World History Second Semester Final Exam Review Guide

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THIS IS A MANDATORY STUDY GUIDE WORTH 15 POINTS. IT IS DUE THE DAY OF YOUR EXAM. IT MUST BE HANDWRITTEN.

My exam is on ______, June ______at ______AM.

Much like the midterm, the exam consists of reading text, maps, and charts that will be interpreted. The exam also includes facts, concepts, and patterns that pertain to the civilizations and events we studied. All exams are challenging; you will have to study for this exam to do well.

Please start to prepare early. Twenty minutes a day will go a long way toward your performance on the exam.

Absolute Rulers

  1. What was an absolute monarch? (pg 594-95)
  2. What is divine right?
  3. List two purposes of the Palace at Versailles? (pg 594)
  4. What was the effect of the Spanish Armada of 1588? (pg 591)
  5. List three major accomplishments and two weaknesses for each Absolute Ruler:

Leader / Accomplishments / Weaknesses
Philip II (pg 589-91)
Louis XIV (598-602)
Frederick the Great
(pg 606-607)
Peter the Great
(pg 609-611)
  1. What is a constitutional monarchy and where was it found in the era of Absolute Rulers? (pg 617)
  2. Explain Montesquieu’s unique Enlightenment beliefs. (pg 631)
  3. Explain Voltaire’s unique Enlightenment beliefs. (pg 630-31)
  4. Explain Locke’s unique Enlightenment beliefs. (pg 630)
  5. What led to the scientific revolution? (pg 623-626)

Revolutions

  1. What enlightenment ideas are in the Declaration of Independence? (pg 632 pg 643)
  2. List one economic and one political similarity between the American Revolution and French Revolution? (Pg 652-653; pg 641)
  1. What were the causes of the French Revolution? (pg 651-53)
  2. What is a coup d’etat? ((pg 663-64)
  3. How and why did Napoleon rise to power in France? (663-64)
  4. How and why did Napoleon fall from power in France? (pg 668-671)

Industrial Revolution

  1. What was the Industrial Revolution? (pg 717)
  2. List three reasons the Industrial Revolution began in Britain. (pg 718)

  4. Briefly describe life as a proletariat during the Industrial Revolution. (pg 724-726)
  5. Explain Karl Marx’s famous beliefs from this era. (pg 736-738)
  6. Explain Adam Smith’s famous beliefs from this era. (pg 734-35)

Nationalism and Imperialism

What is Nationalism? (pg 687)

  1. List three reasons the Europeans sought to colonize Africa. (pg 774-76)
  2. What is Social Darwinism and how did it justify imperialism?(pg 775)
  3. What is a sphere of influence and how did it impact European countries? (pg 807)
  4. How did spheres of influence impact China? (pg 808)
  5. What was the main cause of the Opium War? (pg 806)
  6. How were the Sepoy Mutiny and the Boxer Rebellion similar? (pg 793)
  7. Define cash crop and explain its impact on lands colonized by Europeans. (pg 776)

World War I

  1. Define and give one specific example of each of the (4) M.A.I.N. reasons World War I started:

(pg 841-42)
Militarism:
Alliances:
Imperialism:
Nationalism:

  1. Explain trench warfare—conditions and location. (pg 847)
  1. What were the main provisions of the Treaty of Versailles and how did it impact Germany? (pg 858-61)
  2. Explain the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman note and their impact the U.S.A. in WWI. (pg 852-53)
  1. Name and briefly describe the goals of each Russian Revolution in 1917. (869-871)
  1. What was the final outcome of the Russian Revolutions of 1917?(pg 869-871)
  1. Describe the behavior (and reasons for that behavior) of Japan towards its neighbors (like China) after World War I. (pg 886; 916)
  1. Explain the impact of Germany’s geography on its performance in the World Wars. (pg 846-847)

World War II

  1. Define:
    Appeasement (pg 917)
    Blitzkrieg (pg 925)
    Holocaust (pgs 937-939) (Ch 32-3)
    Final Solution (pg 937)
    Genocide (pgs 937-939)
    anti-Semitism (pg 913)
    Communism (pg 737)
    Fascism (pg 910) (Ch 31-3)
    Totalitarianism (pg 874) (Ch 30-2)
    Isolationism (pg 918)
  2. Who were the leaders of the following countries during WWII? (Ch 32)
  3. Germany -
  4. Italy -
  5. USSR -
  6. Japan -
  7. United States -
  8. Great Britain -
  9. What was the purpose of D-Day (Operation Overlord) and who participated? (pg 943)
  1. List two reasons why the USA used the atomic bomb on Japan. (pgs 945-947)
  1. What was the purpose of the Nuremberg trials? What was the outcome? (pg 950)

The Cold War and Russia

  1. Define the following:
    The Truman Doctrine (pg 968)
    Containment (pg 967)

Self-determination (pg 858)

Iron-Curtain (pg 967)
Cold War (pg 969)

  1. Satellite state (google this)
  1. Marshall Plan (pg 968)
  1. What was the reason Germany built the Berlin Wall? (pg 969)
  1. What was the effect of the launching of Sputnik on the United States? (pgs 970-971)
  1. What was the Bay of Pigs invasion? (pg 985)
  1. What was the main difference between NATO and the Warsaw Pact? (pg 969)

China

  1. What were the goals of the Communist Party in China? (pg 974)
  2. Who was the leader of the Communist Party in China and what were his beliefs? (pg 972)
  3. What was the Cultural Revolution? (pg 975)
  1. Briefly explain what happened in Tiananmen Square.(pg 1061)
  1. What is the Red Guard? (pg 975)

Soviet Union

  1. Define perestroika (pg 1047)
  2. Define glasnost (pg 1046)
  1. List two results of the fall of the Berlin Wall. (pgs 1053-1054)


Other modern history

  1. Why was Israel formed as a new country after WWII? (pg 1017-18)
  1. List two arguments for a Palestinian State. (pg 1017)
  1. List two arguments against a Palestinian State. (pgs 1017-1018; pg1020)
  1. Why was India divided into Pakistan and India? (pg 998-999)
  2. Define apartheid. (pg 1043-44)
  3. Who was Nelson Mandela and why was he important? (pg 1043-1044)