1. The French Revolution inspired revolutions in what other region? 2. What governmental system emerged throughout Western Europe after the fall of Rome ? 3. List two ways Japan has sought to compensate for its lack of raw materials and resources throughout history. 4. What were the MAIN cause of WWI? 5. With which time period do you associate with humanism? 6. What were the goals of the Congress of Vienna? 7. What is the goal of OPEC? 8. What was the goal of NAFTA? 9. What empire, made up of the eastern half of the Roman empire , retained Greco-
Roman culture and influenced Russian religion? 10. What were the students calling for in Tiananmen Square in 1989? 11. Korea served as a land bridge between which two nations allowing for cultural
diffusion between the two? 12. What does Islamic fundamentalism mean? 13. According to Buddhist philosophy, what is the source of all suffering? 14. What three things did Lenin promise the people of Russia in 1917? 15. Why was the Shah of Iran overthrown by Ayatollah Khomeini? 16. What was the effect of the Protestant Reformation? 17. What are the Five Pillars of Islam? 18. What was the situation in Germany that allowed for the rise of Hitler?
Global History and Geography
Key Vocabulary
Identify the vocabulary word associated with the following definitions: 1. Policy of mass murder of a particular group: 2. An economic system in which the government makes all economic decisions: 3. Irrational hatred of Jews: 4. Granting concessions to an aggressor to avoid a conflict: 5. A movement to create a Jewish homeland 6. U.S. Cold War policy of preventing Soviet power and influence from spreading to
non-communist nations: 7. The policy of racial segregation and legal discrimination against non-whites in
South Africa : 8. A foreign policy during the Cold War in which developing nations did not take
sides with either the US or the USSR ( India , for example): 9. Mass migration to the city: 10. An economic policy in which a government does not become involved in business
affairs: 11. The easing of Cold War tensions between the US and USSR : 12. The system in which land and labor was granted to Spanish settlers in the
Americas : 13. Domination by one country over another country or region: 14. Economic system in which nations develop a favorable balance of trade by
exporting more than importing: 15. Belief in one god: 16. Devotion to your nation, especially its independence: 17. Gorbachev’s policy of restructuring the Soviet economy 18. Gorbachev’s policy of openness that allowed free expression: 19. A refusal to obey unjust laws: 20. The ability of a nation to chose its own type of government: