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Introduction
1. Why is it important to study history?
2. What is essential for civilization to occur and why?
Scientific Revolution
1. What role did new technology play in the Scientific Revolution?
2. How did the Scientific Revolution change the world then and now?
3. What was the source of the Constitution’s authority? How did this reflect
Enlightenment ideas?
4. How did the Enlightenment lead to a more secular outlook?
5. How did Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau’s ideas compare and contrast?
French Revolution questions
1. What actions by the French nobility caused the French Revolution?
2. How did Napoleon influence French society?
Romanticism questions
1. How are the ideals of Romanticism reflected in modern society? (you can also
talk about how your own views may overlap with these ideals.)
2. How does the role that Romantic writers assign to their feelings compare with the
role that Enlightenment writers claimed for reason?
Industrial Revolution questions
1. What role did new technology play in the Industrial Revolution? Pick two
inventions that were created and describe their impact? How has this development
of new ideas continued since?
2. Describe the living conditions in Britain during the Industrialization. How should
a society look at the issue of progress verse keeping things the same?
3. How does the work place change do to the Industrial Revolution? Is this for the
better or for the worse?
Liberalism, Nationalism, and Socialism questions
1. How has each of these ideologies influenced the world of today?
2. Explain how Nationalism is a good thing and also a bad thing in you own
opinion?
3. Why has socialism been viewed so negatively in our society and what are some of
its good tenets?
4. Why is Liberalism a good thing and also a bad thing in you opinion?
Imperialism questions
1. What can you infer about the Europeans’ attitude toward Africans from the Berlin
Conference?
2. Do you think Europeans could have conquered Africa if the Industrial Revolution
had never occurred? Explain you answer.
3. Why might Africans have admired Europeans culture, even though it was
destroying their own?
4. What sort of problems might result from combining or splitting groups of people
without regard for ethnic or linguistic traditions?
World War I questions
1. The four major issues that brought on World War I were Militarism, Alliances,
Imperialism, and Nationalism. How do these four topics affect our world today?
2. Explain how new technology effected the war and how it still effects wars today?
3. Explain what total war is and how it affects the warring nations’ economies?
Between the Wars
1. How does the depression in the world during the 1920’s and 1930’s affect world
politics?
2. How do Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini take control in their country?
3. How is the Treaty of Versailles the seed to the second world war?
World War II
1. Was the policy of appeasement effective – should it be used today?
2. How would you have felt if you were apart of the invasion on D-day?
3. Does the US still use Propaganda today? How?
Cold War Questions
1. Was the policy of containment successful? Why or why not?
2. Was the Cold war Inevitable? Explain.
3. How should the US continue to engage the world on foreign policy?