Modern Europe: Final Exam Test Review
Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and Enlightenment
“Rebirth” of what?
Humanism
Martin Luther
95 Theses
Faith Alone
Reason
Philosophe (belief system/ world view)
Toleration
Empiricism
Locke’s theories (social contract and “natural rights”)
French Revolution
“L’etat, c’est moi”
Causes of French Revolution
Three Estates prior to Revolution
Tennis Court Oath
Bastille Day
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Robespierre, Marat, Danton and the Jacobin party
Reign of Terror
Napoleon and Vienna Conference
Coup d’ etat
Congress of Vienna (especially the goals)
Napoleon’s reforms throughout Europe
Russian Campaign
Napoleon exiled
Continental System
Napoleonic warfare
Waterloo
Napoleonic Code
Prince Metternich
Industrial Revolution, Marxism, and Adam Smith
Factory System
Urban Growth
The Steam Engine
Adam Smith and Wealth of Nations (main theories especially)
Mercantilism
Problems associated with the Industrial Revolution
Das Kapital
The Communist manifesto
Imperialism
Relationship to industrialism
Purpose of Imperial powers for colonizing
British Imperialism
Berlin Conference
Russo-Japanese War
German and Italian Unification
When?
Bismarck’s “Grand Plan”
Who were each of the main characters involved and what role did they play for each
country?
Roles of Prussia and Piedmont-Sardinia for each.
World War I and Russian Revolution
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
WWI Weapons
Lusitania
Zimmerman Note
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Rasputin
Vladimir Lenin
March and November (February and October) Revolutions
Bolsheviks
Versailles Treaty, Interwar Years, and World War II
Reparations and war guilt
Fascism
Mein Kampf
Stalin’s Five Year Plans
Hitler’s invasion of Austria, Sudetenland, and Poland
Battle of Britain
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of the Bulge
Operation Overlord (D-Day)
Totalitarian Dictatorships
Axis Powers
Allies
50 million lives
Holocaust
Final Solution
There are a few questions for the John Steinbeck novel The Moon is Down.
Study the map of Europe. Be ready to identify the following
(Countries with an asterisk (*) beside it will require you to identify the capital as well)
England*, France*, Spain*, Germany*, Italy*, Russia*, Greece*, Poland*, Austria*,
Ireland*, Portugal, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, English Channel,
Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean