Download World History Mr. Folkersma – SAHS 2nd Semester EXAM REVIEW

World History
Mr. Folkersma – SAHS
2nd Semester EXAM REVIEW
Topic that are covered:
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Chap. 17 - Renaissance
Chap. 19 - Age of Exploration
Chap. 22 – Enlightenment
Chap. 23 – French Revolution
Chap. 25 – Industrialization
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Chap. 27 – Imperialism
Chap. 29 – World War I
Chap. 32 – World War II
Chap. 36 – Global Interdependent
1. Who believed that he had discovered a westward passage to Asia, when in fact he had actually
discovered the Americas?
2. What was the name of the set of principles that dominated economic thought in the
seventeenth century?
3. Who were the first European settlers of the Hudson River valley near present day New York
City?
4. What where the colonial holdings for Portugal in the Americas during the 16th century.
5. Infer the name given to the journey of slaves from Africa to America.
6. Recall which explorer is remembered as the first to sail around the world even though he died
before completing the trip.
7. Identify the difference in value between what a nation imports and what it exports over time.
8. State what is known as a settlement of people living in a new territory linked with the parent
country by trade and direct government control.
9. A long-lasting and rewarding source of prosperity for Latin America came from this industry.
10. The Aztec rulers of Mexico fought against the forces of which Spanish warrior?
11. Why did slave owners in the sixteenth century discourage slaves from having offspring?
12. Slaves from Africa were obtained by Europeans from whom?
13. The Inca rulers of South America fought against the forces of which Spanish warrior?
14. In the Columbian Exchange livestock were brought from where and took to where?
15. The main reason why Native Americans did not work for slavery in the Americas was because?
16. Rousseau (French Revolution) argued that society should be governed by whom?
17. The current world population is approximately how many?
18. America astronauts first landed on the moon in which year?
19. According to the UN’s conservative projection, the world’s population could be how large by
2050?
20. Define the term “Green Revolution.”
21. Deforestation, the clearing of forests, has been a by-product of doing what?
22. The release of chlorofluorocarbons into the atmosphere destroys what?
23. The 1995 release of sarin gas in a Tokyo subway is an example of this.
24. Define developing countries.
25. Know the countries that make up the permanent member s of the United Nations Security
Council.
26. What is causing the greenhouse effect?
27. The world’s poor nations, called developing countries mainly located in what region of the
world?
28. The Suez Canal links what to bodies of water.
29. What is known as the “white man’s burden?”
30. Which European country controlled the greatest area in Africa?
31. How did colonial powers harm their colonies?
32. What country controlled Central Africa “Congo” during imperialism?
33. What were the only two countries in Africa never to be controlled by European powers?
34. Recall what country had the most control over Latin America during the 1800s?
35. In his novels, Charles Dickens showed the realities of life for whom, during the Industrial Age?
36. Discuss one of the first industries to be affected by the Industrial Revolution.
37. Explain what machine was crucial to Great Britain’s Industrial Revolution.
38. The pitiful conditions created by the Industrial Revolution lead to what?
39. After the industrial revolution how many hours did workers spend working on an average day?
40. In the Italian family, the mother’s chief role was to.
41. Who is considered the father of the Italian Renaissance humanism?
42. The Flemish painter Jan van Eyck was one of the first to use and perfect what artistic method?
43. What was the first protestant faith?
44. How did John Calvin’s reform of the city of Geneva?
45. Both Catholics and Protestants considered this group to be dangerous radicals.
46. Machiavelli encouraged rulers and world-be rulers to believe in what?
47. Describe the direction of paintings and sculptures of the Renaissance.
48. Martin Luther taught what?
49. Who was considered the “ideal Renaissance Man, because he was a painter, sculptor, inventor,
and scientist.
50. The three main denominations that makes up the Protestant Church?
51. The three major parts of Napoleon’s Grand Empire were?
52. How did the Russians defeated Napoleon’s superior Grand Army
53. Which of the estates of France had to pay taxes?
54. The Committee of Public Safety was given broad powers to do what?
55. Explain Napoleon’s coup d’atat.
56. Who was killed by the guillotined, by the “tool” he used to create fear in the people?
57. Napoleon considered this to be his greatest domestic achievement?
58. Infer why French Revolutionaries used the guillotine as an instrument of execution.
59. The reign of terror set up revolutionary courts to prosecute whom?
60. Explain the French Directory.
61. Napoleon’s military force was known as?
62. Assess how was promotion within Napoleon’s government and military determined?
63. Infer how the women were treated in Napoleon’s Civil Code?
64. Understand which countries made up the Central Powers in WWI.
65. Who did Czar Nicholas II place in charge of the armies?
66. What was the name of the group that conspired to assassinate Archduke Francis Ferdinand?
67. The western front was characterized by what type of fighting in WWI.
68. Discuss the goals of the Treaty of Versailles.
69. Define total war.
70. Explain the German Schlieffen Plan.
71. Understand Mobilization.
72. What caused the United States to join the Allies in fighting WWI?
73. Who was in charge of the United States during WWI?
74. Discuss why during WWI, new roles in the workforce were created for women?
75. The United States entered WWI largely over what issue?
76. Recall what President Wilson was pushing for during the Paris Peace conference.
77. What was the name of the assassin that killed Archduke Francis Ferdinand?
78. Which country signed a nonaggression pact with Germany (WWII).
79. Recall what President decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japan.
80. Recognized what country Germany attacked first during WWII.
81. Define lightening warfare.
82. On December 7, 1941 the Japanese….
83. At the Yalta Conference, the Allies agreed to the creation of this organization.
84. Known as the slaughter of European Jews by the Nazis.
85. Truman wanted to avoid an invasion of Japan because of what effects?