29 (Section 1)
United Nations
Iron curtain
Containment
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Warsaw Pact
NATO
Potsdam Conference
Africa Independence and ReformChapter 31 (Sections 1& 2)
Nkrumah
Pan-Africanism
Africa independence movements
French/British differences in colonization
Apartheid
Homeland system
Nelson Mandela
African National Congress
Mobutu Sese Seko
Soweto
Sharpeville massacre
One party rule
African economic problems
Desertification
Negritude movement
Genocide
Hutus/Tutsis
Rwandan genocide
Middle EastChapter 31 (Sections 3& 4)
Balfour Declaration
Gamal Nasser
Pan Arabism
Mosaddeq
OPEC
Islamists/Islamic fundamentalists
Arab Israeli Conflict
Zionism
Palestinian nationalism
Intifada
PLO
Iranian revolution of 1980
Camp David Accords
Persian Gulf War
Osama Bin laden
Maps
Be familiar with the locations of the countries we have studied.