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Modern World History
Spring Final Study Guide
The Industrial Revolution (1700 – 1900)
1) Define industrialization:
2) What industry was the initial benefactor of the industrialization process?
3) What revolutionary mode of transportation was made possible by the steam engine?
4) What are the three factors of production?
5) The industry in which Great Britain’s Industrial Revolution began:
6) This term means the movement of people to the cities.
7) Define laissez-faire.
8) What are the basic principles/values of capitalism?
9) Why was Queen Victoria significant in history?
10) Who invented the first practical electric light bulb?
11) Who invented the telephone?
12) Who helped to invent the first airplane?
13) What were some of the effects of the inventions of the 19 th century on society?
The Age of Imperialism (1850 – 1914)
14) Define imperialism:
15) What is the Suez Canal and what two European countries help build it?
16) Who benefited the most from imperialism and new global trade?
17) What was the result of the Meiji Restoration?
18) What are the four forms of imperialism?
19) What was the purpose and result of the 1884 Berlin Conference?
World War I: “The Great War”: 1914 - 1918
20) What are the 4 MAIN causes of World War I?
21) What was referred to as the “Powder Keg” of Europe?
22) Define militarism:
23) Francis Ferdinand was the Archduke of what country?
24) What group was angry by Archduke Francis Ferdinand’s visit to Bosnia?
25) Who assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife Sophia?
26) Why did Germany declare war on Russia?
27) Why did Germany declare war on France?
28) Explain the Schlieffen Plan:
29) Why did Great Britain declare war on Germany?
30) What was the Zimmerman telegram?
31) List three of the punishments placed on Germany during the Treaty of Versailles:
32) What was formed after World War I that the U.S. did NOT join?
Rise of Communism (1900s – 1930s)
33) What did Czar Nicholas set up after Bloody Sunday?
34) Who was Gregory Rasputin?
35) Who wrote about communist ideology?
36) Why did Lenin become a revolutionary?
37) What was the name of the government after Nicholas abdicated the throne?
38) What was the main mistake of the provisional government?
39) What does USSR stand for?
40) What was the name of the Lenin’s Economic plan? What was it like?
41) Define “totalitarianism”:
42) What was Stalin’s Five-Year Plan?
43) What was the Great Purge of 1937 - 1938?
The Age of Anxiety and the Rise of Fascism and Nazism (1919 – 1935)
44) What is meant by the term coalition government? What is wrong with them?
45) Why is overproduction a problem for the economy?
46) Describe Fascism:
47) What was the name of the German government after World War I?
48) Why were Italians angry with the Treaty of Versailles?
Acts of Aggression and World War II: 1935 – 1945
49) How did Japan try to solve its economic problems?
50) What was one problem with the League of Nations?
51) What did Hitler promise to do for Germany?
52) What did Hitler do shortly after the Munich Conference?
53) Why did Britain and France finally declare war on Germany in Sept. 1939?
54) What was the Lend-Lease Act and whom did it benefit the most?
55) What happened to France?
56) Who was the leader of the “Free French” resistance forces?
57) What advantage did Germany have at the Battle of Britain?
58) Why did Hitler break the non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union?
59) Why did the United States declare war on Japan?
60) What did Stalin want the other Allied leaders to do?
61) What was D-Day?
62) What is significant about the Battle of the Bulge?
63) Why did President Truman decide to drop the atomic bomb?
64) What was the Holocaust?
Globalism (1945 – present)
65) What program gave economic assistance to Western Europe after World War II?
66) Who gave the “Iron Curtain” speech? What does the term mean?
67) Explain the Cold War:
68) What was the Berlin Blockade? How did the Allies get around it?
69) What was NATO? What was the Warsaw Pact?
70) What communist leader gained control of China in 1949?
71) Why did East Germany build the Berlin Wall in 1961?
72) What was the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis?
73) Describe the two main 1980s reforms of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev:
74) Explain the system of apartheid in South Africa from 1948 – 1989: