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World History Final Exam
Study Guide
Note: Be sure to know the following terms, people, and answers to questions. Use your class notes, online textbook, former test/quiz review sheets, and former tests/quizzes to locate information. All notes and review sheets are available on my website if you need extra copies. See me for help, if needed, and be sure to STUDY! Preparing for a final exam requires several days of review so don’t wait until the last minute to start studying. Your World History Final Exam is scheduled for FRIDAY, 6/15. According to Yorktown High School policy, this date is non-negotiable (the final exam will not be given before OR after this date). The final exam is worth 150 points.
Six Causes of Revolution
Social Injustice
Economic Distress
Religious Intolerance
Unpopular Method of Rule
Nationalism
Enlightenment Ideas
The Enlightenment (3 questions)
Differences between Absolutism and Democracy
Documents that include Enlightenment Ideas
Social Contract Theory
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Voltaire
French Revolution (7 questions)
Nationalism
Revolution
Causes of the French Revolution
Storming the Bastille
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Committee of Public Safety
Maximilien Robespierre
Napoleon Bonaparte
Important details about Napoleon (type of power, actions, programs)
Russian invasion and the Great Retreat
Industrial Revolution (9 questions)
The Industrial Revolution was a shift from an agricultural (farming) society to an
industrial (manufacturing).
Where the Industrial Revolution began (country)
Where people moved (urban, rural, or suburban areas)
Eli Whitney/Cotton Gin
New source of energy (how factories/machines were powered)
Tenement
Labor Unions (purpose, goals)
Assembly Line (purpose, effects)
Upton Sinclair: The Jungle (details, purpose for writing book)
Positive effects of Industrial Revolution (know at least two)
Negative effects of the Industrial Revolution (know at least two)
Imperialism (3 questions)
Definition of imperialism
Motives of 19th century imperialism (know all five)
How industrialization influenced Europe’s desire for more territory
Direct Rule vs. Indirect Rule
World War I (8 questions)
Causes of World War I (M.A.I.N.)
Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy)
Allied Powers (France, Great Britain, Russia, U.S.)
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary
Western Front: Characteristics of trench warfare
All Quiet on the Western Front (details, purpose for writing book)
New weapons/technology
Reasons for U.S. entry into the war
League of Nations (purpose, power)
Treaty of Versailles (purpose, terms of the treaty)
Russian Revolution (4 questions)
Causes of the Russian Revolution (J.A.I.L.)
Why Russia wasn’t prepared for World War I
Overthrow of Czar Nicholas II
Bolsheviks/Communists
Russian Civil War
Communist (Reds)
Anti-Communist (Whites)
Vladimir Lenin’s promises (three things)
Lenin’s New Economic Policy
Joseph Stalin
Interwar Period (11 questions)
Causes of Great Depressions
Impact of worldwide depression
Totalitarianism
Why did totalitarian leaders emerge in the Soviet Union, Italy, Germany, and Japan?
Fascism, Nazism, Communism
Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)
Great Purges
Benito Mussolini (Italy)
Adolf Hitler (Germany)
Anti-Semitism
Kristallnacht
Final Solution
Operation T4
Auschwitz
Hideki Tojo and Emperor Hirohito (Japan)
Genocide
Rwanda Genocide: Hutus vs. Tutsis
World War II (14 questions)
Causes of World War II
Event that sparked the start of WWII
Appeasement
Aggression
Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, Japan)
Allied Powers (France, Great Britain, Soviet Union, U.S.)
Battle of France
Battle of Britain
German Luftwaffe
Operation Barbarossa
Reason for U.S. entry into the war
Kamikaze
Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor
Yalta Conference
D-Day/Battle of Normandy
Strategy used by U.S. to fight Japan in the Pacific
V-E Day
U.S. options/considerations for forcing Japan to surrender
Atomic Bomb
V-J Day
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
The Cold War (13 questions)
Superpowers
Marshall Plan
Iron Curtain
Division of Germany & Berlin
Berlin Blockade & Airlift (details, result)
Bay of Pigs (details, result)
Cuban Missile Crisis (details, result)
NATO vs. Warsaw Pact
North Korea vs. South Korea (Communism vs. Capitalism)
North Vietnam vs. South Vietnam (Communism vs. Capitalism)
Vietnam War (details, result)
Policy of Containment
Domino Theory
Self-determination
Space Race/Sputnik
Extra Credit: Three sections for a possible 20 points of extra credit
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