World History Study Guide –

Enlightenment

1.  What idea does “divine right” support?

2.  What kind of government did England have in the 1600’s?

3.  Who proposed the heliocentric theory?

4.  What law did Isaac Newton explain?

5.  What group accepted the ideas and principles of the Enlightenment?

6.  Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

7.  What people influenced the ideas in the Bill of Rights?

8.  What document has the idea that men are born free and equal?

French Revolution to Latin America

9.  What percentage of France’s population belonged to the Third Estate?

10.  What happened on Bastille Day?

11.  During the Reign of Terror, who was safe from the guillotine?

12.  Why did Napoleon sell the Louisiana Territory to the US?

13.  What were some consequences of the Battle of Trafalgar?

14.  What did Napoleon accomplish during peacetime?

15.  What was the main goal of the Congress of Vienna?

16.  Who was the most influential leader at the Congress of Vienna?

17.  Who expanded Prussia in the 1860’s?

18.  What group led the independence movement in Latin America?

19.  Who was Jose de San Martin and what did he do?

20.  Who led the independence movement in Mexico?

Industrial Revolution

21.  What was the industrial revolution?

22.  What are the factors of production?

23.  What was a result of the agricultural revolution?

24.  What is the name for voluntary associations of workers seeking labor reform?

25.  What is laissez-faire economics?

26.  Who are the Zionists?

27.  Who was the American inventor who created the assembly line?

28.  What concept in the theory of evolution based on?

Imperialism

29.  Why was India called the “jewel in the crown”?

30.  What happened as a result of the Berlin Conference?

31.  Why did some US business leaders want Hawaii to be annexed to the US?

32.  Why did Britain sell opium to China?

33.  What is manifest destiny?

34.  Why wasn’t there adequate food in Africa during colonization?

35.  What happened as a result of the Sepoy Mutiny?

36.  Why did nations desire Pacific Rim islands?

37.  Why was the Mexican Revolution fought?

World War I

38.  What is the policy of glorifying power and keeping an army prepared for war?

39.  What is nationalism?

40.  What region was referred to as the “powder keg” of Europe?

41.  Who led Germany during the last part of the 1800’s and most of WWI?

42.  What was the Schlieffen Plan?

43.  What nation’s actions caused the US to enter WWI?

44.  What is it called when all of the resources are devoted to the war effort?

45.  What happened at the Battle of Tannenburg?

46.  What did unrestricted submarine warfare do?

47.  How did the Treaty of Versailles affect Germany after the war?

48.  What was America’s opinion on joining the League of Nations?

49.  What happened to start the Great War?

50.  What was significant of the First Battle of the Marne?

51.  What was trench warfare intended to do?

52.  What effect did the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk have?

53.  What action on November 11, 1918 brought WWI to an end?

54.  What were the Fourteen Points about?

55.  Who took sole (all of the) responsibility for WWI under the Treaty of Versailles?

56.  Under the treaty, who received the Chinese territories that had been controlled by Germany?

Russian Revolution/Between the Wars

57.  What did the pogroms do that occurred in late 19th century Russia?

58.  How did the Russian czars deal with calls for reform?

59.  Who were the Bolsheviks?

60.  Who was responsible for the Great Purges?

61.  What led Britain to finally give India limited self-rule?

62.  Who did China’s peasants align themselves with in the 1920’s?

63.  What halted the Chinese civil war in 1937?

64.  After WWI, what kind of government have, if only temporarily?

65.  What is a totalitarian state?

66.  What was the purpose of the Soviet 5-Year Plans?

67.  What group took the Long March?

68.  Who led the protest known as the Salt March?

69.  Whose theory of relativity replaced Newton’s laws of motion?

70.  What event marked the beginning of the Great Depression?

71.  What was Roosevelt’s New Deal program?

72.  What effect did the Dawes plan have?

73.  What damaged the US economy in the late 1920’s?

74.  What caused Germany to take Hitler seriously?

75.  What makes fascism so appealing?

76.  Why did Hitler target the Jews?

World War II

77.  Who was il Duce ?

78.  What political party wanted to combat communism?

79.  What was the alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan?

80.  What was the goal of isolationists after WWI?

81.  What is appeasement?

82.  Why did Japan invade Manchuria?

83.  What effect did the non-aggression pact have?

84.  Why are coalition governments usually unstable?

85.  What prompted Britain and France to declare war on Germany?

86.  What role does Winston Churchill have?

87.  What was blitzkrieg?

88.  What lesson was learned at the Battle of Britain?

89.  What event was described as “a date which will live in infamy”?

90.  What was significant about the Battle of Midway?

91.  What was the location of a Nazi extermination camp?

92.  What was the last German offensive battle?

93.  Where were the atomic bombs dropped?

94.  What was addressed at the Nuremberg Trials?

95.  What did it mean to be “behind the iron curtain”?

96.  What was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine?

97.  What was the name of the alliance made by Communist nations?

98.  What two groups fought a civil war in China before and after WWII?

99.  What was addressed in the Nuremberg Trials?

100.  Why did Hitler want to take Poland?

101.  What was “island hopping”?

102.  What was Kristallnacht?

103.  What was the goal of Hitler’s Final Solution?

104.  What led to the defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad?

105.  What do kamikaze pilots show about Japanese culture?

106.  How did the Lend-Lease Act benefit the US?

107.  What was the response to Japanese aggression in Southwest Asia in mid-1941?

108.  Why were thousands of US citizens put into internment camps during the war?

Cold War

109.  What theory justified US foreign policy during the Cold War?

110.  What were Third World countries?

111.  Who supported the Strategic Defense Inititative?

112.  What was the new economic policy started by Gorbachev that allowed private ownership of businesses?

113.  Who signed the Camp David Accords?

114.  What created the Israeli “buffer zone”?

115.  What happened to Yitzhak Rabin and Anwar Sadat?

Modern Day

116.  What caused the two Germany’s to reunify?

117.  What was the original purpose of the internet?

118.  What do developed nations have that developing nations do not?

119.  What is included in the global economy?

120.  What is sustainable development?

121.  What was the US civil rights movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s?

122.  What is meant by popular culture?