Download World History II: Final Exam Study Guide Unit 8—Exploration

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World History II: Final Exam Study Guide
Final Exams Scheduled for May 23, 27, 28, 29
NOTE: The Following is a STARTING place for studying. If you know this material, you will have a good
chance of doing very well on the final. However, not all of these terms will be on the final exam, some of
the information on the final is not included here, and you may need to be able to apply your knowledge of
these ideas/people/events to new situations.
Get started early. Do a little bit at a time. Review what you have already done, and study, study, study!
Unit 7: Renaissance & Reformation (Ch. 15)
Main Ideas:
1. Describe the most important causes and effects of the Protestant Reformation.
2. In what ways did the Catholic Church react to the Protestant Reformation?
3. How did geography play a role in ushering in the era of the Italian Renaissance?
4. Describe the role of Humanism in the Renaissance.
Renaissance:
Renaissance
Humanism
Petrarch
Niccolo Machiavelli & The Prince
Nicholas Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
Renaissance Art
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Raphael
Johannes Gutenberg
William Shakespeare
Reformation:
Protestant Reformation
Protestantism
Martin Luther
95 Theses
John Calvin
King Henry VIII
Formation of the Church of England
Act of Supremacy
Elizabeth I
The Counter-Reformation
Council of Trent
Unit 8—Exploration & Colonization (Ch. 16)
Main Ideas:
1. Describe the causes and effects of the Age of Exploration.
2. Describe the relationship between the Renaissance & the Age of Exploration.
3. In what ways did the Ming Dynasty prosper and what was their relationship with Europeans.
4. What were the main characteristics of the Commercial Revolution?
5. Describe the African Diaspora—its causes & effects.
Early Exploration:
4 Motives for Exploration
Prince Henry the Navigator
Inventions:
Astrolabe
Compass
Caravel
Portuguese Exploration
Bartolomeo Dias
Vasco da Gama
Spanish Exploration
Christopher Columbus
Treaty of Tordesillas
Dutch and English exploration
Where did they go? Why? Who?
French & Indian War
Conquests in the Americas:
Small Pox
Allies
Weapons
Cortez
Pizzarro
Columbian Exchange (and effects)
New Economic Systems
Mercantilism
- Capitalism
Joint-Stock Companies
Slave Trade:
Causes/effects
Triangular Trade
Middle passage
Destinations….Where? why?
East and West Meet:
Ming China
Voyages of Zheng He
The Forbidden City
Role of Isolationism
Advantages
Disadvantages
Samurai
Zen Buddhism
Tokugawa’s Policy towards Christians
Unit 9—Absolutism, Scientific Revolution, & Enlightenment (Ch. 18-19)
Main Ideas:
1. How do Absolute monarchs gain and maintain power?
2. Describe the causes/effects of the English Civil War.
3. Describe the relationship between the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment.
Absolutism:
Absolute monarchy
Philip II, Louis XIV, Peter the Great
Versailles
westernization
Divine Right
English Civil War
Examples of Enlightened Despots
Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment:
Scientific Method
Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Bacon
Heliocentric vs. Geocentric debate
Enlightenment philosophies
Beliefs of- Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu,
Rousseau
Social Contract
Voltaire, Wollstonecraft
Unit 10—French Revolution & Napoleon (Ch. 20)
Main Ideas:
1. As the French Revolution wore on, describe the changes (if any) in the way each social class perceived the
revolution.
2. Which events led to Napoleon’s coming to power following the French Revolution?
Committee on Public Safety
French Revolution:
Jacobin Party
Estates General
Guillotine
1st, 2nd, 3rd Estates
Jean Paul Marat
Voting Rules of the Estates General
Maximillian Robespierre
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
Tennis Court Oath
Committee of Public Safety
National Assembly
Reign of Terror
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Napoleon:
Storming the Bastille
Origins & rise to power
Women’s Bread March
1799 Coup d’état
Domestic Policies
 Napoleonic Code; Bank of France;
Meritocracy; Education; Concordat
Battle of Waterloo
St. Helena
Effects of Napoleon’s reign
Congress of Vienna
*US Bill of Rights
Unit 11—Industrialization and Imperialism (Ch. 21, 24, & 25)
Main Ideas:
1. Identify and describe examples of events that occurred in non-western lands that were in opposition to
European imperialism.
