World History Final Study Guide
Imperialism and Independence
Imperialism
Direct Control
Indirect control
Sphere of influence
White Man’s Burden
Dr. David Livingstone
British East India Company
Raj
Sepoy Rebellion
Menelik II
Opium Wars
Berlin Conference
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Civil Disobedience
Nelson Mandela
Apartheid
Rwandan Genocide
Otto von Bismarck
King Victor Emmanuel II
What were the reasons why certain nations imperialized weaker ones?
What were the positive and negative aspects of imperialism for the weaker nation?
Who was to blame for the Irish Potato Famine?
After these nations gained independence from the mother countries, they endured many
issues. What issues did each of them endure politically? Economically? Socially?
World War I
Czar Nicholas II
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Trench Warfare
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Treaty of Versailles
Allied Powers
Central Powers
What were the main causes of WWI? Explain each in detail.
What types of weapons made WWI so deadly?
How did normal civilians help the war effort?
What was it like to be fighting in World War I?
World War II and the Holocaust
Fascism
Beliefs of the Nazi Party
Anti-Semitism
Nuremberg Laws
Kristallnacht
Ghettos
Final Solution/Holocaust
Luftwaffe
Appeasement
Vichy Regime
Operation Barbarossa
Blitz
Luftwaffe
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Blitzkrieg
Nanking Massacre
Kamikazes
What were the reasons why the Treaty of Versailles caused so many people to support radical
groups such as the communists or the Nazis in Germany? What other reasons were there in
the 1920s and 1930s?
How did small anti-Semitism within Germany and Europe eventually lead to Hitler’s
extermination of Judaism?
What were the difference between concentration camps and extermination camps?
What technology or weaponry influenced the outcome of WWII? Be able to explain various
examples?
Rise and Fall of Communism, Religious Fundamentalism, and Other Radical Beliefs
Social Darwinism
Zionism
Marxism
Communism
Russian Revolution
Vladimir Lenin
Josef Stalin
Cold War
Korean War
Vietnam War
Khmer Rouge
Nikita Khrushchev
Glasnost
Perestroika
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)
Intifada
Taliban
Al Qaeda
Mao Zedong
What were the differences in beliefs between democratic and communist nations?
What did the Soviet Union and the United States disagree with after World War II?
What was it like to be living in a communist nation during this time period? Be able to give
various examples from the Soviet Union, China, Eastern European nations, Cambodia, etc.
What caused the downfall of the Soviet Union?
What was the proper etiquette for women during the Victorian Age? How and why did
women begin to fight the system?