Final Exam Study Guide
Industrial Revolution
Know the following people:
Jethro Tull, John Kay, Eli Whitney, James Watt, Adam Smith, Karl Marx,
Jeremy Bentham, Richard Arkwright
Key terms:
Industrial Revolution, Laissez faire, capitalism, enclosure, crop rotation,
factors of production, urbanization, corporation, capitalism, utilitarianism,
socialism, communism, union, strike, collective bargaining, entrepreneur,
industrialization, urbanization, middle class, factory
Look in Notes: Know about Factory Production and the Factory System
Imperialism
Know the following people:
Shaka Zulu, Emperor Meiji, Rudyard Kipling, King Leopold II, Jose Marti,
Key terms:
Imperialism, racism, Social Darwinism, Boer War, Great Trek, sepoys,
“jewel in the crown”, Raj, annexation
Identify:
Sepoy Mutiny, Treaty of Kanagawa, Meiji Era, Russo- Japanese War, Opium
War, “White Man’s Burden”, Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, Monroe
Doctrine, Spanish-American War, Panama Canal, Boxer Rebellion, Open Door
Policy, Sphere of Influence
Look in Notes: What were the motives for European colonization in Africa?
What resource was harvested in the Congo? Who wrote the White Man’s
Burden?
World War I
Know the following people:
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Gavrilo Princip, Woodrow Wilson, Georges
Clemenceau, David Lloyd
Key terms:
Militarism, Schlieffen Plan, Trench Warfare, Eastern and Western fronts,
unrestricted submarine warfare, Total War, rationing
Identify:
Triple Entente, Triple Alliance, Central Powers, Allies
Look in Notes: What are the four causes of World War I? What was the event
that sparked WWI? What are the names of industrial revolution inventions
that were used during World War I? What date did WWI end? What
happened at the Battle of Verdun? What happened at the Battle of the
Somme? What are the two events that caused the United States to get
involved in World War II
World War II
Know the following people:
Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Charles DeGaulle, Winston Churchill, Isoroku
Yamamoto
Key Terms:
genocide, demilitarization, ghettos, blitzkrieg, nonaggression pact,
Identify:
Battle of Britain, Munich Conference, Axis Powers, Phony War, Atlantic
Charter, Pearl Harbor, Battle of Midway, Battle of Guadalcanal, Holocaust,
“Final Solution”, Douglas McArthur, Battle of Stalingrad, D-Day, Battle of the
Bulge, kamikaze, Nuremberg Trials, Aryans, Dr. Robert Oppenheimer
Look in Notes: What document was signed at the end of WWI that had a
major impact on WWII? What are some events that happened prior to WWII
(From 1919-1939)? What European nation did Germany attack that started
WWII? What countries were involved in the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis? In
Operation Barbarossa which country did Germany attempt to invade? On
what date was Pearl Harbor bombed? What event caused the U.S. to get
involved in WWII? What was the name of the project and weapon that Dr.
Robert Oppenheimer developed? What are the names of the two Japanese
cities that were bombed during WWII? (Death toll of both), What is the
name of the peace-keeping organization that was formed at the end of
WWII ?
Cold War
Know the following people: Mao Zedong, Jiang Jieshi, Fidel Castro,
Anastasio Somoza, Daniel Ortega, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, John
F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan
Key terms: United Nations, Iron Curtain, Containment, Truman Doctrine,
Marshall Plan, Cold war, NATO, Warsaw Pact, Brinkmanship, U-2 Incident,
Commune, Red Guards, Cultural Revolution, Third World, Nonaligned
Nations, Destalinization, Détente, SALT, Star Wars
Look in Notes: What was the goal of the Soviet and Eastern Bloc nations?
What was their ideology? What was the goal of the U.S. and Western
Democracies? What was their ideology? What are the names of the two
countries that will become nuclear superpowers during the Cold War? What
is the name of the country that will drop its first A-bomb in 1949? What was
Sputnik I? What is the name of the airmen whose plane was shot down over
Soviet airspace?
Korean War
Know the following people: Syngman Rhee, Kim Il Sung, Douglas
McArthur
Key terms: 38th Parallel, Domino Theory
Look in Notes: At what conference was Korea split at the 38th Parallel?
What two countries split Korea? What is the name of the 1st major conflict of
the nuclear age and the Cold War’s first “hot war”? What is the date that
Kim Il Sung will launch an attack against Southern Korea? What is the name
of the country that will re-intervene in the Korean conflict with over 250,000
troops? What was the result of this re-intervention? What were some of the
consequences of the war on the Koreas? Were consequences for the U.S.?
Vietnam War
Know the following people: Ho Chi Minh, Ngo Dinh Diem, Lyndon Johnson
Key terms: Vietcong, Vietnamization
Look in Notes: What country controlled “Indochina” since the late 19th
century? Who took control of Vietnam during World War II? What were some
of the characteristics of Ngo Dinh Diem dictatorial rule? Which American
president supported a Vietnamese coup d’état that ended in the death of
Diem and his brothers? The Vietnam War was the first kind of _________
war? What was the name of the sustained bombing of Northern Vietnam in
1965? What were the Vietcong like? What happened during the Tet
Offensive? How is the Tet Offensive viewed by the American media? What
are some of the reasons American morale will dip during the Vietnam War?
What happened during the Mylai Massacre? How many students were killed
at the student protests at Kent State University and Jackson State
University? What countries signed the 1973 cease-fire during the Vietnam
War? How many Vietnamese were killed? How many U.S. soldiers were
killed? What did the 26th amendment provide for? What did Nixon abolish?
Arab-Israeli Conflicts
Know the following people: Anwar Sadat, Golda Meir, Shah Mohammed
Reza Pahlavi, Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini
Key terms: Balfour Declaration, Suez Crisis, Six-Day War, Camp David
Accords, PLO
Struggles for Democracy
Know the following people: Nelson Mandela, Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame
Nkrumah, Mau Mau
Key terms: Brasilia, Land Reform, Standard of Living, Recession, PRI,
Federal System, Martial Law, Dissident, Apartheid, FLN, Negritude Movement
Look in Notes: What are some of the results of World War II? What
dictatorships were defeated during WWII? What parts of world lay in ruins
after WWII? What did total war destroy? Why were British colonies the first
to seek independence? What is the name of African country to gain
independence? What did Kwame Nkrumah do for the Gold Coast? What year
did Kenya gain independence? What country is the home of the Negritude
Movement? How did the New York Times describe the reign of Mobutu Sese
Seko? What country realized that they could not hold on to Algeria by force? When
did they realize this? How long were the Portuguese in Angola? What year did they
leave? How long was Nelson Mandela jailed for his fight against apartheid? In 1994
Nelson Mandela will take part in the first________ ________ _________ in South
Africa. What leadership position will Nelson Mandela have in the South African
government?