World History
Second Semester Final Study Guide
You will NOT be able to use notes on the Final. World History finals are on Friday 6/10 & 6/12.
Define Revolution
Ch. 17 Revolution & Enlightenment
- Heliocentric/Geocentric universe
- Leaders of the Scientific Rev.
Ch. 18 French Revolution
- Committee on Public Safety
- Sans-culottes
- Tennis Court Oath
- Reign of Terror
Ch. 19 Industrialism & Nationalism
- Early Industrial Revolution –what, where, why
- Otto Von Bismarck & realpolitik
- Importance of steam engine to I.R.
Ch. 20 Mass Society & Democracy
- Karl Marx—classes, economic ideas, groups of people
- Czar Nicholas II and government
Ch. 21 Height of Imperialism
- Sepoy Mutiny
- Indian National Congress
- Gandhi
- Jose de San Martin
- Scramble for Africa:colonialism & free states early 1900’s
- Mestizos in Latin America
- Simon Bolivar
- Impact on prosperity of increased exports
- Why new imperialism of 1880’s by Westerners?
Ch. 22 East Asia Under Challenge
- Commodore Matthew Perry
- Extraterritoriality
- Spheres of influence
- Treaty of Nanjing
- Open Door Policy
- Boxer rebellion
- Emperor Mutsuhito of Japan
Ch. 23 War (WWI) & Revolution
- Allied Powers
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Western Front
- Central Powers
- Cheka
- Treaty of Versailles
- Schlieffen Plan
- Russian Revolution
Ch. 24 Between the Wars
- Depression
- Lenin’s NEP
- Collectivization
- John Maynard Keynes’ economic views
- Stalin’s Five Year Plans
Ch. 25 Nationalism around the World
- Genocide
- Chiang Kai-shek
- “Great Soul” India
- Balfour Declaration
- Gandhi’s civil disobedience
- The Long March—China
- Communists’ National Army recruiting
Ch. 26 WWII
- Neville Chamberlain
- Mukden incident
- Vichy France
- Axis Powers
- German air raids
- Creation of the U.N.
- Sudetenland
- Britain & France enter war
- Blitzkrieg
- Tehran Conference
- Potsdam Conference
- WWII causes
Ch. 27 Cold War
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Stalin
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Escalation of Vietnam War
- Communist China 1949
- “Prague Spring”
- Causes/effects of Cold War
Ch. 28 Contemporary Western World
- Brezhnev
- Reagan & USSR
- Gorbachev
- Lech Walesa
- Slobodan Milosevic
- Margaret Thatcher
Ch. 29 Latin America
- Post War economic issues
- Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
- Cuban Revolution
- Juan Peron
- Military governments since 1945 (specifics)
- Leaders of Ind. Movements
Ch. 30 Africa & the Middle East
- African National Congress
- Rwanda
- Kwame Nkrumah
- Saddam Hussein
- Nasser
- Pan-Africanism
- Organization of African Unity
- Desmond Tutu / Nelson Mandella
- Creation of modern Israel