World History, Culture, and Geography

Fall Final Exam Review Sheet

 

Directions:  Using your assignment logs and notes, answer the following questions or identify the following terms in complete sentences on a separate sheet of paper.  A completed review sheet is worth 10% on the final exam.

 

Unit 2 – Origins of Democratic Ideas / Unit 3 – Revolutions

 

1.                 Define: (a) democracy, (b) direct democracy, (c) indirect democracy, (d) republic, (e) patrician, (f) plebeian

2.                 What is the legacy of the monotheistic religions regarding democracy?

3.                 Define (a) Rule of Law, (b) Absolute Monarchy, and (c) British Constitution

4.                 How was the Magna Carta not a document for the common man?

5.                 Identify the main ideas on the purpose of government of Locke and Hobbes.

6.                 What is separation of powers and what philosophe developed the idea?

7.                 How did John Locke influence the Declaration of Independence?

8.                 How did Beccaria influence the American Bill of Rights?

9.                 What caused the French Revolution?

10.             What were the legacies of the American and French Revolutions

11.             Identify: Fathers Miguel Hidalgo, Joes Maria Morelos, Simon Bolivar

12.             What was the underlying purposes of the Latin American independence movements?

 

Unit 4 – Industrial Revolution

 

1.       Identify the cottage or domestic industry.

2.       Why was Britain first to industrialize?

3.       What was the significance of the Industrial Revolution?

4.       Define urbanization, Laissez Faire

5.       What were working conditions like in the factories?

6.       Identify Karl Marx, Adam Smith, David Ricardo

7.       According to communism what is the future of capitalism?

8.       What the communist and capitalistic beliefs on social conditions and freedom.

 

Unit 5 – Imperialism

 

1.      Why was Islam accepted  more readily than Christianity in Africa?

2.      Identify the five motives behind imperialism.

3.      Define: (a) imperialism, (b) Social Darwinism.

4.      How were Europeans able to successfully colonize much of the world?

5.      Name the only two African nations to keep their independence.

6.      Identify: (a) Maji Maji Rebellion, (b) Menelik II, (c) Berlin Conference

7.      How was Menelik able to successfully resist European domination?

 

 

 

 

Unit 6 – World War I

 

1.                 Name and define the four underlying causes of World War I.

2.                 Define: (a) militarism, (b) alliance system.

4.                 Why were the Balkans known as the Òpowder kegÓ of Europe?

5.                 List the nations that made up the Triple Alliance and Triple Entente. What nations formed the Central and Allied Powers?

6.                 What event started string of events that started WWI?

7.                 Describe life in the trenches.

8.                 How many people were mobilized in WWI? Injured? Killed? Based upon these figures, what were your chances of escaping both death and injury in WWI?

9.                 According to Trumbo, what are some reasons governments go to war?

10.             According to Trumbo, when should the Òlittle guyÓ fight? What would drive him to give up his life? Give examples of things he might fight and die for.

11.             In his poem In Flanders Fields, what does John McCrae mean when he writes. ÒIf ye break faith with us who die/We shall not sleep, though poppies grow/In Flanders fieldÓ?

12.             What effect do you think Wilfred Owen hoped to achieve by repeating the Latin quotation Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori at the end of his poem Dulce Et Decorum Est?

13.             Study the map on page 368 of your textbook. (a) In which country was almost all of the war in the West fought? (b) What geographic disadvantage did Germany and Austria-Hungary face in fighting the war? (c) How might this have affected their war strategy?

14.             Identify: (a) the Schlieffen Plan, (b) unrestricted submarine warfare, (c) Zimmerman note, (d) total war, (e) propaganda

15.             Define: (a) trench warfare, (b) Òno manÕs land,Ó (c) Òover the top,Ó (d) casualty.

16.             How did American forces contribute to the end of the war?

17.             Define: (a) armistice

18.             Identify: (a) Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, (b) WilsonÕs 14 Points