World History

Second Semester Exam Review

Answer all of the following questions to receive 10 extra credit points on your exam.
Ch 22 Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
1. Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
2. According to Thomas Hobbes Social Contract, citizens echange rights !or """"".
#. $ist %ohn $oc&e's Natural (ights.
). The *nlightenment ideals +ere the basis !or the """""""""" (e,olution.
Ch 23 French Revolution
-. What +as the Tennis Court .ath?
/. What happened on 0astille 1a2?
3. What +ere the re,olutionar2 colors?
4. What happened to 5ing $ouis 678 and 9arie Antoinette?
:. What +ere the principles o! the Napoleonic Code?
1;. What action caused the greatest human loss !or Napoleon's arm2?
11. What tactic did the (ussians use against Napoleon's troops?
12. Which battle mar&ed Napoleon's !inal de!eat?
Ch 24 Exploration, Isolation and Asolutism
1#. What is a nation<state?
Ch 2! Industrialism
1). What +as the 8ndustrial (e,olution?
1-. Ho+ did the Agricultural (e,olution pa,e the +a2 !or the 8ndustrial (e,olution?
1/. Which industr2 reall2 boomed during the industrial re,olution?
13. Who is %ames Watt?
14. 1e!ine urbanization.
1:. What is capitalism?
2;. What is socialism?
21. What does =laissez<!aire> mean?
Ch 2" #emocrac$ and %rogress
22. Who +ere the ?ionists?
2#. Wh2 +as Canada split into @pper and $o+er Canada?
2). What did it mean to be a dominion?
2-. What lands did Captain Coo& claim !or Areat 0ritain?
2/. Wh2 +as Australia made into a penal colon2?
23. What crop +as hurt b2 a !ungus that led to the Areat Bamine in 8reland?
24. To +hich countr2 did the most 8rish emigrants go during the Areat Bamine?
2:. What contribution did Henr2 Bord ma&e to the manu!acturing industr2?
#;. What e!!ect did the maCor in,entions o! the 1:th<centur2 ha,e on people's li,es in industrialized nations?
#1. Wh2 +as the +or& o! $ouis Dasteur important in the histor2 o! medicine?
#2. Who +as Sigmund Breud?
##. What led to a rise in =mass culture>?
Ch 2& Imperialism
#). 1e!ine colon2.
Ch 2' (orld (ar I
#-. Who is Al!red Nobel?
#/. 1e!ine imperialism.
#3. What e,ent started the Areat War EWW8F?
#4. What is trench +ar!are?
#:. What is meant b2 the term =No 9an's $and?>
);. Who +ere the Central Do+ers?
)1. What is meant b2 =total +ar?>
)2. 1e!ine propaganda.
)#. What +ere the Fourteen Points?
)). What treat2 !orced Aerman2 to assume total responsibilit2 !or World War 8?
)-. Ho+ did Americans !eel about Coining the $eague o! Nations?
Ch 3) Communism
)/. Who +as the leader o! the 0olshe,i&s?
)3. 1e!ine totalitarian.
)4. 1e!ine collecti,es.
):. Who made up the elite group in So,iet societ2?
-;. Who +as 9ao ?edong?
-1. Who +as 9ohandas Aandhi?
Ch 3*+32 (orld (ar II
-2. 1e!ine in!lation.
-#. What is Mein Kampf?
-). What Aerman political part2 too& po+er in the late 1:#;'s?
--. What s2mbol did %e+s ha,e to +ear in Aerman2?
-/. Wh2 did Hitler target the %e+ish population as scapegoats !or Aerman2's problems?
-3. Wh2 did %apanese militar2 leaders see& to epand their territor2?
-4. Who +ere the Ais Do+ers?
-:. What +as the 0ritish polic2 o! appeasement?
/;. What e,ent prompted Brance and Areat 0ritain to declare +ar on Aerman2?
/1. What is meant b2 the term blitz&rieg?
/2. What tactic did the So,iets use to slo+ Hitler's ad,ance into (ussia?
/#. *plain the @.S. polic2 o! isolationism.
/). Who +as Winston Churchill?
/-. Who +as the @.S. president during most o! World War 88?
//. .n +hat date +as Dearl Harbor bombed b2 the %apanese?
/3. 1e!ine genocide.
/4. What +as Hitler's Binal Solution?
/:. Ai,e some eamples o! =total +ar> during World War 88.
3;. =1<1a2> re!ers to """""""""""""""""""""""""""""".
31. Who +as 1ouglas 9acarthur?
32. What happened to Hitler at the end o! World War 88?
3#. Ho+ do +e &no+ that %apanese culture ,alued honor more than li!e?
3). Wh2 did Dresident Truman agree to use the atomic bomb?
Ch 33 Cold (ar
3-. What is the @N Aeneral Assembl2?
3/. What is the @N Securit2 Council?
33. What is meant b2 the term =Cold War?>
34. Who +ere the t+o superpo+ers o! the Cold War?
3:. What is the =8ron Curtain?>
4;. What Aerman cit2 +as di,ided b2 the So,iet @nion and democratic Allies?
41. What is NAT.?
42. What t2pe o! +eapons +ere de,eloped during the Arms (ace?
4#. Where did Chinese nationalist !lee to a!ter the communist ta&eo,er?
4). What t2pe o! political s2stem did the North 5oreans de,elop?
4-. What +ere some o! the di!!iculties o! the @.S. troops in 7ietnam?
4/. What happened +hen @.S. troops le!t 7ietnam?
43. What e,ent caused the @.S. to increase spending on technolog2?
44. What challenge +as gi,en b2 Dresident %ohn B. 5enned2?
4:. What +as the Cuban 9issile Crisis?
:;. What is the Strategic 1e!ense 8nitiati,e?
Ch 34 Conflict in the ,iddle East
:1. What land is considered to be Dalestine?
:2. 1e!ine partition.
:#. What happened on 9a2 1), 1:)4 and 9a2 1-, 1:)4?
:). Wh2 +asn't a Dalestinian state !ormed?
Ch 3" -errorism
:-. 1e!ine terrorism.
:/. What do most terrorist acti,ities ha,e ties to?
:3. What areas +ere attac&ed on September 11, 2;;1?
:4. Who +as responsible !or the September 11 attac&s?
::. Ho+ did Americans !eel immediatel2 a!ter September 11, 2;;1?
1;;. As a result o! the attac&s on September 11, the @.S. too& militar2 action in """"".