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1st Semester
1. Where did human life begin?
2. What is the period, of time before writing called?
3. Who was Hammurabi?
4. Who was Siddhartha Gautama? What did he found?
5. Who fought in the Peloponnesian War?
6. What was the Pax Romana?
7. Who became the 1* Christian emperor?
8. What are the five duties of all Muslims called?
9. Which group controlled a vast empire known as the Khanate of the Golden Horde?
10. What was the Magna Carta?
11. Who was Joan of Arc?
12. What is chivalry?
13. What caused the rise m feudalism?
14. Who painted the Sistine Chapel?
15. What was the 1st Protestant faith?
16. Who was the 1st Roman emperor?
17. What is Muhammad considered to be?
18. Who was Genghis Khan?
19. What was the world’s 1st democracy?
Scientific Revolution
20. What was Ptolemy’s argument (the Ptolemaic system)?
21. What was Copernicus’ argument?
22. What did Isaac Newton's law of gravitation explain?
23. What type of reasoning did Francis Bacon think scientists should use?
24. According to John Locke, what shapes people?
25. What did Montesquieu contribute to polities?
26. Explain Adam Smith’s belief that the government should be Laissez-faire when it comes to the economy?
French Revolution, Napoleon, Europe after Napoleon
27. What was the Tennis Court Oath?
28. Which types of people were described as sans-culottes?
29. What was the purpose of the Committee of Public Safety?
30. Give 2 reasons why Napoleon’s Grand Empire was defeated and collapsed.
31. Who did the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen give rights to?
32. Who was Maxamillon Robespierre?
33. How did the Russians defeat Napoleon’s army?
34. What happened to Napoleon in Waterloo, Belgium?
35. What king was executed in the French Revolution?
36. Who was Otto von Bismarck?
37. Industrial Revolution and the 1800s
38. Which industry was one of the 1st to be affected by the Industrial Revolution?
39. According to Charles Darwin, what was central to organic evolution?
40. What is Liberalism?
41. What is Romanticism?
42. What is Realism?
43. What is Socialism?
44. What is Conservatism?
45. What is Nationalism?
46. Who were the proletariat?
47. Who invented the steam engine?
World War I – The Great War
48. Who were the members of the Triple Entente?
49. Who were the members of the Triple Alliance?
50. Who were the members of the Central Powers?
51. What was the Treaty of Versailles? How did the Germans feel about the treaty?
52. Describe a total war.
53. What aggressive German actions caused the US to join the Allies in World War I?
54. Who was V.I. Lenin?
55. What US action weakened the League of Nations?
56. What was considered an the spark that started WWI?
57. What is a soviet?
58. What militarism?
59. What battle stopped the German advance towards Paris?
60. Which country betrayed its allies in WWI?
61. What was Woodrow Wilson’s plan for after WWI?
62. What was the Schlieffen Plan?
63. Who was Karl.Marx?
The Rise of Dictators
64. What is a totalitarian state?
65. In what country did Benito Mussolini first establish fascism?
66. What was the purpose of Josef Stalin’s Five-Year Plans?
67. What was the Kristallnacht?
68. Describe an economic depression.
69. What led to Hitler and the Nazi's gaining so much power in Germany?
70. What caused the Great Depression?
WWII
71. What country did Hitler invade, causing Britain & France to declare war on Germany?
72. Describe Hitler’s blitzkrieg, or “lightning war”.
73. What happened on December 7,1941?
74. What was the importance of the Battle of Midway?
75. What was appeasement? Who was guilty of it?
76. What happened at the Miracle of Dunkirk?
77. What was the Holocaust?
78. Why was the Battle of Stalingrad important?
79. Who was the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe in WWI I?
80. Who was the head of the SS (in Germany in WWII)?
81. Who was the Nazi minister of Propaganda?
Imperialism & Nationalism
