6Th Grade Social Studies Unit 2 Test Study Guide for Test on Monday, Oct

6th Grade Social Studies Unit 2 Test Study Guide for test on Monday, Oct. 3rd

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1. In what way did Nationalism affect European colonization of Asia and Africa?

2. What was the name of Hitler’s political party?

3. Which European country once controlled Louisiana and Canada?

4. Who was the European explorer that sailed around or “circumnavigated” the world, proving it was round?

5. Which European country developed a school of Navigation in the 1400’s?

6. In what way was the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand significant?

7. What form of government did Tsar Nicholas II of Russia have?

8. What is the name given to the policy to occupy lands and form colonies?

9. What man, in the 1400’s, provided funds to study navigation, develop better ships, and encouraged exploration along Africa’s coast as a means to find a route to India?

10. Why would Europeans establish colonies overseas?

11. What was the name of the new type of ship developed that made European exploration of the world possible in the 1400’s?

12. Why would Europeans explore the world?

13. Where were the main colonies of Portugal in the Americas and Africa?

14. What contributed to the outbreak of WW I?

15. What were three goals of early European explorers?

16. Which two empires did Spain’s Cortez and Pizarro conquer?

17. What treaty forced Germany to accept the blame for WW I?

18. What were causes of the Russian Revolution?

19. What part of the treaty ending WW I was most damaging to Germany?

20. What were the effects of the Depression?

21. What were reasons Hitler and his German political party came to power?

22. What war was caused by militarism and imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

23. When Hitler was in power in Germany, what happened to people who spoke out against him?

24. What was the name of the time period when Europe was leaving the Middle Ages and moving to a time of cultural rebirth?

25. What were the only two European, actually Italian, cities did Moslem traders sell their spices, silks, jewels, and porcelains to?

26. What were the three G’s of the Age of Exploration?

27. Students will also have to know the location of the following European countries (learned in class): Spain, France, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, United Kingdom, Belgium and Italy