Final Exam Review Sheet
Please use the terms on this sheet as if each one were an identify and describe test question. Give the
major significance, concepts and ideas of each. To prepare I would suggest using the textbook,
classroom notes, and major worksheets. I would also refer to the outlines you were given before our
chapter quizzes throughout the year to determine major topics of study.
Middle Ages (class notes/assignments and parts of Chapters 4 and 5)
Feudalism, economic system of Manors
Structure of Hierarchy
Black Plague
Vassals, Kings, Knights, peasants, serfs
Role of the church
Renaissance and Exploration (class notes/assignments and Chapter 6)
Dante and the Divine Comedy
Celebration of the individual
Chart comparing Renaissance and Middle Ages
Role of merchants in Italian city-states
Classical learning, worldly pleasures
What factors encouraged exploration?
European empires in the Americas and their effects
The Reformation and Scientific Revolution (class notes/assignments and chapter 6)
The Prince
Protestants
Medici
Copernicus
Perspective
Galileo
The Courtier
Henry VIII
Humanist
Predestination
Magellan
Theocracy
Martin Luther/95 Theses
John Calvin
Thomas Moore
Jesuits
Printing press
Counter Reformation
England: Tudor Kings and Stuart Queens (class notes/assignments and Chapters 10 and 11)
Spanish Armada,
Elizabeth I’s view on religion, war and culture?
Why did England have a Civil War?
Parliament vs. King Charles
Cavaliers vs. Roundheads
Cromwell as military dictator
Bloodless Revolution with William and Mary
English Bill of Rights
French Revolution (class notes/assignments Chapter 12)
The Three Estates
Louis XVI
National Assembly
Storming of the Bastille
Robespierre
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Reign of Terror
Bourgeoisie & Proletariat
Sans-culottes
Napoleon(achievements)
Plebiscite
Napoleon and his reforms
Congress of Vienna
Metternich
Radicalism
Liberalism
Conservatism
Industrial Revolution (class notes/assignments Chapter 16)
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
Factors of Production
Factory System
Wage System
Tenements
Impact of Industrialization on: Middle Class, Women, Factory Workers
Business Cycle
Capitalism
Division of Labor
Mass production
5 Types of Businesses
Depression
Adam Smith
Free Enterprise
Benefits of Unions
Enlightenment (class notes/assignments Chapter 11)
Voltaire
Salon
Philosophes
Diderot
Montesquieu
Rousseau
Enlightened rulers
Latin American Revolutions (Chapter 23, section 3)
Mulattoes
Mestizoes
Peninsulares
Social/Economic Hierarchy
Chart of Revolutions
Nationalism in Europe (class notes/assignments and parts of Chapter 16)
Giuseppe Mazzini/Carbonari
King Victor Emmanuel II
Camillo Benso di Cavour
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Problems in a Unified Italy
Results of the Congress of Vienna
Zollverein
Wilhelm I
Otto von Bismarck
3 Wars for Unification
Kulturekampf
Ways Bismarck helped to industrialize Germany
Russification
Pan-Slavism
Alexander II
Events of the Revolution of 1905
Make-up of the Austrian Government
Francis Joseph I
Results of the Congress of Berlin and the Balkan Wars (Treaty of San Stefano & Balkan League)
WWI (class notes/assignments and Chapter 18)
Causes of WWI, imperialism, nationalism, militarism, alliance system
Key Leaders, Franz Ferdinand, Black Hand, Woodrow Wilson
Know the Central Powers (Triple Alliance) vs. Allied Powers (Triple Entente)
Alliance system- How did each country get into the war?
Trench Warfare, New weaponry
Eastern front and Western front
Wilson’s 14 Points,
Treaty of Versailles, in what ways was Germany punished?
League of Nations, Did it succeed? Why did it fail?
New Nations formed after WWI.
Why did the Russians leave WWI?
How and why did Lenin and the Communists (Bolsheviks) gain power in the USSR?
In between the War/Rise of the Dictators/Holocaust (class notes/assignments and Chapters
19/ 20/21)
What characteristics make a totalitarian regime?
Why did democracies fail after WWI?
How did Mussolini come to power? What is Fascism?
How did Hitler come to power? What is Nazism?
What was the Dawes plan?
European economies were on the rebound until what?
Causes of the depression: overproduction-under consumption, plight of farmer, stock market
crashes
Mein Kampf, What countries were the death camps in?
WWII (class notes/assignments and Chapter 21)
Causes of WWII (for essay)
What countries made which land grabs? Appeasement and Neville Chamberlain
B-29 drops A-bomb on Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Allies vs. Axis (who fought on which side)
Japan invading China after WWI to get natural resources and pump up economy
Analyze political cartons from WWII
Battle Theaters
Formations of the United Nations
Everything about the United Nations
ESSAY QUESTIONS WILL BE GIVEN OUT DURING
THE FIRST WEEK IN JUNE