82. What were the only free states in Africa in 1914?
83. What was the “white man's burden?
84. Who invaded Manchuria in 1931?
85. What is ethnic cleansing? What other word has the same meaning?
The Cold War
86. Define Cold War.
87. What was the Marshall Plan?
88. Which country became a communist country in 1949?
89. What happened at the “Bay of Pigs?”
90. What was the Truman Doctrine?
91. Why was the Berlin Wall built? Who ordered it to be built?
92. What two countries are divided by the 38u‘ parallel?
93. Why did China get involved in the Korean War?
94. Who was the leader of North Korea during the Korean War?
95. Which communist leader built the Berlin Wall?
96. Who commanded US troops in Vietnam?
The 1970s to Modern World
97. What does detente mean?
98. Who founded the trade union called Solidarity?
99. What ended the period of detente between the US and Soviet Union?
100. Describe the Brezhnev Doctrine.
101. What was “perestroika?”
102. Which US president was involved with the Watergate Scandal?
103. What is Pan-Africanism?
104. Who was the 1st black president of South Africa?
105. In which Chinese city did the Tiananmen Square demonstration take place?
106. Where did the world’s worst nuclear explosion take place in 1986?
107. Where did a major gas leak take place, killing thousands?
108. What Cold War conflict has Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan been compared to?
109. List some of the changes Mikhail Gorbachev was responsible for?
110. Which specific group of people did Slobodan Milosevic target in Serbia & Croatia? Why did he go on trial?
111. The invasion of which country led to an international outcry and the first Gulf War?
112. What extremist Palestinian group killed Israeli athletes during the 1'972 Olympics?
113. What was Reagan’s SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) called by its critics?
114. Who was behind the attacks on the World Trade Center?
115. Much of the conflict in the Middle East can be traced back to the creation of which country in 1948?
116. What country experienced “ethnic cleansing” in 1994?
117. Who was Joseph McCarthy?
118. What communist nation remained independent of Soviet Union?
119. What causes tension in Modern African cultures?
120. Who was the leader of the ANC?
121. What country controlled Vietnam until 1954?
122. What was SALT?
123. Where were Americans held hostage in the late 1970s?
124. What is NATO?
125. Who were the mujahadin?
126. What Islamic fundamentalist group took control of Afghanistan after the Soviets withdrew?
127. Who commanded Coalition troops in the 1st Gulf War?
128. Which communist leader instituted the policy of perestroika?
129. Who was the president of Russia who declared Russia’s independence from the USSR in 1991
Identify the importance of/DEFINE
130. the Ninety-five thesis
131. Homo sapiens
132. philosophe
133. George Washington
134. Galileo Galilei
135. Rene Descartes
136. John Locke
137. US Constitution
138. coup d’état
139. Bastille
140. Continental System
141. Voltaire
142. Isaac Newton
143. Rousseau
144. Elba
145. Napoleonic Code
146. Marie Antoinette
147. Directory
148. guillotine
149. plebiscite
150. Giuseppe Garibaldi
151. cottage industry
152. Charles Darwin
153. industrial capitalism
154. propaganda
155. mandate
156. conscription
157. Gavrilo Princip
158. planned economies
159. war of attrition
160. mobilization
161. Grigori Rasputin
162. Archduke Ferdinand
163. Trench Warfare
164. collectivization
165. fascism
166. Lebensraum
167. Aryan
168. Joseph Goebbels
169. Joseph Stalin
170. New Deal
171. Mahatma
172. Axis Powers
173. Luftwaffe
174. blitz
175. Munich Conference
176. appeasement
177. isolationism
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kamikaze
D-Day
Final Solution
Ho Chi Minh
Harry Truman
Lyndon Johnson
Douglas MacArthur
Indira Gandhi
Viet Cong
Mao Zedong
George Bush
Bill Clinton, NAFTA
George W. Bush
Kent .State
Kosovo
Ronald Reagan
Saddam Hussein
Genocide