2. Who was Karl Marx and what were his views in relation to the “proletariat”?
3. Describe the causes & effects of the Industrial Revolution.
4. What were the causes & effects of the Opium War in China?
5. In what ways did Industrialization impact the course of events during WWI?
Industrial Revolution:
Agricultural revolution
Enclosure movement
Causes of urbanization
Impact of Major inventions
James Watt
Domestic system/cottage system
Factory system
Mass production
Interchangeable parts
Assembly line
Rise of the Middle Class
Working Class
Environmental Impact
Imperialism:
Karl Marx and the Proletariat
Economic motives
The role of Nationalism
Maintaining the Balance of Power
Social Darwinism/ “White Man’s Burden”
British East India Company
Opium War
Taiping Rebellion
Boxer Rebellion
Open Door Policy
Commodore Matthew Perry
Treaty of Kanagawa
Meiji Restoration
Berlin Conference
Unit 12—World War I and the Russian Revolution (Ch. 26)
Main Ideas:
1. What role did European colonies play during World War I and what was the effect?
2. Describe the concept of “total war”.
3. Identify the early progression of WWI and how it grew quickly into a World War.
4. Analyze the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles—what did each country want and what was the result?
5. Identify the causes/effects of the Russian Revolution in 1917.
6. Who were Lenin and Stalin? How were their views similar? How did they differ?
7. Describe Woodrow Wilson’s vision for the postwar world.
World War I:
Triple Alliance & Triple Entente
Franz Ferdinand and Gavrilo Princip
Central Powers & Allied Powers
Western front
Schlieffen Plan
MAIN Causes of WWI
trench warfare—characteristics/effects
total war (including women’s role)
propaganda
Battle of Verdun
Gallipoli campaign
Woodrow Wilson and the US involvement
U-Boats & Zimmerman Note
armistice
Fourteen Points & League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles & mandates
Russian Revolution:
Tsar Nicholas II
Causes of revolution
- Economic
- WWI involvement
Bolsheviks
Red Army & White Army
Grigory Rasputin
Russian Civil War
Lenin
Revolution of 1905
October Revolution
Provisional Government
Marxism-Leninism
Formation of the Soviet Union
Communism
Unit 13—Interwar and World War II (Ch. 27, 28)
Main Ideas:
1. Describe the causes/effects of WWII.
2. What were the Nuremberg Laws and why were they significant?
3. Describe the evolution of the United States’ role in WWII from 1939-1945.
4. In what ways did the end of WWII usher in an era of independence movements throughout the world
(use examples).
5. Describe the doctrine of fascism.
6. In what ways were the totalitarian regimes in Germany, Italy, Japan, and the Soviet Union leading up to
and during WWII similar/different?
Interwar Years: (Ch. 27)
Chiang Kai-Shek
Mao Zedong
Amritsar Massacre
Mohandas Gandhi
Kemal Ataturk
credit
Black Tuesday
FDR
New Deal
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
John Maynard Keynes
Great Depression
Anti-Comintern Pact
Nanjing Massacre
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
5-Year Plans
totalitarianism
fascism
anti-Semitism
Nuremburg Laws
World War II: (Ch. 28)
Appeasement
Winston Churchill
Axis Powers
nonaggression pact
blitzkrieg
Allied Powers
Battle of Britain
Hideki Tojo
isolationism
Battle of Stalingrad
Bataan Death March
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Final Solution
Holocaust
D-Day
Battle of Iwo Jima
Harry S. Truman
Hirohito
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
United Nations
Other Skills to Practice:
- Analyzing maps, primary source documents, political cartoons
- Making connections within and between above units of study
- Understanding major themes of study