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World History
Final Exam Studyguide
Chapter 12-13
1)What is romanticism? Realism?
2)Who proposed the germ theory?
3)What country started the industrial revolution?
4)What products were extremely important during the first industrial revolution? Second industrial
revolution?
5)What was the Irish potato famine?
6)Describe socialism and Robert Owen’s community
7)Describe the process of German Unification and Otto von Bismark’s role in the process.
8)Describe the two classes that rose in Europe during the Industrial Revolution.
9)What was the Dreyfus Affair?
10)Describe the following or tell why each is significant: liberalism, nationalism, Crimean War, Edison,
Bell, Marconi, Wright Brothers, Karl Marx, feminism, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud
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11)Who Jose de San Martin?
12)Who was Simon Bolivar?
13)Describe Gandhi’s policy of civil disobedience?
14)Who was Toussaint Louverture?
15)Who was Emiliano Aguinaldo?
16)Who Was Cecil Rhodes?
17)What was the Sepoy Mutiny?
18)What American president was known for conservation, creating national parks, and the building of the Panama
Canal was
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19)The war that resulted from the Japanese attacking a Russian naval base was the
20)What did Commander Perry do in Japan?
21)The Japanese agreed to recognize the United States’ role in the Philippines and the United States agreed to
recognize Japan’s role in
22)Period in Japan when the Tokagawa were replaced by another group set up a nation that was supposedly under
the emperor was called the ________________ Restoration.
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23)Describe the alliances going into WWI. What were the two alliances eventually called?
24)What were the long term causes of WWI? Describe each.
25)Describe the immediate (direct) cause of WWI.
26)Describe the Schlieffen Plan. Why was it unsuccessful?
27) What is propaganda? How was it used in WWI?
28)Describe the first Battle of Marne.
29)Describe the battles and fate of Russia on the eastern front.
30)What types of new technology/equipment were used in WWI?
31)How and why did the U.S. get involved with WWI?
32)How did the roles of women change as a result of WWI?
33)Describe the fall of Czar Nicholas II in Russia.
34)How did Lenin come to power in Russia? What did do about other political parties?
35)Describe the Second Battle of Marne.
36)Describe Wilson’s Fourteen Points.
37)Who were the “Big Three”? What were the provisions of the Treaty ofVersailles?
38)What empires were destroyed as a result of WWI? What happened to the Arab states?
39)What were the casualties and other effects of WWI?
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40)Why did the U.S. Senate fail to ratify the Treaty of Versailles?
41)Describe the Dawes Plan.
42)Describe the Depression of the 1920s-1930s in Germany.
43)Describe the philosophy of John Maynard Keynes.
44)What is the difference between an authoritarian and totalitarian leader?
45)What did Mussolini do to change government in Italy?
46)What was Lenin’s NEP?
47)What was Stalin’s Purge? What was his Five Year Plan?
48)How was Franco’s Spain different from Mussolini’s Italy?
49)Describe Hitler’s early life and how he came to power in Nazi Germany and eventually assume power.
50)What was Mein Kampf about?
51)What was Hitler’s plan for Germany?
52)What were Hitler’s Nuremberg laws?
53)Describe Kristallnacht
54)How did Ataturk change Turkey? (chp. 18 sec.1)
55)Describe the massacre of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. (chp. 18 sec. 1)
56)How did Saudi Arabia become a nation? How did it become rich? (chp. 18 sec. 1)
57)What did Mukhtar and Thuku do to move African nations toward independence? (chp. 18 sec. 2) What
did Gandhi do in India? (chp. 18 sec. 3)
58)How did Japan’s role in the Pacific change during the 1920s and 1930s? Why did this create tension
between Japan and the U.S.? (chp. 18 sec. 2)
59)Who were the nationalist and communist leaders of China during the 1920s? How was the alliance
broken? (chp. 18 sec. 3)
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60)Who were the Axis and Allies during WWII?
61)What was the Rome-Berlin Axis, Nazi-Sovet Non-Agression Act, and Anti-Comintern Pact?
62)What was Chamberlain’s strategy with Hitler?
63)What was the Mukden incident?
64)Describe “blitzkrieg”.
65)What was the Maginot Line?
66)What targets did Hitler first hit in Britain? Why did he begin to hit cities and later attack the USSR?
67)When and why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
68)Who was Rommel? Who was Himmler? Who was Heydrich?
69)What was the U.S.’s strategy of attack in Japan?
70)Describe the D-day invasion.
71)What was the fate of Hitler and Mussolini?
72)Describe how and who made the decision to drop the atomic bomb.
73)Describe the casualties of WWII.
74)Describe the Nazi strategy of “resettlement”.
75)About how many Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust? What was the largest death camp?
76)How did the Japanese treat the Vietnamese, Koreans, and Chinese after conquering them?
77)How many planes, and boats did the U.S. make per day, year in WWII?
78)How did African-Americans contribute to the war effort?
79)What was a kamikaze?
80)Who were the Big Three? What did they decide at the Tehran Conference? Yalta? And Potsdam?
81)What were the Nuremberg Trials?
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82)What was the Truman Doctrine? Marshall Plan?
83) What four countries controlled zones in Germany? What was the Berlin Air Lift?
84)Describe NATO, the Warsaw Pact, SEATO, and CENTO.
85)What was the Cold War?
86)What was the Berlin Wall? Why was it built?
87)Describe the Bay of Pigs incident.
88)Describe the Cuban Missile Crisis.
89)Describe Khrushchev’s policy of de-Stalinization.
90)What did Charles de Gaulle achieve in France?
91)Describe the policies of Brezhnev and Gorbachev.
92)What changes did Yeltsin and Putin make in Russia?
93)Describe German Reunification.
94)Describe the split of Czechoslovakia.
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95) Identify Apartheid and Nelson Mandela
96) Define Pan-Africanism
97) Describe the relationship between the Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda.
98) Identify the following: Gamal Abdel Nasser
99) Identify Zionists
100) Identify Yasir Arafat
101) Describe the revolution in Iran (the fall of the Shah and the rise of the Ayatollah Khomeini).
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102) Summarize the events of the Korean War and how the U.S. was involved.
103) Summarize the events of the Vietnam War and how the U.S. was involved.
104) What did the U.S. do when occupying Japan after World War II.
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105) Describe some of the environmental, social, economic, and political challenges the world is facing today.
106) Name some organizations that have been established to respond to our global challenges.