Tuesday, May 28, 2013

World History Study Guide



World History Final Study Guide

The majority of the World History final will be on modules 6-9.  Most everything you need will be highlighted below.
Keep in mind that this study is just a guide and does not have all the answers in it. It’s a guide to point you in the correct direction on Brainhoney.
This will be a paper and pencil exam with no notes allowed.  It will have 32 multiple choice questions, two matching questions, and six short answer questions.
The exam may include, but will not be restricted to, the topics listed below.
Module 6
  • Enlightenment Philosophers (Locke, Hobbes, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Voltaire)
  • Enlightenment (Divine Rights, women)
  • French Revolution (Estates General, social classes)
  • Documents from the English and French Revolutions (Declaration of the Rights of Man, English Bill of Rights)
  • Scientific Revolution (inventions, inventors)
Module 7
  • Napoleon
  • Congress of Vienna (Metternich)
  • Nationalism and Unification
  • Industrial Revolution (causes, impacts, development of, results)
  • Imperialism (Britain, China, India, Boxer Rebellion, Opium Wars)
Module 8
  • Modernism (definition, Darwin, Freud, Einstein)
  • World War I (causes, powers, highlights, new warfare, Treaty of Versailles)
  • Russian Revolution
  • Totalitarian Dictators (Nationalism, Fascism, Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Musollini)
  • World War II (causes, powers, highlights, Japan, Germany)
  • Holocaust
Module 9
  • Cold War (Containment, Rise of Communism, Soviet Union, China)
  • International Organizations
  • Reconstruction after War (Marshall Plan, Japan, McArthur)
  • India (decolonization, Gandhi)
Identifications:
You should also be able to identify the historical figures below and explain their importance in world history.
  • Truman
  • Wilson
  • Emperor Joseph II
  • Robespierre
  • Isaac Newton
  • Gandhi
  • Marie Antoinette
  • Picasso
  • Winston Churchill
  • Mao Tse-Tung
  • Louis XIV

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